Comments for Living a Simple Life - kyle sterry http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog don't make plans Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:44:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Transplanting the Dell Precision T5400 motherboard to a new case – possible! by William http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/2009/11/18/transplanting-the-dell-precision-t5400-motherboard-to-a-new-case-possible/comment-page-1/#comment-20113 William Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:44:14 +0000 http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/?p=205#comment-20113 http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e40/DrThanatos/Untitled-1.jpg On the right hand side you can see the pcb with the ribbon cable going to it. http://forums.2cpu.com/showpost.php?p=794252&postcount=1139 New pics of my new case with the specs. I'm thinking about pulling those 120mm fans out of the front and putting in 2 more hard drive racks and running the 8 Sas's in there. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e40/DrThanatos/Untitled-1.jpg

On the right hand side you can see the pcb with the ribbon cable going to it.

http://forums.2cpu.com/showpost.php?p=794252&postcount=1139

New pics of my new case with the specs. I’m thinking about pulling those 120mm fans out of the front and putting in 2 more hard drive racks and running the 8 Sas’s in there.

]]> Comment on Transplanting the Dell Precision T5400 motherboard to a new case – possible! by William http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/2009/11/18/transplanting-the-dell-precision-t5400-motherboard-to-a-new-case-possible/comment-page-1/#comment-20112 William Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:20:21 +0000 http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/?p=205#comment-20112 I soldered the on/off switch from the case to the pcb board that has the dell on/off switch and mounted it to the inside of my case. I'll try and get a picture of it when I get home later. I swapped mine out allot since my last post, I'm now running a pair of 5970's in xfire with a pair of 5470's oc'd to 3.8 (bsel wouldn't boot on them) Also what kind of performance are you getting out of your 3.5 sas's? I was looking at picking up 8 15k 3.5's since you can pick them up for cheap now. I soldered the on/off switch from the case to the pcb board that has the dell on/off switch and mounted it to the inside of my case. I’ll try and get a picture of it when I get home later.

I swapped mine out allot since my last post, I’m now running a pair of 5970′s in xfire with a pair of 5470′s oc’d to 3.8 (bsel wouldn’t boot on them)

Also what kind of performance are you getting out of your 3.5 sas’s?

I was looking at picking up 8 15k 3.5′s since you can pick them up for cheap now.

]]> Comment on Modifying my Terrano II 4×4 – update by Kyle http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/2008/06/18/modifying-my-terrano-ii-4x4-update/comment-page-1/#comment-20103 Kyle Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:44:55 +0000 http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/2008/06/18/modifying-my-terrano-ii-4x4-update/#comment-20103 No you do not need to get longer spings/shocks. No you do not need to get longer spings/shocks.

]]> Comment on Modifying my Terrano II 4×4 – update by Mongolian terrano rider http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/2008/06/18/modifying-my-terrano-ii-4x4-update/comment-page-1/#comment-19976 Mongolian terrano rider Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:55:45 +0000 http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/2008/06/18/modifying-my-terrano-ii-4x4-update/#comment-19976 Hi Brothers, Please tell me do I need to buy longer coil springs and shocks for my terrano, if I lift the body 4" alike you guys? Hi Brothers, Please tell me do I need to buy longer coil springs and shocks for my terrano, if I lift the body 4″ alike you guys?

]]> Comment on Transplanting the Dell Precision T5400 motherboard to a new case – possible! by marc http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/2009/11/18/transplanting-the-dell-precision-t5400-motherboard-to-a-new-case-possible/comment-page-1/#comment-19804 marc Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:32:46 +0000 http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/?p=205#comment-19804 thanks, but I deal with power pins "Dell’s properiety standard and have not figured out the pin layout except for the power on/off pins" how does he do to switch on his T5400 ?? thanks, but I deal with power pins
“Dell’s properiety standard and have not figured out the pin layout except for the power on/off pins”

how does he do to switch on his T5400 ??

]]> Comment on Transplanting the Dell Precision T5400 motherboard to a new case – possible! by Kyle http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/2009/11/18/transplanting-the-dell-precision-t5400-motherboard-to-a-new-case-possible/comment-page-1/#comment-19795 Kyle Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:43:36 +0000 http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/?p=205#comment-19795 Have upgraded to an ATI 6970 gfx card, couldn't justify the the 6990 prices and it still powers my new three-monitor set-up quite nicely now (Dell 20" + Dell 30" + Dell 20"). Thinking about not bothering with 8 SSDs, do not think my Adaptec raid card is good enough even though it had a firmware update to cope with SSDs. So my thoughts turned to the RevoDrive 3 X2. 1500 MB/sec out of the box without messing around with the raid cards. Long term, I still like to get rid of the 2.5" 15krpm drives, as the noise drive me nuts, somehow they seem noisier than the 3.5" 15krpm ones. Have upgraded to an ATI 6970 gfx card, couldn’t justify the the 6990 prices and it still powers my new three-monitor set-up quite nicely now (Dell 20″ + Dell 30″ + Dell 20″).

Thinking about not bothering with 8 SSDs, do not think my Adaptec raid card is good enough even though it had a firmware update to cope with SSDs. So my thoughts turned to the RevoDrive 3 X2. 1500 MB/sec out of the box without messing around with the raid cards.

Long term, I still like to get rid of the 2.5″ 15krpm drives, as the noise drive me nuts, somehow they seem noisier than the 3.5″ 15krpm ones.

]]> Comment on Transplanting the Dell Precision T5400 motherboard to a new case – possible! by Kyle http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/2009/11/18/transplanting-the-dell-precision-t5400-motherboard-to-a-new-case-possible/comment-page-1/#comment-19794 Kyle Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:39:16 +0000 http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/?p=205#comment-19794 Are you talking about the bit that contains the USB/Audio in/out and Power button? If so, I have searched high and low for the last three years to no avail. Dell has not been forthcoming either. If you're talking about the power supply header on the mobo, I have not looked into that, perhaps William (see his comments abovE) might have done something there because he mentioned about having four PSUs - I kept the default Dell PSU for the mobo and use the secondary to power the drives and gfx card. Are you talking about the bit that contains the USB/Audio in/out and Power button? If so, I have searched high and low for the last three years to no avail. Dell has not been forthcoming either.

If you’re talking about the power supply header on the mobo, I have not looked into that, perhaps William (see his comments abovE) might have done something there because he mentioned about having four PSUs – I kept the default Dell PSU for the mobo and use the secondary to power the drives and gfx card.

]]> Comment on Transplanting the Dell Precision T5400 motherboard to a new case – possible! by marc http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/2009/11/18/transplanting-the-dell-precision-t5400-motherboard-to-a-new-case-possible/comment-page-1/#comment-19779 marc Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:10:45 +0000 http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/?p=205#comment-19779 hey, I buy my t5400 ( with 2 xeon 5460 , 16Go, HD5850, creative X-Fi) and a cooler master HAF 932 (Extended ATX) but i can t find information to use the power control on the mobo! can you tell me where did you find it ? thanks hey, I buy my t5400 ( with 2 xeon 5460 , 16Go, HD5850, creative X-Fi) and a cooler master HAF 932 (Extended ATX) but i can t find information to use the power control on the mobo! can you tell me where did you find it ? thanks

]]> Comment on Transplanting the Dell Precision T5400 motherboard to a new case – possible! by William http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/2009/11/18/transplanting-the-dell-precision-t5400-motherboard-to-a-new-case-possible/comment-page-1/#comment-19462 William Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:03:40 +0000 http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/?p=205#comment-19462 I can confirm corssfire works, I have a 5970 and a 5850 running in tri-fire, I also tried the hacked sli drivers but couldn't get it to work. So crossfire is the way to go. I also picked up a new case so I'm moving it into it. This thing is a beast! 32 5.25 bays, 4 psu's and holds 2 motherboards! I'm painting it right now. I can confirm corssfire works, I have a 5970 and a 5850 running in tri-fire, I also tried the hacked sli drivers but couldn’t get it to work. So crossfire is the way to go. I also picked up a new case so I’m moving it into it. This thing is a beast! 32 5.25 bays, 4 psu’s and holds 2 motherboards! I’m painting it right now.

]]> Comment on Transplanting the Dell Precision T5400 motherboard to a new case – possible! by William http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/2009/11/18/transplanting-the-dell-precision-t5400-motherboard-to-a-new-case-possible/comment-page-1/#comment-18948 William Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:22:58 +0000 http://www.sterry.me.uk/blog/?p=205#comment-18948 Hey Kyle, Ya I'm still getting all the parts together for my new setup, hoping to have it all by Nov. I'm going full liquid cooled and a pair of 5470's oc'd to around 4.2ghz. As for crossfire I'll let you know how it goes when I get the T7400 board, I'll test tri-fire with a 5970 and a 5850 just to see if the board can do it. And for over clocking yours it's cake, pull the cpu and tape 1 pin on each cpu and it'll turn your fsb from 1333 to 1600 and you won't get much for extra heat since you don't have to over volt yours. I'm going to have to pin mod mine for extra voltage. And 8 ssd's will be pretty epic, I'm running 4 older kingstons in a raid 1 and they screem, I also picked up a copy of supercache which will cache part of the drives into ram. I get around 1500 read/write with super cache on. If you want to raid them though you either want a intel raid card or wait till your raid card gets updated. Right now only intel raid cards can pass trim to a raid set. Later Bill Hey Kyle,

Ya I’m still getting all the parts together for my new setup, hoping to have it all by Nov. I’m going full liquid cooled and a pair of 5470′s oc’d to around 4.2ghz.

As for crossfire I’ll let you know how it goes when I get the T7400 board, I’ll test tri-fire with a 5970 and a 5850 just to see if the board can do it.

And for over clocking yours it’s cake, pull the cpu and tape 1 pin on each cpu and it’ll turn your fsb from 1333 to 1600 and you won’t get much for extra heat since you don’t have to over volt yours. I’m going to have to pin mod mine for extra voltage.

And 8 ssd’s will be pretty epic, I’m running 4 older kingstons in a raid 1 and they screem, I also picked up a copy of supercache which will cache part of the drives into ram. I get around 1500 read/write with super cache on. If you want to raid them though you either want a intel raid card or wait till your raid card gets updated. Right now only intel raid cards can pass trim to a raid set.

Later
Bill

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