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My
Computers...
So far I have the following computers
participating in Einstein@Home
with some others waiting in the
wings:
2600K |
Phenom |
WO |
Core2Quad |
iccleBeast |
BIOSTAR |
G43T |
Phenom2 |
P5NE |
TBA |
2600K is my main computer
and most of the time it runs
Windows 10 although it can also
BOOT to Ubuntu. It features an
Intel 2600K CPU and has an
Nvidia 1060 Graphics Card also (with
capacity for another). In fact
it has a 3rd slot and in the
past I have dabbled with running
three graphics cards and even
two power supplies with this
system but using that third slot
was always problematic,
particularly from a
heat-perspective.
Phenom
resides at my mum's house and is
aptly named because it features
an AMD Phenom X6 CPU. It runs
Linux Ubuntu.
WO
is an AMD Athlon 5200+ system.
It usually uses a graphics card
to crunch data but lacks one for
now and is only number-crunching
on the CPU. It is dual-boot,
either Windows 7 or Ubuntu, but
is using the latter right now.
Core2Quad is just that,
an Intel Core2Quad-based
computer running Ubuntu, it also
has an Nvidia 1060 graphics
Card. This computer is in my
'entertainment room' and is
occasionally used to watch DVDs
on a TV screen. It's hooked up
to two old Sony amplifiers (one
for the front and one for the
rear) and nice-sounding speakers
to provide quadraphonic audio (I
much prefer this over small satelite speakers and a
subwoofer rumbling away in the
corner).
iccleBeast is not
really that now, but the
fundamentals of the system were
in a smaller case than it is
now. It has an Intel Core i5
CPU, 8GB RAM and presently a
single Nvidia 1060 graphics
card, although it originally had
two graphics cards installed. It
runs Ubuntu but also has Windows 10.
BIOSTAR is called that
because it is built around a
motherboard of that brand. It is
running on Windows 7 with an AMD
A4-5300 GPU and 8GB of RAM.
G43T is called because
of the model of the motherboard
(which is from a Dell Inspiron
560).
It is running on Ubuntu with its
Intel Core2Quad CPU. A quirk of
this system is it needs to have
a system fan (and keyboard) connected otherwise
it wont boot (the BIOS has no
option to ignore this).
Phenom2 is another AMD Phenom
X6-based system running Ubuntu.
It has 8GB of RAM; I found 4GB
wasn't quite enough for
comfortably loading the OS, BOINC and six work units.
P5NE is another Intel
Core2 Quad system running Ubuntu,
but also has Windows Vista as an
option. Potentially the P5NE-SLi
motherboard can have two
graphics cards installed in it,
but I have none spare for it.
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