Triage Reevaluation Project - Revision history

Aradan at 01:40, 1 August 2012

2012-08-01T01:40:15Z

Aradan: /* Things to Consider and Questions for Further Research */

2012-06-30T00:23:14Z

Things to Consider and Questions for Further Research

Aradan: /* CPUs: */

2012-06-30T00:20:43Z

CPUs:

Aradan: /* AMD: */

2012-06-30T00:18:08Z

AMD:

Lynnae at 23:50, 28 June 2012

2012-06-28T23:50:35Z

Lynnae: create page, braindump

2012-06-28T23:47:09Z

create page, braindump

New page

Working Spec Categories discussed at 06/27/2012 meeting with Amelia, Sean, Lynnae and Aradan

==Overall goals==
* Upgrade Build specs
* Move to a function-driven model that allows us to build boxen to more specific use categories
* Provide straight-forward triaging processes for new volunteers
* Create better educational materials for Hardware ID and PreBuild
* Find well-informed technical strategies for determing specs and developing digital triaging methods
**Ryan is currently helping us setup access to more specific Printme queries
**Lynnae and Aradan are researching hardware history progressions to inform our spec change decisions and educational materials
**Aradan is creating a giant spreadsheet with CPU and chipset information from the last 7-ish years. He wants to make this available via a database someday

==Regular/Budget Category Specs==
WAS: "Low spec" category determined only by number of processor cores and clock speed.

GOAL: Landing place for budget model processors, as well as low-voltage CPUs. This category is designed to:
* Provide low-cost machines for the store
* Build out remaining single core machines, though not exclusively
* Build out efficient boxen appropriate for small home or business media/file servers, available for the store and Hardware Grants (lots of storage space, etc). Other categories as determined

===CPUs:===

====Intel:====
*Pentium 4
*Celeron
*Pentium D
*Pentium Dual-Core (possibly. need to investigate further, may be Freekbox spec)
*Atom/Net-top stuff, (may need to weed out 32-bit Atom chips)

====AMD:====
*Sempron
*Athlon 64

===Motherboard Requirements:===
*Socket 775 or AM2
*DDR2 RAM slots (boards that support both DDR and DDR2 may be acceptable, needs further investigation)
*PCIe video slot (No AGP, should be covered by other two requirements, not entirely sure)

*Ensures 64-bit capabilities (in all but a few cases)
*Puts our auto-recycle date around 2005 for both AMD and Intel boxen
*Provides a category cut-off that can be easily identified by hardware

===Other Characteristics:===
*Small form-factor (smaller than just low-profile desktops
*If possible, steer 2GB max RAM Core 2 Duo systems to Regular category

===Function-driven category ideas:===
*Media/File Server
*Net-top/Thin client

==Freekboxen==
Take home boxen! Designed to be expandable, upgradable, and flexible; the "swiss army knife" of built systems, according to Radar. We are hoping to make many of our take home systems available from our pool of FGPDX grantboxen. This is the narrowest category, these systems are intended to be roughly uniform. Fancy cases, fancy peripherals, super small form-factor systems and the like will be redirected to other categories.

===CPUs:===
====Intel:====
*Core 2 Duo with clock speed up to approx 2.5 or 2.6GHz (to be determined)

====AMD:====
*Athlon X2

===Motherboard Specs:===
*DDR2 RAM
*Socket 775 and AM2

===Other Criteria:====
*Standard ATX style cases, full-size OEM and half-height OEM ok (anything smaller goes to the Budget category)
*Possibly ensuring support of at least 4GB max RAM

==High End and Enthusiast==
Anything too fancy for the other categories. This is where we go nuts.

===CPUs:===
*Core 2 Duos above Freekbox spec clock speed (these are the really fancy chips with hecka features)
*Quad Core machines
*Any i3/5/7 series stuff
*Need to identify high-end AMD chips. We wont see many, probably.

===Other Criteria:===
*Anything that is too fancy for the Freekbox spec (could use some help brainstorming what kind of fancy is too fancy for Freekbox spec)

==Things to Consider and Questions for Further Research==
*HDD supply. What to do with IDE drives, and will we have adequate SATA drive supplies
*Do we have enough SATA optical drives?

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 *Do we have enough SATA optical drives?
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 *Any i3/5/7 series stuff
 *Need to identify high-end AMD chips. We wont see many, probably.
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 ====AMD:====
-*Athlon X2
+*Athlon 64X2 4000+ to about 6000+
 ===Motherboard Specs:===