Building a Sossaman rig?

Oh yeah! :wiggle: Uh huh! :scope: Oh yeah! :eleph: Uh huh! :hump:

http://www.bitbenderforums.com/~dark...Sausageman.jpg

That NB sink is different than the ones on both sammys I had. Interesting.

BTW, if you want the pinout for the front panel LEDs (power, HD, and both NICs) I have that.

D_A: :woot:

Thanks Sparky, I got the manual for the board a while back. Definitely worth the download! :) For now it's just going to live in that box until I can get a real case for it and possibly turn it into my daily drive.

The only downside to using it as a daily PC is no sound. you just have the really long white slot and then the PCIe slot. Put a real vid card in the PCIe slot and... still no sound :shrug: USB headphones I guess would work, but meh I like speakers.

According to the manual that long white slot can take regular PCI cards just fine. I have a couple of old PCI Sound cards kicking around so it shouldn't be a bother.

Oh rly? Well sweet then. Stick a SB Audigy 2 ZS in there or something like that and you'd have a pretty darn nice rig :up:

I may have to do that to my current sossaman, for a spare game rig. OCCASIONALLY USED! I would still guarantee 99.9% crunching time during its life :rofl:

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Originally Posted by Sparky

Oh rly? Well sweet then. Stick a SB Audigy 2 ZS in there or something like that and you'd have a pretty darn nice rig :up:

I may have to do that to my current sossaman, for a spare game rig. OCCASIONALLY USED! I would still guarantee 99.9% crunching time during its life :rofl:

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That's a PCI-X slot and is backward compatible with a PCI slot..
What it was is a slot prior to PCI-E for the "big guys" that needed 266MB/s speeds from the PCI slots..Raid cards,etc..
I have a cheapo Promise IDE controller card in one that has a couple old 120 gig IDE drives attached.

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Originally Posted by D_A

Thanks Sparky, I got the manual for the board a while back. Definitely worth the download! :) For now it's just going to live in that box until I can get a real case for it and possibly turn it into my daily drive.

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Where did you get the manual? Or could you send it to me?
Many thanks in advance.

I got it from the Intel site (this is for the Intel board specifically of course).
Here's a zip archive of the relevant docs for the board.

There might well be others, but that's what I've got so far.

I think I have part of those. Many thanks.

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Originally Posted by Jaco

I got a pair of 2.0Ghz cpu's. Also heatsinks & backplate.
Motherboard is not working anymore. It gives a nice light show but no post :(

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YGPM

Anyone got a working board with mems? PM me :) If i can get enough parts would build another for my parents...

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Originally Posted by gongo

It's a heatsink from a Sun UltraSPARC II 336MHz.
You're kinda stuck with it because I used a whee bit too much AS epoxy... ;)

Re: the PCI-X slot - I couldn't manage to get my SoundBlaster Live 24-bit PCI SB410 (CA106) to produce any sound under Linux, just static, but it's not a great card and Linux support isn't the best for Creative cards either. :shrug:

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This is what i use to get sound on my Sossaman. :rofl:

http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-3D-Audio-Sou...item3cac1d45ba

Usb hub too: http://cgi.ebay.com/New-4-Port-USB-1...item5d28328416

I'm hoping a X-Fi XM will work under W7 in that PCI-X.. I'm really hoping to make sossy my daily driver

I might have a new sammy-kind build for a little bit richer people or that are more ready to spend more money.

Amd opteron 8core 2.0ghx cpu 300$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and
Dual g34 motherboard for 470$

Add to this some 2x2gb server memory kit (around 130$)

and a gpu of your choice and you have a serious cruncher for around 1500$ and that dosent eat alot of juice. I am really thinking about getting that and use it as my main rig(i dont play a lot and i can do my homework while crunching) and get a benchmarking rig for overclocking fun and sell everyother piece i have left.

no, its mostly because for me, this a very nice cruncher rig for not alot of money ( well to me). Its the kind of build that could the new sammy rig in the next 2-4years. Thats what i meant by my post.

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Originally Posted by snoro

no, its mostly because for me, this a very nice cruncher rig for not alot of money ( well to me). Its the kind of build that could the new sammy rig in the next 2-4years. Thats what i meant by my post.

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True, given that when Sammy was new, the boards alone were $400. Not to mention whatever the CPUs used to run.

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Originally Posted by gongo

I think you posted this in the wrong thread.
This is about old tech that is cheap, not about brand new tech that is expensive.... unless of course "released last week" and "over $1000" fit your definitions of "old" and "cheap", respectively.

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thank you i was begining to feel super poor.. :shrug:

well my judgement was mostly from the fact that if amd keep the g34 as long as they kept am2 and socket f, for me it was some very nice value for the cost of a decent completly new gaming rig. But as i said in my op, its not a cheap rig.Definitly not.

hey i am not made of money, i am just a student, but i dont have alot of stuff to pay so i have that kind of money to spend on a nice main do everything rig. Also for everyone using their sammy as daily rig. You use which os and do this os that you use limits you on the software you can use ?

speaking of the SI3124 on the mobo - I wonder if it can take a SATA port multiplier.. according to SI website SI3124 is compat.. but u never know :rolleyes:

Did I hear someone mention building a dual G34 system?:sofa:
Case..check
PSU: check
Memory:check
drives:check
cpus:check
motherboard and heatsinks..April 25..check..:wasntme:

well, yeah i might not have enough funding for 2 12 core cpu but those 8 core 2.0ghz opteron are not that much costly(to me).

Question. Which form factor does the SE7520BB2 use, and what are the dimensions? There's nothing online :/

it is E-ATX