Hardware pron thread

[Patrick]

Here is a fun time warp.
Modified P54c core in the Galileo and Pentium Pro below.

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It it sad that I still remember the Pentium Pro and how revolutionary it was?

 

[seang86s]

It it sad that I still remember the Pentium Pro and how revolutionary it was?

Those machines were my first dual processor machines. First we had Dell GXPros that can be outfitted with a 2nd processor board to make with dual capable and better yet, an IBM PC 350 (I think that was the model) that had the second processor socket right on the motherboard. Strip the processor, memory and hard drive out of another machine and beef up your own! Once these machines were being replaced at the company I was working at, I wound up getting a bunch for "home use" to run beta versions of Windows 2000.

 

[pgh5278]

It it sad that I still remember the Pentium Pro and how revolutionary it was?

Patrick, wait another 20 yrs, and review the situation again,, am sure will all be saying something similar...

 

[William]

Its only been a few years we have gone from 12 core CPU's to now 18 cores and soon to be higher than 20.
Lets not even talk about Knights Landing and what the potential is for that.

 

[Patriot]

Well... this needed a bump...

G34 anyone?

 

[coolrunnings82]

Dang that's a lot of G34 chips.

 

[MiniKnight]

I wonder if you could give those to a local ninja school @Patriot

 

[Chuckleb]

I am surprised you didn't rotate one to see if OCD kicks in!

 

[Patriot]

I am surprised you didn't rotate one to see if OCD kicks in!

The lack of a flat surface disrupting perfect alignment bothers me enough.

Don't have a foam piece big enough.

 

[neo]

I'm embarrassed to post anything in this thread now

 

[Patriot]

I'm embarrassed to post anything in this thread now

Singular closeup die shots are pretty awesome.

 

[TechIsCool]

I am still partial to these type of die shots.
KR1818VG93 - FDD controller
Enthusiasts started yet another reverse engineering project of KR1818VG93 - FDD controller manufactured in USSR times. Presumably it has some compatibility/similarity with FDC1793-02 - this will be figured out.

Die size 4817x4794 µm, 6µm NMOS technology.

KR1818VG93 - FDD controller : weekend die-shot : ZeptoBars

 

[capn_pineapple]

good lord, please put a NSFW before such gratuitous tech pornography!

 

[William]

Another new monster arrives in the Lab... ASRock Rack 3U8G-C612
ASRock Rack > 3U8G-C612

GPU's as you can see are AMD W9100's

 

[Patrick]

@William let me know if we need to work on powering.

 

[William]

I will... I am a ways off from actually starting this one up. Still have the other two to finish up.

 

[Stanza]

So why are the fans all configured to suck the hot air from the GPU's and blow it across the memory CPU's?
eg pic has flow direction left to right?

seems arse about to me

 

[Jeggs101]

So why are the fans all configured to suck the hot air from the GPU's and blow it across the memory CPU's?
eg pic has flow direction left to right?

seems arse about to me

Those AMD's are 275w TDP parts and there's 8 of 'em. If you can cool that, the CPUs are ez to cool. In GPU compute systems, the focus is GPU cooling not CPU.

 

[Patriot]

Those AMD's are 275w TDP parts and there's 8 of 'em. If you can cool that, the CPUs are ez to cool. In GPU compute systems, the focus is GPU cooling not CPU.

Yeah... but the gpu's can run hotter than the cpu's can...

 

[neo]

Yeah... but the gpu's can run hotter than the cpu's can...

They consume more power too