Finished adapting the quad Xeon board brackets to mount on the ASUS XG-DLS. Still have to change out the heatsinks on my 700/1MB Xeons to a pair of the standard Intel black heatsinks. I currently have a pair of Poweredge heatsinks that won't clear the bottoms of the brackets. Also have to mount two cooling fans to blow air directly across the heatsinks and I should be good to go.
These brackets originally came attached in a two-unit set that I separated and reworked to mount as single brackets. I had to grind down the stubs left over from the connecting struts and also had to grind down the original mounts as they did not match the XG-DLS' hole patterns at all. New mounts were fabricated using scrap plastic from a Bic lighter stand I found, got really lucky with that because it's the same plastic as that used on the brackets; it matches very nicely. The new mounts were attached using JB Weld; the bond seems to be very secure.
I fabricated some backplates from the same plastic used to create the new mounts for the bracket. The original plan I had was to mount directly to the motherboard tray using standoffs for mounting processor brackets on other boards like the MS440GX or Supermicro S2DG* series, but the XG-DLS had a lot of traces close to the mounting holes, so this way seemed safer.
Changed my primary video card to a GeForce 4 Ti4600. You'll also notice I'm still using an Adaptec AHA-2940U2W, even though the XG-DLS has onboard SCSI. The wiring job would have been more cluttered using onboard SCSI and relocating the cable would have obstructed the area I plan to mount a pair of cooling fans in. Only thing I'm not liking on this board is the location of the floppy connector, it's almost right in the middle of the board. It's like they crammed all this shit on to the board and then added the floppy as an afterthought, it's literally the worst position I've ever seen a floppy connector in.
Edit: Actually, I think I can use the onboard Adaptec SCSI and route the cable under the hard drive cages and around the front edge of the case...
This beast definitely deserves a nice cold cathode to show off all that hardware. I'm thinking simple white or amber will look pretty good with the LED fan on the side panel.
Crimson Tide - EVGA 1000P2; ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS; 2x E5-2697 v3 14C 3.8 GHz on all cores (All core hack); 64GB Samsung DDR4-2133 ECC
EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3; EVGA 750 Ti SC; Sound Blaster Z