Noth Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Now that the Gen8 is in the sunset of it's life (RAM limitations getting worse, at least for me), I was wondering if anyone had swapped the motherboard (and 120mm fan, I suppose) for something more up to date? The case itself is great so it seems a shame to do away with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckcam Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Yes, for me the RAM was the limiting factor as well. I moved onto a DL360 Gen8. Issue with the MS is even if you can fit a mini-ITX board into the case with another low-profile CPU fan, you'll have to do some heavy modding to the I/O area as it's not removable. I tried to do something similar with the HP Z820 workstation because the case is really quite nice. Unfortunately the amount of modding required was beyond my skill and the effort didn't seem to be worth it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerFritz Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 You can use the HP MicroServer Gen8 Chassis Retrofit ITX Kit. With this kit a standard ITX-Board will fit: Drawback: It is only available in a chinese shop: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=542897442387 I bought it via superbuy.com I have replaced the Powersupply from Delta with an FlexGURU 300W from FSP (Fortron). You can make your own harness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trig0r Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 That's an interesting little mod, anyone done a proper review on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerFritz Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 3 hours ago, Trig0r said: That's an interesting little mod, anyone done a proper review on it? Point the google browser (will automatic translate) to this links: https://www.chiphell.com/thread-1181782-1-1.html https://post.smzdm.com/p/aek84e34/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerFritz Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 My pics in my post above are not displayed in my google browser. Don't know why. Have them attached here with google browser. Hope this will work now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerFritz Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 (edited) 15 hours ago, DerFritz said: Point the google browser (will automatic translate) to this links: https://www.chiphell.com/thread-1181782-1-1.html https://post.smzdm.com/p/aek84e34/ I found an additional HowTo: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/54503225 In any case I would remove the four elevated pillars of the original heat sink. This gives additional room above the CPU. Other mods on the original motherboard tray are not necessary. Edited April 29 by DerFritz typo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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