The Zavislak Home LAN

The Zavislak Family Home LAN Page!!

Welcome!!

The Zavislak Home LAN is currently comprised of the following:

Gaming & Media Rig:
Intel Conroe Extreme Edition 6800 @ 3.8Ghz; Intel Bad Axe rev. 304; 2 X 1G Patriot PC8000 @ 500Mhz; XFX 7950 GX2; 2 X 150G WD Raptors RAID-0 (OS); 2 x 80G Seagate RAID-0 (video); 300G Maxtor (backup); X-Fi Music Soundcard; Sony DRU-800A Dual Layer; NEC CDROM/DVD; PC Power & Cooling 850 SLI; Win XP Pro SP2; Saitek Gaming Keyboard; Logitech Z 5500. CPU and GX2 cooled with Exos II.

Server Rig::
P4C 3.0 @ 3.2Ghz; ABIT AI7; 2 X 512 Corsair XMS3200; MX400; OS drive WD 30G; Network drives 4 x Seagate SATA 80G in RAID 0 w/ RocketRAID; Toshiba CDROM/DVD; Antec True Power 500w; Blizzard 360 Case; Win XP Pro.

Kids Rig:
Intel Conroe 6400 @ 3.2Ghz; Asus P5W DH; 2 x 512 Patriot PC6400; XFX 7800 GTX 512; 1 x 74G Raptor; On-board sound; Toshiba CDROM/DVD; Tsunami Case; OCZ 520w PSU; Win XP Pro SP2.

Portable:

AVERATEC 5400 Laptop; XP-M 2800+; 512MB; DVD Burner; 802.11g Wireless; 40g HDD

These systems are all tied together via a Linksys BEFSR41 Router and Linksys WRT54G Wireless 8 port switch and run on Windows XP Professional. Internet access is provided by a Comcast Cable Home Office upgraded connection offering 3.5Mbits down, and 384Kbits up. Plenty enough for surfing, gathering media, and hosting an occasional on line game with friends.

For those that know me, this current set up has been much reduced. The phase change cooling is gone. The bench only rig is gone. Things are much simpler. Do to time constraints I had to scale back. That said, I just finished putting together another monster gaming and media PC based on the new Intel Conroe and GX2.

A closer look:

This is the Gamer Media rig with the Intel Conroe 6800 @ 3.8Ghz. That processing power along with 2 gigs of memory storming at 500mhz and the 7950 GX2 is still enough grunt to handle even the most demanding games at decent resolutions with all the eye candy cranked up.

Performance:

A night shot all in blue:

The whole set up. Its hard to see, but the Saitek keyboard glows a nice blue :)

My son Colin's rig. Not bad for a 9 year old :)

He stayed with the "blue theme" as well:

Thanks for visiting!

This site has quieted down a lot lately, but I plan to do much more in the future. Most of my work can be seen on Xtreme Systems where you can find plenty of hardware reviews, current news, driver downloads, and popular links.

Feel free to email me with any ideas you have.

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