Youtube – The Dry Ice Inception – Phenom II X6 1090T @ 5.5GHz

The Setup

The Results

5.547GHz Core #1 SS (Couldn’t get a valid at this speed for some reason)

5.5GHz Core #1 Validation

12.844s SuperPi 1m

13m 30.328s SuperPi 32m

4.93s wPrime 32m

Now you guys see what I mean when I didn’t wanna hype it. Only a few results worth sharing. Next run I promise more results!

Oh and there is an all 6 core max OC result in the video that I didn’t SS.

Video will be up soon.

Thought you guys would appreciate some pics

Went to the store today and bought the following:

Dielectric grease to coat the board to prevent condensation from getting at the electronics of this very precious motherboard.

I couldn’t get any moldable eraser, so I though this would do. It said on the package that it was non-drying, non-cracking, and prevented seepage from water. It provides just the perfect seal to prevent condensation.

Dielectric grease applied around the socket and board.

Plumbing putty applied around the socket. Nice and easy.

Picked up my box of goodies from the benchpartner (Addies) today.

The DICE Pot

Ready To Go

Stay tuned guys. After my DICE run tomorrow, I will be posting a massive result thread, and making an HD video of the run.

Hey guys. I did some more tuning, got more results. So I am throwing together my second slushbox blog. To see the first one, click here.

I tried to place my rad in the cooler this time so that the ice covered more surface area. This resulted in idle temps of 0-1C. So i pushed my Phenom II X6 1090T even further.  Here goes my second set of results.

4.806GHz All 6 Cores @ 1.648Vcore 1C idle – Validation

It took me an hour to get this validation. I could only previously validate 4.73GHz. I needed to reposition my rad for better surface area of ice. Then I had to wait for my temperature to drop to 0-1C before I made the final push. I couldn’t get any further without going above 1.648Vcore. Here we have it, 4.806GHz on the slushbox. Can’t wait to see what this can do with DICE.

4.902GHz Core #1 @1.648Vcore 1C idle

I chose 3 of my chips cores for this result, meaning I had to disable 3 in the bios. I had previously tested all 6 individually, and the best clockers were cores #0,#1, and #4. The best of the three was core #1, the one which I decided to push for this screeny.

SuperPi 1M – 4.7GHz @ 1.616Vcore – 14.555 seconds

This is a very fast result. The upper limit for my cpu in 1m. Again, this result only uses three cores. I believe I could improve on this score by tuning my ram a bit more.

SuperPi 32m – 4.608GHz @ 1.616Vcore – 14 minutes, 53.148 seconds

This is the first time I have ever broken 15 minutes in 32m without using dry ice. This score could also be improved through a little ram tuning.

UPDATE: Low Volt Overclocking

I wanted to see how far this thing would go without using insanely high volts. It’s pretty amazing what a little bit of cold can do.

This was my boot speed. 4GHz using only 1.296Vcore. That is stock for these thuban chips.

4.5GHz only requiring 1.44Vcore. These things LOVE cold!

As always, these 1090T’s follow suit with their x4 brethren and respond well to cold. I can’t wait to throw some DICE on these and see how they scale. I’m looking for 5200MHz+.

Thanks for checking out my second session guys. I hope this was interesting. And I also hope to inspire many others to put their Phenom II’s under cold. You will not be disappointed with the results.

So what is really needed for minor work such as converting your video collection to digital format?

A computer meeting the minimum standards of your capture device, the capture device, DVD+/-RW and an external HDD (if you want to carry your movies with you).

The components used for this article were the ASUS N270 NetBook, ADS DVD-ExpressDX2, a Lite-On external DVD-RW and a WD 500GB External HDD. This setup is affordable, extremely portable and flexible.

Working with home videos may necessitate a higher end device and better than bundled software, this example is great for the basics only.

Capturing movies will take some time. The included software may not have a timer option and therefore it may be necessary to be present to stop the video and recording manually.

Below are pictures of the setup and the  process of simple video capture and DVD creation with the included Cap Wiz utility.

First, all hardware needs to be brought together and hooked up.

Decide what unit will be used for working with the capture and begin hooking everything up to it.

Hook up the capture device.

Probably most important, hook up the output device. Here a PSP UMD disk is being converted to DVD format. This is also great for putting downloaded digital content on to DVD.

This NetBook has no DVD drive, necessitating the use for an external unit. An external HDD is also a great addition for moving media to your HTPC or other media device.

Next, go with the flow. The process is fairly simple and all of the tasks are pretty straight forward as far as getting content on the disk.

The initial screen allows setting of the regional video standard.

Next indicate what type of input will be used.

Choosing the destination for the capture is next. You will need to name the file and, if not burning direct to disk, you will need to choose a location for the file.

Probably one of the better features of these types of devices is the ability to save to various formats.

After the initial setup, power up the device that will be outputting original content. You do not begin to play the content, though the directions for the unit say otherwise.

This is the capture screen for the software. From this screen, access to captured videos is available and burning them to disc is also an option. Here the preview is used to access the device output and then one can start to play and record content.

One of the tools of this software is a brightness control that can be very helpful with older videos.

With the direct to disk pop-up, first choose the format and then the location for the file to be burned.

On the final Direct to Disk screen, the name of the movie and chapter length are set, as well as an option for recording time if the exact length of the video is known.

That is about it. Though hardware and the bundled software vary, most stick to basics in line with what is above. If you want to get your movies off of the VHS and more… then this is the only way to do it without breaking the bank. Just remember, if you are a novice you should read plenty of reviews and tailor your purchase to your needs. Many retailers have user reviews of the products that can be very helpful. Just remember, even when a product gets some bad reviews, that does not necessarily indicate that there is something wrong with the product. It is usually a user error…like the user not reading the manual. I always read the manuals as a last resort.

The features of the DX2 capture device are:

Effortlessly Save & Share Memories on DVD or CD
Transfer video from VHS tapes, digital or analog camcorders directly
to DVD or CD*
Real-Time hardware conversion produces the best DVD quality results
Make Movies for your Sony PSP, Apple iPod or Zen Vision!

Features
Capture audio and video via the USB port to your computer hard drive or “Direct to Disc” (C6666D or DVD disc)
Capture video directly to popular video formats; DVD (MPEG-2), SVCD, VCD (MPEG-1), MPEG-4.
Capture directly to Sony PSP video and Apple iPod video formats
Use the Included CapWiz application for easy video capture direct to your desired video compression format
Record to your computer hard drive or “Direct to Disc”
Exclusive Hardware Encoding chip inside DVD Xpress creates the highest quality video without putting extra strain on your PC

The DX2 is available here.

Some of the features of the bundled software (Ulead VideoStudio™ 9 SE DVD) are:
Features and Benefits
• Movie Wizard is ideal for users new to video editing. Select from 30+ theme styles to get started then let auto-editing make the first edits. Have complete movies with only three steps. Use the new auto pan & zoom to help create entertaining photo slideshows.
• VideoStudio Editor is complete with all the powerful tools needed to produce great-looking home movies while using an intuitive, step-by-step workflow. Spend time being creative rather than learning the program.

Full product description: http://www.ulead.com/events/ati/UVS9_FB_SE_DVD_062405.pdf

This is an older version and newer versions usually have more features. I wont complain as it was a bundle.

Do realize that this is a low end model and it is all that I needed. The prices and features are varied as is the bundled software. I would advise reading reviews and comparing features so that you get the device that best meets your needs.

Just as a little side note: Why do I use a NetBook? Portability! I have kids and when we travel, movies keep them happy. With a 160GB HDD, that is a lot of content to keep them happy. Sure you can buy one of those All-in-one 10 inch portable DVD players for $179, but compared to $249 for the netbook (that will allow you to watch streaming content in the hotel, check your e-mail, update your social networking site and the like, in addition to watching stored movies); I just see the DVD player as a waste of money.

]]> http://www.techreaction.net/2010/05/26/guide-converting-your-vhs-collection-to-digital-and-a-little-more/feed/ 0 http://www.techreaction.net/2010/04/01/amid-announces-machine-intelligence-benchmark-singularitymark/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amid-announces-machine-intelligence-benchmark-singularitymark http://www.techreaction.net/2010/04/01/amid-announces-machine-intelligence-benchmark-singularitymark/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:14:03 +0000 64NOMIS http://www.techreaction.net/?p=5891 AMID Announces Machine Intelligence Benchmark SingularityMark

Industry and academia hail new benchmark which promises to trace the path toward machine intelligence and self awareness.

April 1st 2010 Embargo Until 12:01AM

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–AMID’s (NYSE: AMID) acclaimed platform technologies have enjoyed their rampage, blazing through the immersive games, revolutionizing productivity, transforming human interaction, and shattering world records. Reflecting the evolution in computing capabilities of massively multi-core computing and advanced GPU-based vector processing, AMID and partners from industry and academia have announced a new initiative to measure the performance of computing machines for the ultimate forward looking application, the machine mind. The outcome of the initiative is SingularityMark, a new benchmark which measures the performance of computers on a broad range of AI algorithms and test. SingularityMark will show where today’s machines lie on the path toward their intelligence and sentience.

“With SingularityMark we are able to measure PC performance as a simple fraction, where a score of 1 will represent the moment of the singularity. The scale is mostly linear with a logarithmic tail representing the massive compute performance necessary to bridge the gap between intelligence and sentience. We expect upcoming X6 processors to achieve a SingularityMark score of 0.10993 which we count as a major milestone, finally breaking the 1% of Singularity threshold” – Simon Solotko, Advanced Micro-Intelligence Devices

Performance enthusiasts around the world will now have a forward looking benchmark that truly strains even the most demanding systems. Aging benchmarks in the enthusiast community were beginning to frustrate overclockers who complained that today’s benchmarks simply were not demanding enough.

“The benchmarks we use today are CPU or GPU limited and unable to measure the real-world intelligence of high-end systems or utilize their full computational potential. In some cases the benchmark might stress only a specific capability of a single CPU core or measure some completely meaningless and insignificant value such as Pi. SingularityMark opens a whole new chapter in the world of competitive benchmarking, giving the community something relevant and world-changing to measure” – Sami Makinen, Advanced Micro-Intelligence Devices

Partners from industry and academia are heralding this announcement as the first real acknowledgement that today’s computers will actually evolve into sentient computational devices. One executive source, who asked not to be named, expressed their enthusiasm for the new initiative “Finally all of our hard work and Moore’s Law is going to pay off, even if it is in the far future. We were getting worried about being eclipsed by an emerging microarchitecture or non-silicon based technology but this benchmark shows we are really on the right path”

Supporting Resources

• AMD OverDrive Software the only application designed specifically to hasten the coming of the singularity, unlocking the massive headroom in today’s heterogeneous compute platforms while risking melting hardware, damaging data, voiding warranties, or potentially, achieving a SingularityMark score of 1.0000 and unleashing the great AI.

While Simon Solotko works at Advanced Micro Devices his views and this post are completely his own. AMID and SingularityMark are pure and unadulterated fiction.

The High End | Virtual Reality | The Human Body Becomes the Interface 

The buzz for 3D television is a mental smokescreen, the future is revealed when it is combined with a 3D interface and a powerful visual computing engine.  Natal for the PC is the other half of the tipping point for the virtual experience. The XBOX 360 is too stoggy a platform for virtual reality and social simulation. The PC will be the innovation hotbed, and the innovation in virtual experiences is going to be mindbending. Today’s consols will start to show their age as Natal and superior PC 3D capabilities raise the bar and force consols to start to make compromises. You know of what i speak. 720P instead of 1080p. Lower frame rates. You will wish it were easier to overclock your console. Fortunately for the PC – not a problem.

Just as Boxee, an innovative seed for video consumption, finds adoption on the PC, so will virtual experience applications fueled by the full body interface of Natal and it will catapult the massively multiplayer virtual experience. Natal is the wrong interface for shooters but the right one for second, third, and fourth lives. Don’t worry, no one else believs that the PC running Natal is going to change the world. Or that Natal is going to change the PC. Yet I believe that the demands of full virtual environments, 3D display, and an intelligent full motion interface will define a new role for the high end PC – in the living room.

The X86 TV Becomes a Platform For All | Implications Beyond Crushing Cable

Mass integration of web video access in televisions is cute but doesn’t change the game. However, the rules change when every TV has integrated video access, video playback, and god-knows-what applications on it running on an industry standard platform (x86+Google/MS) that allows the media engine and applications to be updated. Today’s STB’s are bricks that fail to deliver new format support and evolved capability. From the cable guys, Uverse is one of the few to break the mold but the platform innovation beyond video delivery remains minimal. The iPhone is the analogue transforming the cell phone into our intelligent travelling companion. The same phenominon is happening in living rooms everywhere as people transform their screen into dynamic entertainment platforms, either by piecing together a home theater PC experience or though one of the more capable, platform-esque, but still limited set top boxes – Popcorn Hour comes to mind.

The deciding factor is not the will of content owners to direct content through profitable pipes (cable) rather the unruly web and unruly end-customers who are tired of paying for “access.” Access services like cable create waste, as it forces consumers to pay for availability rather than content. When the market moves, in mass, to paying only for the content it wants (analogous to paying for singles rather than albums, or paying a low flat rate for access to ALL content) there will be the great video content apocalypse. Money will move out of cable and out of content development. That’s fine, there’s too much content, too much competition to build and market content as Mark said in the keynote. The solution is not cable. The solution the market will choose is direct, on demand internet access to video. The consequences are less (rapid growth in) high-budget content, a shift toward monetization of bandwidth, a new social contract with content makers (the music tax), and other preposterous changes forced, not asked for, by the slippery slope of web-direct content. The transformation will be complete by 2015. I also suggest checking out the Mark Cuban (Broadcast.com founder) and Avner Ronen (Boxee founder) slugfest, debating the future of television, watch the video or read about it here.

And I do not need to talk about 3D television. It comes. What will make it compelling is interactivity. That interactivity, high definition display, real-time 3D simulation, and oustanding 3D graphics are the design goal and target of only one industry, the PC industry, and it will bind the PC and the TV together at last. Not every solution will have high-end compute, but the bar is going to be substantially above where it is for today’s entry-level dedicated PC’s.

The Social Web Enters The Living Room | Two Way Video At Last

Why is video telephony a service not provided by cable companies? As soon as the TV and an open software platform come to the TV the shackles of innovation will be broken and the hold of access providers who wish to monetize all uses will be undone. The social, video web will replace it. A webcam on your PC is cute. A webcam on your TV pushes the obscurity of video based social media into every home. It may help to stratify the television space, creating premium tiers as virtual presence and the visual social web will require additional compute and consumer expertise, enabling a market for premium compute in mainstream televisions.

The Unruly Rue the Day

Together we have the new uses of the living room television driving the innovations “that in 10 years I can argue is old news just like we argue about internet video today.” Virtual reality will come to the living room and rekindle X86 as it will demand compute we do not yet have. Overclockers will once again rejoice as benchmarks that reflect real uses yet pose impossible challenges come to be. The Television will become an application platform, just as important as the smart phone but with much more bandwidth and a new kinship with every other connected device. These will help the social web extend to all screens enabled by applications and video, creating new rules for the social web and the way content is produced and distributed through increasingly social networks. The fact that Facebook is now a top destination has implications not just for the social web, but for how content is marketed, distributed, and ultimately consumed. The platformization of the television and the new applications for the living room will create demand and a viable ecosystem for high computational capability and diverse applications. And if you doubt that anyone wants their television to turn into a broad scope computing device, look down at your cell phone.

If you wish to follow this story as it unfolds, you can read more about the evolution of PC technology at AMD, follow on Twitter or join me at www.omnixedia.com

Note: This blog has been revised for a lot of good reasons.

Simon Solotko works for AMD but his views and unconvential view of the future are truly his own.

To capture the old tapes we used a Canopus ADVC-1394 capture card which is some what of an older card but still worked very well for what we wanted to do. One of the quirks this card had was it would not run on a Win XP fully updated machine, so I used just a plan Win XP install and never updated it. This was fine as it would only be used for this.

So we had an older PC all setup running a Pentium 4 dual core installed in an Apevia X-Qpack case with several hard drives to store all the captures and provide editing/encoding work space.

This is the CPUz screen of what is actually running in this box, you can see that its nothing major here.

The tape decks my friend had that we would use for this.

Beta Deck – Sony SL2710
VHS Deck – JVC HR-S9911U
DVD Deck – Panasonic DMR-E20

Everything worked pretty well and I started off capturing, encoding and burning DVD’s. What I would do back then as I wanted this to be as streamed lined as possible because of the huge number of tapes to work on was to capture 3 tapes at a time which could be anywhere from 2 hour, 4 hour, or 6 hour recordings. When that was done I would edit to clean up split these huge files into parts that would fit onto a DVD. These would then be batched up and encoded which would take almost a solid week of encoding time. Those files would then be burnt to a DVD and then move on to the next batch of tapes.

All that took about a year to complete and the encoding machine setup was put aside as that project was finished up.

Well wouldn’t you know it, my friend simply cannot pass up any old tape that he finds and stops by the other day with a box of tapes he found in the back of a recycling center. Oh joy I get to start this up again LOL !

Pulling all the stuff back out I setup the system on the side of my bench and slowly figured out how it all went together and worked.

So the capture/encoding station lives on !

The software I used for this capturing the video is Vegas Video LE 3.0 and it looks something like this while capturing.

The captured raw files tend to be rather large, ~50gb’s+ so they need to be edited to clean up things and then split into sizes that will fit on a DVD. Generally a football game will need to be split into two DVD’s to keep the max resolution and detail that I can get with these old tapes.

For this part of the process I used TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress which allows me to edit and encode very easy and then batch up all the encoding.

When I did all this before I encoded on the Pentium 4 machine and that took a fair amount of time, almost 3 hours per DVD. Now I copy those files over to my main rig which has a 965XE at 3.9ghz and do the editing/encoding there which only takes ~23 minutes per DVD so its much faster with 8 threads working on this vs 2.

After the files are encoded its time to burn DVD’s. For this I use TMPGEnc Author 1.6 and its also pretty simple to do.

So that’s pretty much the process and it actually goes pretty smoothly. Many of these tapes that I did are rather old, this football game was 9-13-93 and recorded off of regular TV so quality was not the best, some of the older tapes I have done are late 60’s.

One other thing that you can do with all this software is encode to a mpeg file, or a whole host of other formats and save them on your HDD so they can be called up at any time. I can see another huge project coming down the line LOL

Another thing I used this setup for was Audio encoding from old LP’s and Cassette  tapes. I picked up a D.A.K. USB turntable back then that worked pretty well.

http://www.dak.com/reviews/2020story.cfm

For capturing and editing the Audio I used Audio Cleaning Lab 11 deluxe. This software has some very nice features like removing hiss and crack and pop filters for cleaning up the sound of old LP and tapes.

So an older machine with a few added features can be turned into a very useful work station. Being able to archive old VHS and Beta tapes that you may have laying around is a big plus. Taking our LP and Cassette collections and capturing them and with a little clean up they can be turned into really nice sounding files that can be archived or burnt to a CD for your enjoyment at home or in your car.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed it !

 Let me start by saying that I have never done a hardware review. So I may ramble a bit.
The box that it came in is on the plain side. Not many accessories are included. When I first held the board in my hands I was like “That is a sexy mobo.” The gray and black color scheme looks very good. The componet layout seems very good also. For the purpose that I bought it it seemed a perfect choice. In seeing that I am useing it as a cruncher it has everything that I need.
The onboard heatsinks do a decent job of cooling with the addition of a fan placed over them. If I had looked closer before I bought it I would have spent the $40 extra on the E758 for the better heatsinks. Live and learn as they say.

 On to the build. I bought an I7 920, EVGA GeForce 6200, Noctua NH-U12P SE2, OCZ Gold Tri Channel 3GB PC10666, Ultra LSP750 750-Watt psu, and 160 gb hdd. This being a simple setup I did not forsee any problems. or so I thought. On first power up the rig stopped on C1. I moved the ram sticks around and still C1. If I only used 2 sticks of ram it would post.  Then I tried some Patriot Viper ram. Same issue. System would only boot with 2 sticks of ram. I went ahead and installed Windows 7. No problems. only being able to use 2 sticks of ram bugged me. I tried timings and voltage, but nothing worked. Finally I decided to up date the bios. Once I did I was able to use all 3 sticks of ram.

 My goal was a 4gig OC. With vcore at 1.21 and setting dram to 1.65 I was at 190bclk. All other voltages are at auto. Close enough to 4ghz. Now to put it to work. I ran some test to make sure it was stable. OCCT, LinX, and IntelBurn test where used. Once I was happy with those it was time to move to the real test. Installed BOINC and set up WCG. The rig has been runnig since the first of December with no errors. That is what I call stable.

 For those not in need of 2 lan ports or 16x Sli or Crossfire this may be a good choice in motherboards. I am very pleased with it.

We also run into older pieces of equipment that for what ever reason we decided it might have some use and take it back home to see what we can do with it.

A few months back a friend of mine was having issues with his wife’s old laptop, it would shut down on its own from time to time. The laptop in question is a eMachine M5305.

This is about a seven year old laptop now and had a sale price of ~$1,200 back then. Equipped with a blazing fast AMD Athlon XP-M 2200+ CPU clocked at 1789.4mhz in stock config., and stacked with 512meg of RAM this unit was a nice laptop, back then

Now a days these types of laptops are much faster and capable machines, but do older ones still have a use and worth repairing ?  Lets find out …

With a up and coming testing project I found myself needing a laptop that I could use along side my benching equipment. I had this laptop just sitting off on a shelf doing nothing so I decided to take another look at it today and see whats up with it.

This machine would turn on and get to the desktop and run for a few minutes then just shut itself off. A fresh battery was installed months ago so that left pretty much one thing it could be, over heating.

Searching around the web about these machines you find that it is pretty common that they over heat and do the very same thing that happens with this machine.

I found this nice guide on how to get inside one of these machines and went at it.

http://dexplor.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=171&highlight=5305+overheat

After opening up the machine I see this. It was not as bad as I had thought, showing just how badly a little bit of dust in the cooling area can have adverse effects on these machine.

So now pulling out the fan and seeing whats inside.

So with that cleaned out she is up and running, tho it still runs hot, but it doesn’t shut down at all anymore. With the covers all screwed back in place she runs a nice toasty 82 degrees. This follows with all that I have read about these laptops, they run hot.

Desktop picture of CPUz and HWmonitor

In the end I had a machine that had lived its life doing simple things, broke down and was discarded, and replaced by a new machine. The first owner is much happier with the new laptop as this thing is rather slow.

But as I found a need for it, it was a pretty simple job to bring it back into usefulness and a test/monitoring machine for a new project that I will show later when that is all up and running.

Here she is, the revived eMachine M5305 working just fine

After seeing these units at Reachtech.com who manufactures these units in all different sizes and specifications I thought to myself that one of these units would be a great MOD to show computer data on the front of my TJ07 that I had just built. With the help from my friend Jeff I managed to get a unit from Steve over at Reachtech, both of whom are great guys and friends that I have known for some time.

The 4” LCD Display has a fully programmable SLCD6 controller with touch screen and the ability to upload programs and graphics, and talk to the computer through a USB port.

This is the unit I started out with to give you an idea of what these look like.

Starting with this I began to mock up what I thought the screens should look like. As I was extremely busy at that time I happened to come across a really good graphic artist Ross Fairbanks of GUIMagic who has done a large amount of work with Windowblinds. We exchanged ideas and came up with the very first set of screens that would show CPU usage, CPU temps, Fan Speeds and a Clock. These were the basic building blocks of the project and later changed to better fit programing problems and new ideas.

The project was begging to take shape now, this is the first screen.

Uploading this image to the LCD to seeing what this would actually look like. It looked very, very good so we dove into this and began to add more features.

Mocking this up in a bezzel and fitting it to the front of the TJ07

everything is great so far and looking good. Jeff ran into a programer by the name of  Craig Williamson who worked his magic and helpped get this unit up and running so it would animate the images and talk to a computer through a USB port and get all the vital data needed to display on the LCD.

As a test I installed the unit on my benching setup and it worked great.

Now with a working unit we began to look at cases or bezzels to mount the LCD into. Jeff managed to pick up a Garman GPS unit and we took out the display from that and installed ours into it. This looked really good and was just what we had been looking for. However having a injection mold setup made so we could make our own cases was rather costly and way out of our price range for this project.

Later Jeff had a simple plastic stand made up that worked well and easy for us to have made.

We still have lots of  loose endso complete this project but it stands right now it is  fully functional unit that can display CPU Usage, CPU Temps, Fan Speeds, RS Feeds and a Clock. Some of the data that is used to display on this comes from Everest and we can configure our own app to show a few different things like GPU temps or a mix of GPU and CPU temps and different fan speeds from what ever is installed in the computer. Different screens can be shown by pressing the buttons at the bottom of the screen to show what ever you want to display.

Around this time ZombieTek was born.

This unit works really well and would be great for a modding project, custom built computer case or other projects. Some features that we still need to work on is displaying more than 4 CPU cores and the number of Cores has grown a great deal from when we started this project. Other features that we had in mind were to include a skinnable graphics library so a user could upload different back grounds. Much of this would take a fair amount of time to do so that has been pretty much put on hold for now.

Here is a few examples of splash screens that could be used, really what ever you wish could be uploaded here. These are a few branded screens.