Building a Sossaman rig?

[my87csx481]

I loaded 32-bit 7 last night. In the process of updating now. Seems to be fine so far.

[Petra]

3 Electrical tape on the board behind the PCI-E X8 slot to protect the board
Hot exacto knife to cut out the backside of the PCI-E slot
Sparky is the king on that point..

I just used my Dremel and a small spherical engraving bit...

[Movieman]

anyone want a full sammy rig for 50$, i gotta pay dave back lol..

Now just to give everyone a chuckle I went to replace XP32 with win7-32 and it wouldn't load..
Couldn't figure out why until I realised that there is a CDR in that machine and I was asking it to read a DVDR...

[tiro_uspsss]

Now just to give everyone a chuckle I went to replace XP32 with win7-32 and it wouldn't load..
Couldn't figure out why until I realised that there is a CDR in that machine and I was asking it to read a DVDR...

...n00b!

[my87csx481]

I just used my Dremel and a small spherical engraving bit...

I was leaning towards doing it this way originally. (I'm a machinist so, it's in my nature to remove material with this similar method). I haven't performed the operation yet. I have to see what I have for bits. Definitely will practice on a dead board first.

Now just to give everyone a chuckle I went to replace XP32 with win7-32 and it wouldn't load..
Couldn't figure out why until I realised that there is a CDR in that machine and I was asking it to read a DVDR...

What???? Mister die hard XP is going to 7???? I don't know what to say. I think I'm disappointed. But seriously, I kinda' needed 32-bit XP to work. My OBD II scan tool is only flashable using XP 32 (last time I checked, a couple years ago). And, wouldn't XP be a better choice, in terms of it being less of a resource hog?

[my87csx481]

The operation was a "great success" (insert Borat voice between quotes)

I used a dremel with a combination of a very small flat endmill type cutter, and an even smaller sphere. Also used an xacto knife just to clean up the burs....and some canned air along the way to blow out the chips and dust.

Booted fine. Now to see what this beast can do to WCG GPU with a 7970. j/k. MAYBE as an experiment. I still need to segregate 20 or 30 work units to conduct some other tests. Never enough hours in the day.

Thanks all for the suggestions.

[Movieman]

The operation was a "great success" (insert Borat voice between quotes)

I used a dremel with a combination of a very small flat endmill type cutter, and an even smaller sphere. Also used an xacto knife just to clean up the burs....and some canned air along the way to blow out the chips and dust.

Booted fine. Now to see what this beast can do to WCG GPU with a 7970. j/k. MAYBE as an experiment. I still need to segregate 20 or 30 work units to conduct some other tests. Never enough hours in the day.

Thanks all for the suggestions.

I don't think Sammy can handle what a 7970 is capable of..Remember, just four cores to play with..Maybe a 7770 or whatever maxxes with 4 GPU WU..
Good luck!

[tiro_uspsss]

anyone running a single CPU instead of two?
if so, what's the power usage difference?

[Origin_Unknown]

anyone running a single CPU instead of two?
if so, what's the power usage difference?

I used to run mine with only one cpu so that i could use the mounting bracket on the rear of the case for mounting a fan when it was my nas

[Origin_Unknown]

before i stick mine on ebay, anyone want a sossaman setup?

board, 2x cpus, heatsinks, backplate, 2gb ram (ill chuck in 4 or 6(cant remember which) other sossaman cpus too)

would prefer this to goto someone in the uk


drop me a pm with an offer if anyones interested

[tiro_uspsss]

before i stick mine on ebay, anyone want a sossaman setup?

board, 2x cpus, heatsinks, backplate, 2gb ram (ill chuck in 4 or 6(cant remember which) other sossaman cpus too)

would prefer this to goto someone in the uk


drop me a pm with an offer if anyones interested

which mobo?

[Origin_Unknown]

Intel SE7520BB2

[NKrader]

I don't know why I want one of these again.. :-(

[Bail_w]

I don't know why I want one of these again.. :-(

Dave have some, sent him a PM.

[tiro_uspsss]

Has anyone installed Windows 8 on one of these beastly rigs?

[Sparky]

Has anyone installed Windows 8 on one of these beastly rigs?

Why even bother

[tiro_uspsss]

Why even bother

why not?
going by my (limited) experience, it is a slicker, quicker OS than W7 (my experience being Windows Server 2012 7 comparing WS12 to W7/WS08R2)

[Sparky]

Give it a shot I guess. I can't imagine there being much in the way of driver support... heck, will that craptastic ATI Rage even be able to display anything in Windows 8, it barely can do XP in a fuzzy sorta way

[Movieman]

Windows 8 has to be the biggest abortion of an OS since win ME..IMHO of course.
It may be good for phones and ipads,etc but for a laptop or PC no thanks.,.

[tiro_uspsss]

Windows 8 has to be the biggest abortion of an OS since win ME..IMHO of course.
It may be good for phones and ipads,etc but for a laptop or PC no thanks.,.

its not that bad! I thought that the opinion you held was for vista!
did you give it a try with one of those 3rd party start menu thingys?

Give it a shot I guess. I can't imagine there being much in the way of driver support... heck, will that craptastic ATI Rage even be able to display anything in Windows 8, it barely can do XP in a fuzzy sorta way

well with discrete GPU of course!
& if drivers worked for W7, don't see why they wouldn't for W8

[Movieman]

its not that bad! I thought that the opinion you held was for vista!
did you give it a try with one of those 3rd party start menu thingys?



well with discrete GPU of course!
& if drivers worked for W7, don't see why they wouldn't for W8

Vista sucked too!
seriously, only XP SP1 and after and win7 are what I'd call "good" OS's

[Sparky]

Never tried win7 on mine, it just chugs with my old copy of XP Pro It's the only computer I have still on XP.

My only real complaint about 8 is interface with that awful start screen. SUCKS for a standard computer. Yes, I've used it and tried it, even after getting somewhat used to it it still sucks 3rd party start menu options look good though, one I saw even makes it a hybrid setup of both tiles and classic start menu. Thought that was kind of nifty, but haven't had a machine to try it on.

[NKrader]

My only real complaint about 8 is interface with that awful start screen. SUCKS for a standard computer. Yes, I've used it and tried it, even after getting somewhat used to it it still sucks 3rd party start menu options look good though, one I saw even makes it a hybrid setup of both tiles and classic start menu. Thought that was kind of nifty, but haven't had a machine to try it on.

thats everyones problem, im not going to use a mobile os that microsoft is trying to shoehorn into real computer realm just to get them market share so that they can try to win the mobile os race..

make a real os, i dont need all that oem "bloatware"..

"but you can turn it off"
i dont want to, win7 works amazingly well and i install it and it is what it should be.. i shouldnt have to turn off a stupid menu that only makes sense if you have an htpc or a touch screen... those should be things that you add later if wanted.

[yojimbo197]

Vista sucked too!
seriously, only XP SP1 and after and win7 are what I'd call "good" OS's

Amen to Vista sucking. Just wasted 20 hours of crunching on my "new" workstation using Vista 32 bit. Almost all the WU had errors. So yeah, I said "what the f*** and installed Linux on it last night". Now its humming along. Maybe a little too well. I might have to change the thermal paste...

[Bail_w]

You can't turn off the Metro UI on windows 8