Anyone else never impressed by these things? I mean if someone was getting insane OCs on air or water, sure. But liquid nitrogen or helium.. yeah.. Useless.
What's being missed here is if boundaries aren't pushed, improvments to the hardware cannot be developed to go faster and that in turn does apply to use with air and watercooling.
We woudn't have daily rigs today running 5.0GHz while gaming if such wasn't being done in the first place and the only way to discover improvements is to push the tech as far as it can go, then to see how it goes or fails.
That's just how it's all developed or we'd still be running 90Mhz CPU systems (Old assed Pentiums and so on) today with the same concerning the other stuff too.
Just imagine how wonderful those framerates would be.....
That's what it takes - Pushing the limits and yes, most of the time it's the "In house" / Sponsored guys like Elmor doing it as part of R&D, along with doing it for the same reason one might decide to climb a mountain - Not just because it's there but to find out if they can even do it, which is more of a personal matter - That being up to the individual.
For daily use, yeah it is useless because who's going to be pouring Ln2 while playing a game and who would even have enough of it to last the full extent of a real gaming session?
To be fair:
At the same time, by your statement it's useless to
you and that applies to you alone based on your viewpoint by said statement, said opinion you are entitled to have of course so I have to respect that.
If others share the same thought, that's OK too because in fact
we're all entitled to it and I'm not going to throw off on it one way or the other.
I've done it, hit 8GHz+ several times with some legit runs too in a bench at over 8GHz and I do view it as a challenge because frankly,
not everyone can do it.
In truth, the worth of it being of any value or not is up to the individual to decide but I had to say that about why it's done and the good that does come out of it.
Would have loved to have been in that room.
Gota get me a NOS pot one day..
Any pot in good shape should do, main points are whether the base is still in good condition (Not gouged, dented or scratched up severely) and for the mounting hardware/ parts of it to be present in good shape as well.
Pots do not "Wear Out" simply due to age but they can become an obsoleted design. Even with that, any pot in good shape is useable and at least will deliver the goods if properly used. If you happen across a pot that looks OK you can easily dress up and polish the base with some fine grit sandpaper in the same way as lapping a cooler/chip lid for better contact to smooth out the scratches/blemishes and it will work just fine as long as the work is done correctly.
Just be aware not all pots work with all boards.
One with a
smaller footprint of it's base will do for just about anything, but larger ones like a T-Rex for example can only be used with boards that have alot of open space around the CPU socket due to component interference.
In those cases there isn't alot you can do about it short of modding the board in a few instances.... Which I've done before with one of my old 939 LanParty DFI's for example to make it fit and work with the board.
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