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Those heatsinks are pretty wild, are they stock or something you added? I'd love more info about it, they almost look like tiny AIOs!

tbird_ YO Dynatron heatsinks dang, haven't seen since my socket 940 (?) Opeterons - they got beefier over time! Bonus pic of the venomous red back spider that lived in the rack the above server was in (if I remember correctly):

Love the clean look of the rig to go with the clean look of the room!

My ""new"" CPU's finally showed up! a set of Xeon E5 2697 v2's - 12c/24t @ 2.7~3.5GHz Benchmarks against the old CPUs Out with the old and In with the (not really) new The heatsinks left interesting stripe marks in the (>5yr old) thermal paste when I went to swap them! Excuse the cat...

Happy this thread is still going! I last posted in here in 2011!! This thread revival inspired me to max out my old dual socket 2011 board with a pair of Intel E5 2697 V2 - the absolute cream of the crop for the original socket 2011. Going in to a Supermicro X9DAi board with 128GB ECC DDR3 1600...

I made a cable up for my ARC-1680 using these instructions - I connected them like so: RJ11_________DE9 Pin 1 ----------- Pin 7 (RTS) Pin 2 ------------- Pin 2 (RXD) Pin 3 -------------- Pin 3 (TXD) Pin 4 -------------- Pin 5 (GND) (Pin 5 & 6 not connected) I can get to a prompt when I plug...

oh and for nostalgia..........

Figured I'd get in on the fun as well, with a picture of my messy old home setup consume the electrons, consume the $$$$.... List of equipment, top to bottom 1). 24 Port CAT6 Patch panel 2). Allied Telesis AT-9924T - 24 Port Layer 3/4 switch Unrestricted licence 2b).1u Cable management -...

I'm not sure that achieves quite what I'm after but I tried it none the less. I get as far as installing the vib file but it complains about not finding a certificate I have set my vmware to accept "Community" level files but no dice?

Niceee!

Although I've had many dual socket configurations (Been a big fan since my dual Coppermine P3's) I figured its not the biggest or best but I should post my new build on here too! (Before you say anything, yeah I know, spaghetti junction , camera phone fail etc.. :)) Specs: Supermicro H8DII+-F...

Hi Guys, Long time lurker first time poster : ) I've just recently set up my ESXi box and I'm having difficulty with the following: I have an array of 5 drives in RAID 6 on my Areca 1230 and I'd like to pass it thru to a VM I have as my 'fileserver' (I'm running the install/inventory on...