SillyDog701

[Mandrake]

Update on crunching on the new Maingear machine.

Now doing between 80,000 and 140,000 credits a day.

Hey Richard, I bet you wish you had waited for a couple of these.

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[richard mitnick]

Hey Mandrake-

You know, when ever you pull the trigger, turn around and the next big thing is here. But, there was better than what I bought when I made my purchase. I tried to do the best with the too much money that I spent. I had already gone for the hyper threaded six core instead of the quad, also with "crunching" in mind. There are many projects which are very worthwhile and will never go to GPU crunching.

So, you know, you pick the best tike for you to take your shot (sorry about the gun imagry, it just fits) and pull the trigger. I had a certain amount of money become available and a five year old Core 2 Duo to replace. It was the right move at the right time.

Best to you.

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[beanboy89]

Bought my second Mac: an iMac from a local seller on Craigslist. It's a Blueberry slot-loading iMac G3 with a 400 MHz processor and 64 MB RAM. It's currently running OS 9.0.3. It also came with an Apple USB keyboard and two "hockey puck" mice. Cost: $25.

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[Antony]

Bought my second Mac: an iMac from a local seller on Craigslist. It's a Blueberry slot-loading iMac G3 with a 400 MHz processor and 64 MB RAM. It's currently running OS 9.0.3. It also came with an Apple USB keyboard and two "hockey puck" mice. Cost: $25.

Cool! And very good price.
Do you get the keyboard look like this one (photo below)? Or the Apple Pro Keyboard (black or white)?

(photo from previous post)

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[beanboy89]

Bought my second Mac: an iMac from a local seller on Craigslist. It's a Blueberry slot-loading iMac G3 with a 400 MHz processor and 64 MB RAM. It's currently running OS 9.0.3. It also came with an Apple USB keyboard and two "hockey puck" mice. Cost: $25.

Cool! And very good price.
Do you get the keyboard look like this one (photo below)? Or the Apple Pro Keyboard (black or white)?

(photo from previous post)

Yep, the keyboard is like the one in your photo.

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[beanboy89]

This was long-overdue, but became a necessity. I finally built a new desktop computer. To make a long story short, I believe my old desktop's power supply died and caused something to short out on the motherboard. After going a month without a desktop (and relying on my laptop for everything), all the parts finally arrived today and I put them together. I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

Here are the specs:

Processor: Intel Core i5-3450 Ivy Bridge 3.1GHz
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-B75M-D3H LGA 1155 (SATA III, USB 3.0)
RAM: G.SKILL Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
SSD: OCZ Agility 3 AGT3-25SAT3 (120 GB SATA III)
Power Supply: Antec BP550 Plus 550W (modular)
Video card: MSI N210-MD1G/D3 GeForce 210 1GB 64-bit DDR3 (HDMI, DVI, VGA out)

I used my existing case, DVD-RW drive, and old hard drive (a 160 GB SATA drive I ripped out of an old PC). Total cost $525.

Like I said above, I'm really happy with it. I love the SSD (I got one of those "My SSD is faster than your HDD" stickers!). Access times are instant. Programs open nearly instantly, and I was able to do a clean installation of Windows 7 in less than 10 minutes from DVD. That's impressive.

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[Antony]

Nice, and congratulations.

I noticed that the CPU is one of the very high end version! My last year's MacBook Air's clock speed was only 1.8GHz (i7-2677M). I envy you.

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[Mandrake]

Nice, and congratulations.

I noticed that the CPU is one of the very high end version! My last year's MacBook Air's clock speed was only 1.8GHz (i7-2677M). I envy you.

Going by frequency in MHz alone his PC beats your $10000 Mac Pro.

Nice upgrade. Adding an SSD is easily the best upgrade anyone can do to their systems.

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[Antony]

Well, everybody knows that Antony is poor. He could only afford low end Mac Pro.

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[Mandrake]

I gave my PC some love and got some new gear for it.

Dell U2711 monitor, Radeon 7970 graphics card and an external 3TB drive.









Excuse the crappy pictures, I just used my phone after all. The monitor looks way, way cooler in person. The new GPU is super fast too, I'm playing games like Sleeping Dogs and Borderlands 2 maxed out at 2560x1440 without any issues at all.

However, unlike the very rich and white Antony, who owns the very fastest graphics card available for a Mac I note that there are several cards faster than the one I purchased in the market today.

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[Antony]

I gave my PC some love and got some new gear for it.

Dell U2711 monitor, Radeon 7970 graphics card and an external 3TB drive.

Congratulations.

Awesome monitor! Awesome resolution!

Wow! 3GB GDDR5 1375MHz memory on board of graphic card!
Wow! 264 GB/s bandwidth
3.79 TFLOPS
947 GFLOPS

Well, the very poor and black Antony's graphic card is two years old model. The slow ATI Radeon HD 5870 only came with 1GB of GDDR5 memory.

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[Mandrake]

I gave my PC some love and got some new gear for it.

Dell U2711 monitor, Radeon 7970 graphics card and an external 3TB drive.

Congratulations.

Awesome monitor! Awesome resolution!

Wow! 3GB GDDR5 1375MHz memory on board of graphic card!
Wow! 264 GB/s bandwidth
3.79 TFLOPS
947 GFLOPS

Well, the very poor and black Antony's graphic card is two years old model. The slow ATI Radeon HD 5870 only came with 1GB of GDDR5 memory.

I suppose I can't argue much on the graphics card. As for the monitor though, you've got the same resolution on two displays. I prefer the Dell though, since they have multiple outputs and a matte-finish as opposed to the glossy on the Apple displays.

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[Antony]

Didn't you got a 30-inch Dell monitor before? and 3 Dell? monitors as well?

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[beanboy89]

Got another computer over the weekend. It's a custom-built 2.5 GHz Celeron with a 40 GB HDD and 512 MB RAM that was pulled from the trash. It's a pretty decent machine to have been thrown away. It came with a Windows 2000 Pro license, but I'm currently running Scientific Linux 6.3 on it.

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[Antony]

Got another computer over the weekend. It's a custom-built 2.5 GHz Celeron with a 40 GB HDD and 512 MB RAM that was pulled from the trash. It's a pretty decent machine to have been thrown away. It came with a Windows 2000 Pro license, but I'm currently running Scientific Linux 6.3 on it.

Looks like the said "pulled from the trash" machine is faster than this SillyDog701 server. (Sorry, Antony is poor.)

Congratulations. What's the tally of your computers if you don't mind me asking?

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