I thought I’d up
date you as I finally got round to selling the redundant parts from my little experiment. I’ve also been using the rig for about 6 months and I’m really pleased with it. One problem to report is that the DVD drive sticks every so often probably because it comes out vertically.
Aug 19
Feb 07
So finally I get the system to post and thought that would be the end of my problems…
Firstly let me update you I brought the final parts a SATA DVD R/W costing £16.98 and a brand new BFG 9800 GTX+OC 512MB costing £176.13, because I can only use one graphics card I wanted the GTX 260 H2OC but am going to wait for the price to come down.
Jan 18
If you have been following this saga – then you will know I have sourced a motherboard and the next steps are to buy ram and a power supply.
Again I have used ebay as it is still the cheapest place to source parts.
I have purchased*: a GMC ATX R3 Corona case as it looked cool and was a bargain at £35.99, budget (remember I’m trying to keep costs down) 8GB RAM @ 800MHz costing £68.98 and a budget 750W Hercules power supply costing £42.90.
*All costs include P&P
Nov 24
If you have been following this saga – then you will know the next stage to this little project, after gutting the Dell T105, is to buy a desktop motherboard. Unfortunately there isn’t too much information on what motherboard’s support the Opteron 1352 (I could only find this). However as the Opteron uses the AM2+ slot, I’m going to take a punt on a AM2+ SLI motherboard.
Oct 23
An update to my previous post, unfortunately you can’t do a mod like the Dell SC420 16X PCI-E graphics card mod. Dell seem to have got wise to people buying up cheap servers and turning them into high-end desktops. It looks like the 1X PCI-E slot is the only option. 8X PCI-E I could live with, but at 1x PCI-E speeds, I might as well stick to onboard graphics.
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