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What four grand buys you these days ...

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Everything has tested OK initially, but I'll be doing a 24-hour burn-in with MemTest86 to verify that all the RAM is good. So I'll be shooting for Saturday afternoon to do the OS install and start configuring PHP/MySQL to handle vBulletin.

... You all have no idea how hard it was for me to find two separate circuits in my place with wall outlets both within 6' of the power cords to run three 380W power supplies. :biggrin:
 
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Well the top pictures is a bunch of boxes.

2nd picture is the Tower

3rd picture is the tower, while nude

4th picture, is the tower again, from the back, with one of the power supplies pulled out.

5th picture is the flux capacitor............ok not really, that is the motherboard, processors in the nude tower.

The bottom picture is the tower from the front, with one of the hard drives laying in front of it. Basically showing the hot swappable bays.

And if you'll look to your left, you can see the grand canyon.

Actually I am lying, all these pictures show is one of the power supplies...........you should see the rest of it.
 
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BrutusMaximus said:
I am an AMD fan, but I still trust Intel's stability and durability a bit more.
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In ten years of building my own PCs, I've never, ever had an Intel CPU fail, nor have I ever even received an Intel CPU that was DOA. I've blown the capacitors on motherboards, but the processors have alway been fine. I can't say the same for AMD, or the other johnny-come-lately contender from eight years ago, Cyrix.

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice ...
 
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I had alot of problems with the AMD Athlon XP's. Mind you I am talking workstation processors. I have to say the Athlon 64's are kick ass. In fact I would definitely pick them over the P4's. Server related though, yeah I will always stick with the Xeons, just because I've never had one die on me yet.*Knock on wood*

Cyrix.........man does that bring back memories. Sad thing is, wasnt that long ago.
 
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BrutusMaximus said:
Ok that thing is bad ass man :)

Can you tell me what brand/model that case is when you get a chance, need to add that one to my work list. We usually deal with rackmount of course, but for the rare occassions we need a tower......
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It's a SuperMicro 743 series chassis:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/?chs=743

The 743 series is available in either beige or black, w/ or w/o hot-swap power, and w/ a choice of either fixed IDE, SCA/SCSI or SATA for the backplane, with the SCA version available as either a single 8x channel or dual 4x channel (RAID 50).

All of them include the 4 internal hot swap fans and the processor shroud, and the higher end cases include the 2 rear external hot swap fans (they're available on the entry price cases, just not included).

If you look at my second picture, you'll see the "Open" lever on the side of the case. One press and everything is accessible. The only time you will ever use a screwdriver is when placing the hard drives in the drive caddies and mounting the motherboard. In the fifth picture I included, you should be able to see on the left side that even the PCI expansion plates are removable with a push lever -- no screws there either.

My favorite thing about the case though is that the 5-1/4" carriage is also toolessly removable. Notice in the second picture that the case is a freestanding tower with the CD-ROM carriage assembly parallel to the floor? Now look in the last picture after everything is assembled and you can see the case is now in a rackmount position with the CD-ROM carriage rotated to still be parallel to the floor. An optional bay is available so that you can opt to pitch the whole 5-1/4" carriage (if you don't need CD-ROMs or floppies) and add 4 more hot-swap SCA drives.

Finally, in the second picture you can see there is a seam across the top of the case ... there's a 1/4" thick sheet of solid plastic which pops off with a release lever at the back of the case to expose all the rackmount mounting holes. The "feet" at the bottom of the case similarly pop off with little effort to mount in a 4U, 19" standard rack. A set of mounting rails and a pair of handles to attach to the case are included in an optional rackmount kit that isn't any more than $30.
 
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