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I would pick the phenom for the faster memory. My 9950BE is still fine for gaming at 1920x1200 paired with my 5830. :)

iBook G4s and the PowerBooks used ATI GPUs. The earlier MacBook Pros used x1600s. Anyways, the new white MacBooks use nvidia GPUs these days with pretty good results.

Ah. the saving grace for the newer ilom is definitely the web interface. I have a first model 2100 that does everything over IPMI, how useless is that. I wrote my own scripts to manage ipmitool to make it somewhat useful. Edit: Also, even though its the same ilom, on the newer sparcs (think T...

The V40z is pretty old now though (but 4 885s sounds like a fun time). The generation after those have better lights out management with the iloms. If you want just a cheap x86 sun box, you can get a Java Workstation w2100z (dual cpus,8 ram slots, scsi AND sata drives) for around $150 bucks.

I did the swap and all is well. 4x2.6ghz cores, 12GB of ram and lights out management. Mmmm mmm mmm. :)

A while ago I had ordered some Opetron 885s to upgrade my Sun Java Workstation from its 252s. I did the upgrade, but I fear I nicked the motherboard (or daughter board) getting the heatsinks off (what a disaster those clamps were!) as the machine never booted again (with the 885s or 252s). I...

This is the last one I have running. Still makes for a decent test linux server. I had 4 or 5 Athlon XPs in the house at one point. I jumped ship for the Athlon 64s as soon as they came out though... $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu...

Also, if you are selling those machines, you need to put a price in the description.

The DC PMG5 uses DDR-2 4200, and will except up to PC2-6400 sticks no problem (I had that very same model with 6GB of 6400). The DDR1 model G5s maxed out a PC-3200.

ECC or ECC FB-DIMM? Trying to load up my Dell on the cheap! :)

The ATI CCC will tell you the temp you need to worry about... (FYI: The 4850 is a pretty hot card, especially if its the reference board with stock heatsink.)

I did 1920x1200 with my phenom 9950 + 4850 and it had no problems either.

FFIV runs just fine on my Gameboy? :D I have a 5830 coming to play FFXIV on, hopefully I can get atleast medium settings. :( FFXI wasn't terrible on graphics when it came out, but I found it hard to believe it never broke 60FPS with vsync off. Anyways, fingers crossed, this game looks AWESOME.

What is he more likely to have in the house? Rubbing alcohol or acetone? :P We used isopropyl in the electronics labs when I did electronics engineering in college, it works just fine and there is no reason to say acetone trumps it when isopropyl is usually more readily available.

90% Isopropyl alcohol is perfectly fine for cleaning electronics.