Hi and thank's for visiting my homepage, please notice that this is not a regulary updated site as it is merely for my own pleasure and enjoyment. However, You are welcome to keep browsing and I hope my layout doesn't make You physically sick.
Hi and thank's for visiting my homepage, please
notice that this is not a regulary updated site as it is merely for my own pleasure
and enjoyment. However, You are welcome to keep browsing and I hope my layout
doesn't make You physically sick.
Now I'm finally getting close. Exam is getting close now. Actually, the FINAL exam. I'm so
glad it is all over soon. After 18 years of education, no money and no spare time, I'm really getting feed up.
I have issued a counter to keep track of the remaining days.
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Whether You approve or not, I have been using AMD extensively. In fact, I have
only had 1 (one!) Intel CPU in my short, but expensive, relationship with PC's, and
it was a i80486 DX4/100 MHz OverDrive! It had it's own power regulator built
in, so it could fit in a 5V motherboard. And it got very very hot, couldn't even clock 120 MHz,
without locking up within the boot sequence.
Actually, the CPU-list looks something like this:
1993 - An old used 286 16MHz Siemens CPU
1994 - AMD 486 DX2 66MHz
1996 - Intel 486 DX4 100MHz OverDrive!
1997 - AMD K6 200MHz
1998 - AMD K6-2 350@385MHz
1999 - AMD Athlon 500MHz
2000 - AMD Athlon 500@700MHz (not yet, mind you)
2001 - Who knows, but maybe a dual Athlon configuration...
Well, here's my current configuration:
| Cabinet: | EMS Maxi Tower, 300W PSU |
| CPU: | AMD Athlon 500MHz |
| Alpha1HO-FAN Cooler | |
| Peltier Element, 50 Watt | |
| Motherboard: | FIC SD11 |
| Memory: | 3x128MB PC100 MemoryCard, CAS latency 2 |
| Graphics Card: | Matrox G200 Marvel, 8+8MB, running at 110/147MHz, still going strong... |
| SCSI Controller: | Adaptec 2940UW, oldie but goldie |
| Adaptec 2904CD, dedicated to the toaster and the tape drive | |
| RAID Controller: | Promise Ultra66 Controller, modified for RAID-capability |
| Harddrives: | IBM DCHS04Z OEM, SCSI-II 4.5GB |
| IBM DDRS-39130Y, SCSI-SCA 9.1GB | |
| IBM DFHSS1W, SCSI-II 1GB | |
| Quantum Viking II, U2W 9.1GB | |
| Seagate ST34371N, SCSI-II 4.2GB | |
| 2 Maxtor Diamond Max 40+, ATA-66 30GB, running RAID0 | |
| Optical Drives: | Plextor 40Max TSi |
| Pioneer DVD-U03S, 6/32xSpeed | |
| Panasonic CW-7502, 4/8xSpeed | |
| Tape drive: | Hewlett Packard HP35470A |
| Floppydrive: | Panasonic 3½" |
| Sound Card: | SoundBlaster Live! Value with... |
| Homemade S/P-DIF extension board | |
| Net Adapter: | Accton EN1207D-TX Fast Ethernet Adapter 10/100 MBit |
| Mouse: | Logitech Mouseman Wheel |
| Monitor: | Hansol 501P |
Come to think of it, that's pretty much junk stuffed into one cabinet. Actually, whenever one of the guys brings over their harddrive for some data-swapping, I have to use a seperate PSU for the drive. Otherwise my primary PSU shuts down within 5-6 sec. (did someone say power overload?).
Now let's see if we can build one of those Athlon OC-modules...