Locust back up
Background: Locust finally received some new hardware to make it a decent secondary rig, and in honor of it’s rebirth, I decided to give it a new look with some stain and basically do a better job of rerouting everything….
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Computers and Mods
Locust Reborn
In making an entry to the Locust pages, I just noticed that It’s been about a year since I’ve done any mods or anything to it. Wow. Anyway, I got to feeling antsy about my hardware so I bought a…
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New motherboard for Earthquake
I recently picked up a new A7v266-E motherboard and an Athlon XP 2000+ processor for very cheap off of ebay, so I decided to throw that processor/mobo combo into the old Locust and upgrade Earthquake slightly from an XP 1600+…
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Plague’s poor man’s array
In another attempt to appease my modding urge, I’ve redone Plague again, this time adding the temporary array from the old Headcrash setup to this box. Basically, I wanted to see if I could stuff four 10,000 rpm SCSI drives…
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Headcrash SCSI benchmarks
While reinstalling Win2k server on Headcrash, I decided to take some time to run some benchmarks against the storage subsystem to see what would make the best setup out of the hardware I had on hand. Here are the results…
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Still More Headcrash Modding
In a continued frenzy of modding, I’ve completely redesigned Headcrash to be a lean, mean rig. It’s been stripped down of all extra hardware and now exists to serve up test web pages, dedicated game servers and act as a…
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Temporary drive array
Here are some pics from the temporary drive array that I’ve set up on Headcrash. This is a temporary setup until I can complete the redesign of its case with some new mods. The array itself is four lumber straps…
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Plague Facelift
Plague got a facelift over the weekend, becoming a shiny new Windows XP Professional box with the old ASUS 8200 Pure GeForce3 card from Earthquake to make it a better gaming rig. It still moves pretty well for a four…
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New video card for Earthquake
I purchased an ATI RADEON 8500LE card for less than $75 and put it in over the weekend. It felt weird not going to the NVIDIA support site for the latest video card drivers. But this card is quite a…
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Adding SCSI to Headcrash
I scrounged up a bunch of cheap 10krpm SCSI drives and an array controller from Compaq, so I decided to add another array to Headcrash to store CD-ROM Images and for an excuse to mod up the HX08 case to…
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