AMD Athlon 64 3000+ tower




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General Technical Information

HOSTNAME BARCHETTA
SYSTEM CPU AMD Athlon 64 3000+ @1800MHz S939
CACHE (2nd, 1st D/I) 512 KB, 64 KB / 64 KB
RAM  512 MB dual channel DDR400 (Max. 4096 MB)
IDE BUS 3 x ATA-133 (Max. 133.3 MB/s) and 4 x Serial ATA (Max. 150 MB/s) RAID1, RAID0
SCSI BUS
 Adaptec Ultra2 Wide SCSI (Max. 80 MB/s)
INTERFACES
 		3 x FireWire ports, 8 x USB2 ports, 1 x IrDA, 1 x serial port and 1 x parallell port
OPTION BUS 1 x AGP slot, 5 x PCI slots
GRAPHICS Matrox G550 AGP Max. 1792x1344 for 32-plane @75Hz
DISPLAY
 		19" HP 1955 TFT display*
HARD DISK DRIVES 36GB Hitachi 10K RPM U160 SCSI
CDROM DRIVE 24x Samsung CD-RW Writer
FLOPPY DRIVE
 		N/A
NETWORK 10/100/1000baseT onboard ethernet and  3com 10/100baseT PCI card
AUDIO Onboard AC97 audio chip
OS Ubuntu Linux 5.10 (x86 version)
YEAR 2005
SPEED 5255 VAX MIPS
COMMENTS This is my second fastest computer.
PRICE '05 (excl. peripherals)
 		$600
*= this monitor is shared with my Mac Mini and my deskside PC, it's connected to a 2-port USB KVM switch (the Mini has it's own keyboard and is connected to the TFT monitor's DVI connector).

History and other comments

I've built this system from used parts in July 2006, the ATX box comes from my old Linux server and the mainboard & CPU comes from my deskside PC. It's a medium budget peecee computer assembled to act as my home Internet gateway / firewall.

Currently, it runs 24/7 and my uptime record is officially 440 days without using any UPS.  This will grow as time pass, I guess. I don't see any reason to reboot. Occationally I do restart X11/Gnome, maybe once every three months or so, otherwise the system tends to slow down.
 
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Last updated:  13-11-2007