New PC!

Polariz · 06-21-2004, 12:20 PM

Hooray! After bargain hunting for ages and picking up cheap bits and pieces, I bring you my new rig:

2x P4 2.4GHz Xeons @ 2.9 each
Asus PC-DL Motherboard
512mb Corsair PC3200 RAM
240GB Hard Drives
GF4 Ti 4200

Attached (Hopefully) Is a pic of the CPU area.

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet.

berks · 06-21-2004, 12:29 PM

nice looking rig

Polariz · 06-21-2004, 12:42 PM

Thanks, I'm extremely happy! I just can't throw enough work at it to use up 100% of the CPU power. Here's another pic:

igalan · 06-22-2004, 11:30 AM

Dual Xeon, juicy

Polariz · 06-22-2004, 07:22 PM

This may well interest the more advanced users, as this was what convinved me to go with the system I have at the moment:

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=299042

About half way down the first page are details on the moosemod for this motherboard, allowing the Xeons to run at 800MHz FSB (Therefore at least two people have got their 2.4GHz chips to over 3.5GHz each). The main reason why the Opteron mashes the Xeons in benchmarks is because the Xeons share the same 533 bus, so pump it up to 800MHz and they fly! This type of performance is an indication of the type of speeds we can expect from the new Nocona Xeons to debut soon (Minus 64bit of course, but that will only be enabled once Win64 is released).

Unfortunately for me I paid very little for my xeons and subsequently one of the chips likes to just vanish when I perform the mod. I also had to do the following pin mod to increase the Vcore (It can't be done in BIOS

):

Well worth the money though, if you're bored of the current outlook of chips and fancy using a dual, this setups for you

2x Xeons from Ebay: £150 ($260 or so)
1x PC-DL motherboard: £130 ($225 or so)
1x 24pin PSU (470W): £60 ($105 or so)

Total price: £340 / $595

After selling my P4 system parts however, I only spent around $170, a bargain!

igalan · 06-23-2004, 02:10 AM

It's a very nice rig

. I remember reading something about overclocking the FSB of Xeons, but I would not try to push them that far. Something is sure, I won't overclock our Dual 2,8 GHz Xeon server at work

It runs 24h/365d not a good idea.

Now you have to take care of your video card, it's not up to the same level as the rest! Maybe a dual GeForce 6800 Ultra could keep up

.

Polariz · 06-23-2004, 11:21 AM

Yup I was waiting around to see what would happen in terms of PCI Express stuff, but been as i've just bought this new motherboard based on the 875P chipset it'll be more than adequate for a while (Well until I get bored anyway).

Can't quite afford anything new at the moment though hehe, more RAM is the first on the agenda - but Corsair stuff is rather expensive, so it'll be a while before the graphics get touched

06-21-2004, 12:29 PM	#2 (permalink)
berks PCTT Administrator Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 3,735	nice looking rig __________________ Vote For Us!!!

06-22-2004, 07:22 PM	#5 (permalink)
Polariz Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Birmingham, UK Posts: 79	This may well interest the more advanced users, as this was what convinved me to go with the system I have at the moment: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=299042 About half way down the first page are details on the moosemod for this motherboard, allowing the Xeons to run at 800MHz FSB (Therefore at least two people have got their 2.4GHz chips to over 3.5GHz each). The main reason why the Opteron mashes the Xeons in benchmarks is because the Xeons share the same 533 bus, so pump it up to 800MHz and they fly! This type of performance is an indication of the type of speeds we can expect from the new Nocona Xeons to debut soon (Minus 64bit of course, but that will only be enabled once Win64 is released). Unfortunately for me I paid very little for my xeons and subsequently one of the chips likes to just vanish when I perform the mod. I also had to do the following pin mod to increase the Vcore (It can't be done in BIOS ): Well worth the money though, if you're bored of the current outlook of chips and fancy using a dual, this setups for you 2x Xeons from Ebay: £150 ($260 or so) 1x PC-DL motherboard: £130 ($225 or so) 1x 24pin PSU (470W): £60 ($105 or so) Total price: £340 / $595 After selling my P4 system parts however, I only spent around $170, a bargain! __________________ AMD Athlon64 3500+ CPU, Socket 939/Newcastle/CBAXC Week 3604 @ 2423MHz Shuttle SN95G v1.3 /nForce3 2x 512mb TwinMOS PC3200 128bit Geforce 6800 128mb AGP8x 240GB Hard Disks Sony DVDRW DL

06-23-2004, 11:21 AM	#7 (permalink)
Polariz Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Birmingham, UK Posts: 79	Yup I was waiting around to see what would happen in terms of PCI Express stuff, but been as i've just bought this new motherboard based on the 875P chipset it'll be more than adequate for a while (Well until I get bored anyway). Can't quite afford anything new at the moment though hehe, more RAM is the first on the agenda - but Corsair stuff is rather expensive, so it'll be a while before the graphics get touched __________________ AMD Athlon64 3500+ CPU, Socket 939/Newcastle/CBAXC Week 3604 @ 2423MHz Shuttle SN95G v1.3 /nForce3 2x 512mb TwinMOS PC3200 128bit Geforce 6800 128mb AGP8x 240GB Hard Disks Sony DVDRW DL

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06-22-2004, 11:30 AM	#4 (permalink)
igalan PCTT Articles Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Barcelona, SPAIN Posts: 1,018	Dual Xeon, juicy

06-23-2004, 02:10 AM	#6 (permalink)
igalan PCTT Articles Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Barcelona, SPAIN Posts: 1,018	It's a very nice rig . I remember reading something about overclocking the FSB of Xeons, but I would not try to push them that far. Something is sure, I won't overclock our Dual 2,8 GHz Xeon server at work It runs 24h/365d not a good idea. Now you have to take care of your video card, it's not up to the same level as the rest! Maybe a dual GeForce 6800 Ultra could keep up .