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General Liquid/Water Cooling Discussion For discussion about Full Cooling System kits, or general cooling topics. Keep specific cooling items like pumps, radiators, etc... in their specific forums. |
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Well its time my old tired 800 MHz shit server be retired and a new one in place! I have some parts and am buying others and yes, it will be liquid cooled
![]() Motherboard: Tyan Thunder K7 Memory: 4x 256 MB for a total 1 GB (DDR 200) CPUs: Don't have em yet. I'm cheap so I can't afford Athlon MPs and will just mod some XPs. Power: I'll find something... Storage: Probably a 40 gig for the OS drive and a 74 gig SCSI for the apps / database, files, etc... Cooling: I have a pretty big heater core and plan to make a northbridge block and custom air ducts. pHaestus says he has some stuff for me so we'll see Case: I might reuse my SuperMicro tower (case my current old ass server is in) or use the spare Lian Li I have here. I'll try to get some pics up as soon as I can. And don't worry, this isn't another of my long term projects ![]()
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RAM arrived today
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Well I got the case all apart and think I might put the first heater core in front. I may use a second one if it makes a difference in CPU temps.
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Hey ben a few questions to ponder for ya
1) What are you serving? For my music/movies/files fileserver I go with cheapo big capacity ide drives and I always have. When I hear one start to get noisy or when they get full then I just take the oldest and smallest one out and upgrade with the biggest one in my price point. Basically I feed my file server box $100 a year, which worked out to 60gb many years ago and is close to 500gb now. Also I'd wonder if the 74gb scsi is actually all that much faster than a new gen drive... 2) Is 4x256mb memory good with dual cpus on that board? It's been so long since I messed with Athlon XPs I honestly don't recall whether there'd be a big benefit to going to 2gb ram instead? 3) I think I have some junk er I mean quality vintage watercooling for you to finish it off with...
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![]() 2) It should be all the ram I need. My last server only had 256 MB and the one before that had 512 MB. Also keep in mind back when this board was made, 512 MB was considered a lot of ram ![]() 3) Yep, I need em quick. Hope I get some work done this weekend.
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Aim Me Your Address So I Can Finish Packing This Box Up Imo
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Well the last piece besides the cooling got here today: The motherboard.
Look at the size of that bastard! ![]() Good thing I decided to change cases. Lets just hope these XP chips work. If not I have a duron here to start off with. One thing I found funny was this board has the 24 pin power AND the 8 pin CPU connector ![]()
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If your server isn't mission critical you'd be ok with a cheapo 400w. Fortunately the 350-500w PSU market is pretty saturated so you could get a decent PSU for only a few more $ over a super cheapo.
I nearly bought a dual PIII server board from a used computer store a few weeks back, it was $15. But I just couldn't justify it, the server was only going to be a file server, and possibly a mythTV backend. I still haven't built my file server yet, I want to have a really low power server. Was thinking about using a recently rolled down Asus A8N SLI-Prem board with 3200+ processor. Not going to wc until I've done so on my P4 poop. Last edited by derelict; 05-19-2008 at 07:48 AM. |
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oh dang I just noticed the 64bit PCI slots, you gonna be running any hw raid?
I was going to go with the A8N SLI-Prem board since it has 2 sata controllers for a total of 8 sata HDs. Its not truly a hw raid but if its only going to be a file server it doesn't matter to me anyway... I just need a couple identical HDs or I guess I could go VLM since it'll be linux anyway. If only I had money to actually do the projects I want to.... >_> |
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This is the card I had in mind: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816104007 But for a while I'll just be using PATA disks. The good news is I got the blocks from pH and I think I've found a nice cheap PSU in the OverClockers Classifieds forum.
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I sold something today and have a bit of money to spare. I might just go with a single dual core CPU and cheap mobo but I'll still water cool it. Guess I'll see how these parts work and then I'll decide.
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What OS are you going to use? I will be going with Linux (ubuntu) once I have another HD to move my files onto - my current HDs are NTFS...
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sure you didnt typo on that raid 0? for a fileserver?
might as well do a 4 x 500gb raid 10 setup for 1 usable terrabyte |
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Nah, I'm just doing RAID0. I have some removable drives to backup to. I picked up two cheap 250 GB drives I'll use for a while till I get more money. Also I changed a lot of the hardware. updates soon
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to keep your mojo flowing.... would love to see one of these up and running again....
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I remember when I wanted that board....that board....that board.....~~~@~@~@
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The sad thing is that $90 will buy you a motherboard that will hold a $90 CPU outperforms that K7 mobo by a lot. Computers is a bad field for those who succumb to nostalgia (unfortunately for me).
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Well I made a server outside of this log while I was selling off my K7 parts... Got back about what I paid I think
![]() New server specs: X3210 Quad Xeon, 2 GB RAM, 2x 250GB SATA in RAID 0 (thread & pics to come) But last night I was on ebay and won something for $50... ![]() This board takes a NORMAL PSU and all I need is a case, drives, PSU and better cooling and I'm good to go! K7 live on!!
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So with some simple pin mods my wimpy 2200s are now awesome 2600s!!
![]() ![]() ![]() Not bad for air cooling, eh? Water soon to come... ![]() And if anyone was wondering, here is the mod I did and the wire I used: ![]() ![]() More to come...
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