leca

Yeah, it really is Leca with one of his "I'm back threads"

After a little over a year of not owning a desktop system....I stepped into MSY last night and picked up a few things after work to play with.

It's been a busy few months thats for sure, moved all over the place with work and I've finally settled into a new job this week.

WHAT, NO WAY? It's true....I've been running a MacBook 1.8Ghz Core Duo, 2Gb 667MHz DDR2, 250GB sata, Intel gma 950 laptop for a while now hooked up to a very nice 24" panel. For pure software/application and development use it's been awesome. I needed a desktop, why? file server/something with a little bit more grunt then the laptop can do.


2Gb (1gbx2) Adata ddr2 800 5-5-5-18
Intel E4500 - 11x200 2.20GHz Stock / Stock Cooler
Gigabyte P35-DS3P
Gigabyte 8400GS 256MB (64bit mem *shudders*), You already know what to expect from this $48 wonder
Antec NSK4480B (EarthWatts 380w included)
2xWD360 Raptors - SATA150
Windows Vista Ultimate

Currently at work atm so I don't have any photos, results, or anything that you guys care about But I will and you will be the first to know.

I'm keen to get some testing done, and I'm looking forward to playing with one of the lowest spec CPU's from Intel on the market.

You all know I'd never leave i4,

Leca.

dinos22

our HWBOT team needs point so get to work

leca

You got it champ

leca

Update: Bit of a slight delay atm, Got home from work last night and the system has having some issues....

Turns out one of my raptors has a massive amount of bad sectors and is creating CRC errors.

......then it died.

Only HDD's I have left now is a spare 60gb sata 5400rpm 2.5" segate, and one of the raptors.

I can not be stuffed reinstalling again

Might have to deal with it for a little until I can bring my self to grabbing a few more drives.

leca

Update: Day 3
The system is now up and running

Using my 60GB 2.5" sata drive for Vista Ultimate / last surviving raptor for swap and benchmarks etc

Will update with pictures and results very soon, still haven't got around to it as I've had a other things going on atm

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Very happy with the box so far, surprisingly zippy thats for sure

Will be running OS X on this system in the next few days, For a change there will be some mac based benchmarking once i'm done with windows

leca

Saturday morning:

Been testing this cpu a fair bit thismorning, finaly got a chance to sit down and give it a thrash

First off some pi runs, testing cpu limits still......but this is what we have so far.

btw feel free to donate some ram as these are fairly terrible runs

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Stock:



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Now we have a few general tests done it's time to get into the action

iknob

dude. i might have been behind you at MSY. :P

Anyways, you are running 2T as well? I dont understand that. mine is doing the same thing too.

Me running F5 bios and I cant seem to be able to see memory timings in bios. I have pressed Ctrl + F1 and still i dont see jack. Wft???

P35-DS3P rev.2.0 F5 bios, 2140 M0 stepping (360 X 8) Priming......

leca

lol awesome

We need to wrangle the SA OCers up again for a meet.

Ctrl + f1 in the main / first bios screen works for me to view the more advanced options.