kithylin wrote:

Looks like Intel skulltrail? I hope you got it cheap... those things use a ton of power and run rather hot. […]
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m1919 wrote:

It's happening.

Waiting on this baby to get shipped.
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Looks like Intel skulltrail? I hope you got it cheap... those things use a ton of power and run rather hot.

It's weird seeing a desktop motherboard in a server chassis too. Totally "custom" job there.

I would think almost 99% that it's not the original motherboard for that chassis.

Got the entire the thing 280 CAD shipped. Considering these haven't appeared very often on ebay in working order that's not too bad.

Comes with 16GB DDR2 FB-DIMM, dual Xeon X5482s and a 1200W PSU.

No clue what brand the PSU is, I'll probably end up replacing it. Also won't be keeping the case.

Plan is to eventually grab a pair of X5470s, they have FSB 1333mhz and 10x multiplier. Should be able to get at least 4Ghz out of them, I would think.

Power usage is not a concern as this is not going to be running 24/7.

Today I received a 771-to-775-modded Xeon E5450 (3.00GHz/1333MHz FSB/12MB cache/80W TDP) which was to replace a Q6600 (2.4GHz/1066/6MB cache) in my home studio PC. Fits nice with the 8GB DDR2-800 cas5 upgrade, and for the price it was quite right, practically saving me from building a new PC altogether. Felt like avoiding the power hungry X-series, didn't want to risk the motherboard's VRMs. I had to add the microcode for SLBBM manually, as I used an already modified BIOS for the Asus P5KC board which enabled ICH9 AHCI (stock BIOS ROM has no option for AHCI whatsoever). Don't do/plan to do any overclocking, though I have to get a better CPU cooler eventually, since I have one particular since my dual-core days, which doesn't help with quad CPUs a lot, especially right now (hot summer in Greece) 😜

...so I got this CoolerMaster Hyper TX3 Evo thingie, to replace a Spire Sigor low-profile aluminum no-heatpipe cooler. Would go for the 212 if I had a bigger case, but provided that I won't overclock and that I'm too bored to remove the P5KC to mount a cooler base on its back side, the TX3 seemed more appropriate 🤣 It appears to do the job nicely. I didn't get a second fan for it, but it lines up with a bigger, faster and noisier rear 12cm Sharkoon fan pushing warm air outside. I saw a maximum of 73C when fooling around with Prime95 (34C ambient temperature... HOT!). Will look into proper cable management to improve the airflow inside the case, and also think about replacing the 8800GT with something less powerful, or even passive.

Yay! Today is the day my server becomes a real server! Well yesterday.. but I didn't get around to posting it yesterday.

A friend of mine upgraded his server to 8GB ram modules (96 GB) and thus retired these, and so to offset the purchase of his new ram he offered them to me below market for $48 including shipping. So I bit it for my server. They're 4GB each and 48GB total. Go in my dual-socket-1366 server and we were in desperate need of ram with the game servers I host. Now I can virtualize more stuff in the house. Looking to see about virtualizing the router some day, possibly. Anyway, here's the upgrade 😁

Larger: http://www.outfoxed.net/nas/48-GB-Ram.jpg

Only down side is our processors currently are nice 2.8 ghz (max turbo) 12MB-cached full i7 xeons, but they're only on 1066 mhz ram controllers. So later I'll have to upgrade the chips again to get in to 1333 mhz ram. This ram can do it, need to upgrade chips.

Well that's the ram for now anyway. And now I wait until next year for better processors.

Bought a second mixer, a XENYX 502 from Behringer. This one is for my lab, it will go right next to my capture computer and let me use headphones while capturing and adjusting both levels conveniently: http://www.music-group.com/Categories/Behring … ers/502/p/P0576

psychz wrote:

Today I received a 771-to-775-modded Xeon E5450 (3.00GHz/1333MHz FSB/12MB cache/80W TDP) which was to replace a Q6600 (2.4GHz/1066/6MB cache) in my home studio PC. Fits nice with the 8GB DDR2-800 cas5 upgrade, and for the price it was quite right, practically saving me from building a new PC altogether. Felt like avoiding the power hungry X-series, didn't want to risk the motherboard's VRMs. I had to add the microcode for SLBBM manually, as I used an already modified BIOS for the Asus P5KC board which enabled ICH9 AHCI (stock BIOS ROM has no option for AHCI whatsoever). Don't do/plan to do any overclocking, though I have to get a better CPU cooler eventually, since I have one particular since my dual-core days, which doesn't help with quad CPUs a lot, especially right now (hot summer in Greece) 😜

Peaked my interest. That cost me 50 bucks! 🤣

Got an E5450, adapter piece, and an HP Pro 3000 motherboard (G45 chipset) on the way now.

*Motherboard confirmed working per delidded.com

Private_Ops wrote:

Peaked my interest. That cost me 50 bucks! 🤣

Got an E5450, adapter piece, and an HP Pro 3000 motherboard (G45 chipset) on the way now.

*Motherboard confirmed working per delidded.com

Have fun! (you sure will!)

psychz wrote:

Private_Ops wrote:

Peaked my interest. That cost me 50 bucks! 🤣

Got an E5450, adapter piece, and an HP Pro 3000 motherboard (G45 chipset) on the way now.

*Motherboard confirmed working per delidded.com

Have fun! (you sure will!)

Just want to report. Got all my hardware today. Trimmed the socket. Put the adapter on the E5450. Board booted on the first try and detected the CPU. No issues so far.

Bought an AMD E-450 powered HP Business class netbook for cheap. Going to be used by an 80 year old photographer for on the go picture storage and photo editing and such. She wanted something with great battery life and compact that WASNT a touchscreen 🤣.

Private_Ops wrote:

Just want to report. Got all my hardware today. Trimmed the socket. Put the adapter on the E5450. Board booted on the first try and detected the CPU. No issues so far.

Congrats! 😁 Run CPU-Z to verify that the BIOS has enabled support for all the features the CPU can do, esp. SSSE3, SSE4.1, VT-x. If it's all enabled, you don't need microcode injection.

Bought that B85 motherboard in the ebay thread and picked up a Haswell Pentium as well. Going to help a friend upgrade from his Core2 I think.

Bought some cheap PCIe USB 3.0 as well as eSATA controllers. Not sure what to do with them, but I will find a project.

On a local for sales forum someone offered a few FM2+ bundles, will get one. Want to check them out for Windows XP gaming compatibility.

I bought some of these switches:

to replace the momentary switches in the ATX case that my 486 motherboard is in. This let me turn my Reset button into a Turbo button and also allows me to power on the PC from the case power button instead of a big button connected to a wire hanging out of the case.

clueless1 wrote:

I bought some of these switches:

s-l300.jpg

to replace the momentary switches in the ATX case that my 486 motherboard is in. This let me turn my Reset button into a Turbo button and also allows me to power on the PC from the case power button instead of a big button connected to a wire hanging out of the case.

I'm guessing you are using an ATX power supply with a converter cable. Can you post pics of this setup? I might have to do something like this in the future.

FuzzyLogic wrote:

clueless1 wrote:

I bought some of these switches:

s-l300.jpg

to replace the momentary switches in the ATX case that my 486 motherboard is in. This let me turn my Reset button into a Turbo button and also allows me to power on the PC from the case power button instead of a big button connected to a wire hanging out of the case.

I'm guessing you are using an ATX power supply with a converter cable. Can you post pics of this setup? I might have to do something like this in the future.

I'm working on a post here:
Wading slowly into the 486 waters
Stay tuned...

As briefly mentioned elsewhere, bought a Logitech Trackman Marble. Lists only USB on the latest Amazon listing, and on the cover itself, but the Logitech website says it works in PS/2. It does not come with an adapter.

Take the adapter from my expired MX518, plug it into the KVM - works straight away! It's a bit different to get used to, but seems interesting. It also doesn't upset the KVM like my MX518 did (it works with the KVM, but the menu won't display when it's plugged in. Fine with the Trackman or a standard PS/2 mouse).

Now need to configure it to work in FreeBSD, so that I can hold down a button and it'll do 'mouse wheel' scrolling. Documentation for this in Xorg is lacking on all platforms.

Bought last week :

Both work like a charm :

In case of CPU, VID Mod was needed to make it stable.
VID (before mod) = 1,2875V
VID (after mod) = 1,3875V
Vdroop + Load Line = -0,12V on actual CPU (in Cinebench 11.5 Multithread test) 😁

Is this modern enough to fit this thread? 😀

Sapphire HD 3850 512 MB

That's pretty interesting, AGP and DDR3. What mobo is that?

kithylin wrote:

Yay! Today is the day my server becomes a real server! Well yesterday.. but I didn't get around to posting it yesterday. […]
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Yay! Today is the day my server becomes a real server! Well yesterday.. but I didn't get around to posting it yesterday.

A friend of mine upgraded his server to 8GB ram modules (96 GB) and thus retired these, and so to offset the purchase of his new ram he offered them to me below market for $48 including shipping. So I bit it for my server. They're 4GB each and 48GB total. Go in my dual-socket-1366 server and we were in desperate need of ram with the game servers I host. Now I can virtualize more stuff in the house. Looking to see about virtualizing the router some day, possibly. Anyway, here's the upgrade 😁

Only down side is our processors currently are nice 2.8 ghz (max turbo) 12MB-cached full i7 xeons, but they're only on 1066 mhz ram controllers. So later I'll have to upgrade the chips again to get in to 1333 mhz ram. This ram can do it, need to upgrade chips.

Well that's the ram for now anyway. And now I wait until next year for better processors.

Nice. I need to get 48GB into my HP Z800 - I got it with 32gb (8x4GB) witch I found weird - then I noticed the memory is configured in dual-channel instead of the regular triple channel (regular for 1366 anyway), with 2 slots per CPU left unpopulated. Gotta get 4x4GB of ECC DDR3...