Intel P4000 Workstation

[CyklonDX]

Just wanted to share my amd build in Intel P4000 Workstation case since it looks cool.

(you can see dust marks from dust filter - yes its clean inside)

Mobo: MSI x570 MEG Unify
PSU: Seasonic Prime 1kW Titanium SSR-1000TR
CPU: AMD Ryzen x5950 (16c) w/ Noctua NH-D9L 92mm heatsink
Memory: 128GB DDR4 3600MHz
GPU: AMD 7900XTX @ PCIE x8
SAS Controller: LSI 9300-16i @ PCIE x8
Network: Intel X540-T2 using 1x 10Gig @ PCIE x4

Storage:
1x Micron 3400 2TB NVMe,

(3.5" Intel SAS Backplane)
4x HGST SAS 4Kn 10TB,
2x Toshiba SATA 4Kn 16TB
2x Seagate SAS 4Kn 8TB,

(2.5" Icy Dock SAS Backplane)
2x HGST 800GB SAS SSD 12GBps
4x Hynix Gold S31 1TB SATA SSD 6GBps
1x Intel DC3700 400GB SATA SSD 6GBps
1x Crucial MX500 1TB SATA SSD 6GBps


From front you can see classical fan controler, and 3 front superspeedy small supermicro fans that can do 24k RPM at max (had to replace caps on fan controller so its capable of pushing 3 fans like that - oem struggled with single one like that.)

(yes it can get loud on full)


The box is running a opensuse, with windows10 kvm for games.
Main use would say 4k ai upscaling, and intrapolating videos from 24/30fps to 48-60fps, and test bed for disk endurance testing, as well as data recovery.

The cons of the box:
The sizes are not 100% everywhere - and some strange locking mechanism on 5.2" slots.
The parts are quite hard to get...
Fan mount is in the way of longer GPU's
Poor cooling, unless you do it on your own;
In my case i bought Supermicro 2U 3 fan module, and velcroed it to base of the case

 

[DavidWJohnston]

That's pretty cool! Some of those older cases sure do have great versatility.

I used to have a fan controller just like that, but it was a separate little free-standing screen with a cable to a false PCIe card with a bunch of fan connectors.

I've been thinking about something similar to make a home for 2x FH LTO5 drives, and some 2.5" enclosures to retire my power hungry RAID5 24x120G SSD disk shelf.

 

[nthu9280]

@CyklonDX - Oh my! Blast from the past. Do you have the P4000S version? M & L both have fan walls. IIRC, my M came with fixed wall and L has hot swap. Your AI / GPU use case is might require additional cooling which I can totally understand.

I still have P4000M (empty) & P4000L (with S2600 IP4 MoBo) powered down. Was using it using ESXi host for various SAP / HANA test VMs. I did buy extra chassis parts at that time from OEM XS.
They still have some chassis parts for these. They are all NIB discontinued.

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[CyklonDX]

I'm not sure, it had removable fan module wall with hotswapable fans. (it was branded with another company logo ralink or something - i had removed it)

I think this is the one P4308XXMHGC

When i ordered it - it was emptied out - only fans, and psu's. I had to unscrew the hotswapable psu's, the bay, and power delivery board that wasn't meant to run any GPU's.


It looked like this (this is not my picture)


The sc fan module sits quite nicely here: (its only 3 fans), and isn't blocking the GPU (its touching it - but its good, not breaking anything)



I had bought the 8x3.5" disk cage backplane separately from ebay few years back, and that one only has 2 miniSAS connectors (no-sata ones). Sadly it doesn't come with its own fans. (so as written i used sc fan module to pull air from front)


The big problem i had was cable management (this case... just ain't made for that when its fully filled.), another was the intel's front-power buttons headers. Bit tricky to manage, but i splitted the cables on my own.