SkyNet has become Self Aware...

Skynet III Died a painful death in 2008.

This was the last Monster 4X4 fire breathing nitro burning workstation I ever built. At the time of Creation, it was about as fast a system as one could have.
Any Remember "Pentium 4" and "RDRAM" ?

More to the point were you at all familiar with how when Intel was trying to jam that crap down our throats, telling us with CPUs and RAM that serial speed was more important than bandwidth..


... and all the while AMD was making the worlds fastest CPUs and pioneering useable 64 bit hardware?

That was SkynetIII

Supermicro H8DCE dual socket workstation board with a pair of then state of the art 2.2GHZ Dual Core Opterons in 64 bit.
And the Nforce motehrboard chipsets with the first ever iterations of System RAM interleaving (think of RAID 0 for RAM sticks, or SLI with RAM,. )
The only Windows OS I could run in 64 was XP 64 beta.

Anyway, I'm making a long story over this. Skynet died a horrible motherboard frying death some years back.
I was without a PC for over year relying on an ancient laptop

When I got time and space and back into shooting a bought a "Staples" Clearance HP Pavilion bread and butter desktop with a littel AMD/Ati chipset. and it's been what I;'ve been suffering with ever since.

tonight it all comes back full circle.

Skynet is back and Madder than ever!

No, I did not go back to my killer workstation days, why bother when we can get all those cores in a consumer or gamers set up now. It is amazing how much the gulf between state of the art and normal has shrunk in the PC market.


Skynet IV:

- Asus Z97Pro Mainboard

- Intel i7 "Devil's Canyon" Quad core 4GHz

- 4x Corsair Vengeance 1600 DDR3 8GB (32GB total)

- 2x 256GB Samsung EVO 850 Pro in RAID 1 for Boot drive and applications.

Soon to follow; 4x 3TB Seagate NAS drives in RAID 10

All of this wearing that old workstations knickers, a very loosely fitted CM Stacker full tower EATX case (talk about breathing room!)

Monitors remain, main screen SONY FW 900 AG 24" Wide screen CRT! (landscape)
Dell 24" IPS in portrait.

There was some issue with the on board Intel graphics refusing to talk to the old SONY FW900 and it's dated Win XP driver. There was not way to force that chipset to play.
So I have installed an Old passive cooled G-Force taken from SkyNetIII which is handling both monitors just fine.

I'll be installing all the graphics apps this week, and be up and running full tilt very soon.

It's such a joy to have a totally clean install again!

Oh, Windows 7 Pro