Final water route:
Thats:
Res -> Pump -> CPU0 -> Mobo/PWM0 -> CPU1 -> PWM1 -> Radiator -> Pump
OK, last night I finally worked up the energy to finish this puppy.
So around 1:30AM I shut down the VMware server and backed up the drives.
But before the shutdown I remembered to grab a snap of the old girls power usage during folding.
All I needed from the old box was the 12GB DDR3 and the pump. That was the easy bit. Draining the old machine was a matter of standing it on the worktop next to the sink, undoing the res and pouring the water out. Simples! And we all know how to take out memory sticks
So memory into the red slots only in both banks. Then bolt the EK res onto the EK pump which was a bit of a fiddle:
Put it all into the new case and connect it up to the loop with newly cut tubing, then it was leak testing. Not for any length of time really. Just to satisfy my paranoia. Its not a complex loop, but I'm glad I got the acrylic motherboard block, at least I can see the water flowing ok
And heres the finished job:
Then the kerfuffle of detecting new motherboard, and M$ bleating about activation to sort out. Installed the drivers, let it boot at stock and run overnight.
Then. this morning, onto the hardforum to pick the brains of the mad SR-2 users in the SR-2 Optimization
Thread
I didn't have much time to tweak so just disabled NUMA and threw the overclock up to 3.6Ghz and let it resume the WU it was folding.
Currently its pumping out a frame every 13 minutes on a P2686 (R3, C16, G47)
Not yet 160K but I'll be working on it over the next few weeks to tweak it up.
