So I am getting the itch to build one of my old systems again. If you go to search nad look up dual xeon dream machine you’ll find my special little workstation build. It was a blast to play with and actually a pretty powerful platform still. 60fps low settings 1600x1200 in quake champs, not a bad system.
However the issue I’m going to run into is that I can’t get the flatbed psu’s dell designed very easily, and certainly not the 750w unit that I had. I feel like such as idiot for tossing that machine what the fuck is wrong with me honestly.
I can’t get the same case, but I have an nzxt phantom in black that looks pretty dell-like. I could get a dimension 670 board, the 3.85ghz dual core xeons, and the high power vrm cards, and have a stupid system that with a bios unlock I can overclock. Maybe get water coolers for it and bolt them to the door of the case. That would be sick, actually.
But… Uh, again, 5v rail. I need like… ugh I can’t remember the rating but like a shit load of 5v. More than what you’d get on avg today.
I appreciate any help. I’m also aware there’s 670 era machines for sale on ebay but I don’t want the psu to break in shipping. So eh.
The need for 5v rail is a little over hyped by the retro crowd, CPUs back then we’re rated for 35w at the top end, that’s 7 amps, dual CPU that would be 14a, any decent psu will have 20-25a on the 5v rail
But the pentium 4 mobos mostly ran off 12v 4pin, a few early 478 mobos didn’t but they topped out at 1.9ghz because of a fsb limitation
Willamette topped out at 91W in 2001. Palomino hit 66W and had dual socket variants. Venerable “power efficient” Barton still ran up to nearly 80W on peaks. Lots of those old boards today will fail to POST without 30A+ (A7V133 I’m looking at you…)
Single P3? Sure. Dual P3? 30A or don’t bother plugging it in. But regardless Aremis is talking about a Netburst Xeon based Precision 670 in the OP, not Coppermine stuff. Those 3.8GHz Irwindales are 150W a piece and despite being on a more 12v centric setup they absolutely want 5V to chug on for PCI/PCI-X and AGP (if they get E7505 instead of E752x).
There’s a few asset liquidation companies that sell refurbed/reclaimed PSUs for those systems for $150 but apparently we’re worried about stuff breaking in shipping? Not sure how else you get a PSU delivered unless somebody figured out material teleportation without telling us.
Well I mean if they specifically sell it that’s a different story. And yes, thank you for confirm or my data. I remember the dell psu saying 35A I believe, and I was shocked by that at the time. Big external vrm tho, so unsurprised.
I was meaning more an ebay situation. I had 2 750wtats and a 1000wtat unit but it broke after a small slide off of a couch. Incident caused by a pet, but still surprised it died so easy. Very wary of the units.
If you have links to said companies, big appreciate.
First one I found. Suggest checking other suppliers for stock, but they may also tell you they have them if you send in a request. I noticed more suppliers doing this “Out of Stock” listing thing where rather than kill the listing they want people calling in to confirm they want to buy it.
It’s a rare type of supply so for them to have a good stock of them would mena they repaired or had access to a repair place at one point, which also means dump time was probably at most 8 years ago. Part’ll be cheap that way at least.
Cool thank you. I’ll need to look into more of these then.
Any chance you know where I could fine that blue gen 3 case?