Home Server Part 2

Right, its monday afternoon, and ive finally got a chance to say what ive been up to this morning

I started the day woken up by angry parents complaining the postman woke them when my stuff came, 3 parcels, 1 for the cpy, and 2 for the various mobos i bought

I looked at the different socket A mobos i got from ebay, and decieded the winfast k7s was a good enough board for what i wanted, so here its is



Next i checked to ensure the cpu was in good order, which it was



I then placed the cpu into its socket praying to god i didnt bend a pin



Then the heatsink/fan combo went on, that cost me £4 from ebuyer brand new, so its worth remembering cooling is a must and it should have a good bit of money set aside for it



next on went the front panel conections, the most annoying part of any build, unless you have an asus board, where you get these easy connector things



and then on went the IDE drive cables





The next part was the worst, would it boot??



well thank god it did, and its very quiet tbh, even with the side off i can only just hear the CPU fan. Linux is easy to install, its just like installing windows, boot, insert disk, reboot, boot from disk, install and then customise

i will update once i have finished the OS side of things