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Comment Re:Clarifications and Answers (Score 1) 52

OK best advise I can give is POWER POWER POWER. We set up telecom and network systems to be deployed to customer sites and constantly when on the bench we find we do not have enough outlets or we have the wrong type/connector (we have an L5-30 for 120V, but we need 220 for this particular system, etc). Get appropriate power distribution units and get a LOT of connections. As already mentioned, power conditioning is crucial if you are starting/stopping lots of equipment as the current surge can pop breakers and cause other issues. Hire an electrical contractor (NOT an electrician) experienced in large scale commercial power design to determine best power system for your benches. You also will want a large area with some sort of containment for boxes. we use commercial duty shelves; metal racking with plywood shelves but with the bottom 2 shelves not installed. This allows us to "contain" (for lack of a better term) the boxing/packaging that's too big to fit on a shelf. We label boxes and equipment as well so we don't lose track of which piece came from which box. Color coded label number system (Unbox a server, put green label with number "3" on it, same on box) works well for us.
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Asus Demos First Intel P55 48

adeelarshad82 writes "Intel's X58 chipset is the platform of choice for enthusiasts, but Intel serves a heck of a big audience. To please that larger crowd and bring down prices, the company is planning a mainstream iteration of its Nehalem architecture: the P55 chipset. It's designed to work with the forthcoming Lynnfield CPUs, and offers performance close to LGA1366 chips at a much cheaper price. Recently Asus demoed its first intel P55 chip and released exclusive photos. Asus claims to have run its new boards with engineering samples of the Core i5-750 at a 77 percent overclock, boosting speeds from 2.66 GHz to 4.7 GHz. Asus admits this wasn't necessarily stable, but still — that's fast. And on liquid cooling, the boards reportedly hit speeds of 5.1 GHz."
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theodp writes "Want to check out colleges without the bother of having to read about them? Well, my YouTube-loving friend, the NY Times reports that old-school elephantine dead-tree college guidebooks may be a thing of the past thanks to startup unigo.com, which has launched a free, gigantic, student-generated web-based guide to North American colleges that's laden with photos, Flip-shot videos and reviews (OK, you may have to do some reading)."

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