Overclocking ATI

If anyone has read more than two of my blog posts, he/she knows that i just write about random stuff. Im interested in random things so i can't help it. For this particular blog post, if you aren't interested or know anything about graphics cards, you'll be completely lost.

In my desktop as of now, i have mid end set-up. Actually, when i built my computer a year ago, it was mid/high end, so it could be considered on the lower mid end. Regardless, my computer has a E8400 graphics card overclocked to 4.0GHz (not 4.2 since the summer temperature) a slightly overclocked HD4850. It's hard for me to remember the clocks on my 4850 since it's been months since i've even opened gpu-z up. I do remember the overclocking process though.

http://www.bit-tech.net/blog/2009/04/29/overclocking-the-ati-radeon-hd-4770/

This blog stood out to me because it is about overclocking the HD4770, which is similar to my 4850. I didn't have much luck with overclocking my own graphics card so it's always nice to get some happiness vicariously.

This person had relative success with overclocking. I'm not sure of the temperatures his card reached but i just know that regardless of it, he reached almost identical performance as a stock 4850. He got his memory and gpu slightly further than i did, which is where i should've gone to. During the winter, i'll probably re-overclock my 4850 for kicks just to see where i can get it to (again).

Dung Beetles

http://torch.cs.dal.ca/~riordan/sa2007/SA3/dungbeetle.jpg

Dung beetles eat crap. They eat what other animals throw away and have no care for. Animals can't eat their own feces, which is obvious since they excrete what they can't use. Dung beetles take this useless excrement, and use it as their sustenance.


Imagine eating your dog's feces. It's probably a not so pleasant idea considering the universal idea of how bad feces are. We are all probably genetic predisposed to disliking feces, since our own feces are poisonous to us. Yet another animal feeds and lives off of a material that we look at with disgust. It rolls these balls of crap up and ends up eating them.

People are constantly fascinated by these bugs as well. Just as I am doing now, people can't get enough of dung beetles since they are so opposite of us. It is strange to think that something we put down our mouths and out our anuses go back into another mouth. It's actually gross. But as well all know from the popularity of 2girls1cup (don't search since its inappropriate), it is also something that people are interested in.

Failure

I can't think of many notable things I've done in my life. In fact, as of right now, I can't think of a single thing. It makes me wonder what other people have done to feel accomplished. If anything, my life is nothing more than a failure.

I wish I had a right to whine about this. I haven't given a full effort at anything I've done, and I've never been dedicated to a certain cause. Knowing fully well how difficult something is, I give a half-assed attempt at it. I set myself up for failure, but at the same time, hold hope for success. It's a vicious cycle that leaves me with no trophies.

My only hope is that I do something I can be proud of. Right now, I can't think of anything that I can do that I would personally consider a success in life. Considering how I still have decades of my life left, I'm sure I'll do something eventually.

I'm such a failure tha









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