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Nvidia EVGA 790i
MSI nVidia 280GTX times 2 (SLI)
8gig of OCZ PC12800 memory
2 times 1TB hard drives
1000W of Coolermaster power
Nirvana NV120 cooler
Intel Core2 Extreme QX9770
Installing Operating system as we speak....
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El Corazon wrote: PC12800 memory
Wow! Isn't it 1280?
How much, dare I ask, did that system cost?
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Paul Conrad wrote: Wow! Isn't it 1280?
1600mhz is PC12800:
OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
Paul Conrad wrote: How much, dare I ask, did that system cost?
errr ummmm... half the price of the average system at work! if that helps any..... about $4k but my last one lasted 3 years, so this one will last a while... and it is paid for by my new home consultant business.... so it is kinda sorta a work computer too. It didn't come out of the family checking account, so my wife gave me the go for a full system speced to near the max.
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Thanks for the clarification on the PC12800. Shows how up to date on memory I am 
El Corazon wrote: about $4k but my last one lasted 3 years, so this one will last a while...
Wow. When considering how long the other one lasted, that is a good price 
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Jesus Chirst man... 
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No longer SLI. I've split the beast to do massive parallel more efficiently. It helps that I found out how to get the system to use the other card with only one monitor and not being set to sli. Cuda 0 GPU is graphics+Cuda, Cuda 1 GPU is parallel processing only. Once you know the trick to using two cards without SLI and only one monitor, you'll laugh.
The cards both fold[^] when not being used for real work.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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Currently saving money for this, prices subject to price change at any time.
Description Qty Price Total
EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i 1 260 260
EVGA 512-P3-N841-A3 GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB 2 380 760
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Yorkfield 3.0GHz 12MB L2 Cache 1 1099 1099
GeIL Esoteria 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 2 195 390
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB 3 280 840
Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFDRTL 150GB 1 190 190
ASUS 90-C1CHFA-HUAY1 PhysX 1 130 130
Thermaltake W0131RU ATX12V / EPS12V 850W Power Supply 1 260 260
USB Wired Ergonomics Wave Keyboard 1 50 50
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additional equipment from old system:
1 WD Raptor 150Gb
1 WD Raptor 75Gb
1 Seagate 500Gb
1 Thermaltake Armor Silver Case
Previous home computer names:
Freya
Thor
Odin (Current: Athlon XP-64-dualcore)
now taking suggestions for the name (a home/home-business development computer) as well as alternative/additional parts
a) quad core is a requirement
b) speed is essential
c) price matters, but only in that it takes longer to save for it.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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El Corazon wrote: now taking suggestions for the name
THEBEAST maybe...
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. (Charles M Strauss)
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El Corazon wrote: a) quad core is a requirement
I guess SLI also is? *cough* 
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leppie wrote: I guess SLI also is? *cough*
naw.... SLI is a symptom, high graphics is the requirements.
I ended up with a laptop instead, working on the road became a higher priority all of sudden this got pushed to the back burner, but not forgotten. One more job or enough time to pay off a few more things and I will upgrade. 
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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The most over-built multi-OS machine I have ever tried.
I am going to get to keep both dual/dual machines, the newest one will stay Windows XP development (my prime platform still). The older dual/dual one is being renamed "Chimera" 750gb Windows boot currently will be reformatted as a XEN Virtual server, BUT.... the 8 SCSI drives have been remapped as physical Linux machines also in a massive multi-boot configuration.
(each logical drive will be RAID1, or two physical SCSI drives)
The goal will be to test:
SCSI 1: Fedora Core 32bit
SCSI 2: Fedora Core 64bit
SCSI 3: Red Hat Enterprise (currently only 32bit, planned to be 64bit)
SCSI 4: Vista (currently planned for 64bit)
XEN will serve up, 32 bit machines of Windows, Unix and Linux of various flavors. Multiboot physical and virtual machines. I figured Chimera was appropriate.
hey, when I go dual platform, I get serious. 
-- modified at 22:00 Wednesday 7th March, 2007
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Ode to a malodorous rodent
Oh silly rodent that came inside to eat
You found the poison, and now you’re just meat.
There is no creature to take you away
So under the refrigerator your body does stay.
If safety regs would only let me remove you
There wouldn’t be the stench as you turn to goo.
I am tempted still to remove what’s left
As I wish my sense of smell was bereft!
Oh silly rat you should have stayed out
You’d have lived much longer, I have no doubt.
But here you came, and warmed by the compressor
Now we all wish for a smell suppressor.
I heat my lunch across the hanger bay
So I can keep it down after I eat it today.
I tell myself they will come and take you away
But not on the weekend, you’re there ‘till Monday.
I count down the minutes ‘till today’s work does end
And maybe return when to your body they attend.
This rhyme serves no purpose, you are beyond caring
It’s only for others, my disgust I am sharing.
I’ll run out the door at fifteen until five,
Perhaps run the long way so my nose will survive.
I wonder if on Monday, if I call in a bit late…
They’ll have removed you, and the smell will abate.
I guess I should be thankful you died this week, not next:
Though others may ponder that statement perplexed.
Next weekend’s the holiday, and we’ll all eat our fill;
And if you spoiled that long, we’d loose it all… ill.
So goodbye silly rodent, rest in peace
This is my ode to your presence, may it please decrease!
Now if only a vulture would knock to come in…
I wouldn’t have to think about you ever again!
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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wrote: There is no creature to take you away
So under the refrigerator your body does stay.
wrote: I wonder if on Monday, if I call in a bit late…
They’ll have removed you, and the smell will abate.
Thanks for the tons of laughs
Paul
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote: Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
So I take it that if you talk about the things of yesterday, the mice in the ceiling come down to eat? Oh the irony! 
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Thanks, that made my day. My eyes are wet laughing hard.
BTW, gotta love the CodeProject. Where else do you think you would be able to read a poem dedicated to a rat that died years ago.
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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yes, they are taking my new computer away, just as I got used to it.... But that means I get to order a new one. Any bets on if I get to keep this one for more than a month? hmmmmm
Motherboard: Supermicro X7DA8[^]
CPUs: 2 x Intel 5160 Xeon[^]
Memory: 8 x Kingston 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 FB-DIMM ECC Fully Buffered DDR2 667
SCSI RAID 0: 5 x Seagate 147gig 10k rpm
Boot Drive: 1 x WD Raptor 150[^]
Storage RAID: 3 x Seagate 7200.10 Sata 750gig[^]
Power Supply: Palo Verde[^] (okay, I am kidding!!!! it's a Thermaltake 850Watt PS)
I forgot video: 1 x EVGA 8800GTX[^] (yeah, I know, only one... but only because Supermicro doesn't have a true SLI 16x MB)
PhysX[^] PCI board for physics co-processing
-- modified at 12:17 Monday 13th November, 2006
-- modified at 11:40 Thursday 22nd February, 2007
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I know, I know.... but I have been so busy I have had it for a month and haven't had a chance to use it yet!
X7DA8G2 Supermicro
3.7ghz Dual Core Xeon (not core 2, but older xeon technology, aka Dempsey)
8x 15krpm 76gig SCSI hard-drives (currently in RAID5, but tested in RAID10,0,1 for evaluations) 120 MB/s sustained 160MB/s max in RAID 5, 280 MB/s max and 260MB/s sustained in RAID0, I am leaving it in RAID5.
1x 7200RPM 750gig SATA boot (Seagate 7200.10)
Parallels VM with Linux, XP, Vista VMs (XP image is a duplicate of the X5DA8 machine I use for VS6 development)
6 gig of 667 memory (still running XP as a host for now though)
7950GX2 graphics with ATI X1900 for swap-in testing (swapped in and tested, and 7950GX2 back in, yeah!)
Asus PhysX engine
Sony DVD-RW DL
-- modified at 3:01 Thursday 19th October, 2006
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Not bad. Not nearly as portable as my new Inspiron...but still decent. 
CodeProject: "I mean where else would you rather be pissed off?" - Jeremy Falcon
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I just finished building a prototype for work based on my dual core at home. (yeah, strange when home gets something before work, but... hey that's life sometimes)
We salvaged an old rackmount case and modded it with a window to show off the inards. There is actually a reason for this: being dual core it is as fast as our dual processors at a lower price, no hidden magic under the cover here, and the customer can peek. It took almost two months to get all the parts in, so some better parts are available now. That is okay, this was a prototype for future builds.
Thermaltake 650 powersupply for SLI
Asus P5ND2-SLI Deluxe Intel 775 (needed bios upgrade and XP SP2 before it recognized dual core)
Intel Pentium D 840
Aerocool GT-1000 Heatpipe Cooler (gold plated, looks darn nice and actually performs good)
2 gigs 667 memory as fast as I can get
EVGA 7800GTX 512mb graphics (one soon to be two in SLI)
One Seagate 7200.9 (Sata II) 160gig boot
Two Seagate 7200.9 (Sata II) 500gig in RAID0
It doesn't beat our fastest U320 SCSI system but it does beat out the U160's and all the hyperthreads we ever bought (and got performance complaints -- my software was designed to run multi-cpu and multi-core, never hyperthread). And it does only have two drives in RAID0 for performance.... If a 10k drive comes out in SATA II I may ask to replace the 500's for a RAID0 of 4 drives to see if I can tie our fastest.
The prime advantages: price and availability. No Xeons, no ECC memory, no SCSI, no Quadros, just high performance off the shelf components. Our hyperthread single CPUs were a disaster to offer to customers, I just overload one processor too easily. No more worries, multi-core is here to stay.
Just say no to splitting a core, double them instead.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Strange how new computers always show up at annual bonus and raise time. I am thinking it is somekind of government conspiracy... or one really big coincidence [where's the innocent angel smiley?].
Anyhow Here she be:
Thermaltake Armor Case (she's big and reasonably quiet)
MSI Neo4 SLI Platinum Motherboard
Temporary 3200+ AMD64 chip (someone messed up the order, my X2 couldn't be filled)
Corsair PC3200 2-2-2-5 memory (1 gig)
Netgear Wifi-G (I hate cables)
MSI nVidia 7800GTX graphics (before work got one -- second year in a row!!)
I kept my disks from my last machine:
DVD-DL & CDROM
74gig WD Raptor, Windows boot (primary)
36gig WD Raptor, Mepis Linux boot (rare)
200gig WD storage for home use
200gig WD storage for home-work
Still awaiting:
Processor (original plan) AMD64 X2 4400 processor, this may change based on money, which I ended up with a little more than usual this time of year. Debating how high to go, not enough for 4800, though if I pinched my pennies it could be.
Zalman 7700Cu (should be in monday, but will wait to install with permanent CPU)
They have several folks with fancy computers at a local computer shop, most specify graphics and/or CPU, I am the first to choose or special order every single component. I think jury is still out if they liked that or not.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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speaking of this new computer.... it is now finished. Zalman 7700Cu installed and an AMD64 X2 4600 processor.
I ended up replacing the memory with another Corsair set 3-3-3-7.5 or something like that. The shop wanted to test various overclocking flavors. If they do it, they'll cover it. They've done me good in the past. But that meant carefully benchmarking the components. Seems the memory was running slow, and it would NOT overclock without failing. really wierd. So we swapped it out with the next fastest memory, it overclocked faster than the original memory I had bought. So I bought an extra stick to 1.5 gig, my software from work runs in 1.25gig so figured that would be easier on it.
The system is only minorly overclocked, I am not a big overclock fan, but the temperatures are good. I'm running parallel versions of folding for CP when it is not programming or running stuff.
Unfortunately I have not had a chance to finish installation of my work research stuff, though I have done some multithreaded tests that show this will work as good as my dual processor machines at work. Look out work: dual core + 7800GTX, I have the fastest machine for a few weeks.
Final total on upgrade costs: $1700.
Now I start saving for a new flute.... :->
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote: Final total on upgrade costs: $1700.
$1700 bucks for everything? Hmm that’s not to bad really considering the system you ended up with.
DEBUGGING : Removing the needles from the haystack.
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I finally turned off the overclock. I will come back to that at another time, maybe. As I said, I am not a fan of overclocking, I got the nice heatsink to cool it more efficiently and reduce overall heat in the system (another reason for the case, get all that heat out). I turned off the overclock because the chip would occassionally only get 1 core recognized by Windows. I droped the overclocking and the problem went away for 3 boots. If it does not come back, I may step up the overclocking gradually. The computer shop had the CPU overclocked by 5% in order to equal the nearest competing AMDFX chip. That really wasn't necessary, but it made great bragging rights for them. Their first dual core equalled the speed of their last FX customer (plus then that guy in hearing I equalled his system will have to return to get a new chip right? I know how this works).
Ambient air will be quite warm enough, any cooling savings helps the CPU, so to me overclocking is not necessary. Plus although I need a dual processor equivalent for doing research similar to work, I do not need it always (thus I have always fed back idle CPU time to folding).
It is running good again. No harm in trying.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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As beautiful as it is... it is a royal PAIN to keep going....
X6DA8-G2 Motherboard
dual Intel Xeon 64bit 3.6ghz
6 Gig DDR2-400 PC3200 memory
dual Gig-e Intel Network LAN (and will be used as dual Gig)
MSI 6800GT graphics (didn't want to buy an Ultra, because the graphics card will be replaced before August, guarenteed)
Western Digital 10k rpm, removable boot.
SCSI RAID-0: 5x 10k rpm U160 76gig on an U320 backplane: 236MB/s write
SATA Raid-0: 4x 7200 rpm 400gig on SATA-II controller: 189MB/s write
DVD Dual layer, +- dual format RW.
Before you get jealous, don't. Powering the sun of a gun is a pain!!! I have gone through 3 Powersupplies with issues on each, not enough power on a 550W, not enough power per 12v lead on a 680W, currently running on a non-standard power distribution on a 645W.
The CPU's do not want to seat correctly, we've had to order more thermal compound, 5 tries and one CPU is still running 12C above the first.
One 400Gig SATA drive was DOA. Adaptec controller, though recognized by Windows Blue-screened the first time it was enabled as a hardware RAID device. The three disk SATA RAID has gone off-line three times during windows, it is currently being low-level formatted and tested overnight. I am hoping not power.
The OS removable tray is so large it sticks out of the front of the case half an inch or more. Nero reports the DVD as what it really is, but can't write in Dual layer mode.
By the time I get the darn thing stable, the new graphics card will need to be put in, how much you wanna bet there will be issues? I think the design is ultimately decent -- though I might opt for a 5 disk SATA removable tray for customer builds so we can have a hot-spare in case of failures.
Still waiting on a good powersupply.... But best to work out prototype builds locally before building for customers.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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