New PC mostly built *pics*

[rallynavvie]

I made the required modifications to the Antec P160 in order to fit my wider board in (it involved a lot of rending of the aluminum motherboard plate and some drilling) and mounted the board.
Front of case:
http://4wheelracing.com/media/dh800/antec.jpg
Window on the side of the case:
http://4wheelracing.com/media/dh800/window.jpg

I also installed everything I had available for the board. Pretty much all I'm missing is the processors which will likely be bought in June unless I find a good deal somewhere else.
The DH800 in all its glory:
http://4wheelracing.com/media/dh800/board.jpg
The sockets, dual 4-phase VRMs, and 2GB of memory:
http://4wheelracing.com/media/dh800/oversockets.jpg

[flaninacupboard]

Me like

Plenty of space in there. i'll treat myself with a new super machine. one day.

[Piccoro]

oOO nice.
Very nice. Dual CPUs, Expansion card (RAID?) in the 64bit PCI slot, SATA drive. BTW that case is slick.

[Capmaster]

Nice machine Rally
What, no neon lights and a see-through side-panel?

[flaninacupboard]

Someone didn't look at all the pics:
http://4wheelracing.com/media/dh800/window.jpg

See, it DOES make you blind :P

[mrtristan]

Nice setup. That's a Xeon board, correct? I'm interested in how it turns out. I know there's others out there, but I always remember you as the other dualie guy on the board.

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[Capmaster]

Someone didn't look at all the pics:
http://4wheelracing.com/media/dh800/window.jpg

See, it DOES make you blind :P

My dad said it would, so I figured I'd only do it until I needed glasses

I skimmed the pics. I thought that shot showed the case with the panel missing. I guess I didn't notice that the screws were in place.

[rallynavvie]

It's just a big paper-weight now. I'm waiting to purchase Xeons until the end of May when Intel is going to be cutting costs on them to compete with the Opterons. Depending on prices they'll likely be 2.8 or 3.06 Xeons. There are already folks with this board OCing their 2.4 Xeons up to 3.4 with 1 GHz FSB and no stability issues

There's a lot of room in there yet because the two Swiftech heatsinks aren't in there with the 80mm fans on top of them. That should pretty much blot out that half of the board. I do have to cut some pins off the one sink as they'll end up touching the video card. Should still dissipate heat well enough since the exhaust fan is right there. The case is very well designed though, that's why I decided to buy it and mod it to fit my board in rather than buy one that would be able to fit it in there regardless (the motherboard tray behind that board comes about an inch short on the right side). Unfortunately there are already lights built in. There are blue LEDs at the top of each of the three intake vents on the front of the case that oddly illuminate that. The exhaust fan is also an LED fan. Hey, it came that way, and at least I can disconnect the lights on the front.

Current configuration you're seeing in there is the board, 2GB of Mushkin PC3200, the Antec True550 PSU, a GeForce FX 5600 Ultra, Adaptec 39320 SCSI RAID adapter, a Vantec IDE swap bay, Pioneer DVR-104, two Seagate 15krpm U320 SCSI 18GB drives, and a WD 74GB SATA Raptor. I'm also going to be filling that last HDD spot with a 200GB+ SATA storage drive. I also have to give the onboard audio a run otherwise I'll be getting a sound card to go in that bottom PCI slot. The other PCI-X slot is likely gong to be a 1394b adapter. The PCI slot next to the AGP card is useless with that big heatsink

[Capmaster]

Rally,
Once again, I'm salivating reading the description. I posted a while back about a possible new PC and you convinced me to wait. What you have there, especially the U320 SCSI 15K drives, is just what I'm planning except I might go with a single 74GB Cheetah. Now if the Xeon prices just drop a bit more.....

[rallynavvie]

Actually the SCSI equipment may go back in with the Tiger to be used for servers (game servers, file servers, etc.). Now that I will finally be getting broadband out here I'd like to keep the old machine on all the time running the odd game server or storing files from my other computers. It still has a ton of storage space available and I'd like to keep as many drives out of my new system as possible. If the SCSI gets taken out I'll probably be putting in a couple large IDE drives.

The DH800 is the board Cap. I'm still hearing lots of good things about it. Join me in waiting for the Xeon price breaks only a month away! The savings had better be worth it

[Capmaster]

Actually the SCSI equipment may go back in with the Tiger to be used for servers (game servers, file servers, etc.). Now that I will finally be getting broadband out here I'd like to keep the old machine on all the time running the odd game server or storing files from my other computers. It still has a ton of storage space available and I'd like to keep as many drives out of my new system as possible. If the SCSI gets taken out I'll probably be putting in a couple large IDE drives.

The DH800 is the board Cap. I'm still hearing lots of good things about it. Join me in waiting for the Xeon price breaks only a month away! The savings had better be worth it

Oh yeah - the latest Iwill 875 "Workstation" MB. Nice board 8)