Pictures Of Your Dually Rigs!

You are right Nathan, a Supermicro X9QRi-F+

The case is a Rosewill Blackhawk ultra
It has quad Xeon E5-4657L v2 CPUs (they are actually ES chips that are 300MHz slower all-around than a real E5-4657L v2 and have a 95W TDP vs 115W TDP on the genuine 4657L)
256GB of 1866MHz ECC ram (16x16GB)
4x250GB Samsung 840 Evos for Swap

Getting cpu water coolers that fit was difficult. Supermicro used a non-standard LGA2011 mounting hole arrangement for the cpu sockets and getting the right brackets to mount the water block to the cpu required me to contact Asetek (oem of NZXT Kraken x40) directly and work it out with them.
 
Not much, I only had to add a few extra standoff holes for the board. It took more work to add in the Kraken x40's. To my knowledge this case and the xigmatek elysium are the only 2 cases capable of housing a board that big without significant modification.
 
FEA=Finite Element Analysis? If I am wrong I am okay with it because your rig is awesome.
 
SM server boards often use the Narrow ILM socket for 2011 xeons, it saves space on the mobo for ram slots, sata ports, pcie slots etc. You can find heatsinks for them but AIO coolers are not normally found within servers - hence the difficulty in locating the proper brackets.
 
twin_savage said:
My FEA workstation

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Everything about this is beautiful. Nice job.
 
Killer FEA rig there man, and i thought i was rocking it with 2x 2670's + 64gb ram for my FEA work, ..... im going to go hide in a hole now :>
 
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That is the only problem in the Rosewill "BlackCock" Ultra. Unlike the similar but not identical Enermax fulmo GT the "BlackCock" does not fit 4x 180mm fans, relying instead in that unconventional "230mm" fan that actually has 190mm blades. At least it is good to know that you can add another big fan to the side panel. Is that another " 230mm"?
 
new toys for my home lab :)

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Mostly Xeon E5506 (Nehalem), 66GB 1333ECC REG, 3x X8DTN+ and 1x X8DTE-F.

will merge into 3 servers, 2 dual processore and one single
 
Very nice! 3 servers and a backup board. Can't argue with that!

(Word of advice, though? The outside of an electrostatic bag *can be* conductive. Try to avoid setting sensitive electronics on them, as it can fry them!)
 
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It took more work to add in the Kraken x40's. To my knowledge this case and the xigmatek elysium are the only 2 cases capable of housing a board that big without significant modification.
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Add Enermax fulmo GT and Aerocool Stryke X ST to that list. They are all the same case, from the same OEM, changing side panel configuration and the upper USB/Audio ports.

Grats on tiffitng 4 krakens x40 in there:cool:

I will try even harder: to fit 2 neptons 280l :eek:
 
a low key fan controller might help, or a molex connector to a 4 or 3 pin fan male connector that you split using many 2-way splitters
 
Work in progress, still need to find a real case, power supply, sound card, etc.

GhettoWorkstation
2x E5530
32gb RAM Ecc 4x8gb DDR3
500gb 3.5" SATA
3TB 3.5" SATA
4u rackmount case adapted to work
Custom cardboard front panel action
Custom chipset cooling fan action (felt pretty hot!)
Windows 7 Pro



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Here's my "dualy" Opty soon to be "Quad Opty":

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Motherboard and case are both SuperMicro components... in order to quiet things down (it is essentially a server chassis) i upgraded to one of the newer 1400 watt power supply modules and install a fan controller, and now its quiet :)
 
SuperMicro SC748S R1000B case (updated to newer 1400w PSU from the latest version of SC748)
SuperMicro H8QGi-F (OEM Gateway version) motherboard
2 x Opteron 6180SE (8 GB of G.Skill memory each)
HighPoint 2720SGL RAID controller running 2 x Samsung 840 EVO in RAID1.

Still need to pick up a decent graphics card for it. Will be adding another 2 processors soon... and updating with 4 Noctua heat sinks.
 
This is mine built back in 2011 that I use from time to time still:
Evga SR-2
(2) X5670's
Evga HC GTX 590
12gb 2000mhz corsair Doms
6 C300 64GB SSD's in raid zero
LSI Megaraid 9265-8i raid card
Little Devil Case

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Alright, mine is cheating a little bit, as it is a pre-built server I bought on ebay, but here it is: MY HP ProLiant DL180 G6

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(Stole the bottom pic, but they all look the same)

It's currently a messy work in progress during my needed fan mod (note the ghetto twist ties on the heatsinks) the thing sounds like a jet engine in its stock configuration.

Dual Xeon L5640, 12 cores 24 threads, 96GB RAM. Going to stick 12 4TB WD RED Drives (one ZFS volume with two 6 drive RAIDz2 vdev's, equivalent to RAID60) in it for my NAS.

Looking forward to completing this project :)
 
[QUOTE='Zarathustra[H]It's currently a messy work in progress during my needed fan mod (note the ghetto twist ties on the heatsinks) the thing sounds like a jet engine in its stock configuration.[/QUOTE]
If those are black label Delta fans, I'm not surprised :eek:
 
WhoBeDaPlaya said:
If those are black label Delta fans, I'm not surprised :eek:
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They are black label delta fans, and believe it or not, the black label deltas are what I bought to make it QUIETER :p

From the factory it came with 8 of these monsters (in a push/pull redundant setup)

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Sunon High static pressure high cfm 14krpm 18w almost 70dB monsters....

I am not exaggerating when I say it sounded like I had an Airbus A380 in my basement.

With the server in the basement and all the doors closed, I could hear it two floors up in my bedroom!

I heard it was loud be fore I bought it, but I had NO IDEA.

Now having replaced the fans with 4 deltas and slowed them down using a rheostat and some wires to trick the motherboard it is acultually decently quiet. Not living room quiet mind you, but quiet enough for the basement :p
 
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Sunon High static pressure high cfm 14krpm 18w almost 70dB monsters....
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I would need another PSU just to power 8 of those fans, plus i am pretty sure they would melt my molex cables and start a California-like SuperFire:p
 
geok1ng said:
I would need another PSU just to power 8 of those fans, plus i am pretty sure they would melt my molex cables and start a California-like SuperFire:p
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Tell me about it. My mods were insufficient. Server was still both too loud AND too hot.

Decided to cut my losses and move on. Harvesting the ram and CPUs' from it and putting them in a Norco 4216 with a supermicro dual lga1366 mono.
 
DogChainX said:
I frequent there often.

Oh, my poor basement is filled with 386, 486, pentium 1's. :( I'm a hoarder...
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I should visit the site again, it's been too long. BTW if you ever need to dump some of that I'll take it off your hands :p

I love late 486 and Pentium/PPro stuff.
 
Here's some updated pics of my dually rig with some additional improvements.

Added another 16 GB so its ready for another two processors. Updated video card with something more modern. Pulled 2720SGL raid card and replaced it with a quad mSata card (got tired of SATA drive cables). Updated heat sinks with Noctuas so that the system is completely quiet.

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slowly getting her to where i want her.
 
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My desktop is a server and goes no where... built this to have something to use while house sitting for sibling.

All my low end parts didn't want to work... so overkill it is. :D
 
Zarathustra[H];1041085496 said:
Tell me about it. My mods were insufficient. Server was still both too loud AND too hot.

Decided to cut my losses and move on. Harvesting the ram and CPUs' from it and putting them in a Norco 4216 with a supermicro dual lga1366 mono.
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Forgot to post back here when I was done!

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Please disregard the ghetto wire management and duct tape. I was in a rush to finish the job, and couldn't find my bag of zip ties (the server also serves as my MythTV Backend, and my mother-in-law to be wanted to watch the news...)

I will get back in there and clean it up some time soon :p

Specs:
Norco RPC-4216 case
Dual Xeon L5640 (6 cores each, 24 logical cores in total)
SuperMicro X8DTE Motherboard
Dual SuperMirco SNK-P0040AP4 92mm HSF's
96GB Registered ECC at 1333Mhz (12x8)
2x IBM M1015 SAS controllers crossflashed to LSI 9211-8i IT firmware
3x Intel PRO/1000 dual port gigabit ethernet controllers
Broadcom NetXtreme gigabit Ethernet adapter
12x 4TB WD RED Drives
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB (boot drive)
2x Samsung 850 Pro 128GB (cache)
2x Intel S3700 100GB (Intent Log)
1x 5.25 bay 3.5" trayless hotswap drive. (used mostly for file transfers with 3TB WD Green)
1x NZXT Sentry 2 fan controller hooked up to 3x 120mm yate loons (in center) and 2x 80mm exhaust fans (back)

I think that's about it!
 
Here's my 2005 PowerMac; it makes a great web machine and could be a gaming rig if I get around to getting a modern GPU firmware finished. It's also the fastest PowerPC system that's based on a PC CPU (not counting QorlQs or Power8s, as those aren't PC CPUs)
https://imgur.com/a/A48a1 (Imgur album says "bobthetrucker" because that is the same username that I use on other sites.

2x970MP, 8x208.33MHz core, 2500MHz/2 EI, 208.33MHz SYSCLK (The core clock is the same thing as on X86, EI is the equivalent of HyperTransport except the speed is based on an adjustable divisor of the core clock, SYSCLK is the equivalent of the BCLK)
8x2GB 533MHz DDR2 (Supports up to 8x8GB, if you can find DDR2 in that density and are rich enough to buy it)
IBM CPC945 (Great board, supports the BGA106x socket that 970MPs use)
PCIe 7800GTX 512MB Edition (Overclocked with a port of nVclock I made)
PCIe 6600GT (Overclocked with a port of nVclock I made)
SATA I 120GB OWC Agility III (This is the main hard drive; I don't use much space)
eSATA III card (For the externa drivel)
eSATA III 2TB External HDD (For videos and music)
 
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rabidz7 said:
Here's my 2005 PowerMac; it makes a great web machine and could be a gaming rig if I get around to getting a modern GPU firmware finished. It's also the fastest PowerPC system that's based on a PC CPU (not counting QorlQs or Power8s, as those aren't PC CPUs)
https://imgur.com/a/A48a1 (Imgur album says "bobthetrucker" because that is the same username that I use on other sites.

2x970MP, 8x208.33MHz core, 2500MHz/2 EI, 208.33MHz SYSCLK (The core clock is the same thing as on X86, EI is the equivalent of HyperTransport except the speed is based on an adjustable divisor of the core clock, SYSCLK is the equivalent of the BCLK)
8x2GB 533MHz DDR2 (Supports up to 8x8GB, if you can find DDR2 in that density and are rich enough to buy it)
IBM CPC945 (Great board, supports the BGA106x socket that 970MPs use)
PCIe 7800GTX 512MB Edition (Overclocked with a port of nVclock I made)
PCIe 6600GT (Overclocked with a port of nVclock I made)
SATA I 120GB OWC Agility III (This is the main hard drive; I don't use much space)
eSATA III card (For the externa drivel)
eSATA III 2TB External HDD (For videos and music)
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Congrats on keeping one of the old PowerPC systems alive! Don't see too many of those anymore.

What operating system do you run on it now that Leopard (the last OS X to support PowerPC) has been unsupported since mid 2011?

I know Mac users think they are invulnerable to security flaws, but 3 years of no patching is a long long time...
 
Zarathustra[H];1041131780 said:
Congrats on keeping one of the old PowerPC systems alive! Don't see too many of those anymore.

What operating system do you run on it now that Leopard (the last OS X to support PowerPC) has been unsupported since mid 2011?

I know Mac users think they are invulnerable to security flaws, but 3 years of no patching is a long long time...
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I use Debian and OS X 10.5.
 
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Specs:
Fractal Design Define R4
Corsair VX550W PSU
Supermicro X8DTL-i
2x Intel Xeon X5560
2x Zalman CNPS10X Optima Heatsinks
48GB (6x8GB) 1333MHz DDR3 ECC RDIMM
IBM M1015 Raid controller (flashed to IT)
Intel Pro Dell X3959 Dual Port Gigabit NIC

Storage:
5x ST2000DL003 Seagate 2TB Barracuda Green
Crucial M500 240GB SSD
Lite-On LAT-128M2S 128GB SSD
Hitachi 160GB HDD

zpool1: raidz(5x2TB) 7.1TB usable

datastores: 240GB SSD, 128GB SSD & 160GB HDD

All datastore disks are basicly drives I had laying around.

ESXi 5.5.0
FreeNAS with passthrough to M1015 & one Gbit NIC.
pfSense with passthrough to Intel Dual Port Gigabit NIC
lots of other VMs, primarily windows for testing.
Testing out SCCM2012R2, WDS/MDT, Exchange, Cisco Prime.

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Making custom powerconnectors saves some clutter..
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But still it needs tidying up.

Thinking about expanding with another 5-disk raidz1, and perhaps some more SSDs for datastores.
 
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