Jim Lane

Well I must have gotten bored yesterday because I went out last night and got parts and built myself a new computer. I really needed a new one because my old one is about 6 months old now and old technology.
I got me the new Intel D955XBK Extreme Series motherboard for a good price,

http://www.intel.com/support/motherb.../CS-020738.htm

And since I had a 3.8 GHz CPU already,
I got a new 3.6 GHz. CPU to put in my old computer that will now become my new DVR server.
I have:
4 GB DDR2 ram,
2, 400 Gb Seagate SATA hard drives, (partitioned into 100 Gb segments)
1, 200 Gb Seagate SATA "C" drive for only the OS and program files,
ATI all in wonder X600 PRO video,
8-channel audio is onboard,
Sony DVD/RW,
Teac dual layer DVD/RW,
650-watt power supply, this CPU/ board combo can draw up to 8 amperes.
I flushed my radiator, replaced the coolant and transferred my "modded" Hydro Cool liquid cooling to this new computer.
I have not done it yet but I still need to install the raid controller and drive array to this system.
New system and previous one are powered from a 4kw 48 volt BEST Fortress UPS.
Jim

Ok so I am a geek..

ajpulley

Sorry, loyal Mac user here. But, good luck.

mikmaze

2.8 M0 stepping runnin strong @ 3.6, (257 fsb ) 4 x 512 hyperx @ 514 1:1 watercooled nothing fancy in the raid just straight ide. 9700pro 1 cdr/w one dvdr/w sure its old but its faster than I can think..........

Geico266

I love trying to fix them! I have a home network after buying a new lap top from Dell. I did the networking thing myself with a little help from the son in law. These puters are something else, especially for an old guy like me. I started with a slide rule!

Jim Lane

I remember in the 50's sitting in school and day dreaming of a way to have a small calculating device I could wear on my wrist and help me with my homework, it would also have 2 way communications. I too learned on a slide rule and we used to use pencils.
I have been into electronics since about 1955.
Jim

Tiny

There are two laptops running in my house, two desktops, a server, a wireless network, a shared laser printer and soon to be a shared color inkjet. I just rebuilt an Armada E500 that I am typing on now, love the older stuff. Fastest in house in an AMD Athlon XP 2200 with 512 RAM, and set up to do video editing. Some call me a geek, but not to my face!!

Dr. Evil

650 Watt PS @ 8 amps....good Lord that draws as much juice as the Cummins block heater !

I like the way you do things Jim.....overkill is good. I remember the pics of your genset...

definite Geek....

durasmack

Cisco Ethernet
Cisco wireless
Cisco ethernet hubs
Samsung laser printer on HP Print server
Cannon inkjet on Cisco print server
Homebuilt file server in case from an old NEC running an AMD processor
2 HP workstations running AMD Athlon 64 processors 512mb ram
1 Sony workstation running Intel P4 2gb ram
1 HP notebook Athlon 64
1 Sony Notebook (Centrino)

Video
InFocus DLP Projector
Pioneer audio equipment
Parasound AV processor
Sony PS2
Various decks for:
SVHS, VHS, DVD, VCD, SVCD, LaserDisc, MiniDV, DV, DVCAM

(if someone wants to talk live sound reinforcemnt, I can talk that too... got way more of that stuff than I need)

In the works:
Intergraph video server/web server with firewire drive array

I really need to give all this up....

FiverBob

ALTOS machine with 8080 processor.
5K of Ram at 10 cycles/sec
10M hard drive
2 - 7-1/2" floppies
9600 modem
Running MPM

Do I need something else????

BehindTheTimesBob

tmleadr03

Good lord its a computer pissing contest! I came here to get into a truck pissing contest!

Ph4tty

Still running 3.1? Maybe look into a 486 w/ win 95

3200+ AMD Athlon 64, 1 gig ddr, ati radeon 9500 plus watercooled cpu/gpu and I think I'm out of date

BIGBADBOB

I'm just thinking, you should over clock this beast!!!

BC847

. . . . amateurs . . . .

Here's most of my heap.




15 rigs shown here with 4 others rigs elsewhere in the house. A little over 35GHz in CPU power. Most are Headless/Dedicated, but all run Folding@Home (link). It's a distributed computing program, developed at Stanford University for the purpose of simulating how the proteins of our bodies develop, or Fold. When these proteins mis-fold (or mutate), diseases such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many cancers and cancer-related syndromes arise.

It is our hope that, with this program, we can potentially develop a better understanding, and perhaps come up with means of prevention, if not cures.

Anybody can do it, it's designed to run in the background so as not to interfere with what you do. It uses the spare CPU cycles. It's kinda like you driving your truck at 55mph, and program uses the left over 65mph (on your speedometer).
Stanford has assigned a points system that allows 100's of thousands of folks worldwide to participate, come up with teams, and compete with one another.

Folding For Our Future (link) Music by Jewel

Perhaps we should make a team for this website. We could compete with those other truck people. . . . . . but then, it's not nice to add insult to injury, what with them driving those other trucks and all.



Oh, I got the pocket protector for all my pens and stuff to.

durasmack

Jack.... PICTURES.... of the new server.....

Ph4tty

I wonder what counterstrike would be like with *that* setup