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Another angle of my PC build. I'll have to redo all my shots soon so I can use the 105mm S lens. Regardless the 24-50mm did well!
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The rather controversial Asus L1N64-SLI WS mobo!
Dual socket-F CPUs, 4x800MHz DDR2 RAM slots, 2 Nvidia chipsets, allowing 2x 16x PCIe graphics slots running at 16x fullspeed. The dual chipset kicks out plenty of heat I gather, as do the VRMs. The heatsinks are actually aluminium, made to look like copper. How cheapo is that?! Note 12 SATA ports! Thats a result of the dual chipsets.
So its a Hummer of a mobo, but it fits my needs fairly well - dual CPU sockets and fast 800MHz DDR2 RAM, with scope for SLI graphics as well. The power draw of this mobo, with a pair of Athlon FX-74 3GHz CPUs (125W TDP!) and a pair of NVidia 8800 GPU cards is crazy - needing a 1KW PSU! So my spec of 2x 1.8GHz Opterons (95W TDP) and a single NV 7950GT card should have a much smaller power draw.
If you're wondering why I went for AMD, instead of the more sensible Intel option... AMD give away their CodeAnalyst code profiling tool for free. Intel charge lots of cash for their VTune tool. So as a coder on a budget, I preferred the AMD route. Plus I like the way AMD CPUs have the memory directly connected, instead of via the northbridge, like the Intel systems do. The two AMD CPUs have the direct link between each other as well. Its a very interesting divergence from Intel's classic northbridge setup, so I hope to learn some more as I hack code for this PC! 8o)
I think this one's fake, but it's nice in a smaller view like this. You can see my head in the dark. It's like I'm looking out the cockpit windows of my own private submarine. Playing games on this is going to be awesome.
This is XP. Later, when I got the new box, and set it up with Linux, I ran through a huge vat of 3-screen desktops again to see how they looked, and this one popped up again.
The Fossils HDD pretty much kicked the bucket earlier in the year. My friend Brad let himself be sweet talked into them paying him to build them a new computer....it was to originally retrieve the data (which of course he did) and it turned out the hardware was older than Methusalah, so a failure was not overly surprising.
Given my recent anxiety about the enormous size of my photo collection, I too have learnt from this, and bought yet another HDD (1Tb....scuse me....just have to drool) for backing up my photo collection, amongst other important "Stuff".
RAM was going for peanuts so picked up 2 x 2Gb sticks of DDR2 (at least I think it was) as the mobo was only running 2 x 1Gb.
Thinking I might try get more out of this dual core and trial Windows7.............I have xp atm and am avoiding Vistal like the plague. I can get more out of the cores and omfg......MORE RAM! I have propensity to have nearly every app on my computer open and running simultaneously.
I have been known (I can see this on my G15 Logitech KB <3) to be running both the CPU and RAM close to 100% for hours at a time...as you can imagine, there is pain and screaming.
This is kind of pretty to me, and looks like the woods back home in wintertime, so it's nostalgic, and even a bit inviting (I can taste Christmas foods, and smell chimney smoke), but it also makes me feel quite cold.
Also, I don't like 'frozen action' in a wallpaper. I'd like this a lot more if the snow fell over it. I know that was possible in Beryl. Maybe it's a plugin now for Compiz. There are some wallpaper + falling/fluttering object overlays I've seen through Beryl (on YouTube) that I'd enjoy.
UPDATE: I've since gotten the Compiz Fusion plugin 'Autumn,' which drops leaves by default, but can easily be configured to use any images, like little snowflakes. If only this image didn't have the flakes on it already. Maybe I can write a little image processing script to look for them, and blend their surrounds in radially over top of them to remove them.
Replaced a 12-month old mobo with an 880GM-E43 MSI. MSI now markets their mobo's as "military class", perhaps they picked up a military contract in China.
Phenom II 955 3.2ghz AM3 Black: 8GB DDR3 240pin PC3 12800 RAM, 40GB SSD primary, 1TB HD secondary, DDR3 1GB PCI-E ATI video, Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. Start up and restarts in a flash. Props to MS, over a year of heavy use and not one OS hang up or crash.
Linked to article at: www.racingmix.com/2011/03/ninja-pc-problem-solving-build/
The Ergotron LX arms allow for moving the monitors all around. I quickly positioned 2 in a stacked configuration here, and spun the left one 90° clockwise, and pushed it out to the edge a bit. I have a lot of options this way, but I do wish they could lift higher, so they could be eye-height with me.