Project Gemini Rebuild (SR-2)
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Was measuring up the mobo tray for some extra standoff holes and maybe a few cable routing holes last night.
The missing mobo standoff holes are marked in yellow. Now with this much mobo hanging off them I want as many as I can get!
I ended up drilling the holes with a dremel, then screwing the brass motherboard standoffs right into the hole, and they just self tapped in.
Right radiator next, its going in the front, this rig doesn't need a heap of hard drives as it reads the VMware images off an iSCSI lun.
Lian Li radiator mounts, customised for 140mm size rad (drill a few holes)
Getting rid of all the junk in the 5.25 drive bay areay meant removing a lot of screws, and they are always in hard to get at places.
Slid right in there no problems.
The missing mobo standoff holes are marked in yellow. Now with this much mobo hanging off them I want as many as I can get!
I ended up drilling the holes with a dremel, then screwing the brass motherboard standoffs right into the hole, and they just self tapped in.
Right radiator next, its going in the front, this rig doesn't need a heap of hard drives as it reads the VMware images off an iSCSI lun.
Lian Li radiator mounts, customised for 140mm size rad (drill a few holes)
Getting rid of all the junk in the 5.25 drive bay areay meant removing a lot of screws, and they are always in hard to get at places.
Slid right in there no problems.
Soldato
woah that loop looks complicated. I am not into folding but I bet that gives you quite a lot of points per day. keep it up
keep it up
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Nice work bud will be awaiting the finished result, itching to get my SR-2 build under way, just the Xeons are soooo expensive 
There is a wee bit of a problem with that, I don't want to mod the case that much and there are bits of aluminium "guides" sticking out in the HDD rack just in the way of putting the radiator there.
What might be a better idea is to mount the fans on the radiator rather than leaving them in the door. For now its cool enough but come summer I might be thinking of "alternatives"
Sorry for the lack of updates.
OK so its been finished for a while, it doesn't look any different from stock externally but here is an internal shot of it all together:
What might be a better idea is to mount the fans on the radiator rather than leaving them in the door. For now its cool enough but come summer I might be thinking of "alternatives"
Sorry for the lack of updates.
OK so its been finished for a while, it doesn't look any different from stock externally but here is an internal shot of it all together:
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Last years prices
CPU's £633.2 x2 = £1266.4
Case = £259.97
Mobo = £417.00
Mobo Block = £72.33
CPU Blocks = £47.16 x 2 = £103.67
Res = £49.00
Fans = £20.43
Radiator = £49.00
Fittings, tubing etc = £61
£2,306.83
But I raised around a grand selling off a bunch of old kit, so out of pocket cost was around a £1,300.
At full chat it pulls around 630W from the wall. Compared to my last project its about half the power.
CPU's £633.2 x2 = £1266.4
Case = £259.97
Mobo = £417.00
Mobo Block = £72.33
CPU Blocks = £47.16 x 2 = £103.67
Res = £49.00
Fans = £20.43
Radiator = £49.00
Fittings, tubing etc = £61
£2,306.83
But I raised around a grand selling off a bunch of old kit, so out of pocket cost was around a £1,300.
At full chat it pulls around 630W from the wall. Compared to my last project its about half the power.
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yet another amazing build i have seen tonight, /drool, very nice!
and whats folding btw? XD
and whats folding btw? XD
Cheers!
In answer to your query:
Folding@Home is a distributed network program you can find out more info on how to participate in this very forum here
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Oh cool! im downloaded that to help out, throwing another 6 cores and 8gb of ram into it
Associate
Ok its running, whats it actually doing now :O i can see a viewer with like, atoms turning round :O