New toy in the office. I have spreadsheets that contains millions of formulas, and my current computer would need almost 1 min for each computation. With this new rig, the computation time is down to about 3 seconds.
Two pics with the side panel closed and opened.
Back panel & front panel.
I am a bit surprised to find a old style serial port. And there is no separate power on/off toggle on the power supply.
I think the machine is a server grade and is for running server, i.e. the serial port should be a connection to a dumb term.
View of the mother board:
- on top 12 triple channel memory slots, only used 6 with 12G RAM.
- in the middle 2 Xeon quad-core CPUs, running at 2.66GHz each core.
- the Radeon 4890 turned out does not work well with Win 7, will change to a Nvidia GTX295.
CPU | CPU benchmark |
2 X Intel® Xeon® processor E5640 2.66 GHz | 5204 (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5640+%40+2.67GHz)x 2 =10408 |
Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz | 10019 (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-2600K+%40+3.40GHz) |
Good.
Sooner or later, there will have ABS, twin cam, etc for a bike..... :D
After living right next to a seaside bike trail for so many years, I finally buy myself a bicycle.
It was eye opening for me in the bike shop. Many bikes there cost >HK$10,000 with the highest I saw was about $40k. The expensive ones look nice and are very light. I can lift one up easily with 2 or 3 fingers.
Before today, I did not even know bicycles have suspensions, or brake disc like a car. My new $3000 bike has both.
I took it out for a good 1-hour cardiovascular exercise. Now I can invite Grease Chan for a ride along. ;D
:o :o :o Nice
Just to report back that after 6 months of biking, about 3 times a week, 45 min to 90 min each time, I lost ~15lb and 10cm in the middle section. ;D
Just to report back that after 6 months of biking, about 3 times a week, 45 min to 90 min each time, I lost ~15lb and 10cm in the middle section.
Chin, What is your original weight then?
wow, so record low now since.....
I wish I can reach that level in 6 months. But cycling in Tsing Yi would be too dangerous.