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@The_Crapman Oh yeah I forgot she ended up with @Byron C .

That old girl is probably big enough to rent out as an airb&b

I seem to remember she had a healthy rack

 

Oh that'd be cool ta. I shall certainly take a look.

However, the P720 case and internal shiny bits are somewhat proprietary in their layout, especially the motherboard and PSU and not really conducive to moving into another case.



I would have dropped everything into the cavernous vastness that is my Coolermaster ATCS 840 by now if that were the case and put in all the drives.

I have already got a couple of new(ish) parts in there such as the second Xeon Silver 4210 (20 physical cores now what for the playing with) so I would like to carry on using this although I suppose that I could look at chucking in another stick of RAM and selling it on as a working server/workstation, it does have a drive that can be used to boot and a Quadro P2000 and the Coolermaster would certainly be a LOT more versatile, I just need to find a spare £2k or so to build another decent level PC that will last me like my current setup of Ryzen 5 2600X and 980Ti have.

Hmm, all the thinking needed, might be finally time to look at letting a load of my Games Workshop stuff wander off to pastures new.

 

Ah, I wasn’t sure if you were using it just as an empty shell for your own parts, or using the entire system. The case is probably useless, but I’ll drop you a note with the some photos of the drive cages, see if you can finagle them in somehow.

 

I had this when buying my house. My spider senses were tingling so I called their bluff and didn't budge on my offer. It was accepted.

 

Bloody hell!

 

Eep, that's a touch kwispy. Can almost smell it from here.

 

It does evoke that memory of that particular electrical plastic smell doesn't it.

But the important question @Gareth Halfacree is do you have a spare kettle or at least a pan with which to boil water?

Nobody should be without tea and I think it's actually illegal in Yorkshire.

 

Ah so that's what was going on.

I hope you do realise you are literal gold dust to this forum.

E: I don't know how these things work but is there a way of limiting the number of Guests that can access the site at any one time?

I guess that could limit the strain?

 

Sounds like you're trying to balance an egg on a spoon while tightrope walking across the grand canyon @MLyons

 

Yikes!

 

You weren't trying to recreate this, were you?

 

A bit of BluTack on the spoon, will make that easy…

 

That's a huge yikes mate. Housemate I had back in 2022 decided his shorting extension was good enough as long as he didn't use that one socket on it. Had to yell at him and LL to stop that crap as the entire extension was dodgy

I (don't) love the smell of burnt electrics in the morning

 

I think some of the worst that I have smelled is the immediate aftermath of a surge protection device going pop. When the Metal Oxide Varistors in them reach end of life they can do so in a VERY hot way. Decent ones will have thermal fusing in them to disconnect them before they go bang or burst into flames, but the cheap n nasty ones that you can pick up for pennies will not have those and can be somewhat nasty. Some friends in the US nearly had a proper house fire moment when a cheap 4 socket SPD bar gave out.

The one that I smelled was one that we were testing in our R&D lab to make it go bang and that was an old but high capacity design made up of banks of small MOVs, hell of a stink. Most are monolithic now and a far safer.