Monthly Archives: March 2009

DIY 16 core workstation part 3: Memory & Heatsinks

Posted on March 18, 2009 by

-Continued from Part 2- It was a little tricky finding the right memory for the Tyan S4980 motherboard. You have to make sure that you use ECC, Registered DDR2 DIMMs  400, 533 or 667 Mhz. If you buy memory that … Continue reading →

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DIY 16 core workstation part 2: Processors

Posted on March 18, 2009 by

As you read in part 1, we are building an AMD 16 core workstation, so we need to find four Opteron quad core processors. Our Tyan S4980 motherboard only supports AMD “Barcelona” Opterons.  Barcelona’s have two main product lines: the … Continue reading →

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D-Link DIR628 RangeBooster N Dual Band Router

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Frys had this wireless-n router on sale for $69 the other day. Great price.  I bought two in hopes of being able to use one of them as a repeater to create a larger wireless network.  For the record, this … Continue reading →

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