Markm80521 said:
Glenn,
What do you do with that? That is amazing power! I have about half that i've strung together through various bits and pieces for a music composition/editing box as well as CAD designs. Something like that would yawn at it. Do you run it as a server?
Mark
Thanks.
I do not use it as a server.... my web servers are Dual Xeons. What do I do with it? Aside from web browsing and email, I do tinker with some video/audio file compression/conversion (mostly Helix Producer, but doing some Windows Media), and I tinker with Photoshop and Dreamweaver Studio MX. Still learning that stuff, and need to learn a whole bunch more flash.
When I am encoding video, or streaming, it tends to really use the CPU.
Most of my work is done with FTP, and SSH while managing the Web Hosting gig. None of these alone tend to require too much power, but I tend to be doing way too many things at once, and dragging previous builds down to a crawl.
This box started as an Athlon 800. Over the last couple years, it grew from that into an Athlon XP 2000, and now up to Intel power. I have not been able to really choke this newest build, so that makes me happy. I sit at this thing anywhere from 10-14 hours a day, so it was a good treat for me. Of course, I am never happy, so I try to squeek as much performance out as I can.... usually getting me in trouble at some point.
I just gotta keep the wife away. Hers is a 450 AMD, and I think she would steal mine if she tried it. I am going to upgrade here to the Athlon 2000 I removed from this one, but need to pick her up a new case first, as the Motherboard will not git in her current case.
I do love to tinker.
Glenn