Yay! Free processors!

[370forlife]

I went to a lan party today at my brother's friend's house. He is a computer technician at the Radisson Plaza Hotel here in kalamazoo, and he has some pretty interesting things.

One is a server that they use to monitor and record the cameras in the hotel, it had a 3ghz p4 w/HT and 512mb of ram with a fx5200, but had 4 pci cards that each had 4 BNC inputs on them. (He said I could have them if I wanted, maybe next time.) Then he has a box full of parts, mostly from a old dell server that the caps blew on the motherboard, he kept the two processors with heatsinks (3.2ghz 604 xeons, 1mb L2, 800mhz fsb,) the heatsinks are the nicer dell 6 heatpipe coolers which will go on my IBM board.

I dont' know what I will do with the processors. Maybe get another board w/ 800mhz support because I have the procs now. So he let me take both of those processors and heatsinks. Then there was the fans that were in the dell, 2 delta 92mm's. 12v, 2.5A, 160.22 CFM, 6000rpm, some screamers right here. There was a lot more, but I didn't have room.

[Topcat]

Re: Yay! Free processors!

Why scrap teh Dell server boards though? Dual 604 Xeons on a dell is likely a precision 470 or 670 system. I was given a precision 470 system with 3ghz 2mb caches, 800fsb, 4gb ecc ram, scsi 320 raid controller, 15krpm drives.....it just needed caps. It makes a great server, its very solid and reliable.

Let me know if you don't want those CPU's. I have a supermicro socket604 board I could use them in.

[370forlife]

Re: Yay! Free processors!

He is a software guy, not a hardware. He thought that once the caps blew, it was gone forever, too bad he pitched it before I got a hold of it.

As for the processors, I don't know what I'm going to do with them next, 800mhz fsb 604 boards are pricier than 533mhz fsb boards, and I would want a E-atx workstation board (something with a AGP pro slot or PCI-E,) all I can find are real server boards or proprietary dell precision boards.

[Topcat]

Re: Yay! Free processors!

My precision 470 would run those, it has a PCI-E slot, no onboard video. This system was intended to be a high-end workstation, not a server, so it has room to grow, and a barebones can be had pretty cheap. Might look into that.....otherwise, look at supermicro's selection, they're awesome boards!!

[370forlife]

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I can't find anything, what would be really nice is a regular atx board with pci-e 16x and dual 604 sockets. I saw one after I bought my IBM Z-pro board, I thought it would be cool, now I can't find it.

[Topcat]

Re: Yay! Free processors!

take a look at this:
http://supermicro.com/products/mothe.../X6DH8-XG2.cfm

[370forlife]

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I was thinking more like this

http://supermicro.com/products/mothe...25/X6DAL-G.cfm

[Topcat]

Re: Yay! Free processors!

I was thinking more like this

http://supermicro.com/products/mothe...25/X6DAL-G.cfm

That would be a good one as well. I have one, and I also have the X5DAL-TG2 (533FSB, 7505 chipset), and they've been great servers over the years.

[370forlife]

Re: Yay! Free processors!

Hmmm, its really tempting...

[370forlife]

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Well, I did it. I bought a Supermicro X6DAL-G. Very nice motherboard, the build is coming along nicely so far. In a old Enlight case, its gonna get hot as it dosen't have holes for a exhaust fan, but a 160cfm fan in the front should overcome that. Heres some pics so far, just need to get my other server's ram and psu out of its case and slap it in there. This thing is nice, all the solid caps are Sanyo SEPC's and SEP's, the non-solids are sanyo and 2 UCC's.

pics to come