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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present (Part 13)
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It would bother me more if I had messy drawers in my desk, than the top of the desk being messy.
It takes no effort to keep things neat and tidy, don't try to make excuses...
In practice I sometimes do have a desk covered in junk but regularly I "press the reset button" and tidy stuff away and give my desk a good clean. It gets rid of unhealthy dust and debris and oftentimes you find stuff you thought you had lost! I hate feeling claustrophobic due to clutter and insist upon having legroom under the desk and arm room on the desk. I have my cables neatly tied away and have places for my iPhone and iPad to charge and dock.
Seriously, if anything sits on your desk, other than the computer and associated bits, for more than a couple of weeks then it probably doesn't need to be there. Bin it or file it away and give yourself some space. There is no point in having beautiful computer equipment hidden under a bunch of junk!
Haha, no excuses.. my desk isn't really messy. I'm more talking about people who have almost NOTHING on their desk besides the screen, keyboard and mouse.
The things that sit on my desk for weeks on end are things that I use for weeks on end, actually. Anything I don't use regularly, I keep somewhere else. Which is my point..
If you took that as mocking, you should probably try to manage your sensitivity a little more and pay less attention to your workspace tidiness.
I was voicing something that I don't really understand and it wasn't about just being neat and tidy. My desk is neat. I was talking about having almost nothing on a desk.
This is what my desk looks like almost every day. While i'm working, there's generally a notebook out and maybe a camera connected to the cord coming from the back of my computer.
My current mac setup is an 8-Core i7 Hackintosh Beast over clocked to 4.2Ghz.
Specs are as follows:
CPU: i7 8 Cores @ 4.2 Ghz (Bus Speed over clocked from 133 to 200 Mhz)
RAM: 4 GB of DDR3 (2x2GB) Over Clocked to 2000 Mhz
HDD1: 64 GB Kingston SSD v2 v+
HDD2: 1.5 TB Seagate SATA
HDD3: 2.0 TB Seagate SATA
DVD1: Plextor SATA PX-880SA
DVD2: Sony 22x DVDRW
Video: nVidia GTX 275 w/ 860 MB Ram
Monitor: Samsung 27" 2ms LCD
KB: Apple Wired Extended Slim
Mouse: Logitech Trackman Wheel
OS: Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Was at 10.6.5, but found graphics performance much better in 10.6.4 than 10.6.5 for my setup, so I've temporarily gone back to 10.6.4)
Some Benchmarks?
XBENCH scores of 460+
CINEBENCH 11.5 scores of 7.2+ in CPU and 36+ in OpenGL
Unreal Tournament 2004 at high res all options maxed = average 600-800fps, max 2000+ fps
World of Warcraft at 1920x1080 all settings maxed = average 200+fps outside and 500-600+fps inside.
The best part?
The $800 price tag re: what the parts cost me to build.
:->
Specs are as follows:
CPU: i7 8 Cores @ 4.2 Ghz (Bus Speed over clocked from 133 to 200 Mhz)
RAM: 4 GB of DDR3 (2x2GB) Over Clocked to 2000 Mhz
HDD1: 64 GB Kingston SSD v2 v+
HDD2: 1.5 TB Seagate SATA
HDD3: 2.0 TB Seagate SATA
DVD1: Plextor SATA PX-880SA
DVD2: Sony 22x DVDRW
Video: nVidia GTX 275 w/ 860 MB Ram
Monitor: Samsung 27" 2ms LCD
KB: Apple Wired Extended Slim
Mouse: Logitech Trackman Wheel
OS: Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Was at 10.6.5, but found graphics performance much better in 10.6.4 than 10.6.5 for my setup, so I've temporarily gone back to 10.6.4)
Some Benchmarks?
XBENCH scores of 460+
CINEBENCH 11.5 scores of 7.2+ in CPU and 36+ in OpenGL
Unreal Tournament 2004 at high res all options maxed = average 600-800fps, max 2000+ fps
World of Warcraft at 1920x1080 all settings maxed = average 200+fps outside and 500-600+fps inside.
The best part?
The $800 price tag re: what the parts cost me to build.
:->
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Odd, 10.6.5 is better for me. I have an ATI GPU in my hackintosh, though.
I'm assuming you're using the i7-860 or 870 if you've only got 4 GB of RAM you're on the 1156 platform, yes?
Thanks
Yes... an 860 on the 1156 Platform. I'll eventually go to 8 GB of RAM... I'm running the Kingston HyperX T1 ram... still have a couple slots open... What I really want first though is a bigger power supply and some water cooling.
It's air cooled right now... and runs solid... but I closely monitor the temps... and while it won't crash if I push it hard... encoding a movie in handbrake for instance (or 2 separate encodes in two instances of handbrake) will heat the i7 up to about 98c-100c... in normal usage where I'm not thrashing the CPUs at 800%... I stay about 42-46c on air cooling.
I'd like to see what liquid cooling would do to those top temps... Id feel MUCH more comfortable if they were in the high-80's to low-90's longterm.
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You certainly want them way below 80°C with your current clock speed!
With such high temperatures, you will end up with a damaged CPU pretty soon in case that you stress your machine often.
Read up on electromigration if you haven't heard about it yet (should be a well known term for every overclocker!), that should clear things up.
BTW: Impressive Cinebench score for a 4-core machine.
It would bother me more if I had messy drawers in my desk, than the top of the desk being messy.
Haha, no excuses.. my desk isn't really messy. I'm more talking about people who have almost NOTHING on their desk besides the screen, keyboard and mouse.
The things that sit on my desk for weeks on end are things that I use for weeks on end, actually. Anything I don't use regularly, I keep somewhere else. Which is my point..
If you took that as mocking, you should probably try to manage your sensitivity a little more and pay less attention to your workspace tidiness.
I was voicing something that I don't really understand and it wasn't about just being neat and tidy. My desk is neat. I was talking about having almost nothing on a desk.
This is what my desk looks like almost every day. While i'm working, there's generally a notebook out and maybe a camera connected to the cord coming from the back of my computer.
Mocking was a poor choice of word, perhaps "doubting" or "questioning" was closer to the mark. You're wide of the mark with your sensitivity remark though - if you look back you'll see some smileys in my post to demonstrate my mood.
Your setup looks tidy enough although I like a bit more elbow room myself. I've got plenty of shelves and drawer space nearby for stuff that needs to be close to hand so I can keep my desktop clear. I've also got attic storage above my head for longer term storage.
Anyway, it seems we are both happy with our respective setups so it's all good!
All the best,
Craig.
I didn't intend for that to come across as an insult. If it did, I apologize.
I'm guessing you're able to get everything done in one shot, then? I tend to get fifteen minutes here, a half-hour there... and as a result, things get left out for weeks on end.
What I've recently started doing is taping them to the sides of whatever I'm working on (usually iMacs) as close to the screw hole as possible. I'm not too fond of the loosely screwing in idea, but I might try the cardboard tip.
Looking around at all the odds and ends on my desk, I reckon what I need most are some drawers. That, and maybe a separate table for projects.
Nice. My machine is based around an i7-930. No overclocking yet, though – I also want to get a nice cooler. Mine doesn't go above 90C when I push it, but I'd be much happier with lower temps.Thanks
Yes... an 860 on the 1156 Platform. I'll eventually go to 8 GB of RAM... I'm running the Kingston HyperX T1 ram... still have a couple slots open... What I really want first though is a bigger power supply and some water cooling.
It's air cooled right now... and runs solid... but I closely monitor the temps... and while it won't crash if I push it hard... encoding a movie in handbrake for instance (or 2 separate encodes in two instances of handbrake) will heat the i7 up to about 98c-100c... in normal usage where I'm not thrashing the CPUs at 800%... I stay about 42-46c on air cooling.
I'd like to see what liquid cooling would do to those top temps... Id feel MUCH more comfortable if they were in the high-80's to low-90's longterm.
Hey don't be silly, no offence taken whatsoever!
No I don't get stuff done in one shot but if it's going to take weeks then I'll pack it away and come back to it later. I built a sports car over 6 years which taught me some patience...
Screwing the screws back in isn't so bad. Just spin them in a few turns and they won't get lost.
Yeah drawers are handy, or containers on shelves. Check out your local Ikea for storage ideas.
Ahaha. 2000 frames per second. You should try dual-booting with Windows so you can actually tax the computer with a game that can keep up.
I think a dual-boot Hackintosh is in my future!
Mac Mini with 4 x 2TB external hard drives for movies & TV shows
iPad
What program is running on your TV for your media? Is it something that the macmini is running? Do you have Mac OS server on that?
Love that weather clock,im gonna buy it...im sold
that same one is not available in the US. I checked. They did write me back and said this is the closest they have now.
http://www2.oregonscientific.com/ca...gner-Clocks-prod-Diamond-Weather-Station.html
Ahaha. 2000 frames per second. You should try dual-booting with Windows so you can actually tax the computer with a game that can keep up.
I think a dual-boot Hackintosh is in my future!
They're pretty nice.
More GPU options, larger variety of processors
lots of choices available.
I'm going to guess Plex, seeing that the iPad remote app is for Plex.
It's based off XBMC, which is very powerful home theater software!
I have an i3 chip in my hackintosh and mine goes to the same speed (with the same bus speeds both stock and overclocked) just fine. If I lower the ram multiplier one notch the ram even runs at the correct speed at the overclocked settings.
The issue I have is it makes the clock run fast in OSX which screws up almost everything. How did you get yours to work? If it helps I'm on a custom DSDT and absolutely everything works on 10.6.5 (everything include sleep and WOL)
Where the heck did you get an 8-core i7?
My apologies for the semantical error... lol... 4 cores 8 threads.
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