Fun idea ;)
The height of the standard 1U cobalts is 44.45mm on the outside, The height
of the cooler the board according to [1] is 36mm, which will make it an
extremely tight fit if at it fits at all adding the height of the casing,
the pcb, and the mounting positions needed to keep the soldering free.
Meaning, that you will probably have to replace the cooler on the cpu with
something slightly lower.
The power supply of the cobalts is not sufficient, you will need to use the
external 90W supply Zotac supplies.
Apart from that, you'll need "case modding/smashing" to make all connectors
accessible from the outside, and cleaning away the mounting position of one
of the Hd's to make the 171mmx171mm [3] board fit in (free space inside see
[2]) and make new mounting positions for the main board.
Usefull or cost effective ? probably not. Fun ? definitely :)
B.
[1] http://techreport.com/articles.x/16893
[2] http://www.kevinomura.com/microservers/cobalt/raq2/index.html
[3] http://techreport.com/articles.x/16893/2
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: TUNC ERESEN Skype: eresen [mailto:tunc (at mark) eresen.com]
> Verzonden: vrijdag 25 september 2009 11:01
> Aan: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Onderwerp: [coba-e:16054] Silly Question but worth asking!
>
> http://www.ebuyer.com/product/165387
>
> I have 3 old Cobalt servers retired due to lack of power, Do you thing
> we
> can stick these "Zotac ION Motherboard with Intel Atom N330 Dual Core
> 6
> Motherboard" in them to bring it back alive with SATA HD and Power
> supply
> conversion cables. Well I don't know their thickness, I need to find
> out,
>
> Just a idea.
>
>
> Regards
> Tunc