Hey Shorty or Prime

TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
edited January 2004 in Hardware
I think you guys are the only hands on opteron guys.

Ok I have a cpu, motherboard and a heatsink/fan. No bottom sub asemmbly to attach the heatsink to.

Was this supposed to some with the MB, or the heatsink so I know who to bitch at?

tex

Comments

  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Heatsink. It should be with the sink.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited January 2004
    Back to frys then.

    Tex
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    "Bitch to no end" - Thats my moto.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Tex, if you can't get it, I have a spare. I built a dually opteron and both the heatsinks and the mobo came with the braces. So I have two extras.

    Let me know if you need one.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited January 2004
    Crap I might just buy the thing from you anyway if you don't mind prime.

    Next question for you two. Your my opteron experts... Long sigh.....

    I was expecting this thing to use a eps12v power. Like most xeon dualies use. The 24pin not 20 atx style thing and the 8 pin thing but not this slim SSI 5pin thing.

    Shorty you saw or used this board didn't ya? The kd8 master? What psu did you use. The 5 pin ssi power thing is for the smb bus and monititors temps and crap from what I can tell. You know nabbing a SSI PSU may not not be so easy. The three they "approve of" are not exactly common. Delta, Zippy and nmb I think were the three brands.

    **** HELP !

    Tex
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    We used the "officially approved of" Zippy that you mentioned...

    However, that was primarily because MSI just bought "x" number of PSUs that were on the small hitlist of theirs.

    prime would be able to better answer what PSU will work with it now as I only saw a pre-release board & CPU :(
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited January 2004
    so far price watch shows that 400 watt zippy for about $150... Ouch..

    Surely surely there is a cheap PSU then this.

    Tex
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    I was stuck buying a $200 PSU from PC Power and Cooling. I couldn't find a "budget" version.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    myaopen has the zippy PS for $105
    http://www.myaopen.com/ziphptru46br.html
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited January 2004
    Lets see how it goes. I had a cable adpater that converts a normal ATX 20 pin to EPS 24 pin sitting here and a used $15 regular psu and since the ssi spec seemed to say that connector was optional I figured I would try to boot without it.

    Its running fine on a cheap 500watt psu I had laying here and its installing XP. Lets see how it goes for a bit. Temps are fine and the 5 and 12volt lines look terrific.

    Tex
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