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
POWER CONSUMPTION (MAX. / MEASURED) 300 / 88 W
COMMENTS This is my 3rd 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

Update: since the summer of 2008, this computer has been retired. The logic controlling the CPU fan broke so the system overheated and didn't run reliably after this, so I had to scrap the mainboard.

I've built this system from used parts in July 2006, the ATX box comes from my old Linux server and the mainboard & CPU are leftover parts from upgrading 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 535 days without using any UPS. Usually, 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:  15-6-2009