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So managed to get my hands on some cheap Xeons after selling my i7 rig which sort of stopped me spending all my money on an SB-E rig.
After lots of measurements I came to the conclusion that the huge HTPX motherboard will fit!!
I did want to at a minimum have water-cooled CPU's however I need to put the PSU in the roof which means I cant fit a 240 rad let alone a 360 rad, and since I had a h50 already I figured I might as well use that, long term I might look to put a 480 in the base and get the case on casters.
Heres some of the first pictures I manged to take.
Size comparision case vs mobo box!
Case all stripped down ready for more work to be done on it. Needed to add a couple of extra standoffs for the mobo apprently EVGA give you some plastic supports but i didnt seem to have any, so drilled some proper ones anyway.
Case before new fan caddy added to it.
Lian Li EX-36B1 this is is soo cool mounts for 2x 2.5 drives and 3x 3.5 drives I changed the fan in mine to an Xigmatek 120mm Crystal Red specs looked pretty good out of the box so we shall see how it performs, caddy was also helpful to get the extra airflow into the case that I needed.
Fitted bare front
Fitted inside
Fitted front
Bare xeon socket needed to remove it so I could take the Xeon backplate off it to fit my h50 backplates lucky EVGA do include the normal backplate.
Parts wise this is the plan:
Pair of Xeons: gone for 2 ES E5607s for now hopefully upgrade to a pair of X hexs next year.
Ram: 16gb Kingston blu got this cheap on a deal the boat will support dual channel but long term I would like to go to 24gb and tri chan
Storage: 2x OCZ agility 3's 1x 60gb (os) 1x120gb also got a 1tb for local disk and 9tb of networked drives in a server.
GFX: ATI 5870 hopefully look to upgrade when the 7xxx comes out.
Case: Lian Li PC-G70B
PSU: Enermax Gallexy 1kw.
Cooling: 2x H50 if i can get another
Fans Stock H50 and Xigmatex Crystal
After lots of measurements I came to the conclusion that the huge HTPX motherboard will fit!!
I did want to at a minimum have water-cooled CPU's however I need to put the PSU in the roof which means I cant fit a 240 rad let alone a 360 rad, and since I had a h50 already I figured I might as well use that, long term I might look to put a 480 in the base and get the case on casters.
Heres some of the first pictures I manged to take.
Size comparision case vs mobo box!
Case all stripped down ready for more work to be done on it. Needed to add a couple of extra standoffs for the mobo apprently EVGA give you some plastic supports but i didnt seem to have any, so drilled some proper ones anyway.
Case before new fan caddy added to it.
Lian Li EX-36B1 this is is soo cool mounts for 2x 2.5 drives and 3x 3.5 drives I changed the fan in mine to an Xigmatek 120mm Crystal Red specs looked pretty good out of the box so we shall see how it performs, caddy was also helpful to get the extra airflow into the case that I needed.
Fitted bare front
Fitted inside
Fitted front
Bare xeon socket needed to remove it so I could take the Xeon backplate off it to fit my h50 backplates lucky EVGA do include the normal backplate.
Parts wise this is the plan:
Pair of Xeons: gone for 2 ES E5607s for now hopefully upgrade to a pair of X hexs next year.
Ram: 16gb Kingston blu got this cheap on a deal the boat will support dual channel but long term I would like to go to 24gb and tri chan
Storage: 2x OCZ agility 3's 1x 60gb (os) 1x120gb also got a 1tb for local disk and 9tb of networked drives in a server.
GFX: ATI 5870 hopefully look to upgrade when the 7xxx comes out.
Case: Lian Li PC-G70B
PSU: Enermax Gallexy 1kw.
Cooling: 2x H50 if i can get another
Fans Stock H50 and Xigmatex Crystal
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so yesterday I bit the bullet and get the OCZ ZX1250 it has a silly amount of power for its £ and should be good for any future changes in config.
