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Great Pics from Everyone so far .... We need more .....

your setup pics helps other with new ideas ....

plus i like looking at them...
 
I don't think mine helped anyone....just showed why you shouldn't put a bed, 4 computers, many consoles, and a 36" tv in one room :D

 
Thought I should post a bit of the gear I am running.

Some boxes: Dual Quad Precision 490, 4 old Optiplex 260s (P4 2.53GHz)


Some more boxes: Another Precision 490 and an E6700 (and yes, I am aware of the fact that UPS is at near 100% load!)


Newest little addition: E2160 stock, Windows Home Server box


There are 3 more Precisions and 2 more of the Optiplex 260s sitting around in other offices too. I had to spread them out into "volunteer" office spaces as they were putting out WAY too much heat. I swear I came in one morning and was greeted with 90+ degree temperatures in my office! :eek:
 
WAY too much heat. I swear I came in one morning and was greeted with 90+ degree temperatures in my office! :eek:

I know that feeling. My downstairs neighbors run their heater 24/7. It is usually below 30 outside here in TN during the winter.
I have not turned the heater on once. It is crazy.
Actually, we have all the apts windows open to cool it off.

It is 71 in the living room, with the windows open.
I don't know why they love their heater, but it is cheap for me

The Computer room is usually around 74-78 with all the servers running.
 
I know that feeling. My downstairs neighbors run their heater 24/7. It is usually below 30 outside here in TN during the winter.
I have not turned the heater on once. It is crazy.
Actually, we have all the apts windows open to cool it off.

It is 71 in the living room, with the windows open.
I don't know why they love their heater, but it is cheap for me

The Computer room is usually around 74-78 with all the servers running.

Personally, I enjoy summers in an apt living downstairs, cuz I get the cement pad below and the air conditioning neighbors above....works out just nicely for me :D

 
I'm putting most of my minions in the basement come summer:p

Right now it's heating my study, I've closed the vents off :D

Pics of mine will be soon, I have a new minion that will be here on the 19th (or UPS dies)
 
I'm putting most of my minions in the basement come summer:p
I have everything in the basement. No heating necessary in the winter where it's coldest, and no heat being added to the top floor in the summer where it's warmest.

 
Thought I should post a bit of the gear I am running.

Some boxes: Dual Quad Precision 490, 4 old Optiplex 260s (P4 2.53GHz)

I don't care what anyone says .... a row of boxen is always a cool thing!

Also, In the second photo ... what type of PC is the one on the left .... i know it is a dell ..
Really nice small form factor ... would like to see some specs or have a model number!
 
I don't care what anyone says .... a row of boxen is always a cool thing!

Also, In the second photo ... what type of PC is the one on the left .... i know it is a dell ..
Really nice small form factor ... would like to see some specs or have a model number!

I assume you meant right, the left is a UPS, doesn't put out enough PPD :)... that is a Dell Optiplex 745 small form factor. The newer 755s look pretty much the same. There is actually an ultra small form factor as well that is even smaller; however, they usually remove the higher performance options probably for thermal reasons.

The Precision 490s are running Windows XP on dual X5355s with 4GB ram.
The Optiplex 745 is running Windows XP on an E6700 with 4GB ram.
 
I've had a few requests for specs PCs in the farm, so here they are.

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G31MX-S2 Intel G31 Chipset with on-board VGA

RAM: 2 GB (Mostly OCZ DDR2 800 1GB x 2). 2 nodes have Kingston ECC DDR2-800 since a dell machine here refused to work with it and I swapped the ram. 4-4-4-15 with OCZ sticks but ECC RAM is running slower timings.

CPU: Q6600 G0 9x333 @ Stock voltage

Hard drive: 80GB SATAII Seagate

Power Supply: Athena Micro ATX 400w.

I bought the same motherboard as you. I figured that if you bought five of them... you must really like it.





 
It's not the most robust board, but hey, I bought 5 and they all worked and all the CPUs hit 3Ghz. I can't ask for too much more. The onboard VGA, Giga ethernet, and the intel chipset sold me. I think MicroATX is the way to go if you're doing the DIY blade route. I hit 14,000 points in a day, a few days back. Though that seems a little low for a total of 7 quad cores and an X2 box at 2.3Ghz. They're all running SMP clients too.
 
Here is almost all of my current boxes...

All of my work ones were taken with crappy cellphone. It was all I had.

Home:

Presently a single [email protected] running SMP 24/7. Soon to be joined by a Q6600 and E2180!





Work:

This is the lab I have been building. Presently, I have 14 Dell Precision 390, Q6600 boxes running SMP 24/7. Soon to be joined by 6 more of the same machine, 4 Precision 490 Dual Xeon e5320's, and 4 Mac Pros with dual X5365's.




These are in my office, my main workstation Dell Optiplex uSFF with E6300, Dell Vostro 200 with E6550, One of the Dell 490 Dual Xeon e5320's for the Lab, and an HP 6910p T7xxx 2.4ghz laptop. These all run SMP 24/7 with exception of the 490 which is running 4 SMP instances. I just moved 2 of the 390 Q6600's out...better believe my office was TOASTY.





That is it for now. Hope to post pics of my new home rigs as I get them built.
 
Ok here is my mini farm.

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My study, bit of a mess I will clean I swear :D

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The E2160

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The inside of my E4500 that I just got.

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My main rig, until I get a copy of Vista and install on the E4500

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The Wifes rig, also enslaved to F@H!



 
The E2160

I see you got a better one then i did.
I have 5 E2140's and have had no problem getting them to 3Ghz (Well 2.96Ghz)

I purchased an E2160 for my TV server and could not get above 2.7Ghz .. and even then It was not stable.

I returned it and have an E2140 on the way .....

 
I see you got a better one then i did.
I have 5 E2140's and have had no problem getting them to 3Ghz (Well 2.96Ghz)

I purchased an E2160 for my TV server and could not get above 2.7Ghz .. and even then It was not stable.

I returned it and have an E2140 on the way .....


It's been throwing a fit one in a while.... trying to work with it.

 
No one else has a camera?!
You mean for posting pics of our farms? Well, I have one but there's really not much to see. It's just 4 or 5 boxes and they're not the most appealing looking things around. Some of them are approaching nearly a decade old and half of them are open cases, so all you're looking at really are a bunch of cables and components. I think that a lot of members' farm environments are probably similar looking and might be a bit reluctant having their setups displayed on the forum. If I can make my 'farm' look a bit more presentable, I might post a few pics later in the year.
 
My farm is too scattered around to be worth some pictures. The only noteworthy box would be my main Q6600 computer that I'm currently in the middle of a big project. My worklog can be found in the worklogs subforum under "Xtreme WaveMaster" with a big amount of pics.

 
I've had a few requests for specs PCs in the farm, so here they are.

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G31MX-S2 Intel G31 Chipset with on-board VGA



Like many other peeps, I saw where you have 5x Gigabyte GA-G31MX-S2 mobos in your great farm (plus the quads), so I went and got 1x (mobo, not the Q6600 unfortunately. I'm patiently waiting on the Q9450 and some results between it and the Q6600. :confused:
Not too shabby a board, easy to OC', even with onboard graphics. It's also cheap at the egg. I just OC'ed a E6600 to 2.8 GHz (stock vcore) for the low heat and 24/7 folding and also installed WC'ing. (maybe just a bit of overkill :rolleyes:)

 
I just picked one of these up as well. Only gripes are the lack of a 1:1 memory divider and notfreds USB folding image can't use the onboard NIC =(

I was going to drop my present e6600 in this board, but I fear I won't be able to hit the 3.4Ghz it is good for...I dont have RAM that will make it that high. Right now I have a e2180 in there chugging at 3Ghz.
 
No one else has a camera?!


My farm is 4 systems in my house in PA, 2 in a friends house I stay at during the week in NJ, and 6 at my job....too much trouble to get pics of them all..:)
 
I just picked one of these up as well. Only gripes are the lack of a 1:1 memory divider and notfreds USB folding image can't use the onboard NIC =(

I was going to drop my present e6600 in this board, but I fear I won't be able to hit the 3.4Ghz it is good for...I dont have RAM that will make it that high. Right now I have a e2180 in there chugging at 3Ghz.

Yeah, I tried to install Centos64, store CD on this board. I couldn't get the DSL to connect, maybe this board doesn't like Linux :confused:
No more than I OC', I don't really need 1:1 mem. :D
If I remember right, it seems I had a G33 mobo with Xubuntu 8.4 installed on it and to get the DSL to connect I needed to use a PCI slot NIC? Maybe the G series chipsets don't like Linux?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 
I have read others having the same problem. It is the Realtek 8111b 10/100/1000 chipset...linux is hit or miss with it.

I guess on a full install you could try some other drivers?

I dont have that option on the notfred folding cd/usb so i just dropped another NIC in there.
 
FWIW on the topic of Intel G3x chipsets and linux, I'm using some MSI G33s that I got off Newegg open box (none available last time I checked) and they do OK with the NIC and ubuntu 7.10. They were $63, if they get more they could be viable. Right now I'm ramping up a pair of Q6600s in them, they have the same lack of 1:1 divider, I'm hoping to be able to tapemod to 1333 boot FSB, then it gets 1:1 divider. So far the RAM's working OK at 775 on one and 800 on the other (DDR2-667, that HP stuff that was so cheap).
 
Only one more computer exists. It is my E6600 running the console client. My gaming/streaming TV rig.
 
Here is my little dorm room sauna of a farm

General corner of my dorm featuring couches newly stolen from our living room.
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Lappy hidden in the far corner
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The legendary backpack folder
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TV and main rig
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Hidden tower with 16port switch on it, you know the IT department loves it when I need 5 IPs instead of 1.
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2nd to last pic, are those illegal supplements? ;)
 
Some where on one of my machines I have a picture of relic's farm, sheep and all. I'll keep looking;)

 
Fear my horrible cell phone camera.

This is the majority of my farm which is located in my living room. You should be able to see all the systems on the floor. There is one being blocked by the chair but I'm too lazy to move the chair so you can see it better.

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Here's what we're working with for a folding/render farm.

5 Q6600s @ 3Ghz.

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:D

Sombody needs some video cards to get parity with the big guns. 8800's for all....

..he he...computer porn... I need a cold shower now....
 
You still have a bunch of CRTs. I think you need a KVM bad ;)


KVMs and cables cost money and I got 4 17" CRTs for free a while back. Besides, electricity is cheap for me. I just wish I had enough room to run a third monitor on my main system. Two monitors just isn't enough.

 
KVMs and cables cost money and I got 4 17" CRTs for free a while back. Besides, electricity is cheap for me. I just wish I had enough room to run a third monitor on my main system. Two monitors just isn't enough.


I can understand 2, but why do you need 3 monitors for por..... spreed sheets? :D

 
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