In the process of re-arranging my lab I ended up trying a few LCD apps such as LCDC and LCD-Smartie. They all suck tbh. LCDC is Matrix Orbital prop. which forces you to shell out ‘big bucks’ which is lame, and LCD-Smartie well…just sucks. I plan on writing a tiny Python app to gank MBM info and pass through RS232 to the LCD, and I’ve found the SerLCD firmware by Sparkfun to be a little unstable at times, so I’ll be fixing that later on.

I was taking a look at my P4 and decided to bump up the OCs a bit. Yes, I know the temps are ‘mad’ high, but I’m just sick of having it at sub-3GHz….it’s PAINFULLY slow, hence the OC. It takes over 45s to compute pi to 1M decimal places, and I was able to get Prime95 and OCCT to run happy with Vcore@1.6v, Vdimm@2.8v and 230fsb. 231 and XP *seems* happy but Prime95/OCCT complain…