Oh yeah, time for me to bring out the big guns.
On occasion, 5.25" 1.2MB floppy drive
You asked for it, you got it. LOL.
That's only the desktop, which in truth I only use to have an excuse to type on my 3179 keyboard.
Great machines blokes!!!! but what keyboard are they made for you to use? remember.... we have our computers for our keyboards......
in short
Lian-Li 'Rocketfish' case modded a bit ($48 steal)
But that is the standard limit of the usb interface isn't it?
Everytime somebody tries a >6key on USB they screw it up. Exhibit A: the Das 3.
I am the proud owner of 67 floppy disks and 18 ZIP disks.
I actually still use ZIP disks since they have 100MB of storage on them and my computers can easily write to them. They're great for storing software installations for me.
Man, what you got in that pile? You gonna pull out a box of punch cards next?
Show Image(http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2831963/2/istockphoto_2831963_punch_card.jpg)
Quick, without looking at the printing what does this one say????
According to the Missus "Far too much junk"
While seeking out the Jaz Drive, i found (And booted!) an AMD 386/40 that brought back memories of smoking 486SX's. I still have my (non-working) 5MB seagate drive, and my first IDE drive (still working, 80MB WOOHOO!). The really neat kit is up in the loft (shrinkwrapped ZX80 anyone? No? Shrinkwrapped M$ Windows 1?)
my first purchased computer had the zip alternative the "superdisk" or LS-120. i can admit to purchasing a dead format. :der:
How many of those 300 floppies have old software on them?
If I hadn't fried it, I would still have a 200MB Conner Hard Drive. I disassembled it, put it back together, and still had all the data on it.
cool, my very first computer; a 486/33 came with a 170M conner hard drive. I was told at the time that I would never fill it up, it was too big.
Those were the days.
When I was a kid with my first computer - a Superboard 2 that read data from cassette tape - I read on the back of the manual that you could buy a 5MB hard disk for it. I thought that's crazy - there isn't enough information on the planet to fill that up! Yes, I was young and naive.
Now these 1TB drives we can get now. They'll never fill up, right? :lol:
I'm fine with my work's computing power, but I still don't get why people don't care about PSU quality.
It's using the forth PSU, all previous three blown up and they keep giving me those crappy cheap ones.
My best computer:
Dell
2.4 GHz Q6600 (OCd to 3.2 GHz)
You know that overclocking the CPU drastically reduces its life span and automatically voids the warantee.
You know that overclocking the CPU drastically reduces its life span and automatically voids the warantee.
And what's your address again? I'm sending the truant officer over. Even Connecticut must have laws against this........
I take you off Ignore, and you post this crap...
But when you're already near rock bottom, there's not much lower you can go.
But I have never overclocked a microprocessor either.
You worked at Nvidia? Is that Vista driver done yet?
Do I seriously annoy you that much?
Overclocking a device is not guaranteed to decrease the lifespan unless thermal control fails to be improved in tandem.
When I worked for NVIDIA, our testers said an increase of 10°C in continuous operating temperature would halve the remaining lifespan of a device. An increase of 20°C in continuous operating temperature would make the lifespan a quarter of the 'normal' lifespan, etc. Since most Intel CPUs have an operating range of 30-70 or even 30-90°C, you can see what difficulty you'd have in determining "normal" life span of a device.
Granting of warranty returns, at least at retail level, are not really affected by the competent overclocker. It's very hard to detect damage from overclocking (thermal failure) instead of other kinds of gate failure or buffer failure--well, that is unless you're dumb enough to leave the chip pads modded or scorched when you return it. One pretty much has to cap the chip and look inside to determine the cause of failure (which no retailer is able to do).
Neither have I. But I have never overclocked a microprocessor either.
My current laptop "big rig" is a 13.3" MacBook Pro. With 500GB hdd and 8GB of ram, it fulfills my portable VM needs. (I actually considered an i7 laptop, but decided I actually needed SOME real-world battery life)I actually upgraded my MBP. Boot drive is now a 640GB hdd and I pulled the Superdrive and replaced it with a 500GB hdd. Love the ton of storage and I have a small, portable dvd burner powered by USB that I use when on the go (and need to read or burn a disc).
those cases are pretty nice ripster. do the wheels come off?
What wheels? There were never any wheels, even for scrolling! But if you look carefully, maybe you'll spot the pull-starter in the back...
The Pentium 3's are rugged and reliable. I've never had one fail. Ever.
Yep. They also lock.
Word. I've forgotten to replace the heat sink on a few CPUs before power up. The AMDs all explode like a gunshot, but the PIIIs just blink and keep on working slowly.
There's a HUGE difference between a CPU with fanless aluminum and a chip with no aluminum. No Athlon will run even momentarily without a heat sink, but a PIII can do it without permanent damage.
My best (when its all together, some of the HDDs are in Canada atm):
2.4 GHz Q6600 (OCd to 3.2 GHz)
8 GB DDR2 at 1100 MHz
Gigabyte EP35-DS3P
512 MB AMD Radeon 4870
3 x 500 GB RAID 5 (Seagate) (Backup set #1, I have a pair of 1.5 TBs for #2)
3 x 74 GB RAID 0 (WD Raptor 10 000 RPM) - Need to get me some SSDs sometime (for Linux/compiling)
A 2x 5.25 bay 3 x Removable HDD trays
1 x 500 GB (WD) - Windows 7 Crap/Games drive
Cooler Master Cosmos
Some Cheap DVD writer with lightscribe that I've never used
Some Cheap card reader (only use it for SD cards, for my Eee PCs)
Samsung 24" (can't remember the model number) (1920x1200)
BenQ 22" 1920x1080
Logitech G7 mouse
Unicomp Spacesaver
600W power supply OCZ (it actually handles the RAID load fairly well)
Belkin 800VA (or was it 900VA) UPS (I got pissed off when the power failures kept reseting my uptime)
I wish I had something comparable at work, it would make my job so much easier. Stupid 1GB of ram.
I posted the pics to show how roomy they are. For a while there the combo of big PSUs and graphics cards were messing up a lot of people's builds. As long as it fits under the desk the length isn't a problem.
That was the second most stable machine I've ever used.
Normally I'd have 3 of the hard drives in a rack, but the power supply is too cheap to handle 3 raptors in RAID 0 on two rails.
I used a Dell Lattitude 610 for 2 years professionally. While I despise Michael Dell's politics and personality, I had nothing bad to say about the 610. That was the second most stable machine I've ever used.
What sort do you have? It looks like a Corsair, which are usually quite good.
Cintiq 21UX (1600x1200, 4:3, IPS)
Toshiba Sattelite L455D-S5976
Ok. So now we're posting our parent's specs? I'd put the specs of my mom's laptop up here, but she's in Pennsylvania right now doing Army stuff. All I can say is that it has 2GB RAM, a Pentium Dual-Core processor, and Windows Vista. That's pretty much all I know about it.
> GA-M57SLI-S4
Tell me your experience with Gigabyte motherboards (or any other product). I've got a bad connotation for the company and I don't know where it came from.
My primary PC used to be an Athlon XP-M 2400+ built around ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe mobo.
Pfft.
You call these big rigs?
This is a big rig -
Key specs -
2 x SGI Altix 350 with -
2 x 1.4GHz Itanium 2 per node
12GB DDR-333 ECC per node
Master node has -
2 x 73GB U320 drives
Gigabit Ethernet
CentOS 4.7 (to be replaced with Debian at some point)
Nodes are linked with NUMAlink 3 cables.
Getting it running was one hell of an experience.
Pfft.
You call these big rigs?
This is a big rig -
Key specs -
2 x SGI Altix 350 with -
2 x 1.4GHz Itanium 2 per node
12GB DDR-333 ECC per node
Master node has -
2 x 73GB U320 drives
Gigabit Ethernet
CentOS 4.7 (to be replaced with Debian at some point)
Nodes are linked with NUMAlink 3 cables.
Getting it running was one hell of an experience.
I've got you beat.
Size isn't everything MSWindows. Your gateway is bigger than the 4U boxes I am going to be building, but a single one of the 48 cores would slay anything you own. Putting a Pentium MMX in a Mountain Mods case does not make it faster. Rackmount is what the big boys play with.
I bet if I dropped one of those racks on your Gateway it would probably disintegrate.
Oh yeah? Yours may be taller but mine is wider.Show Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=8357&stc=1&d=1268449437)
94% of women prefer that.
The Pentium in the Gateway2000 actually isn't an MMX. But on Windows 95, the computer runs perfectly well. The Internet isn't lightning fast, but what can you expect out of a 14-year-old computer from a skip in the supermarket parking lot?
Rackmount computers aren't as much fun
The Itanium system I posted pics of a few pages back was pressed into service with the computer society I'm involved with in college. It hides under a desk, and our ethernet switch actually drowns out the noise it makes.
Nice Sun machine, would like one of these though -Show Image(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/95/273306684_38aa768bb9.jpg)
Mmm...a dumpster. Prime spot for finding computers.
Wrong again. (http://www.sun.com/service/sunmd/)
Wrong again. (http://www.sun.com/service/sunmd/)
Guess you didn't understand the joke.
Oh definitely. But I don't bother with older stuff. I see plenty of G3 iMacs and P2/P3s being tossed out on a regular basis... useless as far as Im concerned.
Consider, however, that a P3 system will almost invariably be more usable than an early P4 and has good use as a first/learner computer for the elderly or low income families, etc.
I loved the A7N8X deluxe. Had some very high clocks out of it. I think most NF2 based boards were good (Abit's NF7-S, DFI's NF2 Ultra B).). Via's KT 600 chipset sucked balls in comparison though. They were cheap, the chips were cheap (and unlocked), and times were good.
My NF7-S has done sterling service, and after me was in a production photoshop box, and now lives at my Mother-in-Law's living out it's days in a websurfing machine.
I have an A7N8X Deluxe with a Barton 2600+ 1917MHz and 768MB of RAM in the other room. Once I get a decent ATX 1.x power supply I'm going to turn it into a fileserver.
Main rig... Well. :p
Q9550 @ 3.7GHz
Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 motherboard
4GB OCZ DDR2 1066
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB
Corsair TX750W
WD Caviar Black 500GB
Windows Vista x64
Can you tell I'm from Overclock.net? ;)
DOS was quite stable. After all, there was nothing to crash.
DOS was quite stable. After all, there was nothing to crash.
Vista is a plenty fine OS...certainly superior to 95 or ME with regards to stability.
I jest, I jest.
Windows 95 never crashed on me in the many years I used it. As a matter of fact, I'm posting this right now on my Windows 95 machine.
Windows 95 never crashed on me in the many years I used it. As a matter of fact, I'm posting this right now on my Windows 95 machine.
Keep in mind, hardware was lower quality back then.
OK, the lowest-end hardware was lower quality.
You could get away with selling outright bad RAM back in the 90s, and not state that it's bad.
Or even motherboards with counterfeit chipsets and fake cache RAM.
Can't get away with that today.
Longsoon... Those are the Chinese MIPS copies right? Which OS do they run?
They started out as MIPS copies, now they're basically licensed MIPSen. I've considered a loongson to replace my current netbook, but gnewsense will have to be debian based instead of ubuntu based first.
Actually, the gNewSense 3.0 metad (the one running on MIPS architecture) is based on Debian Squeeze. It's only gNewSense 2.3 Deltah that is based on Ubuntu :)
Yes, I know. And last I heard it wasn't released yet.
Well, that bloody jinxed it!
One NF7-S sitting here, dead as a dodo. Currently looking to replace it, and scouring the Classifieds on the many forums I frequent, as they are too cheapskate to spring for a new mobo and ram, despite me offering to donate a nice shiny fast Dualcore.
The chip (Barton 2500 which has been ran at 3200 speeds from day 1), is fine.
I had an NF7-S which died when it was roughly 4 years old, the failure was due to a single largish dead capacitor near the AGP slot. I replaced it, with a pair of caps with a total capacitance in the right ballpark and it started working again.
As I recall the failed capacitor's manufacturer was different from every other cap on the board.
That 1200-watter's the equivalent of powering 10 of my windows 95 computers.
a Single core AXP/SDRAM setup
http://www.acmemicro.com/estore/ShowProduct.aspx?pid=7933
Using that?
(Four sockets = 48 cores, and up to four graphics cards, although you'll have pretty wimpy cards to fit four in.)
Did anyone else think InSanCen was talking about a DEC Alpha there... or is it just me? =P
I take it then that you have more than 10 windows 95 computers? :)
These are my specsShow Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11796&stc=1&d=1279680367)
How did you get .38GB of RAM?
Liquid cooled i7-860 @ 3.8GHz / 1.33V
Asus P7P55D-E Pro mobo
8GB G.Skill ECO DDR3-1600
Radeon 5850
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
80GB Intel X25M SSD
3 spinning disks totaling 2.64TB
Hauppauge HVR-2250 tuner card
Coolermaster HAF922M case with custom handles and smoked plexiglass window mod :)
Surely you can push the CPU higher?
Overvolting anything, even with proper cooling, can still reduce operating life (read: damage components). It isn't something you should do if you're hoping to pull 10-15 years out of your components (which is an uncommon goal, but certainly mine).
clearly you have never had a slot 1 pentium II - III with 384MB of ram ;)
Hey! That's my goal too -- except I want 50 years.
Uhhh... there were pentium 1 computers that had 384 MB of RAM (three slots with 128 sticks).
uuuhhhh ... really??? So I should have listed every socket/slot, cpu and 384MB-of-ram combination EVER to avoid the obvious troll? Duly noted.
Does HT affect overclocking?
All I know is that some things really don't take well to being run with HT on, and consequently people disable it.
The newer iteration of Hyper Threading is reputedly much better than the one used on Pentium 4s.
It depends on what applications you are using.
HT does very little for the average consumer. It only helps with what Gr1m called "megatasking"--very compute-intensive, multi-parallel tasks, like batch audio encoding, HD video rendering, distributed computing projects, heavy virtualization, etc.
HT helped a bit with late-generation Pentium 4s, as it helped fill their 20-36 stage instruction pipeline, which is nigh impossible to fill under ordinary use. But it only helped when running at least two compute-heavy tasks at once, otherwise it did nothing.
I hardly think intel is going to bother changing much. It's the same bull**** in the P4s.
I never said that.
You could have simply said older generation computers that utilize 386 RAM (most commonly with three RAM slots because it's an uneven amount). Otherwise it seems like you're solely associating it to pentium 2 & 3 computers. I had an AMD computer that had 384.
someone be troll'n, but that is the second reason of the existance of geekhack.org
instantkamera, sweet avatar.
Hey! That's my goal too -- except I want 50 years.
Uhhh... there were pentium 1 computers that had 384 MB of RAM (three slots with 128 sticks).
Do you use low-density sticks?
Those sound like low density sticks. I got a few old 64's but they were high density (4 16MB modules per stick) and they didn't work in my Gateway2000. I gotta get myself some low density sticks sometime.
I don't know exactly. Never bothered to take that good of a look at them.
Finally got around to taking this beast down for cleaning, so here's pics as promised:Show Image(http://img807.imageshack.us/img807/6843/outsideo.jpg)
Hopefully they have, I lost our Dremel in the move.
It also helps that I got into a conversation with NickShih who asked the Antec marketing department to put me on the list for getting a review sample of the HCP-1200; and they instead put me on the forum reviewer list, and Nick had to send me an engineering sample. Win-win for me, I suppose.
You remind me of meticadpa. From zero to self-proclaimed PSU hero in about a week. That's what it looked like on OCN at least.
You remind me of meticadpa. From zero to self-proclaimed PSU hero in about a week. That's what it looked like on OCN at least.
The quality of advice is independent of who gives it, no?
You're right but still, people should stop jizzing over "PSU experts".
Unlike the poor gofs still recommending the Corsair TX750 (mediocre)
yeah, if they want psu reviews they should just go to jonnyguru or something where they have proper test hardware
Cable management should be easy inside that case (there's a lot worse; using cable twisties to bundle cords actually helps a lot, if you have any spare bays, I recommend shoving cords in them too)
I don't trash it. It's just when you compare this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139006&Tpk=TX750
To this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371025&cm_re=truepower_new_750-_-17-371-025-_-Product
And you do your research, if you don't recommend the Antec over the Corsair then you either don't know what you're on about or you're a fanboy ("you" used in the indefinite sense). There's nothing wrong with the TX750, it just gets undeserved praise and can't compete with Antec's aggressive pricing.
That's the thing, the TX750 is a couple years old and technology has advanced. There's better out there. But a lot of people continue to believe that anything with "Corsair" on the label must be top of the line, even if it's midrange by today's standards.
And yeah the price fluctuates, but they both stay in the $90-$120 range generally.
I may start using my Antec High Current Pro 1200W engineering sample as my PSU and sell my TX750. I mean, my computer draws less than 350W, but I could use some cash and I can't sell the ES. Plus it's supposed to be 92% efficient from 100 - 800W.
Also may be getting a free sample of the P183 case.
It's nice having computer cred.
I don't recall though, I haven't had to RMA something to them before.
And my pride and joy 22" Lenovo L220x native resolution 1920x1200
+LG 17"
PVA panel if I recall? Last I checked those were terribly overpriced (here in Canada compared to the latest IPS offerings around), did you get a good deal, and where?
M-PVA yes, about 2 years old bought from local dealer for 411€. I think it as good deal, tried out 24" inch quickly before it but it felt just too big for me... So after some Internet cheking ended up with it, haven't realy regreted buying it even for that price at all. There isn't too many out with similiar specs(size-resolution) and those which are seems to cost even more here...
Does it have a stand like this?Show Image(http://www.slashgear.com/gallery/data_files/7/4/Lenovo_ThinkVision_L220W_HD_monitor_1.jpg)
Those are good stands. Very malleable. I like the little swivel buttons too.
Yep, stand is just like that one, I don't understand when someone says it's too big... My keyboard fits fine under it if it needs to...
I rest my headphones on my monitor's stand:Show Image(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc158/kugelfangibz/rig/IMG_0808.jpg)
Old picture. That was the first hour of cable-job just to see if the parts worked. I sold the third 2GB stick and RMA'd the 4890 3 times until I got a decent one. Also, I don't make those bunchie pictures, lol. I just collect the cool ones I find. Except the one in my avatar. Actually, I would be lying, someone else made it for me, but the concept is mine.
#1 well I'm glad you're running in dual channel or I'd have to laugh at you.
#2 I don't think there's a difference between making... "bunchies" or finding them. It still requires time. And you collected so many, I'm sure the time it took you to collect all of those, someome could have already made one.
From what I hear about your Pentium to Core 2 upgrade, you shouldn't be laughing at anybody about anything computer-related.
Digging IBM garbage out of a dumpster takes more time than copy/pasting URLs from this website: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bunchie
Besides, what the **** are you snooping around my Photobucket account for?
EIBM sees aaaallllll...
With all due respect, this is like people who complain about Facebook stalking.
(anyone else see the laughable news that someone set up a crawler to pull a couple gigabytes of personal info off Facebook, then threw it up online as a torrent?)
When you put things online, not only should you be aware that people will go through it but you should also expect it. There is no privacy and there ought not be any beyond your own discretion. Put a password on your photobucket account if you're concerned.
No offense taken. I have nothing private on my Photobucket (and I would have put a password on if I did) so it's not a privacy complaint. Just a hypocrisy complaint.
Really, a stranger is stalking and digging up pictures from my Photobucket account and then accusing me of having too much time on my hands; hypocrisy at its finest.
EIBM sees aaaallllll...
Really, a stranger is stalking and digging up pictures from my Photobucket account and then accusing me of having too much time on my hands; hypocrisy at its finest.
Anyways... back on topic.
So, just for sake of spamming:
Asus P5Q-E
Intel Core Quad Q9300
8GB A-Data
Radeon 4870 512MB
~2TB HDD space
Razer Diamondback
Microsoft Internet Keyboard(nearly 10 year old membrane piece, waiting to be changed...)
And my pride and joy 22" Lenovo L220x native resolution 1920x1200
+LG 17"
Anyways... back on topic.
What case do you use for your computer out of curiosity? 8GB of RAM can get fairly hot if I'm not mistaken. Even old EDO RAM lol (but those things suck a lot of voltage).
anyway they are heatsinked dimms...
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/299/4/
Up to 4MHz gained in overclocking!!!!
Guess I'll add mine (http://i.imgur.com/Gzqg1.jpg).
AMD Phenom II 720 BE (unlocked to four cores, overclocked from 2.8GHz to 3.7GHz, fully stable)
Corsair H50 with high speed Yate Loons in push pull, ext mount radiator (http://i.imgur.com/sU056.jpg)
Gigabyte GA-MA790XT UD4P
4GB DDR3 1600 Corsair RAM
ATI Radeon 5770 OCed to 950/1250
2x 20" Acer X203H
1.5 TB total storage
MSI DVD-RW optical drive
Corsair CMPSU-750TX 750watt PSU
Cooler Master HAF 932
Where the magic happens. (http://i.imgur.com/GuTCG.jpg) Forgive the non-mechanical keyboard, this was from some time back.
Congrats! You have the slowest rig.
So far I appear to have the fastest if you believe Geekbench. (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=11269) Pretty sad, my build is ancient.
Have you guys tried picking up some tips from OCN? :biggrin1:
Speaking of big rigs...my hard disk sounds like a diesel engine.
Although I'd like to go quad core, I don't have a need at the moment:
Intel E8400 @ 4.05GHz
Abit IP35 Pro
6GB DDR2-1066
ATI HD5870
OCZ Vertex 2 SSD, 100GB (boot drive)
2x 150GB Velociraptors (old raid-0 now used for dumping data)
OCZ GameXStream 700W PSU
Looks like WhiteRice and I can be nearly identical computer buddies!
My specs:
intel i7 930 @ 2.8GHz (Haven't bothered OCing yet)
Gigabyte GTX 470
Asus P6X58D-E
6GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM
intel X25M 80GB SSD
Seagate 7200.12 1TB
hec XP1080 1080W
all inside of a beautiful CM Storm Sniper
Also, I have a Samsung 2233Rz and 3D Vision glasses to go with it.
I know that it doesn't belong in this list, but following is the config of the workstation I will use at work in near future - serious hardware for serious purposesShow Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=12701&stc=1&d=1285871402)
I upgraded recently:
AMD Phenom II x6 1090T overclocked to 4GHz
4GB Geil DDR3 1066 7-7-7-20
ATi Radeon HD 5870
750GB Hard Drive
2 x 160GB Hard Drive
Blu-ray Drive
Antec 650W PSU
im likely going for the same CPU, likely minus the oc.
What's the point of getting a Black Edition CPU if you aren't going to overclock it? Seems like a waste of money.
Black Edition CPU? I never knew Jim Crow got with the nineties.
What's the point of getting a Black Edition CPU if you aren't going to overclock it? Seems like a waste of money.
Im not so sure you understand economics, then. See, if I were to pay MORE for the same performance as another item, with the only benefit of the higher price being a feature I likely wont use (out of the box, anyway. perhaps I will down the road), then you might have a case.
In reality, it's clocked higher than the 1055T, is still way cheaper than anything similar from intel, and having kept my eye on a sale or two, Im confident I can get it for not too much more than the 1055T (ncix has sales all the time, and great bundle deals too). "Black edition" is coincidental to the fact that it is their best/fastest proc out of the box. It also leave me room to OC when and IF Im ready.
It also costs $100 more for what, .2GHz higher clock than the 1055T?
Performance difference is minimal.
Mine is the same as it has been for a while.
Phenom 955 black at 3.8
Asus ? I forgot which motherboard I'm using. GPU is in the way of the name.
5870.
4GB Aeon Xtune memory at 1500
Zalman 1000w PSU
Asus Xonar D1 sound card.
Other stuff.
Silverstone FT01 case.
Oh and I have a few different keyboards too.
I just put my system in a fugly Antec case with a 1200W 80+ Gold Antec HCP-1200 PSU engineering sample.
My system uses 325W at maximum load.
I like good PSUs. :)
Using that little power out of such a high rated PSU, I bet your power efficiency isn't very good.