Fire$torm
01-20-11, 06:21 PM
First I would like to thank the following team members for their kind generosity.
Keith [SETI.USA]
Mike029
Joker
DrPop
Maxwell
STMahlberg
I am very, very grateful, for all the hardware they have been kind enough to send my way.
The Projects-
Keithinator: Everything other than case and psu came from (can you guess?) Keith.
Blackie's Upgrade:
(2) 8800GTs came from Keith in a generous deal for the pair.
Seven-Of-Nine:
The 1st & 2nd MB came form Mike029 (unfortunately defective but proved useful as you will learn)
PSU and 1st video (video unfortunately came D.O.A) came from DrPop.
3rd MB, CPU and 2nd Video came form Joker.
Memory came from Keith. It was extra memory that he had sent me during the Keithinator build.
The above projects I have posted of before. So where do Maxwell and STM come into the picture you ask? Well.....
Allow me to begin with Maxwell.
Some may remember his Computer Hangs During SetUp (http://setiusa.free-dc.org/vbforum/showthread.php?212-Computer-Hangs-During-SetUp) thread. Maxwell sent me that system with the condition that if I could get the box to work it was mine to keep but it must be used to crunch for the team. Nothing wrong with that. Received it a few days before the new year and eventually discovered the problem. Capacitor Syndrome. (http://img195.imageshack.us/i/dsc00827b.jpg/) Luckily I was able to salvage replacements form one of the boards Mike had sent me. So Mike it wasn't a total loss :). With that Thor (http://boincstats.com/stats/host_graph.php?pr=pg&id=178871) was born. And Thor is happily crunching away on PG and YoYo.
Now to STM.
Nine days ago STM sent me a PM saying that I could have his pair of 4850s!!! I received them yesterday and to my amazement they still looked brand spanking new. These I installed in my main desktop as it is the only system that has three PCIe slots. Since I didn't have dummy plugs (I learned the hard way NEVER change desktop settings without all ATI's being connected to something) I had to use the multiple inputs on my monitor before they would enable. It took me a couple of hours to fix my goof. Anyhow I now have three 4850s in Nexus munching on WilkyWay wu's.
And now for the pics!!!
Here is Thor
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4250/smallet800x562.png
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/3181/thorsdesktop.png
Here is Nexus's Upgrade
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2325/thepair.jpg
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5189/triplesetup.jpg
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/3886/theresult.png
In that last pic, the cyan colored number 66 is SpeedFan monitoring my CPU temp.
Again I want to thank these guys for all that they have done to help with my projects.
Gentlemen, take a bow. =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
Keith [SETI.USA]
Mike029
Joker
DrPop
Maxwell
STMahlberg
I am very, very grateful, for all the hardware they have been kind enough to send my way.
The Projects-
Keithinator: Everything other than case and psu came from (can you guess?) Keith.
Blackie's Upgrade:
(2) 8800GTs came from Keith in a generous deal for the pair.
Seven-Of-Nine:
The 1st & 2nd MB came form Mike029 (unfortunately defective but proved useful as you will learn)
PSU and 1st video (video unfortunately came D.O.A) came from DrPop.
3rd MB, CPU and 2nd Video came form Joker.
Memory came from Keith. It was extra memory that he had sent me during the Keithinator build.
The above projects I have posted of before. So where do Maxwell and STM come into the picture you ask? Well.....
Allow me to begin with Maxwell.
Some may remember his Computer Hangs During SetUp (http://setiusa.free-dc.org/vbforum/showthread.php?212-Computer-Hangs-During-SetUp) thread. Maxwell sent me that system with the condition that if I could get the box to work it was mine to keep but it must be used to crunch for the team. Nothing wrong with that. Received it a few days before the new year and eventually discovered the problem. Capacitor Syndrome. (http://img195.imageshack.us/i/dsc00827b.jpg/) Luckily I was able to salvage replacements form one of the boards Mike had sent me. So Mike it wasn't a total loss :). With that Thor (http://boincstats.com/stats/host_graph.php?pr=pg&id=178871) was born. And Thor is happily crunching away on PG and YoYo.
Now to STM.
Nine days ago STM sent me a PM saying that I could have his pair of 4850s!!! I received them yesterday and to my amazement they still looked brand spanking new. These I installed in my main desktop as it is the only system that has three PCIe slots. Since I didn't have dummy plugs (I learned the hard way NEVER change desktop settings without all ATI's being connected to something) I had to use the multiple inputs on my monitor before they would enable. It took me a couple of hours to fix my goof. Anyhow I now have three 4850s in Nexus munching on WilkyWay wu's.
And now for the pics!!!
Here is Thor
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4250/smallet800x562.png
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/3181/thorsdesktop.png
Here is Nexus's Upgrade
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2325/thepair.jpg
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5189/triplesetup.jpg
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/3886/theresult.png
In that last pic, the cyan colored number 66 is SpeedFan monitoring my CPU temp.
Again I want to thank these guys for all that they have done to help with my projects.
Gentlemen, take a bow. =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>