OT: New cool looking machine I just built for a friend - running Seti of course! Pics!

[Wiz]

NC's Machine See the Pics here!

 

[Confused]

I had a case very similar to that (different window on side panel) where I used to work, and I believe MrFiTTy has one.

They're quite nice cases

I like those LED fans too

What's the specs and Seti times on that rig?


Confused

 

[Wiz]

Totally stock cpu & memory running at fast timings gets it times that look like this:

2003 Apr 05 09:56pm 5.709,9.2 4.023 192.168.0.10 3:13
2003 Apr 05 06:43pm 22.973,18.01 0.417 192.168.0.10 3:40

The case came with the window & the clear fan, so I just went to radioshack and got the LED's & resistors - then wired them into the +5v side.
I mounted them by placing them on the corners of the fan and then used twisty tie wire through the screw mounthing holes.
Then I used a combination of contact cement & black tape to run the wiring down the inside of one of the legs of the black X so they are invisible from outside.

 

[Swanny]

Very nice work

 

[theNorse]

Nice Work Sir! The Clean Machine . . .












'it looks silent - but deadly . . .'
norse

 

[Wiz]

Thanks!

That 80G drive sure is fast!! This is the fastest booting machine I have here!

 

[deerslayer]

Very nice looking rig!

What kind of keyboard/mouse combo is that?

 

[Wiz]

Turbo Media Silver Desktop bundle with: Enhanced Windows 2K keyboard & Silver 3 button Mechanical wheel mouse -Model PCA-004 Retail

It's the first one on this page

 

[ProviaFan]

Cool machine, Wiz, and great to see it crunching away quite well.

 

[titanmiller]

Nice looking rig. Will it be running seti after the initial burn in?

 

[Wiz]

I'll have to see about that one, I don't yet know what her feelings are about the search.
She wont be getting it from me until she pays for it - so it will be running seti at least until then

 

[panhead49]

i have the same case running for the wife........they are colorfull........

 

[Wiz]

yeah, I gave this person the color choices & she said black with blue as a second choice - I'm sure she will be happy

I'd like to get a bright UV LED to put in there, the HDD cable is a rounded glow in the dark thing that I believe would light up with the addition of a UV LED.

 

[panhead49]

remember the jukeboxes of the 50's ........some had that colorfull ring/band of liquid and bubbles in the front........ just like our case......

 

[Wiz]

yeah, somebody said it reminded them of a Wurlitzer

 

[MoFunk]

OK, so I like want one of those cases!!!!! Where oh where can I get myself one?

 

[MoFunk]

Ooops, sorry. I got an error message when I posted and it went twice.

Uh...new look to the forums eh?

 

[Wiz]

Newegg has them, Raidmax case. About $59

ooh, new forum software acting pretty buggy - I got a cferror condition when I posted too but it posted the message anyway.

 

[CraigRT]

Oh yeah that's cool. Saw a few of those cases at the last LAN I was at. they are definitely not too shabby!!!

 

[CraigRT]

double post.. some sort of cold fusion error... WOOPS!

 

[MoFunk]

Thanks.

Gotta love the free double post action!

 

[MoFunk]

Thanks.

Gotta love the free double post action!

 

[Wiz]

for me if I uncheck "auto parse urls" it does not give me the error

 

[JetBlack69]

Nice :camera: (pics)

 

[Wiz]

I just delivered & set up the machine last night. She was very happy with it of course, anything I want to run on there is fine with her and to keep it running all the time isn't a problem for her either

I found that it was very easy to set up seti driver with the scheduling service on XP to start when the computer starts And no annoying little blue icon on the taskbar to be meddled with

I will need to go and offload the WU's from time to time onto a cdrw until she gets an internet connection, but that's OK as I can give the machine a checkup at those times.

All in all a very nice way to improve my set stats while providing a friends daughter with a great computer to use for her schoolwork