June 2013 - Dual Opteron Box Update
Channel: Sudos
Date: 04/06/2013

Nothing's changed much. 250GB drive in place of the 80GB drive that was there, still doing scratch and swap duties. playing around with ideas to move some cables, etc. as well as ideas for a better wireless card in preparation for future movement of the system.

LCD in this video is the same 17" trash-picked one that really is quite vibrant. I'm definitely keeping it for the long-haul, and I can't imagine why someone would just throw that out on the curbside.

Here's a picture of my brother's current setup as said: http://a.pomf.se/8Mr0.jpg
note the 8800GTS is mine, and he's either going to go back to his 5570 or get a better card. or, alternatively, my 9800GT which is still better than the 5570. but I'm not givng that up without monetary compensation. the 8800GTS is a special case, it's more its maiden voyage for stability, he hasn't said there's any problems though and he's able to view Youtube videos in 1080 with hardware acceleration on and all that hubbub, so I don't see any problems. He hasn't told me how good it's been with Minecraft and his usual games he plays on Steam, though. seeing as the 8800GTS-320/GTX/+/Ultra all can't do hardware accelerated HD video decoding, I'd assume most of it is CPU-based, and the 8350 does that completely flawlessly.

but as I've said, I can't go to that sort of thing for a computer next time, I'm too spoiled by dual-CPUs. Next stop is Vishera-based Opterons.