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> I would love to buy a broken SGI machine and put some modern hardware in there, just for the aesthetic. Maybe someday. The closest you can easily get is the
by MisterTea 2y ago
> I would love to buy a broken SGI machine and put some modern hardware in there, just for the aesthetic. Maybe someday.
The closest you can easily get is the 230/330/550 cases which are strait up ATX. I have a 550 case with a threadripper in it. The only issue was I had to modify the 750W PSU to fit in the case by replacing the IEC inlet with a short pigtail cord.
- drio 2y agoWould you mind sharing a picture?
- MisterTea 2y agoUnfortunately I cant find the pics of the build at the moment. It's a stock SGI 550 case so nothing special done to the case. I replaced the PIII Dual Xeon board with an Asus Threadripper board w/ 1920x CPU, 32GB ECC RAM, Radeon Pro W5700, 1TB NVMe, 10Gb NIC. Daily driver running Void Linux Musl. The mod to the PSU was needed because the IEC inlet was practically at the edge of the PSU housing which is partly obstructed by the edge of the SGI case. I could have modded the case by cutting the steel but I didn't want to cut up a unique case when the PSU is easier to replace. So I opened the supply, unscrewed the IEC inlet, de-soldered the leads from the inlet to the board then soldered in a length of 18 AWG cord. I covered the IEC inlet with a piece of 16 gauge (~1.2mm) aluminum with a 16mm hole for a cable gland and two screw holes for mounting with machine screws and nuts. The cord is secured by a metal cable gland and terminates to an in-line IEC socket. NOTE: I did replace the X and Y caps across the factory inlet with new ones I soldered to the PSU board with the cord.