E7500 Chipset

[Iwao Makino]

Dean,

You don't really need that big of case to mount these Dual Xeons.
<http://www.maxpoint.com/server_cases.htm>
This one is middle tower case, and will even support 12cm fan
on rear.
I've used over 100's of Xeon w/ these case, only thing  you need
to consider is that you need to either change CPU heat sink to
non-original or change drive bay bracket.

Just my 2 cents for case solution.

Best regards,

At 9:30 -0500 on 18.07.2002, Dean Johnson wrote regarding Re: E7500 Chipset:
>On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 08:48, Neil McFadyen wrote:
>>  Any comments on the 860 chipset, for example the supermicro P4DCE+
>>
>
>We have two of the boards and they work just fine. My only real problem
>with them is board layout. The second cpu socket slammed way to the back
>of the board and that causes a problem with drive bays interfering with
>the HSF. You need to get a *really* big case to handle them. We have two
>Antec SX-1030 cases sitting around because it wouldn't fit. We ended up
>getting, surprise, big Supermicro cases for them. There are some other
>annoying things about the layout, but functionally they work great, no
>problems.