Well it has been a bit over a month since I upgraded my little beasts and I have been slack and not uploaded any of the photos I took. So here they are, a little story board through the stages of building and customising the new computers.

Some highlights:

• Silverstone TJ07 with customer painted satin black interior
• Custom mounted HDD on case panel of an Antec Minuet 180
• Thermalright CPU & GPU Cooling with Zalman fan controller and Coolermaster fans

I was planning on putting my Intel Q6600 in to my server, but it just would not play nice with the GA-EG45M-DS2H motherboard, so I ended up sticking with my Intel e7300 and just installing Server 2003 with Exchange on to it. The plan was to run a VM server but the e7300 doesn’t have the VT (Virtualisation Technology) on board support to run VM’s. I plan on getting an Intel Q9400 and maybe 8GB of ram for it in a month or two, at which time I plan to put on Citrix XenServer, which is another free alternative in the VM server market and looks superior to VMWare ESXi and Microsoft Hyper V Server 2008.

Anyway, enjoy the happy snaps!