Duron tower


<no pic yet, it's just a boring peecee box...>

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General Technical Information

HOSTNAME DURON
SYSTEM CPU AMD Duron Applebreed @1800MHz
CACHE (2nd, 1st) 64 KB, 128 KB
RAM  256 MB PC-133 SDRAM  (Max. 2 GB)
IDE BUS 2 x Ultra DMA-100 (Max. 100 MB/s)
SCSI BUS
 		Ultra Wide SCSI (Max. 40 MB/s) Symbios 53C875 controller chip
OPTION BUS 1 x AGP slot, 5 x PCI slots and 2 x ISA slots
GRAPHICS Matrox G550 AGP Max. 1792x1344 for 32-plane @75Hz
DISPLAY
 		19" HP 1955 TFT display*
HARD DISK DRIVES 36GB Hitachi 10K RPM U160 SCSI and 120 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM ATA-133 8MB cache
CD-ROM DRIVE N/A
FLOPPY DRIVE
 		1.44MB Floppy drive
NETWORK 10/100/1000baseT RealTek ethernet PCI card and 10/100baseT NoName ethernet card
AUDIO N/A
OS Ubuntu 5.10 Linux
YEAR 2001 (mainboard) / 2003 (CPU)
SPEED 2232 VAX MIPS
COMMENTS This peecee has a quite high CPU clock speed compared to the rest of my computers, but still it doesn't perform particularly well because of its poor L2 cache. 
PRICE 2004
 		< 100 EUR**
*= this monitor is shared with my Mac Mini and my Linux server, it's connected to a 2-port USB KVM switch (the Mini has it's own keyboard and is connected to the TFT monitor's DVI connector).

History and other comments

I've built this system from scratch. It's a low budget peecee computer put togeather to act as my new (2004-) Internet gateway/firewall. It now runs 24/7, my uptime record is now officially 201 days without using any UPS.

I've made this peecee so that it is a quiet as possible, by putting soft insulation material on the inside of the enclosure, and by selecting fans that are quiet. One good method to turn cheap fans into silent fans is to run standard 12V fans on 7V (i.e. you connect GND on the fan to +5V, usually the RED wire, and the other wire that normally goes to +12V, to +12V, usually the YELLOW wire). I've also made the system disk more quiet by hanging it in some elastic material.

**=Most of the parts in this system were either from my big pile of misc peecee junk or salvaged from garbage, the only thing purchased as new was the CPU, that's why I could make it so cheap.
 
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Last updated:  31-5-2006