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09-28-2010, 06:55 PM
snoro

i dont think my 1kw strider plus could give enough power for 4 gtx 460 and a cpu crunching. But yeah the 870 could be the best choice
09-28-2010, 07:03 PM
Otis11

SLI zone has 2 460s on a 650W and 3 470s on a 950W... so I think it would work.

Could also throw in a small drive bay power supply just for a graphics card or two. :shrug:
09-28-2010, 07:04 PM
D_A

Mr Fusion. ftw.
09-28-2010, 07:10 PM
D_A

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrMojoZ

I'd love a working PPro setup, so many daydreams back in the day. :D

Well it's working.
It was P-Pro180 256KB cache, 64MB RAM, 2GB HDD Win95
After diving into the parts bins:
P-Pro200 512KB cache, 128MB RAM, 8GB HDD currently installing W2K, might throw Linux on it later. Keeping the Win95 drive ... in case ... of something.
Will definitely be installing BOINC if only to run a benchmark and get a single figure result! :ROTF:
09-28-2010, 11:38 PM
D_A

Ok, W2k SP3 installed with BOINC 6.10.58
Benches at ... wait for it ... 184/308! :ROTF: w00t!
09-29-2010, 01:49 AM
jcool

Quote:

Originally Posted by D_A

Ok, W2k SP3 installed with BOINC 6.10.58
Benches at ... wait for it ... 184/308! :ROTF: w00t!

Omg.. someone, call the news - quick! :eek:
D_A is installing Windows :shocked: :rofl:

You know, I was thinking about you just the other day.. I set up my new HTPC with Ubuntu and XBMC, and while that is the most awesome media center around, I had a lot of, err, "fun" setting it up. I reel in anticiption of the configuration I still have left to do (getting my Logitech Harmony One remote to work...)

I so hope XBMC will be released for Win soon (with working TV features...)
09-29-2010, 04:14 AM
D_A

Yeah yeah, settle down. Win98se was the OS on my first "PC" which I followed with Win2k, so I still have a SLIGHT soft spot for it. I'm keeping the Win95 install that was already on this machine on it's drive since it's so damn small. I'd have to run something like DSL or Puppy Linux to get down to that kind of size, neither of which I'm overly familiar with.

I'll let this thing crunch a couple of units (yes it actually can do that ... at about one HCC unit a day) just so it shows up on the grid for once in it's life, but I won't keep it on there for long ... unless I can slow down easynews' validations somehow.
09-29-2010, 05:04 AM
MrMojoZ

Quote:

Originally Posted by D_A

Well it's working.
It was P-Pro180 256KB cache, 64MB RAM, 2GB HDD Win95
After diving into the parts bins:
P-Pro200 512KB cache, 128MB RAM, 8GB HDD currently installing W2K, might throw Linux on it later. Keeping the Win95 drive ... in case ... of something.
Will definitely be installing BOINC if only to run a benchmark and get a single figure result! :ROTF:

PPro 180s were the same chips as the 200s once you set the bus speed to 66mhz. ;) (As you probably already know)

I had a Gateway workstation at a job many moons ago that I jumpered to 66mhz on a PPro 180, no one ever noticed. Go go NT4!
09-29-2010, 05:10 AM
D_A

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrMojoZ

PPro 180s were the same chips as the 200s once you set the bus speed to 66mhz. ;) (As you probably already know)

I had a Gateway workstation at a job many moons ago that I jumpered to 66mhz on a PPro 180, no one ever noticed. Go go NT4!

As it happens I didn't know that, but I have two 180MHz/256KB units, one 200MHz/256KB unit and two 200MHz/512KB units. I slipped one of the latter into this board. Unfortunately I don't have any of the 200MHz/1MB cache units.
09-29-2010, 05:13 AM
jcool

Quote:

Originally Posted by D_A

Yeah yeah, settle down. Win98se was the OS on my first "PC" which I followed with Win2k, so I still have a SLIGHT soft spot for it. I'm keeping the Win95 install that was already on this machine on it's drive since it's so damn small. I'd have to run something like DSL or Puppy Linux to get down to that kind of size, neither of which I'm overly familiar with.

I'll let this thing crunch a couple of units (yes it actually can do that ... at about one HCC unit a day) just so it shows up on the grid for once in it's life, but I won't keep it on there for long ... unless I can slow down easynews' validations somehow.

Win95 was a POS, as far as I can remember. Mind you, I was 11 when we got our first PC with Win95, so I don't remember much.
All that I CAN remember is that this supposedly great machine (1997 Packard Bell with a P200MMX) hardlocked every few hours... so I opened it and just touched everything - and burnt my hand in the process :rofl:
The CPU had a small passive heatsink on it, which wasn't nearly enough. So in my infinite wisdom as a 11-year-old, I left the PC open and put mom's ventilator in front of it :D
Needless to say, mom didn't likle the aesthetics.. BUT it worked :rofl:

I think that was the day when I got hooked, only to become a PC hardware maniac a few years later :D :shakes: :shrug:
09-29-2010, 01:30 PM
D_A

I was given one of those machines with a P166MMX in it and 32MB of RAM a few years back.
I slipped a P200MMX into it and maxed it out to 128MB the first day I had it. :ROTF: I still have the CPU in my collection here somewhere.

I'm not much of an overclocker, but I do tend to jam the biggest chip into a board that it will possibly handle.

Oh, and Win95 was most definitely a POS, but it has a little historical value as what happens when MS tries to "get clever". Just like WinME and Vista.
10-10-2010, 10:54 AM
MrMojoZ

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Originally Posted by Firechicken

We were close for a long time. After I kind of met you trial by fire by me having a bad day I considered you a perfect running matefor some time and still have been watching for you to make page 3 :) I was barly pulling 100 more than you. Alas I'm going to be doubling my output in 8 days, and then the clocks go back up to 4ghz as it's getting c c c cold here in canada :) Heres to 20K by summer 2011.

I did enjoy it though who am I kidding haha, I was the bottom feeder who ate EVERYONES dust here on WCG for 5 years my friend, so I suppose it feels really good to have someone mention to want to beat me, kinda feels good.

Cheers mate.

Better start soon, I'm getting there fast! :D
10-10-2010, 12:55 PM
sRHunt3r

I have always been a Windows guy, for both the good and the bad, but I have really had no serious issues with Win XP or Win7.

But an Apple friend of mine sent me this a few years ago and I thought it was save worthy :rofl:

"Microsoft Windows: A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition."
10-10-2010, 05:52 PM
Firechicken

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrMojoZ

Better start soon, I'm getting there fast! :D

I am dropping out my friend, she's all yours.

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