My computer hardware

These are some notes for my own reference, since I am always forgetting details about the hardware I use, and this avoids having to open the case or look at the files containing boot messages.

My home machine (trona)

• Running Fedora 17 64 bit
• Asus M2N-E (not SLI) with Bios rev 0802 2/14/2007
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ at 2.5 Ghz
• 4 memory slots, all filled - 8G total
• One SATA drive, 500G, 7200 RPM, 3G/s, 16M buffer Seagate ST3500630AS
• One SATA DVD drive, Toshiba Samsung SH-224 (August, 2012)
• 6 SATA 3G/s ports (2 in use)
• One parallel IDE, no longer in use.
• Gigabit network on the motherboard.
• Graphics via fanless "zotac" GT520 w/ 1G of DDR3 ram

My home photoshop machine (gila)

• Running Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
• Asus P8Z68-V Pro Gen3 with Bios 3202 2/17/2012
• Intel i5-2500K at 3.3 Ghz
• 16G of RAM
• One Seagate SATA ST32000641AS drive, 2000G, 7200rpm, 6G/s, 64M buffer.
• One Asus SATA DVD drive DRW-24B1ST
• Gigabit network on the motherboard
• Graphics via GPU in the i5 processor.

My work machine (cholla)

• Running Fedora 17 64 bit
• Asus A8N-E with Bios 1013 04/07/2006
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ at 2.0 Ghz
• 4G of RAM
• 3 drives (200G, 300G, and 1500G)