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Hardware overview

Machine ID: 69

Model name: Power Macintosh 8600 series

Keyboard type: Apple Extended Keyboard

Processor info: PowerPC 604e

Machine speed: 200 MHz

Nanokernel version: 2.21

Nanokernel pool extends: 0

Nanokernel scheduled CPUs:1

Getting a little old and slow, but you would be astonished at the capability. :ph34r:

<HOMER> MMMMmmmm Nanokernal </HOMER>

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:(Sigh... I no longer have the AMD running here at home since the rebuild in December. Unfortunately, I had this system rebuilt BEFORE all this technical academics came at me, and I would've done things much differently had I known what know (or feel) NOW. But my system was about to fail completely at the time and badly needed upgrading and a fix. I had no choice--it was unstable and dying. Just bad timing was all with regard to the sudden education.

I USED to have (and still have)(in another system I'm rebuilding) an AMD K6-2 (350) w/3D Now! Old, yes, but in 1998 and it was terrific. I'm an Intel mobo+chip user right now but would like to re-upgrade next year again and revert back to AMD and a whole new Mboard. Sure as heck I need a newer second HDD, too! But I digress. <_<

So, in answer to your question, I'd like to go AMD next year. I could always sell the new Intel set that I just bought... or get serious about the P2P pair here at the house and use the Intel set for THAT...... :)

Meanwhile, I'm researching which Mboard would perform well with which AMD chip. B)

Suggestions, perhaps...?

PS--The OS is WinXP-Pro.

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Shuttle SFF - small form factor W/ INTEL P4 1700 - overclocked to 1800+. 672 MB memory - also overclocked. 80 GB 7200rpm HD - Floppy drive and Sony DVD-CDRW. Samsung SyncMaster 192N. Size of a toaster with the guts of a tower. YEEEHAAAA.... ;)

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Guest Larry Cazes

- Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz on an Intel Mboard

- 1 GB RAM

- 160 GB SATA HD

- Lite-On 8X DVD+-R/RW Writer

- Lite-On 4X DVD Dual Mode Reader

- 4 USB 2.0 ports

- 4 Firewire ports

- Nvidia GE Force 5200 Video Card

- SoundBlaster Pro Sound Card

- 19" Flat screen monitor

- Windows XP Pro

Lately I've been thinking of Upgrading since this thing takes so long to boot....20 secs............. :D

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My other computer.. :P

My Computer

160 933 MHz Pentium III CPUs, on 80 nodes

512MB PC133 RAM per Node (40GB total)

100Mb Ethernet between 80 nodes

Myrinet crossbar switch between 40 nodes

Gigabit Ethernet between file servers

650GB of shared fast disk

12TB of disk space distributed among nodes

Linux SMP kernel

Performance:

Compute Node Hardware:

Processors

Number Clock Speed Vendor Model

162 933MHz Intel Pentium III

Motherboards

Chipset FSB Speed Vendor Model

VIA VT82C694T 133MHz Tyan S2505T

Hard disks

Interface Transfer Speed Vendor Model

IDE ATA-100 Western Digital 20GB Caviar

Network interfaces

Type Speed Vendor Model

Ethernet 100Mbit/sec Intel e100

Myrinet 1000Mbit/sec GM

Master Node Hardware

Processors

Number Clock Speed Vendor Model

2 933MHz Intel Pentium III

Motherboards

Chipset FSB Speed Vendor Model

VIA VT82C694T 133MHz Tyan S2505T

Hard disks

Interface Transfer Speed Vendor Model

SCSI RAID Ultra SCSI2 IBM DDYS-T18350N

Network interfaces

Type Speed Vendor Model

Ethernet 100Mbit/sec Intel e100

Gigabit Ethernet 1000Mbit/sec NetGear GA620

Interconnect:

Ethernet networking is provided by the HP ProCurve switch with 128 Fast Ethernet ports and 3 Gigabit Ethernet ports. All ports are copper. Switch is tolerant to resets/reboots, usually it does not need any maintenance or configuration. One deficiency - it is not fully non-blocking, the internal banchwidth is less than the sum of the port throughput.

Typical message roundtrip latency is between 100 and 200 microseconds for 64 byte messages. Maximum measured NetPIPE TCP/IP bandwidth is 90 Mbps for Fast Ethernet and 340 Mbps for Gigabit Ethernet.

Supplier: RackSaver

Myrinet connects 40 'a' nodes. Each of these nodes has a Myrinet-2000 card (M3F-PCI64B-2) connected by a copper cable to the cross-bar switch. Routing logic is on the cards themselves so the switch is merely an interconnect with an "On/Off" switch.

Typical message roundtrip latency is between 9 and 11 microseconds for 64 byte messages. Maximum measured NetPIPE MPI bandwidth is 460 Mbps.

Supplier: Myricom Inc.

Switches

Type Number of ports Latency Bandwidth

HP ProCurve 128 Fast Ethernet ports and 3 Gigabit Ethernet ports 100 and 200 microseconds for 64 byte messages 90 Mbps for Fast Ethernet and 340 Mbps for Gigabit Ethernet

Myrinet 9-11 microseconds for 64 byte messages 460 Mbps

File Server Hardware:

There are two identical file servers which service the master node and its subordinates. Each file server is attached to a seperate channel of a ProRAID S890 series subsystem with a 7-disk RAID5 array with 640GB of capacity.

Processors

Number Clock Speed Vendor Model

1 933MHz Intel Pentium III

Motherboards

Chipset FSB Speed Vendor Model

VIA VT82C694T 133MHz Tyan S2505T

Hard disks

Interface Transfer Speed Vendor Model

ProRaid Subsystem Ultra SCSI2 Western Digital NA

Network interfaces

Type Speed Vendor Model

Ethernet 100Mbit/sec Intel e100

Gigabit Ethernet 1000Mbit/sec Intel Pro/1000

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P4 2.53 GHZ, 1GB Ram expandable soon to 2 gigs, 120 Gig primary and 80 gig (soon to bouble at least) harddrives, 80 gig firewire/USB2.0 external hard drive, CD-Rom, DVD/CD Writer combo, Iomega Zip Drive, 2 Firewire compact flash card readers. MS Windows XP Media Center Edition, Office XP, Photo Mechanic, Photoshop CS, Extensis Portfolio.......

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lol... I'm STILL using.....

Athlon 700 Slot A

HP board built by ASUS

256 Megs PC133 Memory

HP 8x4x32 CD-R/RW writer

50X max CD-rom drive

Antec Mid Tower

And um....

60 Gig IBM IDE100 HD

15 Gig Westen Digital Caviar IDE100 HD

SoundBlaster PC128 Sound card

Invidia TI4200-64 Meg ram video card

Running Win2k with the latest patches.

On a Comcast Broadband connection

I wish to soon upgrade.. :blink:

Vince

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Oooooo... an Asus board... Oooooo... :wub:

I've been looking at Asus seriously these days..... :)

Nik-- I was researching some Corsair RAM tonight and they have 2GB sticks... the XMS2 "Twin" series and even in their desktop series as well. More research may indicate that they're not the only ones with product at that level.

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wide45, we are the last of the Mohicans...

Machine ID: 69

Model name: Power Macintosh 8500 series

Processor info: PowerPC G4

Machine speed: 450 MHz

BTW, you can't drag and drop the System Profiler info into the Fast Reply text area. :)

I don't know why it says I have an 8500. The badge says 8600/300. I replaced the daughterboard with an accelerator and I've got a hack running that lets me use 9.2.2, so I'm not surprised the thing has an identity crisis.

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The Govt agency I work for seems to use ASUS boards exclusively. We used Asus boards with all of our P3's and now use ASUS P48533's with 2.4 Ghz P4 Chips and a half gig of RAM. They run Win XP-PRO and are pretty zippy machines. They have Sony 12x cd-burners so that the users have no reason not to back up their data.

They seem to be nice stable machines..

Vince

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lol... I'm STILL using.....

Athlon 700 Slot A

HP board built by ASUS

256 Megs PC133 Memory

Vince, I think my pager is faster than this....

I might have some memory I can give you, if you'd like it

PS--The OS is WinXP-Pro.

I hadn't seen much use of the 64Bit versions of W2K or others, just wondering how it went.

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Merlin is the man...

Us old timers use the stuff we buy already put together...Compac Presario 6000, Intel Pentium IV @ 2.26 GHz, 1Meg Ram, 100Gigs of disk...and man I am really hi-tech in Kerrville...all that power on tap and have to choke it down with a dial modem :P

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supermicro X5DAL- G motherboard,

Two 2.4Ghz 533Mhz FSB intel Xeon processors.

1GB of ECC registered ram.

ati 9800pro 128MB video cord (have a geforce 6800GT on order)

herculies digifire 7.1 audio card (w/ firewire)

dell 2001FP 21" 16ms LCD.

lite-on 48x CDRW drive

optorite 8x DVD+-RW drive

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I gave up buying new machines long ago, and have work do it for me... my newest machine has:

2 x 3.06 Xeons

12GB RAM (way cool for SQL)

4x147GB SCSI drives (hardware RAID-5)

2 x 36GB drives

factory graphics card (I just don't care)

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Vince, I think my pager is faster than this....

I might have some memory I can give you, if you'd like it

Actually, it works ok for now, I'll be upgrading soon and the board I have in it only has room for 2 slices of memory.. And they are both in use. I'll probably be getting something in the 2.8 Ghz range when I upgrade.. :)

Vince

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I don't know why it says I have an 8500. The badge says 8600/300.

Hey Erik, I have a third party processor upgrade in my G4 mini-tower and it doesn’t recognize the actual speed the proc is strapped to, it just picks the nearest equivalent in it‘s repertoire. Never seen an upgraded Mac profile proc speed correctly with 3rd party processor kits in it so it’s no surprise that it thinks it’s somebody else too.

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Regards,

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Currently:

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Pentium-IV (2.40CG) 800MHz

Intel mo-bo[D865GLC] 200MHz

Intel 865G chipset

512MB DDR400 RAM

Win XP-Pro (SP-1)

Browser: IE 6

WDC HDD-66GB

Fujitsu HDD-6.49GB

Enlight 360W PSU

Plextor CD-R/SCSI (12/10/32S)

Toshiba CD-ROM

Iomega 100 Zip Drive

Standard FDD

Standard Keyboard, PS/2 Logitech Mouse

Mid-Tower Case

Azalea/ViewMate 15” Monitor

SoundMax integrated audio

Rockwell data/fax Modem

Intel PRO/100 VE Net connection

Umax Astra 1200S Scanner

HP 722c Deskjet Printer

HP 945 Digital Cam/Recharger

McAfee Virus Protection

Spybot Search & Destroy

Adaware

MSOffice/Pro 2000

Adobe Photoshop CS

Adobe Acrobat 6

QuarkXpess 6.01

Macromedia MX Suite

Adaptec EX CD-Creator/ver.4

...and a few other things.

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