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Alright, got a proper PSU- Directron is selling manufacturer refurb PC Power & Cooling 1KW units with a 72A(!) 12v rail for 70 bucks right now. Also, I drafted the design for the HSF retention brackets last night and started making a jig to cut them.
and that this motherboard does not support Shanghai (or Istanbul)?
I was planning to buy the processor: 8389 (also a frequency is 2.9 :) ) Also, i has PSU with 48A for 12V, is it enough?
No Shanghai or Istanbul. Barcelona only dude. Read the manual I posted on the last page :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sergyg
That PSU is enough if you're using the non-HE cpus. (i.e. not the 115w 2.4/2.5ghz CPUs)
I think you saying non-SE cpus?Quote:
Originally Posted by confusis
That is correct. 8358-SE and 8360-SE are 115W+ parts. 8346-8360 are the only ones that will work at all with this board; I say 8350HE is the best bet. It offers 20% better mhz/watt than the others and all CPUs with that part # are B3 stepping so you don't have to worry about getting one with the TLB Bug which can apparently be significant if you plan on running Virtual Machines at all.
I meant non-SE. d'oh! Was late when I posted that!
Has anyone tried Xen on these systems? I'm hoping to try get GPU passthrough working ;)
I don't know if this chipset will support GPU passthrough, let us know if you find anything though!
Yeah, thats what I figured. IIRC the Arima has the highest MCP chipset, which apparently does do IOMMU, but i guess it's up to nVidia to enable it to be used :/
if anyone is interested i have,
4 x 8354 B3 cpus for sale
and also 16x 1GB ddr2 667 ecc ram fully tested and working for this board
drop me a PM im in the UK also
I'll just leave this here:
http://imagehost.losias.net/images/pOhJu.jpg
Nice.. what case did that start life as?
Nice case :up: Time to put a couple of 120mm fans at the back of that guy
Case started life as a Silverstone PS02.
Will be replacing the front chassis part with a new panel to hold 2x 140mm fans and a 7" LCD
Rear is still being worked on for, you guessed it correctly, 2x120mm fans :)
Sweet, I dig it :toast2:
Case looks nice, confusis! Looks like you still have room for a PSU and a couple hard drives up top.
I'm still working on custom retention brackets for my heatsinks. Suffice to say, it would've been way easier to just buy the proper plastic ones but I'm having a good time so there's that.
Will be using all 2.5" drives, hiding them on the backside of the motherboard tray ;)
Any ideas as to the max amount of 2.5" drives powered off the board? The VRegs around the floppy style plugs are good for 100A @ 5v, not sure about the other components responsible though. I plan on running 2-4 SSDs and 2-4 laptop HDDs eventually.
Hmm... Without manufacturer documentation, it's hard to say what those would be specc'd at. I'd recommend hacking a wiring harness with extra leads for a multimeter (or two-one for 5v & one for 12v) and watching for any voltage droop with all the drives going. Even 15k RPM 2.5" drives only use ~2A I think 4 normal drives + 4 SSD's would not use a terrific amount of power.
Hmm sounds good. My power supply only supplies 12V, so need to run any 5v reliant devices off the board headersQuote:
Originally Posted by HTownDowner
Well, I got the 8360se's and 2 of the 212+ heatsinks today. I got the cpu's installed using the old heatsinks and they work like a charm, I did find out that 2 of my 1gb sticks are bad/unloved by this board so I'm down to running 12 sticks right now. They are getting replaced by 2gb 667 sticks next week anyway to no harm there.
This weekend I'm going to start modding the psu for the custom plugs and making things "pretty". I am going to have to stick one of my 8354 b2's back in so I can get into the bios so I can flash it. What program is everyone using to flash with?
OOoh 8360's :D Bit moar grunt than my 8347's :/
Yeah... , and 50% more on power outlet: 350W (8350HE) vs ~530W+ (8360SE).:(Quote:
Originally Posted by confusis
BTW: any progress on Shanghais? :)
Need to get my system fully running so I can test stuff. Coreboot will take a LOT of work - I basically have to do all the compiling and bug tracing work myself (and I'm not a programmer!). BIOS hacking - none of the editors will open the BIN file correctly - so the only way to change stuff is hex editing, and I just don't have the sanity for that!
Well I just flashed the bios via flashrom, it verified as good. I hope it isn't lying to me.
.. and ?!?!!? Did you reboot?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Veeb0rg