Every man needs his beast

On 01.18.10, In Hardware, by Tim Groeneveld

Tim's Computer - there is a reason it's called 'The Beast' Every man needs his toy, and for Tim, his beloved prize is what he calls “The Beast”. With 8GB of RAM and more then 6TB of storage, who would not love his machine?

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Shortly after moving to Sydney, one of the first major investments that I made (even before buying a bed. No, seriously) was my computer. Being a code monkey for fun and money means that the right tools for the trade are required, and seeing as anything that I bought I would have for atleast two and a half years, I wanted to make sure that any machine that I bought was both powerfull to last the distance, and as future proof as possible.

: Spare Parts

: All play and no work

: Adaptec 3805

: The CoolerMaster COSMOS S

The Specifications:

Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P
AMD Phenom II AM3 955 (3.2Ghz Quad Core)
8GB of DDR3 RAM
nVidia 9600GT 512MB
500GB System drive [for Linux]
6TB of disk space, thanks to Adaptec’s 3805 SATA RAID card (6*1.5TB-(2*1.5TB)) == 6TB [RAID 6]
C-Master COSMOS S case
2 x 18″ ASUS Widescreen LCD Screens

All round it is a very decent machine indeed. The motherboard is amazing, providing inputs that I didn’t even know existed (sarcasm!) like PS/2 keyboard and mouse.

Tim Groeneveld

Tim Groeneveld is a code monkey specialising in PHP, MySQL and web server load balancing/clustering. Currently working at Digital Pacific, he spends his days either fixing up other peoples issues or madly hacking away at this weeks project. Nothing tickles Tim more then running the latest version of all his favorite software. When not working, Tim is sitting at home playing with "The Beast".

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