Gene, Did you have to address latency issues? Are you using a dual-core cpu and kernel?
I've considered using this intel pentium-D 2.8ghz comp with an ATI X-1300 for my EMC machine, but I'm doubting any real gains over the 'old' comp, which is a P4 1.8 (non HT), 512 megs PC133 and 32 meg nvidia TNT2. my main influence for thinking of changing is the video drivers, and the dual core can keep RT and video threads separate. The machine will be running a mesa 5i20, so I'm not sure how much latencies will matter. Thanks, Jim On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have, over the last few days while resuscitating my mills computer, seems > that Antec psu's don't like below freezing temps & it froze to death, > permanently. Either that, or my preferred explanation is that Antec psu's > have a built in timer that kills them 10 days after the warranty runs out. > That is the 3rd one in 2 years that has done almost exactly that. So, having > the shell & psu out of an old 66mhz p1 machine, that 200 watt psu got moved > to my machine, leaving the shell as just a box with a 4Gb drive & a floppy in > it. Raw material. > > Anyway, while working on it, I had it hooked up to a 22" samsung hdtv, but > the tnt card was making noisy, streaky video. Taking local inventory I came > across a x-1650 radeon that I had bought for this machine, but it didn't like > the AGP socket ASUS supply's & refused to even output any video during post > when it was in this box. > > So I though, WTH, this is more card than emc needs, but as it was just > sitting in the box, why not. Mind you this is a card with a drives female > power socket on it, along with a pretty decent cooling fan. needs more > power than the boards traces can supply. Plugged it in & a session with > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and emc was running on a 1920x1050 screen! > > Nice and warm today (62F) so I took it back to the shop & plugged in the old > 17" samsung, which is about as big as I have room to go in that cubby-hole. > No video, even during post but it acted like it was booting normally, several > times from a power down. I hauled the 22" out there and made room enough on > the tool shelf so that its video cable could each. > > Worked so good I double checked the measurements, but like the carpenter who > cut the board off twice and it was still too short, no way. > > Hooked the old crt's cable back up after eyeballing it for bent pins. None > of those. Fired it up, worked, without a reconfigure, and its been working 4 > more power ups since? > > snilmerg? Murphy proving he exists? DamnifIknow. > > That screen is almost too sharp for that old crt, but emc sure looks great on > it now. Sweet even. :-) > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened > of the old ones. > --John Cage > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the > world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference > attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through > interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
