Building a Sossaman rig?

[NKrader]

Sossaman heatsinks, part no. ABBHEATSINK
Get 'em HERE
WARNING: absolutely HIDEOUS shipping outside the US.

any better place to get em yet? i dont like spending more on heatsinks than on cpus..

[tiro_uspsss]

any better place to get em yet? i dont like spending more on heatsinks than on cpus..

thats a wee bit hard considering the CPUs are ~$10!

I'm going back to sossaman too.. after much deliberation about what I need/want in a server.. I'm going to put a 8 port SATA PCIX card in the PCIX slot & a 16 port SATA/SAS HBA in the PCIEx8 slot.. that gives me a max of 30 SATA ports (without port multipliers attached to the onboard SI3124).

so the mobo, CPU & RAM is cheap enough & easy to get.. but where to get appropriate heatsinks?

[D_A]

any better place to get em yet? i dont like spending more on heatsinks than on cpus..

$13 a unit is pretty damn good, especially for something as specialised as this!

As far as I'm aware this is also the ONLY place you can get them.

[tiro_uspsss]

any of the supermicro mobo owners have any problems/quirks to report?

are u / can u use both PCIEx8 slots?

cheers

[95blackz26]

oh chap.
http://www.centrix-intl.com/details.asp?productid=4675

finally going to throw one of these rigs together so i had to do a little back searching for the mobo in this thread. this same place has them on ebay too for the same price shipped as they sell in the store.
Item number: 370474470286
http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Dual-Xeon-...item5641ffcb8e

[tiro_uspsss]

finally going to throw one of these rigs together so i had to do a little back searching for the mobo in this thread. this same place has them on ebay too for the same price shipped as they sell in the store.
Item number: 370474470286
http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Dual-Xeon-...item5641ffcb8e

thats the same place

[95blackz26]

thats the same place

i know that's why i said it was the same place. so whether it's the ebay storefront or there actual website storefront one could be bought.

[tiro_uspsss]

i know that's why i said it was the same place. so whether it's the ebay storefront or there actual website storefront one could be bought.

gotchya, mis-understood u, my bad

edit: for the love of pete, when are smilies gonna work again!

[s0lid]

edit: for the love of pete, when are smilies gonna work again!

Second, the sarcasm doesn't work w/o smilies :E

[tiro_uspsss]

any of the supermicro mobo owners have any problems/quirks to report?

are u / can u use both PCIEx8 slots?

cheers

bump for an answer

[NKrader]

almost two of a kind

[kjeldoran]

Looking good . I hope everything works out for you.

[NKrader]

Heres it is. got it all wired up and almost ready to crunch

almost done. waiting for matching harddrive and sata cables. and one more noctua.
THEN COMPLETE!!
then a little later. 2x micro wireless g adapters so i can stick this whole thing in a closet or somthing.

YAYYYYY!





on another note.

$13 a unit is pretty damn good, especially for something as specialised as this!

i spent 35$ on the whole second sammy 9$ more than those silly expensive heatsinks.

[hedge]

Looking good. Looks very clean. I think you should leave it right where it is. It goes well with the upholstery on your couch.

[D_A]

Heres it is. got it all wired up and almost ready to crunch

almost done. waiting for matching harddrive and sata cables. and one more noctua.
THEN COMPLETE!!
then a little later. 2x micro wireless g adapters so i can stick this whole thing in a closet or somthing.

YAYYYYY!





on another note.

i spent 35$ on the whole second sammy 9$ more than those silly expensive heatsinks.

Looks to me like you're using four of those "silly expensive" heatsinks.

[Origin_Unknown]

It' doesn't look like he's able to answer

[endlesszeal]

mmm this looks so interesting! a couple of questions though..

1) can windows 7 or any other 32bit OS see 4GB or more?
2) places to obtain the heatsinks or cheaply mod ones?

im mainly interestied cuz its so inexpensive for a whole setup and it draws so little power... ive been missing out!

[D_A]

Modding heatsinks is possible ... but kinda fiddly. I've posted a link to where they can be bought pretty cheaply considering they fit one and only one motherboard in this thread not long ago.
As for the memory, any server operating system SHOULD (and I've been assured here that Windows Server does) have the necessary extras to handle more RAM, though I don't think the desktop version will.

[NKrader]

Looks to me like you're using four of those "silly expensive" heatsinks.

It' doesn't look like he's able to answer

IM BACK SUCKAS!

took a small vacation

i spent 35$ on the second rig and a total of 15$ on the first 2 heatsinks

will get some more pics of the upgrades got 2 nano wireless adapters for em. now i can stuff em in my closet

[Sparky]

And to think I spent nearly $200 on my first sammy when I built it. Wow.

[Origin_Unknown]

i wish i could get a complete sammy rig for that much!!

[NKrader]

here it is. almost done. just need to buy 4x noctua 80mm fans & 2x Antec SpotCool but its runnin. 2 comps only 1 cable going to em, power. at full tilt pulls 208watts from the wall

YAY

[D_A]

Nicely done.

[Sparky]

Sounds about right. Mine pulled 212W on a 75% efficient PSU (Antec Smartpower 2.0)

[NKrader]

and its ready for me to add my 9800gtx+ when i get a new videocard as it has one 6pin and 200watts to spair
yayyyy