Opteron Prime - Supermicro 4P folding mayham

nick.lidgett said:
About time, shame its back dated ;) when will we be seeing some more?
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Well I am just so very busy arranging stuff and doing stuff.
This build needs to be on a tradeshow in Denver Colarado 3rd week of November. So all gears are currently in motion.

jonnyp1993 said:
we want more!
we want more!
we want more!

:D
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FINE JEEEEEEEEZ

:P ;)

davido_labido said:
i dont want more....

tim makes me jealous =(

loving the build mate, really is looking fantastic.
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I am sorry Dave, wanna hug? :D

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Alright. Tim for an update.
All gears are in motion for this project.
I have two watercooling packages coming soon.
One with some plexiglass panels.

In the meantime it was fan-testing-day at the Hukkel residence.
I had already tested and sleeved the front 5 fans. Time for the other 13.
First testing time, then sleeving time. And of course change the stock white connectors to black ones.
There, much nicer.

I am also using a few invisible Gentle Typhoons. I wanted to use the Enermax fans all round but they are impossible to get a hold of sadly.
I have just enough for the front, the back and the push-side.
Between the radiators will be the Gentle Typhoons to pull the heat from the first radiator and push it through the 2nd one.



















Not too much later I started working on the painting of the front, back and inside of the case.
The paintjob is not meant to be a shining piece of awesomeness. It is mostly meant to not show any more grey.
So that between black panels there aren't anymore grey lines visible.
In the end the inside much look clean and be a big contrast with the bright UV green coolants.

Of course one bottle wasn't enough for the full deal. I just didn't have enough for a 2nd layer for the mobo panel itself.
Oh well, let's get another bottle for that. Quite impressed to see how far I got with one bottle anyway :D





























Prepare for multiple updates this week :)
 
hahahaha Thanks a lot guys for the kind words!

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Time for another update. I received the second shipment of watercooling parts from EKWB. Due to a miscommunication I received some wrong items the first time. I send them back and received this shipment.

I dug in right away and went to work with them!

I received the new type 90 degree and 45 degree fittings, the new type hardline tubing connectors for 12mm OD pipes, 2 new type PE 4cm thick radiators and some extension fittings. (and two replacement plexi top brackets since I killed the previous two I received making me feel like a right ...well you know what).

I had to modify the radstands so the fittings could face the side of the fans (saving me a lot of valuable space). Not the nicest of ways but I really wanted them in there. I had been waiting for so long.

I need to make two brackets so the pumps can stand like I have put them in the picture now.
Making it WAY easier to route the hoses and also put the two taps for the loops under the pumptops to the front of the case. Since I can't fit them anywhere else.

I can do more work in the pedestal when i receive the grills and the 3rd watercooling package containing my bunch of fillports and t-pieces and taps and male to male connectors.

Check it out. Seems my pedestal was smaller than I thought it would be :/
What a tight fit.











































Next update; making the connections between the waterblocks on the motherboard.

But not before I thank the very kind people of EKWB again for sponsoring this enormous build with loads of watercooling parts and equipment. It is a big honour to have them on my side in this project donating such amazing stuff. :clap: :thumb:
Thank you specially Peter for all your help again while having to do the jobs of two others in the meantime. You're awesome! :rock:

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Staffy50 said:
not a fan of those fittings, the rest of it looks great though
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Thank you Staffy.

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Another update. Had some time so started with the routing of the tubing on the motherboard itself. Since I don't need the fillports for this.

The amount of fittings just on the motherboard is crazy O.0

I absolutely love the dual levels of tubing. Two different platform crossing eachother.













 
More PIPEMANIA!!!!!!!!!

I bet if I painted them green I could make a Super Mario Bros level with it :)















That is it for the tubing on the motherboard itself. The following tubing I will need to fit the motherboard for and create the tubing loops to and from the top of the case.
But I need those pesky fillports for that :(

For the smart people amongst us. Now the chipset and memory loop has not beginning or end I know :)
I changed my mind halfway the tubing. The far left tiny piece of tube will be gone and those will be the in and out for that loop.
Enjoy!
 
Hukkel just another tip, because these motherboards are designed to run in cases with high speed fans both in the case and on the cpu coolers, you will run into temperature issues with the VRM's when running for long periods of time folding because of the lack of airflow especially with watercooling.

What most of us do is use Akasa (black) or Koolance (silver) aluminium vga memory heatsinks, then you just need some slow speed airflow. Get self adhesive ones as they are easy to stick on. Enzotech make some cool copper ones as well http://www.enzotechnology.com/bmr_c1.htm

There are banks of VRM's along each CPU and they get HOT (90°+)

This is how mine looked
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WOW! This just gets better and better, that tubing if superb, its clear you've spent a good but if time making it look neat and tidy and it really shows. This is really coming together, and now that you've got your shipment of supercooling parts from EK I can see this really making progress over the next few weeks. Outstanding work buddy, and I can't wait to see more updates :D
 
Biffa said:
Hukkel just another tip, because these motherboards are designed to run in cases with high speed fans both in the case and on the cpu coolers, you will run into temperature issues with the VRM's when running for long periods of time folding because of the lack of airflow especially with watercooling.

What most of us do is use Akasa (black) or Koolance (silver) aluminium vga memory heatsinks, then you just need some slow speed airflow. Get self adhesive ones as they are easy to stick on. Enzotech make some cool copper ones as well http://www.enzotechnology.com/bmr_c1.htm

There are banks of VRM's along each CPU and they get HOT (90°+)

This is how mine looked
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Thanks a lot for the info Biffa!
I had already bought 4 boxes of Alphacool heatsinks. Black ones big and small. But I haven't installed them yet. I did order a strip of sticky thermal pad with it but I am very affraid they won't stick properly.

DJ_Bucho said:
WOW! This just gets better and better, that tubing if superb, its clear you've spent a good but if time making it look neat and tidy and it really shows. This is really coming together, and now that you've got your shipment of supercooling parts from EK I can see this really making progress over the next few weeks. Outstanding work buddy, and I can't wait to see more updates :D
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Thank you very much DJ. I hope you will enjoy the coming updates as well.

Deus Ex said:
That is some tidy tubing.
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Thanks Deus Ex!

nick.lidgett said:
I was thinking that when he is finished with that he can come and sort my central heating system at my shop out :D
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hahaha if our central heating ever breaks I am just going to sit in the room with this system. The room already warms up because of my current folding setup. This will be even worse xD

StonedPenguin said:
Very nice! Subbed.
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Thanks SP!
 
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