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Cheap Duallie coming my way.

DeAthe

Fri Mar 8 06:02:48 2002

Heh, I just picked up a cheap BP6 w/ some 300a's on it.  That makes me happy, 'twas cheap too.

Now, can anyone point me to some good docs about AD and domain style networking? I needs to learn, and I didn't bring my networking stuff from home 'cause I'm 'tarded.

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Fri Mar 8 06:27:23 2002

Congrats Deathe, welcome to the dually club, population:

One poopy-head and one Mighty AYB. :)

Harbinger

Fri Mar 8 13:54:24 2002

Ahem, I have an LX mobo with dual P2-266s.  :tongue:
HitScan

Fri Mar 8 14:05:07 2002

My server is running 2 333's (only seems to run at 133 though :( ) and my other server will also run 2 333's. I just need to get some bits for it yet. :)

And, my next workstation will have 2 heavy hitter AMDs in it, but that ones probly years off. :biggrin:

Evil Merlin

Fri Mar 8 15:52:21 2002

mmmm... dualie love...

My main home server is currently a Compaq DL380 G2. Gotta love 2x1.266GHz and 4 gigs of ram.

Better yet, I did not have to pay a dime for it...


HitScan

Fri Mar 8 16:28:00 2002

It's like I told pauli, EM, murder and/or theft is bad, mmmkay? ;)

Sweet indeed. Mmmm.

DeAthe

Fri Mar 8 22:47:44 2002

Hell, it's basically a toy to help me with my upgrade jonesin I was having, but I can turn it into my fileserver and get a feeling for how smp action works.

Anyone know of any video encoding software that's multithreaded? Excepting FlaskMpeg of course.

Harbinger

Fri Mar 8 22:53:55 2002

Forgot to mention that my boss picked up a Dell PowerEdge server offa bid4assets.com for the new company's office.

Quad Xeon 550s.

1GB RAM (think it goes up to 4GB, but no docs came w/ it).

3x 18GB SCSI-3 HDs.

Dual RAID controllers, plus SCSI on the mobo.

4 Intel server NICs.

$2800US.

Compared to what we used to use, this is geek heaven.


Can I run Ars Testbench on that sucker?  :biggrin:

Magus

Fri Mar 8 23:58:23 2002

from AllYorBaseRBelong2Us posted at 12:27 am on Mar. 8, 2002

Congrats Deathe, welcome to the dually club, population:

One poopy-head and one Mighty AYB. :)

/me looks at his dual P3 850s....
Evil Merlin

Sat Mar 9 00:32:45 2002

Harbinger,

Nice system for a NICE price. I am trying to convince my company to let me take home and BORROW one of the 5 8500's they have in storage. New in the box.

Can you say:

8 Xeon III @ 700mhz
8 GB ram
2 18.2 GB 15K SCSI drives for the OS (RAID of course)
2 36.4 GB 15K SCSI drives for data
5300 RAID controller with 128mb of cache
2 dual port 64bit PCI gigabit ethernets...

Now mind you the company paid nearly 110K for these a pop in this config. ALL of them have been sitting in storage now for almost 7 months doing nothing but sitting in the box....

(Edited by Evil Merlin at 4:33 pm on Mar. 8, 2002)

Imitation Gruel

Sat Mar 9 00:39:19 2002

Heh, I wonder if Photoshop would run on an 8way Win2K Advanced Server box. I bet all that RAM and proc cache would make it fly. :biggrin:

Oh, and to add nothing to this thread: I don't have any dually boxes, not even legacy. :(

Evil Merlin

Sat Mar 9 01:08:45 2002

I did deploy 2 of them (one only had 4 processors in it) for the sales commission department here. To burn it in and test NT Enterprise Edition (we were not allowed to deploy W2K at that time), I ran 8 instances of SETI. One instance on each processor... burned thru like 100 blocks in less than 5 days.
Harbinger

Sat Mar 9 02:36:06 2002

EM: pretty boxen.  Would be nice to take home and 'experiment' with...

Forgot to add that the PowerEdge has 64-bit PCI slots (4 outta 7, IIRC).

Win2K Server is running on it right now.  How does one run Ars Testbench on it, and where does one obtain a compiled x86 binary?  I've not looked in on the pertinent thread in some time, and I don't really wanna dig through it right now.

Side note: Installed BeOS 4.5 on my aforementioned dual P2-266.  Had to swap the vid card for one that had built-in drivers, now just gotta dig up a compatible NIC.  This box wasn't serving any real porpose; now it runs an OS with no real purpose. ;)

DeAthe

Sat Mar 9 05:45:12 2002

This box wasn't serving any real porpose; now it runs an OS with no real purpose.

Kind of like Jer's computer at work eh?

Harbinger

Sat Mar 9 17:43:18 2002

from DeAthe posted at 12:45 am on Mar. 9, 2002

This box wasn't serving any real porpose; now it runs an OS with no real purpose.

Kind of like Jer's computer at work eh?

LOL!