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I tend to keep my projects to myself, but I have one I'm working on that will be a little different.
I'm going to be setting up a modern system in a really big mid 90s server case. It will be water cooled, Will be a modern PICMG system with a 7th gen core xeon. Have lots of HDD/SSDs in raid. And the kicker, it will not show any mods from the outside. It will be used with a old AT keyboard and CRT even. The OS will be setup to look old too. Ether Windows 7 with lots of mods to make it look just like windows 9x or Linux with the nextstep GUI.

The case itself is about 30" tall, 22" long and 12" wide, Its rusted, missing drive rails and bay covers, has a really big AT board in it that likely does not work. Dual AT PSU's. It looks like the motherboard tray might even be removable. The system has little historical significance, its a generic Pentium 2 server. And get this, I wanted a bigger case. Yes bigger. I wanted one of those double wide cube cases.

Would anyone like to see a project log of the case restoration and build?
If a few here would like to see a project log I make one once I start. I'll start with restoring the case and system that is in it. Once i get the system that is in it up and going I'll part out the Pentium 2 server.
 
Mr. Horse said:
I tend to keep my projects to myself, but I have one I'm working on that will be a little different.
I'm going to be setting up a modern system in a really big mid 90s server case. It will be water cooled, Will be a modern PICMG system with a 7th gen core xeon. Have lots of HDD/SSDs in raid. And the kicker, it will not show any mods from the outside. It will be used with a old AT keyboard and CRT even. The OS will be setup to look old too. Ether Windows 7 with lots of mods to make it look just like windows 9x or Linux with the nextstep GUI.

The case itself is about 30" tall, 22" long and 12" wide, Its rusted, missing drive rails and bay covers, has a really big AT board in it that likely does not work. Dual AT PSU's. It looks like the motherboard tray might even be removable. The system has little historical significance, its a generic Pentium 2 server. And get this, I wanted a bigger case. Yes bigger. I wanted one of those double wide cube cases.

Would anyone like to see a project log of the case restoration and build?
If a few here would like to see a project log I make one once I start. I'll start with restoring the case and system that is in it. Once i get the system that is in it up and going I'll part out the Pentium 2 server.
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I for one would really like to see a build log on that project. Are you talking about the 10K Xenon?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...70x9NQJc2ufy9xivWehoC_X4QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

If so, go for it!

P.S. Maybe people around my neighborhood won't think I'm so crazy for putting a blower and wild cam in my Camaro. :jumping4:
 
Agent Orange said:
I for one would really like to see a build log on that project. Are you talking about the 10K Xenon?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...70x9NQJc2ufy9xivWehoC_X4QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

If so, go for it!
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I wish, I don't have that kind of money, I mean I could save up and build something like that. But it would take time and I don't like the idea of having a system with a 10k CPU, what if it was stolen?
I'll get something like the E3-1275v6.
Agent Orange said:
P.S. Maybe people around my neighborhood won't think I'm so crazy for putting a blower and wild cam in my Camaro. :jumping4:
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It's only crazy if its a small block or on pump gas ;)
 
Mr. Horse said:
It's only crazy if its a small block or on pump gas ;)
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It's a 6.2 LS99 and needs 93 octane. The cam is in the works and what's happening there is the removal of the AFM (DoD - Displacement on Demand). It also gets reworked lifters and rocker arms along with new head bolts, studs, competition gaskets. The cam itself is a custom grid and this max's out what can be done to this engine without modifying the suspension, trans, and rear end. Prior to the cam, it's was putting out a little over 500 RWHP on the dyno. The fuel system and exhaust/headers have been modified previously.
 
Agent Orange said:
It's a 6.2 LS99 and needs 93 octane. The cam is in the works and what's happening there is the removal of the AFM (DoD - Displacement on Demand). It also gets reworked lifters and rocker arms along with new head bolts, studs, competition gaskets. The cam itself is a custom grid and this max's out what can be done to this engine without modifying the suspension, trans, and rear end. Prior to the cam, it's was putting out a little over 500 RWHP on the dyno. The fuel system and exhaust/headers have been modified previously.
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Nice, My fun car is a striped down 88 ford EXP, I'm working on putting a supercharged 1.9L HO CVH (hemi) bored over to a tick under 2.0L It will have about 200HP and run on E85. It weighs about 1900lb with me in it. I could save another 100lb off it, but Id lose things like the spare tire, fog lights, dash, heater and so on. I have a few rare parts I'm tiring to find to shed more weight from it. If I can find 81-82 escort SS engine mounts and a tempo sway bar and trans mount setup I can shave about 8lb. I'm going to make some aluminum mounts for the fog lamps that will save about 1.5lb. Its not much but everything adds up. Stock was about 2350lb.

Once I get the supercharger and the new engine in it I'll track down a AWD tempo and make the car AWD with rear disk brakes and rear LSD. I'm working on finding the parts to make the front trans axle a LSD right now.
Even with the stock 90hp single port injected engine its hard not to spin the tires with as much weight I took off it.
 
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I should get the case today. Its has a full size dual slot 1 AT board in it.
I'll likely part out whats in it. It is a generic system so parting it out is not a big deal.
 
Sure, I enjoy a good build. :) Let's see it!

Also, post up some pics of that "full size dual slot 1 AT board."
 
xjas said:
Sure, I enjoy a good build. :) Let's see it!

Also, post up some pics of that "full size dual slot 1 AT board."
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Sure. Its a supermicro P6DKF
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After getting the case I found that is have 10 hdd bays. :shock: and 9 5.25" bays. so I did what any crazy man would, I bought a lot of WD raptors drives. I have 11 and need a few more still. One big Raid 0 array will be fun to mess with. But I think I'll go for ether raid 5 or 10. I'm shooting for a 16 drive array.
 

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Got an update on the parts.

I bought 11 WD raptor drives. I will run 10 in ether raid 10 or 5. I got a Intel 24 port sas/sata raid card.
I bought a 92mm radiator to mount in the front of the case, a 240mm radiator, a d5 pump, some tubing and fittings.

Right now I have a 5.25" bay reservoir with built in dual DC-LT pumps. The DC-LTs will be used to prime the system so I do not kill the D5 pump running it dry filling up the system. I also have a 980ti, a 14 slot PICMG back-plane. 256gb M2 drive, two 184mm (dual 92mm) radiators along with a box of fittings and CPU block and a few addin cards like a PCI sound card and USB card and lots a fans.

So all I need is the xeon CPU and SHB.
 
Mr. Horse said:
Sure. Its a supermicro P6DKF
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After getting the case I found that is have 10 hdd bays. :shock: and 9 5.25" bays. so I did what any crazy man would, I bought a lot of WD raptors drives. I have 11 and need a few more still. One big Raid 0 array will be fun to mess with. But I think I'll go for ether raid 5 or 10. I'm shooting for a 16 drive array.
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Damn, everything about that is a beast. I don't have room for anything like that here but I do love those old server cases. Big fan of the '90s lab gear look.

Not in the market for more hardware myself, but I hope the SuperMicro board finds a good home. Too cool to let it sit dormant. ;)

What PICMG system board are you going for? I have a couple "retro" Advantech boards (P-MMX) including one I use in my main DOS everything-PC, but nothing modern in that form factor.
 
xjas said:
Damn, everything about that is a beast. I don't have room for anything like that here but I do love those old server cases. Big fan of the '90s lab gear look.

Not in the market for more hardware myself, but I hope the SuperMicro board finds a good home. Too cool to let it sit dormant. ;)

What PICMG system board are you going for? I have a couple "retro" Advantech boards (P-MMX) including one I use in my main DOS everything-PC, but nothing modern in that form factor.
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I plan to use a PCE-7129
But I now see that Advantech has 8th gens boards on there site. The PCE-7131 looks very tempting.
 
ohh! I was wrong, the HDD bays old 3 drives each and not 2 drives. I could fit 15 drives in this case. :p
In raid 0 I bet 15 raptors drives would go neck and neck with some SSDs. But I think I'll stick to ether raid 10 or 5. I don't want one drive failing taking the whole system down.
 
I got the water cooling parts last night. I just need the CPU and PICMG host card.

I'm going to start the fab work tonight and make the mounts for the radiators and stuff.
 
MindThreat said:
Looking forward to more pics myself...
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Yes sorry for the lack of updates. I got a lot going on on my end. I kind of jumped the ahead and forgot to take photos of some things, I'll have to back track and take them.
I'll get some updates this weekend.

As for some non photo updates. I got all the parts to get the system up and going. But I still need to get a xeon CPU and SBC, right now I'll be using a older i7 7700t and a h110 board. I'm waiting on the 8th/9th getting intel PICMG board to come out.

I still have to fab some mounts for a 240mm rad and wire everything up. I'll be using 8 hdds in raid 10 and one M2 drive for the OS.
Sadly I can't fit any of my 184mm radiator in the case so it will be one 240mm and a 92mm. I may be able to fit a 120mm on the back of the PSU box but it would have to be a rather thin radiator. I'm just cooling a stock 980ti and a sub 100w CPU so I should be fine with a 240mm and 92mm radiator.
I could fit the 184mm radiators and even more, but I want to keep the outside of the case stock, so no cutting holes for radiator and fans.

I can't be sure, but I think its a antec case. The PSU's and the hot swap box is from antec and the fans in the case and PSU are the same make/model. The part numbers stampeded on the case looks quite similar to the part numbers on the PSU box too.

On the software front, I'll be running *inux with window-maker for the gui and a full screen dos box or pcemu on a second monitor or virtual desktop
 
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OK slight change of plans. I'll post all the photos at once.

I got the water cooling system in, sadly I found one of my older 90 degree fittings had a bad internal o-ring for the swivel part. I got the system all put together and it leaked all over the place after I kicked the pump upto full speed. So I had to take it all back apart to replace the fitting.
 
So this system drove me insane. Nothing working right from the getgo. So I scraped the project. Sorry guys.
 
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