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Had a few over the years:
K6 266
K6-2 350
K6-2 450
K6-2 550
Athlon Thunderbird 800
Athlon XP 2500
Athlon XP 3200
Athlon64 3500
Athlon64x2 4400+ Windsor
AMD Neo N36L (HP Mircroserver)
A8 3500-M (laptop)
The x2 lasted an awfully long time and was probably the biggest jump that I...
Did someone mention BP6? :) I had a clear out last year of my old hardware and the only survivors were my BP6 and enough bits to make a complete machine (CM200 case, 9800Pro etc). I use it as a retro rig for old games and the like:
I also managed to snap up another one on...
Decided to buy another of these whilst there is still a £100 rebate available. Installed a Radeon 5450 and so far linux/XBMC has coped with everything I've thrown at it.
Also added to my first microserver by fitting two 2TB drives in the optical drive bay:
The second drive is connected via...
Just checked mine and got similar readings:
Powered off: 17W, Running (idle): 36W, Running (file transfer): up to 45W
Thats with Ubuntu 10.10 and 5x2TB WD Green Drives.
Not sure whats causing the "high" powered off reading, will have to do some more digging.
Just got mine setup using the supplied 250GB drive for the OS (in the 5.25 bay) and two RAID 1 arrays using a pair of WD 2TB drives and two old 500GB Samsungs. Also upgraded the RAM to 8GB.
Really just having a play with it at the moment before I get some more 2TB drives and, more than...
Recently rebuilt my X2 4400+ with 2GB RAM, 8800GTS (640MB) , EVGA mATX SLI motherboard to act as a linux box.
Its surprising, bar the graphics card, I bought the rest of the hardware around four years ago and Ubuntu absolutely flies on it. The GPU accelerated extras from Compiz are just...
Assuming the pump fails then as long as you have some sort of "shutdown when CPU temp reaches x" option set in the BIOS then you should be fine.
Compared to a car, PC rads are in environmental heaven, e.g. not moving about and in a fairly reasonable climate.
All of this assumes that there...