New Computer build

[bradc]

Just some pics of my new system, the important specs are:

P4 3.46ghz Extreme Edition running at 12x300
2x 1gb DDR2 533 running at 600mhz 4/4/4/12
Supermicro PDSGE Motherboard
2x Adaptec 6 port Raid 5 Sata cards
6x Seagate 200gb Hard Drives - data
6x Western Digital 320gb Hard Drives - data
2x Seagate 80gb Hard Drives - boot
Silverstone TJ-07 Case with an Acbel 550w PSU powering the board and cpu, and an Enermax 600w to power the hard drives and fans.

I've spent a long time on the cables, hopefully some of you out there know enough about computers to understand wtf I'm talking about :D

[BraindG]

:) - nice wiring.

wish i had the money for a system like that.

[bradc]

The wiring was impossible, i've been up past 1am most nights this week doing it all. The sata cables were particularly difficult.

I don't have any money at all ATM, it's all gone towards the car and the computers.

[Kieran]

:) - nice wiring..

Those were my first thoughts too.... Great job there Brad!

Looks a fearsome spec too. Now, my knowledge of memory speeds is a little rusty, your RAM.... 4/4/4/12 - Is that the timings or the configuration of the chips on each stick? If it's the timings, they look a little slow? Thought you could get CAS 3 or 2?

Jeez.... just typing that has made me realise how much I've forgotten!!:speechles /help :book:

[Wouter]

Very nice Brad!!

As Barry says the Nice Wiring! I can never be bothered doing it!

SATA Cables are a real pain!

[bradc]

Kieran, DDR1 tends to run at anywhere between 2/2/2/5 and 3/4/4/8, while DDR2 runs from 3/4/4/12 to 6/5/5/15. The trade off is that you can very easily get up to 800mhz or more.

Wouter, I always take great pride in the cables. I also aim to have the machine easily serviced, some of my mates like to hide all the cables and excessively tie them up, I try to make everything accessible. I can change a hdd or whatever with ease.

[Kieran]

Kieran, DDR1 tends to run at anywhere between 2/2/2/5 and 3/4/4/8, while DDR2 runs from 3/4/4/12 to 6/5/5/15. The trade off is that you can very easily get up to 800mhz or more.

Aha... Thankyou!:happy:

[GroundControl]

Heh bugger going to all that effort, mine's just a big birds nest inside :D (and half my drives aren't even in there since I'm too lazy to put them back since I rebuilt it last month /pan)

[bradc]

ooooooooh the gigabyte 875P Xeon board. I was going to get one of those for my 3.06 533mhz Xeons, then I found out one day they were actually 3.0 800fsb Xeons and they wouldn't work with that board. Then I was going to get an Asus NCCH-DLE board, but I really wanted to get the 3.46 EE back in action simply because it is the best Northwood core ever made by intel, 2mb cache and 1066fsb at stock speeds :D

[strapping young lad]

im gonna post a pic and spec of my mate's

put it this way

its colder than the fridge.

and fast as fook!

[strapping young lad]

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/2077/superpi8az.jpg



http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/992/p101001021uh.jpg

P4 560J @ 4.46ghz @ 246x18
dfi 875 p-t mobo
6800gt gfx pcix
geilone bh5 ram (1gb)
custom dangerden watercooling


this is pre-refrigerant.

when he finished writing out the spec of that inc phase changing or something. (over my head) i will let you know

[mpau009]

Given i have no idea what all the pretty numbers and lights mean, i will have to base judgement purely on the picture.
:dizzy2: :lost:...Me likey al dem pretty bits and colours... :anxious:

I wish i had half the technical abilities of you lot.

- Now i'll just have to wait and see if your engine bay is as tech and tidy as your computer.... Do you reckon it'll be ready for the dyno?

[bradc]

Nice system, I see the Artic Silencer on the card, there. I used to have 2 of them when I had my 6800GT's

[bradc]

mpau, I really really really hope my car is ready for the dyno. Something that is really cool with those raid cards is that they have an LED on them that lights up when that channel is transferring data. I'll see if I can get a small video of it.

[Nick VR4]

Nice PC

This is quiet a good read too

The 8-terabyte Desktop lots of $$$$$ though mainly being built for MS Vista

ttp://news.com.com/2100-1003_3-6044142.html?part=deitel&tag=6044142&subj=news (http://news.com.com/2100-1003_3-6044142.html?part=deitel&tag=6044142&subj=news)

[strapping young lad]

http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/993/dscf00179jj.jpg

http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/876/dscf00431jp.jpg

AMD FX55 0513 @ 3.51 270x13
DFI SLI-DR
2x 7800GTX 512mb's
1gb GeIL One BH5
Custom Phase Change (r507 MachIIGT)
16005 3DMark05

[V6Dan]

I'm impressed! I don't suppose you want a Smart1400 UPS to let you play in a blackout do you ;)

Its inspired me to sort out my home PC - its been sat on the shelf for quite a while as it has cooling issues (the processor is running around 95deg C :o) so I've just been using my backup 2.4 and 3.4 instead. There's been no hurry as even my old OLD laptop (P266 - YO!) will run Transport Tycoon, and thats more than enough to burn up every free minute I have! And for everything else there's my work laptop - a full blown P4 3GHz HT - only problem is battery life is under 30 minutes and after playing Battlefield 2 or X3 for an hour you can't touch the left half of the keyboard (where the CPU and Radeon are) because its got so hot...

I used to use an external screen and fold the lid down, but I managed to screw the screen on my old one by doing that :p I measured the air coming out of the fan once and, bearing in mind its cooled a tad by then... 82 degrees C! :o :o :o

[V6Dan]

Perhaps this would help with my cooling?

http://www.overclockers.com/articles975/

[bradc]

what socket type is your super hot cpu? Are you sure it just isn't a mounting issue? I've also seen cpu's get very very hot due to a large amount of dust in the heatsink

[V6Dan]

Definately not dust - its brand new ;) Its socket 478 from memory, or LGA775, can't remember... I have one of each, and its the one with pins on the proc,rather than just studs.

Its the fan, I can conclude that because when I was desperate to make it work at a Lan in the new forest, I put a case fan on top blowing down over the heatsink, and one next to it drawing air from the heatsink, and it then ran absolutely fine and hte temperatures dropped to 60 odd degrees... The fan is only turning at around 1600rpm. New Artic Cooler is on order ;)

Failing that, its oil cooling :p

[imcarm]

P4 3.46ghz Extreme Edition running at 12x300

Is this the Dual core puppy? :inquisiti

Very nice system though and a damn fine job on the cabling, one day hard drive cabling will be wireless which in turn will end my many headaches :happy:

[V6Dan]

Yup, that good old wireless power! :p

[sydkhan]

just one thing i can see your using SATA HDD some XP versions have issues with SATA HDD and will crash.i know some will contradict me on this but believe me i have seen many at my work place where we develop software.

[bradc]

I'm not using SCSI hdd's at all, I'm using 2 SATA ports from the southbridge with 2x 80gb's in Raid 1 for boot, and the other 12 drives are all SATA. There is no way I could afford that much SCSI storage.

imcarm, no it isn't a 955EE, it is the best of the Northwood core cpu's, 1066fsb, 2mb cache, etc. It beats the Prescott 3.6 and 3.8 in a lot of benchmarks. At the speed I'm running it at I think that it will beat just about everything. It is also very cool running, afterall it is a Northwood. It runs at 40C max with that cooler on it. It is an engineering sample that I got for free from my mate at Intel. He also gave me the 3.0ghz Xeons I have no use for. :D
http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/pentium4-xe-3.46/index.x?pg=1

[KiwiTT]

This is what I am considering when I replace my computer in couple of years.

IBM Thinkpad T60p (http://www-131.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=4611686018425151962&storeId=10000001&langId=-1&categoryId=2049168&dualCurrId=1000073&catalogId=-840) and I change it to a 7200rpm 100 GB drive.

[bernmc]

:inquisiti must have a big porn collection...:inquisiti

[WildCards]

We use SCSI at work, and Dual Xeon workstations with oodles of RAM.

From my huge mountaneous experince and knowledge of these things Brad, I say... It looks good matey! :speechles