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OT: Workstation pics?

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Originally posted by: Tetsuo316
My desk
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Nice paint job! I gotta ask, how do you keep the paint from nicking? I started painting the middle case on my rack orange, and I got the top panel done and i've already messed it up 3 times by bumping it against the rack. It seems like it nicks and scratches really easily 🙁
 
I've done three different paint jobs on different cases and they all have chips in them. The paint on the plastic bezels is very difficult to chip, but the paint on the steel is very flaky. Perhaps I didn't let the paint or primer or top coat cure long enough, but I think it has something to do with the fact that I used spray-can paint. Take a good look at the "paint" that normally covers a steel case. It's incredible! It's thick and tenacious like you wouldn't believe. It took forever to remove with my glass bead blaster. Cases take a lot of abuse and I believe the only paint that can handle it is the original beige alien crap and perhaps automotive with several layers of protective clear coat.
 
Originally posted by: Tetsuo316
I've done three different paint jobs on different cases and they all have chips in them. The paint on the plastic bezels is very difficult to chip, but the paint on the steel is very flaky. Perhaps I didn't let the paint or primer or top coat cure long enough, but I think it has something to do with the fact that I used spray-can paint. Take a good look at the "paint" that normally covers a steel case. It's incredible! It's thick and tenacious like you wouldn't believe. It took forever to remove with my glass bead blaster. Cases take a lot of abuse and I believe the only paint that can handle it is the original beige alien crap and perhaps automotive with several layers of protective clear coat.
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Well, I don't feel so bad now 🙂 The paint didn't turn out bad, it just comes off easily.

When you do nick it, how do you fix it? Do you sand all the way down and redo the whole panel?
 
When you do nick it, how do you fix it? Do you sand all the way down and redo the whole panel?
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Fix it?

😉

You see how the computer is underneath the desk? It's hard to see the chips down there. That's how I fixed it.
 
Technically part of mine has been posted already. LyNx01's rack really isn't his (I'm being nice and letting him borrow it for an extended period of time🙂).

Here is an older pic of mine

My main rig XP2000 and the duron 750 server. I've upgraded to an 1800FP too.
 
Originally posted by: amdskip
Technically part of mine has been posted already. LyNx01's rack really isn't his (I'm being nice and letting him borrow it for an extended period of time🙂).

Here is an older pic of mine

My main rig XP2000 and the duron 750 server. I've upgraded to an 1800FP too.
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The rack may be yours, but everything on it is mine mine mine 😛😀😉:Q

 
Originally posted by: HayHauler
Here is my setup. Simple, but effective.

Here is the linky....🙂


;cool:
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Forgot to describe...

On the right, botton, is wife's K62 500mhz with scanner on top. "Monitor Stand" under her monitor is old Packard Bell Pentium 60 😱 .
On the floor next to her pc is UPS for all pc's(no printers).
In the rack on bottom left is P 700 running Linux RedHat 7.3, running DXCluster software(Ham Radio Packet, AX25)
Next to it is my game server, P 900.
Black machine outside rack is XP 1800+ at 1700(my game machine)
Rack mounted (black) machine is dually PIII 933, running RedHat 8.0, e-mail and browsing machine.
Then above that is switch, cable modem, router.
Then of course printer, Lexmark 1855.
KVM switche is hidden on back of rack...

whew...

😎

EDIT : : :
Oh, yea, all windows running CLI, Linux running Unix CL, 2 units on dually.
 
OK I guess I can finally put up pictures of my stuff.

Here is my main rig Livingroom

This is an Athlon XP 1600 on a Soyo Dragon+

And here are the pictures of my fleet in my shed

Shed
Left Shelf
Right Shelf

The left shelf houses a dead A7n266-e, a Biostar M7VIG pro w/ XP 1600, a MSI 745 ultra w/ Tbred 2200, and a Epox 8KHA+ w/Tbred 1700. The 1600 is running stock and the 1700's are running at 12x166.

The left shelf has an Epox 8RDA+ w/ Tbred 1700 running 11x200😀 and a MSI K7 Pro w/ Slot A 600😱

On the bench are my works in progress. THey are Computers for my kids. Right now they are crunching SETI and Chessbrain. They are two XP 1600's and a Thunderbird 1400.

There was a Air Conditioning Unit in the window unit it died last week🙁

Well there is what most of my SETI power comes from. I have a few at work that I run it on but my computers at home average almost 60 as of right now.🙂
 
Originally posted by: LyNx01
ReaganCRW, that's a lot of rigs! :Q

Where are the pics at LANMAN?
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Yea, ReaganCRW, I like the plastic shelf "cases" you have there. Gives me an idea!
Without cases, do they run cool enough to run in the garage in South Texas?

😎
 
They work fine for me.

I like that you have an optical mouse, Klipsch speakers, and an Athlon system while your monitor and keyboard carry the Gateway 2000 name - a name that has not been used by that company in over five years.

🙂
 
Originally posted by: Tetsuo316
They work fine for me.

I like that you have an optical mouse, Klipsch speakers, and an Athlon system while your monitor and keyboard carry the Gateway 2000 name - a name that has not been used by that company in over five years.

🙂
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Links still wont work for me 🙁

Actually, I have 5 optical mice, one of which I gave my parents, and those are Logitech speakers that I got on sale at target for 30 bucks. I blew the LED in them once when I went to turn them on because I had static electricity built up 😱 Gateway 2000 monitor came from my first computer that I bought from my sister. That thing is a champ!!!!! The one next to it is even older, came from the second or maybe third family computer we had.
 
Ok, now I have some desk pics (beware, they're very disorganized and ugly):
The motherboard next to the Duron system is (when it gets set up, if ever) going to be a third cruncher / experimental system. It may stay caseless, or it may go in an old VCR case (a la Lynx01), or I may even go to the extent of building a custom wooden (or even arcylic, if affordable and doable with standard geek equipment - aka, a Dremel) enclosure for it! 😀
 
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