Most powerful machine you've put gentoo on?

theholymac · Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject:

HP/Compaq DL560
2U Rackmount
4x 3.0GHz Xeon
2GB RAM
2x 36GB U320 SCSI drives, 15K RPM
Rage XL graphics

chris200x9 · n00b Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 65

a Q6600 OC'ed to 3 gigahertz with 4gb 1066 ram with a 512 MB 8600 GT

Januszzz · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:48 am Post subject:

There should be a table indexing machines mention in this thread.

My machine (two of them):

IBM x3650
2 x Xeon 2.66 GHz (4 cores each)
24 GB RAM
2x146 GB SAS (mirror)
IBM DS4700 SCSI FC array (1,8T)

Both running Gentoo.

MalleRIM · Guru Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 563 Location: China

AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+
4GB DDR2 RAM
250+500GB HDD
AMD690GM-M2 (Mainboard)
GeForce 7600 GS

viralex · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject:

Q9300 QUADCORE @ 3ghz
4GB DDR2
500+320+320+160 GB
ati radeon x600 -.-

gentoo ~amd64

d2_racing · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:25 am Post subject:

shickapooka800 · Guru Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 304 Location: no

my recent machine is a
phenom 9550
4GB ram
single WD sata drive (hdparm buffered disk reads are ~109 MB/sec !!!)
nvidia 8600gt

its the fastest machine ive ever owned. I also use it as a crossdev distccd machine for my g4 powerbook :)

audiodef · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:50 pm Post subject:

Dell Inspiron 1720 (dual core, 2GB RAM). Works beautifully.
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keet · Guru Joined: 09 Sep 2008 Posts: 568

My system, which is in my signature. It was overclocked to 3Ghz, but it isn't now because it really doesn't need to be.

I don't know how long it takes to emerge -e world, but I emerged about 500 packages overnight with time to spare (when I first installed xorg-x11, nvidia-drivers, gnome, and some other things)

audiodef · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject:

The most powerful machine I've put Gentoo to on was - ME!

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Jtb · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:27 am Post subject:

2x Quad-Core Xeon E5345 @ 2.33GHz
System RAM: 8186MB
3ware:
- RAID 1 for system and xen system images
- RAID 0 for temp etc
- RAID 6 (2,2 TB) for user data
- RAID 0 (1 TB) for ftp mirror

And 1000 Mbps internetconnection

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Moriah · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject:

JTB: I *LOVE* your Fortran-esque signature line!

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My most powerful box right now is:

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz
cache size : 6144 KB
bogomips : 5343.23

4 GB RAM

5 WD "green" 1 TB SATA drives in a hotswappable RAID case
LG BluRay burner

Simple boot console video, as this box is a server.

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AndyB · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 20

Dell PowerEdge R900

16-cores (X7350 @ 2.93GHz, 5856.39 BogoMIPS each))
32-GB RAM
5 400GB drives in RAID-5

Happily screaming right along.

SteveBallmersChair · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject:

azazello · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 25

2 nodes:
2x Xeon 2.66 GHz Clovertown (4-core), 16 GB RAM
4x WD Raptor 150 GB

1 node:
2x Xeon 2.66 GHz Clovertown (4-core), 8 GB RAM
2x WD Raptor 150 GB
10x 500GB SATA RAID

36 nodes:
2x Xeon 2.33 GHz Clovertown (4-core), 8 GB RAM
1x 250 GB SATA

gigabit/10gE interconnect, etc

regomodo · Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 445

From looking at previous posts i've now got major gear envy.
Mine:

C2D E6750
4GB Ram
8800Gt
x2 500GB + x2 160GB + 1TB HDD

The slowest:
PII @ 300Mhz
96Mb RAM
8GB HDD

Ch00k · n00b Joined: 02 May 2009 Posts: 55

AMD Phenom II X4 940 3.0 GHz
ASUS Crosshair II Formula (NForce 780a SLI)
4 Gig DDR2 1066 MHz
Integrated NVidia video
750 Gig Samsung HDD (32Mb of cache)

n1ghtsn1p3r · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2009 Posts: 16

C2D E8500 E0 @ 4GHz
Asus P5Q Pro
2x2GB DDR2 1066 OCZ Reaper HPC
500 GB WD Caviar
512MB HIS HD4850 Turbo IceQ4 (650/1000)
Edimax EW-7128G
550w Seasonic S12 EnergySaver SS-550HT

Had some issues with getting my HD4850 to play well with X and Fglrx a couple of months ago, but I totally wiped and reinstalled Gentoo the other day and now it's working with no problems. Most of the games I've tried playing so far have comparible performance to Windows.
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poly_poly-man · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 1:31 am Post subject:

Install I am about to do:

Compaq Alphaserver DS20L
2x Alpha EV68AL processors (833MHz)
2gb ECC ram
probably going to install sans hard drive - *maybe* a small one.

each of the two processors supposedly has more floating-point speed than the newest i7's.

oh yeah, and it fit in a 1U box (I'm modding the fans, so it doesn't anymore, but it's quieter than 51db

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Akkara · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 8:50 am Post subject:

I am waiting for someone to install Gentoo on the microcontroller of a large tractor or other piece of heavy earth-moving equipment, for a hands-down win at this "Most powerful machine..." thread.

Yamakuzure · Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 10:13 am Post subject:

My most powerful machine:

AMD Phenom II X4 940 3.0 GHz
ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe (NForce 780a SLI)
4096MB-KIT Corsair XMS2 PC8500, CL5 1066 MHz
ASUS EN9800GTX+ DK/HTDI/512M (GeForce 9800 GTX+)
(The onboard GeForce 8 chipset is used under Windows Vista for PhysX calculations in games, only)
1,81TiB on 4 x Maxtor STM3500418AS 500 GB Stripe-Array
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Soundcard
D-Link DWA-556 PCIe WLAN (works out of the box with gentoo! )
12GiB swap (because RAM will be upgraded to 8GiB next month)
/tmp on 1GiB tmpfs
/var/tmp on 8GiB tmpfs

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poly_poly-man · Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 10:57 am Post subject:

you have wayy too much swap - the general rule nowadays is to not go over 512MB... of course, if you have that much ram, why do you need swap anyway?
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alfagamma81 · Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 4:25 pm Post subject:

My current machine is:

Amd Phenom 9650 X4 @ 2,3 Ghz
DDR 800Mhz 4*2Gb= 8Gb total (going to buy 1066Mhz memory when got money enough)
3*Seagate hard drives totaling about 0,7 Tb
Nvidia 8800Gts
Asus M3N78 mobo

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octoploid · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 65

My new box:

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Processor @ 4x3.2 GHz
Asus M4A78T-E (integrated ATI Radeon HD 3300)
4GB RAM
30GB OCZ Vertex as root drive

it rocks.
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