On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:31:51PM -0700, Blair Preston wrote: > Of course, I agree. I just fumbling around here trying to figure out why I > seem to have more processor headroom remaining on my little 2.8Ghz Proc when > running these test that seem to slam my hard drive. > > One thing that may explain some of the performance improvments are the > apparent default charactaristics of my MSI Mobo. It seems that the BIOS has > been set by default for what they call "Dynamic Overclocking", I just busted > my CPU running at just over 3Ghz on my system monitor this morning. It peaked > at that for just a few seconds, then settled back to normal. (This motherboard > is all of 3 weeks in my chassis). It seems the default was "Captain" mode, > which seems to do moderate "on demand" overclocking of the CPU, AGP and PCI > Bus Speeds. Probably why my numbers look different from others. Probably > not what I want set-up if I want this thing to live long! :)
A more drastic but interesting step would also be to swap in different video cards if you have them to see if it is your card doing such a good job for you, or something else. Or run mythtv from rpms instead of custom compiled to see if that makes the big difference.
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