Building a Sossaman rig?

[profsegp]

Thanks for the response! I thought I can use these CPUs in some laptops or micro ATX boards such as P096C from Dell Studio Hybrid 140G. Well, I was too excited! lol I will go with a dell T7400 with 2 L5420. That's the cheapest system you can get.

[D_A]

Yep, definitely the cheapest system you can get
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=dell+t7400

You sure you're not trolling?

[profsegp]

hehe... I'm trying to get a system that works good with Google SketchUp, Photoshop, Premiere, etc. I got a dell T7400 barebone for $150 on a offer I did on ebay. All I have to buy now is two L5420s, a Tesla C870 and 8Gb of FB RAM, and of course a Momentus XT. This system should be perfect for what I'm doing.

[D_A]

Well if you can get a pair of L5420s and the other required toys for less than the national debt that would be a pretty sweet rig.

Since I don't know you I should confirm that you know the Tesla card doesn't connect to a display and doesn't have any external connectors. It's a pure compute engine built on GPU tech not a graphics card. I mention that as you didn't list a graphics card in your line up.

[profsegp]

well, haha... I know about the video output. For the monitor I'm using a low end quadro fx 1700 or 3500 (really cheap on ebay). I never owned a tesla card before, but I looked up at some videos online; I think it is much better then a geforce or even a quadro. I found one on ebay for $65.

[D_A]

From this nVidia document: http://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/43395/...99-001_v04.pdf

My monitors are old fashioned and require a connector of some kind.

[fr3@k]

Hej guys, a few days ago i ordered a Tyan Transport GX18 B5365GR18S2 1U Server Barebone from Ebay to do some ESXi fun with it,
has anyone tried to use DDR2-533 ECC Reg RAM on those Sossaman Board?
I`ve laying around 8 of those rams from my HP Server where i did an memory upgrade.

Greetings form austria^^

[tiro_uspsss]

Hej guys, a few days ago i ordered a Tyan Transport GX18 B5365GR18S2 1U Server Barebone from Ebay to do some ESXi fun with it,
has anyone tried to use DDR2-533 ECC Reg RAM on those Sossaman Board?
I`ve laying around 8 of those rams from my HP Server where i did an memory upgrade.

Greetings form austria^^

just give it a try! it won't kill it!

[fr3@k]

Yeah i will give it a try, but the barebone hasn`t arrived yet.

[Movieman]

Yeah i will give it a try, but the barebone hasn`t arrived yet.

I tried with the 533's and had no luck but Sparky said he got 533's to work..
For me the one I never had any issues with was the Kingston DDR2-400 ECC REG..

[fr3@k]

Ok i hope my 533`s will work, if not i `ll have to buy 400`s.
Another question about ESX 3.5 will it be possible to use the full 16GB of ram, because the sammys don`t support 64Bit, does ESX 3.5 have something like PAE?

[Movieman]

Ok i hope my 533`s will work, if not i `ll have to buy 400`s.
Another question about ESX 3.5 will it be possible to use the full 16GB of ram, because the sammys don`t support 64Bit, does ESX 3.5 have something like PAE?

This is where you have to talk to Gongo as he is the only one I know who ran 16 gig on the Intel board..
I think he was using Linux but don't quote me..

[D_A]

Ok i hope my 533`s will work, if not i `ll have to buy 400`s.
Another question about ESX 3.5 will it be possible to use the full 16GB of ram, because the sammys don`t support 64Bit, does ESX 3.5 have something like PAE?

ESX itself should have no trouble dealing with all 16GB, it's listed capacity is 256GB for both 32 and 64bit versions, but any guest OSs will still require PAE to access more than 4GB. Some newer 32bit Windows versions don't have PAE (eg Vista and 7) as the drivers were incompatible. MS just pushes the 64bit versions these days and includes 32bit versions of some applications like Internet Exploder. Unfortunately I don't think you can run a 64bit guest in a 32bit host architecture.
More information here: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx...config_max.pdf (pdf download)

[fr3@k]

Ah ok that sounds good that the esx recognizes the full 16GB, the System is only for testing purpose so max. 4GB for one Windows VM is more then enough =)

[karbonkid]

Hej guys, a few days ago i ordered a Tyan Transport GX18 B5365GR18S2 1U Server Barebone from Ebay

I did the same thing. Advert implied I was gitting this, but I ended up with this.

Oh well, can't complain - still got more than my money's worth!

[Movieman]

I did the same thing. Advert implied I was gitting this, but I ended up with this.

Oh well, can't complain - still got more than my money's worth!

Not bad, a single merom will run a 64 bit OS where the sossamans won't..

[Sparky]

My experience with the Sossaman is any DDR2-400 ECC REG I put in them worked perfectly (I had a few different brands from Micron to Hynix and all worked fine). The one lone set of 533 I had worked also (at 400 speeds) but I can't recall what brand they were.

[fr3@k]

Ok sounds good, i hope my HP Ram works and i get the dual sossaman barebone not the other one.

[fr3@k]

Today i got post from the austrian customs... i have to make a value declaration

[Origin_Unknown]

I should turn mine on again at some point :<

[NKrader]

I should turn mine on again at some point :<

+1+1

[Petra]

Not sure if anyone cares, but some guy seems to be offloading 150 SL8WT's on eBay for $1/CPU: http://www.ebay.com/itm/150x-Intel-X...#ht_1947wt_785

[Movieman]

Not sure if anyone cares, but some guy seems to be offloading 150 SL8WT's on eBay for $1/CPU: http://www.ebay.com/itm/150x-Intel-X...#ht_1947wt_785

There is a part of me thats tempted but I'm going to pass.. I have 3 boards and a 1/2 dozen or more chips here now..BUT if you ever see any 2167's or 2300's give me a yell..
Yea, I still have that one 2167 sammy, it needs a twin..

[Origin_Unknown]

Not sure if anyone cares, but some guy seems to be offloading 150 SL8WT's on eBay for $1/CPU: http://www.ebay.com/itm/150x-Intel-X...#ht_1947wt_785

interesting !

I do however have 6 without a home atm

[Sparky]

Too bad the boards aren't still 10 bucks or I'd buy a few of those just for the heck of it Even though I have one just sitting here right now until I decide exactly what I want to do with it and where to put it.