Basement Progress
Tuesday, 24. July 2007, 22:09:17
I've got some old receivers that I snagged from storage hooked up and driving my Klipsch 4.1 speakers. I've just got them in stereo, one set on each receiver. No sub yet, but I'm not too concerned about sound, just sources cus this is a Video Lab, not an Audiophile pit.
I've got an old IBM laptop down here connected to a DELL monitor for now. I also brought my SMP Pentium3 2U server machine down here, but I haven't hooked it up yet. I have an old Athlon XP in tower down here as well, but it has no hard drives right now =). They're all in the 2U.
I found an old Pentium4 board with Processor that I bought from a friend a while back. Might get that set up, too. Might put it in the tower and replace the AthlonXP 2500+ Barton and consolidate all the SDRAM to one machine. It wouldn't be too bad for cranking on some video encodes. Might be a good "controller" machine for the lab, too. I've got Remote protocols throughout the house, so I can control encodes on QuadZ80 from anywhere right now. Working out pretty well, but I'll soon need to run some Cat5 down here and get a Gigabit Ethernet network set up. Wireless is not cutting it for LAN transfers, and once I start moving big video chunks around, it's going to be painful without some gigabit love!
I've got an old IBM laptop down here connected to a DELL monitor for now. I also brought my SMP Pentium3 2U server machine down here, but I haven't hooked it up yet. I have an old Athlon XP in tower down here as well, but it has no hard drives right now =). They're all in the 2U.
I found an old Pentium4 board with Processor that I bought from a friend a while back. Might get that set up, too. Might put it in the tower and replace the AthlonXP 2500+ Barton and consolidate all the SDRAM to one machine. It wouldn't be too bad for cranking on some video encodes. Might be a good "controller" machine for the lab, too. I've got Remote protocols throughout the house, so I can control encodes on QuadZ80 from anywhere right now. Working out pretty well, but I'll soon need to run some Cat5 down here and get a Gigabit Ethernet network set up. Wireless is not cutting it for LAN transfers, and once I start moving big video chunks around, it's going to be painful without some gigabit love!
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