So, in Comp Sci, theres one kid (herein, Logan) and I who are more-than-averagely knowledgeable. The teacher saw this quick (of course she did, she's had us both before) so instead of grading us for our lab performance (which is basically reading info from My Computer's properties pane, thusfar) we're charged to assimilate two (or more) lab machines into one, for those with broken essensial parts.
Afterwards, theres a ton of leftover pieces from the now even more dead "piece" computers, so with those we're upgrading a single machine into the ground (and back).
Average specs, starting out:
128MB RAM
8MB Video Card, AGP
4GB Hard Drive
Pentium II, 400-something MHz.
Current specs on our "retrofitted" machine:
256MB RAM, two sticks
8MB Video Card, AGP
2x 4GB Hard Drive
Same processor
So far I've got the following parts lined up for introduction into the system tomorrow:
30GB Hard Drive (knocking one of the 4GB's out)
3x Only-God-Knows-What-Specs PCI video cards
I'll probably salvage another stick of RAM tomorrow, and then find a way to fit all three video cards in at once. From there it's just getting kids out of a row of computers and sticking all their monitors together.
Also, it's a non-OEM mobo, so we're going to look into overclocking. It's not like we don't have another P2 to stick in if we launch one out of the case.
Wish us luck and no fatalities. :)
EDIT -
Logan registered on these forums as Zagaroth. :)
yeah... im the one crazy enough to work with him.... so what...
crazy makes stuff work... if we dont blow it up first.................
Speaking of which, I couldn't find my grounding strap today. Oh well.
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(23:51:52) [x86] Joe: I just had an idea
(23:52:04) [x86] Joe: which could be either very good or very bad, depending on how you look at it
(23:52:15) [x86] Joe: I found an old electric train controller
(23:52:24) [x86] Joe: works as a neat dimmer-switch type thing
(23:52:31) [x86] Joe: We can run fans at varying speeds, lol
(23:53:02) [x86] Joe: We could daisy-chain all the extra fans together, glue them to a piece of paper, and make it take off and fly.
lol@daisy chain.
we are definitly gonna blow something up with you thinking like that Joe..... Lets try it :D
Note to self: OpenSourceMark.
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I need to see how many spare fans I have laying around though.
heh lets have fun blowing up the lab... maybe take out some of the noobs in our class with our computer...
What.. shooting stuff out of it? :-\.
That was awesome when I set the fan in backwards and annoyed the crap out of everyone until the teacher told me to knock it off. She's a bit of an ass. Minus the part about a bit.
well we get a normal teacher to annoy tomarrow...well today... w/e yeah lets see if things can explode and break and fly around the room... maybe hurt someone.... idk how but maybe overclock the CPU to like 1.5 Ghz heh...
You're a little weird.
I think we should start out with overclocking with current speed x 1.5. That way it can not be quite as painful when it blows up, and has a slight chance of working. We should probably glue those extra fans to the processor, though...
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I've got some heatsinks in my box in the front of the room, too.
Yeah guys, I'm cool enough to have my own box in the CS classroom to put stuff in, lol.
i say we get a cold heat solder thing and solder some sticks of ram up so they can both run on one port and do the same with the CPUs heh
and then we make the case into solid heatsyncs and fans
other than that i think we would get shot we should try anyway
o yeah and you should get yourself on IRC.... irc.reality-irc.com #partychat
Quote from: Zagaroth on February 14, 2007, 10:37:03 PM
o yeah and you should get yourself on IRC.... irc.reality-irc.com #partychat
#partychat. lol.
irc.b3t4.org #beta
Only channel worth chilling in.
Quote from: Zagaroth on February 14, 2007, 10:35:40 PM
i say we get a cold heat solder thing and solder some sticks of ram up so they can both run on one port and do the same with the CPUs heh
and then we make the case into solid heatsyncs and fans
other than that i think we would get shot we should try anyway
I don't know about soldering the extra ram together (K might kill us..), but if you can find some kind of processor board to allow two P2 chips to be placed on one board, let me know.
you two freaks at it again eh? :P zag and joe
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Quote from: Zagaroth on February 14, 2007, 10:35:40 PM
i say we get a cold heat solder thing and solder some sticks of ram up so they can both run on one port and do the same with the CPUs heh
That doesn't make any sense.
Nope, but it'd be fun to do.
it makes sence in my head so it "can" work. not gonna say i have the crap to make it work
but it is possible
Quote from: Zagaroth on February 27, 2007, 11:27:51 PM
it makes sence in my head so it "can" work. not gonna say i have the crap to make it work
but it is possible
Disclaimer, if any of what you said was a joke, read no further.
I have no doubt that you (or anyone with any amount of cognitive skill) could solder two sticks of RAM together and figure out how to attach it to the port. That's not the problem. Unless you have a degree in computer engineering or some related field, I'm inclined to believe you haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about. If it were so simple to branch a RAM port, why do you think that there aren't devices on the market that make this possible?
I'm not sure if you're trying to sound intelligent by trying to invent activities that are beyond the scope of the other members' experience, but just in the case that this is true, I'll give you a warning: we have some wildly intelligent and experienced people here. Don't misunderestimate (yes, I know that's a Bushism) us. :P
He knows it won't work. He's a pyromaniac and insists on blowing things up. :)
What stuff has he blown up?
Quote from: Joex86] link=topic=8597.msg110687#msg110687 date=1172646296]
He knows it won't work. He's a pyromaniac and insists on blowing things up. :)
That's just asinine.
Quote from: Deuce on February 28, 2007, 02:17:38 AM
What stuff has he blown up?
We tried to overclock a Pentium 2 to faster than the speed of your mom, but it's on an Intel mobo, so obviously it didn't work.
How is that blowing anything up? ???
Sidoh's mom is pretty bright. Faster than 300MHz, at least.
"You know, I still think it's possible to do that with the RAM. Everyone's just too lazy to try it."
--Zagaroth
Quote from: Joex86] link=topic=8597.msg110982#msg110982 date=1172900059]
"You know, I still think it's possible to do that with the RAM. Everyone's just too lazy to try it."
--Zagaroth
I'm convinced he's technologically incompetent.
So am I. :)