Analog Tachometer PC Mod 222
greenape147 writes: "BurnOutPC has this review of a tachometer modification for your PC. The tachometer, made and sold by Xoxide, works via the serial port and displays the CPU utilization in RPM's! The classical look of this external tachometer is really nice to see after the "window phase" everyone seems to be going through. Not to mention the fact that analog meters are so fun to watch. Currently supported in Windows NT/2000/XP, a GNU/Linux driver is in the works."
Cheating? (Score:4, Funny)
"Oh, this baby's practically brand new..."
Oh, the humanity! (Score:4, Funny)
What they really need is a miniature version that fits into a 5.25" drive bay, without the need for major case surgery.
Useless for my DUAL MP1900, When will offer (Score:0, Funny)
I guess if you have one cpu this might be cool, but not if it uses a lame way of judging unutilized cpu time.
Supporting most of the common OSs instead of the ones they offer now would be good, but if they cant, then at least offer source example for systems developers to write driver code to support it.
Could be fun on Macs too.
But with dual CPUs you might as well just use screen based utilities.
Schweete! (Score:4, Funny)
Gah! (Score:3, Funny)
Add a turbo or nitrous oxide, overclock or supercool. Not these useless mods.
P.S. It is RPM, not RPMs, and expecially not RPM's.
Re:It's not RPMs (Score:5, Funny)
573
Dunno about the rev/min, but my PC has 573 RPMs.
"Linux" driver, not "GNU/Linux" driver (Score:4, Funny)
YMMV (Score:4, Funny)
"Your Mileage May Vary" now doesn't it?
It only goes to 8! (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/9177
burnoutpc's tachometer (Score:2, Funny)
some follow-up mods (Score:4, Funny)
If this keeps up, it won't be long before you start seeing aftermarket replacement chips to improve your computer's performance... oh, wait...
Re:Cheating? -Tach not odometer (Score:5, Funny)
Drug sales are mixed on this side of the pond too. Pot is always measured in standard, coke is always measured in metric.
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's how I like it!
Re:Cheating? -Tach not odometer (Score:1, Funny)
or 3.5 grams. then theres 28 grams in an ounce, or is there 30? depends. its 100 in holland, apparantly! how many ounces in a 9 ounce bar? 9? wrong - more like 8.5. I`m sure most deaths from drug dealing arent from people being deliberately ripped off. its just all the converting to/from standards!!
That's nice, but... (Score:4, Funny)
Check out the picture [yimg.com] :)
Re:Cheating? -Tach not odometer (Score:4, Funny)
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's how I like it!
Wow, that's what I call a real gas guzzler. I thought my SUV sucked fuel, but it gets around 270,000 rods per hogshead. Well, unless I'm pulling my trailer, then it drops to about 141,000, but what do you expect, I mean the trailer weighs like 500 stone and has a pretty large front sail area.
What kind of vehicle are you driving, anyway? I mean, I think an M-1 Abrams tank gets around 6000 rph.