FS - Lots of Geek wares.(CPU/RAM/Mobo/DVD-R)

[Joe]

4x PC133 CL2 Crucial 256mb SDRAM (1GB) 130$ (Sold)

2x PC133 CL2 Crucial ECC 256mb SDRAM (512MB) 65$ (works as normal SDRAM in non ECC boards just fine) (Pending Sale)

1x Pioneer DVR-A03 2x DVD-R (with Speed hacked Firmware that increases compatability to a very wide range of media for 2x) 100$ (Sold)

2x P3 450 SECC2 Slot1 CPUs 40$

1x Tyan Thunder 100GX Dual P3 Mobo W/ Dual UW SCSI, LAN, and Sound. It sports the Xeon GX Chipset which is pretty leet for memory speeds. (the board is stable, but pretty old ( bought it back in 1998 for 600$ and have used it ever since. It works great with the 2 P3's above and the 1GB of ram above and makes a killer file server. The BIOS are a mess to deal with, I would recomend setting them to the default and leaving them. The board doesnt tollerate OC'n at all. Since it is so old I promise it not to be DOA but I cant promise how long of a life it has left. - I priced it based on that fact.) 70$ Also its an EATX board, so make sure you got the room for it.

Combo Deal.. you buy it all and its yours for 300$ + Ground shipping (which should be dirt cheap) PayPal only. If you buy it all I will throw in 10 2x DVD-R's also.

If you are looking for some SCSI here is another sale thingy I am doing:
http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/sho...&threadid=7542

[Joe]

BTW selling this batch of stuff I want to keep in order to buy a Thrustmaster Cougar HOTAS setup

[Gooserider]

What kind of a deal would you make on the entire package, this stuff plus the raid array? (I assume the raid card is PCI?)

Gooserider

[Joe]

I will think about it... heading off to work rignt now so when I get there I will letcha know

[Joe]

How about 520$ + shipping for the works. Which will pretty much be free shipping then (580$ is what it would cost if someone bought both outright, and I figure it will cost 60$ to ship all this gear in one shippment (2 fairly large boxes). but I may be wrong it could only cost 30 - 40$ who knows..

But 520$ I think is fair if you were gunna snag it all right now.

[Joe]

Originally posted by Gooserider
What kind of a deal would you make on the entire package, this stuff plus the raid array? (I assume the raid card is PCI?)

Gooserider

yes 32bit/33Mhz PCI

[mr. white]

...just out of curiosity, where does a nick like gooserider hail from ?

[utabintarbo]

Interested in the CPUs. Is that $40 for the pair? Heatsinks?

Bob

[Joe]

the fans on the HSF's are ****ed... so I can send the HSF's but no fans since they dotn work that good.

and if Goose doesnt take the whole batch they are yours. Waiting on him.

[Gooserider]

I want to talk it over with the girlfriend, which I won't have a chance to until tonight, but the price for the works sounds reasonable. Will let you know by tomorrow, if you don't hear from me, feel free to break things up.

On a different note,

mr. white: ...just out of curiosity, where does a nick like gooserider hail from ?

Lots of people ask that

Contrary to popular belief, it does NOT have anything to do with un-natural acts involving poultry

I am (among many other things) a hard core biker, in that I have not owned a car since 1980, and have never missed a day of work due to bad weather (Remember, this is New England, which is snow country)

My ride of choice is a Moto Guzzi, known in the biker world as a 'Goose' - The derivation of the nick I leave as an exercise for the student...

(My primary rig is a side car outfit that I built myself from the sidecar mounts out, with an electric lean adjuster, and other fun things. I didn't make them, but I also have leading link forks and some custom wheels that let me run car tires on the bike to increase tire life. (Joe; Is this sufficiently off topic? ))

Gooserider

[Joe]

Goose its all good Mr White works with me ( and that quote in his sig IS something I said at Bocce game where we were trying to hit squirrels ) He's a bike geek also.

Tell your GF this is a hot hot hot deal and will make everyones life a lot better in the end

[mr. white]

That's what I was wondering about actually. My ride of choice is a 2000 Jackal that I ride nearly every day. Last year I missed about 60 days of commuting while the road conditions were simply too much for two wheeled conveyances. But yeah, I've never hung it up for rain.

Very cool though. I'm always inquisitive about other guzzis or suspected guzzi riders since more often than not I'm answering the "WTF is that thing"? query from other motorcyclists...

[Joe]

Yeh WTF is that thing?!

[Gooserider]

I'd left a message for her at work, and she called me back before I had to leave for the afternoon.

After discussing it with her, we decided that I have to many different projects on my plate, and not enough time to do them in. She doesn't see a 'NEED' for this machine, as opposed to a "WANT" for it; and I really couldn't come up with a legit reason to change her mind.

So I'm going to have to take a pass on it for now. If there are remnants left later I might be able to talk her into reconsidering. (One of my many projects involves a box of 4GB drives I was thinking of turning into a software RAID array - if nobody else has any interest in the Mylex card, I might be able to talk her into that for instance)

Feel free to break things up, good luck in selling everything off, hope you get a good price on it.

Gooserider

[Joe]

Damn what kind of geek are you?! that kind of reply normally means "need new GF" hehehehe

anyway cool, and I will letcha know if anythings left over.

[Gooserider]

Joe Damn what kind of geek are you?! that kind of reply normally means "need new GF" hehehehe anyway cool, and I will letcha know if anythings left over.

Some ways I agree, but in this case I was sort of in mixed feelings about it myself...

Among other projects, is the computer I wrote that case review article on for you (BTW, what is status on that these days?). I have the first WB milled, working on the second, started some of the case mods, and am doing some flow testing (ghetto style) which I'll be working on articles about.

I am working on building a fancy bed for us.

I have a second bike that needs to have the engine dropped and torn down (I blew an oil line, and rode several miles with very little oil... It might be OK, but I need to check it for damage)

I need to put up some walls in an attic space so we can use it for storing stuff from my apt.

I need to get my apt. ready to move everything out and into the GF's house.
etc., etc....

I seem to be aquiring projects at a faster rate these days than I can get them finished, and she convinced me that this isn't one that fits the 'essential' class definition.

Aside from not sharing my enthusiasm for aquiring more toys, she is a pretty good catch... She one of the very rare breed known as a GIRL geek. (I do hardware, she does software. She is a principle S/W engineer for a very major computer company, one notch below architect) Since I got laid off from my job about a year ago, we have mostly been living off her income while I do 'house husband' and odd jobs (primarily substitute teaching for $50/day) which is a deal I can hardly complain about!

On bikes, It is a small world to run into another Guzzi owner. I have two, both Cal II's, one an 84 and the other an 86. The 86 I purchased as a wreck with 2500 miles, and now have over 115K on it. I've had a sidecar on it for most of that time, which means I don't need to worry about snow. (You haven't lived until you've gone out in a blizzard, found some idiot that has gotten stuck in his 4WD, and ridden by him on your motorcycle, blowing the horn and waving The 4WD guys are all friendly and wave back, but I have to feel sorry for their handicap, they all seem to only have one finger... )

A time that I remember with great fondness was a few years ago when I went to an MC swapmeet on the bike. The forecast was dire, and attendance was light. The only other people to arrive on bikes were a group of Angels on their way to one of the local clubhouses who stopped to thaw and call for a pickup. It was a right decision for someone on two wheels, but it feels kind of cool to be able to keep riding when the H.A.'s are calling it quits...

The 84 was a recent purchase, and is the bike with the bad oil line mentioned above. It also has a hack on it, and is much fancier, or was before it got oil coated. A sidecar is a mixed bag in an oil-loss situation - you don't fall down, instead you keep running until the engine croaks....

I know about the WTF is that scene as well. I get it on two counts, both the bike and the hack. One of the things you learn about when you run an outfit is to allow for about 5-10% extra time at each stop when making plans. This is known as "SCDF" or "SideCar Delay Factor" and comes from the amazing number of people that want to quiz you about the rig delaying your travels.

On Squirrels - I forget the site, and it may not exist any more, but have you ever seen the 'Squirrel Fishing' web page? It's a hoot! Some guy got a fishing outfit, and tied a peanut on the end of the line. He then would cast out to near a squirrel, and after the squirrel grabbed the nut attempt to reel it in and see how close he could drag it in before the squirrel would let go.

This was in the Harvard / MIT area, so the squirrels were pretty tame, but it was amazing how long they would hang on. The squirrel would hang onto the nut while being reeled all the way in from a 30' cast, and literally let itself get picked up a couple feet off the ground at the end of the rod before giving up. Of course the guy got lots of headaches from the green freaky types because he was 'traumatizing' the poor tree rats...

[ndtinker]

Well, If that DVD burner is still for sale, I'm extremely interested - have any more details on it? As long as it works, I'm 100% sure I'll get it from you.

oh, and by speedhacked firmware, does that mean it's compatible with 4x DVD media and won't explode if you try to use it?


RATS! -nevermind.. Bank accounto = empty.

[Joe]

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