Building a Sossaman rig?

[s0lid]

After searching through some internet webshops and ebay i found kinda interesting deals on sossaman goods:

Mobo: $19 => 13Eur + shippings (serously wtf, new mobo with $19 buy now price)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=300255427540
CPUs: $16.93 => 11.90Eur/slice + shippings (wtf on this too )
https://shop.strato.de/epages/151648...ucts/40002-005
whole thing = $52.86 => 36.8Eur + shippings

Not bad price for High efficiency Quad core build, only mems, PSU and HDD needed

Still tho i have two Quad builds coming up already
Build#1: Dual Quad
2x Xeon 5310, Z7S WS, 4GB FB-BIMM, bla bla bla
Build#2: Dual Dualcore
2x Opteron 265, Iwill DK8S2, 2GB DDR1 ECC, bla bla bla

Yea 16th cores wouldn't be bad if i get those Sossaman stuffs with good price

[Martijn]

What does this rig draw at load? This might be a serious replacement for the P4 2.26 that I have for a server right now

EDIT: those shipping costs are insane

I want to have one

[s0lid]

What does this rig draw at load? This might be a serious replacement for the P4 2.26 that I have for a server right now

EDIT: those shipping costs are insane

I want to have one

2.0GHz Sossamans TDP is 32W :P
Which means the whole systems draw from mains under 130W, of course depending how many HDDs u have.

I checked new prices for mobos shipping costs to finland via USPS: Oringinaly $75 via DHL. $37 via USPS

[jcool]

Too bad man, the shipping kills it off at 53 USD + 25 more per item.
I would have liked to build a farm of maybe 5-10 of them... maybe someone in the US can help me out?

Edit: I'll call that store first thing tomorrow morning and see how many they got. Will let you guys know

[s0lid]

Too bad man, the shipping kills it off at 53 USD + 25 more per item.
I would have liked to build a farm of maybe 5-10 of them... maybe someone in the US can help me out?

Edit: I'll call that store first thing tomorrow morning and see how many they got. Will let you guys know

Ye thx
We need sumbody to send those board from US to Germany over to jcool using the cheapest shipping service, maybe 3-10 boards need to be shipped :P

Movieman, Cybi, somebody?

[s0lid]

After checking some sossaman datasheets and old threads i found these out

Id recommend the 266FSB mod for Xeon LV 1.667GHz.
10x266=2660Mhz
And 200FSB mod for Xeon LV 2.0GHz
12x200=2400Mhz

Because 266mod would take the 2.0s freq almoust 3.2GHz which is impossible for Yonah cpu. (fastest seen 2.950GHz)

[Jaco]

Count me in for a cheap board !

We could share shipping costs.

[jcool]

Yes, I was thinking about going the "Jaco route" anyways

Since German customs situation hasn't changed -.-

So if someone from the US is willing to buy them & ship them to Europe, I've decided to set up a rackmount server of these babies
But just let me call and ask that shop carrying the CPUs first, whether they have enough in stock. If they don't it's no use...

[s0lid]

Count me in for a cheap board !

We could share shipping costs.

No problem, we still need someone to ship all of those mobos to europe...

[Martijn]

I think I'll be taking one as well. It will mean I've got to sell some stuff or find a job. Last one's best I think

EDIT: I'm screwed, I ordered the CPU's

Where's Dr. Sig? I'm in for a session or two...

[s0lid]

I think I'll be taking one as well. It will mean I've got to sell some stuff or find a job. Last one's best I think

EDIT: I'm screwed, I ordered the CPU's

Where's Dr. Sig? I'm in for a session or two...

Where did u order the cpus and which ones :P?

[Martijn]

Where did u order the cpus and which ones :P?

The ones in your first post. €30 shipped for a pair


EDIT: does the motherboard also take non-ECC memory? I assume it does?

EDIT2: even if shipping these mobo's is too expensive, I can always re-sell these CPUs for a profit.

[s0lid]

The ones in your first post. €30 shipped for a pair


EDIT: does the motherboard also take non-ECC memory? I assume it does?

EDIT2: even if shipping these mobo's is too expensive, I can always re-sell these CPUs for a profit.

Nice hopefully they have plenty more of those cpus

I think it doesn't eat non-ecc memory :/

Yea that's always true, those are darn rare cpus so it's not hard to get rid of em

[Jaco]

I ordered a pair too only 30€
Before they're sold out...

[s0lid]

I ordered a pair too only 30€
Before they're sold out...

Well jcool is gonna ask tomorrow how many pieces they have em

[Martijn]

Even though the motherboard description says socket 478, they are 604 mounting right?

[Jaco]

Then we just need heatsinks and boards

Does this need special heatsinks ?

[64dragon]

heres a thread Dave started in the wamp section last month
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=198718

[Martijn]

So for the heatsinks, we could ask Dave to get a few and send them over at once

[Knight203]

Holy thats cheap...I'm going down into town next week and putting applications in for jobs, once I get a job I'm in for 5-6 of these

[64dragon]

i was looking into these rigs like 2 weeks ago, the boards have onboard gfx but i found this adapter if you wanted to use the pcie-x8 slot and run a low end x16 card. i only say low end cause i dont know if power to the card would be an issue, like if the board can supply enough to the card thru the adapter to run a good gfx card. i was thinkin of this cause you could use you could run it as a media box to watch movies and music off.

http://www.orbitmicro.com/global/bla...er-p-8226.html

[alucasa]

Then we just need heatsinks and boards

Does this need special heatsinks ?

If you are using a rackmount chassis which would lay horizontally, you could simply place a piece of metal with thermal adhesive paste on cpu die.

[Jaco]

If you are using a rackmount chassis which would lay horizontally, you could simply place a piece of metal with thermal paste on cpu die.

I think i'm going to use thermal adhesive and glue some cheap heatsinks to the chips.

[Martijn]

I think i'm going to use thermal adhesive and glue some cheap heatsinks to the chips.

That looks like a good solution to me as well, it's the cheapest way to go and some old P3 heatsinks would do the job just fine.

[Bail_w]

Can we have some one in europe to ship some CPUs to the USA for us then?

Edit: OOS, sh*t.