Operation: Retrofit.

[Joe]

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. :)

[Zagaroth]

yeah... im the one crazy enough to work with him.... so what...
crazy makes stuff work... if we dont blow it up first.................

[Joe]

Speaking of which, I couldn't find my grounding strap today. Oh well.

EDIT -
(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.

[d&q]

lol@daisy chain.

[Zagaroth]

we are definitly gonna blow something up with you thinking like that Joe..... Lets try it :D

[Joe]

Note to self: OpenSourceMark.

EDIT -
I need to see how many spare fans I have laying around though.

[Zagaroth]

heh lets have fun blowing up the lab... maybe take out some of the noobs in our class with our computer...

[Joe]

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.

[Zagaroth]

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...

[Joe]

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...

EDIT -
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.

[Zagaroth]

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

[Zagaroth]

o yeah and you should get yourself on IRC.... irc.reality-irc.com  #partychat

[Newby]

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.

[Joe]

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.

[corndawg]

you two freaks at it again eh? :P zag and joe


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