post your Linux Rig's specs. pointlessly powerful or amusingly weak ?

phill1978 · 15 Feb 2012 at 20:00

So who`s using an efficient Linux distro with a silly ammount of computing power? Or perhaps you are using the most ultra mini hardware and running a full desktop o/s at good speed?

also how is it running driver wise and in general feel?

Power

specs:

Linux Mint 11 gnome 64bit
Amd [email protected]
ATi AMD 5850
4GB ram @1600mhz
64GB OCZ ((540MBPS)) SSD

speed = rapid

Puny

laptop
Linux Mint 10 gnome 32bit
pentium dual [email protected]
2gb ddr2@600mhz
160gb hdd

speed = very good

interested to see if you can beat my puny laptop spec ^

Bigsy · 15 Feb 2012 at 20:15

My work workstation is a bit stupid, the company just bought them not knowing what they were buying, it has 5 grand of graphics cards (2x quadros) and I'm a backend Java dev!

Ubuntu 11.10 64
Dual x2 3ghz quad xeons
12gb ecc ram
2x nv quadro 5000 gfx cards
2x 360gb SAS 15k drives in raid0

Oh yeah I have 3x 24" monitors too but can on use 2 because I can't get unity to use all 3 on 2 gfx cards.

JimAroo · 15 Feb 2012 at 20:52

Debian 6 Squeeze
AMD 3700 San Diego 2.2Ghz
512MB DDR 400Mhz RAM
IDE 80GB Maxtor

Perfectly fine for a file, torrent server.

Just wish i had more RAM to play with.

phill1978 · 15 Feb 2012 at 21:03

Bigsy said:
My work workstation is a bit stupid, the company just bought them not knowing what they were buying, it has 5 grand of graphics cards (2x quadros) and I'm a backend Java dev!

Ubuntu 11.10 64
Dual x2 3ghz quad xeons
12gb ecc ram
2x nv quadro 5000 gfx cards
2x 360gb SAS 15k drives in raid0

Oh yeah I have 3x 24" monitors too but can on use 2 because I can't get unity to use all 3 on 2 gfx cards.

WTF Wow!! i bet that is just plain silly quick ! that is the very definition of pointless power

phill1978 · 15 Feb 2012 at 21:06

JimAroo said:
Debian 6 Squeeze
AMD 3700 San Diego 2.2Ghz
512MB DDR 400Mhz RAM
IDE 80GB Maxtor

Perfectly fine for a file, torrent server.

Just wish i had more RAM to play with.

not tried deb 6 squeeze looks interesting, what software are you running to use as file server or it is plain smb shares?

JimAroo · 15 Feb 2012 at 22:20

phill1978 said:
not tried deb 6 squeeze looks interesting, what software are you running to use as file server or it is plain smb shares?

Yep, just Samba.

I very much recommend it, rock solid stable.. as you'd expect from Debian.

Had 200 day uptime, but had a power cut.

leezer3 · 15 Feb 2012 at 22:47

The fileserver looks like this:
UNIMATRIX-001-001
Athlon64 x2 4400+
Asus A8N-SLI Platinum
768mb RAM
Approx 6tb worth of various disks- Several smaller LVMs and some single 1 & 1.5tb drives
PCI Radeon 9200 Pro
OpenSUSE

Runs perfectly for what it's needed for. For that matter, it ran just fine on a 3200+ single core, I just got the 4400+ cheap.

Also run OpenSUSE on the desktop for some things alongside Win7. This is a slightly more respectable:
Enterprise
Q9550
Asus P5N-E SLI
4gb RAM
4tb of disks
ATI Radeon 3870

(All networking gear and servers for myself & the family are the Borg, computers are Starfleet vessels and phones/ tablets are shuttlecraft)

-Leezer-

mortals · 15 Feb 2012 at 23:10

Main PC:
CPU: Intel Core 2 DUO E6400 @ 3.2Ghz
Motherboard: Biostar TPower i45
Graphics Card: 1GB XFX Radeon HD5770 Single Slot GPU EYEFINITY DDR5
Memory: 2x2GB OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Platinum @ 1000MHz 5-5-5-15
Hard Disk: WD 2TB WD20EARX SATA3
Cooling: Watercooling - HeatKiller + 360 Rad + 240 Rad + MCP355
Power Supply: 750Watt 80plus Gold
Sound Card: Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic
Monitor: 23" Samsung SM2333 1080p + 19" SM913N
Operating System: Archlinux

Laptop:
CPU: Turion 64 ML-34
RAM: 1GB DDR
HDD: 80GB
GPU: Radeon X700
DVD: Dual Layer
Screen: 15.4″ WXGA
OS: Archlinux

PermaBanned · 16 Feb 2012 at 00:58

ArchLinux with XFCE
-Intel E2140 @ 2.6GHz (from memory, aren't many Linux tools that tell you actual speed

)
-Nexus XiR 2500 Copper Edition
-2GB DDR2
-Gigabyte P35-DS3P
-nVidia 9800GT Green Edition 1GB
-400W Akasa Paxpower
-160GB HDD
-19" 1440x900 LCD

I have no complaints

Outcast · 16 Feb 2012 at 01:12

8gb RAM
nVidia 460 1024mb
Xonar turbo nutter soundcard
Logitec 5.1 sub
Samsung 26" Monitor (with stupid magicbrite abortion useless effort bug infested crap)

... and a partridge in a .......

tntcoder · 16 Feb 2012 at 09:49

Arch Linux x64:

- 6gb RAM
- Intel 980x Hex Core @ 4ghz
- Nvidia 470 GTX
- Few TBs of HDD

PhilGQ · 16 Feb 2012 at 19:40

AMD Phenom X2 555 3.2GHz (stock)
Corsair H50
Corsair XMS2 6GB DDR2
Corsair 120GB SSD (with Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity)
Maxtor 80GB 5400RPM (for Windows Vista)
BFG Geforce 8600GT

InfiniteNoise · 16 Feb 2012 at 20:24

AMD Phenom II X4 950 @ 4GHz
4GB RAM
Radeon 5850
150GB WD VelociRaptor

Not weak, but not powerful either.

Almost never use the rig though ): No space on my desktop, only have 1 monitor, I lack KVM switch and I spend most of my time gaming on my main rig (see sig)

PermaBanned · 16 Feb 2012 at 20:27

Idartalis said:
not powerful

We looking at the same specs? :eek:

Praetorian · 16 Feb 2012 at 20:30

Work laptop - Chimera (security testing and VM work) - Very fast
Dell Latitude 6520 - Intel i7 i7-2720QM w/ hyperthreading enabled
16gb DDR3 RAM
Nvidia NVS 4200M
120gb flagstone SATA hard drive (AES-256 hardware encryption)
1080p screen in 15.4" form
LUbuntu 11.04 x64 and custom 3.0.0 kernel

Home Fileserver - Prometheus - Pure fileserver so outright speed isn't essential but is rapid
Bitfenix Shinobi w/ X-Case 5in3 Hotswap
Thermaltake Toughpower 775W Modular PSU
MSI 890FXA-GD65 (only consumer board I could find that likes the controllers)
AMD Athlon II X2 250
16gb DDR3 RAM (2x Kingston Hyper-X 8gb)
2x IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controllers
2x Kingston 16gb SATA-2 SSDs RAID-1 with EXT4 (Software RAID) - OS
12x Hitachi 5K3000 3.5" SATA-III 2TB Coolspin in RAID-6 with JFS - RAID6 (Software RAID)
2x Intel Gigabit PRO/ 1000CT PCIe (bonded)
Ubuntu Server 11.04 x64

craptakular · 17 Feb 2012 at 07:04

sempron 140
512mb ram
4TB of HDDs
onboard 8200 GT

File server running arch linux, samba, ftp, sabnzbd, couch potato, sick beard

A.N.Other · 17 Feb 2012 at 14:12

So I'm very new to using linux properly (have only really dabbled in the past for specific things). Just got this at work though, so you can all probably expect some stupid questions in the coming weeks ...

4 x Opteron 6274 (2.2 GHz) = 64 cores
128Gb RAM
1Tb HDD for OpenSUSE 12
9Tb HDD for general storage
More storage by NAS

The machine dual boots Win7 for certain programs, which is on a separate 128Gb SSD. I don't use it for most things, though, as Win7 will only recognise 2 processor sockets.

It's a bit of a beast, but this is for genome assembly and highly-parallel bioinformatics applications, so I can easily max the processors. In fact I already have

kalvindeane · 17 Feb 2012 at 16:31

I'm going to be installing Linux tonight/tomorrow to have a fiddle about. Ubuntu, Mint and Arch seem to be popular recommendations, so will try one of them.

Specs:

Intel i7 920
6GB RAM
64GB SSD
3x1TB HDDs
5770 (may be upgrading soon)

PhilGQ · 17 Feb 2012 at 18:26

A.N.Other said:
4 x Opteron 6274 (2.2 GHz) = 64 cores
128Gb RAM
1Tb HDD for OpenSUSE 12
More storage by NAS

You didn't fancy the 24 SSD raid 60 array then.

How do you cool that monster? Is it noisy?

Essexraptor · 17 Feb 2012 at 18:39

PhilGQ said:
You didn't fancy the 24 SSD raid 60 array then.

How do you cool that monster? Is it noisy?

the lights dim for a 4 mile radius is my guess

lol