Random Server Case Build

Pulse · 28 Aug 2007 at 20:28

today me and benjo were sat around in his room and feeling rather bored so we thought "we need to be creative!" after numerous ideas of what we could do we decided to start a server case mod as he had an empty server case sat under his desk that he was planning to mod but never got round to, instead we decided to dismantle 2 of 3 pc's he had lying around his room and grab my box of goodies and see what we could make and see how far we could push it. so far we havent got very far and its taken use the best part of 4 hours just to do what we have

our case just testing a pretty pants psu that we shoved in there and using the cathodes to test that the power is on

our goodies that we was planning to put in there

after we changed for a decent S12

after we had added some fans though you can only see one and the cathodes properly placed, the harddrives are in.

gonna continue it sometime soon but i dont know when we will be able to get together again to continue

PhillyDee · 28 Aug 2007 at 21:00

Thats an old Motherboard. Is that an ISA slot i see?

Im intrigued. Whats the future plans for this?

Pulse · 28 Aug 2007 at 23:32

yer it is, its going to have a nice old P3 500MHz, 256MB ram, 9200/9250 gfx (we're not sure what it is) and 160GB harddrive space. and for now we're just going to whack huge heatsinks to anything we can and clock the pants right off it. going to get it plenty of cooling with several 80mm's and 1 120mm fans

ChoÞÞer · 29 Aug 2007 at 00:14

lol, sweet i wish i had parts just laying around 2 do somethink like that

benjo · 29 Aug 2007 at 00:37

ChoÞÞer said:
lol, sweet i wish i had parts just laying around 2 do somethink like that

No, you really don't

So much junk just laying about, i've got enough stuff here to build about 4 whole PC's. Pair that with no motivation and your room looks like a scrap yard the best of times.

As long as we stick to this, hopefully we'll be -1 PC down

Skree · 29 Aug 2007 at 06:01

i have got loads of bits lying around like this.. 3 cases, 2 mobo/chip/ram/cooler, couple of psu's, but no HD's and only 1 gfx card. the house looks like a tip, but i'm waiting on some new hd's before i start to build, as i'm not sure how far i'm going to go yet :mad:

all you lucky gits with "unused full tower cases" where do you get them from? they were murder to get back in the day for me :mad:

Pulse · 29 Aug 2007 at 08:08

one of our friends actually got it from our old secondary school when they had a re-fit of all the computers. in total i think we had

3 CPU's
5 Sticks of RAM
7 CD Drivers
4 Floppy Drives
8 Harddrives
3 Graphics Cards
6 Case Fans
3 Sound Cards
about 100 modem cards

3 PSU's
and enough cabling to wrap around the world at least once

MumboJumbo · 1 Sep 2007 at 16:11

what is the server going to be used for?

Pulse · 1 Sep 2007 at 17:49

we're not sure yet, was just had some parts and wanted to clock the pants off it and see how far it would go.

Angus-Higgins · 2 Sep 2007 at 09:42

benjo · 2 Sep 2007 at 16:44

Got some here mate

Excuse the camera phone photos...

Comparison to my Lanboy

Next to my 19" WS

Pulse · 2 Sep 2007 at 17:05

there you go, he has spoken

Skree · 3 Sep 2007 at 00:54

i saw a cheiftec dragon full tower on fleabay and was soooo tempted but it went for too much

Ya'll should do a mad dual motherboard build on that... get it to take two pcs

lol

p4radox · 3 Sep 2007 at 01:00

Pulse said:
today me and benjo were sat around in his room and feeling rather bored so we thought "we need to be creative!"

I thought I'd wandered into the wrong forum for a moment then...

ChoÞÞer · 3 Sep 2007 at 01:01

Skree said:
Ya'll should do a mad dual motherboard build on that... get it to take two pcs lol

I bet you could easy do that, with a few mods!

MumboJumbo · 3 Sep 2007 at 02:04

p4radox said:
I thought I'd wandered into the wrong forum for a moment then...

O my

lol

Skree · 3 Sep 2007 at 08:20

ChoÞÞer said:
I bet you could easy do that, with a few mods!

that case has room to do em side by side..

I started to do this on an old case a long time ago. Was going to fit two boards facing each other, one upside down, With two psu's - one normal 120mm psu, one altered so it takes in air through its side and front, and exits it through the top of the case - of course 120mm psu's didnt exist back then so they would both have been modded

my idea was to chop out around the motherboard backplate, and fit another bolt in backplate from another case upside down on the back.

The cheify dragon would be pretty much perfect for this - it'd be a pain to swap any devices but worth it

with the case pictured, you could cut the back out of an old case, bend some lips onto the bottom and one side and rivet it to the inside of the case.. true ghetto. it'd restrict airflow some but not if you cut it reasonably close and left any unused pci slots uncovered, but you're using a P3 how hot could it get? lol

I was going to run for being able to post the thread "the most hardware in one pc tower ever" lol

I only shelved it because cooling became an issue and i started playing with watercooling for another rig... when i've got the cash i may resurrect this project...