For those of you who wonder why my computer room was 120+ degrees.....

[Evadman]

Here ya go. I cleaned up a little, so you can see the floor in most places. The Magnaserver is empty, untill I find a cheap Nightshade board. Everything else is running hot.

Rack Wall Top From left to right... 600 Duron @ 800 - 1.0 @ 1.3duron - 1.0 duron @1.2 - 1600+ - 1600+
Rack Wall Middle
Rack Wall Bottom

Then my workstation on the other side of the room: The toolbox looking thing is my Lancase. (1700+) The one under it is a 233 amd k6.

Workstation One The small one under the desk is a dual 1.0 duron, the other is a 1700+. One of the boxes on the far right is a 286, the other 2 are osbornes. ( Remember the first portable computer? Only weighs like 80 lb's. Both still work )
Workstation One #2 Look, you can see my lunch

And my workstation downstairs.

Workstation Downstairs ( the 2 boxes are 1.4 thunderbirds, and the lappy is a 633 ( I think, not sure because it overheats when running SETI. It burned off the finish on the desk ) I hate walking up a flight of stairs just to use a computer. why do that, when you can just build another room?

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Shrunk down the pics to a more manageable size.

 

[panhead49]

and i thought my room with 4 computers was crowded.....thanks Evadman....your pics make me feel better about my mess....

 

[Eltano1]

After showing those pics to my wife, she promise me not to bug me anymore about my work place.

Thanks Evadman

Eltano

 

[TNOguy]

Yeah but I'm probably still the only one running three computers in a hotel room lol

XP 1800 + - dual
XP 1800+
K6-2 350

Man they must hate the electric bill I cause them lol

TNOguy

(who is building another dual system )

 

[IJump]

I love people who have a mess like mine......

 

[Smoke]

Thanks for the tour. What Eltano1 said.

 

[CurtOien]

Some of you guys would drive me nuts.(more than I already am)
I see what looks like about three Coke cans, 4 beers and a cereal bowl all over a computer with a blow hole in the top.

Liquids go on my floor.

 

[serialb]

Yeah, we had a hot spell last week. Weather in Minneapolis:

4/1 - 30 degree, blizzard
4/15 - 91 degree, sunny
4/21 - 30 degree, snow

 

[mgpaulus]

Nice setup Evadman. Just one quick Q: What OS would you run on that Nightshade? I am curious. I have a Nightshade in an Enlight Case with Dual P3-550s, and I run Debian Woody, with a 2.4.19-smp kernel (I really don't want to spend another $200 bucks for a Micro$oft OS). It seems to be running very happily, using FoldingAtHome. My next little project will be upgrading my two Pentium Classic machines to Slot 1 Celeron 400 (Or higher depending upon the FSB settings on the new MoBos), and then I have a Supermicro P6DLH Dual Slot1 board that I need to get some PPGA Celerons for (And a Full-sized AT case....).

Pics of my setups can be seen here:
Pics of Rigs.

 

[Evadman]

<< Here ya go. I cleaned up a little, so you can see the floor in most places. The Magnaserver is empty, untill I find a cheap Nightshade board. Everything else is running hot. >>



It is not running at the moment, but when it is I will be running XP pro. Your basement looks like this room, but cleaner

 

[gogeeta13]

pics in sig

edit:
what my room is like...


that was after cleaning it, and stuff, itis much, much , much worse now

 

[Evadman]

Wow, you label your cables!

/me writes note to self.... Label cables like smart people do...

 

[gogeeta13]

it comes in handy when someone yells in the middle of a game "NETWORK CONNECTION UNPLUGGED???? WTF !@@#@#!#@!" so if we label em, we know which one to target, very handy, heh!

 

[Que-TiP]

Evadman-

These pictures are disturbing, yet strangeley arousing at the same time. Cool!

 

[ElFenix]

labeling is awesome, until your roommate goes and changes the network topography without relabeling the cables.


my setup looks neat in comparison to you peeps.

 

[mgpaulus]

Hey Evadman.

Just gave your pics another lookee-see, and have another Question:
Who's looking down on us from the ceiling??

Oh yeah, and another Question:
What kind of power feed do you have down there? I am thinking that I may either try myself,
or when I finish the basement, have a contractor run 1 or 2 additional 15 amp circuits down to
the WorkSHOP. Last thing I need to be doing is blowing a circuit breaker in the midst of building
the latest/newest project


<note to self> Expand basement so I can have more cool stuff like Evadman & Others!!! </note to self>

 

[cthulhu]

Nice. I have to show your pics to my wife so she gets off my back.

And as mgpaulus asked who/what is on the ceiling?

 

[Evadman]

Oh, fine. ceiling

I ran a dedicated circuit to power just that room. It is a 60 amp 240v branch. If I modify it, I should be able to pull 120 120v amps out of it. ( that hopefully will not happen. I have only blown the main once, but once is too many times. ) Basicly, it is a sub panel ( like the one your whole house has ) it is just smaller. ( a whole house is typicly 200-300 amps. )

 

[cthulhu]

Sweet! Where did you get that poster? It would make a great gift for a friend.

 

[Evadman]

Honestly, I do not remember, It is over 10 years old ( no joke ) Not sure where I got it.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

<< a whole house is typicly 200-300 amps. >>



Holy Jeez - I wish I could get 300A service I only have 100A service and 200A service costs a S#!tload to have put in, and they don't even offer more than 200 for "residential"

 

[Jeff7]

Oooh, me want!!! So many computers! *drool*

 

[Evadman]

<<

<< a whole house is typicly 200-300 amps. >>



Holy Jeez - I wish I could get 300A service I only have 100A service and 200A service costs a S#!tload to have put in, and they don't even offer more than 200 for "residential" >>



Guess it depends on the area. Here in Chicago the new homes are getting 200 amp service, but for a few $ you can upgrade to 300. Older homes such as the ones in schaumburg are running 60 amp service, and I was out at a customers house ( I work at Home Depot ) and I ran into some older than God cloth insulated wire. That was nice.