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graememk - 7/9/10 at 07:24 AM

have seen it today

Doofus - 7/9/10 at 07:27 AM

deezee - 7/9/10 at 07:31 AM

Didn't realise you could interact with the shapes with the mouse. Its pretty cool.

BenB - 7/9/10 at 07:32 AM

Cool! Made my computer chunk a bit but I think it's on it's last legs Perhaps permanently over-clocking it 12+% wasn't such a good idea.

AndyGT - 7/9/10 at 08:10 AM

Sorry if it is a dumb question but what is it celebrating?

I can't click on the bubbles to find out...

AndyW - 7/9/10 at 09:07 AM

Normally when you hold the mouse over it, it explains what the occasion is, today is puzzling?!

liam.mccaffrey - 7/9/10 at 09:09 AM

Overclocking, those were the days, I overclocked my Athlon 1Gig to around 1220MHz just on the clock muliplyer and pushing the FSB up to 102. I had to take the side off the case lay it on its side direct a fan across it and open all the doors and windows in my flat to get it to run stable.

I probably could have got more if I had better memory. Even with the multiplyer down it still shutdown with the FSB at 103

Still it ran perfectl at 1150 permanently .

quote:
Originally posted by BenB
Cool! Made my computer chunk a bit but I think it's on it's last legs Perhaps permanently over-clocking it 12+% wasn't such a good idea.


[Edited on 7/9/10 by liam.mccaffrey]

matt_claydon - 7/9/10 at 09:56 AM

quote:
Originally posted by AndyGT
Sorry if it is a dumb question but what is it celebrating?

I can't click on the bubbles to find out...


Nobody knows. Best guess is it's not celebrating anything but is an exercise / demonstration of HTML5.

Liam - 7/9/10 at 10:34 AM

quote:
Originally posted by deezee
Didn't realise you could interact with the shapes with the mouse. Its pretty cool.


Huh - doesn't do anything here at work . Do you need IE 8? What am i supposed to see?

Liam - 7/9/10 at 10:38 AM

quote:
Originally posted by BenB
Cool! Made my computer chunk a bit but I think it's on it's last legs Perhaps permanently over-clocking it 12+% wasn't such a good idea.


Meh... Back in the day I had my PIII 650 running at 50% overclocked for years. Never skipped a beat. Today my i5 is performing the exact same feat and taking it in its stride. In between I had AMD which never overclocked well at all so I didn't bother.

[Edited on 7/9/10 by Liam]

blakep82 - 7/9/10 at 11:32 AM

hmm, i'm not going to do it, but how do you overclock a processor?

ashg - 7/9/10 at 11:40 AM

go into the bios and muck about with the multipliers and voltages. i dont normally say this but if you need to ask its best left alone. or experiment on an old pc you dont mind killing

Liam - 7/9/10 at 12:05 PM

quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
hmm, i'm not going to do it, but how do you overclock a processor?


If you're a total noob, best read some general guides online. But yeah you essentially just adjust some frequency settings in BIOS (assuming your bios allows it). You can go a little way just adjusting frequency alone, but to go further you'll need to adjust voltages too. Then you have heat to worry about so need to use a cooler a little better than the OEM fit that would come with the CPU. That's it in a nutshell.

TheGecko - 7/9/10 at 01:10 PM

For the benefit of anyone not in the UK who's wondering what they're on about, this only appears to be on google.co.uk, NOT google.com or google.com.au (for instance).

Cool too

dan__wright - 7/9/10 at 01:18 PM

its on the German one too apparently.