eeepic gaming.

Got myself an eeePC 1000H series begining of this week.

After mucking about with defcon and a couple of steam games I attempted and succeeded in getting myself a decently running tf2 install..

all details an info on how to get it up and running I've put into a seperate eeePC blog at http://blog.epicwinrar.com

OC time. Computer.. not the show.

Decided its time to work on my Overclock settings on the PC a little more.
I'd upgraded the BIOS about a week ago and hadn't re-set the overclocking settings I'd saved previously.

For those who haven't seen/heard of the black box of doom I run.
DFI Lanparty P35 board.
Intel Q6600 Quad core CPU (defaults to 2.6ghz)
Corsair 2GB DDR2 800 TWIN2X2048-6400C3DF Kit(3-4-3-9)
Graphics card is an ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT (I like ati..what can I say..)
and 3tb of hard drive space (2 x 1tb and 2 x 500gb - no raid at the moment)
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 + Ultramon (always running)

So, running up Everest (by Lavasoft) to do some benchmarking/inspections for me, I've started speeding up cpu and lowering memory timings.

Note: Results are the CPU benchmarking tests
CPU Queen
CPU PhotoWorxx
CPU Zlib (kb/s)
CPU AES
FPU Julia
FPU Mandel
FPU SinJulia

Tests Round 1:
CPU Overclocked to 3ghz, ram on auto.

22231, 29247, 81491kb/s, 23061, 23346, 11238, 17264

Tests Round 2:
CPU Overclocked to 3.0ghz ram settings 4-5-4-12 (turned voltage up to 1.95v for ram)

22295, 29773, 81567, 23092, 23337, 11256, 17210

Test Round 3:
CPU Overclocked to 3.1ghz ram remains the same.

23002, 29984, 84103, 23879, 24077, 11617, 17812

Test Round 4:
CPU Overclocked to 3.1ghz ram settings 4-5-4-10

Stopped here to boot up my ubuntu live cd and do a memtest as well, ensuring that the memory wasn't error-ing and likely to cause issues later on. (I'd recommend doing this before you start your overclocking also) Memtest reports a transfer rate of 3786MB/s on the RAM and no errors.

Test Round 5:
Made some major changes after reading the following - http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=655674
Settled on DRAM Speed of 333/800 - as it crashed on the suggested speed.
So changed CPU back to 3.2ghz and ram back to 5-5-5-15

24136, 31482, 88292, 25072, 25275, 12196, 18649

Test Round 7:
Another memtest to check how it's holding up. Everest benchmarks are sitting at a couple of top places on the Everest example charts. Memtest reports 4101MB/s RAM Transfer Speed

Everest Test gives results
24758, 32376, 90437kb/s, 25720, 25882, 12496, 19159

More tweaks tomorrow night.
Biggest issue can see at the moment is that the northbridge chip is heating up considerably after increasing the voltage, will try to reduce that without losing stability, or fit it with a full heatsink+fan

And for a quick stability test - OCCT

A long list of things to do.

So, as the title says.. this is a catch up for the blog, updating on past and planning for future tasks.

Completed:
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Holiday 1 week in Melbourne (Done, went and saw monty python spamalot :D )
Setup wireless network with ospf routing (done, also using my home connection to provide more bandwidth when required)
Setup wireless hotspot on the house (done, still trying to find a workable solution for a link to nambour thou :-/)
Map out unknown portions of work wireless network (I'm sure the previous admin left documentation somewhere, it's just easier if you figure it out yourself and understand it all)

Todo:
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Still working on home VoIP solution, been mucking about with trixbox, and also built my own asterisk + freePBX ubuntu system. Yet to get it all working thou.
IP accounting for traffic thats coming in from wireless network via my home connection. (Working on a better way to log this, rather than just using the mikrotik traffic counter)
- Currently trying to create myself a version of the script naturalnetworks used here http://blog.naturalnetworks.net/2007/08/recording-routeross-ip-accounting-data.html -
Rebuilding work VoIP server, with a Digium TDM410P with 2 FXO modules and 2 FXS modules + Echo cancellation module.



Planning networks for 2 new large accomodation areas, 1 with a number of buildings spread out over a city, looks as thou the best option is to use business-linked adsl2+ links back to a nearby datacenter.
Installing wireless point to link to Nambour
Installing wireless at a relative's house just down the road (linking back to my internet of course)

Oh and, the old man wants me to either build him up some sort of MythTV box or order a FiireEngine with LinuxMCE pre-installed. I'd like to try setup the Myth one, but not really enough time at the moment.

And thats about it.

Oh wait.. latest addiction: I picked up a couple of packs of the WOW Trading card game starter sets while I was in melbourne which is quite fun, even thou I have quit wow. Found an epic pop-culture store there too, where I bought dad a half price remote control dalek to modify :-) (it had some broken bits, all working fine now) - checkit out at www.minotaur.com.au (the store not the robot).