Dual AMD Opteron 244 CPU's @ 1.8Ghz Asus K8N-DL Motherboard (with latest BIOS) 2GB ECC DDR-333 RAM Nvidia 6800 Ultra 512MB PCIe Video Card Seagate 500GB 7200 RPM SATA-II Hard Drive Samsung DVD-ROM Optical Drive Lian-Li Tower Microsoft Windows 7 Beta Ultimate This machine is perfect. Please e-mail an...

Posted by ScuttleMonkey (82% noise) View Skip Stephen Birch writes “Following closely behind the mid-November 2.06 release of VirtualBox, Sun Microsystems has released version 2.1. This has a number of new features, but one of the most interesting is the ability to run a 64-bit VM inside a 32-...

Pimp My Drive by Richard and Barb There’s remarkably little information online about using MySQL on ZFS, successfully or not, so I did what any enterprising geek would do: Built a box, threw some data on it, and tossed it into production to see if it would sink or swim. I’m a Linux geek,...

Single-thread processor performance has stalled for a few years now. Intel and AMD have tried to compensate by multiplying cores, but the software world has not risen to the challenge, mostly because the problem is a genuinely hard one. Shell scripts are still usually serial, and increasingly at odd...

A pair of reports in the IT blogosphere talk about Hewlett-Packard returning to the operating environment creation workbench. InfoWorld has a report which comments on a  BusinessWeek article, both outlining an HP project to build a desktop OS which doesn't require Windows. Linux will form the c...

Best Practise BIOS patching for Sun Intel and AMD x86 systems ( a follow on from the SPARC firmware blog ) History For many Solaris system administrators BIOS didn't exist because the vast majority where on SPAR systems and they had the OBP ( I'll not bore everyone with the long version of how simpl...

I have a matched pair of 1 GB PC3200 Desktop DDR memory sticks(for a total of 2 x 1 dual-channel capable) and a dual-core Socket 939 AMD Opteron 175 CPU for sale. These have seen gentle-to-average use, the CPU is a little over a year old and the RAM is about a year and a half old. Specs on the RAM: ...

My Dell PowerEdge T105 server (as referenced in my previous post [1]) is now working. It has new memory (why replace just the broken DIMM when you can replace both) and a new BIOS (Dell released an “Urgent” update yesterday that fixes a problem with memory timing and Opteron CPUs). The B...

Today I received a Dell PowerEDGE T105 for use by a client. My client had some servers for development and testing hosted in a server room at significant expense. They also needed an offsite backup of critical data. So I suggested that they buy a cheap server-class machine, put it on a fast ADSL con...

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops AMD may be busy sorting out issues with its quad-core Phenoms and hard at work on "completely different" chip architectures, but that isn't stopping the company from aggressively updating its roadmap, announcing today plans for 6- and 12-core server-grade Opterons. Bot...