Re: SunBlade 1000

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Jarto Nieminen wrote:

> 2008/8/22 Sandwich Maker <[email protected]>:
>> " From: "Lewis, Ben \(Ben\)" <[email protected]>
>> "
>> " >Downloading Solaris 10 CD ISO's (I don't have a DVD burner) over a
>> " >512/512 DSL is damn slow though... argh!
>> "
>> " That was the trouble I had, the download took ages.
>>
>> how impatient you youngsters get!       ;^>     queue up the d/l, then
>> walk away and do something else for a while!
>
> Bah. Any youngster who actively uses BitTorrent or something similar
> doesn't mind waiting for a while. :P

Blah! I will *never* use bittorrent for anything now I know how it works - 
it's a majorly-serious security flaw and I won't even allow my kids to set 
it up on our Windows-based PC.

I started out with a 300 bps modem when I set up my very first dial-up 
internet connection back in the early 1990's! 512/512 DSL is massively 
better, but even it's slow now compared to existing DSL technologies. But 
it's a necessary evil due to needing a decent-speed outward data rate for 
web servers, etc.

64+ kbps downloading is still very good, but files that are many hundreds 
of MB's still take a long time to fetch.

Gasp I remember building gcc and x11r6 on my very first Sun system (a 
3/60) and building X from source took about 4 days! Building gcc took half 
a day. Not bad for a 25 MHz 68020!

> Anyway, back to the subject of pimping out a Sun Boxen. I have a
> project to overclock a dual 300Mhz U60 and install water cooling.
> Naturally the case will be gets a make over (a necessity already due
> to the water cooling.).

Lol well I finally replaced my power-hungry E450 with a less power-hungry 
E250 today, and also replaced a disk that was close to failing and had a 
spindle motor sounding like an angle grinder with a better drive.

> ... At this point I was a bout to ask where should I look for
> instructions on how to overclock an U60 but I'll JFGI first. Hopefully
> this won't end up being another project left half done.

What sort of 'overclocking' do you want to do? The fastest processors for 
a U60 are the 450's officially, but 480's would probably work if the clock 
divisor setting is adjusted.

Craig.

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