27 Nov
2004
27 Nov
'04
2:17 a.m.
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:50:04 GMT
Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com> wrote:
He. I have an extra machine room and run extension cables through the
wall. So I don't care about noise. :-)
Ahh, yes, hmmm, Tezro.
I have three Indigos (left out of six),
Dead
PSUs? At the Unix-AG we had six Indigos. Only one is alive. The
other machines died the suden PSU death.
At home I have two Personal Iris (a 4D30 and a loaded 4D35), A R4k with
the simple LG1 framebuffer and a R3k Indigo without GFX. A R4k4-150
Indy, a R4k4-200 Extreme Indogo2, a R10k-195 Impact Indigo2 (the machine
I am sitting in front of right now) and an Octane. (R12k-300, ESSI + ESI
dual head, 2 GB RAM, PCI card cage with additional SCSI and FDDI, total
of 36 GB disk, CD-RW, DLT) The Octane is my main machine. I am lusting
for faster CPUs, now that R12k-400 is coming into the sub 100,-EUR
area... Dual CPU would be even better but is verry expensive. And VPro
V6 GFX is coming down in price too.
and a 16-processor x 180MHz R10K Origin2000.
A
Origin2000 is nice, but I would prefere an Onyx2000. ;-)
What I really
want one of these days is a nice Dual Processor Octane
with R12000 CPU's.
Have you heard one? Have you got a pair of comfortable ear
defenders? Have you seen the articles on futuretech about
modifying an R5K2 O2
for a (much) faster processor?
That is nice. But keep in mind that the O2 is a bit
limited. Its UMA
architecture steals memory bandwith from the CPU and doesn't like the
R1[0246]k CPUs. Also the GFX is specialized on video stuff. The O2 will
be _very_ slow for 3D stuff. So it depends on your particular needs if
you can go with an O2 or if you should look for an Octane.
What I'd
really like is a nice new Quad Processor
R16000A-based Tezro, but there is no way I can afford a brand new
SGI Workstation.
Me neither, unfortunately :-( And work have stopped buying/suuporting SGI :-(
And SGI is going to kill IRIX / MIPS for Linux / Itanium. (I have to
admit I would take a nice PRISM for free, ignoring its Intel CPU. ;-) )
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/