Ahh not quite as special as that I guess!
A pair of WD Velociraptors in RAID 0.
I'm trying to find out if the onboard RAID controller can support 4 drives in RAID 0...
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** Acme's [Akagi's] Retro Odyssey! From Apple ][ to Pentium 4. Repair, modding, and more! **
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Ahh not quite as special as that I guess!
A pair of WD Velociraptors in RAID 0.
I'm trying to find out if the onboard RAID controller can support 4 drives in RAID 0...
This is where the raptors are going to be.
Going to make a bracket... Here is some cardboard aided design.
I haven't done enough bodging in this project so far, so I got some motherboard standoffs, cross-threaded them into the ones on the Dell chassis (x4, can't see the 4th here), and then stacked them all three high. This will mean that cables can pass underneath!
I'm holding it up here just because cardboard isn't as strong as metal...
Will get a right angle 24 pin adapter also.
Going to make a bracket... Here is some cardboard aided design.
I haven't done enough bodging in this project so far, so I got some motherboard standoffs, cross-threaded them into the ones on the Dell chassis (x4, can't see the 4th here), and then stacked them all three high. This will mean that cables can pass underneath!
I'm holding it up here just because cardboard isn't as strong as metal...
Will get a right angle 24 pin adapter also.
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Don
Velociraptors and CAD (cardboard aided design) - I love it
And its done (bar painting the wooden plate)
Thanks again to @rare this time for the CPU cooler!
And yes it does indeed work!
Thanks again to @rare this time for the CPU cooler!
And yes it does indeed work!
Set up the drives in RAID 0, at first I installed XP.
Put the RAID drivers on a USB stick for the install... Nope... Needs to be on a floppy disk...
OK no problem, I gotchu...
Nope... Needs to be on an internal floppy disk drive...
OK... Uh... No problem...
This worked!
However XP did not work particularly well on this setup, so I ended up installing Vista anyway which could install the drivers from USB...
Spent some time overclocking, got the P4 to 4.42GHz, no matter what I tried I couldn't get it to go beyond this. Even pumping another half a volt into it wouldn't yield 50MHz, so I left it here.
I think the motherboard may be the limitation.
And this is how those two Velociraptors perform in RAID 0. Pretty pleased with that!
Put the RAID drivers on a USB stick for the install... Nope... Needs to be on a floppy disk...
OK no problem, I gotchu...
Nope... Needs to be on an internal floppy disk drive...
OK... Uh... No problem...
This worked!
However XP did not work particularly well on this setup, so I ended up installing Vista anyway which could install the drivers from USB...
Spent some time overclocking, got the P4 to 4.42GHz, no matter what I tried I couldn't get it to go beyond this. Even pumping another half a volt into it wouldn't yield 50MHz, so I left it here.
I think the motherboard may be the limitation.
And this is how those two Velociraptors perform in RAID 0. Pretty pleased with that!
Had to bump the voltage up another couple of ticks, it seems happy now.
I wonder how a 4.4GHz solo core dual thread Cedar Mill P4 compares to my Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33GHz quad core quad thread.
At the time I bet overclocking the snot out of a P4 was a good budget alternative to a Core 2.
I wonder how a 4.4GHz solo core dual thread Cedar Mill P4 compares to my Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33GHz quad core quad thread.
At the time I bet overclocking the snot out of a P4 was a good budget alternative to a Core 2.
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Was about to ask Slither if he found that CPU, and it seems he's been permabanned...
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Well, thanks for the thought!
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Done done.
Starting to stretch the definition of retro a bit with this one, but I got an Asus P6T7 WS Supercomputer, a Xeon X5680 (thanks again @rare ), and a bunch of GTX480s (of which at least three work, which is good because I'm going to go with Tri-SLI to begin with)
Serious bit of kit.
Home furnace.
A bit of cable management... I don't make art of this, I just do it as well as is needed.
You're probably thinking... But Acme... 750W is nowhere near enough for three GTX480s and a 6 core Xeon!
To which I say, you're right! Thats why there is an additional 600W PSU hiding in here.
Why? Because I had these sitting around, and 1300+W PSUs are silly expensive. Plus, similarly to running the Velociraptors in RAID 0 before, I haven't run dual PSUs before. So I wanted to give it a try.
As for the customised Dell from last time, it now has a new power button and power and HDD activity LEDs.
And having had my fun with the Cedar Mill, I pulled it out and put in a Q8200 Core 2 Quad I had sitting around, and overclocked it to 3.1GHz from the stock 2.33GHz.
Serious bit of kit.
Home furnace.
A bit of cable management... I don't make art of this, I just do it as well as is needed.
You're probably thinking... But Acme... 750W is nowhere near enough for three GTX480s and a 6 core Xeon!
To which I say, you're right! Thats why there is an additional 600W PSU hiding in here.
Why? Because I had these sitting around, and 1300+W PSUs are silly expensive. Plus, similarly to running the Velociraptors in RAID 0 before, I haven't run dual PSUs before. So I wanted to give it a try.
As for the customised Dell from last time, it now has a new power button and power and HDD activity LEDs.
And having had my fun with the Cedar Mill, I pulled it out and put in a Q8200 Core 2 Quad I had sitting around, and overclocked it to 3.1GHz from the stock 2.33GHz.
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Done(ish!)
Still need to install and OS and make sure its all stable etc.
Still need to install and OS and make sure its all stable etc.
Works!
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Soldato
3 GTX480’s? 
I’m impressed it hasn't melted it‘s way through the floor. Must be kicking out some serious heat?
I’m impressed it hasn't melted it‘s way through the floor. Must be kicking out some serious heat?
3 GTX480’s?
I’m impressed it hasn't melted it‘s way through the floor. Must be kicking out some serious heat?
All three sat at 93 degrees running Heaven 4.0.
Toasty, but they are rated up to 105, so they still had some headroom!
Soldato
Will be nice in the winter.All three sat at 93 degrees running Heaven 4.0.
Toasty, but they are rated up to 105, so they still had some headroom!
Things kind of got too out of control for the thread, will update soon... But I now have a nice Pentium 166 socket 7 setup, and a socket 370 setup, and a few more CRTs and keyboards and things...
3 GTX480’s?
I’m impressed it hasn't melted it‘s way through the floor. Must be kicking out some serious heat?
I had a similar setup but 470s towards the end @ 900MHz w/ 1.1v mod but bigger case with 380mm side panel fan blowing directly on them originally a XClio A380Plus - horrible looks but worked for air flow, later a NZXT Lexa Blackline but with a 380mm side panel fan instead of 80mm.
I will do a proper update soon, but in the mean time this is what I've amassed recently... It should go some way to explaining the lack of updates! Haha
These aren't necessarily the specs I received the machines with, I've been doing a lot of amassing of parts, and upgrading too. Things have gone a bit bonkers.
P1 166, S3 Virge, 32MB, repaired, drives repopulated, and woodgrain wrapped by me.
P2 350, Rage Pro Turbo, 128MB. P3 600, Rage Fury Pro, 256MB, both built by me.
P1 166, P3 600, K6 233, K6-2 300, K6-2 400, P3 1G, P3 1G, P1 200, all cleaned up/tested by me, and a couple of them built up into totally different (and awesome) systems.
This one for example:
Now a K6-2 3D 400, 96MB RAM, Guillemot Maxi Gamer Phoenix 3DFX Voodoo Banshee 16MB, SB Live + AZTech Sound 16B w' OPL, Quantum Fireball 6GB, black baby AT case and drives.
And this one has a VIA Cyrix III 700MHz on an Octek motherboard, 64MB of RAM, and an S3... Trio3D 32... 2X?
Amstrad PCW 8256 with a HUGE box of disks and accessories that I haven't even been able to touch yet.
Oh and these too, both P4 systems I was given. Neither of which I particularly want or know what to do with.
And then I have a bunch of other stuff... Sound cards, drives, super socket 7 and socket 5 boards... I barely know what to do with it all.
These aren't necessarily the specs I received the machines with, I've been doing a lot of amassing of parts, and upgrading too. Things have gone a bit bonkers.
P1 166, S3 Virge, 32MB, repaired, drives repopulated, and woodgrain wrapped by me.
P2 350, Rage Pro Turbo, 128MB. P3 600, Rage Fury Pro, 256MB, both built by me.
P1 166, P3 600, K6 233, K6-2 300, K6-2 400, P3 1G, P3 1G, P1 200, all cleaned up/tested by me, and a couple of them built up into totally different (and awesome) systems.
This one for example:
Now a K6-2 3D 400, 96MB RAM, Guillemot Maxi Gamer Phoenix 3DFX Voodoo Banshee 16MB, SB Live + AZTech Sound 16B w' OPL, Quantum Fireball 6GB, black baby AT case and drives.
And this one has a VIA Cyrix III 700MHz on an Octek motherboard, 64MB of RAM, and an S3... Trio3D 32... 2X?
Amstrad PCW 8256 with a HUGE box of disks and accessories that I haven't even been able to touch yet.
Oh and these too, both P4 systems I was given. Neither of which I particularly want or know what to do with.
And then I have a bunch of other stuff... Sound cards, drives, super socket 7 and socket 5 boards... I barely know what to do with it all.
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Wood grain? Must be an LGR fan