The Leviathan stirs, Page 4

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The sound card (kinda hidden on the left of the photo) and the Radeon 4890 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) are installed in the mobo.  The processor area looks a little empty. After doing a museum photo shoot that killed my morning and several lengthy phone calls, I was finally able to get to work on Dreadnought.
	I had to jump through a few hoops to get cooling fans which will be used until I get the liquid cooling system designed and built.  I finally convinced a local components store owner that the heatsink and fan for an Athlon chip would fit an Opteron.  Eventually I just said, "just sell me the two fans and if they're not right, I'll have 'em for my next project.  He finally could accept that.  I dunno why there was such a big deal about a couple of $20 parts.  I guess he didn't want me to come back and tell him that the fans/heatsing combo had toasted my CPUs. One of the CPUs with its heatsink/fan is installed in this shot.
Here's the 2nd CPU locked down in its socket.  It also has the heatsink/fan mounting adapters installed.  Not the easiest thing to install, but certainly not the hardest, either.
	Now both CPU chips and the cooling stuff are installed.  This mobo is a little interesting because it has one jack for a 3-pin fan motor connector and a 4-pin connector for the other.  I looked at the pinouts of the connector and just connected the 3-pin plug to 3 of the 4 pins.  The 4th pin was for speed control which these fans don't have.  I had to do a little twisting and gyrating of my body to get the last heatsink lockdown mechanism in place, but eventually it all snapped together and I could close the eccentric locking arm.

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