Building a Sossaman rig?

[Sparky]

When you turn it on how long are you waiting for it to boot? I noticed that it takes several seconds for them to actually fully go through the POST process and kick on the monitor. A lot longer than your typical desktop PC.

[phriot]

Does anyone know if this will work with the Intel board? I sent an email to the distributor(manufacturer?) letting them know which mb I had and bringing up the fact that there are different hs's for other sossaman boards and all I got in response was "Thank you for interested in our product, the I31G heatsink is exactly designed for Intel Xeon Sossaman solution." and a price quote, so I'm not sure they actually understood my question. I didn't buy the Intel hs's when I first posted, figuring that I'd have some time and am now looking for alternatives.

Thanks!

[Movieman]

Does anyone know if this will work with the Intel board? I sent an email to the distributor(manufacturer?) letting them know which mb I had and bringing up the fact that there are different hs's for other sossaman boards and all I got in response was "Thank you for interested in our product, the I31G heatsink is exactly designed for Intel Xeon Sossaman solution." and a price quote, so I'm not sure they actually understood my question. I didn't buy the Intel hs's when I first posted, figuring that I'd have some time and am now looking for alternatives.

Thanks!

No, those shown fit the SM and Tyan boards as they used a different mount pattern( tiny)
The ones you want are the ones with the same mount pattern as the socket 771's use BUT because the sossaman chips are liddless( no IHS) the proper HS have a step on the bottom

[phriot]

Thanks for the response. I'll keep looking! I'm not so far in the hole on this project yet that I'm bothered, but I definitely want to make sure I can get this part before I buy anything else. (Currently have motherboard, processors, and just ordered the Lian Li backplate.)

[Movieman]

Thanks for the response. I'll keep looking! I'm not so far in the hole on this project yet that I'm bothered, but I definitely want to make sure I can get this part before I buy anything else. (Currently have motherboard, processors, and just ordered the Lian Li backplate.)

Yea, the ABBSHEATSINKS are essentially gone I think.
I bought all I could find and they are gone except for 2 that are promised to a guy.
Write Intel tech support.
I did that when I first started doing Sammys and couldn't find the sinks.
Be nice and polite and maybe they will send you two like they did for me..
No charge and I did offer to pay.

[Aynjell]

When you turn it on how long are you waiting for it to boot? I noticed that it takes several seconds for them to actually fully go through the POST process and kick on the monitor. A lot longer than your typical desktop PC.

Thank you for the response. I was waiting the appropriate time. I resolved the issue, however and am working on my second sossaman build.

here's the sitch:

Basically, for whatever reason, the only heatsinks that work with the intel boards I have are the abbheatsinks. However, the board didn't come with a back plate, just some weird bracket thing. I'm bolting through using nuts above and screwing in from the bottom.

The problem I think was either too much pressure or not seating it correctly and the heat warning was tripping every boot.

SO, I resolve this by going to autozone and buying some uncut gasket material that was the EXACT thickness of the die maybe minus a nm or too, it was really close... but basically I super blue a small shim onto the heatsink that goes around the die, and this stabilizes the heatsink quite a bit better. so far I'm 2/2 on installing these with no issues! Doing two more and I'll take pictures and will be posting them in my rack thread, but I'll link them here too.

[Movieman]

Thank you for the response. I was waiting the appropriate time. I resolved the issue, however and am working on my second sossaman build.

here's the sitch:

Basically, for whatever reason, the only heatsinks that work with the intel boards I have are the abbheatsinks. However, the board didn't come with a back plate, just some weird bracket thing. I'm bolting through using nuts above and screwing in from the bottom.

The problem I think was either too much pressure or not seating it correctly and the heat warning was tripping every boot.

SO, I resolve this by going to autozone and buying some uncut gasket material that was the EXACT thickness of the die maybe minus a nm or too, it was really close... but basically I super blue a small shim onto the heatsink that goes around the die, and this stabilizes the heatsink quite a bit better. so far I'm 2/2 on installing these with no issues! Doing two more and I'll take pictures and will be posting them in my rack thread, but I'll link them here too.

The boards don't come with backplates
Go to Performance PC's in FLA and buy this for $2.95 and shipping:
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...ducts_id=21884

[tiro_uspsss]

Thank you for the response. I was waiting the appropriate time. I resolved the issue, however and am working on my second sossaman build.

here's the sitch:

Basically, for whatever reason, the only heatsinks that work with the intel boards I have are the abbheatsinks. However, the board didn't come with a back plate, just some weird bracket thing. I'm bolting through using nuts above and screwing in from the bottom.

The problem I think was either too much pressure or not seating it correctly and the heat warning was tripping every boot.

SO, I resolve this by going to autozone and buying some uncut gasket material that was the EXACT thickness of the die maybe minus a nm or too, it was really close... but basically I super blue a small shim onto the heatsink that goes around the die, and this stabilizes the heatsink quite a bit better. so far I'm 2/2 on installing these with no issues! Doing two more and I'll take pictures and will be posting them in my rack thread, but I'll link them here too.

you are super gluing stuff to sammy cpus?!?
pics please!

[Aynjell]

you are super gluing stuff to sammy cpus?!?
pics please!

On the underside of the heatsink, it's alluminum so it doesn't really matter.

Also it comes with a wierd clip thing, this seems to do an adequite job of holding onto the heatsink. I can't complain, it's working.

[D_A]

There's a link to the back plate in this thread somewhere. Made by Lian Li from memory. Cost about $2.50 a pop I think.

[tiro_uspsss]

the Dynatron I65G heatsinks came in today from USA, for my Tyan mobo:





the fan above is a 120mm, the one to the right is 80mm - as a size reference





waiting on RAM & CPUs to come in.. then I can power it up!

[Jaco]

Nice , now you already have PCI slots

[tiro_uspsss]

Nice , now you already have PCI slots

shoooosh!

[Origin_Unknown]

Nice , now you already have PCI slots

shoooosh!

it took me till just now to get what you mean with that jaco

[phriot]

Yea, the ABBSHEATSINKS are essentially gone I think.
I bought all I could find and they are gone except for 2 that are promised to a guy.
Write Intel tech support.
I did that when I first started doing Sammys and couldn't find the sinks.
Be nice and polite and maybe they will send you two like they did for me..
No charge and I did offer to pay.

I tried this and did get a response, but only to let me know that they weren't the sales department. The tech support representative did give me a list of resellers to try. Those that did appear to have the part in stock, however, haven't responded to my price requests, so who knows.. I'll update the thread if I ever hear back from anyone and in the meantime I'll keep hoping for luck on ebay, unless someone has an alternative? (I don't have access to a machine shop.)

[phriot]

So I took a shot on Craigslist for the ABBHEATSINKS... Just came back from picking up two of them, along with two NIB 1.66ghz processors, all for free. Guy wouldn't even take lunch or coffee in return.

[Origin_Unknown]

nice - good find!

[Bail_w]

Awesome, people still wants to build sammy rigs.

[tiro_uspsss]

Awesome, people still wants to build sammy rigs.

heck yeah!
now if those stupid CPUs would hurry up & arrive, I could post another sammy build!

[tiro_uspsss]

:

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

mobos are $40 again
they used to be $10

[NKrader]

:

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

mobos are $40 again
they used to be $10

yikes.. and here i was thinking about buying another spare for breakdowns.. after i already had one board die..

[Movieman]

yikes.. and here i was thinking about buying another spare for breakdowns.. after i already had one board die..

I have 3 left from my last buy on them..

[Origin_Unknown]

I have 3 left from my last buy on them..

i happen to have 4 chips here .... must .... resist

[tiro_uspsss]

yikes.. and here i was thinking about buying another spare for breakdowns.. after i already had one board die..

how'd you get an intel mobo to die?!

[Sparky]

intel boards aren't bulletproof. I've run into a few at work that were dead for one reason or another. One model I came across was known to commit BIOS suicide.