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I have always liked Conn horns. I guess it is a generational thing. Father had a Conn, as did his dad (grandad had a new world, and dad had a Director). I got the Director I have back in middle school to have something to play with. The horn will blast compared to the Besson and Yamaha.
I have herd some good things about Selmer and Shilke, as well as Bach. The Strats are supposed to be good. But I would take a Conn Constellation over it though. Especially one of them that has the trigger first. The Yamaha had that option at one point.
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One thing that I will definately say is don't skimp on a horn. They literally come apart at the seams. Especially when you can get a used one for about the same price and have Besson, Conn, Yamaha, or Bach. Evidence below.
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haha, wow.

My bro payed like $2500 for that schilke, but it's amazing. I *think* he has the S22, but it may be the B3 model I'd have to call him and ask for sure. He also has a Conn Flugelhorn, which sounds amazing as well I love it. He's only ever let me play it once, he rarely plays it himself it's in mint condition.
 
It's about time you did... :D
You trying to infer something?
And I ain't done yet. I think I am going to go grab some PCV pipe, or maybe galvanized steel pipe and hide up all my cables. Still playing with the idea of setting up a server to save everything to and be able to access outside the house, so that will drive me nvts (reference there) with its cables. But for what I need, maybe not. It should run itself once its on. So maybe just power and ethernet to run it.

haha, wow.

My bro payed like $2500 for that schilke, but it's amazing. I *think* he has the S22, but it may be the B3 model I'd have to call him and ask for sure. He also has a Conn Flugelhorn, which sounds amazing as well I love it. He's only ever let me play it once, he rarely plays it himself it's in mint condition.
yea, I know. That is what happens when you let stupid people use your horn. Its the only reason I have it. People leave theirs at home or break it, and no one else seems to have an extra. But hey, for $100 iirc, it lasted fine. Will say for sure they will never get within 3 feet of my new toy.
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Not the exact one, but close. I go the All Star and that is the new world, but same basic appearance with less engraving, and a smaller bore.

:eek: $2500! dang. That better be one hell of a horn. Its only like 1350 or so for the Connstellation, and about the same for the Strat.
 
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I've spent most of my day working on this bad boy...

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For those of you who do not know, these are two HP ProLiant rack servers. They're not mine (sadly) but my Dad and I installed them today for a business who are based nearby. The top server is a DL360 G5 and was already there when we started, but the bottom server is a DL380 G7 which we installed today. Lifting that thing up 4 flights of stairs along with a VERY heavy UPS as a killer. I can't recall the specs of the DL360 G5 but I know that the DL380 G7 has 6GB of RAM installed (can hold up to 192GB though! It supports up to 24x8GB DIMMs!!), some sort of Intel Xeon (quad-core probably), 4x 300GB SAS drives and Windows 2003. As Windows 2003 is only 32-bit though, only 3.25GB of that 6GB of RAM can be used.

Here are some more shots.

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There are the two servers in the rack. The top one was there already, but my Dad and I installed the bottom one.

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Above is a shot of the rear of the servers. That thing on the back of the G7 is a cable management 'arm' which helps to keep the cables tidier.

Final shot. Below is a shot of a network switch we installed and an old PS/2 KVM we used for the servers. Cables are kind of everywhere lol but those of you who have ever had to work with servers will know that keeping all the cables tidy is a very hard job.

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With RAID controller hard drive? Nice.
 
With RAID controller hard drive? Nice.

Yep! :) The SAS drives were configured in RAID-5 I think. RAID-5 basically just combines all the drives together to make one big one. Unlike RAID-0, RAID-5 it is not striping, so you do not get any performance gain, but you do get more reliability as a RAID-5 array can withstand one failure and the rest of the array can rebuild itself, whereas with RAID-0 if you get one failure you've had it.
 
Yep! :) The SAS drives were configured in RAID-5 I think. RAID-5 basically just combines all the drives together to make one big one. Unlike RAID-0, RAID-5 it is not striping, so you do not get any performance gain, but you do get more reliability as a RAID-5 array can withstand one failure and the rest of the array can rebuild itself, whereas with RAID-0 if you get one failure you've had it.

That's sure. I wouldn't trust RAID-0 but I can live with RAID-1 because of mirroring.

RAID-10 is pretty good also. It is combie with RAID-0 and RAID-1. It is fast and is high reliability.

If you have four 1 TB. You will get 3 TB on RAID 5, it is little slow than RAID 10 and and middle level risk. You will get 2 TB on RAID 10, it is fastest and low risk.

Most time if one of hard drive, it should be shown by LED where fail hard drive is. if two hard drive is fail, it would be too late.

Also there are RAID 30, RAID 50, RAID 60 and RAID 100. I would like to have RAID 100 in my computer with 8 hard drive. (I'm a crazy geeks :) )
 
It looks good Denther, I have a few ways on how to you can improve your cable management though.

Firstly, take the CPU power cable up through the same grommets that your ATX cable is going through, and then out of the same hole into the socket. If possible, you can zip-tie it to the top of case where a fan would be installed.

The fan cable that is running over your graphics card can be unravelled and then tucked neatly behind your motherboard.

Install your hard drive the other way so that the rear of the hard drive where you pug the SATA cables into is facing the other way. You've got right angled SATA connectors and power, you should be fine. :) Then you can feed the SATA cables behind the board tray too.

Try taking your front panel connectors/HD audio connector behind the board tray too if possible.

There are other things you can do too but those are the main things. :D
 
It looks good Denther, I have a few ways on how to you can improve your cable management though.

Firstly, take the CPU power cable up through the same grommets that your ATX cable is going through, and then out of the same hole into the socket. If possible, you can zip-tie it to the top of case where a fan would be installed.

The fan cable that is running over your graphics card can be unravelled and then tucked neatly behind your motherboard.

Install your hard drive the other way so that the rear of the hard drive where you pug the SATA cables into is facing the other way. You've got right angled SATA connectors and power, you should be fine. :) Then you can feed the SATA cables behind the board tray too.

Try taking your front panel connectors/HD audio connector behind the board tray too if possible.

There are other things you can do too but those are the main things. :D


There is a fan up there. I can definitely spend some more time with it. I need to buy some zipties and really get to work on it. This was just some cleanup for the pictures. Looks a lot better then before, if you can imagine.... :eek:
 
OK if there's already a fan up there do what I did and don't bother zip-tying it to anything. It won't look the best but it will be fine. :)
 
Finally got my gtx 670 yay...it's a beast, runs super cool and way more powerful than a 480. Idles 26c and loads to 55c in game with a silent 45% fan.

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Finally got my gtx 670 yay...it's a beast, runs super cool and way more powerful than a 480. Idles 26c and loads to 55c in game with a silent 45% fan.

Our cases are the same metal, just a led fan and mesh front. What CPU heatsink is that? I want to get one for mine but space was a concern.
 
Looks massive on that mATX board in that case. :P A great choice though!

Interesting design though, never seen a card where the PCI Express power connectors are not at the very edge/end of the card or even on the rear of the card.

How many graphics cards have you been through since the beginning of the year? ;) Didn't you have a 580 and then a 460 2Win at some point?
 
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