Project Nostromo
- Thread starter Biffa
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LOL I'm doing this old skool, as I go along, this is no cut and paste from some "OTHER" web site, this is an OcUK Excloosive
Here she is in all her nekkid glory!
Having slammed in the RAM
Now some of you may ask, why, after spending all that would you get cheapo eco ram? Well firstly, this was all done on a budget, CPU's are ebay specials, mobo was a steal compared to what it normally costs, and 32GB of RAM isn't cheap in anyones money. That being said, it will be interesting to see how it goes with this RAM, it ticks a lot of boxes, its Corsair, its 1.5V and its the right speed, there isn't a lot of overclocking headroom on these chips but what there is may be limited by this RAM, we will have to see
Forget fancy TIM cleaner, get this stuff, I've been using it for years its just well awesome for everything. This one can has lasted me forever and its still half full! I know I bang on about it but it just is the best. Oh and excuse the covered up competitors names.
I give you the humble G34 socket! Home to a cpu, but more much more
CPU's in.
Next.. water block Unpacking!
I got a confession to make, I love Aquacomputer stuff, its just different, looks good and just works for me. Dunno, its simple elegance. Yes the Kryos blocks are spoiled a little by the G34 mounts but theres not too much you can do about that unfortunately, I think most AMD block mounts look poo compared to Intel ones tbh.. anyway on with the show.
Block come out of the box and after you rip open the bubble rap like a small child at Christmas, this is what you find. A nice vacuum sealed and packed block.
Also in the box, along with the nuts and bolts and springs, they have thoughtfully provided some of the best TIM EVER, some of this!
Not the easiest to spread mind, but with these CPU's a rice sized grain in the middle is all you need.
NOMNOMNOMNOM... SHINY SHINY.. as I said, nice stuff Aquacomputer, nice
There, all tucked in nice and safe. Sorry no gratuitous screwing in shots, I'm sure its nothing you all haven't seen before. The bolts just go into the threaded holes in the backplate that comes with the mobo.
And there they all are, like a flock of Space Invaders
Here endeth the update.
Block come out of the box and after you rip open the bubble rap like a small child at Christmas, this is what you find. A nice vacuum sealed and packed block.
Also in the box, along with the nuts and bolts and springs, they have thoughtfully provided some of the best TIM EVER, some of this!
Not the easiest to spread mind, but with these CPU's a rice sized grain in the middle is all you need.
NOMNOMNOMNOM... SHINY SHINY.. as I said, nice stuff Aquacomputer, nice
There, all tucked in nice and safe. Sorry no gratuitous screwing in shots, I'm sure its nothing you all haven't seen before. The bolts just go into the threaded holes in the backplate that comes with the mobo.
And there they all are, like a flock of Space Invaders
Here endeth the update.
Yeah gaming isn't its forte, mind you with a game that likes multi-threading, and if I added a GTX680 in there for kicks and giggles.... who knows!
Cost.. hmm.. well I've sold my SR-2 mobo, ram, blocks and two X5650's so far from the old rig so that has offset quite a chunk of it. I think I got around £1200 for that lot.
The CPU's from "dove bay" were £240 each, and the motherboard was £450, memory was from our very own OcUk shop for £132.64
Had the PSU already, so then its just case, blocks, rads, fans tubing etc etc etc etc blah blah, nothing different there to any other build.
Again some of which I had, but I've changed to a different fitting size for this build, so they were all new. But I've got a lot of stuff to offload now from the old rig including case, rads, fans etc.
All I need to do was cover the cost of this baby
damn that looks immense Biffa, guessing it's for the F@H gig?
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Folding is its "other" job
Soldato
What seem odd to me is that the CPUs look rectangular rather than square and the waterblocks look rectangular rather than square, but the waterblock then fits on so that the longest edge is going across the shortest edge of the CPU, if you see what I mean.
Also, subbed.
Also, subbed.
Yes looks that way certainly, however although the heatspreader on the CPU is rectangular the block is square, slightly narrower than the heatspreader is long, and slightly wider than it as well. Actually the block body is the standard Kryo one, is just the fittings that have been changed. The blocks were actually the hardest thing to get hold of, took ages.
Soldato
Its looking immense .... nuf said!!!....if you get bored with it
Soldato
its looking amazing.. All that ram reminds me of the magician trick where they walk on the swords. Subbed.
Oooh. The suspense is killing me!
When you describe the rig's purpose by saying that folding is "it's other job", what's it's primary function going to be. I'm researching building a SQL server/folding rig and this seems to tick all the boxes... plus it's reputed to overclock.
Care to share?
When you describe the rig's purpose by saying that folding is "it's other job", what's it's primary function going to be. I'm researching building a SQL server/folding rig and this seems to tick all the boxes... plus it's reputed to overclock.
Care to share?
LOL sorry fell asleep last night before I got a chance.
OK Folks.. back in the saddle, this should be the final stretch
First some case pr0n.. when this case was announced, I liked its looks, some feel its a marmite case, but I like it.
Close-up of the top outlet cover closed.....And... open!
Oooh power button & industrial bolt heads......
Where I had "planned" on putting the 360 Rad (see later) but regardless a nice filtered top.
My new spare room.
Planning the bottom rad mount points:
I was going to put the fans under the rad, but as you can see in the next photo, it would have blocked ALL the outlets on the PSU, so I reversed and put the fans on the top pushing air out.
Test mounting the fans on the 360 rad became a challenge when I realised that some of the holes had not been threaded
which led to me trying to force a screw into the hole to rethread, but ended up with me almost ruining the radiator.
Luckily I didn't hole the rad, and after some high pressure leak testing, I went out and bought a thread tapper and just got on with it
OK Folks.. back in the saddle, this should be the final stretch
First some case pr0n.. when this case was announced, I liked its looks, some feel its a marmite case, but I like it.
Close-up of the top outlet cover closed.....And... open!
Oooh power button & industrial bolt heads......
Where I had "planned" on putting the 360 Rad (see later) but regardless a nice filtered top.
My new spare room.
Planning the bottom rad mount points:
I was going to put the fans under the rad, but as you can see in the next photo, it would have blocked ALL the outlets on the PSU, so I reversed and put the fans on the top pushing air out.
Test mounting the fans on the 360 rad became a challenge when I realised that some of the holes had not been threaded
which led to me trying to force a screw into the hole to rethread, but ended up with me almost ruining the radiator.
Luckily I didn't hole the rad, and after some high pressure leak testing, I went out and bought a thread tapper and just got on with it
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Now it was time to fit the motherboard, I knew that I'd have to drill some extra mount holes as no case comes with the right number or position of holes for these motherboards.
But as you can see, my plan of putting even a 360 in the roof was doomed from the start so it would be back to the plan of putting it in the front drive bays.
So initial fitting, note how high up the mobo goes in the case. Thats why when you pick a case for these you have to have enough space for a second PSU above the IO plate.
I had to drill and tap about 5 or so holes, I forget exactly how many, the red dots are the ones I think I had to do, but there may have been one more, but who's counting! All I know is it is tougher doing it on steel cases than on Aluminium ones
The top of the mobo tray area is recessed, so I had to come up with something that worked there, luckily I had enough standoffs and nuts to make it work. Yes thats one nut and three standoffs.
In the pictures above you can also see the extra heatsinks I added to many of the mosfets on the board, thats because traditionally these motherboards are designed to be in a 1U chassis with a gazillion 40mm San Ace 10K cooling fans screaming their heads off forcing air across the motheraboard, through the heatsinks and out the back in an airconditioned datacenter. Well as you can imagine thats not the plan here, however there is decent airflow in the Elysium with the door fan and the design of the airflow I am going to use, so to add extra cooling where needed, some gpu memory heatsinks were used because a) they are cheap and b) effective
Next was fitting the 360 rad, fitting in the top was off, so the front it was, it went quite well, using EK brackets, I managed to fit it so that I could get one of the drive cages AND my fan controller all in together, all that was compromised was the fan in the drive cage, but I would use that later!
Rad fitted from the front and inside:
Inside looking at the fan controller fitted in front of the drive cage, and try in shot with everything back together to make sure it fits.
But as you can see, my plan of putting even a 360 in the roof was doomed from the start so it would be back to the plan of putting it in the front drive bays.
So initial fitting, note how high up the mobo goes in the case. Thats why when you pick a case for these you have to have enough space for a second PSU above the IO plate.
I had to drill and tap about 5 or so holes, I forget exactly how many, the red dots are the ones I think I had to do, but there may have been one more, but who's counting! All I know is it is tougher doing it on steel cases than on Aluminium ones
The top of the mobo tray area is recessed, so I had to come up with something that worked there, luckily I had enough standoffs and nuts to make it work. Yes thats one nut and three standoffs.
In the pictures above you can also see the extra heatsinks I added to many of the mosfets on the board, thats because traditionally these motherboards are designed to be in a 1U chassis with a gazillion 40mm San Ace 10K cooling fans screaming their heads off forcing air across the motheraboard, through the heatsinks and out the back in an airconditioned datacenter. Well as you can imagine thats not the plan here, however there is decent airflow in the Elysium with the door fan and the design of the airflow I am going to use, so to add extra cooling where needed, some gpu memory heatsinks were used because a) they are cheap and b) effective
Next was fitting the 360 rad, fitting in the top was off, so the front it was, it went quite well, using EK brackets, I managed to fit it so that I could get one of the drive cages AND my fan controller all in together, all that was compromised was the fan in the drive cage, but I would use that later!
Rad fitted from the front and inside:
Inside looking at the fan controller fitted in front of the drive cage, and try in shot with everything back together to make sure it fits.
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