My New Flight Sim Server

[RoundEye]

Here's the PC I built to host with. A lot of the stuff I had laying around the house. I bought a 200 watt power supply, 512megs of ram, ATA-133 controller card and an 850MHz PIII. I had a MSI mobo, IBM 60gig drive, 3Com nic, an old HP case with the CD-rom and floppy. Not the fastest PC in the world, but it'll do fine just to host a game.

Here's the mobo,
I had to put the power connector on a pig tail so that it would clear the back of the cd-rom.
Moved the fan header and a capacitor so that it would clear the heat sink.
Added a couple of heatsinks on the chipsets to help with cooling.

http://members.cox.net/tallyho13/mobotop.jpg

Here's the inside of the case, without the power supply in it. I also added a small fan on the bottom to help cool the hard drive some. Folded the cables to help with airflow. (I added the controller card after this pic was taken)

http://members.cox.net/tallyho13/pcinside.jpg

Here's the front. I painted it black metal flake to get rid of any HP evidence. :D Also added super bright LED's for the power and HD indicator.

http://members.cox.net/tallyho13/pcfront.jpg

[tHE_0ne]

looking good!

[downhill]

A nice clean job as usual, RoundEye. :)

[Needlefreak]

Dont ya just love spare parts!!! Good clean work..

[LT-73]

WoW!! :eek: That looks really nice !! Great job !

[Rings890]

good job, your just a maniac for on those ide cables arn't you, they look nice and clean.

[RoundEye]

Originally posted by Rings890
good job, your just a maniac for on those ide cables arn't you, they look nice and clean.

Yep :D

That case is so small heat was a concern. I forgot to mention that I also had to cut away part of the cd-rom cage so that the ram would clear. It may not look like it, but all of this stuff almost didn't fit into the case.

[mountainman]

RoundEye...do you mind me asking what type of connection you have this server setup with?

If not, what type? :)

[Docsta]

nice work buddy!

[RoundEye]

Originally posted by jumpinduo
RoundEye...do you mind me asking what type of connection you have this server setup with?

If not, what type? :)

It's just a cable connection with Cox, 256up. I never had more then about six people on it at once anyway. No complaints of lag. I might get a DSL line in the future, but it seems like the flight sim fad died quick. Nobody wants to fly anymore.

[RoundEye]

Originally posted by Docsta
nice work buddy!

Thanks, here's some of my other work,

My game pc called Spiderman (http://members.cox.net/purplemunkey/). Here's the first thread (http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=76912).

My file server (http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=87331) here at home, which I've updated more since these pictures were taken.