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Skriven 2005-09-09 11:10:42 av Glenn Meadows (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 7074 av Geo (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: PC Power & Cooling releases 1000W  PC power supply
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From: "Glenn Meadows" <gmeadow@comcast.net>

BTW, the MB I described is the Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2.  It's a Socket A (AMD)
board, but I believe there is an Intel version as well.  Has 4 DDR Ram slots on
it as well.  Requires use of that "extra" 12Volt ATX connector (4 pin square
one) that normally sits unused.  It uses the nVIDIA Northbridge chipset.  While
the photo included shows an included Northbridge fan, mine seems to run fine
with just the mongo heatsink that on the Northbridge.

I have it mounted in a 2U high Rack Server chassis, currently with 5 HD's
installed, room for 3 more if I remove the CDROM drive in the right hand bay,
and go with a USB CD when needed.

I've also got 2 External USB2 HD's connected to it.  NO onboard video, which
would be nice for a server, something simple.  Since it's in a short case, the
case came with 2 90 degree PCI Risers (no AGP riser), that allow 2 add on cards
to be installed, and they mount to the case horizontally.  1 now has a simple
ATI Rage 128 installed, the other slot, who knows, might get a SCSI card shoved
in it <smile>.  Big storage box for audio.  Internally, there are 4 fans moving
air horizontally through the box, vent slots on front where PSU sits (left
front), and down each side.  The CPU fans tucks right up to the top cover.  I
left the back connector plate off to allow additional air outlet venting.  So
far, it's running just fine. Have to find a good spot to move the Firewire
dongle to though, if I end up adding SCSI support to the box.

--

Glenn M.
"Geo" <georger@nls.net> wrote in message news:4320c55a$1@w3.nls.net...
> "Glenn Meadows" <gmeadow@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:43207809$1@w3.nls.net...
>
>> 2 primary channels, 2 as part of an IDE Raid setup (can run as standard
> IDE
>> separate drives) and has 2 SATA channels, also configurable as a Raid
> Array.
>> Also has USB2 and FW built onto the MB, Gigabit Ethernet as well.
>
> I think it's time for me to go buy a new server box. I find it annoying
> that
> I have 4 400g drives now and to get more space I either need to add an IDE
> card or buy 500g drives.
>
> When are the 1TB drives coming out?
>
> Geo. (thought they were supposed to be out by the end of this year?)
>
>

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