Rackmount server build incl. Asus P6T7 mobo

NathanE · 11 Feb 2011 at 23:25

The "box shot"...

The chassis "box shot"...

The chassis itself...

Dual socket Opteron motherboard that came with the chassis... don't want.

Nice clear chassis...

P6T7 is about to be fitted...

Oops, forgot the I/O plate...

Forgot to show the power supply that came with the chassis...

P6T7 in-situ...

All wired up...

Cleaned off the stock Intel gunk... and applied some Arctic Silver.

HSF installed...

Close-up of the RAMs...

Yes, six 4GB sticks = 24GB

RAM all installed...

A lot of SATA cables...

Nice and tidy SATA back plane...

ATI graphics card on its ribbon riser cable...

Realised near the end that the black cap comes off plug on the motherboard so I could plug in the full 8pin EATX connector...

Hard disks...

In their caddies...

FIN.

Tweaker · 12 Feb 2011 at 00:12

What setup are you using for the Hard drives, RAID 5?

NathanE · 12 Feb 2011 at 00:22

RAID1

Purgatory · 12 Feb 2011 at 00:27

Nice job

teaboy5 · 12 Feb 2011 at 00:38

Nice indeed

What you using it for?

Biffa · 12 Feb 2011 at 01:32

More info?
Why the P6T7?
Whats it for?

What was the AMD mobo?

VARDY · 12 Feb 2011 at 01:48

nice, dont see many of these builds. although i suppose you cant really mod it

same question as Teaboy, whats the intended use?

NathanE · 12 Feb 2011 at 09:44

P6T7 because we've built an identical server before with this board and it is nice and stable with 24gigs. Didn't want to take a risk with some other board. It also has a SAS controller that may come in handy at a later date.

It will be a VM host running Hyper-V.

The AMD mobo came with the chassis. It is a dual socket Opteron board made by Tyan. Very expensive in their day. We've no use for it, so will be sticking it on the bay.

DJMK4 · 15 Feb 2011 at 22:48

Nice one mate,

Think that will look nice in your racks

maybe one day they will send me up there to see it

Stelly · 16 Feb 2011 at 11:27

Mr Nath,

May I ask you the model number of the case if you may please

Stelly

NathanE · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:55

@Stelly It is a Chenbro RM21406 case. I nabbed two of them on the bay in December. One I got for £38, the other for £58. Bargains.

@DJMK4 It's being racked on Friday

SubScape · 17 Feb 2011 at 17:43

Extremely nooby question, but then again I know nothing about this stuff, what's it actually for?

Cr416 · 18 Feb 2011 at 12:27

Looking good

. I have something similar for my home server but not quite so fancy, just running an atom cpu lol.