I've been wanting to put together a small, low buck cluster as a project for a while now, and found what looks like a good deal on eBay for some surplus Gateway motherboards. They're NLX form factor, use the i815 chipset, socket 370 up to 933 mhz, up to 512 megs of PC133. Waiting on a response from the company on whether they can just sell me like 6 of them with the riser cards.
I haven't had much luck finding info about these on the net, apparently the design wasn't popular? But hey, if it works, screw it, I'll build a plywood rack for the things. Are there any known problems with this design that I'm not seeing? Or something I'm overlooking that would make them useless to me? Also, what kind of power supply can I use, and how much power on what rail should I be concerned with? I'd like to get power supplies that can handle the board's highest processor, a PIII 933, even though I may not put those in right now for budget reasons. I don't need to worry about hard drives or optical drives, video cards, any of that, the video is built in, and the most I'll attach is a floppy for debugging. Any info is welcome.
I haven't had much luck finding info about these on the net, apparently the design wasn't popular? But hey, if it works, screw it, I'll build a plywood rack for the things. Are there any known problems with this design that I'm not seeing? Or something I'm overlooking that would make them useless to me? Also, what kind of power supply can I use, and how much power on what rail should I be concerned with? I'd like to get power supplies that can handle the board's highest processor, a PIII 933, even though I may not put those in right now for budget reasons. I don't need to worry about hard drives or optical drives, video cards, any of that, the video is built in, and the most I'll attach is a floppy for debugging. Any info is welcome.
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