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[aldebaran]

gilber33, on 22 December 2011 - 09:44 PM, said:

^ What do you do? Are the computers work related or are they your toys?

Just my playthings, I don't bring my work home. The computers facilitate my digital lifestyle, is the packaged answer I give.
Computational fluid dynamics courses in college really opened my eyes to the power of Unix systems, parallel computing and powerful graphics visualization systems which is what really began this hobby. I like to play games too.

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corivus, on 22 December 2011 - 09:55 PM, said:

Thats pretty awesome you def have had some pretty extreme setups in the past! tho your current transition is very nice and cleanish

Actually that's the most untidy part of the house.

[InitialDriveGTR]

ozzimark, on 22 December 2011 - 09:33 PM, said:

Yup, you got it. This was back in my more exciting overclocking days. Back when hitting 4ghz on an AMD chip was unheard of, I was the first one to bring their 65nm chips over 4ghz with that dry ice tube.

And push the hardware as far as you can. This was at -10ºC or so. Any colder, and you'd encounter the cold-bug that the old 90nm and 65nm AMDs all had.

crazy ass. And nowadays only 4 years later 5GHz is easy to overclock to

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[exexpat]

My best laptop is an HP 8560
32gb ddr3 RAM
2 Intel 600gb SSDs in RAID 0 making 1.2tb
Core i7 2.5ghz quad core hyperthreaded

I run 20 Windows 7 virtual machines and a domain environment of server VMs (23 total) for large scale deployment demos and it doesn't lag at all. First machine I've ever owned that maxes out all of the winsat scores except for GPU - even that is 7.6 out of 7.9.

[Serge]

exexpat, on 26 December 2011 - 09:19 AM, said:

My best laptop is an HP 8560
32gb ddr3 RAM
2 Intel 600gb SSDs in RAID 0 making 1.2tb
Core i7 2.5ghz quad core hyperthreaded

I run 20 Windows 7 virtual machines and a domain environment of server VMs (23 total) for large scale deployment demos and it doesn't lag at all. First machine I've ever owned that maxes out all of the winsat scores except for GPU - even that is 7.6 out of 7.9.

Great workhorse laptop. But man, you spent as much on those SSDs as the laptop is worth! Must be screaming. IPS screen option?

Curious as to how you setup RAID 0 with your SSDs. The biggest thing against RAID on SSDs is that it works against the built in wear-leveling (ala TRIM), with these Intel SSDs (if using Intel RST) I believe that it turns off TRIM support. Which means it defaults to the internal garbage collection? Not sure if that's positive, but I'm guessing it would do that.

Edited by Serge, 26 December 2011 - 06:45 PM.

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Serge, on 26 December 2011 - 06:44 PM, said:

Great workhorse laptop. But man, you spent as much on those SSDs as the laptop is worth! Must be screaming. IPS screen option?

Curious as to how you setup RAID 0 with your SSDs. The biggest thing against RAID on SSDs is that it works against the built in wear-leveling (ala TRIM), with these Intel SSDs (if using Intel RST) I believe that it turns off TRIM support. Which means it defaults to the internal garbage collection? Not sure if that's positive, but I'm guessing it would do that.

Don't think so. These SSDs have not yet started to fall off like other SSDs I have killed in RAID (Kingston 512gb units). I'm on month three and abuse them pretty badly. If they get bad or slow, i will replace them.

[Vagabond]

Most Stickers + LEDs = I have the faster computer on VS.

[InitialDriveGTR]

exexpat, on 27 December 2011 - 05:34 AM, said:

Don't think so. These SSDs have not yet started to fall off like other SSDs I have killed in RAID (Kingston 512gb units). I'm on month three and abuse them pretty badly. If they get bad or slow, i will replace them.

I can't get my head around replacing SSD's like that lol

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InitialDriveGTR, on 28 December 2011 - 03:57 AM, said:

I can't get my head around replacing SSD's like that lol

i guess this is what a warranty is for? 3 years is decent, if not 5 for his drive.

[InitialDriveGTR]

I had a Intel SSD die due to a "8MB Bug" where if you lost power without shutting down the SSD would mess up and only report 8MB to the bios. Fortunantly I had made an image of it a couple days prior and saved most of my work

[InitialDriveGTR]

Got my UV cold cathodes and re-wrapped all the cabling in UV blue.
Edit: the top lamp is now hidden too.

Edited by InitialDriveGTR, 29 December 2011 - 11:53 PM.

[fivex84]

^Pretty sure I have the same psu. Thermaltake TR2 RX?

[PyROTech]

i want to savagely beat the person who installed bright leds (one white, one blue) on my motherboard that you cant turn off. Ohhh, and ill use the ripped off limbs from the guy who made the case with what appears to be a flashlight led on the front, to beat the motherboard guy.

I dont mind the look of leds for the case, but they must be red.

[aldebaran]

LOL, I painted my Lexan side panels black so the innards are hidden from view. Everything you buy these days have LEDs in them, fans, powersupplies, motherboards... Then it illuminates the dust bunnies inside the case. Then no matter how tidy you try to make it, PC's always end up looking like a hot mess inside.

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aldebaran, on 30 December 2011 - 02:08 AM, said:

LOL, I painted my Lexan side panels black so the innards are hidden from view. Everything you buy these days have LEDs in them, fans, powersupplies, motherboards... Then it illuminates the dust bunnies inside the case. Then no matter how tidy you try to make it, PC's always end up looking like a hot mess inside.

Nahhh it's all about management. and use filters on the intake fans. as long as there is no dust inside to begin with, and you don't let any in, it stays clean

[aldebaran]

Yeah, yours look clean. Back in the day with IDE/ATA cables...oh what a nightmare! Thumbs up for SATA.

I ended up doing this to my Lexan panel.

[InitialDriveGTR]

aldebaran, on 30 December 2011 - 02:36 AM, said:

Yeah, yours look clean. Back in the day with IDE/ATA cables...oh what a nightmare! Thumbs up for SATA.

I ended up doing this to my Lexan panel.

That looks really good. and what is that to the right?

[aldebaran]

It's a Yamaha preamplifier and DSP. It has a bunch of inputs (USB, Optical, Line) to hook up a few of computers for sound playback.
Yamaha DP-U50

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The Lexan panel also doubles as my Post-It notes wall.