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Mr Fahrenheit’s conquests

MrFahrenheit

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those paintings on page 1 are actually very good..who did those?
They were all painted by Mike Wehner in Indiana. He has a lot of stuff on eBay and elsewhere.

 

MrFahrenheit

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Childhood memories for me there. I had the middle Warcraft II box there, Tides of Darkness. Played many many hours of it as a kid, and it's still my favourite Warcraft release. I wish they would do a re-release of II.

I loved Tides of Darkness, too. We used to pile a car full of friends and drive across town to setup a LAN someplace, and play WC2 late into the night and early morning hours.

Then it was Starcraft, and Marathon. Those were great days.
 

MrFahrenheit

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Heatsink engineering is underrated. They're interesting objects.
Definitely! I was introduced to well-engineered heat sinks in 2008 when I built my first real server. Well, real for me, anyways. Prior to that all of my servers were stock Macs (G3/G4/G5). Actually, the first server at work was a IIsi.

I needed a solution for cooling that didn’t involve any fans because the server was in a very dusty environment and I didn’t want fan failure to take down the server.

The local computer store discussed it at length amongst themselves and recommended the Scyth Ninja and that’s what I used on a set of Pentium servers I built and deployed in 2008.

In 2012 I built a bunch of Xeon servers to replace them, and the Ninja wasn’t available any longer. Speaking with the salesman at a different company, he recommended the Noctua D14. Presently I have 3 Xeon servers deployed using that setup. Built in 2012, running 24/7, no fans on the CPU (there are case fans though), without any issues.

This one pictured is one replacement for one of those, which I’ve been working on for…. 6 years. Things keep coming up at work that prevent me from working on the project and I don’t get much time for it. Fortunately the 2012 Xeon servers still work just great, but we all know time is against them.

This one pictured will be a 22 core v4 Xeon, with 256GB DDR4 RAM, and 5x Intel Optane 900p 280GB NVMe PCIe drives(all in RAID 1 for redundancy). I chose this Noctua P1 heat sink because it was designed by Noctua to be passive from the ground up, which is important to me.

I’ve benchmarked the 5 Optane drives to 10GB/sec read and write. These Optane drives have crazy high IOPS, perfect for a high transaction server.

I realize this is a Mac friendly site, but some workloads just work better on x86 Linux.
 
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