OK guys, I get the mobo tonight! I have to case prepped for the board already
I also bought a BFG 6800 ultra for the system, at 75$ I know I payed to much, but I wanted one and at least I was able to bid the seller down 15$
I also got 2 120gb SSD's for the system, will be going with a raid 1 or 0 setup, don't know witch yet.

Photos please 🤣

Soon.

The pc-dl only supports 533fsb xeons. If memory serves, those 3.06 chips are tge gastest it will support. I personally run one of these as my server:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboar … 25/X6DA8-G2.cfm

luckybob wrote:

The pc-dl only supports 533fsb xeons. If memory serves, those 3.06 chips are tge gastest it will support. I personally run one of these as my server:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboar … 25/X6DA8-G2.cfm

It supports the 3.2ghz 1m 533fsb and the 3.2ghz 2m 533fsb according to asus.

https://www.asus.com/Commercial-Servers-Works … e/HelpDesk_CPU/

My server uses the E7520 chipset. It's running with two 3.60 GHz Irwindales downclocked to 2.80.

I was thinking of getting some later Xeons and down clocking them.
If it were not for the fixed voltage and clock multipliers I could oc the system to get 800fsb

Nice, not many PC-DL builds around here.

I actually have one of these boards also, but haven't got anything planned for it yet.

i stand corrected. I was under the impression 3.06 was the fastest 533 xeon. I never used them, I went immediately to the 800fsb ones.

luckybob wrote:

i stand corrected. I was under the impression 3.06 was the fastest 533 xeon. I never used them, I went immediately to the 800fsb ones.

I thought that too, that was until I started doing some looking for the best cpu for the system.
The 3.2hhz 2mb 533fsb cpu's army that common. So that's one I'll hold off on.

I'll get some photos of the work in progress tonight!

After much thinking I'll go with raid1.
with such a new ssd's and sata1, raid 0 makes no since and raid 1 will be nice if a drive were to fail.

Jade Falcon wrote:

After much thinking I'll go with raid1.
with such a new ssd's and sata1, raid 0 makes no since and raid 1 will be nice if a drive were to fail.

SSDs in raid-0 on the PC-DL doesn't make sense just due to the fact that even a low-end SSD will max out SATA on the board anyway.

Failure rates seem very low with modern SSDs, I think you could probably benefit more just running JBOD.

I agree 100%
But with it being a server build and me being lazy with backups I'd like to go with raid1.
I'll be running centOS or redhat in a VM for a web/ftp/mail server and hate to lose the setup. I hate Linux and setting up Linux, but for this system it's the only new server OS that would work.

I guess I could just backup the disk img file, but I rather have the simplicity of raid1.

Jade Falcon wrote:

I agree 100% But with it being a server build and me being lazy with backups I'd like to go with raid1. I'll be running centOS o […]
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I agree 100%
But with it being a server build and me being lazy with backups I'd like to go with raid1.
I'll be running centOS or redhat in a VM for a web/ftp/mail server and hate to lose the setup. I hate Linux and setting up Linux, but for this system it's the only new server OS that would work.

I guess I could just backup the disk img file, but I rather have the simplicity of raid1.

I've considered in the past running old machines as servers, any idea what the power draw on that rig will be under normal use?

m1919 wrote:

I've considered in the past running old machines as servers, any idea what the power draw on that rig will be under normal use?

To much. 🤣
About 100w per cpu and about 150w for the gpu.
From the PSU it will be around 550w from the wall it will be more like 6-700w watt.
That's at 100% full load. I bought a new psu for the system witch will help, its not a gold 80+ or anything. But it will help keep it down.

For what I'm doing it will probably pull about 500w from the wall.

If the system is a keeper I'll get a better psu. I have a bad habit of keeping a system for a week or two and then parting it out.
If this system is not to loud I think I'll be keeping it. I'm sure if I can get some later 800FSB xeons to work I can get the power draw lower.
a 3.6ghz xeon at 533fsb should be at 2.4ghz ( if my math is right) and I can lower the voltage and still have a faster cpu then the older 1bm cache xeon's.

I also don't have a modern PC at home and only have one running/working retro pc at a time. I have no use or interest in newer systems. So it's not like I'll be getting a bigger power bill or anything.

The idea here is to have a best of both worlds. A retro PC I can enjoy and a home server I can build a fun little website and have my own email Doman wile being able to have a PC I can use every day.
One 1gb and CPU for me, 1gb and cpu for the server 😀

Heat sinks get here Monday!
I'll still need the psu to get the system running.
Once I get the heats inks I'll get the mobo mounted and post pics.

Socket 604 build, sweet - can't wait to see the photos. 😀 I'm planning to put similar rig together, also based on PC-DL... but a little different CPU(s) - not sure whether to use one or two. 🤣 But either way it should be interesting.

Indeed it will be an interesting build. As are all daul cpu build that are not stickly a server.

I think I found a deal for 2 3.2ghz 2mb 533fsb xeon's. I also bought 2 newer 800fsb xeon's for like 2$. I read that with a bios update/mods you can run 800fsb Xeon on this board

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