The G.E.C.K - Vault Tec component.

Here, look.



That part of the board sticks out from the rest. Making it taller. If I plug the PCIE power into it I will have a plug and wires coming out making the case taller. I don't want that. Note how the solid wire things from the socket go in 90 degrees? well if I remove the socket I can solder the wires in "sideways" meaning the case does not need to have clearance for a plug and cables coming out, making it taller than I want it. Obviously this then limits the PSU I can use to the one I bought, but I am sure if that failed I could desolder said pigtail and replace etc. That is why I bought that exact Flex ATX PSU and not one of the 10 quid jobbers from the bay of fleas. Because otherwise the PSU would have had to be permanently connected by an umbilical cord to the plane.

Nashty.
 
I meant to not do that and try to recreate the plug-in style of connector that would have come with the original chassis that these blades slot into. It would increase the size of the case and the complexity of manufacture... but it would have cool factor! :D
If you wanted it pluggable without the extra space, you could always swap the 90° socket with a straight one - still a bit more space but in a different plane that probably has the space anyway.
And yes, I always need more coffee!
 
Yeah I could swap the socket. Not going to though :D I doubt I will ever change the case around, or the board. It's sort of just a one go deal.

What I should have clarified in my earlier post was that Fallout 3 would not run on any of my desktops. IDK why, as I did not want to spend hours working on it. Nor does NV (well that isn't true eventually I did get that running on a old PC I threw together). As such I have kept my aging Xbox 1x. Not the Series X, but the 1x. However, it is very loud and won't last forever given how old it is. As such yeah, I just want a dedicated FO box so I can ditch the 1x. I can then make sure the three (or more if the originals work) run properly. It will also be devoid of Windows. Which I am super happy about.
 
hmm actually.....

I think I could reuse the socket on there. Well, if there is enough meat coming out of those spoke things before the bend !
 
Well I just bought another one. It was £77.

Why? Well, I have absolutely no idea tbh. What I do know is I want lots to do this winter and once the bikes go tomorrow that limits toys.

Besides the way RAM prices and etc are going its deffo very cheap.

Talking of RAM.... Apparently the 16gb GDDR6 in this costs £50 from the manufacturer.
 
Now you NEED to set up a backplane and slot the both of them in...I mean, it'd be rude not to, right?!
Can you SLI them?! :D
 
So the wee pile of parts grows.



This is the super micro cooler. I will be sticking this onto the back plate.



Thankfully it was totally flat.



The power supply has arrived.



 
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Pah. You know I am right though dude. It has to be one or the other tbh.

OK. So last night I took off the clips et al from the back side cooler.



I ended up with a lovely black blood pinch on my hand ffs. One corner is a bit rough but the whole thing needs sanding any way so it can stick.

Today I did several things. Firstly, it came ! woooo.



So I set to work. I first made up the 8 wires for the power for it.



I then tested the PSU and the fan comes on good. I can't test the unit yet as no CMOS battery, and I don't think it will do anything without it. Annoyingly the one I thought I had in an old P67 board @Cenedd gave me a few years ago was gone. It seems I had used parts from it to repair a broken board (ram latches etc) and then chucked it. BAH. So I have ordered a couple. Any way, I then found a 90 deg power connector for the internal power cable.



So that is done and I fitted the mains plug to the external power cable.



So aye, progress.
 
Woooo ! not only is she alive but she's on bios 3.0. The one you want it on. 4 is rubbish, apparently.



Unfortunately for the life of me I can not get the PCIE connector desoldered. Nothing worked. So I need to make it slightly bigger. And it was at this point I had a cluster fudge and ended up deleting the project on Easel lmfao. Even more annoyingly the files I need are all at home. Still, I am not sure why I got so angry as I don't even have the plastic yet lol.
 
No. I dont have any.

What is nice is the silicon cables are extremely flexible. So yeah Ill just make it 10 mil bigger in both directions which is fine with me. I just don't want to break it which I will if I keep hamming it.

As I say I dont have the acrylic yet and wont for about two weeks so its all good.

What I will have when I go home will be all pf the dimensions so I can use my time at home well.
 
Presuming you are using hot air and not just trying to somehow wick and replace with an iron, I'd try giving the entire board some baseline heat first, might take a while with the heat sink on but with big mass like that a lot can soak in and cause difficulty getting big components off (happens with HDMI on consoles for example). Perhaps pop the heatsink off while performing the soldering job.
 
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