all right so welcome to a pretty unusual build log around
here we are going to be building ourselves a badass new
router yes we've got a wicked new internet connection we need a wicked new
custom pf sense box to go with it so
come along for the ride because this one i promise you is going to be interesting
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i need to do is uh follow my own rules about no garbage in
the new office there next let's have a look at the hardware we're going to be using so step one is CPU we've got a low
power Intel xeon CPU this is an e3 1260
l this is an Intel s 1200 kp
server board provided by kingston we've got kind of a special stick of memory in
here so this is a low profile ddr3 dim we've got a 1u
server case so this is a rack mountable case that'll be going in our new cabinet
from norco you could install up to i believe an atx size board in here if you
really wanted to but we're just going to be installing an itx board because we're
going to be using this space over here for an expansion card yes it's an i340
t4 quad port network card and we're actually going to be installing that
sideways we're also going to need this was provided by Anthony over at ncix so
huge thanks to the ncix tech tips crew this is a pci express extension uh what
else we got for hardware ah yeah we're going to be using an SSD yes i know
pfsense can run off usb stick i don't care uh the next uh this is a really
cool piece of hardware so this a 1u
redundant power supply
so each of these is an 80 plus gold 250
watt power supply and then you can actually slide these
modules out last piece of hardware this is a super micro
heat sink and that's another challenge in 1u case
you can't even use a stock Intel cooler you might be thinking to yourself
gee Linus that doesn't have any fans on it how's it going to cool the CPU
great question
i think this is definitely the most constrained case that i've ever worked
in the part i was worried about was the
clearance at the back now i already know about some challenges
that i'm gonna have fitting our power supply in this case so the board goes in
here and you can see all of my ports
stick through just fine but the case
is actually shorter than a standard io shield
if i mark this really carefully i can basically just
hack it off with a dremel tool ah i'm getting so much metal in my eye
not too shabby i hope oh wow i way over did it look at that
so that is what it's gonna look like
okay so the next step is to get our CPU installed so the CPU we're using is a
1260 l we could swap this out
with relative ease if we needed a beefier router
let's go ahead and install our back plate oh
okay this chip on the back
is interfering with our back plate
shoot and we're gonna need the angle grinder for this this is not a dremel
task
okay not bad at all
just clean it off i might want to take that in a little
bit tighter so there we've dug out a little bit more
material still fairly strong i mean strong enough to hold a cooler on so
ah yeah there we go so you've got lots of clearance around the contacts for
that chip there so orientation here is key because the airflow only goes one
way so our CPU cooler needs to you have got to be kidding me
we are making contact with the pins on a fan header
right there
so the speaker's okay but that
bit next to the pins has to go this is intended to sit right flat against the
back of the board but there's quite a few things on the back of this board we
might just barely be able to screw into that back
plate and then this corner
yeah that goes in it's a fair bit of flex on the board but uh nothing deadly
nothing i think we should just hack off the top
of this speaker too it should be enough to get the job done
i just don't want those pins to touch
yeah take that speaker
we've been at this for like an hour and we've installed an io shield
and installed a CPU in a socket i haven't even managed to put a heatsink
on cold thermal compound there
let's put the back plate on again
so if i can just get this on here then we're good okay
no clearance issues this time
not too shabby next step
put motherboard in case
so this heatsink basically sits millimeters
from the top of the chassis meaning that you cannot install a fan on there most
1u coolers are like uh side blowers you know we wanted to
leave ourselves room for a beefier CPU in the future if we wanted it so that
option was not going to work for us we're going to have to be careful when
we slide this on we got to kind kinda okay
this is the next big challenge i had no idea that there even were standards for
one new power supplies these two are not the same one the way that this goes in
just has absolutely nothing to do
with what the back of this power supply looks like
that leaves me basically cutting the case to get this in here so
i need to get this in here and i need to secure it somehow
you know what let's just hot glue it in because i don't feel that comfortable
drilling into the side of a power supply the last place you want metal shards
okay
the window in go in push down
cable management is going to be key for achieving
any kind of proper airflow in a system like this
yep power led is green so this my friends is where we start to
get into why it was important that we
use this low profile ecc memory a full
height dim would pretty much block airflow to our fins now some boards have
the dimms this way this one does not so we have to
deal with what we're given to work with here next step mounting the pci express card
oh cool you can actually install it either way
wow i don't know if we're even gonna get a 4x
extender in here our cable management
is done so we have a nice clear path
to our balls so we have a nice clear path from our fans
to everything here that needs to be cooled the heatsink on our neck the
heatsink on our CPU and all that's left to do
is close her up and find out how she runs now what i'm
actually going to do is put Windows on this machine first just so that i can
use nice familiar testing tools in order
to evaluate cooling because i am a little bit worried about this CPU
so we were defeated we were defeated by a dead motherboard but
ebay to the rescue i can't say enough good things about ebay i ordered this
motherboard a 250 watt power supply and four gigs of RAM
at least i got the motherboard fortunately i didn't need that other
crap so let's go ahead and rebuild the
machine this time with a oh
working motherboard
oh crap i can't even do it right the second
time around let's try putting the actual
cooler back plate on here i don't know how i missed this before
but on the old board which fortunately we
can now use as a as a tester for the additional cutting that it looks like
we're going to be doing there are a couple of components here that are
clearly interfering with the back plates till so we actually need to do
more back plate cutting
so in theory this finally actually fits on the board
okay great
it shouldn't be this much effort to build a router
this is why most people probably buy a router
i mean they have them they have them at the store they have a whole aisle called
browders
thermal compound all right
and this speaker maybe i'll just
rip this off this time that seems ill-advised on my working
board doesn't it we could use the sacrificial board to
find out if you can rip the speaker off
okay you can't now we know we can use a dremel if i can
find it oh yeah there it is sure
there we go in theory we are
ready to rock let's see if it's on
nothing ever takes as long as it's supposed to
okay that's in let's put our cable management
nonsense back into place i mean that's nice at least i don't have
to plan out the cable management anymore since i've already done it once
there we go okay so that's good i'm
thinking yep there we go so in theory this time this stupid
thing powers on all right come on baby
please work
what
okay i'm at a total loss right now i'm not sure what just happened
i have nothing to say at this point i i think something about our config
just killed another board but i don't understand
why that would happen because the only thing in here that i haven't
run in this board before is a pci express riser
and um RAM which
shouldn't make a board scream and then die it's
unheard of
but i think we just killed another board
exact same behavior as last time we're getting beeps
and then he stopped getting beeps
our working hypothesis right now is that this is some kind of connector
that i've never seen before and was actually providing power to the
motherboard instead of acting as like an RPM sense or something so we're testing
with the multimeter now we just bricked two boards time to order
another one i guess stay tuned for part two
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