Supreme (part 2)
As I promised in the last post, I made a couple of pictures which can be found here. The pictures have been online for a few days now but until now I was just too lazy to post the link.
Among other things, I’ve been exploring the subject of overclocking, which up until recently was a complete mystery to me. It turns out to be much less complicated than I previously thought, that is unless you want to really push your hardware, but getting a decent gain compared to stock settings is good enough for me and I don’t want to risk burning out my expensive hardware anyway. Using my newfound knownledge I’ve been playing with the settings on my desktop, and moved the AMD Athlon 64 X2 2000+ CPU - with a default clock speed of 2.1 GHz - up to 2.7 GHz without any problems. It runs perfectly stable and doesn’t exceed 40 degrees under full load, with my rather cheap Arctic Alpine 64 cooler. I guess it could easily be pushed to 3 GHz or more, but for now I’m happy with how it is.
Also I finally took out a 512 MB memory module, leaving 2x 1GB in place. This costs me 512MB of rarely used memory (except when doing stuff in VMware lots of memory is useful), but allows the remaining RAM to operate at 800 MHz dual-channel instead of 667 MHz single-channel.
There’s a lot left to upgrade on the system, but apart from some minor things the next that I’m planning to get is a 2nd monitor (another Samsung Syncmaster 943NWX, of course). A third is definately planned, but before that can be accomplished a whole lot of other stuff needs upgrading. 3 screens means I need a 2nd videocard, which means that I need a motherboard with more PCI-Express x16 slots, and I’ll definately need a new power supply too (current one can’t support such a set-up, it’s 400W and doesn’t have the needed connections, and besides it makes too much noise for my taste).
Also, I’ve installed the expansion to Supreme Commander (Forged Alliance) today. Currently I’m not impressed by it. The units (and everything else) is almost the same as in the regular game, however the interface has been changed and I really really really dislike it compared to the classic one. It’s too tiny and too much has been moved to other places, you just have to look around where a particular button is way too much. I’ll probably just stick with the regular game I guess 
In the meanwhile, CampZone 2008 is drawing close and there might be a LAN at my place once again soon, and to both of those I’m looking forward a lot.
On a completely unrelated note, I watched the videoclip from At the Left Hand ov God from Behemoth today, and that video definately pwnz you.
hav funz0rs
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