Topic: I might construct a computer. (Read 45191 times)

Master Captain · « **Reply #125 on:** September 28, 2009, 04:20:57 »

yea thats overload, i have a 300gb HD on my desktop and i have ALL my pictures and videos ever taken and i still have plenty of room, plus loads of games and addons for those games. believe me space goes a long way

TJK · « **Reply #126 on:** September 28, 2009, 08:40:01 »

Quote from: Master Captain on September 28, 2009, 04:20:57

yea thats overload, i have a 300gb HD on my desktop and i have ALL my pictures and videos ever taken and i still have plenty of room, plus loads of games and addons for those games. believe me space goes a long way

and plenty room for back up and config them to run in Raid
i have 2 TB in my PC and i have no problems with space and one of them are only for back up but cos it's not necessary but alvise good with more store place trust me back up and backup, i will not have more HD crash without backup
TJK

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #127 on:** September 28, 2009, 21:08:26 »

2TB

Why in the world to you need that much space, I wouldnt be able to find my files if you actually filled that all up

Master Captain · « **Reply #128 on:** September 28, 2009, 21:30:48 »

lol you would have soo much stuff if you used up 2 TB!! unless you edit movies for a job or something theres no way you need terrabytes of space

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #129 on:** September 28, 2009, 23:22:07 »

I agree I have 500GB and that still is ample

Firestar · « **Reply #130 on:** December 28, 2009, 01:31:13 »

Just thought that I might add this:

On Wednesday I am getting a new computer, and from what I've heard, it should be able to run ShipSim!

Master Captain · « **Reply #131 on:** December 28, 2009, 01:47:50 »

i'd look into it more, no use buying it if you can't play your favorite game

Firestar · « **Reply #132 on:** December 28, 2009, 01:50:25 »

Might I add:

It's free.

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #133 on:** December 28, 2009, 01:51:06 »

Any Specs?

Firestar · « **Reply #134 on:** December 28, 2009, 01:51:29 »

Nope, not until Wednesday. I don't even know it it works yet.

jammydodger · « **Reply #135 on:** December 28, 2009, 02:04:35 »

Just a little thing regarding the processor talk: My brother's giant computer has a Quad Core 12Ghz processor

I think he's what we call a 'hardcore gamer' ...

Master Captain · « **Reply #136 on:** December 28, 2009, 05:12:27 »

me being a computer person my first reaction was yea right

After some googleing i found out that a 12ghz processor does exist in a way, 4 cores running at 3ghz each gives you 12ghz, thats an expensive buy

So technically its not a 12ghz processor, the total speed is 12ghz. Its really a Quad core processor running @ 3ghz

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #137 on:** December 28, 2009, 15:26:40 »

Quote from: Master Captain on December 28, 2009, 05:12:27

me being a computer person my first reaction was yea right

Yea your brother's pulling your leg technically Im not sure what the fastest home computer was clocked to I believe it was around 7.2GHz...Correct me if I'm wrong

TerryRussell · « **Reply #138 on:** December 28, 2009, 19:07:36 »

I couldn't sleep last night, so I sat down and went through my box of bits. I had three old motherboards with different faults. I now have two working motherboards. (unsoldered and swapped the crystal and the CPU to one and the BIOS and memory sticks to the other).

I then combined the bits of two old cases and made a good PC tower. The fans were noisy so I pulled a couple of old spares out of my collection. One has pretty blue LEDs when it operates. I also removed a couple of broken switches and swapped them for working ones from the unused case.

The motherboard does not have network interface, nor video outputs etc. These have to be bolted on in the form of daughter boards.

As this was going to be a Server, I rummaged through the box of old video cards and pulled out a Verge S3 card. That works wonderfully.

I pulled out an unbranded 52X CD drive and screwed the side runners onto it and inserted that into the slots. I found a load of old drives in one of the boxes and made a RAID array of 4 identical drives (320 GB x 4).

Then I found my old NT4 Server software. Spent 2 hours formatting disks, loading drivers and installing the software etc. Had to find some 8139 drivers for the network card, but I had some in the files library.

I now have a working NT4 Server which has just logged itself onto the network as the Backup Domain Controller. I have a complete spare identical unit, in case of breakdowns.

1 GB RAM, 1GHz processor. That is incredibly fast for an NT4 server that will check people's credentials and serve up some files. It is now supporting the Creators Forum Server.

Yay!

sadsid (â€ 2016) · « **Reply #139 on:** December 28, 2009, 19:24:00 »

Hi Terry
Nice to know we have backup for our C.F

Eric

TerryRussell · « **Reply #140 on:** December 28, 2009, 19:41:42 »

Hi Eric.

For all of my computer systems, I have two identical copies running at all times. For each of them, they have a dedicated backup server running 8 miles away in another office. Each of those backup servers is then backed up with complete archives every night. And they are taken to a third site, about 20 miles away.

So if anything goes wrong, I can usually swing the backup system into place within a short while. If necessary, I can reroute the internet connections to the other office.

This NT4 server is just there to ease the workload a little for the main CF server.

jammydodger · « **Reply #141 on:** December 28, 2009, 21:43:38 »

Quote from: Master Captain on December 28, 2009, 05:12:27

me being a computer person my first reaction was yea right After some googleing i found out that a 12ghz processor does exist in a way, 4 cores running at 3ghz each gives you 12ghz, thats an expensive buy So technically its not a 12ghz processor, the total speed is 12ghz. Its really a Quad core processor running @ 3ghz

Well yeah, but the power is still 12Ghz so it IS a 12 Ghz processor, albeit in 4 3GHz cores
@CaptMatt: This proves my point?

mvsmith · « **Reply #142 on:** December 28, 2009, 22:18:32 »

It is only a 12 GHz computer if the software can keep all four cores working at full load. Most software can use only one core.

jammydodger · « **Reply #143 on:** December 28, 2009, 22:53:49 »

Quote from: mvsmith on December 28, 2009, 22:18:32

It is only a 12 GHz computer if the software can keep all four cores working at full load. Most software can use only one core.

Dunno what you mean by 'most software'. My brother is a hardcore gamer so the only programs he uses apart from games is his keyboard and mouse managers, a download manager, Firefox, Teamspeak and PHP.

Firestar · « **Reply #144 on:** December 28, 2009, 22:56:31 »

PHP is a program? I thought it was a language.

--tractorman-- · « **Reply #145 on:** December 28, 2009, 23:05:06 »

Quote from: Firestar on December 28, 2009, 22:56:31

PHP is a program? I thought it was a language.

Agreed, like html

jammydodger · « **Reply #146 on:** December 28, 2009, 23:06:08 »

Well the PHP Nuke thing I think... Whatever the PHP program is for managing a paid PHP site.

Master Captain · « **Reply #147 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:36:14 »

Quote from: mvsmith on December 28, 2009, 22:18:32

It is only a 12 GHz computer if the software can keep all four cores working at full load. Most software can use only one core.

good point, the computer would be working extremely hard if all 4 cores were at full capacity so I'd say thats quite a rare situation. I do believe some programs can use 2 cores, which is why i personally will not buy a quad core processor as most of the time 2-3 cores are just sitting around doing nothing

Capt. Matt · « **Reply #148 on:** December 29, 2009, 05:01:56 »

Quote from: jammydodger on December 28, 2009, 21:43:38

@CaptMatt: This proves my point?

Nope your wrong

Captain Cadet · « **Reply #149 on:** December 29, 2009, 20:08:37 »

Quote from: saltydog on August 04, 2009, 16:06:05

Windows 7 is on the way..

Wrong...

... Windows 8 now

Author Topic: I might construct a computer. (Read 45191 times)

TJK

Firestar

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TerryRussell

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mvsmith

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