The new beast

[Barron]

You should be able to easily overclock the Intel Core Duo Q6600 upto 3.6 GHz (safely) thats what i've had mine running at for the past 3-4months without any problems.

under stress its running at 50-60oc so im not sure just how much more there is to go tbh

 

[KDF]

providing you use the correct transfer size for it you can see 40-60% increases in performance.

Although if one of the drives fail

40% 60% !?!?

I think you've plucked those out of thin air. Maybe 10 years ago but not these days with such high density clusters on the larger drives.

Of course if you can find me a recent set of benchmarks that show such a large performance increase I'll take back what I've said.

Speaking from experience and benchmarking multiple servers before deployment. I'm sure if I googled I would find plenty of articles for and against it.

You can't just enable software raid and expect miracles, hardware based RAID isnt enough either, you need to tweak it to suit your usage for maximum throughput e.g. databases on RAID 10 kicks ass.

Most people just setup a default software raid and wonder why its no better.

 

[David]

what heatsink did you use on the cpu?

 

[Barron]

what heatsink did you use on the cpu?

its a Noctua NH-U12P

 

[Darren S]

Barron - thought you'd like the comment at the bottom of this review, too....

http://portals.hexus.net/?item=14888&page=5&id=microdirect

....and look at COD4 too!

http://portals.hexus.net/?item=14888&page=7&id=microdirect

D.