Building a Sossaman rig?

[Movieman]

The problem here is finding a buyer. Posting it around the country is out of the question, as it weighs in at about 40 KGs with the second 800w redundant hot-swappable PSU and it's huge (6.94 x 19 x 26.5 in [17.6 x 48.3 x 67.3 cm]). I think it might come fairly close to a Sossaman considering it has four HT-enabled 2.8 GHz processors

Yea, but unless your elec is free it is a pig..maybe 700-800W at load and a sammy is 90W max at 100% load and also the heat factor..Sammys are 35w cpu's, 34C at max load.. Hell, if they ran any cooler you could use them for Air conditioning!

[[XC] Oj101]

I don't think it'll be that high on here, probably 400 to 500 watts tops. The CPUs are about 90w each, so that's 360w from them alone. Other than that, there are four 15,000 RPM 36.2 GB SCSI hard drives, 6 GB RAM and nine 120mm 7,500 RPM fans. Video is onboard, sound isn't an option at all, LAN is both onboard and another two ports via a PCI-X card. These things are built to run full load 24/7/365, I don't think they'd give "only" 800w PSUs if they required 700w

As for electricity, I don't pay a cent

But back to the OS issue, HP says these support up to 32 GB RAM with a 32-bit OS?

[tiro_uspsss]

I don't think it'll be that high on here, probably 400 to 500 watts tops. The CPUs are about 90w each, so that's 360w from them alone. Other than that, there are four 15,000 RPM 36.2 GB SCSI hard drives, 6 GB RAM and nine 120mm 7,500 RPM fans. Video is onboard, sound isn't an option at all, LAN is both onboard and another two ports via a PCI-X card. These things are built to run full load 24/7/365, I don't think they'd give "only" 800w PSUs if they required 700w

As for electricity, I don't pay a cent

But back to the OS issue, HP says these support up to 32 GB RAM with a 32-bit OS?

yeah a 32-bit OS with PAE, which is the three I mentioned before.
Since desktop OS is a no-go, I'd go with server 08 - server 03 is too old imo

[Sparky]

And just to clarify one thing - you can run server 2008 on Sammy, but not server 2008 R2 - R2 is 64 bit only.

[Origin_Unknown]

I could probably do with getting rid of mine

[tiro_uspsss]

I could probably do with getting rid of mine

but why?

[tiro_uspsss]

anyone in oz have any of those supermicro s771 backplates spare? I need 2 pronto! D_A? Emu?

[D_A]

I'd help if I could but I don't have any SM hardware at all. My Sammys are Intel through and through.

[Origin_Unknown]

but why?

I dont use it and money is tight atm

[tiro_uspsss]

I'd help if I could but I don't have any SM hardware at all. My Sammys are Intel through and through.

the backplates are made by SM.. not sure if you use/used them..

[D_A]

Ygpm.

[emuexport]

sorry tiro Dont have any spare backplates. All in use, sorry mate.

[[Ion]]

Dave, I'd take one of those Sossaman setups if you're still looking for takers. I can provide it with an environment for 24/7 WCG crunching

[Sparky]

Surely it can't be too hard to make some backplates out of sheet metal and some nuts/bolts/etc or heck if the board is in an actual case just drill holes in the motherboard tray in the right spots and install some standoffs there.

[Bail_w]

4 x 1 GB PC2-3200R (with heatspreader) for 17 dollars shipped via USPS First Class con USA. Pm me interested.

http://imgur.com/3SVP9

[NKrader]

jesus this thread reminds me... i need to pull mine out of the drawer..

Surely it can't be too hard to make some backplates out of sheet metal and some nuts/bolts/etc or heck if the board is in an actual case just drill holes in the motherboard tray in the right spots and install some standoffs there.

and as for the backplate?>? am i missing somthing?
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...ducts_id=21884

whats wrong? bet if you called and asked they could work cheaper shipping to stick that in an envelope.

[Sparky]

For a while they weren't available, but I see they are again.

[Movieman]

Finding the HS is still the issue..Now Tiro from AU did a setup that looked good a long time ago..Someone needs to did that out again..

[Sparky]

I'm pretty sure it wouldn't take too much to mod other sinks to fit. I'd experiment if I needed to, but I already have some proper sinks so I'm not going to spend the money to tinker around right now.

[AXm77]

Will that work?

CM Hyper 101 on s771:



CM TX3 on s771:

[tiro_uspsss]

[QUOTE=AXm77;5142741]Will that work?

CM Hyper 101 on s771:



that is.... perfect!

edit: any details pics of mounting system?

[AXm77]

That is only other picture of it I have.
Mounting is quite simple.
Two plates on sides.

I think, I still have it. Will check later.

[tiro_uspsss]

its amazing what a BIOS update can do!
previously (I have the tyan mobo) on BIOS v1.00, the mobo would not post with a v.card in its PCIEx8 slot (I had modded it - cut the slot end out). Nor would it post with any more than 6 sticks of ram / 3GB total. I then flashed to BIOS v1.01; I now have a AMD HD5450 (passive) + 8x1GB running all nicely - sossaman is now my HTPC! I've thrown in a tv tuner, X-Fi soundcard, SSD (no HDDs) & the 3 case fans are running @ 5V, so it is very quiet!

[fr3@k]

Can someone from the USA help me?
I found thos 19" Systems on Ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=180925368413
But the seller only wants to ship to USA only, or i have to arrange pickup an shipping.

Maybe someone would help me?

[Sparky]

Where do you live? I would think shipping something like that overseas would be really expensive.