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Hi all, I have been looking to put my slow and ageing X3650 M2 to good use and have been wondering about turning it into a BungeeCord minecraft server using MineOS. I am thinking of getting Xeon X5670's and 32GB of 10600R ECC (on top of the 8GB already in system (may not work but worth a try)). firstly, I am wondering if using BungeeCord in this way is even possible? as well as if this hardware will be fine handling maybe ~50 players on each server during peak times. Memory allocations will be calculated later on dependant on individual server load. The upgrade cost as a whole totals around £110 which is way cheaper than any other similarly spec'd machine on ebay at the moment. I'm mainly asking if anyone has run servers on X5670's and is their single core performance sufficient for non-modded BungeeCord/Spigot servers? tl;dr: X5670 run minecraft server good? and Does Bungeecord from same server workie? Thanks in Advance ~ Chaz
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Does the IBM Model M 1391401 use rubber dome switches or buckling spring switches? Here's a link to the Amazon page I found it on https://www.amazon.com/IBM-Keyboard-Model-M-1391401/dp/B00F4FHY64/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me= Thanks.
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Hi Team, I'm getting a good deal on the IBM X3650 server. It has the following configuration: Intel Xeon Quad Core x 2CPUs( 8 Cores ) 32GB RAM 300GB SAS HDD, RAID 0.1.5..Etc . 2 Port 1Gig LAN, Dual Power Supply. I checked the product specification page and found that it has 6 hot swap bays for holding hard drives. I wanted to know if I can install consumer grade hard drives eg Seagate iron wolf nas hard drives into the X3650. Further I wanted to gain an insight about this server's use case about home use. I plan to create a file server and home media server. Should I go with X3650 machine to install freenas onto it? Thanks.
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They we're so big in the 90', I don't see them anywhere. What do they do now?
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Summary IBM will release a new processor made using Samsung's 7nm process node in the second half of 2021 Quotes My thoughts There's been a few rumours around the yield problems at Samsung and their 8nm node, so this is an interesting development, showing perhaps that they think they'll be on top of that by the second half of next year enough to bring a brand new processor on a brand new node. Would love for Anthony to get a hold of something like this and do some comparisons in linux, then let Linus come in and game on Steam's proton (if it worked). Sources https://newsroom.ibm.com/2020-08-17-IBM-Reveals-Next-Generation-IBM-POWER10-Processor
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I know that once besides x86 there was the Power PC architecture by IBM for example Apple used Power PC processors before Intel. also the Xbox 360 used it so -why do you don’t find it modern in „ normal PCs „ ? -where do you still find it ? ( except the supercomputers summit and Sierra) -what benefits does it have ( is it better than x86 but wasn’t used because Windows is only available for x86) I‘m happy about your answers
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I just picked this up from a job site and it's been sitting since probably 1996. Likely unused for 17-18 of those 22 years. Currently not powering on and filthy. Clean up first and then I'll be troubleshooting the power on issues. Stay tuned. I can take any other pics requested. I have no idea what OS it's running but I assume Windows 95 or PC DOS. I plan to make it an old fashioned gaming PC for Doom and the like if I can get it up to snuff.
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I had this beautiful white with blue accents IBM case lying around for a while. It is a IBM 300GL from 1999, not that old but I just love the business, blocky design aesthetic IBM had prior the 2000's. Especially Aptiva and XT cases, these are among my favorites but they are difficult to find where I am and expensive indeed. Back to the 300GL, it still looks great, screams IBM all over the place and most importantly that is what I have available. This machine does not turn on, psu and motherboard are probably faulty, so I thought of migrating my Skylake pc inside of it to create an IBM sleeper pc stuffed with powerful components. I will keep the exterior as close as possible to the original, while inside I will do whatever is needed to fit modern hardware. Before I dismember this pc, I'll show you whats inside: Nothing too fancy here, just a Pentium 3 processor running at 450 Mhz, equipped with 256 MB of ram. Videocard is a first gen 3Dfx Voodoo graphics accelerator coupled with a S3 Trio 3D. A bit of a Frankenstein mismatch since the processor is from 1999 and the video compartment from 95/96. I have a better pc to run Win 98 games so it wont be too sad to disassemble this configuration. The only valuable object in my opinion is the Voodoo card, it still works nicely and I will save it for future builds. There is a shiny colored Windows 98 badge on the top panel. <3 Time to migrate the new hardware inside the case to see what works and what is not. My Skylake build consists of a 6700K @ 4.3 Ghz, 16GB of DDR4 ram, an Evga GTX 1070, a Corsair power supply with cablemod custom cables and a Noctua NH-u12s tower cooler. Here is how my hardware looks inside the IBM: Despite the case looking retro-ish on the outside, ti is pretty new in the inside and my ITX motherboard fits nicely in the original mounting holes, and the spacing for the IO shield looks alright. There is ample room for the gpu and the top cover of the case features some ventilation holes on the side to allow fresh air to cool the gtx 1070. As you can see from the two pictures above, the 3 main challenges atm are the too tall Noctua cooler, the too large power supply and the case airflow. Can't do much about the heatsink, I will need a shorter one. I tried to move the power supply around but I couldn't find where to place it without interfering with the 5.25 slots where I am planning to mount a blu-ray reader. The only solution I can think of is to replace my full size psu with a small form factor one. I might be able to keep my custom cables, looking at Cablemod's compatibility list, the cables I own should be compatible with the Corsair SP 600, a 600 Watts SFX power supply that should fit with the pre-existing mounting holes on the back of the case. Last but not least is the airflow. This case wasn't obviously built with high airflow in mind so I will need to mod it allowing extra fans to be mounted in the front and the back. Here a quick sketch of what I have in mind: I will need to cut out some metal and replace it with two new plates that will allow fan mounting. The 2 80 mm fans in the front should supply enough air to the gpu and motherboard area, while the 2 60mm fans will exhaust hot air on the back while keeping positive pressure inside the case. I designed the 2 plates with Inkscape and I will laser-cut them out from an acrylic panel. Here you can see a screenshot of the project, I will link it once I get the first batch shipped and tested. That is all for now, I will update this post as soon as I have new things to mount and make fit. Hope you are enjoying this story, stay tuned for more! =)
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Just found this keyboard in my dads old basement. Was wondering whether this one is one of those ibm model m's upon which Linus recently made a video.? It has a weird AT/XT Button on the underside. The cable although isnt detachable. But it has lights for scroll and num lock and caps. The entire body is metal and is quiet heavy. Was just wondering am I sitting on $400 without knowing? Or is it some common one. Although the pc from which it came from was during the 90's era. It has that feel which Linus was talking about. Its so old it doesnt have any company logos any more. I remember i used the pc which came with this laptop i used to run win 95 on it and has a 512mb hdd and a black and white monitor and probably 16mb of ram. Used to play prince of persia 2d and speedcar in it. Lol.
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Is it worth investing in an older Xeon build such as this? Found one with dual Xeon E5-2609 v2s, 16gb ram and an nvs 315 with the other usual thinkstation psu etc, worth £220/382CAD/295 USD? Usage depends on what it’s capable of really, it’s for my missus to use/learn with; opinions, suggestions etc? thanks in advance
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My dad and I were cleaning out the garage and found an old IBM Model M, it looks like it had been outside for a little bit and maybe rained on but I feel like it will pull through that but mainly, will it work with my newer computer if I buy a DIN to PS/2 adapter? I know other people have done it but I just don't know if it wouldn't work because some are 5v and some are 12v and the XT/AT stuff, just wanted to confirm that it will work before I buy an adapter to use it, thanks. here are pics of the keyboard and the S/N
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Buy Model M on Amazon: http://geni.us/JUnhksw Amazing tactile feel. Distinct mechanical acoustics. Unparalleled durability. The IBM Model M is likely the most influential keyboard ever- even if it’s NOT great for gaming. But how does a brand new Unicomp Classic compare?
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Hey, I'm planning to build off an old IBM machine, the Aptiva from the late 90's or early 2000's. I have most of the build planned out, but I'm still looking for a front I/O panel that will fit in a standard 5.25" drive bay. I'm looking for a card reader, USB 3.0 and 2.0 hub, and front audio combined device, I'm currently looking at the kingwin fpx 004, but I don't need or want a fan controller. If anybody has any comments or suggestions about either a panel that would work or the build itself, I'm open to hear it! Thanks in advance!! New update!! Things have started moving a bit more slowly and unfortunately it's looking like this project may not be complete until October. I have done some modifications to the parts list however in the interest of improving performance and cost effectiveness. Additionally surprisingly I have successfully run the old components and all but the HDD work well. I may wind up selling them so stay tuned!
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Lenovo Thinkpad x230 Laptop Turns On and Off On and Off
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Hey there guys. I recently acquired a Thinkpad x230 laptop from a customer of my small electronics store. He said I could have it because it suddenly stopped turning on. I tried to fix it in front of him, but did not have the proper tools. He said I could keep it. Now I'm at home with the laptop mostly disassembled, and am troubleshooting. I've posted on Reddit already, but I thought I'd post here to get the most feedback. When the power key is pressed, the computer powers on, but only briefly. It dies seconds after turning on. No video output even. I tried powering it with and without the battery inserted to no avail. I've also re-seated the RAM and tried different RAM, and have also re-seated the 500GB mechanical hard drive as well. A Reddit user had a similar issue with a different model, and apparently the issue was resolved by removing the RAM and unplugging the CMOS for 1 minute, then plugging everything back in. I have tried that twice now to no avail. Just on and then off, on and then off. The light near the webcam flashes through this process as well as it turns on and off. BUT WAIT. IT GETS WEIRD. Trying to power it on without RAM inserted yields no display output, but the laptop does stay powered on and beeps to indicate no RAM is inserted. How can it not power on with all the components inserted, but it can power on without RAM inserted at all? As I said I've tried a few different sticks of RAM and still no luck while its inserted. What's going on, exactly? Have you guys ever had a similar issue with a Thinkpad? How did you fix it? Any insight would be awesome. Thanks guys! -Rick -
Hi everyone! I have an insanely old motherboard (dating back to early 1990s), and am trying to restore it for fun. On the motherboard, there are these ports (see picture) that go to things like HDD LED, and things like that. I have no clue what port goes to what connector, and need help figuring it out. Thanks!
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So, this question is kind of long and technically 2 seperate questions but they relate so I'll keep them together. At the minute I've got 4 systems on my wired network: My desktop which has an i7 4790k in it An IBM x3650 M1 (2x Xeon e5450 36GB Ram) which runs virtual desktops and virtual apps An IBM x3650 M2 (2x Xeon X5650 64GB Ram) which is my main lab server as well as running VMware vCenter And, my main server which runs a router as well as Windows Server 2016 that serves as my NAS and Plex server. This machine is really underpowered with only an AMD a4-6300 dual core and 8GB of ram. I really cheaped out on it but it runs fine. The three servers are all running VMware ESXi 6.5 and are connected to the vCenter Server on the x3650 M2. The main server only has a dual port gigabit card in it which has one port for WAN and the other goes to a 24-Port gigabit switch which has everything else connected to it. So everything is running on a standard 1 gigabit connection to the rest of the network. There is an exception to this. I've got single port 10 gigabit SFP+ cards in both my desktop and my x3650 M2 which have a DAC cable running between them. What I want to do is buy another single port card for my x3650 M1 and 2 dual port cards to put into my main server. I can't do this with the current server as its only got one PCIe slot (it's ITX) which has the dual gigabit card in it. I intend to upgrade my desktop to an i7 8700k in the coming months so the 4790k system will become the main server and the POS a4-6300 will be retired. So i'll be able to do dual 10G cards then. For now what i will do is get the dual 10G cards for the x3650 M2 instead. I intend to run fibre from the two dual port cards, to each of the other systems with a 10G card, so there'll be one central system with 4 SFP+ ports that connect to everything else. With this, what I hope to do is setup a VM on the server that will act as a 10G switch. To the switch VM, I will use PCIe passthrough to give the VM direct access to the NICs and I'll give it a 10G port on the vSwitch as well so the other VMs can communicate with the rest of the network. I want to know if it is possible to setup a VM to act purely as a switch between essentially 5 different network ports. If this is possible with PfSense it'd make life easier cos i can just do it with the one VM instead of having a seperate router and switch. The other part of my question is. When I build my 8700k system, I want to only have 2 NVMe SSDs in it, and no SATA drives at all. My plan is to setup a 3TB iSCSI drive on my NAS and have my desktop connect to that for all my games and user files. I also want to move the drives form the IBM servers to the NAS to run all the VMs from network storage (I might have to buy a SAN disk shelf for this and use a SAS expander but that's not a problem) I know it's technically possible but, is iSCSI and a 10G network actually stable enough to support this? And, how much CPU horsepower will it use (if any). I'm sorry if I've confused you people but I like overly complicated things Thanks for any help.
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http://www.globalfoundries.com/newsroom/press-releases/2016/09/07/globalfoundries-extends-fdx-roadmap-with-12nm-fd-soi-technology Sorry, on phone and can't use quotes. Will edit when I can. It seems the goal of this node is to be a jack-of trades node that isn't as costly as FinFET design (though the cost of FDSOI substrate wafers is far higher than standard bulk silicon, so there's probably some creative booking to be able to say this). I thought IBM's Power 9 would be based on a 14nm FDSOI design, but with the chips due in another year, I'm now wondering if IBM will use GloFo's 14nm LPP or HP process instead or just stick with 22nm FDSOI. Interesting times we live in...
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This is just a rant, I'm just very emotional and experiencing heavy nostalgia. Okay so for no reason I felt like starting our old home pc from when I was a kid, our trusty old Windows 98 IBM Aptiva system. I'm not sure about the specs but my father told me we gave about ~23k (swedish krona) for this back in the day, which was a fuckton back then. I remember watching my father play Half Life as it just got released, I must have been either 4 or 5 years old. I remember it was just the beginning of the game (seriously I remember the corriodors and the layout) and telling him I was super scared BECAUSE THOSE ZOMBIES IN LABCOATS ARE SCARY RIGHT?! After that he didn't play with me anymore, which was probably the right decision considering it's quite a gory game. Even more so for a 4 y/o. Now about 15-16 years later I'm sitting in the Half Life folders tab, filled with emotions I can see the date on all of the save files and when the game was last used. This was the date. I'm not here to play Half Life on it, I just felt like meeting 4 year old me again. I'll ask my father to play with me tonight, I just want to watch him game. Even if it's just for a few minutes. /rant
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In today's world of computing, both PC and mobile processors runs on different instruction sets. On PC's side, you have AMD, where is uses x86 and on moble there is ARM, which uses RISC. Both of them are not able to communicate one another, that is until now, as major cpu makers from both the PC and mobile side such as AMD, IBM, Qualcomm, ARM, and others have joined together to create a single interconnect called CCIX. CCIX which stands for Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators, allows for both PC and mobile cpus with different instruction sets, to be able to communicated with each other, while sharing main memory. If they can put everything together and pull this off, then the benefits of this would be huge, as it would truly provide a plug and play environment, where any CPU can be used, be it a AMD CPU or ARM SoC. Currently it's being targeted at datacenters, and not too much info is there about CCIX. If everything works out for these CPU makers, then we might see something in 2020. http://www.ccixconsortium.com/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2016/05/23/a-cache-coherent-interconnect-for-accelerators-ccix-fantasy-or-nirvana/#8bb961b6afab http://wccftech.com/arm-teams-amd-ibm-tackle-datacentre-market-mobile-giants-joined-squad/ https://semiaccurate.com/2016/05/23/38723/ http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/information-technology/arm-amd-huawei-ibm-qualcomm-mellanox-and-xilinx-team-up-on-datacentre-2016-05/
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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-launches-first-quantum-computer-cloud-service-2016-5 IBM has released a publicly available, cloud quantum computer with a user interface to allow anyone with some algebra skills and some programming knowledge to create programs for it. The computer is 5 qubits, on par with a regular computer. The industry is expecting IBM and Google to race to somewhere around 50 qubits, much more powerful than today's super computers. This article focuses primarily on explaining the race between Google and IBM with some background on Quantum computing and specifics of this computer. As someone who is new to the world of quantum computing (for those like me see Tech Quickie-Quantum Computing), it seems like this is next leap forward in processing power, especially as we hear Intel tell us that processing innovation is slowing. I appreciate the opportunity the IBM is offering the public to use this intro to the technology via a cloud service. The article seems to frame this milestone as a possible put down to Google as a way to for IBM to say "haha we're here first." It's going to be an interesting playing around with this though, is there a Programming in Quantum for Dummies yet? Source 2: http://www.wired.com/2016/05/ibm-letting-anyone-play-quantum-computer/