April (2006) Workstations

[Si Veteran]

Welcome to the Post Your Workstation Photos thread. In this thread you may post pics of your workstation area.

Please be mindful of our members on dial-up and try to keep the dimensions of the pics and the size of the files to a respectable size for 1024 x 768 viewers. Please refrain from quoting images in your replies.

I will also ask that you link to images on your own space, as much as possible.

The usual forum rules also apply.

Have fun!

[pyehac]

Click to make bigger

Might as well post in this thread :D

(and no, I don't use both computers like that. The laptop goes with me in my bed, while the desktop stays there)

[Whitster]

Nothing changed since last month...

Altogether

Desktop only

[trix]

i know loads and loads of people have said this before btu wouldn't it be better to make a new thread every 3months? so then the thread doesn't get too long, and your not making a new one too often (monthly)

anyway i can't find my digital camera (oh great. going to egypt soon to) and my workstation is waay to messy atm :p i'll post mine later.

Trix

[smiff]

a crap effort of a panorama of my room..

[Capt.Curran]

a crap effort of a panorama of my room..

u need to turn ur FHM calender over to april ;)

[Liandros]

nothing really different cept for a bigger monitor i got from my brother.

everything in their docks

this is a big monitor(notice the 50 cal bullet next to it)

my lucky bayonette

monitor is kinda dusty but wont stay like that for long...

[kakari]

Hello,

Pictures of my recent workshop.

I love rackmounts. So, my PCs are in Rackmount 4U and 2U. I am in progress of finalizing my setup. So, my rack is not complete as of yet. I plan to add disk array in 3U.

This is where I sit and view monitors. One's 17 inch sony lcd. The other is bell 15 inch lcd monitor. The 15 inch one is connected to my 4U which most of time spends its CPU powers for rendering CGs. Since it is a dual cpu system, I play movies almost always while it is rendeirng.

This is overall look.

The 2U's spec is

AMD 64 3200+

2gb ram

XFX geforce 7600gs (recently upgraded from 6200 to play Elder scroll 4)

3 HDD, total of 1tb.

[thermal+paste]

wow nice ^

[kakari]

Just to add two more pictures. Sorry for double post.

Since I do not always use a keyboard for the 4U, its keyboard is installed in the rack itself. I barely use the keyboard tough. It's there just in case I need it.

My rackmounts are installed with rails. So, I can pull them out with ease in case I need to open its top.

[thermal+paste]

[kenetik]

kakari: wow, very nice man.. well FREAKING SWEET... super jealous

[kakari]

kakari: wow, very nice man.. well FREAKING SWEET... super jealous

Thanks.

I had ... some fun while building the 2U.

First, 2u PSU I bought over internet wouldn't fit in the case. Well, it did fit, but there was no hole to hold it tight. In the end, I used an ATX PSU with its top off. It was slightly too tall with the top plate. So, I had to take it off.

Second, I used a 1u passive heatsink at first. Then, the system got a thermal shut down after a while. (7 minutes to be exact).

In the end, I placed a low rpm 70mm fan over it. It's been stable ever since.

[kenetik]

Do you mind me asking how much $ you've got in this?

[kakari]

Do you mind me asking how much $ you've got in this?

I didn't build them all over night. It's been 4 months so far. I originally had the everything in the 2U in a tower case.

So, the total I think, over past 4 months, has been around 2500 CDN dollars. So, around 560 per month. The costy part was building the 4U. Those ECC rams cost me an arm and a leg.

I have an amd opteron 246 I bought over ebay for 70 dollars, brand new oem cpu. It's for my next part of the project, building a custom NAS (disk array) of few TBs.

[jamend]

My setup is a bit on the temporary side... Sold my 2405FPW, waiting for the 3007WFP amongst other things (storage setup is also temporary, hence the computer guts hanging out). Also, my spare screen has a crappy stand so I made a new one out of Lego :)

[MasterC]

^That Lego stand is so cool! :laugh:

[P!P]

I normally have a neat workstation but since the Mobo in my main computer went to hell. Things are a little messy. I've been doing a little capturing. Getting all the content off my DVR. It's hard to tell but the two monitors are displaying a HDTV signal via firewire.

[ZZOOzzoo]

A very typical PowerBook + iCurve desktop. :laugh: That black laptop on the right is a Thinkpad.

I will post pictures with better light conditions when I have time. I took those pictures at 1:00 AM because I was too bored. T_T

[JohnMarsten]

My setup is a bit on the temporary side... Sold my 2405FPW, waiting for the 3007WFP amongst other things (storage setup is also temporary, hence the computer guts hanging out). Also, my spare screen has a crappy stand so I made a new one out of Lego :)

That temporary setup is awesome LOL, I love the lego

[thermal+paste]

aren't crt displays so ugly now

[SolidSapphire]

At least most of them are now.

[jimbo12141]

Well here's my desktop!:

And my nice view of the English Countryside!

[helix23]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

vert nice cold peak! inside and outside both look very inviting!

[konstantinos]

i would be posting my workstation right now but unfortunately i could not fit my new desk in my car, so its still sitting in the warehouse at ikea. i'm going back with the 4x4 tomorrow! also i have new hardware arriving tomorrow. woo.

nice workstations all around this month especially that rackmount rig. i vaguely remember a previous post about that rackmount project, seems to be coming along spectacularly. could you let us know where you got the cases and the rack?

watch this space for my rig photos. not that they are that special....