Most powerful machine you've put gentoo on?

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d2_racing · Post by **d2_racing** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:02 am

I use this for 2 years now :

P4 2.4Ghz FSB 800 Mhz
Asus P4P800 S478 AGP 8x
1024 Meg DDR PC3200 400 Mhz
WD 160 Gig Serial ATA 150
ATI 9600 PRO Ultra 128 Meg
KDE 3.5.5 on 2.6.19-Gentoo-r5
Xorg 7.1 with AIGLX+Beryl

ugus · Post by **ugus** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:08 pm

2xPentium III @ 1.1 GHz, 1GB Ram
That is my pc.

amp_man · Post by **amp_man** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:53 am

Dual P3 733 and a single P3 1ghz, each with 512MB of ram. The 1ghz machine is my current server, the dual 733 one will be, once I finish getting LinuxBIOS up and running on it

Oh, and btw, both of those machines distcc with each other, my modestly overclocked A64 3500+ (with a gig of ddr), and my sempron 2400+ laptop, when it's available.

aradu · Post by **aradu** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:01 pm

I recently installed Gentoo on my home computer:

Pavilion, Pentium 4, 3.6 GHz
1536 MB RAM
GeForce 7800 GTX

Everything has gone really smooth so far. And the compile times are insanely good.

Too bad the damn thing had a Sound Blaster X-Fi. I will need to replace that.

Interimo · Post by **Interimo** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:48 am

My computer.

Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.10Ghz
2Gb Corsair DDR2-800
ATI Radeon X1600PRO OC'd
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (JMicron

)
All cooled by 4 fans and a TT Blue Orb 2.

thaper · Post by **thaper** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:18 pm

Win-Enterprises mb06068 MotherBoard w/ 2 dual core opterons 16G ram + linuxbios to boot.

11 second boot to shell, 20 second boot to full running kde.
Absolutely flawless. boot sequence and extremely fast.

It is fun watching gkrellm display 4 cores while running mprime &
watching large compiles chunk object files @ 5-6/sec at a time.

graphics are amazingly smooth w/ 3 1900x1200 lcds... I never knew what rss-screensavers
were supposed to look like.

everyone needs a 4 core machine.

Xithix · Post by **Xithix** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:36 pm

I just built this machine a week ago:

Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4Ghz
MSI 975X Powerup Edition motherboard
4GB DDR800, 4-4-4-12 timings (running 2GB at the moment as one of the sticks I bought failed memtest and I am awaiting the RMA)
GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB
Samsung SyncMaster 244T 24" LCD
EMU 1212m soundcard (no linux drivers for the analog outputs unfortunately)
Antec 550w power supply and case (No flashing lights here, just solid construction)

I call it "Hydra" because of the quad core processor.

jannis · Post by **jannis** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:19 am

I installed Gentoo on one of my friend's Home-Desktop:

Dual Xeon with Hyperthreading (makes 4 Cores) @ 2GHz, Some ATI Radeon and 2 GB Ram.
I never thought compiling Xorg could be so fast.

rada · Post by **rada** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:29 am

Hyperthreading doesnt count as 2 cores

This machine i built back in Oct2005:

2.00GHz Pentium M (clocked to 2.5ghz)
AOpen i915GMm-HFS mobo
1GB DDR533 3-3-3-10 (soon to be 2GB DDR667 4-4-4-12)
Radeon x600 Pro (was free, soon to be Geforce 7950GT)
17" Samsung 172x LCD (Soon to be 24" Dell 2407fp)
2x500GB WD5000YS (raid edition drives) in RAID0
external Sound Blaster mp3+ (since the hda-intel drivers cant really do digital passthrough)

And I DistCC this with a 1.6GHz Pentium 4.

rbr28 · Post by **rbr28** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:41 am

I had to post as I'm currently waiting on a quad core ordered this week. This is for a new workstation of mine at work (I'd never spend the money for my home machine). I do a lot of compiling, and work with virtual machines a good bit, so I plan to really take advantage of the quad core. My config is below and I'll post information on how the install goes, and performance, in the next couple weeks.

Asus P5K motherboard
Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad 2.4
Enermax Infiniti 650w power supply
XFX Nvidia 8600 GTS Video card, 256MB, dual DVI
NEC 22" 5ms LCD, and older 19" NEC LCD in dual monitor setup
Crucial Ballistic DDR2 1066Mhz 4x1GB chips
3 Western Digital 250GB 7200rpm 16MB cache drives
Lite-On 20x DVD burner
Lian-Li Aluminum tower (from an older system)

I had a $2000 limit and the system came in at about 1900 with keyboard,mouse, and a second 1GB Intel NIC (I'm on gigabit lines at work). I'm planning to use software raid, which is about as good as any of the garbage vendors claim to be onboard hardware raid.

d2_racing · Post by **d2_racing** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:55 pm

I will install Gentoo this week on my new laptop.

Ibm Thinkpad T60P.

- Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 (2.0 Ghz FSB 667)
- 2 Gig Ram 667 Mhz
- HDD 100 Gig 7200 RPM
- ATI Firegl V5250

Pozican · Post by **Pozican** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:49 pm

Dell PowerEdge ????

4 Xeon 3 Ghz Processors
8 gigs of ram
8 72 gig hd's in raid 5 (About 379gigs)

Later this year, an IBM Bladecenter;
Specs are BIG.

DrAgOnTuX · Post by **DrAgOnTuX** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:01 pm

Pozican wrote:Dell PowerEdge ????
Later this year, an IBM Bladecenter;
Specs are BIG.

Please tell us the specs

eccerr0r · Post by **eccerr0r** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:51 pm

I tried installing Gentoo on a work quad Itanium2 9050/8GB RAM rackmount, but failed. The boot disk failed to boot the machine. Had to get the machine up fast, so I had to use SuSE...

Kind of weird looking at a 16-thread system...

PhoeniXII · Post by **PhoeniXII** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 10:28 pm

my main desktop is a

amd64 x2 4200 with 2GB
GF6800GT 256MB
and 2x80GB WD HD in a 3Ware raid setup and another 160GB disk for backups

BlackHatRob · Post by **BlackHatRob** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 4:41 am

...

Well....

Howz about a Sun Enterprise M4000 topped out? 4 proc (8 cores each = 32 corex2.15 Ghz) 128 GB ram. Attached are 2 Sun StorageTek 2530 arrays with 36 x 300GB SAS drives connected via dual fibre channel Sun branded Emulex lp10000-dc HBAs... that's a total of 21.6 TB of storage

That's the beefiest box *I* know about...

DrAgOnTuX · Post by **DrAgOnTuX** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:23 pm

BlackHatRob wrote:...

Well....

Howz about a Sun Enterprise M4000 topped out? 4 proc (8 cores each = 32 corex2.15 Ghz) 128 GB ram. Attached are 2 Sun StorageTek 2530 arrays with 36 x 300GB SAS drives connected via dual fibre channel Sun branded Emulex lp10000-dc HBAs... that's a total of 21.6 TB of storage

That's the beefiest box *I* know about...

With gentoo running on it?

BlackHatRob · Post by **BlackHatRob** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:25 pm

yessir...

dah · Post by **dah** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:12 pm

See sig.
P4 3.0GHz HT is the most powerful.

Most interesting is probably a "Pay To Use" internet kiosk in the Riviera at DefCon 15 this year. No BIOS password and boot from CD as the first boot option. We put Ubuntu on a couple others to save time.

Nijinski · Post by **Nijinski** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:34 pm

Joined the big iron club here,

Sun Ultra Enterprise 4000 with 8 Procs and over 4 gig of RAM attached to a 12 disk Storedge D1000 to go along with the dinky little Sun Netra X1 that was already running Gentoo....

Emission · Post by **Emission** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:24 pm

My PS3

. In fact, I just emerged gdm on it and I'm preparing to install a desktop environment.

omp · Post by **omp** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:42 pm

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+

Yeah... I fail.

Balder · Post by **Balder** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:11 pm

My new main desktop:

Intel S5000XVN
4 GB RAM
2 x E5335 (8 cores)
1 x 15000 RPM 36GB SAS
1 x 7200 RPM SATA
1 x nVidia Corporation GeForce 7300 LE

mpapis · Post by **mpapis** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:40 pm

Next week i will get my new home PC, and install gentoo till success:

Asus P5K-E/ WIFI-AP Intel P35
Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 2,40 GHz BOX (1066FSB)
4 x 1GB DDR2 1066MHz
Radeon 2400 Pro Gigabyte 256MB 2xDVI & TV (800/1400)
Raid0 - 4 x WD Caviar RE 320 GB 16MB cache SATA
some case with 500W
Monitor LCD 22"

hope will be enough for some time

madpinger · Post by **madpinger** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:35 am

omp wrote:AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+

Yeah... I fail.

Ditto

Only a 2800+

Most powerful machine you've put gentoo on?

DUAL (DUAL CORE) Opteron

Intel Core 2 Quad

Gentoo power..