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Yay -- it's finally done... my dream desk! :)
Oh, and yes; the keyboard tray slides in and out of the middle. This shot isn't quite fully deployed -- it'll go about 6" further out. In the recessed position it sits about 2" back from the front plane of the desk.
I'd considered putting some sort of linear bearing to assist the keyboard tray sliding action, but I tried simply routing a channel on either side that fits into the extrusion channel. This amount of play and friction turned out to be just perfect, so it's all done.
It's official.... just ordered and paid everything.....pfffff
Exciting times.....
My trusty and fast MacPro is going to be replaced by something we decided to call.... Project Goliath (key heavy metal music riff).
Now this doesn't mean I'm MacFanBoy Off.... love their products. But in all honesty I'm afraid I won't be able to afford the MacPro that I need when/if Apple is going to release it.
Also the machine like I build it now (going to build) is easily upgradable and not even at full capacity. So you probably want to know what we got right?
Well we will also show everything in our vlog, but here are some keyelements.
Asus X99-Rog mainboard with USB-c
Intel i7 8 core 6900 CPU 4Ghz
32GB Corsair memory DDR4 Vengeance
Plextor SSD 512GB promising 2300/1300 read write.
Asus GTX1080 Turbo video
HX1200i Pro Platinum powersupply Corsair
Corsair tower with airflow
Keyboard will be the Mac keyboard and the magic touchpad from Apple with custom drivers which promise to work great, so I'm curious to see this.
I will be using Paragons HFS+ to keep full compatibility with the rest of the Macs here and .... well the rest we will see.
By the way... don't you just love this case :D
Current setup of the 3D waterfigures.
Technical data:
D300 + D200 Nikon DSLR camera.
Camera space 120mm.
Macro lenses 2 x Nikor AF105/2.8D micro.
Frame real live size : 100mm
F29 diafragma, manual bulb shutter mode.
4 Flashes SB-80-DX TTL controlled by the central hardware controller.
1 DE1 FPGA cyclone II mainboard at 50MHz clock.
Digital waveforms into a flash at high speed PWM, digital powercontrol, frequentie control and type waveform.
2 laser detector systems.
1 magnet current gun for the projectile at 150V 10A 4msec activation 840uF/330V capacity (flash type capacity).
Projectile 4mm x 20mm.
Kenwoods L-1000 series of the early nineties. Said to be Kenwoods last try to establish a luxurious series of audio components. This is an fm-only tuner. Quite costly build. Weight about 10kg
Big frontend on the right. Separate from mainboard and shielded.
Long filter stage on the IF side of mainboard close to frontend alongside a L-shaped copper bar. IF is fed via coaxial cable from frontend (connector seen close to the rear side)
PLL circuit right of the white flex cable leading to front panel. Its output is fed via coaxial cable to frontend.
Extensive demultiplex stage. Variable output with motor driven potentiometer.
Shielded and potted transformer and free secondary transformer (in the left corner) for standby.
Unit produces quite a lot of heat. Rated about 35W.
Just a quick shot of the "bottom" side of the iMac G3 Rev.A motherboard. Rarely seen during, for example, RAM installation since you'd only see the underside if you took the motherboard entirely out. ;) Then again maybe you've seen it in the trash, as I have :(
You can see the mezzanine slot at the upper right, beige color. Nothing installed there, of course.
Pretty much the entire main components of the iMac G3. Motherboard, CPU, RAM, graphics processor, CD drive, hard disk (underneath CD drive), etc. etc.
Closeup shot of a circuit board, microchips and other electronic components. Strong oblique red and blue lighting
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April 11. 2010
...millimeters. This three-exposure hdr is the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Bern. It was shot with my new Sigma 10-20mm lens which has a pretty impressive field of view. I'm liking it a lot. :)
In other news, the newly rebuilt computer is up and running. There was a snag though (there always is, right?). When I checked online to make sure my power supply would work with the quad-core, I was sure it would but when I dropped the new mainboard in I found that the secondary power plug required 8 pins and mine only had 4. I looked it up again and sure enough the one online had the new plug. Apparently Antec updated that model number psu. Fortunately, I found a bigger, meaner Antec psu here at MediaMarkt and all was right with the world... for a price. :)
See you tomorrow.
Camera setup: Nikon D90 | 12mm | ƒ/5.6 | ISO 800 | 1/13s, 1/25s, 1/6s (Three Exposure HDR: EV0, +1, -1) — hand held. Strobist info: Ambient light only.
Cyborg oder bloß Windows-Tonne in ungewohntem Design?
Is this a better way a Personal Computer should look like? Of course! ;-)
The Hewlett-Packard Proliant N36L mainboard is a small affair, but remains expandable. The expansion capabilities (mouseover the photo to see notes):
● PCIe x1 slot, PCIe x16 slot
● Internal USB 2.0 port
● SATA port
● Two DDR3 DIMM slots
If I had to list some complaints with the design:
● The eSATA port faces outwards: it's not straightforward to reuse this port for an internal disk
● There is a PCIe x4 slot next to the x1, presumably for use with HP's proprietary management card. It's useless for anything else. I rather have had the placement reversed, i.e. the PCIe x4 facing outward so it were usable
● Not depicted in this photo: there is very little clearance for RAM. You need to use low-profile RAM without heatspreaders, otherwise it'll bump up against the case's drive rack.
If you're looking for more information, I've both a hardware review and software review of the N36L.
Turtle Beach MultiSound Tahiti Soundcard
ISA Interface, one of the first generation of Sound-Cards.
Relase Date: 1991/1992
Turtle Beach introduced their revolutionary new sound hardware called MultiSound at COMDEX/Spring '91 which took place in Atlanta, GA on the 20th to 23rd of May 1991. The card hit the market in December of 1991 with a list price of 995 USD, though it was reduced to more affordable 600 USD by December of 1992 to compete better with Creative SoundBlaster 16 (350 USD for the ASP version) and alikes. In a matter of fact, MultiSound was a real engineering masterpiece aimed at sound professionals. It combined hardware advantages of the 56K system with much lower manufacturing costs and additional features, though it supported analogue inputs and outputs only. Unlike all other sound cards for the ISA bus, it didn't utilise DMA channels because the Hurricane architecture it was built upon required only a single IRQ, an I/O port and a 32Kb window in upper memory. So, this 4-layer board 34 centimetres long was populated by a whole lot of fine silicon hardware:
40MHz 24-bit Motorola DSP56001 / three 8x256Kbit 70ns SRAM chips;
10MHz 16-bit Motorola 68000 processor with two 8x256Kbit 70ns SRAM chips and one 512Kbit EPROM chip;
an E-mu Proteus 1/XR synthesiser with four 8Mbit Asahi Kasei ROM chips;
two Altera EP1810 (EP1810LC-20T - 48-macrocell programmable gate arrays;
two Crystal 4328 - 18-bit DACs with 64x oversampling;
one Crystal 5336 16-bit ADC with 64x oversampling;
three Philips NE5532 -dual 9V/µs 10MHz operational amplifiers;
two Dallas 1267 - dual 256-position resistor arrays;
one Philips NE558 quad timer;
some ISA bus buffering logic.
For more Information about this card look at: alasir.com/software/multisound/
For more pictures of vintage PC-Cards and Mainboards look at Vintage Computer PC Cards and Mainboards
3D crossview picture with the 2 cameras vertical.
This macro closeup picture is the result of a falling waterdrop and a few objects together with waterfigures. The waterfigures are a result from an special type wave on a speaker, the correct amplitude and frequency and form of the wave. This form is a digital signal into the flash of my hardware controller. Cameras are prefect synchronized in spite of that they are different types. See the setup.
www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/4260310208/sizes/o/
Macro capture of waterfigures in 3D crossview.
The projectile touch a falling waterdrop and fly through the drop and make a splash. On the bottom, multiple figures rise upwards to the projectile.
Technical data:
D300 + D200 Nikon DSLR camera.
Camera space 100mm vertical.
Macro lenses 2 x Nikor AF105/2.8D micro.
Frame real live size : 80 x 120mm
F29 diafragma, manual bulb shutter mode.
4 Flashes SB-80-DX TTL controlled by the central hardware controller.
1 DE1 FPGA cyclone II mainboard at 50MHz clock.
Digital waveforms into a flash at high speed PWM, digital powercontrol, frequentie control and type waveform.
2 laser detector systems.
How to see 3D photos:
Turtle Beach MultiSound Tahiti Soundcard
ISA Interface, one of the first generation of Sound-Cards.
Relase Date: 1991/1992
Turtle Beach introduced their revolutionary new sound hardware called MultiSound at COMDEX/Spring '91 which took place in Atlanta, GA on the 20th to 23rd of May 1991. The card hit the market in December of 1991 with a list price of 995 USD, though it was reduced to more affordable 600 USD by December of 1992 to compete better with Creative SoundBlaster 16 (350 USD for the ASP version) and alikes. In a matter of fact, MultiSound was a real engineering masterpiece aimed at sound professionals. It combined hardware advantages of the 56K system with much lower manufacturing costs and additional features, though it supported analogue inputs and outputs only. Unlike all other sound cards for the ISA bus, it didn't utilise DMA channels because the Hurricane architecture it was built upon required only a single IRQ, an I/O port and a 32Kb window in upper memory. So, this 4-layer board 34 centimetres long was populated by a whole lot of fine silicon hardware:
40MHz 24-bit Motorola DSP56001 / three 8x256Kbit 70ns SRAM chips;
10MHz 16-bit Motorola 68000 processor with two 8x256Kbit 70ns SRAM chips and one 512Kbit EPROM chip;
an E-mu Proteus 1/XR synthesiser with four 8Mbit Asahi Kasei ROM chips;
two Altera EP1810 (EP1810LC-20T - 48-macrocell programmable gate arrays;
two Crystal 4328 - 18-bit DACs with 64x oversampling;
one Crystal 5336 16-bit ADC with 64x oversampling;
three Philips NE5532 -dual 9V/µs 10MHz operational amplifiers;
two Dallas 1267 - dual 256-position resistor arrays;
one Philips NE558 quad timer;
some ISA bus buffering logic.
For more Information about this card look at: alasir.com/software/multisound/
For more pictures of vintage PC-Cards and Mainboards look at Vintage Computer PC Cards and Mainboards
Das letzte Foto mit meiner Sony-A350, Hauptplatine defekt, wirtschaftlicher Totalschaden nach 5 Jahren :-((.
The last Photo to my Sony-A350, mainboard fault, economic total loss after 5 years :-((.
(This is a summary from my Mac Mini SSD RAID-0 Project, see the set for more photos and a video.)
[ General disclaimer: These are my findings posted for the curious; do this at your own risk, don't blame me if stuff breaks etc. ]
Holy crap, I don't want to ever have to do that again. Hopefully, it still works when reassembled with 8 GB of RAM and dual SSDs. In theory, it just might work. (Update: I now feel comfortable with this after tearing down and rebuilding a few times - and two weeks of running time later, no problems.)
Yes, this whole operation is somewhat frivolous. The stock dual 7200-RPM 500-GB 2.5" drives will themselves be configured as SPAN and in an external enclosure, driven via Firewire 800.
Not in the frame: Mainboard.
Tools used: Torx T6 and T8 screwdrivers (and, I think, a Philips #00) and a Dogfish Head 90-minute IPA.
Resources
I referenced a teardown guide from ifixit for the "steps" and post-it notes, so I could remember what went where when reassembling. (Note: not all steps apply, you don't need to disconnect the bluetooth module etc.)
For the hard drive removal / upgrade process, this OWC video was handy and has rather hilarious background muzak. Note that there are different videos for server vs. non-server models.
General tips
Don't bother with the crappy $5 screwdriver "kits" (eg. the blue and green ones by the RAM in this photo) - go to your local hardware store (or online) and pay the $6 or whatever it might cost per tool for quality Torx T6, T8, and (if needed) Philips #00 screwdrivers. One of the cheap ones, in one case, didn't fit one fan screw I was trying to remove. However, the so-called plastic "spudger" tool did come in handy for pulling up cables and nudging other things where fingers wouldn't reach, and where metal was not a good choice to use.
Removing the "mainboard"
The OWC video suggested you should put screwdrivers into holes on the mainboard, and pull back; this seems like a great way to break or snap the PCB and/or accidentally ruin traces along the way. I tried pulling several times, but it seemed that no amount of careful force would budge the thing.
Instead, I turned the mini around and carefully pushed the heat sink / vent outward using my thumbs, and with a little pressure, was able to pop the board out. The heatsink is just behind where the screw holes are shown in the video, toward the connector plate. It is pretty tight as the plate (where all the USB + power connectors etc. are) has snaps/clips on either end holding it in, but it does eventually give.
Once you get the mainboard, the rest is easy. Don't pull the board fully out until any attached power cables etc. have been disconnected - and once the board is out, you can take out the power supply and HD chassis.
I also recommend booting the computer upside-down and with the bottom cover off once after reassembling, just to make sure the fan starts up; I noticed that mine didn't at first(!), because the tiny fan power connector was not fully-seated on the mainboard when I put it back in. No fan would've meant a toasted CPU at some point, so make sure you check that. Use a flat plastic tool or something to push the connector flush with the board, to ensure it's seated nicely.
Also, there's a bit of a trick with the wireless module / antenna / grill assembly when popping it out and in - I think it slides underneath into place, so keep that in mind. Similar moves apply to the black plastic cowling at the bottom left near the fan. Sometimes things need a little jiggling to get into place.
Re-installing Lion: ⌘-R / Internet Recovery FTW
On mid-2011(?) Mac hardware, push and hold Apple-R (⌘-R) during boot to kickstart the Lion Recovery mode, with wifi or an ethernet cable connected. It'll attempt to boot from a Lion recovery partition normally installed, and when that fails, it will magically go out on the Internets, and download and install and boot the recovery partition. That will run and after disk set-up and partitioning etc., another download of up to 7 GB (at least, according to my router's traffic for that day) will happen, Lion will install, reboot, and voila.
Partitioning the SSDs, overprovisioning and stripe block size
From what I read online, it was recommended to leave up to 20% "unpartitioned" empty space for "overprovisioning" with an SSD to help with performance (garbage collection) and reliability. I got two OCZ Vertex III 60 GB SSDs, and using the disk utility built into the Lion installer, set them up with two partitions: [ 48 GB ext3 / 12 GB empty space ]. As for stripe block size, I had heard 64 KB or 128 KB as general recommendations, so I used 128.
Performance results
With SATA 3.0 (up to 6 gbps) and SandForce 2xxx controllers on the OCZ SSDs pushing up to 550 MB/sec read rates, I was able to get 1000+ MB/sec on larger files in benchmarks.
RAID-0 pros/cons: Worth it, or is one SSD enough?
Upside:
- Wow, up to 1000 MB/sec. That is a shiny number.
Downsides:
- If one drive goes south, you lose everything.
- In most cases, 1000 MB/sec is a theoretical maximum you'll hit only in benchmarks. Small bursts may be more realistic, and in most cases with less-compressible data, numbers will be much lower (albeit, 250+ MB/sec or whatever is still nothing to sneeze at.)
If you're a tinkerer / overclocking fan and don't fear the risk of data loss (i.e., you make time machine or image backups), RAID-0 is worth trying just for the fun of it. Otherwise, I think one SSD alone makes a huge difference in responsiveness given near-zero seek times etc., and with theoretical maximums of 500 MB/sec, that's plenty of I/O for just about anybody.
Diamond Viper V550 with Nvidia Riva TNT.
PCI Interface, 16MB SDRAM, first generation of Nvidia chips.
Relase Date: 1998
The RIVA TNT, codenamed NV4, is a 2D, video, and 3D graphics accelerator chip for PCs that was manufactured by Nvidia. The TNT was designed as a follow up to the RIVA 128 and a response to 3Dfx's introduction of the Voodoo2. It added a second pixel pipeline, practically doubling rendering speed, and used considerably faster memory. Unlike the Voodoo2 (but like the slower Matrox G200) it also added support for a 32-bit (truecolor) pixel format, 24-bit Z-buffer in 3D mode, an 8-bit stencil buffer and support for 1024×1024 pixels textures. Improved texture filtering techniques, partially assisted by newly added trilinear filtering, dramatically improved image quality compared to the TNT's predecessor. It also added support for up to 16 MiB of SDR SDRAM. TNT was a single chip solution.
For more pictures of vintage PC-Cards and Mainboards look at Vintage Computer PC Cards and Mainboards
Turtle Beach MultiSound Tahiti Soundcard
ISA Interface, one of the first generation of Sound-Cards.
Relase Date: 1991/1992
Turtle Beach introduced their revolutionary new sound hardware called MultiSound at COMDEX/Spring '91 which took place in Atlanta, GA on the 20th to 23rd of May 1991. The card hit the market in December of 1991 with a list price of 995 USD, though it was reduced to more affordable 600 USD by December of 1992 to compete better with Creative SoundBlaster 16 (350 USD for the ASP version) and alikes. In a matter of fact, MultiSound was a real engineering masterpiece aimed at sound professionals. It combined hardware advantages of the 56K system with much lower manufacturing costs and additional features, though it supported analogue inputs and outputs only. Unlike all other sound cards for the ISA bus, it didn't utilise DMA channels because the Hurricane architecture it was built upon required only a single IRQ, an I/O port and a 32Kb window in upper memory. So, this 4-layer board 34 centimetres long was populated by a whole lot of fine silicon hardware:
40MHz 24-bit Motorola DSP56001 / three 8x256Kbit 70ns SRAM chips;
10MHz 16-bit Motorola 68000 processor with two 8x256Kbit 70ns SRAM chips and one 512Kbit EPROM chip;
an E-mu Proteus 1/XR synthesiser with four 8Mbit Asahi Kasei ROM chips;
two Altera EP1810 (EP1810LC-20T - 48-macrocell programmable gate arrays;
two Crystal 4328 - 18-bit DACs with 64x oversampling;
one Crystal 5336 16-bit ADC with 64x oversampling;
three Philips NE5532 -dual 9V/µs 10MHz operational amplifiers;
two Dallas 1267 - dual 256-position resistor arrays;
one Philips NE558 quad timer;
some ISA bus buffering logic.
For more Information about this card look at: alasir.com/software/multisound/
For more pictures of vintage PC-Cards and Mainboards look at Vintage Computer PC Cards and Mainboards
Gadgets. I built one working PC out of 2 dead ones and added a HDD from an old expired PVR. Recycle, re-use, recover.
3D crossview picture with the 2 cameras vertical.
This macro closeup picture is the result of a falling waterdrop and a few objects together with waterfigures. The waterfigures are a result from an special type wave on a speaker, the correct amplitude and frequency and form of the wave. This form is a digital signal into the flash of my hardware controller. Cameras are prefect synchronized in spite of that they are different types. See the setup.
www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/4260310208/sizes/o/
Macro capture of waterfigures in 3D crossview.
The projectile touch a falling waterdrop and fly through the drop and make a splash. On the bottom, multiple figures rise upwards to the projectile.
Technical data:
D300 + D200 Nikon DSLR camera.
Camera space 100mm vertical.
Macro lenses 2 x Nikor AF105/2.8D micro.
Frame real live size : 80 x 120mm
F29 diafragma, manual bulb shutter mode.
4 Flashes SB-80-DX TTL controlled by the central hardware controller.
1 DE1 FPGA cyclone II mainboard at 50MHz clock.
Digital waveforms into a flash at high speed PWM, digital powercontrol, frequentie control and type waveform.
2 laser detector systems.
How to see 3D photos:
Zu feiern gibt es eigentlich nichts, mein Mainboard scheint defekt zu sein, und damit die ganze Kiste, aber zum Trost habe ich ja tausende meiner Fotos auf einem fingernagelgroßen USB-Stick bei mir...
My computer seems to be beyond resurrection, so trying to improve my mood by looking at the salvaged photos...
Also nice on black
Stockrose - Alcea rosea - Common Hollyhock
Auch in unserer digitalen, moderenen Welt wird die Natur ihren Platz finden.
Dies ist also mein Einstieg in den Februar. Ab jetzt ist es nicht mehr so "gemütlich" mit dem ZAHL/366, ab nun muss man überlegen welcher Tag ist und nicht mehr kurz aufs Systemdatum gucken (Dort steht heute ja wieder ne 1 und keine 32)
Nunja, auch ich werde meinen Weg finden damit umzugehen ;)
Januar 2012: www.flickr.com/photos/dskley/sets/72157628663207277/
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