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    Any harm in applying 12V/5V/3.3V rails "early"?

    Was thinking of sharing a large efficient 12V power supply to power multiple boxes. Think there is any harm on sending the 12V to the mobo (ATX and EPS plug) and GPUs before PWR_ON is signaled from the motherboard? May also consider doing 5V and 3.3V too. I would expect this wouldn't be a...
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    Do Supermicro mobos use a proprietary heatsink/fan hole size?

    Rosewill RCX-ZAIO-92 I think so, but I've never used this style of mount before. I thought about this because without the screw threads it seems like the holes in the mobo would be the right diameter for the pins to fit through. But the backplate doesn't simply come off with screws or such...
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    Do Supermicro mobos use a proprietary heatsink/fan hole size?

    Someone gave me an old X8DA3 and I was putting together a box with it. I took a generic LGA1366 cooler (Rosewill RCX-ZAIO-92) but realized there was no way the fan pins would go in the board's holes. I don't have another LGA1366 mobo (or fan/hs) to compare with but the SuperMicro holes seem too...
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