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Adding an additional rear fan helps reducing the issue with the psu temps

I've got a Huanan X99 F8D in the Torrent - EATX and covering all of the holes on the front to 100%. Here you can see how i've routed my cables. ATX and dual 8pin 12V are on the top of the board.

Daily main rig. All-purpose thing, rendering, software development, gaming...

You're right - but then you're fixed of running VMs and you can't access all the Hardware at once (what you might want to do if you'll use that server as a kind of a workstation). Depends ... everything has pros and cons ...

You could just run Windows 2019 / 22 Server with Hypervisor Role installed and play around with VMs 🤷‍♂️👍

The Case is a Fractal Torrent, the LED Bar is built in by factory. 👍 During Men Testing

That was just a joke - I really love to see all the dually rigs 🥰 I'm doing a lot of VM stuff, so Cores ARE important for me.

Oh man, I love those 'look how big my dick is' things. :D But only 64 gigs of Ram? You could update that! :) I also love my dually Workstation. Next update will be dual Xeon Platinum 8280 as soon as they are affordable (so in 2 years or so...) (Bench was taken with 4 VMs running - so maybe...

According to the review, the compact has much smaller space on the backside for cabling. The nano however seems to have more space. Strange.

Here you've got a review of the Compact and Nano ... I know it's in german but maybe it's helpful. https://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/artikel/hardware/gehaeuse/58022-fractal-design-torrent-compact-und-torrent-nano-im-test-der-airflow-zwergenaufstand.html

Hm... Seems that those coolers are not easily available here in Germany 🙄😔 However, I've found some adequate replacement - from an old GeForce MX Card. Works like a charm and it's not noisy anymore (at least not that fan 😂)

Since somehow there is no one interested in the board i got from another forum a few month ago, and it has only been lying around since the construction of my Dual Xeon E5-2680v4 workstation, I thought I would build a sleeper. Hyper-V and stuff like that can be run on it, at least temporarily...

I don't Really know the exact Setup - but both were connected simultaneously to the network and had the same specs. I could image some sort of fail over cluster... Maybe with some special controlling software.

It was one of the backbone servers of the "Belwue" high-school network in Germany . His name is Hugo (yeah, no joke! Also had a sister named Lisa). Cost of that thing with current spec is around 200k - plus the two RS/8s. Yeah, that WAS a BEAST. THE beast.

No complains, however I'm not the ultra-silent freak... 🤷‍♂️

SamirD : It's Windows NT 4.0 SP6 - Seems to support 4 CPUs out of the box with the 'Multiprocessor Kernel', which is detected during installation ... :)

longblock454 : Idle is around 400W .. In full power it'll reach 1kW with ease ...

Thread is open :) https://hardforum.com/threads/something-special-the-hp-netserver-lx-pro-quad-pentium-pro.2017372/

Hi all, as promised here, I want to show you what was Ultra-High-End back in the days of 1997 (25 years ago!). It all started with a server from my high school, equipped with 2 166MHz CPUs and 256MB Ram. Over the years, i got 4 1MB 200 MHz Pentium Pros (aka 'Blackies'), the corresponding CPU...

I still have a running Netserver LX Pro with 4 Pentium Pros with 1MB Cache and 4 GB Ram. Think I might open a thread here to show it 😬🤘

As far as I remember... Think I've not vergotten anything. .. But these are the milestones: MOS 6502 (C64) Motorola MC68000 (Amiga 500) Intel 386 (IBM PS/2) Pentium 150 (first real PC, ca. 1997) AMD K6/2 350 AMD Thunderbird 1000MHz (start of OCing stuff...) AMD Barton 2500+ Intel Core2 Duo...

Venturi : I've got the rgb super slow and only cycling blue and green and the colors in between... Don't like a disco style light under my desk 😂 The aerocool mirage are good coolers, of course not the best, but sufficient. And quite silent until 1500rpm.

Haha yeah me too. Next upgrade will be something dual Epyc or dual S3647 like... But I assume not the next 2 years.

Super nice rigs - and super expensive, too! I can't afford that, but for me my Dual Xeon workstation ( dual E5 2680v4, 128 gb ram, GTX970) is sufficient. Today I tried to render the PovRay Wiki Glass image in 1920x1080... Took ages!

RGB does (in my opinion) not mean that the case has to be lit up like a rainbow. I like the colors, but have it quite decent and the color change is set up super slow. Normally i only have blue and green. However, it seems that some games like Halo Infinite takes over the control - i've got...

New Desk, new Workstation. Fractal Torrent Dual E5 2680v4 128GB DDR4 Ecc Reg Gigabyte GTX970 Xtreme BeQuiet Dark Power 12 1000

I had a cpu temp drop of a couple of degrees after installing an exhaust fan ... But that might be to my special dual cpu setup... However I do not think you need it. The amount of air from the two 180mm fans is incredible, already at 300rpm.

PSU change in less than 20 minutes. With the top panel installed, psu becomes invisible.

I'm proud owner of an Torrent. Equipped with Dual E5 2680v4 (total 28 Cores / 56 Threads) Dual Aerocool Mirage 5 Huananzhi X99 F8D 128GB DDR4 Ecc Gigabyte GTX970 Xtreme BeQuiet Dark Power 12 1000 Seagate FireCuda 1TB Some crappy 256gb ssd 1tb hdd Added an exhaust fan extra, razer argb...

I've got a dual xeon x5670 with 96gb ram as well... It's for sale (located in Germany)

I've uploaded a video to youtube, showing the Workstation running at full load (>600W) (starting at idle). Notice it would neither get too hot nor too loud.

28 Cores / 56 Thread, dual E5 2680v4 Win 10 pro, no issues

I don't think it's that bad..

But the threadripper is way more expensive. My Dual xeon rig with 128gb of ram cost 600

Yes! So here's my freshly built dual E5 2680v4 workstation.

thats a nice 9" display. what model is it?

Not Actually a "Screen shot" ... but ... well ... Some Details

yep you're right. but i'm moving in about 3 weeks or so, making a cable management unnecessarily at the moment.

Just got a new Triple Monitor Desk Stand and got my desk nearly cable-free (ordered three longer dvi - cables to eliminate that cables from the outer tfts).

Got an Old Dual Pentium Board laying around ... I've got some dual and quad machines too, think i'll post them soon.