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To use the Norco parts you definitely need to drill some holes. I drilled four holes to secure the rear panel. You can see three of the four screws if you look carefully at the pictures above. I only drilled one hole to secure the fanwall + a zip tie because it's so light weight. If you decide to installed the Norco back window I would recommend having a motherboard and a graphics card installed to help in aligning the case with the back window before drilling any holes. IMG_0477.jpg - Shows the ~1/4 inch gap on the left side of the backwindow. I used a few bolts and spacers to fill the gap. IMG_0479.jpg - Shows the one screw I used for the fan wall. Zip ties were also used, but not shown. IMG_0482.jpg - Shows how the power supply does not line up with the with back window mounting holes. I ended drilling the PSU holes larger so they would meet up with the power supply screw holes.

Here are all the files I used for this. Hope it helps. turnOnDesktopVM.zip

Here is my new all-in-one whitebox server. It acts as my router, server, NAS and gaming computer. Raw storage: 63TB Usable: 42TB OS: ESXi6.0 NAS OS: debian 7 openmediavault + LSI SAS3008 HBA (IT) passthrough + mergerfs + snapraid Boot: SanDisk 32GB Extreme CZ80 USB 3.0 Datastore#1: SAMSUNG 850 EVO 500GB Datastore#2: 5TB WD Black Storage: 5 x 8TB Segate SMR archive Storage: 6 x 3TB Segate PMR Case Fan: 3 x COUGAR CF-V12HPB 120mm Case Fan: 2 x SilenX EFX-08-15 80mm fans CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U9DXi4 90mm SSO2 PSU: CORSAIR AX series AX760 760W ATX12V Motherboard: SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SRH-CLN4F-O RAM: 2 x Kingston 16GB DDR4 KVR21R15D4/16 GPU: MSI Radeon HD 6950 DirectX 11 R6950 Twin Frozr CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 (ebay) Case: SUPERMICRO 846E16-R1200B (ebay) Case Backwindow: Norco 4224_backwindow Case Fanwall: Norco 120mm fan wall: ASIN:B0075790SO After the fan/case mods the server is dead silent. The only time I can hear it is when the GPU fan kicks in. Server only uses 150 Watts at idle. When my desktop VM is running it uses around 200 watts due to the GPU power draw. I had to mount the WD 5TB Black drive inside the case because everything connected to the SAS controller gets passed through to the Openmediavault VM. I use the Black drive as backup for the VMs on the SSD. I also use it for jobs too large for the SSD. I could only plug in one of the SAS cables because the GPU is in the way. In the future I will get a smaller GPU or just build a new gaming computer. It's not a perfect fit, but it gets the job done. I have 4 large screws securing the backwindow to the case. GPU passthrough worked on first try without any issues. I gave this VM 24 cpus just so i could take a picture of Task Manager. Here is my snapraid config. I'm using two 8TB archive drives for parity. It turns out it's tricky to turn on a desktop VM. My solution was to standup a small webserver that runs a PHP script to SSH into the esxi host to turn on/off my desktop. It's not the most secure solution but it works for now. Kitty likes the new server.