I tried running a super pi 1M test on the system. It ran through the 19 loops in 24 seconds. Thats pretty ok, from what I have seen others do it in. My old system, an Opteron 165 (1,8 GHz) dualcore opteron slightly clocked to 2,0 GHz did the 1M test in 42 secs. The super pi is, however a single core application.
Did not try to optimize my old Dual Core Opteron system very much though.
Had a sound card problem on the Asus P5B. Win XP did not detect that any sound card was present. After a little wondering, I tried to go to the BIOS again. And sure enough. The soundcard was disabled! The previous owner must have had a dedicated soundcard when he used the motherboard. Lots of surprises and things to wonder about when you buy preowned hardware :-/
Have started working on building a computer in a Chieftech High tower, which is planned to be a server:
Gigabyte K8N Pro SLI (passive chipset cooler) - http://www.gigabyte.co.nz/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=1883
An Opteron 146 (running 2,0 GHz, but bought in Germany as pretestet to 2,9GHz)
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/SellAMDProducts/0,,30_177_4458_3505^8796^9240,00.html
Thermalright XP-90C CPU cooler
http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/main_product_xp90C.htm
2 x 1 GB PC-3200 Kingston Hyper X
http://www.valueram.com/datasheets/KHX3200A_1g.pdf
ATI X600 PCI-e graphicscard.
Decided to go for some passive cooling for the gfx-card, so I bought an Arctic Cooling Accelero S2 http://arcticcooling.com/vga2.php?idx=125
After installing the cooler and ram heatsinks I put it in the computer and booted.
Beepcode error. 1 long beep and 2 short. As far as I can figure it means either graphics card not properly in place, or that it is broken. Tried to move it to the other PCI-e slot on the motherboard, but same error. Have not had time to look further into it. But I sure don´t like the sound of that :-(
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