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The1stCAV said:

LOL - I just finished putting mine back together for the 2011 Upgrade:

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Dmac122383 said:

^^^^^^ Officially [H]ard!!!!!

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fenixv said:

meo95, system specs? very nice looking 800d. i hope to set up a similar watercool. could you share some details about your loop? thanks

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Rude374 said:

I'll post better pictures when its completely finished... still some detail work to do.... but I combined a mini-iTX Linux server and a gaming / workstation desktop in the same box.....

Mini-ITX board in the bottom compartment.

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Server / "Bottom End"
This currently runs CentOS 5.6 Linux and serves as a media / storage server / MythTV backend to stream media to 3 front ends in the house and a laptop, also backs up and synchronizes of all my work data from my laptop. Remote SSH and VNC access 24/7 from laptop or Android phone. I will be updating the CPU to a Phenom II X4 905e so that I can also use to transcode videos / DVDs / and Blu Rays for the Media Server and free up the workstation for other tasks.

- Jetway NC81 Mini iTX Mobo
- AMD Athlon II X2 245
- Cooler Master Susurro RR-KCT-T9E1 CPU Cooler
- 2 Gigs Mushkin DDR2 SO-DIMM
- Seasonic SS-250SU Flex ATX Power Supply (Hidden in the bottom drive cage area)
- 2x1TB Western Digital Green SATA drives (Raid 1 / in the stock hot swap area)
- 8GB Kingston Compact Flash Card (Boot drive with IDE / CF Converter)

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Nickbaldwin86 said:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1579623

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McGarr said:

Please post more details on this project. This is something I'm very interested in doing, in the Obsidian too, and it's fantastic you have succeeded!

I'm particularly interested in:
*How well does it (how did you make it) fit?
- Works VERY well and everything runs cool.... no heat problems even with all 4 cores (recently upgraded from dual-core so I can 'Handbrake' Blu-Ray rips on the bottom end since it takes a few hours) 100% utilization on the bottom end. It's a tight fit... connections to the bottom end are difficult last time I had to get to something I had to partially unmount that ITX board. Notice I had to mount that 140mm horizontal fan on top of the divider to make clearance. Bottom board is mounted with screws and standoffs to the holes in the bottom fan grill.... had to drill one extra hole.
- I cut a opening in the back panel, in the narrow back compartment where theres a grill / vent to run the AC plug, Network cable, and VGA cable (if I ever need to hook it up to a monitor, since it runs headless)... its all hidden behind the stock panels and run through the stock grommets

*How did you wire in the power supply and does it run from the main PC's PSU or it's own.
- There's a Seasonic Flex-ATX 250w power supply, which is just for the bottom end, hidden in the stock bottom drive bay area. I had to dremel / drill a bit to hard mount it with screws.

*How did you wire in the power switches, i.e. the ability to have it running and the main rig switched off. I was thinking something along the lines of installing a hard switch in line with the green wire on the ATX connection leading to the main PC stemming from an ATX double adapter. If you have a superior idea or even a different one I'd love to know about it.
- I use a couple of motherboard test switches, which are just little push buttons on leads, on the ATX-header to for power and reset functions as well as an LED of the same type for HDD activity. Right now they are just sitting there unmounted... I would like to install a couple of switches and led to the front of the case but I just haven't got around to it. The server is very stable especially since an upgrade to CentOS 6.2 so I don't need to fiddle with them much. If I need to I just pop off the side panel and hit the switch.

*How are you interfacing with the board? I was planning on buying a mini ITX board similar to yours with dual gigabit lan, and have a CAT6 cable leading from the gigabit port on my current mainboard into the ITX board. Then, since I have a Rampage IV Extreme, I only have one gigabit port, so I was planning on running another CAT6 cable with a female end and installing this onto the back of my case. Meaning all network traffic would pass through the ITX board. Any thoughts or ideas? Adding a network expansion card to the PCI bus on my mainboard is not an option as I am completely out of slots.

- I have thought about using the ITX for network routing and WiFi access but have not gotten into that yet...... its a currently a little beyond my Linux abilities and I would have to do some studying... it would be a whole lot more flexible that way though. Currently I just have the ethernet connections from both boards going to an external switch and cable modem.
- The white USB 4-port header in the bottom slot is attached to the bottom end. I have two printers (for local or network printing) and APC UPS attached to it. The free port can be used for a USB memory stick or keyboard / mouse, again only if absolutely necessary since it runs headless. I use SSH / VNC to interface with it from anywhere even from my Android phone One thing I will do soon though is connect the front panel USB ports to the bottom end instead of the top end.... they would be much more useful that way since I have an external hub on my desk for the top end USB ports.... that way I can plug external drives and flash drives directly into the bottom end without having to get on the floor and reach the back of the case. I find myself doing that more and more often and its a pain......

I'm planning on moving my existing 8 port RAID card to the mini ITX board and it will be used mainly for media streaming usually with the main PC on, but not always, and possibly torrent downloading, with the main PC off.
- There should be room for a smaller PCI card on the bottom end though I haven't tried it. I may eventually need a RAID card with more ports myself. I bought the Jetway NC81 because it has 4 Sata Ports (for RAID storage) and an IDE port (for boot / OS from the CF card)... I want to upgrade to an IDE SSD for boot / OS.... something faster and with more space since I would like to run a couple of virtual machines under CentOS for some newer software that won't run natively and some Windows apps I'd like to access remotely.
- I also need to upgrade to 4gb RAM since I run into the occasional out of memory error when using Handbrake to compress large Blu-Ray rips... I'll definitely need the extra RAM before I can run Virtual Machines

Any tips or insight would be hugely appreciated, thanks.

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Aus10 said:

I just realized I never posted pictures of when I had Victor on water. Here is a few.

By aus1095 at 2012-06-15

By aus1095 at 2011-09-12

The rampage board was bad and I switched back to my P6T board. I ended up selling it a few weeks later after I got brand new liquid cooling parts. Biggest mistake. I was 15 at this point. Trying to save back up and rebuild something like this. Only with Ivy

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P4rD0nM3 said:

My 800D.

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ShepsCrook said:

Thinking about getting one of these... They are NICE cases.

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Modder said:

My cost was $250. By the time I factored In labor and materials (rivets, wax, misc), it was a $400 job

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fenixv said:

Nice rig Nookie. First time i've seen that motherboard on H.

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