TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:Wireless wrote:Fitted a 400 Watt ATX PSU into a 4U Antec Rackmount, along with fitting the motherboard stand offs, and measuring whether I need ATX Power Extension Cables (I do), to fit a Socket 939 Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro SLI Mobo with AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ and 4GB RAM. Have most parts ready, Nvidia GT 710, Skystar 2 Sat Receiver Card, just waiting on a I/O Blanking Plate to arrive from the US before fitting.
What the he'll are you even building? Also I have my doubts if a video card that new will work on a first gen PCIe board.
Well, this is a Weather Satellite Data Receiver, using a USB Dongle for decryption of EUMETSAT MeteorSat Data, 24/7, to predict aurora formation for DX between 50MHz -146MHz. I have a Licence from OFCOM & EUMETSAT to receive these encrypted feeds.
It should run alright with the GT 710 since I have a virtually identical machine running Processing Software on the data saved by the machine I'm building, the only hardware differences being a Socket 939 Gigabyte GA-K8NXP SLI Mobo, minus the Skystar Card, which runs fine on soak test for the last week running Windows 7 Pro, running driver V388.71, I've had it running SETI@Home without any issues 100% CPUs 100% CPU Time, the CUDA Tasks seem to fly through in around 2 hours, where as each Core takes around 5 to 6 hours.
Neither machine will obviously run SETI or BOINC when they start looking at Weather Satellite Data, I'll uninstall them, but this set up is more than quick enough to handle the design purpose, and I had to buy a new video card as I have nothing newer than 15 years old in my parts bin. So I bought the oldest and cheapest PCI-E
Today I fitted the Processor Rackmount in the Cabinet, and prepared my work surface to start the build of the second machine.
In a couple of weeks I hope to have gathered the final parts to fit together a Windows 98SE Machine which I'm hoping to use to run an on-screen HF Receiver to scan 5MHz frequencies
8086-8, 286-16, 386DX-40, 486DX4-100, K5 PR166, K6-2 550, K6-3 450, 3x XP 3200+, 64 3700+,
2x 64 X2 4400+, Phenom II X2 220, Phenom II X6 1100T, Athlon X4 845, FX-8370.
Laptops 1110, 600E, 2200, C640, 1520, D830, 3558. Sinclairs + Playstations.