James Adams

Octane

Active

My current workhorse, built inside the beautiful shell of a SGI Octane from Ian Mapleson.

Processor
AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core Processor
RAM
8GiB Kingston HyperX DDR2 6400
Storage
64GB Kingston C300 SSD
250GB Seagate Barracuda ST3250410AS
250GB Seagate Barracuda ST3250410AS
1.5TB Western Digital WD15EARS
2TB Western Digital WD20EARX
Graphics
ATi Radeon HD 4850
Monitors
2x Hyundai L90D+ 19" TFT screens (DVI)
Sound
Creative Soundblaster Audigy ZS 6.1
Speakers
Creative Inspire 6.1
Headphones
Sennheiser HD500
Network
1Gbps Onboard Marvell Ethernet
Network
AR5001 Onboard Atheros Wireless
OS
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit with many customisations
Windows 7 64-bit
/0                              bus         M3A32-MVP DELUXE
/0/0                            memory      64KiB BIOS
/0/4                            processor   AMD Phenom(tm) 9850 Quad-Core Processor
/0/4/5                          memory      512KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6                          memory      2MiB L2 cache
/0/4/7                          memory      2MiB L3 cache
/0/3b                           memory      8GiB System Memory
/0/3b/0                         memory      2GiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/3b/1                         memory      2GiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/3b/2                         memory      2GiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/3b/3                         memory      2GiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/100                          bridge      RD790 Northbridge only dual slot PCI-e_GFX and HT3 K8 part
/0/100/2                        bridge      RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx0 port A)
/0/100/2/0                      display     RV770 [Radeon HD 4850]
/0/100/2/0.1                    multimedia  RV770 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4850/4870]
/0/100/4                        bridge      RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port A)
/0/100/4/0          scsi5       storage     88SE6121 SATA II Controller
/0/100/4/0/0.1.0    /dev/sde    disk        2TB WDC WD20EARX-00P
/0/100/4/0/0.1.0/1  /dev/sde1   volume      1863GiB Data partition
/0/100/6                        bridge      RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port C)
/0/100/6/0          eth0        network     88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
/0/100/7                        bridge      RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port D)
/0/100/7/0                      storage     88SE6121 SATA II Controller
/0/100/9                        bridge      RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port E)
/0/100/9/0          wlan0       network     AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
/0/100/12           scsi0       storage     SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
/0/100/12/0         /dev/sda    disk        64GB C300-CTFDDAC064M
/0/100/12/0/1       /dev/sda1   volume      59GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/12/1         /dev/sdb    disk        250GB ST3250410AS
/0/100/12/1/1       /dev/sdb1   volume      50GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/12/1/2       /dev/sdb2   volume      3961MiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/12/1/4                   volume      178GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/12/2         /dev/sdc    disk        250GB ST3250410AS
/0/100/12/2/1       /dev/sdc1   volume      100MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/12/2/2       /dev/sdc2   volume      58GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/12/2/3       /dev/sdc3   volume      174GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/12/3         /dev/sdd    disk        1500GB WDC WD15EARS-00Z
/0/100/12/3/1       /dev/sdd1   volume      1397GiB Data partition
/0/100/13                       bus         SB600 USB (OHCI0)
/0/100/13.1                     bus         SB600 USB (OHCI1)
/0/100/13.2                     bus         SB600 USB (OHCI2)
/0/100/13.3                     bus         SB600 USB (OHCI3)
/0/100/13.4                     bus         SB600 USB (OHCI4)
/0/100/13.5                     bus         SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
/0/100/14                       bus         SBx00 SMBus Controller
/0/100/14.1         scsi8       storage     SB600 IDE
/0/100/14.1/0.1.0   /dev/cdrom  disk        DVD-RW  DVR-110D
/0/100/14.3                     bridge      SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
/0/100/14.4                     bridge      SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
/0/100/14.4/6                   multimedia  SB Audigy
/0/100/14.4/6.1                 input       SB Audigy Game Port
/0/100/14.4/6.2                 bus         SB Audigy FireWire Port
/0/100/14.4/8                   bus         FW322/323
/0/101                          bridge      Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
/0/102                          bridge      Family 10h Processor Address Map
/0/103                          bridge      Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
/0/104                          bridge      Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
/0/105                          bridge      Family 10h Processor Link Control

Picture of Octane - Front Picture of Octane - Rear Screenshot from Octane

Obsidian

Retired

My previous PC. Now relegated to serving files to the household and holding various crumbling subversion repositories.

Processor
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
RAM
1024MiB Kingston HyperX DDR300
Storage
1x 40GiB Seagate Barracuda - OS
Storage
6x 200GiB Seagate Barracuda - Storage (RAID5 configuration)
Graphics
ATi Radeon 7600
Network
3COM 920B 100Mbps Integrated Network Controller
OS
Windows XP Home

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Chimaera

Retired

General use, multiple logins for everyone in the family with the capability for XDMCP login from other pcs.

Processor
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
RAM
1024MiB DDR333
Graphics
ATi Radeon 9800Pro
Monitor
Mitsubishi 750SB 17" CRT
Network
nVidia 100Mbps Intergrated Network Controller
OS
Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit (Jaunty Jackalope)

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Thor

Repurposed

Media Centre in living room running MediaPortal for watching recording and pausing TV as well as DVDs and playing audio from the network.

Processor
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
RAM
1024MiB DDR333
Graphics
ATi Radeon 7600
Display
Panasonic 32" TV
Sound
SPDIF Out carrying Dolby Digital EX and DTS-ES to Yamaha DSP-AX630SE
Speakers
Six 2-way surround speakers and a self built dual 12" driver electronically assisted 300W subwoofer
Video
Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T PCI Digital Terrestrial Reciever
Network
nVidia 100Mbps Integrated Network Controller
OS
Windows XP Professional SP2
Software
MediaPortal

Picture of Thor Picture of surround amplifier Picture of subwoofer

Monkey

Retired

Webcache, NAT and firewall

Processor
Pentium II 800Mhz
RAM
384MiB Non-ECC PC100
Internet
2Mbps ADSL
Network
Netgear 100Mbps full-duplex ethernet controller, connected to Linksys/Cisco 16 port switch
OS
Smoothwall Express 2.0 (With modifications)

Picture of Monkey Picture of network switch

Knobe

Active

PC Constructed for my brother to take with him to University

Processor
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Venice 939)
RAM
1024MiB Corsair DDR400
Storage
1x 80GiB Seagate Barracuda SATAII - OS
Storage
5x 250GiB Seagate Barracuda - Storage (RAID 5 configuration)
Graphics
nVidia Geforce 7600GS Dual DVI
Monitor
Viewsonic VP930 19" TFT screen
Network
nVidia 100Mbps Integrated Network Controller
OS
Windows 7 64-bit
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit

Iolite

Retired

Sun Ultra 10 Workstation running a webserver for genealogy data

Processor
UltraSparc IIi (Sabre) 300Mhz
RAM
384MiB ECC PC100
Storage
1x 20GB Drive
Graphics
ATi Rage64
Monitor
Sun CM751U 19" CRT
Network
Sun Microsystems 100Mbps Integrated Happy Meal Ethernet Controller
OS
Ubuntu 6.10-Server SPARC64

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Amethyst

Retired

Sun Ultra 10 Workstation used for testing and development

Processor
UltraSparc IIi (Sabre) 300Mhz
RAM
256MiB ECC PC100
Storage
1x 9GB Drive
Storage
1x 4GB Drive
Graphics
ATi Rage64
Network
Sun Microsystems 100Mbps Integrated Happy Meal Ethernet Controller
OS
Aurora Linux 1.92 SPARC64

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