Firefox SMP 2006

System Owner: Gold Leader
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Community Score: 41
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System Details

Component Type Brand Product

Motherboard ASUS K8N-DL

CPU 2x Dual Core AMD OpteronDP 285 E6 OST

Frequency: 2.6 GHz FSB / QPI: 1000 MHz Multiplier: Default Stepping: Default
VCore: Default VTT Voltage: Default PLL Voltage: Default

RAM 2048MB PC-3200 ECC Reg 4x HP/Micron

Frequency: 400 MHz Timing: CL3 Voltage: 1.8 v

Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 1280MB 320Bit GDDR5 Rev.A2 5009

GPU Frequency: 526.5 MHz Shader Frequency: 1057 MHz Memory Frequency: 700 MHz SLI: No

Case

Lian Li

PC7-FNW

Power Supply

Silver Stone

Strider 850 Watts

CD/DVD

NEC

ND-2500A

Hard Drive

Western Digital

Velociraptor 300GB 10.000 RPM

Sound

Auzentech

X-Fi Prelude 7.1 PCI 64MB XRAM

Accessory

Trust

Default Microphone xD

Cooling

Scythe

2x Shuriken

Fan

Eenrmax

2x Cluster 92mm White Ledded Fans

Mouse

Razer

Diamondback 3G 1800 DPI

Keyboard

Compaq/HP

KU-0316

Monitor

ZR24w 24" S-IPS Panel

Notes

My good ole Dual Opteron system from 2006, gave it a NVIDIA Geforce GTX 480 PCI-E 1280MB 320Bit GDDR5 Rev.A2 5009 Engineering Sample it's from Week 50, Year 2009.

Due to the odd VRAM amount, this is very normal for an Engineering Sample to have, some GTX 480 ES boards had 512 Fermi CUDA cores but only 1280MB 320Bit to 1536MB 384Bit GDDR5, others only had 480 Cores with 1280MB 320Bit & 1536MB 384Bit VRAM configs.

It's part of my GeForce Led Logo project and after looking for a good three and a half years I finally got me this dream card, a card Chris "ChrisRay" Arthington and I talked a lot about when I was at the NVIDIA support forums :)

Nowadays this system serves as Network fallback system but also a test system to test VGA cards from my VGA card collection :)

For sound I gave it an Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1, which is by far the best sound card on the PCI bus on the market, all in all I still love this system in every way, it's motherboard the ASUS K8N-DL also never showed a single hitch.

Comments

Posted By Date Text

Gold Leader
04/15/2014
08:44 AM

Well this is an oldie now just over 8 years in service, but still going on strong, that EVGA GTX 480 does a good job with it as well :) It's Mobo the ASUS K8N-DL is famous in 2CPU Opteron land, it also has a separate Overclocking bios section as well :) It's also well known for it's long term lifespan and quality of hardware parts, even today it can run the latest games fine @ 1440 x 900 x32 :)

40Water
04/15/2014
06:22 AM

Great build, the window shot is classy looking. I tried out the SR-2 with dual CPU's but had so many issues I gave up on it after a few months. EVGA was pretty slow to address many issues unfortunately.. +1'd

Gold Leader
08/15/2013
03:00 PM

many thanks Shadowboricua, yeah this is an oldie, but great as back hand system :)

Shadowboricua
08/15/2013
02:37 PM

Dual CPU goodness; wow! +1

Gold Leader
07/28/2013
03:11 AM

Yes Firefox SMP 2006 is from 2006 and I have given him a md life upgrade with that EVGA GTX 480 back in 2010, and I gave that card a Backplate and a High Flow Bracket this year with one of them EVGA Rubber SLI Connector protectors :) I use this system as a backhand system now, as LANs arent hardly kept these days. It's also a Descent server for Descent Tsk Force & Descent Rangersthe two main Descent Leagues I fly for as Tylosaurus.

TigerDeath
07/17/2013
08:45 AM

I take it this is one of your gaming rigs?

Gold Leader
03/12/2013
12:44 PM

Yaaaps Firefox SMP 2006 is one my my favs eva, the ASUS K8N-DL is one of the best 2CPU motherboards I even worked with it even supports OCing, even though I never needed that, I prefer to take care of my hardware than abuse it haha oh well you know me right xDDDDD

muskie32
03/12/2013
06:32 AM

A dualie! Very nice! :]

Gold Leader
03/01/2013
06:41 AM

Many thanks for your +1's and comments guys :) This used to be my LAN setup, but now it's used as secondary main :) This system is from 2006 but thx to it's EVGA GTX 480 it still come along very well :)

sinned.
02/27/2013
08:50 PM

I like the dual CPU setup!