NEW SERVER HAS ARRIVED!

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-06-10 04:39pm

OK, I got my new server. It's sitting in the basement at home. Final specs:

Asus A8N-E motherboard
AMD Athlon64 3000+
2GB Kingston DDR400 RAM
Two Western Digital 74GB Raptor 10k SATA drives
NVidia FX6200 128MB PCIExpress card
Antec TX1050B case with 500W ATX2 power supply

I'm going to have to decide how to best partition it for installing Linux, and then I'll run it for a while and do some stability testing before replacing the current server with it.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2005-06-10 04:44pm

Hooray!

(Can't wait the board will be waaaay smoother then.

Thanks Mike.

EDIT :: Jumped the gun!

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2005-06-10 04:47pm

Long live the once & future Sith

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2005-06-10 04:48pm

Crown wrote:Hooray!

(Can't wait the board will be waaaay smoother then.

Thanks Mike.

Go, Greased Lightning, go.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2005-06-10 04:50pm

Happy happy joy joy!

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2005-06-10 04:57pm

Soon my greatest creation will be compleated (De dah)
(Dexter

)

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-06-10 05:03pm

Hooray!!

Pix plz.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-06-10 05:08pm

Nice system, but that grapic card is a overkill on a server

Time for a donation drive?

sketerpot · Post by **sketerpot** » 2005-06-10 05:12pm

Faram wrote:Nice system, but that grapic card is a overkill on a server

If I remember correctly, it's not going to be just a server. Money is an issue, after all.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2005-06-10 05:12pm

Hehehe. I got Protoss 'Carrier has arrived!' vibes from the thread title. That said, rock on, not a bad little setup. Entirely a desktop, non-server setup, but I'm biased

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-06-10 05:28pm

I can already tell it's much faster than the old one. It's noticeably faster even during the OS install.

Quadlok · Post by **Quadlok** » 2005-06-10 08:06pm

White Haven wrote:Hehehe. I got Protoss 'Carrier has arrived!' vibes from the thread title.

Glad to know I wasn't the only one.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2005-06-10 08:08pm

Quadlok wrote:
White Haven wrote:Hehehe. I got Protoss 'Carrier has arrived!' vibes from the thread title.
Glad to know I wasn't the only one.

I caught a 'Death Star has arrived' vibe. Course it could be the tidal effects from that monster's gravity...

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2005-06-10 08:58pm

Quadlok wrote:
White Haven wrote:Hehehe. I got Protoss 'Carrier has arrived!' vibes from the thread title.
Glad to know I wasn't the only one.

I didn't untill you bozos brought it up.

My first reaction was an MMO style 'Grats!'

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-06-10 09:00pm

Will the enhanced board performance with this new server result in the main board search function being reenabled?

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2005-06-10 10:06pm

It's the Death Star of Servers

How appropriate

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2005-06-11 07:39pm

Wheres the pics?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-06-11 11:03pm

I find these requests for pics to be somewhat perplexing; what is there to look at? It's a black computer case. If I open it up, you'll see a motherboard, some cabling, a couple of hard drives, a video card, a power supply, a CPU fan, etc. Superficially, it would look almost identical to the current server.

J · Post by J » 2005-06-11 11:56pm

Perhaps they have a computer fetish and are turned on by pictures of naked computers...?

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-06-12 12:02am

Obviously they are thinking it'll look more like This

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-06-12 12:23am

To be honest I just think it's interesting to actually see what people get, in their actual evironment and all that. I know that I personally like taking pictures of my new stuff and showing it to others, particularly if it's something obscure or unique.

Additionally, it was also sort of a joke.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-06-12 05:35am

It's quite sad to want to see pics of a damn hunk of components in an uninteresting beige shell. Unless the casing is shaped like Monica Belluci's chest or a scale model of a Venator, I doubt it warrants bandwidth wasted on images.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-06-12 08:51am

In positive news, 24 hours of intensive testing with Memtest86 3.1a have failed to produce an error or even heat up the CPU (those new 90nm cores run relatively cool). I do believe it's time to start configuring it for installation.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2005-06-12 09:30am

Wow. I have zero understanding of all the technical jargon, but it sounds really sweet. Congratulations, man. How much did it cost (probably a fucking lot)?

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2005-06-12 09:46am

Will there be any benefits for the board from moving to a 64-bit processor
or does the phpBB not support it in any useful fashion?