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Mr Fahrenheit’s conquests

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.

 
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.
 
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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