Santilli
Hairy Aussie
- Joined
- Jan 27, 2002
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Power Supply blew. Seasonic 650, replaced with another one.
Time to reconfigure. Drive down to David's. I now have a 'brick' of Vertex Turbos, 3 of em, that do max about 280mb/sec on the 9550SUX.
SCSI data was backed up, and, the Gem 318 removed, along with 5 scsi drives.
Stopped at Granite Digital on the way down, picked up another removeable drive setup, and, David installed another drive bay, so I now have two removeable drive bays, and one less DVD
burner.
Convinced to go with Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit, and, after a fresh install, with the 4670, it was VERY quick.
Keep in mind it was playing on a monitor right next to David's "ExtremeBeast", and, as he said,
"Never discount the effect of SSD's, and a fresh OS install."
The only one not happy about this is going to be my cat, who will miss the heat from the Gem-18 SCSI backplane.
While we transfered files, the drives hit 154 degrees, IIRC, and, kicked off the alarm. We had to shut down, put fans on it, and finish the data transfer.
On the other hand, the video cards, and the processors still create enough heat to keep her happy, and, if I get a Slot fan, she'll be happy...;-)
Also mounted a Vantec Stealth on the side. Should keep my legs warm...
Also removed the scsi cables from the motherboard, thanks to David's handiwork.
David's job, and work situation is REALLY incredible...
I'd say more, but I'm not sure if he's cool with that.
I'll make a point of getting down there more often...
Thanks SO much,
Sincerely
GS
PS
The case is now nearly silent, and can run all night doing 'work'....
Time to reconfigure. Drive down to David's. I now have a 'brick' of Vertex Turbos, 3 of em, that do max about 280mb/sec on the 9550SUX.
SCSI data was backed up, and, the Gem 318 removed, along with 5 scsi drives.
Stopped at Granite Digital on the way down, picked up another removeable drive setup, and, David installed another drive bay, so I now have two removeable drive bays, and one less DVD
burner.
Convinced to go with Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit, and, after a fresh install, with the 4670, it was VERY quick.
Keep in mind it was playing on a monitor right next to David's "ExtremeBeast", and, as he said,
"Never discount the effect of SSD's, and a fresh OS install."
The only one not happy about this is going to be my cat, who will miss the heat from the Gem-18 SCSI backplane.
While we transfered files, the drives hit 154 degrees, IIRC, and, kicked off the alarm. We had to shut down, put fans on it, and finish the data transfer.
On the other hand, the video cards, and the processors still create enough heat to keep her happy, and, if I get a Slot fan, she'll be happy...;-)
Also mounted a Vantec Stealth on the side. Should keep my legs warm...
Also removed the scsi cables from the motherboard, thanks to David's handiwork.
David's job, and work situation is REALLY incredible...
I'd say more, but I'm not sure if he's cool with that.
I'll make a point of getting down there more often...
Thanks SO much,
Sincerely
GS
PS
The case is now nearly silent, and can run all night doing 'work'....