Enlightenment
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 105 posts | | Posted on 16 April 2007 @ 22:57 | edited 23 Apr |  |
Ever wondered if you're the only one running some old processor or having still a CRT monitor? Truth is, not all of us are using modern computer hardware. Because not everyone needs the lastest and greatest. Does this count for you? What hardware are you running? Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output. |
Enlightenment
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105 posts | | Posted on 16 April 2007 @ 23:01 | edited 23:01 | |
Let's begin with myself. 
My generic workstation:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ dualcore
2x1GB DDR/400 memory (2GB)
GeForce 7600GT 128MB graphics card
17" Philips TFT display
Areca RAID-controller with 8 drives in RAID5
Logitech Ultra-Flat keyboard
Logitech MX510 USB gaming mouse
I especially like my keyboard, it has keys like a laptop. Some find this irritating but i like it. And i use it alot to code and post on forums. I also play games so a 7600GT is (was?) a good price/performance choice. And the Areca card kind of displays my interest in storage, although i use software RAID on my other systems. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output. |
guest?
Unregistered | I still have a GF2TI  |
Enlightenment
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105 posts | You're obviously no gamer then. 
But the rest of your system? And not unimportant, what do you use it for? Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output. |
jmg
Unregistered | Depends what system, my "terminal" is a MBP (2nd rev w/ 800Mbps firewire), and my FreeBSD dev box is:
AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+
2x512MB DDR memory (1GB)
lame onboard graphics
no monitor
on board ATA/SATA w/ 2x250GB, 500GB and a 45GB hds
no keyboard
no mouse
1xIntel PCI Gige, 2xMarvell PCIe Gige (though only one in use at a time)
2xFusionHDTV5 Lite, 1xATI HDTV Wonder |
Enlightenment
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105 posts | Have you run performance tests on the Intel PCI NIC and the onboard PCI-express NICs? I'd like to see results of that.  Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output. |
Johan
Unregistered | Athlon 64 3200+
2x512MB DDR = 1GB
250GB SATA drive
GeForce 6800LE 128MB
19" TFT with 4ms responsetime
Logitech MX1000 laser mouse
My gaming PC |
jmg
Unregistered | Yeh, the Intel PCI 32bit/33Mhz gige nic can only push about 100MB/sec (million, not 2^20), the msk is able to do ~111MB/sec, though msk apparently has a bug w/ TSO4 (and I still got those speeds out of it, it was fixed in -current, just haven't updated). This was using a dual threaded kqueue/accept_filter/sendfile based web server serving out rfc's to siege w/ the MBP as the sole client (probably the limiting factor for the msk). (Remeber to up your net.inet.icmp.icmplim to the number of connections you expect per second, I was doing over 1kconn/sec.)
When it comes down to it, any PCIe nic will be able to stomp a PCI 32/33 gige nic, modulo bugs, as PCI 32/33 doesn't have the bandwidth (~133MB/sec) that PCIe does (500MB/sec, or 250MB/sec each direction).
Also, those msk's were add in cards, the onboard ethernet is nve, and connected to a management vlan so I can still ssh to the box if I want to switch nics that I'm testing. |
Mike Hober
Unregistered | | Posted on 6 May 2007 @ 15:53 | edited 16:03 | |
You are assuming he runs FreeBSD, while i think for a gaming PC he runs Windows. edit: Ah sorry you weren't replying to johan ofcourse.
And are you sure a PCI NIC will get 95MB/s (base 2)? As PCI is a shared bus, you are assuming other devices do not use enough bandwidth to saturate the PCI bus. Think about USB2, Audio, PS/2, legacy I/O and in some cases onboard NIC. They all want bandwidth though not necessarily always. |
Morgan
Unregistered | AMD Athlon 64 4000+
2x512MB DDR
160GB Serial ATA 7200rpm
GeForce 7600GT 256MB PCI-express
19" TFT screen with 4ms responsetime
Pretty standard i think? I don't like buying expensive hardware. Within a few months its value has fallen with about 30%. Rather i buy mainstream hardware and buy a new system every 2 years or so.
My current systems plays games very well. I'm waiting for new line of graphics cards and maybe quadcore, before i will upgrade to my next system. |
Enlightenment
Administrator
105 posts | Quad-core won't do much good to games. 
That's a major problem right now: multi-core is nice but for gamers provide little benefit. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output. |
monster707
Member
4 posts | Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
2x1GB DDRII/667 memory -dual channel
MSI GeForce 8600GTS 256MB graphics card
17" LG Flatron LCD Monitor
2x Seagate 320 gig drives w/AAK firmware, "soon to be Samsung"
Logitech MX310 USB mouse
My every day usage PC |
Youitun
Member
5 posts | Main system:
C2D E4400 @ 2.95GHz, stock volts
A/C Freezer 7 pro, nice and cool
2x1GB SuperTalent 6400 4-4-3-8 @ 3-3-2-6
X850XT PE
22" Widescreen
2x500GB soon to be Raid 0, 120GB
I don't game much, but I like to tweak my systems and I run WCG at 85%. |
Enlightenment
Administrator
105 posts | Interesting, but what is WCG? Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output. |
Youitun
Member
5 posts | Enlightenment wrote: Interesting, but what is WCG? World Community Grid run through BOINC. They issue work units from five or so different projects, letting you choose which ones you want to contribute to. It runs 14-16 hours a day. The dual core allows me to process two work units at a time.
My current system is quite an upgrade from the M2600 Barton setup I ran for three years. All parts were bought inexpensively. |
