From owner-chemistry- at -ccl.net Sat Mar 17 12:48:00 2012 From: "John McKelvey jmmckel++gmail.com" To: CCL Subject: CCL: Sort of an off topic question Message-Id: <-46514-120317120939-19964-wJwNshkEyLZO6wNfOip0ug,,server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: John McKelvey Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:09:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: John McKelvey [jmmckel * gmail.com] Folks, I've been helping an undergrad student here start doing DFT work on large organometallic complexes, and he has gone over to an overclocked Intel 2500K at about 30% faster than stock and also an SSD.. Overall speed has a serious effect of the psychological factors about starting and staying with a cpu intensive project. In this case the student is a gamer and is up to date on a lot of hardware issues.. Why all this? I realize that CCL has pointed mostly about software applications... However the part not discussed is also very important: Hardware.. and tech aspects.. So, where is a good place to post general questions about hardware performance, perhaps mostly CPUs, coolers and overclocking ? (Several days ago I found an extensive table comparing PRIME95 times on a large(!) variety of combination of mostly unlocked AMD and Intel CPUs and coolers.. can't find it again.) Suggestions welcomed!! Thanks, John -- John McKelvey 10819 Middleford Pl Ft Wayne, IN 46818 260-489-2160 jmmckel!^!gmail.com