Building a Sossaman rig?

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03-05-2009, 10:56 PM
Sparky

Soo.... what good is 16GB of RAM if you only have 32 bit?
03-05-2009, 10:58 PM
D_A

Makes for a bigger e-p33n.
03-05-2009, 11:04 PM
Movieman

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Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

Soo.... what good is 16GB of RAM if you only have 32 bit?

with the right OS you can use it..

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Originally Posted by D_A

Makes for a bigger e-p33n.

yes, it does..looks down..I only have two gig..:shakes:
03-05-2009, 11:47 PM
D_A

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Originally Posted by Movieman

with the right OS you can use it..

yes, it does..looks down..I only have two gig..:shakes:

It's not the size, son, it's how you use it. :rolleyes:
03-06-2009, 01:18 AM
Martijn

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Originally Posted by Movieman

with the right OS you can use it..

yes, it does..looks down..I only have two gig..:shakes:

1GB in mine :rolleyes:

Running Vista Ultimate, it's uptime is nearly 5 months if you take 2 reboots out of account. I never knew it was that good with low amounts of RAM :p:

IIRC, Server 2k3 and Server 2k8 can both utilize very high amounts of RAM on x86-based systems.
03-06-2009, 02:13 AM
s0lid

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Originally Posted by Movieman

I have a total of 5 boards here..
One running system
one the board I modded last night and 3 new ones in a box upstairs..

Send one board here and we'll make TurboPLL into it, success rate is almoust 100% with that mod :yepp:
03-06-2009, 02:23 AM
s0lid

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Originally Posted by Movieman

One thing to always remember is that cpu prices drop like bricks EXCEPT the top one of each platform and that is why there are people asking huge money for a 3 year old cpu such as this.
Now the other side is that when I first started dealing in cpu's in mid 2004 these sold for $2500.00 each on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Xeon-3-0GH...1%7C240%3A1318

Oh darn it old man now i started to look for Quad socket 603 board and well those chips are cheaps as nothing, which is good thing :rofl:

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Originally Posted by Martijn

1GB in mine :rolleyes:

Running Vista Ultimate, it's uptime is nearly 5 months if you take 2 reboots out of account. I never knew it was that good with low amounts of RAM :p:

IIRC, Server 2k3 and Server 2k8 can both utilize very high amounts of RAM on x86-based systems.

Well here's some data about which 32bit os's can utilize more than 4GB of ram :)
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...AE/PAEdrv.mspx
03-06-2009, 02:53 AM
jcool

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Originally Posted by gongo

PAE - Physical Address Extension
It allows us to use a 36-bit memory access, 32-bits per process and 4-bits for paging. It means that we can technically get up to 64GB on a 32-bit platform!

It's available for free with Linux but you need Windows Server Datacenter Edition to take advantage of it in Windows. Technically Windows XP uses it to read the NX bit for DEP, but doesn't actively page anything out past 4GB - MMIO.

The 32-bit 4GB limitation is only per process, so it's not too bad. You could run a couple VMs, a database, and web server process and still have enough memory for everything.

I think the old Socket 8 Pentium Pro was the first to implement it.

I see.. I only know PAE from Asus mobos, helps you utilize a little bit more of your 4GB of Ram in good old XP 32 ;)

Still, I'll leave my Sammy running with 2x1GB. It's more than it needs anyway, 1GB was fine too, I just wanted dual channel on principle :D

Anything that wants or needs a lot of ram runs on the harpers o the i7 anyway, like hd video encoding and stuff (4GB per process wouldnt be enough here anyways without the program splitting it up more intelligently than it currently does...)
03-06-2009, 04:47 AM
CaptMorgan

so to utilize the right amount of memory-what is the most ideal OS
03-06-2009, 04:52 AM
Martijn

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Originally Posted by CaptMorgan

so to utilize the right amount of memory-what is the most ideal OS

I'd go with either Server 2k3 or Server 2k8. 2k3 is a lot like XP, 2k8 is based on Vista.
03-06-2009, 04:57 AM
chew*

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Originally Posted by Movieman

with the right OS you can use it..

yes, it does..looks down..I only have two gig..:shakes:

Um dave buddie thats not your e peen :ROTF: Look in the mirror :D
03-06-2009, 10:01 AM
CaptMorgan

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Originally Posted by gongo

I'm running Debian Lenny using the "bigmem" kernel.
Remember, the OS can use memory for buffering reads/writes as well, so it also makes sense for file servers.

Thanks, have a done a bit of reading now and looks like a good option for me to consider.
This is gonna be fun:)
03-06-2009, 06:25 PM
Movieman

Tried taking that ground wire to the back of the board to ground on the 8 pin.. Same..:(
03-06-2009, 09:09 PM
Movieman

Took wire to back of board and tied it into the 3.3v line and it booted and is running but at stock 2000mhz..
I tried?:shrug:
03-06-2009, 09:23 PM
D_A

Well at least you still have a working board.
03-06-2009, 09:28 PM
Movieman

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Originally Posted by D_A

Well at least you still have a working board.

Yea, but I'd gladly kill it to make this work!:D
03-06-2009, 09:48 PM
D_A

Oddly enough ... if you kill it, it may not work.
03-06-2009, 09:53 PM
Sparky

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Originally Posted by Movieman

Yea, but I'd gladly kill it to make this work!:D

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Originally Posted by D_A

Oddly enough ... if you kill it, it may not work.

:rofl: :nuts:
03-07-2009, 06:46 AM
Movieman

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Originally Posted by D_A

Oddly enough ... if you kill it, it may not work.

Oh be quiet you!:p:

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Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

:rofl: :nuts:

You too or we'll stick you back to registered n00b:ROTF:
03-07-2009, 06:50 AM
Movieman

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Originally Posted by gongo

really? hahaha.

Keep laughing and when we meet..don't look at your board too close.. It may have wires on it..:rofl:
03-08-2009, 09:49 AM
Sparky

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Originally Posted by Movieman

Oh be quiet you!:p:

You too or we'll stick you back to registered n00b:ROTF:

:p: :sofa:
03-08-2009, 11:59 AM
Movieman

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Originally Posted by gongo

:ROTF:

So I said my last goodbyes to Sammy1 yesterday as I have shipped her off to see my brother at law school. Hope she makes the 2000-mile journey okay...

For now I'm down to just my Thinkpad until I get Sammy2 up and running.

We'll fix that problem Wednesday..;)
new board and HS..$50.00.. My cost on them.:D
03-08-2009, 03:06 PM
Movieman

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Originally Posted by gongo

Sammy1 probably won't see 24/7 uptime again, so I didn't set it up with WCG... oh well, I'll have Sammy2 up soon enough though, it'll be good to get crunching again.

You'll laugh but all the time I spent playing with that mod bugged me that the machine was down..
It's not that it does a ton of work but just that it was down..
03-08-2009, 04:06 PM
Sparky

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Originally Posted by Movieman

You'll laugh but all the time I spent playing with that mod bugged me that the machine was down..
It's not that it does a ton of work but just that it was down..

Heh it bugs me when even my old Athlon XP goes down :eek: :shakes:
03-08-2009, 09:29 PM
Movieman

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Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

Heh it bugs me when even my old Athlon XP goes down :eek: :shakes:

Time to put my energies into something that will hopefully pay off.
A way of OC'ing a dual socket 1366 board..:D
Night folks.. I need sleep.

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