[K12OSN] odd question..

[Doug Simpson]

You could just take sheets of aluminum and make rack mounts for each 
board, drilling and tapping the sheet for the standoffs for the 
motherboards.

However, remember you will have to have power supplies for each board.

And you will have to leave sufficient room between boards for cards to 
stand up unless you use fully integrated motherboars (video, LAN, etc. . 
.)

Then there's the thing of cooling air.  the boards would have to be far 
enough apart for the cpu fans to get sufficient air.

But then again if you use the integrated boards, some of those fit into 
the slimline cases so that shouldn;t be a problem.

This is a good idea, but it will take a considerable amount of design and 
fab work to make it happen.  But if you already have the motherboards and 
power supplies and etc, it could be done reasonable inexpensively.

Doug


On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, norbert wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to thank all those that provided so many links and thought on 
> the music issue, now I'll never get any sleep.. :-D
> 
> This may not be the right forum but I'll try anyway.. Does anyone know 
> how to rack-mount PC-motherboards ? i.e. take the motherboard from a 
> standard desktop computer and install it in a rack-mount cage.
> The intent is to build a cluster of computers within one "cage".
> 
> Folks any suggestions or ideas are most welcomed.
> 
> norbert
> 

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Doug Simpson
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DeQueen, AR 71832
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