Hello!

Still on my server buildin journey, but I acquired a Dell Insperon 3670. The board says it’s atx but everything I’m readin says it’s a proprietary board, and thus can’t be easily moved. My issue is I have 2 12tb HDDs I wanna shove in it without and available cradles. I have a different case was some free slots but my other concern is the psu, its also theirs and the board requires an adapter to be used with other hardware, I believe. I wanna run Minecraft and Valheim off this thing and have a GeForce 1050 I can cram in there to help, how should I figure how much power I have available to do this?

Thanks again y’all’s!

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Dell publishes the specs, just look them up at Dell.com/support. Punch in your service tag and it’ll tell you everything you need to know. Well, mostly.

    You’ll need to lookup the Dell part number for the PSU to find its specific capabilities (number of 12v buses for example). Looks like it came with a 365w unit, so you may get lucky.

    I don’t see moving the board as being realistic. You can’t really do that in any case-they’re all designed to mount a certain way, and branded boxes are even tighter. But that PC is a mini tower, so there’s little reason why you wouldn’t be able to put in whatever you want - more drives, etc.

    You should be able to find drive cradles on ebay. Or just mount them however you can. I’ve gone as far as gluing a drive to the case with Goop (a rubbery adhesive). Cradles just make it easy and consistent.