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Roux's retro pc building thread.
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Rouxenator
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Coming soon, my stuff up of a Phenom II build that ended well. But for now some pics of it in action today.,
Edit : The BOINC stats just updated and it is no longer showing the old triple core, but the stats are very much still triple core stats. By tomorrow this time we will see how well this 6 core beast did on it's first day of World Community Grid. I doubt it will dethrone that dual core / quad thread Athlon 200GE I had. Remarkable to see how IPC went up. A dual core beating a hexa....
Edit : The BOINC stats just updated and it is no longer showing the old triple core, but the stats are very much still triple core stats. By tomorrow this time we will see how well this 6 core beast did on it's first day of World Community Grid. I doubt it will dethrone that dual core / quad thread Athlon 200GE I had. Remarkable to see how IPC went up. A dual core beating a hexa....
RedViking
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What about it is 'retro' ?
Lupus
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The Phenom X6 1050t is from 9 years ago. When the first I7s came out.
ArmatageShanks
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Hmm lovely that
/Waits for post to be sent on slightly older much much slower rig.
/Waits for post to be sent on slightly older much much slower rig.
chickenbeef
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Ooooh, in a year my laptop will be "retro"
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Haha possibly.Ooooh, in a year my laptop will be "retro"
Rouxenator
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Is this retro?
Spontaneous spinach
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I was expecting some modification hey 
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Could you explain a bit more about this please.
Moosedrool
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I seriously want this setup and replace the PC internals with a beast:
Rouxenator
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It runs on top of BOINC, same platform you can run SETI on. However it focuses on humanitarian computing problems. Here is what I have contributed thus far.
Dan C
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Found a 2005 Athlon x2 CPU in my cupboard
Rouxenator
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I'll call it semi-retro.....
Rouxenator
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"Gupta" PC build in progress.... Xeon and more RAM inbound.
Server board inside
Server board inside
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Did your board screw right in?
Which Xeon?
I cut the "base plate" shape out of the server case and then fitted that into the case I am using, as the E-ATX pattern was off and did not fit. I also had to mod the rear plate to get the GPU to fit.
I am very pleased with the result though.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/12993027
Rouxenator
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Xeon X3330 because it was under R200. Board is this one : https://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/422...BOARD_S3200SH_WITH_DUAL_CORE_CPU_2GB_RAM.html
Wanted to take it up to 8GB with a X3380 but now I'm only upping it to 4GB with aforementioned CPU.
Might also run it off a cheap SSD.
Wanted to take it up to 8GB with a X3380 but now I'm only upping it to 4GB with aforementioned CPU.
Might also run it off a cheap SSD.
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Yes for sure, I was using an old dual core before I built this one and I'm pretty sure the SSD made most of the difference. The form and architecture of your board is very different ( and better) than the one I got gifted.
Luckily it had a 90 degree PCI header card and recognised the GPU straight away.
Rouxenator
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Seeing as the board only does SATA II 3gbps I decided to go for a more period correct option.
My first RAID 5 setup. We'll feature these 3 drives
My first RAID 5 setup. We'll feature these 3 drives