Hi all!
Here's a project rig I've been working on for a while now. I call it "Xeon Prime".
The rig has been through a couple changes before arriving at this point. Originally I was running an Intel MS440GX board with a pair of 550/1MB Xeons, 2GB of PC100, FX5200, Obsidian2 SBi 200 and an SB Live! I swapped the FX5200 out for a Ti4600 when I moved to the XG-DLS, 700/1MB Xeons and a 2GB set of PC133. Later I swapped in the WinFast A350 and then eventually the WinFast A380. The 73GB SCSIs, USB 2.0 card, hot-swap bay and the PSU are the only things that haven't changed since I first put this machine together.
I've also run a pair of 1Ghz/256kb Xeons on this board, but it'll only hit 112Mhz FSB by jumper setting, so I was stuck at 840Mhz. Performance was sub-par compared to the 700/1MB Xeons running at 784Mhz on the same bus speed. I think the board can do 133Mhz FSB with a software overclock, but I'm too lazy right now to dig out the 1Ghz Xeons to test it out.
Ultimately, I'm looking to get a pair of 2.8v 900/2MB Xeons, but they're really hard to find. I have a pair of 5/12v 900/2MBs, but they're useless unless I get lucky and find an Iwill DCA200 to run them on.
If you've seen the XG-DLS before, you'll also notice the processor brackets are not stock. When I bought this board about eight months ago, it came bare without nothing else except the I/O plate. It was missing the full-sized metal backplate and rubber sheet along with the brackets. It sat in storage until I was able to get a pair of bracket sets from a Gateway server, one pair of which was modified for use on the XG-DLS.
Antec Earthwatts 380W
ASUS XG-DLS | Dual P3 Xeon 700/1Mb SL49P @784Mhz | 2GB Micron PC133 ECC
Leadtek WinFast A380 Ultra | Quantum3d Obsidian2 200SBi | Creative Audigy 2 | Generic USB 2.0 Card
HP ML350 Hotswap Bay | Hitachi 73GB 10K | Seagate 73GB 10k | Hitachi CD/DVD