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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.

    • This particular server blade is an HP ProLiant BL25p that Blizzard decked out with a commemorative plate. Wow.

    • This is one of several server blades sustaining the Altercac Mountains from January 4, 2007 till July 21, 2010.

    • The commemorative plate also bears the signatures of many of the key WoW developers.

    • Before we proceed any further, we would like to apologize for any future bad WoW puns and jokes. Trust us, there will be many.

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    • The transparent panel covering all the mechanical madness inside the server blades provides shoddy protection, but is nonetheless ornate.

    • -10% armor. +15% intellect.

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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.

    • Although there are a total of 8 RAM slots in the server blade, this model only fills six of them.

    • There are four 512 MB and two 2 GB PC-3200 DDR modules.

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    • This is highly reminiscent of the classic pull my finger bit—but then again who can resist such a request? Fine...pull we will.

    • We were expecting Frost Wolves, but instead we found a hard drive data cable connector.

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    • Twisting a few knobs is all that is required to remove the SCSI controller from the motherboard.

    • HP Part Number 355895-002

    • 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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    • We had to mine deep into our pockets to acquire the proper tools for removing the power filter.

    • We were hoping that we could sell this wonderful item afterwards, but it's only worth 25 cents.

    • The DC Power filter has an input of -43 V ~ 57 V at 13 A max. That's 546 watts of maximum power!

    • 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.

    • The power converter is actually two identical modules stacked on top of each other, using the standoffs between them as a power relay.

    • 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.

    • Well, not these hard drives in particular. Blizzard probably wanted to keep all their data handy, so this server blade just comes with blanks.

    • The WoW server blade has two dedicated hard drive bays.

    • It seems "A device or blank must occupy all bays during operation."

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    • How do you keep the snow from melting off the Ruins of Alterac? With eight—count 'em, eight—fans.

    • Each pair of fans draws .95 amps at 12 volts, for a total power rating of 85.2 watts. That really blows.

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    • It looks like they threw everything—including the kitchen heat sink—at keeping those AMD processors cool.

    • Each dual-core AMD Opteron 275 processor provides 2.2 GHz of processing power.

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    • What sort of sorcery is this? Worry not, our trusty T15 Torx screwdriver will slay any beast that stands in the way of removing the motherboard.

    • Huzzah! Have at thee ogre! We have conquered the mighty motherboard beast! Victory is ours!

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    • The frontside of the motherboard:

    • Broadcom BCM5704CKFB Ethernet CTLR Single Chip 10Mbps/100Mbps/1000Mbps 300-Pin HBGA

    • Rage XL 215R3LASB41 Graphics

    • Compaq 170095-002

    • Pulse H5007 1000BASE-T Magnetics Modules

    • NetPHY AM79C874VC Low Power 10/100-tx/fx Ethernet Transceiver

    • NT629R

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    • The Ruins of Alterac! Or, the ruins of a server that hosted part of Alterac.

    • WoW Server Blade (HP ProLiant BL25p) Repairability Score: 10 out of 10

    • No security screws

    • Modular, easy to access components

    • HP provides online maintenance repair documentation.

    • It should be noted that these server blades are designed to be easily maintained and eventually disposed of.

    • We really appreciate HP being so mindful of the repair and maintenance aspect of their products.

9 comentarios

Cool! I'm not a WoW player but still, a studio giving away servers! Sweet!

Kendall Bartling - Contestar

The HP ProLiant are very powerful servers!

Eneider Colina - Contestar

didnt know that wow had server products

Cool

remliv - Contestar

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…

dstarek - Contestar

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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