Looking for donations for a one-off dedi upgrade

Discussion in 'Server/Website Chat' started by Dark, 27 Jun 2011.

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  1. coffeejunky GM's Tea-boy

    Minecraft will be fine on an SSD. The server I play on (sorry GM :p) runs of an SSD. It did, however get down to around 30% durability after about 4 months running minecraft non-stop. This was before the new map format, so it should be just fine now. As for the dedi's it's possible they were using cheap drives with no, or only manual garbage collection/TRIM.

    Sandy Bridge is pretty dang good for power consumption, I have mine overclocked to 4.4Ghz and still have all power saving features on (even EPU on maximum) with no stability issues at all.

    I'll try and toss a little money your way, can't make any promises though. Given the activity of the clan lately your investment is very admirable :3
     
    coffeejunky, 1 Jul 2011
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  2. Dark Ruff ruff

    Finally got the Delta fan working after a bit of rewiring (fucking dell changed the pinout of a fucking 3 pin fan)

    As loud as and even more powerful than a hairdryer :D
     
    Dark, 2 Jul 2011
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  3. Rioter Mad man box wearing lunatic for President

    To be honest, at the moment with Minecraft running the map off RAM, it works fine. Not exactly going to get better than that, unless you have the worlds fastest internet connection to notice, or 400,000 roses/tnt to play with.

    Typical Dell :frog:

    How loud is loud?
     
    Rioter, 2 Jul 2011
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  4. Dark Ruff ruff

    65dB according to the specs

    Also +1 to the RAM thing.

    On an unrelated note, why doesn't magic carpet work on your server? Seems to just not keep up at all
     
    Dark, 2 Jul 2011
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  5. Dark Ruff ruff

    Bad news - the PCI Express controller failed during a 5 minute CPU stress test, starting with an intermittent network connection and finishing with the motherboard behaving as if it is short circuited (CPU fan spins for a fraction of a second when the power button is pressed but no other activity).

    I'll RMA the board, request a refund and buy a completely different board, which will hopefully arrive by Tuesday.
     
    Dark, 3 Jul 2011
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  6. Spykodemon Disabled account

    Bummer. :(
     
    Spykodemon, 3 Jul 2011
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  7. Dark Ruff ruff

    mfw the actual problem is part of the anti-static bag I stupidly had it resting on has fused to the underside of the motherboard. Guess that explains why it fucked up gradually :V

    Will have a go at removing it tomorrow D: (appears I haven't fucked anything other than short-circuiting it as it gets well into the initial stages of POST without the ATX12v connector, so it's looking like it will be fixable)


    inb4 douglas etc.
     
    Dark, 3 Jul 2011
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  8. coffeejunky GM's Tea-boy

    Ah yeah we tried that but the map was over 12GB in size, having only 24GB of RAM that meant severely limiting the amount of RAM available to the server and system. Plus the map would only grow to be bigger. How big is the GM map?
    Also hoping you have software that backs up the image regularly, or that you have a UPS.
    Dark I expected better of you than that. Anti-static bags are slightly conductive, never ever power on a system on one, put it on the box lid :<
     
    coffeejunky, 3 Jul 2011
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  9. Geit Coding wizard!

    under 300MB (iirc), we have a limit on how far people can go from spawn to prevent the map from becoming pointlessly bloated. - The limit is fairly respectable, I don't think anyone has actually got there without intentionally trying to.

    Also, we have hourly backups for the past 5 hours and Rioter is also saving the RAM disk to physical storage on a cron.
     
    Geit, 3 Jul 2011
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  10. Rioter Mad man box wearing lunatic for President

    Not too loud then

    Not sure why, could be 1.7 broke it. Worked fine for me and everyone else in 1.6.
     
    Rioter, 3 Jul 2011
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  11. Dark Ruff ruff

    Right it's definitely nothing to do with the bag that it failed - been cleaning the fuck out of the bottom of the board for hours and it's still behaving as if it was shorted. Plus it was never touching the bag - huge screws on the bottom kept it well away. Seems like it was just a DOA.

    Requested a refund and ordering this board tonight: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-050-AK (good reliable board and the IDE port will come in handy)
     
    Dark, 3 Jul 2011
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  12. Reag My name is an anagram for a reason

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    Not bad for 4 worlds am I right, uncompressed all of them take 237mb.

    I miss playing in the desert...

    Well that sucks but overclockers.co.uk... :frog:
     
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    Reag, 3 Jul 2011
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  13. Dark Ruff ruff

    One of the best prices for this particular board and they will do royal mail special delivery for only £12 so I can have it by tuesday.

    Also the one time I've returned something to them went very smoothly
     
    Dark, 3 Jul 2011
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  14. Reag My name is an anagram for a reason

    You're extremely lucky then, extremely.
    Bought a HDD from them in the past, came to me and the platters where smashed, you could hear them.

    Took me 2 weeks to get the thing replaced and the still had the nerve to make me pay for the postage for the replacement.
     
    Reag, 3 Jul 2011
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  15. Dark Ruff ruff

    Dark, 3 Jul 2011
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  16. Dark Ruff ruff

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    Case arrived :D
     
    Dark, 4 Jul 2011
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  17. Spykodemon Disabled account


    He now owns about 30% of your dedi.
     
    Spykodemon, 4 Jul 2011
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  18. Dark Ruff ruff

    oh shi-
     
    Dark, 4 Jul 2011
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  19. Dark Ruff ruff

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    Completed and working perfectly :D

    Idles at ~45C, maxxes out at 72ish with undervolting to 1.15v.

    Gonna benchmark some TF2 soon :3:


    (yes I plan on tidying up the wiring)
     
    Dark, 5 Jul 2011
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  20. Stealthy Sheep NL


    I have no idea what all this shit is, but it looks good.

    also nice reflection in the keyboard
     
    Stealthy Sheep NL, 5 Jul 2011
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