Finally unpacking, here's that K8W...

[J1NG]

Look, I'm bored, so don't ask.



Sorry for the low res. Coudn't find my bloody normal camera, had to use the miniDV Cam for this.

J1NG

[Fluff]

where did you manage to buy the board from?
Peter

and how much did it cost?

[J1NG]

£450 inc VAT.

:: Edit, D'oh, forgot to give link ::

https://www.rainbow-it.co.uk

J1NG

[J1NG]

And here's some more screens of the K8W.

Angled shot of the processor slots.



Close up (as best as possible on a miniDV cam ) of SATA ports.



Shot of the back.



More screens of the rest of the setup later.

J1NG

[bsdgeek]

Nice, got the CPUs yet?

And are you seriously using that Marvel G200PCI?

[J1NG]

Yes.

And yes.

Just haven't had the time to unpack everything from the renovation. (Can't leave those Opterons out in the open collecting dust while the renovation goes on now can we? )

J1NG

[J1NG]

Here's the G200 Marvel PCI, that's been in service along the following systems since 1998,

Pentium 166Mhz, 128MB RAM
AMD K6-2 400Mhz, 128MB RAM
Pentium II 400Mhz, 512MB RAM
Pentium III 800Mhz, 512MB RAM
Pentium III 1Ghz, 1GB RAM
Pentium IV 1.8ghz, 1GB RAM
Dual AMD MP2200+, 4GB RAM
(and the latest)
Dual AMD Opteron 240, 8GB RAM



Looks like this will be the last system she'll be working in though with PCI Express coming up .

J1NG

[Chrono_Wanderer]

OMG what exactly are u planning to do on ur computer?

emulate earth?

[Fluff]

You will have to join the MURC cliamate prediction team, if you post obscene pictures like that

Once up and running, could u advise on what case and power supply u used. It looks alot bigger than ATX!!!

[KvHagedorn]

I thought monks were supposed to be poor.

Nice.. wish I could afford that right now.

Fluff, that's an extended ATX board, 12"x13".. It would fit in my ElanVital S30 case with room to spare. This is the stoutest, nicest computer case you will ever see.

http://www.directron.com/s30.html

[J1NG]

We are poor. That's why I never pull punches when accepting gifts. If you said I'll give you X, Y and Z, you'd better believe I'll be taking X, Y and Z.

Here's one of the Opterons.



The Opteron's fitted on the board.



Case (Thermaltake Xaser III V2000+)



I did have a shot of the inside with everything inside, but it was too dark. And it was the last one on the cam before the battery died. I'll get a better shot of the inside when I find the power pack again during further unpacking.

Oh, I've used an Antec V520A PSU and Thermaltake's Xaser III V2000+ for the case.

J1NG

[Tjalfe]

People give you this stuff?? .. maybe I should look into becomming a monk!

[J1NG]

Not easy being a monk.

Any tests anyone wants me to try out for them on this system? (so long as it's downloadable and legal )

J1NG

[UtwigMU]

How manny fan headers does it have?

How fast are those opterons?

Would you mind posting some benches (Cinebench, Photoshop7 bench)?

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Cafe/4363/download.html

http://www.cinebench.com/

I'd like to see what improvement are Opterons over Athlons.

[J1NG]

It has six 3 pin fan headers on the motherboard. But the case already had 7 quite fans available, so I wasn't going to be using any of the ones on the board except for the heatsink fans.

These are only the 1.4Ghz (240) series. No one had the 2.0Ghz(246) series when I bought them.

I'll do the tests as soon as I've finally installed an OS to play with. Don't know whether I want to use WinXP-64 beta or Red Hat 64 beta for the second OS.

Expect some benches tommorow.

Any other tests anyone wants done?

J1NG