History of Gaming Rigs

Greg's gaming hardware & opensource skillz

• 1980-1985 IBS 8086 IBM compatible, QDos; Tetris
  

• 1985-1989 80386 (i386), MS Dos, Windows 3, 3.11; Populous
  

• 1987-1990 NeXT Cube mach OS 0.5, 0.9 (NeXT's 6th Cube); Seriously lacking
  

• 1989-1995 Sun3/80, SunSparc 20 GT, Ultrasparc 1,Ultrasparc 2, Solaris, (also world's first Javastation) Xtank, Xtrek, Xpilot, XConq
  

• 1996-2006 SGI O2, O2+ Irix 6.5; Doom/SGIQuake, Maelstrom

• 2006-2007 ASUS A8V Deluxe FX-57-FX-60; BF1942, BF2, B&W, Worms, C&C, Unreal, Stubbs

The AMD Box

• Asus M32A-MVP Deluxe/Wifi, Bios 2202, HT Link 2407.4 Mhz @ 1.30v
  
• AMD Phenom II 970 Black Edition @ 3.811.7Ghz (200.6x19, 1.344v)
  
• Nvidia GTX 295, 896Mb x 2
  
• Geil Esoteria 8GB DDR2 1066Mhz@5-7-7-20, 2.2v, 4 x 2GB, 3:8 @ 535.0Mhz
  
• Windows 7 x64
• Passmark V7.0 x64 score: 1919.0

The Intel Box

• Asus Striker Extreme, Bios 1801
  
• Intel QX6850 Core 2 Extreme @3.00 Ghz
  
• Nvidia 9800 GX2 (Nvidia 10DE, 2GB)
  
• Supertalent 8GB DDR2 800Mhz@5-5-5-18, 1.8v, 4 x 2GB Dual Channel
  
• Vista Ultimate SP2 x64
• Passmark V7.0 x64 score: 1582.2

The GPGPU Box

• Dell T7400 Precision
• 1 x Intel E5420 Xeon @stock 2.50Ghz, 12Meg cache
• 4 x 1GB DDR2 @stock voltage
• Vista Ultimate SP2 x64
• 2 x Nvidia 9800 GX2 (Quad GPGPU)
• Vista Ultimate SP2 x64