tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49061659076251960232012-02-16T16:00:42.380+02:00This blog is intended for my hardware descriptions, cpu collection, IT news (mostly cpu perhaps) and similar things. I am only a blogger not a journalist. My native language is not english. It can be mistakes (not only grammar) in my blogs. If you see them, please help me to correct them. Thank you for understanding.vezhlyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060144219552019985noreply@blogger.comBlogger551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906165907625196023.post-65366174740408382462012-02-16T01:00:00.002+02:002012-02-16T01:00:28.778+02:00

After I tested some open source operating systems I've decided not to play to long and started to assemble the main configuration for the desktop PC. It consists of EPIA-M900 motherboard, eH-1 graphics card, 2xKingston KVR1333D3S9/4G RAM (I am not really that Kingston fan but lately all RAM comes from them and I can't complain, they have very good compatibility with most boards), Samsung HD161HJ

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While VIA prepares some new motherboards like EPIA-M910 and EPIA-920 (last one will be equipped with quad core CPU and VX11 (VT3456) chipset which has integrated DX11 compatible GPU) I've made a decision on my own configuration. It is quite unusual and consists of VIA embedded parts mainly.  So I've decided to take EPIA-M900 (EPIA-M900-16L) motherboard and eH1 graphics card. I've already

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It has been more than two years since my post about VIA VB-8001 which was the first 64-bit VIA Nano CPU board. I even had this board but it was quite disappointment (it was very unstable in Windows) and I was forced to sell it eventually. VIA released enhanced single core VIA Nano 3000 series and finally 40nm VIA Nano (and Eden) X2 dual core processor solutions after that. It is only september/

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I was less active this year and unfortunately couldn't keep any of my promises. I still have quite lot of readers of my eComStation 2 installation article. It is quite surprising as I don't think that I'm the only one who described an installation process of this operating system. Unfortunately, I didn't use it much and I decided not to upgrade to new version. Because of this I am leaving usage

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I had an opportunity to get AMD Athlon II X2 250e 3GHz 45W CPU. I planned to upgrade it from my current 235e model. Unfortunately, it appeared that Jetway JNC81 (NC81-LF) didn't support it. Though it is a bit to fast conclusion but I think this motherboard just doesn't support any C3 revision Regor Athlon II X2 CPUs. So you probably won't be able to use 270u and similar Regor C3 CPUs (even 240e

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I've just updated my CPUs (and other chips) collection with lot of new items. Most of them I got from very helpful CPU collector from USA who kept them for several months in his house, however, other arrivals were interesting too. This update was one of the most joyful for me as it added several new architectures, engineering samples and other rare, unusual chips. No other update had so much rare

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Debian 6.0.0 "squeeze" was released February 6th, 2011. As I use Debian on my NAS server I decided to upgrade system to this new version. However, I decided to perform a clean install, because of this firstly I backed up some scripts and configuration files (like smb.conf, fstab, rsync scripts, crontab and some others). Later I downloaded small cd image for installation. My NAS configuration

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Happy new year and hello again. As I went more public with my first eComStation review and promised to write other ones I feel responsibility to warn you that unfortunately other reviews may not happen at all or they will be quite late (with no time frame anymore). Though I use eComStation for some time on real hardware and try to make some drafts I just don't have enough time and motivation to

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I decided to change my relatively old Samsung HD160JJ hdd disk (made in 2005) to the other one. I used it for my operating systems and kept it out of personal data as much as possible and I successfully used it in four absolutely different configurations for these five years. The main reason for the change was to free one 3.5'' HDD disk place above the CPU as I needed to change cpu fan to higher

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eComStation is last and still quite strong continuation of original OS/2 operating system. It is developed by Serenity Systems (IBM and other developers) and they released a second version of it this year. I am going to write two or three articles about it (unfortunately I deleted my first half complete draft of this article so I don't know if it will be as good a second time as it is difficult

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The time flows and I have some news in my department. As I planned I updated CPU on Asus M2A-VM HDMI motherboard with Phenom II X2 555 BE and added additional 2GB RAM (4GB in total now). However, I downgraded video from GeForce 9600GT to Radeon 4650. CPU was recognized without problems (I updated BIOS version to 5001 earlier). It works under 3.2 GHz, however, hypertransport drops to 2000 MT/s as

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Hello again, My blog is not dead. It is just irregular as always. I hope to add some new posts in two months as I have new and interesting hardware (mac mini aluminum, Phenom X2 555 on Socket AM2 motherboard and other),  and my CPU collection will grow once again (Fujitsu SPARC64 GP, NEC v70, Freescale PPC7448 and IBM Power4 terminator among them). Jetway released A06.1 BIOS version for their

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I am playing a little bit with NetBSD alpha current (201005290000Z sets) on my Microway Sreamer and it has some interesting points you probably won't have with non-current (or maybe non alpha port) builds. Firstly, it is difficult to use binary packages from 2009Q3 branch. Packages will install without problems, however, I had problems to run them afterwards. Some applications won't run with

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I mentioned almost a year ago that my Microway Screamer experienced "Proccessor detected single bit ECC error in Bcache" error during Debian install. After that I couldn't install or boot any operating system (NetBSD or Linux) on it. This error continuously repeated during install and system was hanging afterwards.  I suspected that it could be RAM or CPU problem. I also had some fear that a

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Good news for NetBSD users. I downloaded NetBSD 5.1 RC and it  successfully booted on my Jetway JNF76-N1G-LF motherboard. It wasn't the case with the earlier NetBSD 5.0.x versions. However, it is still not suitable for RAID (as linux too). Under RAID mode hard drivers aren't detected. You can find in dmesg that device wasn't configured. Still it is a good progress from BSD side as I had a lot of

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So so... As I promised after new year I had some hardware changes. I returned to mini-itx platform once again. This time I had more reasons than just experiment as it had been with VT-310DP. Firstly, I wanted to lower power usage (I don't play much and don't do big computational projects, because of this Intel system is just absolutely unused power beast for me. Yes, I thought about it when I had

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I have uploaded new CPU photos to picasa recently. The most interesting new CPUs was IBM TCM module (XA architecture and the biggest CPU I have probably), dual core Freescale MPC8641D, Philips 68070 and Digital StrongARM SA-110S for me. However, others had their part in CPU history and I am happy to have them too. I didn't have ARM architecture for a long time and that was fixed with StrongARM

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Happy New Year! 2010 started but my blog is still alive :). This year you can expect from me lot of new changes with my hardware. I'll try to write at least something about their performance. What is more, my cpu collection became bigger. I just need to make photos. I am sure that collection will grow this year too. As I am focused on mini-itx right now you'll probably find more news about them

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From my last article you can find that I unsuccessfully tried to boot NetBSD and OpenBSD on the Jetway JNF76-N1G-LF P motherboard. MirOS BSD booted ok (with some conditions like IDE option instead of RAID) and I was planning to use it for NAS. However, MirOS BSD didn't support integrated 1GbE network interface (Realtek 8111C). I bought Intel Pro/1000 GT PCI card to solve this, however, it didn't

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The more often I play with BSD operating systems the more I feel an archaic mood which spreads from them. On the other hand I like them because of that. They still retains a simplicity and transparency which I found in Unix like systems when I've tried them first. Some Linux distributions went into some deeper waters and it is not always easy to understand how it works and there to find something

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I've bought one more mini-itx motherboard recently. It is supposed to change my VIA VT-310DP. VT-310DP is used for data server right now, however, it has some compatibility problems and it needs an active cooling even than I reduced cpu clock to 533 MHz. Why is that you ask? I found that changing multiplier in the VIA VT-310DP had changed cpu clock only for a one processor. The other one still

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This blog item is not about performance, it's only about hardware and BIOS. You can find some performance numbers here. VIA VB8001-16 is a mini-itx motherboard (17x17cm). It is powered by VIA Nano L2200 1.6GHz 64-bit CPU. It also has two DDR2 667 memory slots (up to 4GB), PCI-Ex16 slot for additional video card, 2xSATA ports, 1xIDE port and one mini-pci slot at back side. Northbridge is CN896 (

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Not so long ago VIA announced VB8003 motherboard for multimedia. One of the main its features is a separate S3 435 ULP graphics processor with 256 MB GDDR3 memory. Combined with VX800 media system processor (which has its on integrated graphics) the motherboard has two HDMI ports and DVI, VGA as well. However, it is interesting how two graphics will perform in one time (as one hdmi comes from

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The first alpha version of Haiku (R1/Alpha 1) is released today. It took about 8 years to reach with point. Give it a try. I will try it this evening and see what happens and what it can do. Special thanks for all developers who made this possible. It is only alpha but still the project will not stop at this I hope.

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I installed a new F8c beta BIOS version on Gigabyte GA-EX58-DS4 motherboard yesterday. It appeared that this bios had broken memory compatibility once again. My PQI DDR3-1066U memory is not supported by this version (they worked ok with F6c, F6, F7 BIOS versions). So I needed to downgrade to F7. If you have this motherboard, be careful with upgrading to F8c and be sure that your memory is

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I have changed a processor on my main computer to Xeon E5540 ES (2.53 GHz). I have received it from USA for a quite low price (I sold my Core i7 920 for the same price). The main purpose to change it was some curiosity to have an engineering sample and a lower TDP (which is 80W instead of 130W on XEON). What is more Xeon is workstation/server CPU which suits me more. I has a little lower clock

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As I wrote earlier I was planning to use my VT-310DP board for NAS server. It has an old VT8237R southbridge and support only SATA I mode and it can't recognize hard drive in SATA II mode automatically. In theory almost every SATA II hard drive in the market has an option to set 1.5Gbit/s performance (SATA I). Some of them use pins (WD, Seagate, Maxtor), other ones needs software solution (

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I still couldn't identify what happened with my Microway Screamer. I changed a CPU but problem remained the same. Memory testing with memtest on Socket 7 motherboard didn't show any errors too (however, it doesn't have ECC support).I have never mentioned before but I had another Alpha system. It is XP1000 motherboard with 667 MHz 21264 Alpha CPU. I have it for more than a year. However, I didn't

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Several days ago I booted my Microway Screamer after long period of time. I tried to install Debian Linux. However, I got some virtual memory error during installation. After that I couldn't install anything. I was always getting "Proccessor detected single bit ECC error in Bcache" error.I think it might be memory or processor problem. I'll try to test memory on my old Socket 7 motherboard (if it

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I was looking for a one Intel i860 CPU for a quite long time. Everytime I was unlucky to get it :D. Finally I got one recently but its surface was covered by an old glue. I removed it somehow with a knife :) and cpu looks quite normal now (there are some small scratches but it was inevitable probably). As always you can find photos in my CPU collection. I also added some new PA-RISC CPUs (two

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As you might remember, I had lot of problems with assembling my Core i7 system. One of the main reasons appeared PQI DDR3-1066U memory. They were incompatible with Gigabyte GA-EX58-DS4 motherboard. I wrote Gigabyte about it back then. I don't know if they really considered this issue because of me, however, this RAM is working with the motherboard now. I tried them with current F6c BIOS. I don't

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I have not written anything for a long time. A current period is tough for me because of my studies. So, I have quite a little time to play around with my hardware. However, I am still have some projects and news. My some CPUs which I bought long time ago just arriving now :). I guess that I'll not post any new photos until June.My VIA VT-310DP board is working again :). It is now powered with

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My graphics card was broken again for about two weeks. It was changed with the new one (same model). I hope this time it will work more successfully. I installed Fedora Linux 10 yesterday. Anaconda failed to boot in graphics mode. So I needed to install fedora in a text mode (it was the same with my via board). It is not a big problem to overcome, especially in fedora where you have yum and

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As you know I have bought new Intel Core i7 system. The first blog item about it was more than a month ago. However, the purchase didn't go very smoothly. System didn't boot and we found the reason only several days before the Christmas. It was a memory fault which hadn't been compatible with the motherboard. However, after I assembled the system with new RAM, it appeared that my PSUs are not

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I have received my DEC PDP-11 J-11 CPU today. It is really big (for DIP package) and beautiful CPU. Photo shows comparison between DEC PDP-11 J-11 and AMD P8085-2. As always, you can watch my photos here.

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My cpu collection updated. There are Sun UltraSparc IIi, Nec VR12000, Godson 2-C, C-Port network processor (ES) and Intel i960. So quite a big update :). The number of chips reached more than 30. I'll get one more exception - DEC J-11 PDP-11 in the near future. It's DIP CPU, however, quite big and very beautiful. There will be and more updates (IBM PowerPC, some MIPS CPU, mayby XBox cpus and one

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I ordered Intel Nehalem platform today. It will consist of Gigabyte GA-EX58-DS4 motherboard, Intel Core i7-920 CPU, PQI 3GB DDR3 1066 RAM and Radeon 4830 video card. The other parts will be taken from my current computer (hdds, dvd-rw). It is probably one of the cheapest solutions if you want to create computer with this new platform.Intel finally released a cpu without FSB and I finally can jump

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I was eagerly waiting for the first product based on new VIA Nano CPU. VIA had promised to deliver it in the third quarter of this year, however, until now you couldn't find anyone. VIA showed the first one at the ESC (Embedded Systems Conference) Boston 2008, 27 October 2008. It's VIA VB8001 with 1.6GHz VIA Nano CPU, VIA CN896 north bridge and VT8237S south bridge. Board has PCIe 16x and

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I've added one more photo of my computer where you could see how it looked now. Yes, I am still using VIA VT-310DP. Yes, sometimes it seems slow like a hell :). However, I can't find anything interesting enough for me to change it. I can still do almost everything on it except watching some heavy HD videos. Fedora 9 showed that it could manage much more videos than in Windows. Anyway, this thread

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I have made and uploaded new photos to my CPU collection galery finally. Since last time I have received six new collectable by me items. You can look at them here. I haven't done photos of not collectible ones (some DIP CPUs and one AMD Am486) and I probably won't do them in the future. No time, no motivation :).

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I installed Windows XP x64 edition on my Athlon X2 computer today. Everything went fine except one thing. I use D-Link DWL-510G rev. 3 wireless adapter which has not official drivers from manufacturer. I tried to install Windows XP 32-bit drivers, however, they didn't work at all. Later I tried Vista 64-bit drivers. After installation Windows recognized the adapter, however, it remained with

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I have bought Intel Itanium 1.3GHz CPU some time ago (Madison core). I have finally uploaded two photos of it to my CPU collection. Last week I bought some more CPUs from famous polish CPU collector ABC-CPU too, so wait for more photos in next several weeks. Collectable ones include Hitachi SH2 from Sega Saturn and Motorola MC68EC030RP25B. The other CPUs are not collectable by me, however, they

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I used VIA VT310-DP every day for more than a week now. As expected a performance is not very good, however, it is suitable for most every day tasks. However, there is one exception that it is difficult to ignore. It is video. Most videos don't run smoothly on this computer. Like I said earlier, HD rip works very slow or don't work at all. Other videos run with troubles too. The most common

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I received my VIA VT310-DP motherboard on Wednesday (March 12). However, I had some problems with booting it. I probably don't have any computers which worked flawlessly from the start. This motherboard was no exception. After I assembled my computer, it booted (fans was working), however, there was no view in the monitor. Firstly I thought that it was a RAM issue but in the end it appeared that

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I finally have uploaded photos with all CPUs in my collection. You'll find at least two for each one. You can find them here. There are 18 CPUs at all. You can read about what I am collecting in my previous post.Intel Itanium 733 MHz

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I didn't wrote for a long time, however I had a lot of changes during this period in my hardware.Firstly my secondary computers were updated to dual-core Athlon X2 systems. The first one uses Asus M2A-VM HDMI motherboard and AMD Athlon X2 4000+ 65nm CPU, other one MSI K9AGM3-F motherboard this older revision AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 90nm CPU. So, secondary computers (which are used by my sister and

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After long delays and lots of changes AMD Phenom X4 finally arrived. AMD is in difficult situacion this year because they failed to deliver high-end products with leading performance in almost any area. Their Athlon 64 (X2) processor series is not a very competitive with Intel offerings after Core 2 architecture appeared. ATI Radeon graphic chips lag behind NVidia ones (especially in very

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So, as I mentioned earlier, I have already got my Asus Eee PC. It is white 701 model with 900MHz Intel Celeron-M ULV 353, 512 MB DDR2-667 RAM, 4 GB SSD drive, Linux, integrated camera and microphone, 3x USB, MMC/SD/MS card reader, 802.11b/g wireless LAN, 10/100 Mbit Ethernet and 5200 mAH battery. It has 7'' TFT LCD with LED backlight.Of course, the most of you probably know specifications of this

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Time magazine named iPhone invention of the year. Probably, I would call it product of the year (it does not look like the invention or something), but this is not the point. It is difficult for me to agree or not, because all its restrictions disallows even a opportunity to get it in Lithuania. Of course, I can get the one unlocked from AT&T in black market, but it would be overpriced there and

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I have bought WD Elements Desktop 500 GB USB external hard drive recently. It is my first external hard drive, however, the need of it existed much earlier. I wanted other WD hard drive, however, this one wholesaler had in Lithuania and could be delivered to the shop following day, while another one existed only in Sweden and could be delivered only after several weeks. I decided that I couldn't

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I still don't have fully working Alpha system, however, my past expierences was about switching between AlphaBIOS and srm console. Like I said earlier, my motherboard came with AlphaBIOS. It can be booted only Windows NT and some Linux distributions with this firmware. So I decided to change it to srm firware. So I downloaded it from here, because Microway Screamer 400 is almost exact copy of

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I finally booted my Microway Screamer 400 today :). Thanks to my dad we soldered "engineering fix" to my motherboard. I made some photos but there were not good. This engineering fix grounded PSON signal on motherboard. Because of this I can use all standard power supplies. I bought one new power supply with hard switch and my motherboard with Alpha CPU booted. I didn't have time to do something

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I started to collect CPUs this year in spring. The first item was HP PA-8700 PA-RISC cpu. By date I am posting this post there are 18 processors in my collection. I defined that I would collect only non x86 architecture cpus and not in DIP package. Because of this most processors are RISC ones. There is also one Itanium cpu, one Motorola 68040 cpu and two exceptions (Intel Pentium4 2.0 GHz Socket

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According to stamp on a package my motherboard arrived to Lithuania custom on 27 September. However, I got it only yesterday. Because of its weigth (~1,7 Kg), I needed to go to a post branch near our railway station (usually I am getting deliveries in a post near my house). However, my first visit was out of luck. It appeared that I needed to have a copy of invoice before I would get a delivery.

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I have recently bought Microway PC164 Screamer motherboard on ebay and waiting for it to arrive. It should be in Vilnius in next one or two weeks.This motherboard is based not on typical Intel or AMD CPUs, but on DEC Alpha CPU. Specifically, this one have 500 MHz 21164 model. It is quite old board featuring eight SIMM slots with up to 512 MB of RAM (currently 256 MB installed), two PCI, two PCI-X

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