bragging rights
Dan Langille
dan at langille.org
Sat Apr 30 14:09:17 PDT 2005
On 29 Apr 2005 at 21:55, Chuck Robey wrote:
> It's a big grey Antec case witha side thats clear, so it has a fan
> there. I've sprayed clear/blue UV spray all over the plastic, so the
> lit up side mounted fan there flouresces the plastic very nicely. The
> system has two fans in front, two in the rear, one on the side, and
> two on the two AMD64 processors. The fans are all speed-controlled,
> so I don't have to listen to the end of the world vibrating itself to
> death here on my desktop, it's actually very quiet. The two CPU fans
> are very quiet ones, Thermaltake's, but I forget the model number, so
> I will just say that they works at fairly low rpms to keep the noise
> down. Each of those cpus is equipped with a Gig of ram from Corsair.
Where are the photos!
>
> The Mobo has it's own sound on it, but I eschewed that because the
> very cheap SoundBlaster Audigy had it's own very compatible FreeBSD
> and Linux drivers, and it communicates via digital. Actually, I have
> this system and a second system, and each has 3 cables coming from it,
> and those cables go directly into the Klipsch speakers (I love having
> the direct digital input!) so I ran the 3 cables from each computer
> into a keyboard switcher, and used the video cable fro the digital
> sound, and it's just superb. I get sound however I want it.
>
> The sound has to come from somewhere, ultimately, and I have two
> drives.
> The little one, the one that's best for cd's (although it reads
> dvd's
> also) is the Sony CRX320E). The other one is for writing anything at
> all, so I got the best I could find, the HP DVD Writer 420n. Between
> the two, I can read or write anything. They just work great with
> kde's k3b, wcich allows them to copy dvd's even.
>
> The disks are very well worth noting. Three of them, organized into
> the boot section and the home section. The boot section is a 35G
> scsi, but it's 15K rpm rotation rate, which means it's blazing. This
> would be fast enough on it's own, but it's not on it's own. Tell me
> if you think it's the neatest, but I don't think so. My own encomium
> is given to the home section, which is formed from two 145G scsi
> disks. They are each only 10K rotation rate (faster than the fastest
> IDE, anyhow), but each one has it's own independent scsi bus, so that
> the fast that they're hooked together in a striped access via vinum
> means (in effect) I have a 290G drive that's, I dunno, I have to get
> to test, but damned fast, let me tell you!
>
> Small stuff, it's got the floppy and the network interface, but I
> won't bore.
>
>
> I'm very very proud of this system, Can you see why?
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