How to: Arima AMD Opteron Quad Core Socket F 3000 series

[shoota]

lulz, hindsight is 20/20 after all.. i still think you should check your boards first before spending more money

[Jacka]

I think I have everything I need now except USB drives now, but I have some spare HDDs that I can test with.

EDIT: If it does turn out to be kaput (which it won't!), I got all of this stuff for such low prices that I could probably make back the money from reselling.

[shoota]

what do you need usb drives for? does it boot from usb?

[Jacka]

I assumed so.

I was going to use them to avoid having to power hard disks.

[shoota]

I was under the impression it didn't boot from usb..

[Duh]

I'll give you both of these if you can organise the assassinating the person that set this control theory coursework.

thats an engineering subject... and now I recall you are an eng student , IIRC

[Jacka]

I was under the impression it didn't boot from usb..

Hard drives it is then!

thats an engineering subject... and now I recall you are an eng student , IIRC

http://www.reading.ac.uk/sse/ug/cour...bernetics.aspx

EDIT: Third year now

[Duh]

well done Jacka ( Uni)

having flash drives would kick arse .. what a pity

the lowest we ve seen was 450W with HE chips?

[shoota]

Hard drives it is then!

If no one chimes in with a definite answer i'll try it on my board tonight.

http://www.reading.ac.uk/sse/ug/cour...bernetics.aspx

EDIT: Third year now

I'm in Computer Engineering right now, but biomedical eng sounds awesome too! my mom suggested that field a little while back. sounds hard tho

[shoota]

well done Jacka ( Uni)

having flash drives would kick arse .. what a pity

the lowest we ve seen was 450W with HE chips?

no no. mine's @ ~318w

[karbonkid]

I'm in Computer Engineering right now, but biomedical eng sounds awesome too! my mom suggested that field a little while back. sounds hard tho

Hindsight is 20/20, right? Graduated in architecture but construction industry is in the sewers atm, so jobless and not really that fascinated by architecture.. was just thinking about biomedical eng. today...

[eni]

My ATI Rage XL 8mb is working like a charm..

shoota is that card the same as this?

[shoota]

That looks about right. The only difference is that mine is made diablotek.

[Jacka]

Any news on the BIOSes?

[Jacka]

Finally managed to scavenge enough offcuts to be able to cut my brackets. ^_^

Should have them done some time this week.

[Jacka]

Sorry for the terrible pictures. My camera batteries are about 5 years old, and don't hold charge well at all, so I had to use my phone.

[karbonkid]

Very very nice Jacka

[Duh]

Very very nice Jacka

+1k .. awesome !

[Jacka]

Screw going up next to the expansion slots was interfering with the VGA connector on the other Rage XL, so I just filed down the plastic until I reached the pins, covered them with some electrical tape, and unfortunately the screw is still in the way. I can fit it in with a slight bend in the screw, but I think I'll file down the screw a little when I get some spare time.

[Origin_Unknown]

woah- thats amazing Jacka

[D_A]

Nice work!

[shoota]

nice work jack! you win the XS award for most elaborate tx3 mounting
I can't wait for you to get those bad boys up and running

[Duh]

nice work jack! you win the XS award for most elaborate tx3 mounting
I can't wait for you to get those bad boys up and running

well said shoota. I would sh my pants off If I was of another team and knew I have to fight against such

[retro77]

Screw going up next to the expansion slots was interfering with the VGA connector on the other Rage XL, so I just filed down the plastic until I reached the pins, covered them with some electrical tape, and unfortunately the screw is still in the way. I can fit it in with a slight bend in the screw, but I think I'll file down the screw a little when I get some spare time.

Instead of filing down the screw, why don't you bring all of them up higher on the threads? It would would raise that top board up a bit but more air flow the better for that bottom one.

Also can you post where you got those all thread? I might copy your design a bit there.


edit: while you are going through all thris trouble, rig up a fan to blow air right on the chipset next to the video card. It gets scorching hot.

[Jacka]

I just bought some non-rechargeable batteries so I can take some pictures for you.

Transferring, editing and uploading them now, will edit this post when they're done.

EDIT: Here we go.

EDIT EDIT: Click for bigger.

Close ups of the mounting. You can see the 2 parts of the bracket don't line up properly. There's a 1.5mm rectangle spacer that fits fine, but the 1.0mm bracket part didn't fit perfectly (due to my stupidity), but I just filed the holes slightly and they fit like a glove now.





Chipset heat sinks with 50mm fan on. The fan is at the wrong orientation for the power to plug in neatly, but it's just screwed in with M4x20 so I can change that when I come to it.




PSU wired up and ready for connectors to be crimped and put into...

These!




VGA connector filed to wires

Screw filed as much as I can be bothered with doing at the moment

Filed card on top board to show where the screw is.

When put in the bottom board, you can see that it fits but has quite a noticable bend in the screw. I think I'll file the screw down further at the weekend.




Nice picture of the whole thing.