Yes, I'm thinking of building a 4th workstation! (In time, due to a main laptop that took a mega shit, this will be kinda back burnered).
I have a variety of parts around that that are just begging to be put in a new build...
I have this case:
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpo...9&postcount=24
(which was my parent's until the SM board in it went belly up; the only SM I've managed to kill and not revive)
And I also have a spare SM X5DAL-G twin xeon board that was traded (long story in another thread) thinking the X5DAL-TG2 in my other rig (V2/V2.5) was fried. To go with it i have some more 2GB ECC DDR modules somewhere (they're cheap though, so I could always buy more for peanuts)
In additon, I have an Nvidia 7600GS AGP card in the pile... and this IMHO is the best AGP based platform (and thus would be a good rig for the card).
I also have/had one of those 550W Ac Bel PSU's; I suspect mine fried though. A later rig seemed to potato chip power supplies (due to it being a hot attic?) and that one was the first victim.
The mobo and the case seem to match really well. This is one of the few cases I have with adequate RAM clearance (which can be problematic due to the location at the front of the board)... and it has plenty of fan spaces (a 92mm and two front 80mm's).
There are a few missing things that may make this tricky:
-Heatsinks: I presently don't have much of anything to use for cooling the CPUs. I do have a clone (or the parts to do it) of V2's coolers (HP pulls + AMD 940 fans), but I don't have a spare set of the threaded back plates which are socket 604/603/423 compatible. Likwise, I don't have any of the socket 423 style heatsinks or mount brackets; the set on this board was moved to another 604 board (Brethin's X5DAE) which had broken brackets. I'd either need to get such coolers and brackets, or find another set of backplates and re-order the hardware needed for such. edit- FYI, 604 heatsinks and the like are pretty expensive IIRC...
-HDD- I'm a bit in a HDD shortage, and unless I bought yet another 3ware card, used my crappy old 3ware 9500, or swapped boards with V2 (which would be good for both but feels "wrong"), it would need to be IDE. Ugh. HDDs always seem to be my ass kicker it seems. This thing can hold 4 HDDs, but only two are well cooled (and very well cooled even)
-Sound/1394- I'm thinking of an Audigy 2 card, which would give me both. I actually have such at my old house, minus the 1394 cable (which is a show stopper IMHO). It's a standard pinout on both ends, so I bet I could find a replacement (or ebay a new card/FP set) The front panel of such would really help with another issue, the case's missing 5.25" blank filler (which to date I haven't come across, the PO left a 3rd optical drive in it unused, asshole)
-Card reader: I'd need to pick between using my 2nd external 3.5" bay for a card reader (I have two USB headers after all) or nuking the floppy drive. The case IMHO looks like shit with the 2nd bay occupied (the area and blank are sculpted, not flat)... Hard choice.
(edit)-PSU: If my Ac bel is dead, I'll need a beefy enough PSU... I can easily test that though. Again, mostly a $ problem
-Paint: The plastics have yellowed somewhat and the paint is scratched/scraped... A repainting in black (leaving the purple accents alone) would look awesome IMHO. The problem though is that would require new optical drives, another thing which I'm in short supply.
Other than the cooler issue, it seems to be all doable... suggestions? (and please don't say "thats junk go for a new i3", if you've seen my builds you know that ain't how I roll
)
I have a variety of parts around that that are just begging to be put in a new build...
I have this case:
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpo...9&postcount=24
(which was my parent's until the SM board in it went belly up; the only SM I've managed to kill and not revive)
And I also have a spare SM X5DAL-G twin xeon board that was traded (long story in another thread) thinking the X5DAL-TG2 in my other rig (V2/V2.5) was fried. To go with it i have some more 2GB ECC DDR modules somewhere (they're cheap though, so I could always buy more for peanuts)
In additon, I have an Nvidia 7600GS AGP card in the pile... and this IMHO is the best AGP based platform (and thus would be a good rig for the card).
I also have/had one of those 550W Ac Bel PSU's; I suspect mine fried though. A later rig seemed to potato chip power supplies (due to it being a hot attic?) and that one was the first victim.
The mobo and the case seem to match really well. This is one of the few cases I have with adequate RAM clearance (which can be problematic due to the location at the front of the board)... and it has plenty of fan spaces (a 92mm and two front 80mm's).
There are a few missing things that may make this tricky:
-Heatsinks: I presently don't have much of anything to use for cooling the CPUs. I do have a clone (or the parts to do it) of V2's coolers (HP pulls + AMD 940 fans), but I don't have a spare set of the threaded back plates which are socket 604/603/423 compatible. Likwise, I don't have any of the socket 423 style heatsinks or mount brackets; the set on this board was moved to another 604 board (Brethin's X5DAE) which had broken brackets. I'd either need to get such coolers and brackets, or find another set of backplates and re-order the hardware needed for such. edit- FYI, 604 heatsinks and the like are pretty expensive IIRC...
-HDD- I'm a bit in a HDD shortage, and unless I bought yet another 3ware card, used my crappy old 3ware 9500, or swapped boards with V2 (which would be good for both but feels "wrong"), it would need to be IDE. Ugh. HDDs always seem to be my ass kicker it seems. This thing can hold 4 HDDs, but only two are well cooled (and very well cooled even)
-Sound/1394- I'm thinking of an Audigy 2 card, which would give me both. I actually have such at my old house, minus the 1394 cable (which is a show stopper IMHO). It's a standard pinout on both ends, so I bet I could find a replacement (or ebay a new card/FP set) The front panel of such would really help with another issue, the case's missing 5.25" blank filler (which to date I haven't come across, the PO left a 3rd optical drive in it unused, asshole)
-Card reader: I'd need to pick between using my 2nd external 3.5" bay for a card reader (I have two USB headers after all) or nuking the floppy drive. The case IMHO looks like shit with the 2nd bay occupied (the area and blank are sculpted, not flat)... Hard choice.
(edit)-PSU: If my Ac bel is dead, I'll need a beefy enough PSU... I can easily test that though. Again, mostly a $ problem
-Paint: The plastics have yellowed somewhat and the paint is scratched/scraped... A repainting in black (leaving the purple accents alone) would look awesome IMHO. The problem though is that would require new optical drives, another thing which I'm in short supply.
Other than the cooler issue, it seems to be all doable... suggestions? (and please don't say "thats junk go for a new i3", if you've seen my builds you know that ain't how I roll
)
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