The Build
For details on building out a system, read Jeff Atwood’s posts re: building the Hanselman box (Part 1, Part 2, Overclocking). Since our parts list was virtually identical, his detailed photos and descriptions we’re awesome. Here are just a few shots of us putting stuff together.
Jeff & Chris putting the stock heat sinks on the motherboards. The Scythe heat sinks were back ordered, so we’re going to wait until they arrive to overclock things…
Board ready to go into the case…
Here’s a motherboard mounted just prior to the initial boot to make sure it’s all setup correctly.
By the end of Thursday, we had 4 systems built out, and the OS installation started.
On Friday we got our MSDN licenses and received our ESRI Developer Network kits. From there, we got the OS installed on 4 systems, and started running torture tests using Prime95. One of the systems has some stability issues (we’ll tear it down Monday when we build up the final system) and it looks like one of the WD Raptors was flaky. Other than that all is well, and everyone had quite a bit of fun. The next “big” thing is getting into a “real” office – but that will have to wait until after Thanksgiving.
