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#26 Post by **Santaman** » July 31st, 2006, 7:32 pm

New setup IBM Netfinity 1000 server P-III 650 with 128 Mb ECC RAM and a 9.1Gb SCSI HDD of course it has the typical overdesigned build quality.

#27 Post by **Santaman** » March 25th, 2007, 7:58 pm

I changed a few things of my main machine same CPU, Athlon 3500+ but I got a new mainboard its an MSI RD480 Neo2 with a ATI chipset and crossfire support:
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/ ... hp?UID=697

And I changed the graphics card which was an on-board Nvidia 6100 and now an ASUS EAX 1300PRO SILENT/TD
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=2 ... odelmenu=1

Not the fastest card around but its passively cooled and I like it that way, I have experienced too many machines returning with rattling graphics card fans at my previous employer...

As for the rest:
Casing: a beat up, rusty old but sturdy Chieftec case.
2x 250 GB HDD's
1GB RAM DDR
5x 80x80x25mm fans for cooling. and one more on the CPU heatsink.

DVD writer
DVD ROM
Oh and YES I DO HAVE A FLOPPY DRIVE!! :evil:

OS: Windows 2000! What else?

Grim · #28 Post by **Grim** » March 25th, 2007, 9:01 pm

The Computer:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ CPU
1GB DDR400 RAM (2x512MB)
200GB SATA HDD
Dual-Layer DVD-ReWriter
nVidia GeForce 7900GT Graphics Controller With 256MB DDR RAM
802.11g (54Mbps) Wireless PCI Card

Benq FP92E 19"

And not strictly within the remit of the thread, but it's technology and here's as good a place as any:

The TV/DVD/Console (crappy picture sadly)

Toshiba CT-90273 HD Ready LCD TV
Nintendo Wii
Playstation 2
Daewoo DVD recorder

#29 Post by **Santaman** » March 26th, 2007, 10:00 am

A console is a kind of computer so IMO it fits right in.

Fawkes · #30 Post by **Fawkes** » April 2nd, 2007, 12:44 am

Update on my setup. Out with the old 17", in with the new 20" Dell S-IPS panel.

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Specs are:
AMD Opteron 165 Dual Core @2.6ghz
2gb Corsair XMS Ram
2x Geforce 7800GT SLI
DFI nForce4 mobo
120 and 200gb HDDs, 500gb external
NEC DVD RW
Soundblaster x-fi

#31 Post by **Santaman** » April 2nd, 2007, 8:11 am

And a bling bling casing

Nice setup.

#32 Post by **SpaceBall** » April 2nd, 2007, 8:04 pm

Case Coolermaster Stacker

P6N SLI Platinum Nvidia 650 Chipset
2GB 900Mhz OCZ Special Ops Edition,
Core2 Duo E6600 @3Ghz

2x 78 GB WD Raptor 10000 rpm os / data
1x 36 GB WD Raptop 10000 rpm Photoshop scrapdisk / pagefile
+3TB Space on DIY NAS
s-ata DVD writer 18x Samsung

MSINX8800 Geforce 8800 GTS 640MB

And my pride

20 NEC 2090UXi LCD Panel TW-S-IPS Color Calibrated.

Router DLG-4300 at last my whole backbone now runs on Gigabit.

Fawkes · #33 Post by **Fawkes** » April 2nd, 2007, 11:33 pm

SpaceBall wrote:And my pride

20 NEC 2090UXi LCD Panel TW-S-IPS Color Calibrated.

The 20" S-IPS panel is so sweet. Makes me sad that some many people keep buying crappy TN 22"s.

Bling bling case is not long for this world. cant fit an 8800 so gonna get an Antec P180 and mod it with a custom vinyl covering. thinking spiderman 3 theme.

#34 Post by **Santaman** » April 3rd, 2007, 9:17 am

The Antec can't fit an 8800 either, thats why my brother has the stacker, we tried the P180 but no go amigo...

Fawkes · #35 Post by **Fawkes** » April 3rd, 2007, 1:21 pm

It can if you dont intend to use the upper HDD cage...

Gonna mount a rad in front of the upper 120mm intake so i wont be able to fit that cage in anyway, the lower cage can fit all the hdds ill ever need. (i can only squeeze 2 hdds in my system now which has 7 31/2 inch bays, the vid cards block all but 1 on the main cage.

#36 Post by **Santaman** » April 3rd, 2007, 3:10 pm

Thats true, without the upper drivecage you will have enough space.

#37 Post by **Rocketman** » April 5th, 2007, 6:10 pm

Celery 1200 Mhz running at 800 Mhz.
640 MiB of RAM
2 x 40 GB ATA HDD
2 x 36 GB Seagate Cheetah 15 krpm HDDs
Adaptec 29160 U160 SCSI controller
External Soundblaster Live
ATi Radeon 7000 VE
Philips 17" CRT
CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive
3.5" floppy disk drive.

#38 Post by **Santaman** » April 6th, 2007, 8:53 am

Nice setup, I hope the Cheeta's are not of the noisy kind..

#39 Post by **Rocketman** » April 6th, 2007, 4:25 pm

They're the hot kind :death:

I'm going to rework my cooling setup first, but if that doesn't work, they're coming out for the summer.

#40 Post by **Santaman** » April 6th, 2007, 5:23 pm

Yeah, thats an unfortunate given when using HDD's with that rotational speed.. you can buy the kind of HDD bay's they use for the Cooler Master Stacker casing, it has a 120x120mm fan infront of them, it should fit in about any casing.

http://www.perfect-systems.nl/computerw ... acker.html

Fawkes · #41 Post by **Fawkes** » April 7th, 2007, 12:21 am

Both lian-li and silverstone make similar items with fascias on the front too.

#42 Post by **Rocketman** » April 7th, 2007, 9:19 am

That one would require me to use an external cd-rom drive, though

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Besides, I already have them behind two 8cm fans--I doubt replacing that with one 12cm fan is going to make much of a difference.

I do have two passive cooling brackets currently straddling my IDE disks. I suspect they may be more effective at cooling disks, because they allow the device to dissipate much more heat. (Much like the biggest fan in the world won't save your CPU if it doesn't have a heatsink mounted on it) So I'm going to test that hypothesis by swapping them.