Project: Framed - 4PC Test System

[TheGreatSatan]

Are you using brass standoffs to raise the mobo off the tray, or plastic? Brass would give a more solid feel I think, and the plexi could be easily threaded to make for a nice solid mount.

Yes.

Also, are the legs hollow? If so, that would be a good place to hide wires if you wanted to have the edge lighting independant of the PC's.

They are hollow. I haven't thought about lighting yet

My final concern is of the fans on the bottom plate. If you enclose the case entirely, will there be enough airflow around each shelf to allow the heat to escape? You might need to put some holes into the plexi for airflow purposes.

There will be venting holes in all of the levels but that won't be sufficient. That's why I'm leaving all of the levels between the boards open to the air.

[Luke122]

Good stuff!

[DonT-FeaR]

sweet looks good that board fits very nicely

[TheGreatSatan]

All the boards I'm using are MATX, but I'm still waiting for them to arrive.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Looks great so far. Nice work as always Satan.

[TheGreatSatan]

All the boards I'm using are MATX, but I'm still waiting for them to arrive.

I forgot to mention what they are, as they have changed.

The P4 is a Biostar P4M900-M4 socket 478, but uses up to DDR2-533? (I have the 512MB x2 of DDR2-533 that I pulled from my daughters HP) .Which I didn't even know existed. I thought all socket 478's were limited to DDR400 max. The processor is 3.0GHz

The AMD single core will be my 3000+ XP, if it works. The other board I have turns on, but then shuts down within 5 seconds. I replaced the memory over and over, so it's either the board or the Proc. I'll know when the new board comes.

[TheGreatSatan]

My Single Core P4 arrived today.

I haven't put the stand offs in yet. I'm waiting till I have all of the boards and am sure of their placement.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Only two more systems to go lol.

[simon275]

Nice mod I like the stand. You could use all those systems together as a Beowulf Cluster and do some serious folding at home time.

[Crazy Buddhist]

TGS

How about mounting two mobo's vertically on each side panel of the beast? You could have slide out frames in the middle section housing the PSU's HDD's etc for them.

Matthew

edit: seems I didn't get to the end of the thread before posting ... soz

I like Simons' idea. Add a network switch into the stand and then you can fire them up individually or from clusterknoppix CD's and run them as a cluster.