Rackmount server build incl. Asus P6T7 mobo

[NathanE]

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.

 

[NathanE]

RAID1

 

[NathanE]

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.

 

[NathanE]

@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