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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 2, 2021 13:13:01 GMT -5
restless I have a Dell PrecisionTM 690 that came with 2 - 2TB hard drives and 32 GB of ram. I added a 1TB SSD drive as the boot drive. It was originally designed and has the XP sticker, although it was Windows 7 when I bought it and running Windows 10 right now. The Xeon processors are 3.20 and 3.19 GHz, and I am pretty sure the FSB is the slower version 667 FSB. It is a full tower, if I ever have the funds, I would like to find out if it could upgraded to take the limits off my CIV III game. I am leaning towards a new computer for everything that is not my CIV III game and converting to some flavor of Linux, I am not going to Windows 11, unless someone provides it as part of a work at home job.
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Post by restless on Aug 2, 2021 13:14:32 GMT -5
You should do a little research, but I suspect you can get a half-height GTX 1650 that doesn't require any additional power from the power supply other than what's put through on the PCIe bus, and that should run Civilization just fine I would think.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 2, 2021 13:41:52 GMT -5
You should do a little research, but I suspect you can get a half-height GTX 1650 that doesn't require any additional power from the power supply other than what's put through on the PCIe bus, and that should run Civilization just fine I would think. Thanks for the advice, when I am able to do so, I will give that a shot!
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Post by restless on Aug 2, 2021 15:10:20 GMT -5
restless I have a Dell PrecisionTM 690 that came with 2 - 2TB hard drives and 32 GB of ram. I added a 1TB SSD drive as the boot drive. It was originally designed and has the XP sticker, although it was Windows 7 when I bought it and running Windows 10 right now. The Xeon processors are 3.20 and 3.19 GHz, and I am pretty sure the FSB is the slower version 667 FSB. It is a full tower, if I ever have the funds, I would like to find out if it could upgraded to take the limits off my CIV III game. I am leaning towards a new computer for everything that is not my CIV III game and converting to some flavor of Linux, I am not going to Windows 11, unless someone provides it as part of a work at home job. That's not a horrible box at all, but I wouldn't want to pay the light bill for it! Dual Xeons, especially that vintage, can really be power-hungry. The sad truth on the dual Xeons though is that you can probably best them for most desktop- and gamer-centric tasks with an i5-8500 or better with a lot less power utilization and a far more modern system around it. I see no reason that wouldn't run Windows 10 Pro nicely, though, you just have to find drivers for all the hardware (like that sound problem you mentioned). I really like the Precision series, though. I have an older Precision 3600 at work I need to get my stuff off of, fdisk it and send send back to self-maintainer. I also have a Precision 7810 there that's a total beast, and totally overkill. I also got a Precision 7550 laptop that will be my daily driver, but I haven't finished setting it up yet because moving my development environments is a real pain. My personal laptop is a Precision M4800 laptop that I got super cheap on sale from Dell Refurbished. It's a great piece of kit. If I ever get around to putting Windows 10 or maybe some flavor of Ubuntu on it I will probably use it to DM from.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 2, 2021 16:13:48 GMT -5
restless I have a Dell PrecisionTM 690 that came with 2 - 2TB hard drives and 32 GB of ram. I added a 1TB SSD drive as the boot drive. It was originally designed and has the XP sticker, although it was Windows 7 when I bought it and running Windows 10 right now. The Xeon processors are 3.20 and 3.19 GHz, and I am pretty sure the FSB is the slower version 667 FSB. It is a full tower, if I ever have the funds, I would like to find out if it could upgraded to take the limits off my CIV III game. I am leaning towards a new computer for everything that is not my CIV III game and converting to some flavor of Linux, I am not going to Windows 11, unless someone provides it as part of a work at home job. That's not a horrible box at all, but I wouldn't want to pay the light bill for it! Dual Xeons, especially that vintage, can really be power-hungry. The sad truth on the dual Xeons though is that you can probably best them for most desktop- and gamer-centric tasks with an i5-8500 or better with a lot less power utilization and a far more modern system around it. I see no reason that wouldn't run Windows 10 Pro nicely, though, you just have to find drivers for all the hardware (like that sound problem you mentioned). I really like the Precision series, though. I have an older Precision 3600 at work I need to get my stuff off of, fdisk it and send send back to self-maintainer. I also have a Precision 7810 there that's a total beast, and totally overkill. I also got a Precision 7550 laptop that will be my daily driver, but I haven't finished setting it up yet because moving my development environments is a real pain. My personal laptop is a Precision M4800 laptop that I got super cheap on sale from Dell Refurbished. It's a great piece of kit. If I ever get around to putting Windows 10 or maybe some flavor of Ubuntu on it I will probably use it to DM from. Wow, a lot of great info. Can the 690 take a new mother board with a late version i5 or i7 processor? I had no idea it was an energy hog.
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Post by restless on Aug 2, 2021 18:31:27 GMT -5
Wow, a lot of great info. Can the 690 take a new mother board with a late version i5 or i7 processor? I had no idea it was an energy hog. Okay... third time I've written this now and lost it because of a click-o Let's see if I can get it right this time Each of the Xeons in that box likely pull between 80-120 W under load, and a significant fraction of that idle. It isn't world-ending, but it adds up. In comparison, my $280 refurb box with an i7-6700 is roughly the same speed as both your CPUs put together (based on an assumption, these are some of the higher-end midrange offerings for the 690) and is a lot more modern, and has a TDP of 65W tops. Dell does a lot of proprietary stuff with their designs, so replacing the board isn't an option in many cases. It'd probably behoove you to just get something else and maybe keep that one to tinker with or experiment on.
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Post by restless on Aug 2, 2021 18:34:04 GMT -5
I've put up the initial wiki up. I am still adding to it, and will be over time. Since it's world-facing (so, player-facing), of course, many things to be discovered won't show up there unless you are logged in as me, and I'll only add accounts of people who actually play actively once the time comes.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 2, 2021 19:04:06 GMT -5
Wow, a lot of great info. Can the 690 take a new mother board with a late version i5 or i7 processor? I had no idea it was an energy hog. Okay... third time I've written this now and lost it because of a click-o Let's see if I can get it right this time Each of the Xeons in that box likely pull between 80-120 W under load, and a significant fraction of that idle. It isn't world-ending, but it adds up. In comparison, my $280 refurb box with an i7-6700 is roughly the same speed as both your CPUs put together (based on an assumption, these are some of the higher-end midrange offerings for the 690) and is a lot more modern, and has a TDP of 65W tops. Dell does a lot of proprietary stuff with their designs, so replacing the board isn't an option in many cases. It'd probably behoove you to just get something else and maybe keep that one to tinker with or experiment on. Thanks! Yeah, the proprietary stuff is specifically so you can do very little to upgrade. At the time I got it, in 2011 I think, it was $350 including shipping so it, even with the energy use has not treated me too bad. I love the full tower size.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 2, 2021 19:05:34 GMT -5
I've put up the initial wiki up. I am still adding to it, and will be over time. Since it's world-facing (so, player-facing), of course, many things to be discovered won't show up there unless you are logged in as me, and I'll only add accounts of people who actually play actively once the time comes. That is sweet! And you are hosting that on your own machine, IIRC. So total control.
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Post by hengest on Aug 2, 2021 19:32:34 GMT -5
restless, this is awesome. I wish I could take a real vacation and stay in a cheap motel to come play in your game. And you host this wiki yourself, to me that is quite an achievement. Very nice work. I appreciate the glossary, too. I hope whoever around here sees The Green Knight starts a thread about it.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 2, 2021 21:32:11 GMT -5
restless , this is awesome. I wish I could take a real vacation and stay in a cheap motel to come play in your game. And you host this wiki yourself, to me that is quite an achievement. Very nice work. I appreciate the glossary, too. I hope whoever around here sees The Green Knight starts a thread about it. I just saw it and lets wait on The Green Knight thread until we have someone else that has seen it, of course the thread will need to carry a spoiler alert. Yeah, it would be great to be able to travel around and game with each other.
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Post by restless on Aug 2, 2021 21:53:30 GMT -5
Yep, I'm hosting this myself on this tiny HP computer under the TV. It's there because I had a port available there and haven't moved it to the network closet.
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Post by restless on Aug 3, 2021 11:34:38 GMT -5
By the way, I'm interested in comments on the wiki, it's content and its layout if anyone has any. Insofar as the discussion list in the navigation bar on the left hand side, I'm actually thinking about setting up a small forum instead, but I guess I need to actually get the content lined out and have some players before I start worrying about that I actually own megadungeon.com, .net and .org so I've actually considered setting up a blog and forum all about megadungeons, but never did it. I guess if I set up the forum it would actually be a subdomain of megadungeon.org.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 3, 2021 12:24:32 GMT -5
By the way, I'm interested in comments on the wiki, it's content and its layout if anyone has any. Insofar as the discussion list in the navigation bar on the left hand side, I'm actually thinking about setting up a small forum instead, but I guess I need to actually get the content lined out and have some players before I start worrying about that I actually own megadungeon.com, .net and .org so I've actually considered setting up a blog and forum all about megadungeons, but never did it. I guess if I set up the form it would actually be a subdomain of megadungeon.org. Wow! You own all three of those, that is awesome. OH and put the link to the wiki in your signature when you are ready. Something all about mega-dungeons would be great, I am a big fan.
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Post by restless on Aug 3, 2021 22:58:23 GMT -5
It's late, but here's an entry I brain dumped before sleep. Each of the things I mention need linking and writing, too, but at least I got the basics down.
The Baron's encampment
A small tent garrison and settlement in The Hinterlands started by Baron Aelfric around a dock and a derelict coaching inn located on the southwestern shore of Tears' Deep, up the Sorrows from Dunfalcon. It currently has a “permanent” population of about 40 and the constant flux of visitors and merchants makes the population between 120 and 200 at any given moment. Both numbers seem to be trending upwards lately despite the dangers and number of casualties that aren't exactly a well-kept secret.
The encampment had been around since 433 YL, three years before the start of the campaign. It was started by the Baron as a base of operations for finding proof of the legitimacy for his claim on The Hinterlands as his ancestral birthright. It turned out it be more than he could achieve alone, so he began to put out a general call for aid, paid for by the lure of riches and charter to adventure and explore free of many of the taxes other petty lords or jarls would demand of those returning with ancient wealth.
There is talk about and even some elbow grease behind making the settlement a bit more permanent, but given it doesn't even have a proper name then it makes it hard to take such talk seriously.
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Post by restless on Aug 4, 2021 11:03:11 GMT -5
Wow! You own all three of those, that is awesome. OH and put the link to the wiki in your signature when you are ready. Something all about mega-dungeons would be great, I am a big fan. It goes with the theme for computer names here at home. I have: - megadungeon (one of the original servers)
- tomb
- crypt
- deepfell
- moria
- telengard
- trollhold
- underdark
- waterdeep
I also have a few that are books of magic around here: Sure, "tomb" and "tome" are close, but the former is my wife's work from home computer downstairs and the latter is my SNTP/IMAP/SMTP/primary DNS server (with aliased names like "time", "mail", "smtp", "imap", "dns" and "dns1") so I don't really worry about getting them confused anywhere.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 4, 2021 11:08:26 GMT -5
Wow! You own all three of those, that is awesome. OH and put the link to the wiki in your signature when you are ready. Something all about mega-dungeons would be great, I am a big fan. It goes with the theme for computer names here at home. I have: - megadungeon (one of the original servers)
- tomb
- crypt
- deepfell
- moria
- telengard
- trollhold
- underdark
- waterdeep
I also have a few that are magical tomes around here: Sure, "tomb" and "tome" are close, but the former is my wife's work from home computer downstairs and the latter is my SNTP/IMAP/SMTP/primary DNS server (with aliased names like "time", "mail", "smtp", "imap", "dns" and "dns1") so I don't really worry about getting them confused anywhere. It never occurred to me to name my computers, of course I don't have them networked together either. That is really cool. I tried and failed several times to network the two computers together.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 4, 2021 11:10:35 GMT -5
I hope to have a lot of megadungeon stuff here some day. I love me some megadungeons. The dungeon below The Ruins of Murkhill has over a million rooms, but it is not all drawn out, but I can picture the whole thing in my head.
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Post by restless on Aug 4, 2021 11:15:30 GMT -5
It never occurred to me to name my computers, of course I don't have them networked together either. That is really cool. I tried and failed several times to network the two computers together. We built and one of the things I did very specifically was have every room have at least one ethernet drop. The restroom off the loft was supposed to be my server closet, but the builder said they would make it into a full bath for free so my wife overruled me. I really liked the idea because it's on the opposite side of the wall where all the network terminations come, so I could have dropped a full panel right on that side, now I have to cram everything into the closet in the guest room (although I am probably going to take that room in and make it into a room for 3D printing or something at some point since we have three bedrooms up here with nothing going on, a loft and the giant media room that is my office). At least if I ever do get a gaming group together and we play in the loft there's a bathroom right off the action
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Post by restless on Aug 4, 2021 11:17:07 GMT -5
I hope to have a lot of megadungeon stuff here some day. I love me some megadungeons. The dungeon below The Ruins of Murkhill has over a million rooms, but it is not all drawn out, but I can picture the whole thing in my head. That's a lot to picture all at once!
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 4, 2021 11:24:50 GMT -5
It never occurred to me to name my computers, of course I don't have them networked together either. That is really cool. I tried and failed several times to network the two computers together. We built and one of the things I did very specifically was have every room have at least one ethernet drop. The restroom off the loft was supposed to be my server closet, but the builder said they would make it into a full bath for free so my wife overruled me. I really liked the idea because it's on the opposite side of the wall where all the network terminations come, so I could have dropped a full panel right on that side, now I have to cram everything into the closet in the guest room (although I am probably going to take that room in and make it into a room for 3D printing or something at some point since we have three bedrooms up here with nothing going on, a loft and the giant media room that is my office). At least if I ever do get a gaming group together and we play in the loft there's a bathroom right off the action If you are building a house in the Internet age there is no reason not to have it fully wired. How long ago did you build? My nephew is doing 3D printing, IIRC he has two machines now.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 4, 2021 11:27:31 GMT -5
I hope to have a lot of megadungeon stuff here some day. I love me some megadungeons. The dungeon below The Ruins of Murkhill has over a million rooms, but it is not all drawn out, but I can picture the whole thing in my head. That's a lot to picture all at once! I can see the floor plans and I can see the cross section from each side. When I create on the fly and draw it at the table, I am only drawing what I see in my head. But it is always in flux and changes so what I draw is a snapshot in time. If I could draw the whole thing at one time on two different days there would be two completely different massive dungeons.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 4, 2021 11:29:48 GMT -5
That's a lot to picture all at once! I can see the floor plans and I can see the cross section from each side. When I create on the fly and draw it at the table, I am only drawing what I see in my head. But it is always in flux and changes so what I draw is a snapshot in time. If I could draw the whole thing at one time on two different days there would be two completely different massive dungeons. I picture my worlds floating in space with its moons, rotating, if I draw back I can see the sun and the other planets and their moons. If I zoom in I can see any spot on the planet.
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Post by restless on Aug 4, 2021 11:37:10 GMT -5
If you are building a house in the Internet age there is no reason not to have it fully wired. How long ago did you build? My nephew is doing 3D printing, IIRC he has two machines now. Well, being foremost a computer geek I guess ethernet was a no-brainer for the house. We had it built starting in late 2015 and moved in June, 2016. I've not gotten into 3D printing yet. I want to get a game going before I start doing that, or give up on gaming altogether if I move on. Otherwise gaming will languish forever.
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Post by restless on Aug 4, 2021 11:38:23 GMT -5
I can see the floor plans and I can see the cross section from each side. When I create on the fly and draw it at the table, I am only drawing what I see in my head. But it is always in flux and changes so what I draw is a snapshot in time. If I could draw the whole thing at one time on two different days there would be two completely different massive dungeons. I picture my worlds floating in space with its moons, rotating, if I draw back I can see the sun and the other planets and their moons. If I zoom in I can see any spot on the planet. I get that, I sort of have that for some things, too. It's the best way to actually be able to describe them, after all!
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 4, 2021 11:41:34 GMT -5
Oh, btw your The Hinterlands site looks great!
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 4, 2021 11:45:19 GMT -5
If you are building a house in the Internet age there is no reason not to have it fully wired. How long ago did you build? My nephew is doing 3D printing, IIRC he has two machines now. Well, being foremost a computer geek I guess ethernet was a no-brainer for the house. We had it built starting in late 2015 and moved in June, 2016. I've not gotten into 3D printing yet. I want to get a game going before I start doing that, or give up on gaming altogether if I move on. Otherwise gaming will languish forever. Now in 2021, I think it is part of the resale value of the home. If money were no object, I would have on the exterior a jack for all of the local Internet carriers and the whole house would be multiple wired with an outlet for each in each room.
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Post by restless on Aug 4, 2021 12:15:52 GMT -5
Well, being foremost a computer geek I guess ethernet was a no-brainer for the house. We had it built starting in late 2015 and moved in June, 2016. I've not gotten into 3D printing yet. I want to get a game going before I start doing that, or give up on gaming altogether if I move on. Otherwise gaming will languish forever. Now in 2021, I think it is part of the resale value of the home. If money were no object, I would have on the exterior a jack for all of the local Internet carriers and the whole house would be multiple wired with an outlet for each in each room. I think it would make more sense to route each of the providers into a single router and use BGP to load balance and/or fail over to another provider. You could always use vlan tagging to route to a specific provider regardless of what port you have (but this is advanced and a topic left to the reader).
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Post by restless on Aug 4, 2021 12:16:19 GMT -5
Oh, btw your The Hinterlands site looks great! Thanks! It's slow-going.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 4, 2021 12:29:07 GMT -5
Now in 2021, I think it is part of the resale value of the home. If money were no object, I would have on the exterior a jack for all of the local Internet carriers and the whole house would be multiple wired with an outlet for each in each room. I think it would make more sense to route each of the providers into a single router and use BGP to load balance and/or fail over to another provider. You could always use vlan tagging to route to a specific provider regardless of what port you have (but this is advanced and a topic left to the reader). I am just an amateur and the best ways of doing things is something I would have help with if money were no object, I would just hire someone, tell them what I wanted and let them tell me the best way to accomplish it. As it is, I do what I can figure out, but it is likely not always the best way.
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