Tek Syndicate Community builds Eric S Raymond a new MONSTER pc

mbs · January 2, 2015, 9:59am

Eric, recently on his blog bemoaned his current pc cant cope with the massive Subversion/Git workloads he’s doing at he moment so the Tek-Syndicate guys had a whip-round and build him a monster pc dropped it off at his house. Good video.

Link to Youtube video

So Opinions? Did they do it as a good deed or just to gain some open-source street cred?

Parts used in the build:

NZXT CA-HF630F Case: http://geni.us/2Ute
Intel E5-1650 V3 CPU: http://geni.us/3lgg
ASUS X99-E WS: http://geni.us/DaY
Plextor M6e 512GB M.2 PCIe SSD: http://geni.us/3RB1
HGST Deskstar NAS HDD 4TB: http://geni.us/1bNa
Noctua NF-A15 CPU Cooler: http://geni.us/ZZo
Crucial 32 GB Registered ECC DDR4: http://geni.us/1D3K

Im wondering as one member of the cast once called him “crazy,crazy, gun toting, eric raymond”

sil · January 2, 2015, 10:09am

That’s not a monster; mine’s almost like that, except I don’t have a spinning rust disc

I’m fairly sure they did it for both reasons; we are now talking about them, hence it is good PR, but they didn’t have to do it and nobody thinks any worse of the companies who didn’t do it; and they’ve bought quite a bit more than two grand’s worth of free advertising by doing it, so fair play. Everybody wins!

mbs · January 2, 2015, 10:21am

Well you lose then XD

sil · January 2, 2015, 10:34am

Not sure why I need one? My machine has a 160GB SSD and that’s enough. (Of course, there is the server in the cupboard which has multiple terabytes of space. :))

mbs · January 2, 2015, 10:40am

i was just trying to be a smart arse… i for one will be glad when spinning drives goes away

sil · January 2, 2015, 11:42am

Me too, although SSDs could be cheaper