Introducción
Behold! I hold the World of Warcraft in the palm of my hand! Okay, fine. Maybe just a part of it. Or a part of a part of it. And it doesn't really fit in my hands.
When Blizzard decided to upgrade its servers, they sold off the old equipment as collectors pieces. Ever wondered where the World of Warcraft resides? Prepare to be WoWed as we take a look inside the insides of the World of Warcraft.
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Ever wondered what fuels the World of Warcraft? Well wonder no more, iFixit has gracefully acquired an old retired WoW Server Blade.
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This particular server blade is an HP ProLiant BL25p that Blizzard decked out with a commemorative plate. Wow.
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This is one of several server blades sustaining the Altercac Mountains from January 4, 2007 till July 21, 2010.
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The commemorative plate also bears the signatures of many of the key WoW developers.
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How much RAM does it take to create the high peaks that rise up north of the Hillsbrad Foothills? It seems the magic number is six.
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Although there are a total of 8 RAM slots in the server blade, this model only fills six of them.
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There are four 512 MB and two 2 GB PC-3200 DDR modules.
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Twisting a few knobs is all that is required to remove the SCSI controller from the motherboard.
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HP Part Number 355895-002
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The SCSI contoller (pronounced "scuzzie"), is responsible for interfacing with a whole number of things: hard drives, scanners, tape drives, and other alliance technologies.
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Herramienta utilizada en este paso:Coin$2.99
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We had to mine deep into our pockets to acquire the proper tools for removing the power filter.
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We were hoping that we could sell this wonderful item afterwards, but it's only worth 25 cents.
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The DC Power filter has an input of -43 V ~ 57 V at 13 A max. That's 546 watts of maximum power!
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Since this is just a power filter and not a transformer, the output is almost the same: -43 V ~-57 V at a maximum of 12.4 amps.
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Once all the server juice has been filtered by the power filter, its gets converted to the correct voltage by the power converter.
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The power converter is actually two identical modules stacked on top of each other, using the standoffs between them as a power relay.
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The output of the power supply is 12 volts, 40 amps, for a whopping 480 watts.
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In the World of Warcraft, the Alterac Mountains are located somewhere between the Western Plaguelands and Hillsbrad, but they are stored right here on these hard drives.
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Well, not these hard drives in particular. Blizzard probably wanted to keep all their data handy, so this server blade just comes with blanks.
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The WoW server blade has two dedicated hard drive bays.
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It seems "A device or blank must occupy all bays during operation."
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It looks like they threw everything—including the
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Each dual-core AMD Opteron 275 processor provides 2.2 GHz of processing power.
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The frontside of the motherboard:
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Broadcom BCM5704CKFB Ethernet CTLR Single Chip 10Mbps/100Mbps/1000Mbps 300-Pin HBGA
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Rage XL 215R3LASB41 Graphics
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Compaq 170095-002
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Pulse H5007 1000BASE-T Magnetics Modules
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NetPHY AM79C874VC Low Power 10/100-tx/fx Ethernet Transceiver
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NT629R
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The Ruins of Alterac! Or, the ruins of a server that hosted part of Alterac.
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WoW Server Blade (HP ProLiant BL25p) Repairability Score: 10 out of 10
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No security screws
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Modular, easy to access components
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HP provides online maintenance repair documentation.
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9 comentarios
Cool! I'm not a WoW player but still, a studio giving away servers! Sweet!
The HP ProLiant are very powerful servers!
I have 10 of these… 5 from the U.K. and 5 from the U.S. … Picked them up during the auction 7 years ago… All still in the original shipping cartons… Interest…? I need to sell them now… I also have 30K trading cards, and lots of good loot cards… Swift Spectral tiger, and such… My toon has a Mini Tyrel from the Paris show…
Which servers do you have dstarek, like for which realms and realistically what’s the pricing per server you’re seeking?
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