Systems
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So, what sort of systems do I have at my disposal?
spare parts
1x Sapphire Radeon 9500 256MB AGP with heatspreader (no fan)
2008 gaming system (golem2)
This box has been designed to be upgradable for the next 3 years, and immediately DX10 compatible, without completely breaking my budget. Minus the toys and monitor, I'm spending about $1000 for the rest. I'll splurge on the motherboard because upgrading a mobo is just not cool. The motherboard will support quad cores up through anything Intel is putting out to date (or will for the next year), can use DDR2 1200, and supports dual ATI cards in Crossfire mode. I'll also be building my own water cooling system rather than a kit, since none of the kits seemed satisfactory enough for the price. This box is being built in anticipation of Starcraft 2. I also don't usually cheap out on the case, as I do like some frills and look (window, black lighting, etc). Currently I am running 32-bit WinXP, but plan to get hold of Vista 64bit to take full advantage of the hardware and utilize things like DX10. I may just dual-boot both with a second hard drive.
Logitech G15 keyboard
Antec TPQ-850 850watt PSU
LG L226WTY-BF Black 22" 2ms DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor
Lian-Li PC-65B W Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower
Asus P5E LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard - up to DDR2-1200 1333/1600 FSB
Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 Conroe 2.33GHz 1333 FSB
Mushkin 4GB (4 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) - 4s cas latency
Diamond Viper 3870PE4512SB Radeon HD 3870 512MB PCI-E 2.0
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA-300 Hard Drive
Lite-On Black SATA DVD Burner with LightScribe
Creative Sound Blaster SB0570 Audigy SE 7.1
AeroCool FP-01 55-in-1 Card Reader w/Flip-up LCD Screen
18" SATA II cable UV blue (locking latch would be tight on this mobo if more than 3 devices needed)
Logitech Rumblepad 2
Logitech Precision Gamepad 2
dual 12" cold cathode tube UV lights
water cooling parts
D-TEK Fuzion universal waterblock
EK-FC38770 GPU waterblock for ATI HD3870 (UV blue acrylic cover)
Swiftech MCR-220 resevoir
Swiftech MCP655 pump (aka Laing D5 Inline 12V pump)
Swiftech MCRES-micro resevoir
Arctic Cooling MX-2 thermal
some 7/16 tubing, clear
some 120mm fans (x2)
some coolant/dye additive
various fittings, fill port, grommets, and other stuff to support the water system
~2002 gaming system (golem)
home-built system AMD XP2200+ CPU, 1GB RAM, MSI GeForce 4200Ti graphics card, 200GB HD, running Windows XP Pro
This is my gaming machine, although it is a number of years behind the times. I don't play any real new games right now, so I get by. Also runs VMWare Server for some temporary VMs and testing. If I ever replace the aging water cooling system with a more convenient one I may think about keeping it always-on and keep the VMs up when I'm not gaming.
vmware box
1x ECS K8T890-A Socket 939 motherboard
1x Athlon XP 64 3500+
1x Samsung DVD-W/CD-RW w LightScribe SH-S182 (IDE)
1x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA drive (jumper switched from 1.5gbs to 3.0gbs position)
2x Kingston 1GB DDR400 SDRAM
1x Enermax 485W PSU
1x Diamond Radeon X550 256MB 128-bit PCI-E
1x Lian-Li black aluminum mid-tower case (had to repin the 3 pin Power LED connector to 2 pin)
1x 18" SATA II blue cable
1x 18" IDE 2 connector clear cable
Got the core of this system cheap, so just kinda slapping parts around it and doing minor upgrades. The mobo is ATX and while it has an AGP slot, it is really just a modded PCI-to-AGP slot and not a real PCI-e slot, so using this for gaming is out. That's fine, and I think I might build this to be a dedicated vmware box. More about the mobo: Socket 939 (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual, Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX), compatible with 3.3V graphics cards (Radeon 9500) but not newer ones like 1.5V (Radeon 9600), up to 2GB DDR400/333/266 RAM (2 slots).
Gateway M505B2, 2.4Ghz?, 512MB RAM, 100GB HD, ATI Radeon graphics card laptop with Ubuntu 6.06 and dual-boot into Windows XP Pro
This is my main laptop that I use daily, almost entirely in Ubuntu.
Dell Optiplex, 512MB RAM, 80GB HD with attached external firewire hard drives, runs Windows XP Pro
My main server and file storage box.
Gateway Pentium 400Mhz, 256 MB RAM, 200GB HD, dual 100mbps NICs, running Ubuntu 6.10
My old server that I used for about 5 years to host my stuff. Has since been retired and dropped down to a less critical role and bitch box. Not really sure what I will do with it, but I might drop another hard drive in it and a NIC or two and turn it into a Snort or Squid firewall box.
Toshiba laptop running Windows XP Pro
Got this laptop in exchange for some WoW gold. Makes for an excellent Windows-only and livecd testing laptop.
Dell Latitude laptop, currently running BackTrack2 local install
Small latitude laptop that is about 4 years old but still works great. No internal cd, which makes the physical footprint of these older latitudes amazingly compact and small. Makes running a Livecd difficult on the road, but the low specs are perfect for Windows 2000 Pro or perm Linux installs. I love carting this laptop to hotspot with a PCMCIA wireless card due to the small footprint and light weight.
Dell Axim X5 PocketPC
An old PocketPC with AmbiCom wireless CF card; really flaky but can do some wireless scanning and analysis in a pinch. Otherwise that's all I use it for.
2x Dell Latitude laptop
Another older laptop in good working condition. I tend to use one as a network device console machine, and the other is more of a bitch laptop that I mess with.
Really old Dell Latitude laptop
This one is about 6 years old and is a bulkier black model where even the ethernet port is a PCMCIA card. I don't use this much now, but it can run Windows 2000 Pro and Linux stuff if I wanted it to. I am, however, running out of uses for it.
2x Compaq Precision small desktop machines, 500Mhz, 256MB RAM
These boxes tend to be test machines for various installs, or my "victim" machines when simulating a network or systems to attack or monitor.
HP something, 500Mhz, 128MB RAM
Another misc machine used just for testing or temporary things.
