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Folding memories

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relic

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My first permanent in-home farm installation.

In the lower left, on the floor, you can see the first "pizza boxen" in all of it's Pappa John's folding glory

It's specs:

Windows 98 (or maybe 95...don't remember and the drive is long dead))
Slot 1 celeron 333MHz clocked to 450 (IIRC, I shipped ~40 of these celery "pulls" all around the US and even a few overseas to folders, they really OCed well and had respectable production back in their day.)
128MB ram
100MB (Yes MB) hard drive

The upstairs had my home office with another 4-5 boxen folding.

We had our "good deals" back then too, like that 12" monochrome VGA monitor (640x480)on the right. I think it was available for $100, refurbed. A steal for a monitor at the time.


Also of note:
Even though I was single at the time, the future wife had already started taking over my space as you can see by her stepper exercise machine under the bottom shelf. Of course she also made that [H] hanging over the farm so I guess it's a wash.
 
My first DC machine was a BP6 dual 533 cele's at 633Mhz. It's sort of what got me started in all of this in the first place. I still have 2 of them in the basement right now not running.
 
Hey Mr relic, that farm does go way back and I'm surely impressed :eek:. I just wish I'd come to my senses and found this great program earlier :(. Oh well, you know the old sayin' about "wishing in one hand and poopin' in the other" (you know which hand fills up first :rolleyes:)

FOLD ON!

 
this was one of my early home setups...

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big compaq box at the top was an athlon 850mhz cpu...

zeta box was dual PIII 733's...

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the SFF compaq at the top was a celeron 500, the compaq tower next to it was a PII 333mhz box...

the dell poweredge 2300 was a dual PII333, and the rack case sitting on its side was a dual PII 450...

a slightly later setup...

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top machine was upgraded to an Athlon 1.33ghz after i accedentally turned the machine on without a heatsink (man did that athlon 850 die a loud smoky death lol... dells were dual PIII 500mhz machines, the black zeta case was upgraded to dual PIII 1ghz cpu's...

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i was really into LCD's :)
 
Ok, I dug around the file server and found this pic from back in 99.

Some of you might not know but when I started folding just a bit ago I was not starting from 0.

I had 32k points from back in the day..... 99 if I remember right.

Here is a pic of what I think was the farm then :D

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I was in college, leave me alone on the wires :p

This was after an upgrade, my first socket A :)

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I fried it folding..... and as a college student I could not readily replace parts like that, so I took a breather from folding.

 
My first folding box was my old trusty dual Athlon MP 1900+ box. 512MB DDR, running Gentoo Linux. Followed up shortly by the wife's Duron 750MHz, 256MB, Win2k. The dually (Gigabyte board after the original Tyan Tiger fried) is still faithfully powering my file server (and still folding of course), the Duron has long since died. This was August 2005. And as jws said, I only wish I had found out about F@H sooner.


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Back in the day those dual athlon boards were folding monsters. I SMP modded dozens of Athlon XPs and Durons for people. Last one I think went to one of FLECOMs boxes...took me forever to get it to work. Just couldn't get it to take.

The real nutbar was Gaiden, with one good eye and a magnifying glass he modded all his own XPs. (That just makes him bullheaded, the "nutbar" part comes from moving his Harley outside to make room for the folding boxen)
 
relic said:
Back in the day those dual athlon boards were folding monsters. I SMP modded dozens of Athlon XPs and Durons for people. Last one I think went to one of FLECOMs boxes...took me forever to get it to work. Just couldn't get it to take.

The real nutbar was Gaiden, with one good eye and a magnifying glass he modded all his own XPs. (That just makes him bullheaded, the "nutbar" part comes from moving his Harley outside to make room for the folding boxen)
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Would you believe I still have 3 out of my 6 dual Athlon boxen? Pushed them all to 2+ gig per CPU which meant I had to live with 12 of those God awfull 8k Delta 70mm fans screaming 24/7. Gaiden forced me to buy two of them........;):p

 
BillR said:
Would you believe I still have 3 out of my 6 dual Athlon boxen? Pushed them all to 2+ gig per CPU which meant I had to live with 12 of those God awfull 8k Delta 70mm fans screaming 24/7. Gaiden forced me to buy two of them........;):p

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:D

 
A couple of my Delta memories.

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Top is the 60x60x25 7k Delta that many of us know and "love".
Bottom is the 60x60x38 8k Delta that not as many know and "love" and for damn good reason.

I had a number of the 7k Deltas running at any one time and still had one running until somewhat recently. The 8k Delta in that picture is a different story. I ran it for around 2 weeks or so before I had to remove it and put the 7k Delta back in its place. I'm half deaf and I could hear the fan plain as day up a floor and on the other side of the house. Even I couldn't take that which means it's bad. I could probably make a sound clip of it in action, but it would probably blow your speakers, your eardrums or both. For comparison, those of you that have used the Vantec Tornado fans know they are loud, the 80mm and 92mm. I had one of each running full blast and they didn't bother me at all. It actually took me over two weeks to get used to the silence when I replaced those fans with a Koolance EXOS setup. Those weeks I didn't sleep for shit.

 
Those remind me of the fan that sat on top of my slk-900u back in the athlon xp days. 92mm Vantec Tornado. Even at 7v it was loud as hell, and could be heard through doors.
 
Wyxe said:
I bought one of those smaller deltas once since everybody was raving about them. From that, I learned to pay close attention to the rated db on fans. A little louder and it could have been used as a civil defense siren. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCGJ42w02EU
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That fan is weak. Mine would have blown across the table and busted the power cord in the process. I know this from experience. :D

 
relic said:
Back in the day those dual athlon boards were folding monsters. I SMP modded dozens of Athlon XPs and Durons for people. Last one I think went to one of FLECOMs boxes...took me forever to get it to work. Just couldn't get it to take.

The real nutbar was Gaiden, with one good eye and a magnifying glass he modded all his own XPs. (That just makes him bullheaded, the "nutbar" part comes from moving his Harley outside to make room for the folding boxen)
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yep i remember that... i still have that mobo kicking around somewhere... i got the second 2500+ to work for like a month and then it just failed for some unknown reason... each CPU had a TT Volcano 12+ (read:loud as hell) so i just ran it as a single proc machine...

i actually still have my dual Athlon MP 2000+ machine in service... poped 2 gb of ram in it, a 29160 and a 147gb 15k rpm scsi drive... runs 2003 on my work test lan... and does DHCP for my work dedicated folding farm
 
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