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Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 02:22PM
Location: New Wilmington, PA
Posts: 554
I just got all the components for my new system. The motherboard is so big I had to modify a standard ATX case just so it would fit. I had to cut out half the 5.25" mounting brackets, and move the hard drive bays.
Its a Tyan Thunder K7 motherboard. Dual AMD Athlon MP 2600+ 2.0Ghz processors. 266Mhz FSB, 4 DDR slots supporting 3GB of PC2100 (has 1.5GB currently, 1GB pictured). Its got an AGP Pro slot, but will have a standard 4x 256MB GeForce 4 card in it, single DVDRW drive, and currently has a 120GB primary disk, and 80GB spare, both 7200 RPM. Its got two SCSI interfaces on it, supporting either 16 or 32 devices total (cant remember which) but SCSI is a bit out of my price range right now.
Its actually a server board, and has two independant 100MBit network cards in it. One will be free for connecting to a hardwired network, the other will interface with a built in wireless router.
Power supply is a 550w server PSU, and additional peripherals are 4 x USB 1.0 (onboard), 4 x USB 2.0 (PCI) 2 x 1394 (PCI), and 1 serial port.
The case is going to be totally homebrew, its tough to find one for this sort of board. I needed it to be small enough to carry on to an airplane so it doesn't get destroyed while traveling. Its going to be a brushed or perforated aluminum shell over the steel frame pictured below. The theme is industrial overall, but it will be somewhat smooth and rounded. The only really spiffy 'mod' that I intend to include will be a small LCD screen on the front that outputs the load on the hard drive as a 4 digit number, instead of a blinking light. Eventually I'll probably add something like a 4x20 LCD screen to the front to display CPU temperature, power consumption, etc.
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Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 01:11PM
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I just built a custom system to upgrade my old system for photoshop / image processing / CAD.
Its totally ghetto complete with a glowing blue Thermaltake case which is enormous.
Here is the link to the case i got. Totally ghetto, but pretty sweet looking. Of course, i don't have all the fancy add-on's like liquid cooling etc...
Maybe not the fastest, but it does boot to login screen in less than 10 seconds and loads photoshop CS2 in about 2 seconds (including all the plug-ins etc...) - my old system took about 20 seconds to load photoshop CS2.
Registered Member #27
Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 02:20AM
Location: Hyperborea
Posts: 2058
A Commodore 64 with 65534 bytes of RAM and an industrial strength microswitch reset button. You are not elite unless you know why two bytes of RAM are missing.
Registered Member #27
Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 02:20AM
Location: Hyperborea
Posts: 2058
The Commodore 64 uses a 6510 CPU that has an 8 bit I/O port mapped to address 0 and 1 so the RAM at those addresses are not available. This I/O port is used to configure the memory mapping so that a 16 bit address bus can access almost 2^16 bytes of RAM in addition to ROM and other devices.
Registered Member #32
Joined: Sat Feb 04 2006, 08:58AM
Location: Australia
Posts: 549
!lol Steve!
So close, Bjorn! In my sleepless night I guessed that two addresses were used for tty input and output.
My least elite computer is a 286 with a limping motherboard. It refuses to connect with any IDE devices so it has no HDD and hence no OS.
To get it to do stuff I have to code boot floppies. I use it for testing any computer interfacing circuits I make before plugging them into a "real" computer.
Sort of like the food tasters some paranoid kings used to have: cheap and disposable.
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Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 06:43AM
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iPod: LiPol 8h battery 70-90MHz ARM cpu + copro 32MB RAM 20GB hd Linux 2.4.xx agetty login over RS232 network login over Firewire
Plays Doom, space invaders, pong, and plays music too.
Desk Case runs: adaptec Ultra SCSI in Raid 0/1 mode (3x 40GB HDs) e-GeForce 6600 2x5!2MB Dual CPU ( 1.8 GHz AMD) HBIB Card HP DVD/CD Writer (sounds like a jet while on)
BackUps UPS 3 Input select Switch for 20" CRT display Audio out to home sound system.
For now the most elite computer I have is: PIII 450MMX (100MHz FSB) Slot 1 CPU (will upgrade to 1GHz when I get a heatsing that fits with my mobo some time soon, FSB will also be set to 133MHz) 256MB PC133 ram (@100MHz) 32MB Nvidia TNT2 Model 64 Pro (@AGP 2x) C: 9GB 7200RPM D: Samsung Writemaster TS-H552 dual layer DVD+/- RW E: 30GB 7200RPM USB 10/100 Beige Box
Not exactly elite but donations for something better are gratefully accepted ;)
Bjørn Bæverfjord wrote ...
A Commodore 64 with 65534 bytes of RAM and an industrial strength microswitch reset button. You are not elite unless you know why two bytes of RAM are missing.
So where is the Fastload cartridge? :? A C64 is not Elite without a Fastload cartridge! ;)
Does a Sinclair ZX80 with the ZX81 upgrade chip and 16KB memory upgrade count as elite?
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