At 01:23 AM 03/20/2000 -0500, Laine Stump wrote:
>At 09:00 PM 3/19/00 -0500, Michael C. Ibarra wrote:
> >> > (Speaking of that - apparently you need to get special low profile 
> memory
> >> > for this. The two places where I've found 1U cases have memory, but it
> >> > seems quite expensive relative to the market; anybody know a source of
> >> > regularly priced DIMMs that are low profile?)
> >
> >We never ordered any "special" memory so I can't elaborate on this.
>
>I guess I'll just have to get a case and motherboard and see how the DIMMs
>I have now fit. I eyeballed a tape measure up to one installed in a
>machine, and it looked to me like the motherboard mounting height + DIMM
>would be taller than 1.75". Maybe they're just old (and therefore larger
>than what's on the market now), or maybe it was the angle I was looking from.
>
>I've also read that the fans that come with retail Celeron CPUs are too
>high for a 1U case. Did you use different fans, or were the included ones
>adequate?

We had to special order the CPU fans for those cases, probably unnecessary, but
we felt well worth the overkill (you see we already have four other fans in 
this case)



>(These items are from the "Tips Sheet" link at
>http://www.gtweb.net/cs440.html)