I know but still found it interesting. BTW Asus are still doing things with mobo BIOS that customers do not like. Are they trying to tank their company?
I know but still found it interesting. BTW Asus are still doing things with mobo BIOS that customers do not like. Are they trying to tank their company?
Chips unsocketting themselves due to the ratcheting mechanical effect of thermal cycling and the insidious effects of overclocking on a variety of Intel CPU. VRM = voltage regulator module.
I've never felt the need to tinker with overclocking. However, one should expect stuff to fail eventually from whatever manufacturer even if one doesn't encourage it to do so. Which reminds me that I need to back up my laptop...
Northwood is the second generation of the good old Pentium 4, when you add too much voltage while overclocking the chip will slowly break itself apart because of electromigration.
en.wikipedia.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromigration
On a side note, I do own Pentium 4 machines and they're quite reliable and still working despite being nearly 20 years old.
Later on there were Intel Atom chips which over time would become unusable, bad thing is that these are often used in NAS's and firewalls, my brother and I had to replace one that had died, quite inconvenient but a trip to the datacenter is rather fun.
en.wikipedia.org
Pentium 4 - Wikipedia
On a side note, I do own Pentium 4 machines and they're quite reliable and still working despite being nearly 20 years old.
Later on there were Intel Atom chips which over time would become unusable, bad thing is that these are often used in NAS's and firewalls, my brother and I had to replace one that had died, quite inconvenient but a trip to the datacenter is rather fun.
Silvermont - Wikipedia
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More a production process issue, Pentium 4 was made on 180nm, 130nm. 90nm and the very last version on 65nm, Netburst topped at 3.8Ghz with the 90nm Prescott, Cedar Mill at 3.6Ghz on 65nm
You can only add so much voltage to a design before it overheats or gets eaten by electromigration, you just force too much energy through a connection that can't take it.
Of course it only happened when overclocking and pushing 1.7 volts through the poor chip..
Wiki says this:
At the launch of the Pentium 4, Intel stated that NetBurst-based processors were expected to scale to 10 GHz, after several fabrication process generations. However, the clock speed of processors using the NetBurst microarchitecture reached a maximum of 3.8 GHz. Intel had not anticipated a rapid upward scaling of transistor power leakage that began to occur as the die reached the 90 nm lithography and smaller. This new power leakage phenomenon, along with the standard thermal output, created cooling and clock scaling problems as clock speeds increased. Reacting to these unexpected obstacles, Intel attempted several core redesigns (Prescott most notably) and explored new manufacturing technologies, such as using multiple cores, increasing FSB speeds, increasing the cache size, and using a longer instruction pipeline along with higher clock speeds.
You can only add so much voltage to a design before it overheats or gets eaten by electromigration, you just force too much energy through a connection that can't take it.
Of course it only happened when overclocking and pushing 1.7 volts through the poor chip..
Wiki says this:
At the launch of the Pentium 4, Intel stated that NetBurst-based processors were expected to scale to 10 GHz, after several fabrication process generations. However, the clock speed of processors using the NetBurst microarchitecture reached a maximum of 3.8 GHz. Intel had not anticipated a rapid upward scaling of transistor power leakage that began to occur as the die reached the 90 nm lithography and smaller. This new power leakage phenomenon, along with the standard thermal output, created cooling and clock scaling problems as clock speeds increased. Reacting to these unexpected obstacles, Intel attempted several core redesigns (Prescott most notably) and explored new manufacturing technologies, such as using multiple cores, increasing FSB speeds, increasing the cache size, and using a longer instruction pipeline along with higher clock speeds.
I've never found a need to overclock any of the machines I have had over the years.
Yeah, me neither. Did have a Turbo button on our first computer though! OMG, the 10 Megahertz!
Then the Acer lunch-box type of computer my Dad bought (weighing 10 pounds no less) had to have a math co-processor added to it.
Then the Acer lunch-box type of computer my Dad bought (weighing 10 pounds no less) had to have a math co-processor added to it.
I had a spare 1TB SSD, so I downloaded the Mint 22 beta (started spreading to the mirrors on Thursday) and installed it this morning to one of my machines. Specifically, the MATE version, as I've been a Cinnamon guy for a number of years, though with XFCE on a recycled Chromebook.
Knowing that MATE is a fork of GNOME 2, I spent forty minutes configuring Mint 22 to look like GNOME 2, installed the SSTP and RDP plugins I need for work, then played around with the Compiz display manager. You know what? It looks pretty sharp! (Screenshots on Twitter.)
I may just keep it around.
Knowing that MATE is a fork of GNOME 2, I spent forty minutes configuring Mint 22 to look like GNOME 2, installed the SSTP and RDP plugins I need for work, then played around with the Compiz display manager. You know what? It looks pretty sharp! (Screenshots on Twitter.)
I may just keep it around.
I've tried searching for some pics, but it's hard to find anything specific. But the closest I get is something called the AEG Olympia. You might want to try that in the search terms 
I've tried searching for some pics, but it's hard to find anything specific. But the closest I get is something called the AEG Olympia. You might want to try that in the search terms
OK I shall, and just did they have a box style with the monitor on top, is that what you meant? Also a laptop style with amber screen
Also a cool video about an amber display screen
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BTW if you own an Asus laptop and don't like Armory Crate just ditch that, disable the auto load option in BIOS and use G Helper it's a small program that does lots
Got a few old machines coming my way, have tested the first one, it's a HP Pro 3500, quite old, Ivy Bridge i5, no drives, no PSU but it has 8GB of RAM, cleaned it, hooked it up to a spare PSU and it works, the BIOS is a pretty standard office box BIOS with barely anything you can adjust.. doesn't matter much, have PSU, have old drives, will be a good Linux machine. 
There's another one of those coming my way and two more recent i7 machines, hope at least Coffee Lake but we'll see..
There's another one of those coming my way and two more recent i7 machines, hope at least Coffee Lake but we'll see..
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I upgraded the ram on my laptop to 32gig and planning a bigger storage drive.
Intel Core i5 12500H Processor
Graphics - Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050, GDDR6 4GB
Seriously giving consideration to using this as my main machine and ditching my desktop machine. I don't do heavy gaming so would this work, The heaviest game I played in the last 6 months was Horizon Forbidden West so I imagine that should run reasonably ok on this setup as well .
My desktop machine is Ryzen 5600g and amd RX 6600 with 8gig ram and 32gig board ram.
I just like the idea of portability now and the last week have used the laptop a lot.
Intel Core i5 12500H Processor
Graphics - Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050, GDDR6 4GB
Seriously giving consideration to using this as my main machine and ditching my desktop machine. I don't do heavy gaming so would this work, The heaviest game I played in the last 6 months was Horizon Forbidden West so I imagine that should run reasonably ok on this setup as well .
My desktop machine is Ryzen 5600g and amd RX 6600 with 8gig ram and 32gig board ram.
I just like the idea of portability now and the last week have used the laptop a lot.
Yeah, something like that. Though while it looks like the keyboard can be removed, ours didn't do that.
Hey are the specs on my laptop ok I am planning on using that to replace my desktop for everyday stuff
