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Dual processors!
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It's currently running with 512MB RAM (2x128MB, 1x256MB) with one open SDRAM slot remaining.
The built-in video was something like an ATI RageXL or something like that, so it has an ATI Radeon 9250 PCI video card.
The hard drives are Ultra3 SCSI, but the controller on the motherboard only goes up to Ultra2. Currently it has 18GB and 36GB 10k RPM hard drives in it with possibly an extra 36GB drive in its future.
The built-in video was something like an ATI RageXL or something like that, so it has an ATI Radeon 9250 PCI video card.
The hard drives are Ultra3 SCSI, but the controller on the motherboard only goes up to Ultra2. Currently it has 18GB and 36GB 10k RPM hard drives in it with possibly an extra 36GB drive in its future.
Dual PIIIs actually run Linux REALLY well. I used to have a Dual PIII/800 socket 370 board in my Linux machine (I gave it to my dad when I got the Mac Pro) with a GeForce 5700GT graphics card in it. That ran everything in Ubuntu 7.04 with style.
A lot of people take for granted the disadvantage of dual CPUs, especially in UNIX-like OSs. You don't just gain the power of another CPU, you get better overall performance in a heavily multithreaded environment like UNIX or Linux when the system is running a lot of single processes at once. That's one of the reasons OS X has prospered so well on Dual Core Intel chips where Windows XP, and to a lesser extent Vista do not do so well on the same rig.
A lot of people take for granted the disadvantage of dual CPUs, especially in UNIX-like OSs. You don't just gain the power of another CPU, you get better overall performance in a heavily multithreaded environment like UNIX or Linux when the system is running a lot of single processes at once. That's one of the reasons OS X has prospered so well on Dual Core Intel chips where Windows XP, and to a lesser extent Vista do not do so well on the same rig.
Currently it's the normal one. While I can do some stuff on the command line, I'm not totally comfortable with just removing the GUI completely just yet.
Also the Development version of ColdFusion server can only be accessed by the machine it is on plus two other IP addresses so I wanted to be able to mess around with it on the same machine.
From memory, Intel only started doing integrated video about 2002-3 with the i810. I think before that most intel reference boards used ATi or Cirrus Logic chips. My 1999 era L440GX+ Intel dual PIII server mobo has a Cirrus Logic CL8225 on it. I've not met anything pre-2002 with an Intel Gfx chip on it AFAIK.
Don't forget the Intel i740 video chipset. It was a total failure from what I remember, but it led to improvements which brought about the i810 and its successors.
lol - Intel 740...I remember back in 1998 one of my mates bought this whiz-bang PII/350, and it actually had an AGP card with an Intel i740...its likw, why bother? 
I'm sorry, but IMHO that was a waste of an AGP slot. Then again, maybe not, considering he was upgrading from a 486
I'm sorry, but IMHO that was a waste of an AGP slot. Then again, maybe not, considering he was upgrading from a 486
Hey, I had one of those!lol - Intel 740...I remember back in 1998 one of my mates bought this whiz-bang PII/350, and it actually had an AGP card with an Intel i740...its likw, why bother?
At least it was better than the S3 Virge chipset for 3-d graphics.....
I still know where one is if I wanted to buy it. [
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The processors arrived today so I'll find out how much they help with Ubuntu.
Both of them have fans while the original processor does not so I have bought a couple of adapters to allow them to connect to Molex connectors.
As soon as I get home I can take the server out of the car and see how things go with it.
Both of them have fans while the original processor does not so I have bought a couple of adapters to allow them to connect to Molex connectors.
As soon as I get home I can take the server out of the car and see how things go with it.
Correct. The first Intel graphics chipset was the i740 AGP card, and the first "integrated graphics chipset" was the i810. (The i740 is, to this day, Intel's only add-in graphics chipset.) Before that, Intel used third-party graphics chipsets on the motherboard. (And Intel has *NEVER* made a "server-class" motherboard that used Intel-branded integrated graphics. Even the modern server boards use an ATI or some other third-party graphics chipset.)
i740 was really meant to be the launching point for AGP. It was developed to make sure that there would be SOMETHING available for the (then-new) AGP bus, even if third-party graphics companies avoided the bus.
And one side bit: The L440GX board used Intel's workstation 440GX chipset, which was just a beefed up 440BX chipset. It had an AGP interface on the chipset, but a bridge chip was used to turn the AGP interface into a 66 MHz PCI interface, so the L440GX had two 66 MHz PCI slots in addition to its regular complement of 33 MHz PCI slots. (I worked for Intel's server division when the L440GX was a "current" board, and I was the lead "Product Support Engineer" for that board, plus other boards.) I loved the L440GX, and a friend/former coworker still has one running in an Intel "Astor II" chassis (my favorite case ever) as a MUD/MUX server, that has been running continuously since 1999. (Although it was turned off twice for two moves.) It's current uptime is... (Telnetting in, since I have an admin account on it,) 3 years, 2 months, 17 days, 20 hours, 5 minutes, 33 seconds, *BEEP*.) Yes, it's running Linux. Checking the calendar, yup. That's when he moved to his current house.
Geez! What about power outages, etc?
I have a Dual P III 800 512 Mb Ram a single 30 Gb HD - Ubuntu 7.04 Server .... it hosts my Wiki (personal jeep info ) and phpBB Forum..... Nice little boxes ... i was going to host it on a Gateway 930 - Dual P III 1.4 Ghz, 1 Gb memory - raid 5 x 6 18 Gb Drives ........ but the mobo gave up the ghost when I pulled it out to set it up. and people on ebay want stupid money for old server parts $ 820 - 950 WTF 8-o
They're in and it's niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice! [] ]'>
It's feels almost as fast as my Athlon64 3200 machine. The only issue I have is that the slot brackets don't make contact with the chips/heatsinks. Dell's ductwork on the processors had to be removed since is mounted on the CPU heatsink.
] ]'>It's feels almost as fast as my Athlon64 3200 machine. The only issue I have is that the slot brackets don't make contact with the chips/heatsinks. Dell's ductwork on the processors had to be removed since is mounted on the CPU heatsink.
Glad to hear ............
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