Legit Reviews

- How did you find the forums?
Google

- What system are you running?
check sig

- Are you an Intel or AMD Fan Boy/Girl?
neither

- What type of gaming are you into?
casual, mostly console

- Are you an overclocker?
not really

Lol, looking at the above, it doesn't look like I should be here. The file server is the first PC I'm building for myself and it will mostly be controlled via VNC.

Most of the time, I just use my laptop. I do find reading about new hardware interesting, though.

Welcome matey. Too bad you aren't an overclocker... yet
Enjoy your stay

Sapientun wrote:Welcome matey. Too bad you aren't an overclocker... yet
Enjoy your stay

Thanks. :D Lol, the laptops are running hot as it is. Besides, my internet browsing isn't going to be any faster even if I overclock. I'll probably overclock the E2160 a bit once I've received all the parts for that rig (just ordered it last night). The Penryn quad, too, when I get it. The only application I use that would benefit from overclocking is video encoding. Hopefully, I can finally encode videos to h.264 at real-time or faster.

Welcome to the forums.

You don't have to be a die hard PC enthusiast to hang here, but it helps

Dan

Welcome to this forum.

hnzw_rui wrote:

Sapientun wrote:Welcome matey. Too bad you aren't an overclocker... yet
Enjoy your stay

Thanks. :D Lol, the laptops are running hot as it is. Besides, my internet browsing isn't going to be any faster even if I overclock. I'll probably overclock the E2160 a bit once I've received all the parts for that rig (just ordered it last night). The Penryn quad, too, when I get it. The only application I use that would benefit from overclocking is video encoding. Hopefully, I can finally encode videos to h.264 at real-time or faster.

How about unvolting that laptop as yours? Overclocking aint nice on laptops, but undervolting is the way to go if you want better battery life and lower heat output.
The E2160 will overclock really sweetly and won't make you sweat at all!

Hello & welcome to the LR.

Sapientun wrote:How about unvolting that laptop as yours? Overclocking aint nice on laptops, but undervolting is the way to go if you want better battery life and lower heat output.

The E2160 will overclock really sweetly and won't make you sweat at all!

I don't have to. The laptop (Toshiba Satellite U305) does it all by itself - which is a good thing since the only thing you can change in the BIOS is the time and the boot order of devices. I just noticed this since I've never ran CPU-Z on it before (remiss of me, I know). CPU-Z reported the following:

CPU: Intel Pentium T2080 @ 1.73GHz
Core VID: 0.975V
Clock Speed: 798 MHz
Bus Speed 133
Multiplier: x6.0

I ran a benchmark for x264 and got the following:

CPU: Intel Pentium T2080 @ 1.73GHz
Core VID: 1.213V
Clock Speed: 1729 MHz
Bus Speed 133
Multiplier: x13.0

Lol, and I was so quick to blame Vista for the disparity between the Toshiba lappy and an old lappy running XP Home on a Celeron M 1.4GHz w/256MB RAM. Apparently that was just Intel's SpeedStep at work preventing me from frying the CPU and burning my lap... It was kinda heating up since the fans on the notebook cooling pad failed and Cali was hot as usual.

Wish I could undervolt my old Dell. It can barely go 2 hours on battery with 50% brightness.