[Aurora-sparc-user] Ultra 5 + Aurora Linux = WooHoo?

[venn]

With only a 200w power supply it does not really jack up the power bill. I would think ours uses a bit more juice than most since I threw a U10 440mhz CPU in it. To be honest I did not notice any "jump" in my power bill.  

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:19:23 +0100, Joacim Melin <listor at melin.org> wrote:
> Allright. Thanks all for your feedback!
> 
> Does anyone have any opinions on power consumption, how hot it runs,
> etc?
> I also have an Ultra 1 but I hesitated a bit over using it 24/7 at
> home because it eats up power like popcorn...
> 
> 
> On 29 jan 2007, at 10.06, Joseph Simantov wrote:
> 
>> I've also had a rather positive experience using
>> Aurora 1 and 2 on ultra5s, both in server and in
>> desktop configurations.
>>
>> Probably the only negative point is the Ati Mach64
>> graphic card; overall graphic quality is acceptable,
>> but when working with dynamic drawings (3D), the card
>> is AWFULLY slow compared with recent, equivalent PC
>> graphic cards... And I am limiting my comparison to
>> PCI/AGP cards...
>>
>> However, this problem appears also when running
>> Solaris9 on these machines.
>>
>> BTW, does anybody know if graphic performance in
>> Aurora can be improved by using a Raptor card?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Joseph
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:54:38 +0100
>>> Joacim Melin <listor at melin.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> I got me a Ultra 5 for free. Haven't booted it yet
>>> (still Solaris on
>>>> the disk) but I'm playing with the idea of using
>>> it for something
>>>> interesting. Before I start the process of
>>> installing Aurora, will
>>>> it run properly on the Ultra 5, and is the
>>> hardware itself any good?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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