Love your retro builds. Keep up the good work.

I've had the ATX version of that board running my file server for 10 years now, nice solid boards.

harley262
got some nice parts, lets put it together.
 
what killed the e762, the pcie speeds or clover or...? did you get clover to work?

The mobo and heatsinks came in today. I have 48GB of the ram, PSU, GPU, 1 of the CPUs and the case on hand from the old build. Still waiting for one of the CPUs, the PIKE card, the I/O shield and the other half of the ram to arrive. Guessing everything else will trickle in over the next week. PIKE card and i/o shield are both slow boating from China. The rest is from CONUS. I should be able get it running without the PIKE card and i/o shield though for initial boot testing though.
 
One issue I had a feeling I was going to have to deal with is the case mount standoffs for this form factor. Only 5 of the 9 standoffs can be used. I'm going to either have to glue or tap and die 3 more. 1 won't work no matter what I do because of the HAF-X has that area cut out for cable routing. 8 out of 9 standoffs should work fine though. This mobo is a snug fit for the HAF-X. Takes up all the way to the drive cages. Cable routing should be ok though as all the ports are positioned on the mobo oriented either on the top or bottom of the mobo.
 
The E762 isn't dead, it's just not working correctly with PCIe port speeds on 6 of the 7 ports. Only the first port will do PCIe 2.0 speeds, the rest are somehow stuck at PCIe 1.0 speeds no matter what I do. I have a feeling it is another symptom of what went wrong when 1 of the 2 NICs died from a power surge. Also CTRL-I won't put me into Intel RAID bios settings on boot when bios are set to RAID in the main bios. I used to be able to, but I think a few things are dead on the board despite it still "mostly" working. Enough oddities going on that I literally dumped a month into troubleshooting the E762 port issues with no positive outcome. I'm going to cut my losses on it and do this build with known working parts. Besides, this dual Xeon build sounds more fun to me. I would have done this as an EVGA SR-2 Classified build but the used SR-2 prices are insane when one is found.

too bad for the 762, but you had fun and now you have dual xeon. that case looks so huge and its so tight inside. thanks for the pics!
and yes sr-2 prices are too much, i found one for a good deal but it was damaged in shipping so i had to return it. im now looking for a dual x99 i think for my next assembly, ive got some gpus that need homes and a dual x99 with twin 980ti folding rig would be nice.
 

You need to track down the EVGA Board. Man hardware used to be so much crazier.

It's alive on the test bench. Currently Windows 10 Pro installed. The test bench has allowed me to fine tune things a bit. It allowed me to figure out CPU cooler and fan orientation and that the Intel 5520 and Intel ICH10R chips on the mobo need active cooling on them. Probably pick up 1 or 2 60mm fans to put over them because the mobo would crash out after awhile if they weren't cooled. For now I have a single 80mm on them.
 

harley262
nice looking good. what do those chips have normally for cooling, rack fans?

Not sure, thinking in rack cases the airflow is so much that it compensates. Out in the open outside of a case these chips are getting hot. I might pull the coolers off and reapply tim on them given how old the mobo is.

Project looking good so far. There are larger cases than the HAF-X available. 

Looking good Brad. Looking forward to the final pics.

Will this run Crysis? Lol looks awesome!!

looking good, nice and neat. so much space in there. how you holding the 60mm fan down?

minnesota mining and manufacturing, they make a lot nice proprietary sticky stuff. nice twist to the fan cable too.

Such an impressive little kit. Why do we love putting these things together. What will you end up doing with it?

PCIe 1.0 is causing by NF200 chip.   E762 have two of them.
 
For details, see this:
 
www.overclock.net/threads/what-is-a-nvidia-nf200.600896