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Computing Kit

MAIN PC:

  • CPU: Intel Q6600 SLACR Stepping Quad-Core CPU overclocked to 3.5Ghz
  • Heatsink: Watercooling Kit – D-Tek Waterblock, BlackIce Radiator, etc.
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte P35 DS3P Motherboard
  • RAM: 8GB (4 x 2GB) OCZ PC2-8000 1000Mhz DDR2 RAM
  • Graphics Card: XFX NVidia GeForce 8800GT 512Mb Graphics Card, XFX NVdia GeForce 8400GS Graphics Card
  • Sound Card:Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro Sound Card
  • Sound System: Logitech Z-5400 5.1 Surround Sound System connected via optical
  • PSU: Coolermaster 520 Modular PSU
  • Case: Coolermaster Cosmos 1010
  • TV Card: Pinnacle USB-TV (Cant remember model name right now!)
  • Hard Drive: Samsung IDE 7200RPM 200GB Hard Drive, 2 x Seagate 500GB 7200rpm IDE
  • DVD Drive: Samsung 16x DVDRW
  • OS: Windows XP Pro / Ubuntu 8.04 dual boot Operating system.

This PC Is my baby – unfortunately running x86 Windows XP, as i refuse to shell out money for Vista. I run various installs on this, it is currently dual booted with Ubuntu 8.04. Plays games such as COD4, Steam games etc no problem whatsoever.

LINUX SERVER (NAS):

  • CPU(s): 2 x Intel Xeon X5355 “Clovertown” CPU’s (1333Mhz FSB, 2.7Ghz per core).
  • Motherboard: Intel S5000XVN Workstation motherboard
  • RAM: 4 GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-6400 800Mhz FB-DIMM RAM
  • Graphics Card:XFX Nvidia GeForce 7200GS Graphics Card
  • PSU: Antec TruePower Trio 650Watt PSU
  • Case: Antec Titan 650 Workstation Case
  • DVD Drive: Samsung DVDRW x16 DVD Drive
  • Hard Drives: 1TB Seagate IDE 7200rpm 32mb Cache, 750GB Seagate SATA 7200rpm 16mb cache, 500GB Seagate SATA 7200rpm 8Mb Cache, Samsung Spinpoint 200GB IDE 7200rpm 8mb cache.
  • NIC: Intel Pro1000 XF GigaBit Fibre Card, 2 x Intel Pro1000MF Gigabit Dual-Port Ethernet Card
  • OS: Centos 5.2 x64

Running CentOS 5.2. This box has my NAS Server running on it – using SAMBA exports to my windows box. I am also exporting NFS to my VMWare ESX Box. I am also using my OSPF Edge router on this box using Quagga/zebra – to connect my subnet to the rest of the house. I route all my subnet traffic through this host.

Virtualization Server:

  • CPU(s): 2 x Intel Xeon X5355 “Clovertown” CPU’s (1333Mhz FSB, 2.7Ghz per core).
  • Motherboard: Intel S5000PSL Server motherboard
  • RAM: 4 GB (8 x 512Mb) PC2-4200 533Mhz FB-DIMM RAM
  • Graphics Card:XFX Nvidia GeForce 7200GS Graphics Card
  • PSU: Antec TruePower Trio 650Watt PSU
  • Case:Old Intel Workstation Case
  • DVD Drive: Samsung DVDRW x16 DVD Drive
  • Samsung Spinpoint 200GB IDE 7200rpm 8mb cache.
  • NIC: Intel Pro1000 XF GigaBit Fibre Card, Intel Pro1000MF Gigabit Dual-Port Ethernet Card
  • OS: VMware ESXi 3.5 / Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 (Server 2K8)

OTHER KIT:

  • Monitors: 2 Samsung SW2253 22″ TFT Monitors 16:10 Ratio, Gateway 19” 4:3 Ratio Monitor.
  • Networking: Netgear 5-Port Gigabit Switch, D-Link 8 Port 10/100Mb Switch, Cisco 2612 Router, Cisco 2610 Router, Cisco 3524XL Switch
  • Keyboard: Logitech G15 Rev. 2
  • Mouse: Logitech MX Revolution
  • External Hard Drives: 1TB LaCie USB2 External Hard Drive, 250GB Western Digital MyBook External Hard Drive.
  • Headset: Creative Fatality Gaming Headset
  • Netbook/Laptop: Acer Aspire One (A110) with Bluetooth and extra 8GB SSD. Running Ubuntu 8.10 Netbook Remix!