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Mon, 17 Jul 2006

9:24 AM - My Dell specs

CPU-Z Report


CPU-Z version 1.35.

CPU(s)  
Number of CPUs 2
CPU#1 APIC ID = 0
Name Intel Xeon
Code Name Prestonia
Specification Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.00GHz
Family / Model / Stepping F 2 7
Extended Family / Model F 2
Brand ID 11
Package mPGA-604
Core Stepping C1
Technology 0.13 um
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
CPU Clock Speed 1993.6 MHz
Clock multiplier x 15.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 132.9 MHz
Bus Speed 531.6 MHz
L1 Data Cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Trace Cache 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 1993.6 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 256 bits
CPU#2 APIC ID = 6
Name Intel Xeon
Code Name Prestonia
Specification Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.00GHz
Family / Model / Stepping F 2 7
Extended Family / Model F 2
Brand ID 11
Package mPGA-604
Core Stepping C1
Technology 0.13 um
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
CPU Clock Speed 1993.6 MHz
Clock multiplier x 15.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 132.9 MHz
Bus Speed 531.6 MHz
L1 Data Cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Trace Cache 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 1993.6 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 256 bits
 
Mainboard and chipset  
Motherboard manufacturer Dell Computer Corp.
Motherboard model 0F1262,
BIOS vendor Dell Computer Corporation
BIOS revision A04
BIOS release date 03/25/2004
Chipset Intel E7505 rev. B0
Southbridge Intel 82801DB (ICH4) rev. 01
Sensor chip SMSC 6602
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Status enabled, rev. 3.0
AGP Data Transfer Rate 8x
AGP Max Rate 8x
AGP Side Band Addressing supported, enabled
 
Memory  
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 1024 MBytes
# of memory modules 4
Module 0 Infineon DDR PC2300 - 256 MBytes
Module 1 Infineon DDR PC2300 - 256 MBytes
Module 2 Infineon DDR PC2300 - 256 MBytes
Module 3 Infineon DDR PC2300 - 256 MBytes
 
Software  
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX version 9.0c

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2:58 PM - India on its way to communism

India took a big step today by censoring websites just as China does.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/17/1732209&from=rss

Where will the ignorance end?

location: Home

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3:54 PM - What is it with the web today

Myspace and slashdot have been giving 500 errors like crazy today. Most sites except mine seem very slow. Is there a network problem, bot, virus or what?

location: Home
music: Serve The Ego - This way - Jewel

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5:28 PM - Damn it costs a lot to run a pc

I've been reading online about electrical usage.  Assuming 10 cents per kWh, it costs roughly 15 dollars a month to leave 1 pc on all the time with monitor.  That's assuming you have a fairly energy efficient system.  I calculated 400 watts for 2 "servers" based on other info on the web about modern systems and estimate it costs us 28.8 dollars a month to run the electricity.  That means we don't save any money by running our own servers as i thought we would.  That doesn't even take into account for buying hardware, etc.  Of course without something to calculate electrical usage, i can't be certain what it really costs. My mother's figure of 20 dollars a month when she started turning her pc off makes sense now.  Her monitor isn't very efficient.  Also, watching a movie on tv can use the same amount of power as a computer.  Something to think about next time you leave the tv on.

In contrast, to run a 13 watt light for 8 hours a day would only cost 31 cents (is that right?)  13 watt * 8 hours * 30 days / 1000  then * .10 cents per kWh

To run our netgear gigabit switch costs around 1.30 a month (24/7) if it always consumes its maximum wattage of the ac adapter.  I believe its rated less though. 

If caryn left her monitor on all the time and it didn't go into sleep mode it would cost around 2.15 a month.  (estimating 30watt, although it might be 45)  My monitor would cost over 8.5 dollars!  (crt)  If I were to run my monitor for one year always on it would cost 100 dollars.   In two years time, I could have bought a 150 dollar lcd that runs at 30 watts and still saved 15 dollars (plus covered the cost of electricity for it) 

LCDs are sounding better all the time.   Using my monitor 10 hours a day thats 4.5 dollars a month.  It would take quite awhile for it to make a difference vs buying an LCD. 

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6:08 PM - Microsoft Windows HAL types, NTP and timing issues

Here's an interesting KB article on the different hal types.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309283

This came up because i've been researching cpu temp monitors for my amd box. I found some info on nforce2 chipsets and problems keeping time. Switching hals seems to help with amd boxes.. thats why they lose time in windows! Mac minis have problems as well. Anything with a moving cpu frequency can. Finally having a fifo enabled can cause havoc! This page has all the info on that and how to turn of fifos
http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/KnownHardwareIssues

A thread about the problem with nforce2 chipsets
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/1-vt19631.html

Problems starting with the 2.6.10 linux kernel
http://kerneltrap.org/node/4872




location: Home

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6:10 PM - Detecting temps on bsd

Here's an interesting program
http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/download/xmbmon/README-xmbmon205.html

This is supposed to work in x11 or command line and detect temp on several chipsets. If so i can monitor changes while the system is up!

I'm half tempted to underclock my cpu if this works as an energy savings as well. I'll wait till i can prove its working right before i even think of trying it.

location: Home

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7:01 PM - Its amazing.. my AMD server finally doesn't overheat!

The fan controller did it! I'm showing 37C-38C while compiling a kernel. Thats the exact same temperature as my first xeon processor in my dell right now. That also means the amd chip is now cooler under load than the intel (47C). I'm wondering what i could do if i underclocked it.

location: Home

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