Main Workstation
| I play around with this machine occasionally, sometimes overclocking the CPU and video card when I want to hit an intense game (seems I get less and less time to play games though) or just experiment and crank some benchmarks. Thanks to the onboard full-speed L2 cache, this processor is strong enough to carry me until DDR Athlon systems mature and become affordable. |
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| - AMD K6-3/ 400 MHz (4 x 100MHz FSB, 256KB L2 cache @ 400MHz) |
| - Alpha PAL6035 Heatsink with 27cfm YSTech 60mm fan (sweet!) |
| - FIC VA-503+ rev 1.2a Mini AT 'Super 7' motherboard (w/ VIA MVP3 Chipset & 1MB L3 Cache, ATX support) |
| - 2x128MB of Mushkin Infineon
PC133 CAS2 SDRAM (this stuff is VERY stable) |
| - Matrox Millenium G400 AGP (2x) 2D/3D Video w/ 32MB SGRAM and 300MHz RAMDAC |
| - Adaptec AHA-29160 PCI SCSI 3/Ultra160 Controller |
| - IBM UltraStar 36LZX -18GB 10000RPM Ultra160 HDD (4MB cache; super fast and
very quiet) |
| - Pioneer DVD-303 5x/32x SCSI DVD-ROM (has slot feed!) |
| - Yamaha CRW-4416S 4x/4x/16x SCSI CD-RW (2MB cache, 160ms access) |
| - VXA Tape Drive (Exabyte)
-SCSI2 LVD, 33/66GB, very fast and very quiet |
| - Sound Blaster AWE-32 w/ 2MB extra RAM (good ol' 30-pin RAM thanks to an old 386/25SX!) |
| - 3Com 3C905B-TX 10/100 Ethernet card |
| - General Instrument SB2100 Cable Modem! (Cox@home) and
Linksys Etherfast DSL/ Cable Modem
Router (BEFSR41). I applaud Linksys and highly recommend one of these routers. They
are very easy to use for the beginner but flexible enough for the advanced user. |
| - Antec KS-188 Full Tower with PP-303X 300W P/S and plenty of cooling |
| - MAG Innovision DJ800 19" monitor |
- Future Plans/ Planned Upgrades:
- Sound Blaster Live!
- more U160 HDDs!
- upgrade CDRW and DVD (definitely stay with Pioneer slot feed)
- build new Athlon DDR Thunderbird system and use majority of
this system for a Linux server
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Network Server
| This one did not cost me much. I built it mostly from stuff I had laying around. I
installed Redhat Linux on it and I have a rock-solid, file and FTP server (it makes Windows
laughable). It use to be the internet gateway and firewall until I got the
Linksys
Etherfast DSL/ Cable Modem Router (BEFSR41). I applaud Linksys and highly
recommend one of these routers. They are very easy to use for the beginner but flexible
enough for the advanced user. |
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| - Intel Pentium 133MHz |
| - SuperMicro P5STE (Intel 430HX) mobo, rev.2 with 512KB secondary cache (this will cache up to 512MB! -not bad for back then) |
| - 192MB RAM (EDO SIMMs) @66MHz |
| - Trident 9680 2MB Video Card |
| - IBM DeskStar8 8GB 5400RPM EIDE HDD (w/512KB cache; very quiet) |
| - Maxtor 2GB EIDE HDD |
| - AOpen 16X IDE CD-ROM Drive |
| - Netgear FA-310TX 10/100 Ethernet NIC |
| - Antec PP-300V 300W AT P/S |
| - Shared KVM |
- Future Plans/ Planned Upgrades:
- 200MHz Pentium processor
- revert to Linux workstation when eventually
replaced by the K6-III as server
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