Recent content by sociablewaver

I'm an idiot. Kindly disregard. I had the thought that I would need to use a none standard cooler that just happened to fit to get the cooler cheaply. Sorry for wasting your time. ;)

Sorry, I was thinking we all had the same setup from purchase. Supermicro X8SIA-F ATX 1156 Intel 3420 Intel Xeon X3450 2.66GHz 8MB Quad Core (Could upgrade to X3480 at 3.06 GHz on EBay for ~$120)

Does anybody know what heat sinks would fit this processor? The current heat sink fan is the loudest part of my modified setup.

Would anyone be interested in me redoing this entire post with out the mistakes?

I undid my previous modifications on the VGA cables. I pulled the pins out of the end of the VGA cable and the two original PCI cable ends. I put the new ends on my VGA cable and put the ground on the bottom and the 12 volt on the top. I had to splice the fourth pin on the 12volt row to the...

I'm glad I decided to test this before hooking it up. I have all the positive and neutrals backwards. You have to move more than the single pin. I'll make a new post when I fix this error.

So I decided before putting all my drives in to rewire the 12v wires to the backplanes. I found some shorter VGA cables from an older power supply in my box of cables. I chose to rewire these so safe in the wire mess inside the case. There are three layers of heat shrink tube over the...

I am up and running! It's a lot quieter. Still loud, but nothing I can't handle. I can now have a normal conversation next to it and still hear the person I'm talking to. The decibel reading in front of the computer is right under 70. Behind it is a little quieter. I tested with three...

Updated the first post. There was a portion I did not use, and decided to go with something else. XXXX DID NOT USE XX Replaced with next bullet XX $7.49 Cable Matters (2-Pack) 8-Pin PCIe to 2x Molex Power Cable – 4 Inches (Bought the adapter with two P4 adapters to increase the possible...

I have attached some documents I found useful for this case, motherboard, etc...

This might have been where I got the idea for the color red. :D

I had a little excitement Christmas day with a minor house fire. So the decisions I made installing the power supply were not always the best. Yes, this is my excuse. I'm sticking with it. (Fire Album) Getting back to work, I need to make a bracket for the power supply. I'm not one of those...

My hard disks will rarely be spinning all at the same time. So the temperature climb shouldn't be a big deal if I end up have to swap out the 120MM fans. The tool I used is something that really should be more useful than it is. I have had it for around a decade and have found that it works...

The unit is loud. From my last rebuild it was the power supplies that make all that racket. If you remove just one of the power supplies, you notice a dip in noise once you silence it. Give it a try. The 120s may be loud, but not like the fans on the power supplies.

To keep from taking this thread over, I started a new thread for my rebuild of this server to fit home use better. Chenbro-Cleversafe-Slicestor-1440 (48 Bay SAS) Rebuild for Home Use