Cross posting from r/battlestations because 12 years have passed since the original, and it is safe to say it is now a retro battlestation. The Silver Antec replica case to the bottom left was for work and play. At the time I was dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD 9.x for my daily driver. The center 4 screens were for work on FreeBSD on a budget Acer "4K" layout. Screen to the left was the popular ASUS ASUS VG248QE 144hz monitor for gaming on Windows 7. The right two Samsung screens were some ancient junk for homelabbing. The speakers are BOSE 203 star drivers paired with Sony TA-AV411 250w home entertainment amplifier that date further back to the 90s.

Antec replica specs:

* Intel E5450 Xeon quad core with LGA775 pin mod
* Biostar TPower I45 with BIOS microcode fix for Xeon CPUs
* 4x2GB DDR2 1333mhz
* 2x Nvidia 9800GTX 512mb PCIe cards
* Creative Audigy2 PCI sound
* Intel 1000MT NIC

To the bottom right, the generic case with the blue LEDs was my FreeNAS/NAS4Free box which is actually still in service to this day. At the time I believe I had 6x1TB platter disks in a UFS Soft Raid5. Wasn't too long after this that I made the switch to ZFS and RaidZ and several upgrades later it's now got 6x4TB with XigmaNAS.

NAS specs:

* Intel E5450 Xeon quad core with LGA775 pin mod
* Supermicro C2SEA with BIOS microcode fix for Xeon CPUs
* 4x2GB DDR2 1066mhz
* Intel 1000MT NIC

Unfortunately during a move 2 years prior I had to get rid of a lot of my retro hardware including the Antec replica case and Biostar TPower motherboard. Really hurt to see that one go! I have some other retro pieces like an old Sun Blade 150 that I'll share some time in the near future.



My old battlestation