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Even the water-cooling models make a low frequency buzz not unlike a Keurig coffee machine.

Raion-Fox wrote: I'm probably going to eventually get an Power8 ATX board that will fit in a nice ATX case I have lying around and use that as a development machine

Y888099 wrote: That's interesting! Which Power8 ATX board ? Where can you get it?

Y888099 wrote: I believe the best PowerPC 32bit ever made is the PowerMac G4 MDD dual 1.4Ghz!

It comes with four PCI slots at 64bit, and processors can be upgraded with the last super-rare Sonnet dual-cpu kit.
Elegant, powerful, I believe there is no other G4 tower in these conditions around the world!

Linux works great there!

Raion-Fox wrote: It's also limited to 31-bit addressing (2GB) has no 64-bit support, is slow as a sloth with AIDS and noisy as hell

Raion-Fox wrote: I'd not be surprised if a dual 600 Octane outclasses a dual G4 MDD.

SiliconClassics wrote: He concluded that they were still quite usable for everyday tasks in 2010.

guardian452 wrote: 2010 was a long time ago in the computer industry. Those machines are twice as old now.

Y888099 wrote: Nah, it's fast for my needs! gEDA doesn't need more than 700MB of ram. So 2GB is fine!

guardian452 wrote: You're comparing a $30,000 machine to a $3,000 machine of the same vintage.

Y888099 wrote: Fortunately I don't need to develop on C++, but I happen to use those simulators, and I have recently installed 8GB of ram on my C3600 because I need 6GB of ram disk. I am using opensource-EDA and its simulators on linux-hppa and they all run 400% faster in this way.

In the theory I could buy a sATA-RAM-DISK but it's very expensive: 32GB costs 500 euro + VAT + postage.

It's the main and only reason why I have put 130 euro in 8GB of ram and also the reason why I have moved from 32bit-kernel to 64bit-kernel, but I am still with 32bit userland. No reasons to move, especially on an experimental architecture.

I bought a XEON M3 machine for my job staff. It's also perfect for commercial EDA (OrCad, Altium, etc), even OrCAD requires x86 and Windows. Unfortunately I am still with a mixed set of 32bit and 64bit applications. Some of them requires XP/32bit, so … I am obliged to have a virtualizer, and WMPlayer is perfect for my needs.

hamei wrote: I can't stand this. What the fuck is wrong with you people ? "What can I do with a G5 ?"

Well, you could spend thirty seconds with your favorite search engine and find several thousand programs that run great on a G5. You know, little-known ones like PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, Mickeysoft Word ... well hell, just about nothing, I guess. May as well throw it away, can't possibly do any kind of useful work on anything less than 64 gbytes of memory and a 16-core 5 ghz cpu. I mean, like your work is so demanding . I guess your after-hours job is doing cfd for Hyundai's shipbuilding division, down there in mum's basement. Right after you finish that free-energy magno-hepadynetic clostromotron that will power the planet on a single cup of peanut butter.

Oh wait ! I have an idea ! Let's put Loonix on it ! Loonix, the operating system that survives on one, count 'em ONE (semi) functional program ! Woo-hoo babe, now we're cookin' with gas ! Penis hard as a rock, stroke faster ! Squeeze harder ! Ooh ooh !

Shee-it. This is retarded. There is no consumer software, none, that actually needs or uses anything more capable than a G5. If this is your answer to "what can I do with a g5" then maybe you guys should get a job waxing cars. Maybe you could handle that.

hamei wrote: I guess your after-hours job is doing cfd for Hyundai's shipbuilding division, down there in mum's basement. Right after you finish that free-energy magno-hepadynetic clostromotron that will power the planet on a single cup of peanut butter.