How to benchmark your system with Sysbench
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How to benchmark your system with Sysbench
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I used to do this all the time back in the day when I still overclocked EVERYTHING...
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I did it with Windows and there were so many great performance benchmarks for free. I was a major overclocker starting with the original socket 370 celerons.
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Started with the AMD Socket 7 processors. Although yeah, the socket 370 Celerons were some of the greatest overclockers. Celeron A 300 running at 450...mmmmmm, my boss and I were actually talking about that processor the other day, we both had it and both did the 450 overclock on it.
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Its one of the most talked about processors for overclocking of all time given its cost. Never tried any ocing with socket 7 processors.
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The ROI was minimal. Most could only be overclocked by a mere couple MHz before some other part of the system would become unstable.
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Pentium 4s Northwood and P3 Tualatins were pretty good as well.
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Yeah, any that could stay at a stable FSB multiplier were usually pretty good. Ergo the issue with overclocking socket 7. If you got a 60 MHz FSB processor, they actually did OC moderately well if you had a board you could change the multiplier and get it running at 66. However, once they all moved to 66 MHz, it was difficult because only your most OC-friendly boards had a multiplier to make 75 MHz stable, and if you didn't have it, or the chip couldn't run that fast, some other hardware that derived it's clock from the FSB multiplier (like the pci) would go unstable after about 68 MHZ.
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I miss those days and socket 7 boards in particular.
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