Archive for the ‘PC’ Category

Meet Tiger

PC | Posted by Dr. J
Nov 03 2006

In my previous post I told you about the dual socket motherboard (or mainboard if you will) that I bought and now, almost a few days later, it’s a fully assembled pc.

You can see the specs on the PCs page and then click Tiger, or you can simply click here to see it all.

Tiger case Tiger casefans Tiger top fan

Some changes will be made to it over time, but for the time being, this is it.

Tyan Tiger MPX dual Athlon MP 2400+

PC | Posted by Dr. J
Oct 30 2006

Tyan logo
Today I got the first few parts of my latest addition to my PC setup. A mainboard, memory modules and 2 CPUs.
As you can read in the title of today’s post, the mainboard is a Tyan Tiger MPX. By far not the latest model available from Tyan, but that is what second hand market is for.
2 Athlon MP 2400+ CPUs will do service as processors and while not the most powerfull anymore, they are more than adequate.
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New wifi router: ASUS WL-500g Premium

Networking, Other, PC | Posted by Dr. J
Oct 06 2006

I’ve been using the combination of a cheap Sweex broadband router with an old Kobishi accesspoint to provide myself with a wireless internet connection, but the age of the equipment was starting to show. The accesspoint would not pass through DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) and it failed to provide service a lot lately requiring me to reset and completely reconfigure the old thing about every 2 weeks. Sometimes it lasted longer, but sometimes I had to reconfigure it even multiple times per week.
The Sweex broadband router on the other hand is still functioning perfectly, but I didn’t want to just get a new accesspoint, this time I wanted it to be all in one.
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