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I work at a data centre, and I wanted something unique for my workstation. During my internship I used my Lenovo Yoga 710 (I recently put liquid metal in that) to drive 2 1440P monitors, definitely not bad. But it left me wishing for more. I then decided I wanted to build a server that could power not 1 but 2 workstations, taking some inspiration of linus' 7 games 1 CPU video. Currently this is my workstation: It's on sticky rubber feet, so it always stays nice and centred, it no longer slips around. It's very close to maxed out. The specs are: 2x Intel Xeon X5690 12x 16GB 2r memory (that's the max for 16GB sticks @192GB) 512MB raid cache (on the integrated P410 controller), looking for a 1GB module 1x HP sas expander, allowing me to attach an external sas enclosure, as well as the extra backplane 16x 600GB Intel 320 series SSD as for the GPUs, I still want to get something newer, but this is functional 1x Quadro K2000 1x Quadro FX1800 The power usage is pretty manageable too (considering this is powering 2 workstations, blue is average) Since the server will turn up the fans when you put cards in the PCI-e slots I have had cut the PWM leads going to the fans. I have connected them to an Arduino. For the people reading this in the future, who want to do the same: - The green wire is the PWM cable. - The fans are reverse PWM, meaning if you want to make the fans spin slower you want to use a higher duty cycle (higher number for the analogWrite function.). The cable management has been improved since (and the picture still shows 4r memory, which is no longer in this machine) As for the operating system: I am running ESXi on this machine, which works very well. The GPUs (and USB controllers) are configured in pass-through to give them to the VMs. On the VMs I am running Windows 10, which is very responsive on this system. ESXi shuts down the VMs when the host is powered down, which works well too. Both VMs have 64GB of memory, all cores provisioned (they are overprovisioned, 1VM could theoretically eat up the entire host), 256GB disk space (this has everything to do with how this started) The storage speed is good, but far from extreme (considering there is a 16 drive raid 10 array powering it all): Temperatures were a bit of a problem, so recently I have had to turn up the fans quite a bit (to hopefully extend the lifetime of this machine by a lot). The machine has thermally shut down before. When Temp 30 would go out of the allowed range (this sensor is located in the chipset, located under the heatsink behind the CPUs.) It's still far from ideal but it's definitely works. Why would anyone do this? - It's cool. - You can remotely turn off, on and debug the machine, through the iLO interface. So if you were wondering, if it was possible to use a server as a workstation. The answer is yes, even in an office, as long as you are willing to put some TLC in.

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In case of a stereo setup ALWAYS point them at you, and don't put them in front, put them off to the sides!

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okay, so from where you took the second picture, Plug it in on the left part of the connector, you can see it is a Reverse L, look at the power cable, and make sure it lines up (the little notch on the inside of the connector will point inwards, while the little notch on the outside of the connector points the other way) The cable I see on the second picture, if you would brind that to your disk, it should plug in without troubles (on the left side of the connector!) EDIT the cable already is in the right orientation The power plugs in on the longer part of the connector:

Please make sure you are plugging in the right connector; On your SATA disk you should see a connector like this: The left part is the data part, that goes to the motherboard (with a sata cable) And on the right you see the SATA power, that is where the header from your motherboard will plug in, the cable on your power supply should look something like this (the connector on the end) (the cables on the image might not and most likely will not mactch, but the end of the connector should look the same)

Looks like M2 (the metric system) is what you need. I am 100% not sure though, you'll have to check, just get a screw, if it goes in without any effort it will be fine (and if there isn't a lot of play on it.)

So I use remote desktop to connect to my server when I am not home; but when I do there are a lot of "hard faults" going on in the memory; This goes away after a while, is there a solution to this problem? the system also doesn't respond while this is going on. I really can't find where this problem is coming from Information about my memory (if that would be the issue) 16GB DDR3 ECC registered ram (supplied by micromemory, the ram is fine and has never had issues. (as far as I can tell))

I made the exact situation you have right now (except for the modem) But I am using a 100Mbit router; and the exact switch you mentioned, test situation is: Here are the results when I copy a file over the network from SRV1 to WKS1: By using a switch both Gigabit and non gigabit links can be present in a network, and since switch won't force everyone to go over the router this means you can have 2 machines hooked up to 10Gbit, while the rest of the network is just 10Mbit, 100Mbit, 1Gbit or 4Gbit (less common) Hope that clarifies

WIP From what I can tell is that you want to hook your switch up to the WAN connection, as well as all machines? What you want to do is: Modem -> Router(which includes WIFI) -> Switch -> WKS x3 You need the Router for your machines to be able to get a connection to the outer world, as well as the DHCP server to give addresses (you most likely want to make those static anyways!) (I didn't include this on the drawing but the WAN comes in to the left of the modem) The Router doesn't have gigabit capabilities, so do you do not need to worry about this, the switch will switch based on mac addresses meaning that your workstations will have a full gigabit of bandwidth to each other (but not to the wifi devices) Just give me a minute, I think I have that exact switch somewhere here

Thanks, I'll get in touch with Asrock I guess ;p As I really don't understand the problem either (as even flashing the firmware didn't help)

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I actually did it like that for almost a year, I showed in the video I included at 1:40 that this actually is a feature, and I used that. Power remains But this is not using USB, this is using PS/2 I want it to be able to start my computer completely as I like to take off the power at night.