 New video card for the Cube!, -- just kidding -- |
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| danofpaco |
 Feb 26 2013, 06:20 PM
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 Cube Guru  Group: Members Posts: 80 Joined: 6-September 06 Member No.: 6,244 Gender:Male Where From?:Winona, MN First Name: Dan  |
Hello Cubers! Haven't visited in a loooong time, but saw this video card and had to post, reminiscing about the days of trying to get the best video possible in ye olde cube.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130899 Be excellent to each other, :-Dan -------------------- :-Dan
Cube 1: PL Dual 1.5GHz : 120GB Seagate Barricuda : 1.5GB RAM : Fanned XFX 6200 256MB : DVD-ROM : BlueCube Mod : Dual 19" LCDs : OWC Base Fan : OS 10.4.9 Cube 2: PL Single 1.5GHz : 30GB : 1.12GB RAM : Radeon 7500 : DVD-ROM : Airport Card : Custom Silver Case (Paris) : 15" Apple Studio Display : PL Base Fan : OS 10.4.9 MacBook Pro: 15" : 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo : 120GB : 4GB RAM : GeForce 8600M GT 128MB : 8x DL SuperDrive : Airport Extreme : Bluetooth : OS 10.5.6 |
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| parism |
Feb 26 2013, 10:52 PM
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 Cube Guru Group: Members Posts: 1,877 Joined: 14-February 05 Member No.: 4,281 Gender:Male Where From?:Philadelphia First Name: Paris |
I am glad that after all these years you still have my case for Cube #2!!! The picture of my avatar is from that case...
Paris This post has been edited by parism: Feb 26 2013, 10:53 PM -------------------- Dual 2GHz G5, ATI X800XT 256MB, 3Gig-o-RAM, 450GB SATA, DVDRW+DL, AE
Cube: G4-1.5GHz '47, nVidia XFX6200, 1.5Gig-o-RAM, 160GB, DVDRW+DL, Airport, VRM relocation kit, custom silver case iMac G4 1.25GHz, FX 5200 64MB, 1Gig-o-RAM, 80GB, SuperDrive, AE/BT, 20" LCD MacBook 1.83GHz C2D, 2Gig-o-RAM, 100GB, ComboDrive, AE/BT and a bunch of 68k macs.... REMEMBER Salvaging a pile of metal into a working computer always feels better than buying the same computer in a working condition... |
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| Fangsuede |
Feb 26 2013, 10:59 PM
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 Cube Guru Group: Members Posts: 2,485 Joined: 10-February 05 Specs: Only one Cube remaining, see Sig. Member No.: 4,260 Gender:Male Where From?:Stuck on the Freeway in CA First Name: Dave |
QUOTE(danofpaco @ Feb 26 2013, 02:20 PM)  Hello Cubers! Haven't visited in a loooong time, but saw this video card and had to post, reminiscing about the days of trying to get the best video possible in ye olde cube. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130899 Be excellent to each other, :-Dan Yeah, the expensive stuff we tried, yeow! That time is over and gone. This is the fastest Cube card we ever came up with. This post has been edited by Fangsuede: Feb 26 2013, 11:06 PM -------------------- 1. Powerlogix Case, PLX Dual 1.7GHz 7447a (w/VRM Bypass), Black Sapphire 9800-128MB fitted with a copper Zalman V700CU , 1.5GB RAM, 120GB OWC SATA SSD mounted in a PSled with Koutech SATA adapter, Spirica VRM kit w/Giga C-VRM, Airport card, Base fan, custom front cover, Ext. FW NEC 3550 DL DVD/CD. All running on a stock Cube Brick (PSU). (Operational: Feburary 2006, ran for 3 years, now retired behind glass in a bookcase - still works though.)
Daily driver's are an iMac 27" Quad i7 and a MacBook Pro Dual i5 --- [b]Feng Shui - The Chinese system of aesthetics [b] |
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| danofpaco |
Feb 27 2013, 11:07 AM
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Cube Guru Group: Members Posts: 80 Joined: 6-September 06 Member No.: 6,244 Gender:Male Where From?:Winona, MN First Name: Dan |
Hey Paris! Yes, still have the case you made - as gorgeous as ever! Although, my Cubes are still in totes after a move over a year ago. Maybe I'll pull them out and fire them up one of these days.
Glad to see the forum is still kicking. Outside of a newer video card, any other major advances in the Cube hot-rodding world? I still have half a mind to stick the guts of a mini into one some day. Take care, Dan -------------------- :-Dan
Cube 1: PL Dual 1.5GHz : 120GB Seagate Barricuda : 1.5GB RAM : Fanned XFX 6200 256MB : DVD-ROM : BlueCube Mod : Dual 19" LCDs : OWC Base Fan : OS 10.4.9 Cube 2: PL Single 1.5GHz : 30GB : 1.12GB RAM : Radeon 7500 : DVD-ROM : Airport Card : Custom Silver Case (Paris) : 15" Apple Studio Display : PL Base Fan : OS 10.4.9 MacBook Pro: 15" : 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo : 120GB : 4GB RAM : GeForce 8600M GT 128MB : 8x DL SuperDrive : Airport Extreme : Bluetooth : OS 10.5.6 |
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| Pablo |
Feb 27 2013, 05:54 PM
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 Cube Guru Group: Members Posts: 814 Joined: 20-December 07 Member No.: 8,525 Gender:Male Where From?:Spokane, WA First Name: Paul |
QUOTE(danofpaco @ Feb 27 2013, 07:07 AM) Glad to see the forum is still kicking. Outside of a newer video card, any other major advances in the Cube hot-rodding world? Take care, Dan Last summer, Dave and I collaborated on testing various SATA/IDE adaptors and mounting schemes for SSDs in the Cube. As a result, my adaptor sled went on sale last August. Cubes with SSDs boot fast and can score 140+ on the XBench hard drive test. This research also led the way to enabling use of SATA optical drives in the Cube: six minutes to burn a full cd-r. -------------------- Pablo
Cube: Powerlogix 1.7 gHz 7448 with VRM bypass, 1.5 GB PC 133 Cl 2, ATI Radeon 9000 Pro Mac Edition ADC/DVI, Powerlogix Powercube (clear) with VRM relocation kit, Spirica cube VRM heatsink, 120 GB OWC Mercury 3G SSD with Pablo Sled, LG GS21N DVDRW, Giga Designs base fan, Airport card, Airport Express 802.11n as an ethernet bridge, Harman Kardon Soundsticks, Dual Apple 23" M8536 Cinema HD displays with Dr Bott DVIator, Elgato EyeTV 500, Apple iSight with Sightflex mount, Apple Pro keyboard and mouse, OSX Leopard 10.5.8. Powerbook: G4 15" Titanium 1 GHz, 1 GB PC-133 SDRAM, ATI Radeon 9000 64 MB, 60 GB ATA, Airport card, OSX Leopard 10.5.8. Powermac MDD 2003, dual 1.25 cpu, 2 gB PC2700, Apple Superdrive, Radeon 9000, OSX Leopard and Tiger. |
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| danofpaco |
Feb 28 2013, 11:12 AM
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Cube Guru Group: Members Posts: 80 Joined: 6-September 06 Member No.: 6,244 Gender:Male Where From?:Winona, MN First Name: Dan |
Pablo, that is awesome! I assume you'd still need the Hi-Cap Driver to break the 128gb limit? I bet that makes a night and day difference in perceived performance, yes?
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Cube 1: PL Dual 1.5GHz : 120GB Seagate Barricuda : 1.5GB RAM : Fanned XFX 6200 256MB : DVD-ROM : BlueCube Mod : Dual 19" LCDs : OWC Base Fan : OS 10.4.9 Cube 2: PL Single 1.5GHz : 30GB : 1.12GB RAM : Radeon 7500 : DVD-ROM : Airport Card : Custom Silver Case (Paris) : 15" Apple Studio Display : PL Base Fan : OS 10.4.9 MacBook Pro: 15" : 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo : 120GB : 4GB RAM : GeForce 8600M GT 128MB : 8x DL SuperDrive : Airport Extreme : Bluetooth : OS 10.5.6 |
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| Pablo |
Feb 28 2013, 06:21 PM
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Cube Guru Group: Members Posts: 814 Joined: 20-December 07 Member No.: 8,525 Gender:Male Where From?:Spokane, WA First Name: Paul |
QUOTE(danofpaco @ Feb 28 2013, 07:12 AM) Pablo, that is awesome! I assume you'd still need the Hi-Cap Driver to break the 128gb limit? I bet that makes a night and day difference in perceived performance, yes? Sure, you still need the Hi-Cap Driver, or Pareis' script, but so long as you keep the operating system in a partition under the 128Gb limit the sled will let you use up to a 1.5Tb 2.5" hard drive or 960Gb SSD. The SSD boots my cube to desktop in about 35 seconds, improves handling of video files/big files, speeds up Safari because of instant access to the cache. The difference is easy to feel; everything seems faster. -------------------- Pablo
Cube: Powerlogix 1.7 gHz 7448 with VRM bypass, 1.5 GB PC 133 Cl 2, ATI Radeon 9000 Pro Mac Edition ADC/DVI, Powerlogix Powercube (clear) with VRM relocation kit, Spirica cube VRM heatsink, 120 GB OWC Mercury 3G SSD with Pablo Sled, LG GS21N DVDRW, Giga Designs base fan, Airport card, Airport Express 802.11n as an ethernet bridge, Harman Kardon Soundsticks, Dual Apple 23" M8536 Cinema HD displays with Dr Bott DVIator, Elgato EyeTV 500, Apple iSight with Sightflex mount, Apple Pro keyboard and mouse, OSX Leopard 10.5.8. Powerbook: G4 15" Titanium 1 GHz, 1 GB PC-133 SDRAM, ATI Radeon 9000 64 MB, 60 GB ATA, Airport card, OSX Leopard 10.5.8. Powermac MDD 2003, dual 1.25 cpu, 2 gB PC2700, Apple Superdrive, Radeon 9000, OSX Leopard and Tiger. |
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| CubeIt |
Mar 1 2013, 06:49 PM
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 Cube Guru Group: Members Posts: 4,372 Joined: 19-April 05 Specs: CPU: 550MHz Overclocked; VIDEO: ATI Rage6/Radeon/7200 (fan); HD: WD 160GB/8MB (formatted to 137GB), 7200 rpm; RAM: PC100-222; FAN: 80x15mm Panaflo fan (low speed); VRM: 4th transistor Apple; non-Apple power supply. Member No.: 4,624 Gender:Male Where From?:Grand Junction, CO First Name: Andy |
QUOTE(danofpaco @ Feb 28 2013, 08:12 AM) Pablo, that is awesome! I assume you'd still need the Hi-Cap Driver to break the 128gb limit? I bet that makes a night and day difference in perceived performance, yes? Not sure how breaking the size limit affects performance. |
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| danofpaco |
Mar 4 2013, 12:55 AM
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Cube Guru Group: Members Posts: 80 Joined: 6-September 06 Member No.: 6,244 Gender:Male Where From?:Winona, MN First Name: Dan |
QUOTE(CubeIt @ Mar 1 2013, 06:49 PM) Not sure how breaking the size limit affects performance. The SSD, not the size limit. -------------------- :-Dan
Cube 1: PL Dual 1.5GHz : 120GB Seagate Barricuda : 1.5GB RAM : Fanned XFX 6200 256MB : DVD-ROM : BlueCube Mod : Dual 19" LCDs : OWC Base Fan : OS 10.4.9 Cube 2: PL Single 1.5GHz : 30GB : 1.12GB RAM : Radeon 7500 : DVD-ROM : Airport Card : Custom Silver Case (Paris) : 15" Apple Studio Display : PL Base Fan : OS 10.4.9 MacBook Pro: 15" : 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo : 120GB : 4GB RAM : GeForce 8600M GT 128MB : 8x DL SuperDrive : Airport Extreme : Bluetooth : OS 10.5.6 |
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| Pablo |
Mar 4 2013, 05:50 PM
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Cube Guru Group: Members Posts: 814 Joined: 20-December 07 Member No.: 8,525 Gender:Male Where From?:Spokane, WA First Name: Paul |
QUOTE(CubeIt @ Mar 1 2013, 02:49 PM) Not sure how breaking the size limit affects performance. I think he wanted to know if the size limit still applied when using a SATA drive and a SATA to IDE adapter. Yes, but OSX does give you a work-around, where you can do a number of steps to store your home folder on a volume other than the one the system file is on. OWC has a film on that, so if you have an enormous iTunes library, then it could all fit on a two partition drive over the limit. Otherwise, the performance of the SSDs is not in question, and 2.5" SATA hard drives larger than the limit are as fast as the best old IDE/ATA hard drives in terms of seek times, and far better judged by a number of other metrics. They use a fraction of the power, are cooler, quieter, have higher data transfer rates, and are probably far more reliable. Having a new hard drive in a Cube drawing only two to three watts reduces the internal temperature of the Cube, and can make the energy budget for upgrading the cpu and/or video card look better, perhaps reducing or eliminating any need to replace or otherwise modify the existing VRM. -------------------- Pablo
Cube: Powerlogix 1.7 gHz 7448 with VRM bypass, 1.5 GB PC 133 Cl 2, ATI Radeon 9000 Pro Mac Edition ADC/DVI, Powerlogix Powercube (clear) with VRM relocation kit, Spirica cube VRM heatsink, 120 GB OWC Mercury 3G SSD with Pablo Sled, LG GS21N DVDRW, Giga Designs base fan, Airport card, Airport Express 802.11n as an ethernet bridge, Harman Kardon Soundsticks, Dual Apple 23" M8536 Cinema HD displays with Dr Bott DVIator, Elgato EyeTV 500, Apple iSight with Sightflex mount, Apple Pro keyboard and mouse, OSX Leopard 10.5.8. Powerbook: G4 15" Titanium 1 GHz, 1 GB PC-133 SDRAM, ATI Radeon 9000 64 MB, 60 GB ATA, Airport card, OSX Leopard 10.5.8. Powermac MDD 2003, dual 1.25 cpu, 2 gB PC2700, Apple Superdrive, Radeon 9000, OSX Leopard and Tiger. |
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