The LAN was small, but a great success on short notice. We played SC2, fun console games, overclocked, and ate tonnes of pizza. Even cooled our drinks with dry ice! I would like to thank everyone from the University Of Calgary that came out and participated, and of course everyone from the Performance Computing Club [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Slappa’
PCC SC2 LAN Photos!
Posted: April 14, 2012 in Achievements, Competition, Extreme Overclocking, Overclocking, PCC, Phenom IITags: calgary, LAN, Overclocking, PCC, performance computing club, sc2, Slappa, starcraft, tournament, uofc
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i5 2500K Folding @ 4.7GHz
Posted: January 3, 2012 in Folding, Hardware, Intel, Overclocking, ProcessorTags: 2500k, 4.7GHz, beta client, efficiency, folding, i5, Intel, OCN, power, quad core, Slappa, slappablog, speed, V7
This i5 clocked up to 4.7GHz no problem. My chip yields this speed at a fairly low voltage, allowing me to maintain power efficiency, but make a large gain in speed. Here is a screenshot of my folding with the V7 beta client on my new processor: The processor has been running stable at [...]
Happy New Years!
Posted: January 3, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: AMD, Extreme, happy, holidays, Intel, new, Overclock, Slappa, year
I just wanted to wish everyone a happy new years. I hope all the best to all of you! Once again, thank you so much for taking the time to read my blog in this insignificant corner of the web, it means a lot to me! This year will be an exciting one, with more [...]
|Slappa Goes To The Darkside – i5 2500K Processor|
Posted: December 29, 2011 in Overclocking, Hardware, Overclock.net, Processor, Intel, Folding, UnboxingTags: Slappa, Intel, 4GHz, Quad, Overclock, 5GHz, HT, i5, 2500k, unbox, P67, 3.3GHz
Happy holidays everyone! Today I picked up an Intel i5-2500K processor. This is unusual for me, as I have always been a huge AMD fan. I have not used an Intel processor since the days of the Q6600. However, needing to cut back on power usage while increasing performance, I have opted for the sandy [...]
“TWKR” CPU-Z Glitch
Posted: December 22, 2011 in AMD, Hardware, Overclocking, Phenom II, ProcessorTags: #4, 4GHz, 555, AMD, B55, black, edition, OCN, Overclocking, Phenom II, Slappa, TWKR, unlocking, X4
I was messing around tonight with my 555 X2 unlocked to an X4, and I opened CPU-Z to find this: That is the oddest CPU-Z glitch I have experienced so far. Unlocking CPU’s does weird things to your software
Slappa’s Blog Hits 30,000 Views
Posted: December 22, 2011 in AchievementsTags: Overclocking, Slappa, Computer, Hardware, electronics, blog, slappablog, 30k, 30000
Today is a good day! My blog has broken 30,000 views, and is continuing to gain popularity. I am averaging around 100 hits a day, which is great for a small computer hardware blog. I would just like to say thank you to all my followers and viewers!
Laptop Llano (Sabine) Overclocking Guide – A4-3300M, A6-3400M, A8-3500M, MX
Posted: December 8, 2011 in AMD, Folding, Guide, Hardware, Overclocking, Phenom II, ProcessorTags: 3300, 3400, 3500, A4, A6, A8, AMD, APU, coretemp, CPUz, folding, Guide, Hp laptop, k10stat, llano, mobile, MX, Overclocking, sabine, Slappa, smp, VMware
I’ve been seeing a lot of stuff floating around on the internet on how to overclock these new AMD Laptop APU’s. This content consists of mostly a few youtube videos, and a handful of helpful forum posts. So I am taking it upon myself to compile all this information to be helpful to those of [...]
Custom Domain Is Live!
Posted: December 8, 2011 in AchievementsTags: custom, domain, Slappa, slappablog
Hello everyone! Today is a great day. I have finally taken the steps to register this blog as my own domain name, to drop the .wordpress moniker. The new URL is simple: slappablog.com The old URL still works as well, it will just redirect. Thank you all for following my blog. If anyone has any [...]
Movember Folding
Posted: December 6, 2011 in Achievements, Folding, HardwareTags: 9800GT, A6-3400M, cause, donations, folding, GTX 570, movember, points, Slappa, stats
While I did not garner any donations for prostate cancer, I did contribute in my own way. By folding for the cause. If you don’t know what folding is, please visit this website: http://folding.stanford.edu/ I ramped up my GTX 570 folding 24/7 (Only a few days in the month where it was offline, as well [...]
A Shoutout To AMD – Job Well Done On Llano
Posted: September 4, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: A6-3400, AMD, APU, fusion, laptop, llano, Quad, Slappa
I am absolutely loving my new llano laptop. The desktop feel is very smooth and quick, quicker than most laptops I have used recently. Picked up an HP g6 for $399 CAD A6-3400 APU w/ 6520G 6GB Ram All I can say is wow, I’m blown away at the price performance this thing has. I [...]
