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  • R Ray Cassick

    Holly .... errrrr ... you know what... This thing SCREAMS! I have never seen a system so fast and it rocks pulling up task manager and seeing 8 (yes that is an eight!) CPU graphs :) 8 fans and it is still softer sounding than my last P4 desktop. I will be spending the next week gettin' the place all comfy and setup but it is going to be worth it. Time to fill up that 800 Gigs of HD space and 4Gig or RAM with VS.NET :)


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    Bradml
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    What Brand???

    Brad Australian Have you tried Rebooting it?

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    • R Ray Cassick

      Holly .... errrrr ... you know what... This thing SCREAMS! I have never seen a system so fast and it rocks pulling up task manager and seeing 8 (yes that is an eight!) CPU graphs :) 8 fans and it is still softer sounding than my last P4 desktop. I will be spending the next week gettin' the place all comfy and setup but it is going to be worth it. Time to fill up that 800 Gigs of HD space and 4Gig or RAM with VS.NET :)


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      NormDroid
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      :omg: Would be worth seeing how Vista RC2 performs on it.

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      • B Bradml

        What Brand???

        Brad Australian Have you tried Rebooting it?

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        JBurkey
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        Bradml wrote:

        What Brand??? Brad Australian Have you tried Rebooting it?

        Systems like that, and at that price, don't come branded... He build that puppy. And I think it will reboot just fine. J

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          Ray Cassick wrote:

          $2600. Not bad really considering the horse power it has.

          Can you give me a link to whoever u bought that from?

          Brad Australian Have you tried Rebooting it?

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          I got it from Tiger Direct... Link[^]


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            What Brand???

            Brad Australian Have you tried Rebooting it?

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            Ray Cassick
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            SystemMax from Tiger Direct[^]


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              :omg: Would be worth seeing how Vista RC2 performs on it.

              We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them. Steve Jobs

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              Ray Cassick
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              I plan on activating hardware vitalization and playing around with VPC for that reason.


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              • R Ray Cassick

                I got it from Tiger Direct... Link[^]


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                What kind of mobo does it have? I looked at some of thier lower end barebones systems, and the boards they used were outright nasty.

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                • R Ray Cassick

                  Holly .... errrrr ... you know what... This thing SCREAMS! I have never seen a system so fast and it rocks pulling up task manager and seeing 8 (yes that is an eight!) CPU graphs :) 8 fans and it is still softer sounding than my last P4 desktop. I will be spending the next week gettin' the place all comfy and setup but it is going to be worth it. Time to fill up that 800 Gigs of HD space and 4Gig or RAM with VS.NET :)


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                  Nitron
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                  How u likin' that Sky? She looks like a blast to drive! I got 2 kids to load in a back seat, so I ended up 'settling' for a (6.0L 400HP) Goat[^] a few months back. ;)

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                  • D Dan Neely

                    What kind of mobo does it have? I looked at some of thier lower end barebones systems, and the boards they used were outright nasty.

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                    Ray Cassick
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                    Supermicro X7DVL-E[^] The only thing that I really don't like right now is that it does not have any x16 PCIe slots so I have to use PCI video cards.


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                    • D Dave Sexton

                      :envy: Me wants one...

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                      Thats why I got one :)


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                      • E Eytukan

                        Oh well, that's not so expensive. It's only 4 times the budget I have for my PC ;P


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                        Ashley van Gerven
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                        No, not expensive at all :) Expensive would be a voodoo gaming PC[^] *STARTING* at US$6000!! :omg:

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                          How u likin' that Sky? She looks like a blast to drive! I got 2 kids to load in a back seat, so I ended up 'settling' for a (6.0L 400HP) Goat[^] a few months back. ;)

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                          Ray Cassick
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                          That car rocks! I have never driven a more solid feeling auto. I would like to have a bit more HP but for the price she is VERY worth it. I have had people driving BMW speedsters tell me that they feel they got ripped off because of what they paid :)


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                            I plan on activating hardware vitalization and playing around with VPC for that reason.


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                            You'll need Virtual PC 2007 Beta or Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 2 for hardware virtualization to have any effect. Also, it still doesn't emulate a DirectX 9.0-compatible video card so you won't get Glass. To get the Virtual Machine Additions for Vista RCs, you need to sign up for the Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta at connect.microsoft.com[^].

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                            • R Ray Cassick

                              Supermicro X7DVL-E[^] The only thing that I really don't like right now is that it does not have any x16 PCIe slots so I have to use PCI video cards.


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                              Looks like an old server board, which fits with thier desktop practice of dumping the junk they can't sell into the barebones systems.

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                              • R Ray Cassick

                                Holly .... errrrr ... you know what... This thing SCREAMS! I have never seen a system so fast and it rocks pulling up task manager and seeing 8 (yes that is an eight!) CPU graphs :) 8 fans and it is still softer sounding than my last P4 desktop. I will be spending the next week gettin' the place all comfy and setup but it is going to be worth it. Time to fill up that 800 Gigs of HD space and 4Gig or RAM with VS.NET :)


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                                And what are you planning to do with it? Marc

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                                  Ok, fair 'nuff:

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                                  [drool]

                                  :wtf: Where did you get that smiley?


                                  I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

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                                    [drool]

                                    :wtf: Where did you get that smiley?


                                    I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

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                                    Drew it, years ago. Don't often use it though.

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                                    • M Marc Clifton

                                      And what are you planning to do with it? Marc

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                                      People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
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                                      People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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                                      Ray Cassick
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                                      My intent was (besides ending up with one kick-butt piece of equipment :) ) was to try to future proof myself for a while. I am in the habit of hardware swapping every few years and wanted something that I could keep for quite a while that was not going to leave me wanting more after 18 months or so. That and the wife dared me to buy a Xeon system :)


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                                      • J JBurkey

                                        Bradml wrote:

                                        What Brand??? Brad Australian Have you tried Rebooting it?

                                        Systems like that, and at that price, don't come branded... He build that puppy. And I think it will reboot just fine. J

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                                        I am very pleased with the restart performance actually. Aside from the time it takes to display the SATA config to the screen and give you a chance to press CTRL-I to configure Raid on it the boot up time from cold to desktop is between 45 seconds to one minute.


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                                        • P peterchen

                                          :drool:

                                          Ray Cassick wrote:

                                          Dual Intel Xeon 5050

                                          Arethey dual core w/ Hyperthreading?


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                                          Ray Cassick
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                                          Yes. Task manager shows me 8 CPU gauges :)


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