Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:09:15 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bragging rights Message-ID: <4273BBBB.24666.EB7F53A@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4272AD64.3040001@chuckr.org>
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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? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ NEW brochure available at http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/advocacy/
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