push and pull gives the best results, you can get an approximation of that by having an exhust fan close to the TRUE. But the fan you mount _on_ the cpu should be mounted such that it blows through the cooler, towards the exhaust fan.

Wut? I would tighten those screws up a fair bit, and check how the ramsinks are. The board wont die from being abit bent, but it will die from overheating... Also I thought the accelero has four screws? http://bilder.wibla.net/p182rebuild/DSC_7273_Big?full=1 <- 7950GT + HR-03, that board is bent.. w...

It all depends on what stuff you put in it.. if you put the right fans in etc, it wont matter much anyway. the main gripe I had with the P182 was lack of airflow in the upper chamber, but a kama bay sorted that out, especially with a nexus fan.

That server was in a room where people smoked, also got cats, so its kinda doomed...

Neat hackintosh

That's typical, what case do you have? also you dont have to buy the newest and greatest gfx card, even mid-end today is overkill for most games...

Seems like it


Tagan PSU that was in this box for 2 years, damn nasty...

SSD RAID1 ? any special reason for this?

CPU Cooler is way wrong tho, get something else.

Thats not an issue

Doubt it does much difference really :) The ramsinks could need some work tho, the glue is really crappy, almost didnt manage to get one of em on, silly stuff. Seems to stay for the time being tho, guess I'll have to check from time to time to avoid nuking the card. Idle temps are about the same as ...

I always swap out the stock fans (and preferably heatsinks) for something better, tends to help ALOT

Small update, new gfx card bought a few months ago, finally got around to silence it..


GTS250 + Accelero S1 rev2



Edit: idle temps from speedfan after accelero S1 rev2..

Get the CX400 if you need that kind of wattage and dont mind using zipties to tidy up the surplus cables

Ah, the 500Gb model might be "new", but the line isnt

Looks good .. and im a tad envious of that rig, so small, yet more powerful than my P182 rig..

Its not new the LP drives have been tested here at SPCR - http://www.silentpcreview.com/seagate-5 ... ard-drives

I have 16 of the 1.5TB drives myself, good drives

So i realized.. and most of it is enabled already... # ethtool -k eth3 Offload parameters for eth3: Cannot get device flags: Operation not supported rx-checksumming: on tx-checksumming: on scatter-gather: on tcp segmentation offload: on udp fragmentation offload: off generic segmentation offload: on...

Yea, they should be fine for that I guess.

I have an Intel pci-e card currently, not sure how much offloading it supports, but thanks for the idea, much appreciate it

Whatever happened to the coolermaster stacker STC-T01? idiots at coolermaster cancelled production of one of their better cases

Yes, that should do fine for a 100mbit setup. I am cpu limited for ftp transfers with my 3.2GHz Celeron, tops out at about 800mbit/s.

I'd get 2-4GB ram if possible, that way you dont really need to think about it. I've got 2GB in that server now, and its definently not enough.

The Norco 4020 is a pretty decent 4U with 20 hotswap SATA/SAS bays, I was considering one, but decided against it seeing as I already had a stacker I could upgrade, and I didnt want to modify the norco to keep it at a reasonable noise level...

It's called munin, I use it to monitor all my machines Very easy to setup, and easy to make plugins for it aswell. I use it on linux, dunno about windows support for the graphing engine itself.

Performance progression with tweaking etc: 2.6.30-amd64 kernel on 32bit etch userland - first testing, bad results: Version 1.03 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %C...

Your solo cant take enough drives for the PSU to matter

Yeah I know.. I'm not fortunate enough to live in an area with fibre internet, so im stuck at 8mbit adsl2+ for now... but that doesnt matter really, its fast enough for my needs..

8mbit

That post from diskusjon.no is actually in norwegian, although he does refer to germany a couple of times in the text, something about missing components, and scythe shipping the part from Germany.

Replaced WD 30GB PATA with Samsung 320GB PATA for much improved performance on system stuff, and alot less noise... Went from Debian Etch with Lenny-backports 2.6.30-amd64 kernel to Debian Lenny with stock 2.6.26-2-amd64 kernel, and to my surprise performance increased ALOT. Version 1.03d ------Sequ...

I'm not doing anything to compromise the stability of the cpu, as I'm running swraid I cant afford any oddities. The cpu fan isnt really audible outside the case either. The WD 30GB is on the shortlist of stuff to fix, and im contemplating getting a Xigmatek 1283 for the cpu, as I did on the 9.1TB b...