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Small update - I ended up finally moving my whole arrangement to a "switchless" stack. This means I run everything from one box - router, NAS, services etc all converged. Disadvantages: everything goes down when I work on hardware. Advantages: for a small apartment a switch isn't needed...

Back after a bit of a break over Christmas. Against my better judgement I decided to move all system components to the new case last night. Before I left for holiday, I had measured and built some nice PSU cables. Unfortunately I miscalculated the quantity of super slim cable, and had to use...

I think you should be able to do everything through OPNsense and just have the ISP box in bridge and doing nothing else. From my experience with my xbox, there's a few things to look at, and will also probably need some research: DNS provider - check to make sure that your device is happy with...

Next step is making some aluminium brackets for the power supply and overhead PCIe x4 NIC. For the PSU, I have gone with HDPlex's new GAN 250W unit. I used some 10mm wide alu strip and bent it into brackets, and drilled and tapped holes as needed. The bracket was painted with some high...

The front of the 2U enclosure is a false face, it can be removed, and we can see how myelectronics has installed standoffs to keep the keystones nice and flush: Front removed: A lot of long lead items came in over the past week, so I can begin measuring and fitting. As you may have worked...

Sure - obviously this will be running 24/7 in a living room environment, so silence is key. The server itself will be running proxmox - a virtualisation software. The VMs I run are basically: OPNsense - firewall with direct ISP fibre connection. This means I manage my own optical termination...

Hello all, The time has come to chase more storage density and a little more volume, as well as start consolidating as many services as possible into one server box. I've started to outgrow my Cravo CG7, so I started planning a quiet 2U server that can go in my small rack in my entertainment...

Has anyone actually seen any of these available? I'm chasing the LGA1200 version myself, it says a few are preliminary but the 4th one I cannot find at all: https://www.asrockrack.com/general/products.asp#Server https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E3C256D4ID-2T

I have been playing with some ultra shallow concepts to fit my needs for my current ultra shallow 5U rack in my home theatre cabinet. Some of the constraints and requirements for this little server in my small eco-system: 250mm maximum depth, including rear plug, which may be right angled if...

I use imgbb for my pictures. Undervolting/overclocking results are in! I will put it in text, rather than the table just in case the images get auto-deleted from image hosting sites. Noise perception rating is subjective. <3 silent, need to put your head 20cm from case to hear fan barely. 4-7...

I'll report back once I've got my fan curves and volting/clocking sorted. I was aware that the cooler height is not ideal due to air turbulence at the grill with the fan being so close. The aim is to have the CPU fan run at silent speeds for general workloads (browsing, youtube) and then allow...

Here is my "parts bin" build - I had 90% of the parts, just added the case and SSD. I made something with a bit of graphical grunt for certain programs that my laptop won't run, and also dual boot windows/linux. Plan is to undervolt the non-K processor, and overclock the GPU. I don't know if I...

Here is the finished product! I had to wait for a new adapter (M2->PCIe) as the old one was cactus. In theory this now supports full PCIe x16 for a LP GPU, and also PCIe x4 for a LP card off the M2 slot. There is a total maximum of 9x SSDs (8x sata and 1x NVME). Future work includes changing...

I'm running the fans off the GPU header. My 5 pin adapter was not correct. Make sure you check yours fits on the GPU header.

Due to the limited volume I bought a crimping tool and made my own connectors to curve around properly without cable bulge. This is my first time sleeving, and it came out ok, not great. Next time I will step up to paracord and try sleeve each individual cable. Here is the 24 pin and 8 pin EPS...