Then (although this oldest pic has 2 hard drives it started life with only 1)
Now:
To get the new CPU fan in I had to take the motherboard out and cut the length of the screws with my bike cable cutters and then file them.
It's kinda kept me sane (ish lol) during the lockdown.
How my PC has changed.
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How my PC has changed.
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Re: How my PC has changed.
Modern PC's are so minimalistic. This is one my new beast.
The HDD is the NVME attached between the GPU and CPU.
No drive bays, no dangling wires, nothing.
The HDD is the NVME attached between the GPU and CPU.
No drive bays, no dangling wires, nothing.
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Wow, that looks totally Sci-fi
I had to get a short graphics card because my SATA power is in the way.
I wanted a 4GB card which is the max this setup would take. Ended up with 3GB but feel blessed in light of the current GPU situation.
I had to get a short graphics card because my SATA power is in the way.
I wanted a 4GB card which is the max this setup would take. Ended up with 3GB but feel blessed in light of the current GPU situation.
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Re: How my PC has changed.
Yeah yours looks nice and cramped just like how I like em
Although a little too cramped if it cant fit a full sized GPU in there.
This is my Daily workhorse:
Dual Xeon 12C 24T
48GB Ram, 4xSata HDD's of various sizes from 2TB to 6TB and a 1TB SSD.
A bit more cramped and plenty of drive bays
Oh and some dangling.
Although a little too cramped if it cant fit a full sized GPU in there.
This is my Daily workhorse:
Dual Xeon 12C 24T
48GB Ram, 4xSata HDD's of various sizes from 2TB to 6TB and a 1TB SSD.
A bit more cramped and plenty of drive bays
Oh and some dangling.
Re: How my PC has changed.
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People should find solutions to problems, not find problems with solutions.
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Re: How my PC has changed.
My kind of cable management
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Haven't built a PC for an age, so long ago in fact that I don't even recall the spec. The GPU was likely a 3DFXcard!
My workbench PC is actually a DL360 G6 server (I think) with dual Xeons, 32GB RAM and 4TB of RAID. I am expecting to probably take it up to 96GB when I retire some other machines in the next few months. It's all around 10 years old I think.
My daily drivers at the moment are laptops, so a 2012 MacBook Pro with 16GB/1TB and a 2017 Dell XPS 32GB/1TB with a GTX1050 GPU.
I got tired of the GPU arms race around the time of the Dreamcast and subsequently XBox (original) and went console for gaming, laptops for everything else. The DL server was just a happy inheritance.
My workbench PC is actually a DL360 G6 server (I think) with dual Xeons, 32GB RAM and 4TB of RAID. I am expecting to probably take it up to 96GB when I retire some other machines in the next few months. It's all around 10 years old I think.
My daily drivers at the moment are laptops, so a 2012 MacBook Pro with 16GB/1TB and a 2017 Dell XPS 32GB/1TB with a GTX1050 GPU.
I got tired of the GPU arms race around the time of the Dreamcast and subsequently XBox (original) and went console for gaming, laptops for everything else. The DL server was just a happy inheritance.
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
Re: How my PC has changed.
Think my GPU is 1060 I updated from 560TI I think...both secondhand cards , Was power hungry like mad.. Didn't see any performance increases tho think a lot of the problems are single core games and AMD CPUs
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https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/ - All my hardware mods for sale - Please help support by making a purchase.
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1585 Have you done the Mandatory Fixes ?
Just because a lot of people agree on something, doesn't make it a fact. ~exxos ~
People should find solutions to problems, not find problems with solutions.
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/ - All my hardware mods for sale - Please help support by making a purchase.
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1585 Have you done the Mandatory Fixes ?
Just because a lot of people agree on something, doesn't make it a fact. ~exxos ~
People should find solutions to problems, not find problems with solutions.
Re: How my PC has changed.
My cables are managed by the sides of the PC case my SSD drives are just chucked in the bottom of the case.. I learned a long time ago that doing stuff neatly just ends up taking longer to dismantle when it goes wrong
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https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/ - All my hardware mods for sale - Please help support by making a purchase.
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1585 Have you done the Mandatory Fixes ?
Just because a lot of people agree on something, doesn't make it a fact. ~exxos ~
People should find solutions to problems, not find problems with solutions.
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/ - All my hardware mods for sale - Please help support by making a purchase.
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1585 Have you done the Mandatory Fixes ?
Just because a lot of people agree on something, doesn't make it a fact. ~exxos ~
People should find solutions to problems, not find problems with solutions.
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Re: How my PC has changed.
That's one reason I like using server hardware for desktop machines. They use backplanes and caddies for disks and are cable managed to heck by default, so no tedious mucking around with boring stuff like that.
Of course they can be noisy for using in an office unless you tweak the power/thermal/fan profiles. Mine only runs when I need it anyways, so the noise has never bothered me.
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...