Quote Originally Posted by gongo View Post
finally finished cutting out the end of the pcie 8x connector on the riser card.
here's a pic of my build so far:
the fan on the left is very quiet and low power, but something to keep the air moving so the gf8600gt doesn't cook the mobo.
hdd on the right is a 320gb 2.5" wd.
i might add some front usb ports though it'll require taking a dremel to the faceplate... i have a cheapo usb sound card and my wireless keyboard/mouse that will be taking the two ports in the back.
i won't be adding an optical drive since i have a usb cdrw and i mainly only use cds for os loads anyway.
i'm waiting on a copy of w2k3ent through msnaa though i may load wxp in the mean time.
orbitmicro.com carries all sorts of riser cards. Even an 8x to 16x riser card.

With your pic, you can see that my board is missing the 2nd PCI-X slot.