World class procrastination there D! I still have a modded Gen 7 Microserver in my office that I haven't really got round to setting up. Bought it from some bloke here.... In other news, enjoy your cruise and try not to upset the 'management' while you're away
Well, It's not pretty but it will definitely work: Just using an old donor board, but it looks like everything lines up. I mean anything with high-stacked IO will interfere with the fan, and I did have to remove the two fan guide rails by drilling out the not-rivets. In case anyone is interested, the measurement from the bottom of the chassis to the IO cut-out is ~18mm and ~4.5mm from the left hand side. I had to shave a couple of mm off the upright separating the the PCI slots. **Note: These measurements were taken AFTER removing the plastic bottom and side panels.
Yeah, I'm subbed to his channel, I love his content. He's using a NUC board and some seriously janky (read cool) adapters and thingies to get it running. It does mean he can retain both PCI slots on the back, but he couldn't get the plastic panels off though. What a noob!* I wasn't sure if it was possible to make an ITX board fit - because I couldn't find a single instance of someone else modding this particular chassis. I just figured I'd buy a dead Gen7 and try. I still have a lot to do, like accurately mark up and fit standoffs for the motherboard - I just used a big countersink bit to remove the punched standoffs in the motherboard tray. I have enough alu plate to make my own tray but I like the cool captive fixings on the original. *I only broke a couple of the clips to get the base plate off.
Today, I have mostly been rewiring a microserver front IO and I discovered that my 6 x 2.5" drive cage is only a 4 x 2.5" unit, which is a bit of a pain... ...but now the G7 has USB 3.0
Right, just had confirmation of the LP cooler delivery, and the sanding blocks, and the paint, and the heat shrink. I just have to grind a mm or so off the standoffs and probably the mobo mounting screws. After that, it's just a simple matter of sanding down the chassis and panels, painting it all and then finish the rewiring. Oh, and figure out how I'm going to cable manage this beast. Also, I have, in last 4 or 5 days, managed to misplace my low profile USB 3 adapters for the mobo header. Then I have to find out where I stored my miniSAS cables. Yeah, a mere few moments of work before it is complete.
Waiting for bits for the Gen7... ...but this arrived: Can't test it in the MS-01 yet - gotta wait for the slimline cooler from Robbee - but I chucked it on the MS-A1 to see how it fared over Oculink PCIE 4.0 x4. It beats the 4060LP by 10-15% and the temps seem to peg out at 70 degrees, on synthetic benches at least. Haven't messed with undervolting or overclocking yet. I think UV will be a challenge, but I just have to try.
OK, got home and the missus had the dinner on, so I had some time... Init cute? Paused for mac n cheese Behold! The mini powerhouse!! Runs hot though, will prolly have to re-paste and/or play with the thermal pads...
Not really - it's designed as a NAS board - lots of SATA and 10GbE. I mean, I fired it up with a windows install just to test it out for a hour or two - it seemed like a pretty snappy little system, but I didn't hammer it with cinebench or anything like that.
I think the N100 performs similarly to Haswell but at a fraction of the power, obviously. @David what are you using the MS-01 for?
I decided I wanted a super small gaming rig but, if I can't sufficiently cool the 4000SFF in there, it'll just be a daily driver/video editing rig.
