Tyan Tempest S5397... It was designed during the early Clovertown days and then recertified for the Harpertowns. Which is probably why.Originally Posted by skycrane
what burnt out on it? the board? or the ram?
wait a min, thats 8-8gb sticks of fbdimm.... holly crapman i hope you got a really great deal on that
have you re-re-read the manual? all the servers i have are very picky on connection all the power connectors to the board. you might have missed a small fdd somewhere that gives extra 5v to the ram.
The highest-end Clovertown at the time pulled 95W. I have a pair of 150W Harpertowns on it with another 200W of ram...
The first time it burned it, it was a mosfet on socket 0.
Second time it died it had something to do with the NB.
Third time it died, it had something to do with the memory controller...
Mobo every single time... And I'm sure nothing was overheating either.
Even with my ridiculous cooling setup, it only delayed those later two inevitable RMAs.
I've stopped putting the machine under 24/7 stress for about a year and a half now. I decided it wasn't worth it and moved all my low-memory computation work to my cheaper single-socket machines.
It's under a new mobo now - SuperMicro MBD-X7DWN+O. But its still gonna stay off most of the time. I only use it for things that will not run on my other machines - precisely anything that needs memory.
p.s. The rig has 16 x 4GB not 8 x 8GB. It had a very special purpose when I first built it a few years ago, but now it's just another one of my coding workstations...
EDIT:
I went through 3 PSUs before settling on one that I liked.
750W Silencer - No Post
1000W Corsair - Works, but +5Vsb rail wasn't strong enough.
1000W Enermax - Works, and is advertised for quad-SLI/quad-fire/quad-socket/32-DIMMs...
The 750W Silencer ended up going in my i7 920 rig. The 1000W Corsair became my open-air tester and will go in the rig you're sending me.
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