Project: Silent Overkill

moppy89 said:
Hahaha! How?!
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Rat adoption, financial difficulties, increasing physical and mental health problems, general cack-handedness with a smattering of being a lazy sod :P

Cenedd said:
What he has done is a work of art though
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You flatter me sir.

Might throw up some pics of the active PSU exhaust if the final print is good enough ;) Need to get some foam strips in specific sizes and repaint some bits then I can do the final riveting. Outside chance I can get done by the end of the year, assuming the day job doesn't murder me.
 
CPU should be released on Thursday. Should I:
  1. Order it immediately lest stock disappears rapidly
  2. Be sensible and wait for reviews etc?

Think I'll order one of these at the same time:
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Hmmm, maybe I'll make it an air-cooled build! ;) :cry:
Thinking it would let me put everything together using the motherboard box as a 'case' and test it before dismantling everything to put blocks on. Might even run it like that for a bit while I'm faffing with the case etc. Might have to call it Silent Overkill - Unarmoured! :D

Trying to get my model of an Enthoo Evolv ATX case - or at least the relevant parts of it - into Fusion 360. SketchUp from 2017 is just too inaccurate, doesn't export to 3D printing (for prototyping) or CNC well and frankly I've forgotten how to use it. Why am I bothering? Well, sheer stubborness cannot be ruled out...there's quite a bit of that involved, to be honest! But way back when I started, I was looking at a custom distro plate along (or possibly in place of) the PSU shroud. I never got round to it. Now I've got more in to Fusion and also manufacturing is so much more available, I've gone and started watching videos on the sorts of dimensions that might be required and how I might integrate the pump tops into it. It might all be massively impractical (hence the modeling) or I might just bin off the idea as too sanity-destroying....but for now, it lives! (at least in my head :D )
 
LePhuronn said:
Shout if you need a hand with anything.
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I could do with more processing power (to work on the project to get more processing power - the irony is not lost!) so that Fusion doesn't fall to pieces any time something's got hexagon holes in it! Yeah, I thought about making it much more functional and leaving out the frills....but just couldn't do it. Hell, I managed it in SketchUp so Fusion should bloody manage it!

Once I get a model that's actually workable - I was so enthusiastic about SketchUp but it really seems to have been a dead-end - I can see if this is a workable idea or a pipedream. A distro plate is, no doubt, workable but my ideas are a bit bigger than that and I'm not sure if I have the height available or if it would mean ditching the PSU shroud, which is then somewhat structural....and so it snowballs. If I get as far as actually modelling blocks, I'll definitely colaborate - be rude not to, right?! :D
 
Odd, I wonder how you're doing the geometry for Fusion to fall over with the hexagons. I fully modelled everything for Ortux: Asteria 3 including the mesh filter on the roof of the In Win Chopin case (which is a couple hundred 1mm holes) on a i7 3770 and Quadro P400 and Fusion doesn't miss a beat.

I have turned off a lot of the unnecessary environment effects like floor reflections and shadows though, who needs that when modelling?
 
Couldn't find any settings like that other than under Render but it doesn't seem to be drawing it that it struggles with but calculating it. Add a rectangular pattern of hexagons and it previews them in real-time. Click ok and it has to think about it for a while. If you should dare to change a dimension after patterning, you can expect the full black side bar, "Not responding" and cross your fingers that it comes back.
I've messaged you the file so far - just a single panel!

Edit: I know it's faster to pattern features (the extruded hex hole) than sketch elements (and then extrude all of them) but it's much harder to then be selective about not using partial hexes or going over the edges.

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I've not finished the PSU shroud but here's some more progress for today. I think it seems to be the equal constraint that's causing the most problems in Fusion sketches. Was definitely better when I had trouble on a far simpler sketch and switched to using construction lines to tie stuff in the right places.

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Nope, I'm sitting here twitching, waiting for them to drop. The rumours suggest that OCUK's website may crash about 2pm ;)
 
....aaaaand pre-ordered :D Let the thumb-twiddling commence! I've already flashed the bios ready....which seems a really odd thing to do with no RAM and no CPU in the board!
 
Probably next week some time but according to Gibbo all their incoming stock is stuck at customs despite ordering from three separate places. Prediction is that they'll arrive at OCUK on Monday 11th and I should be early enough to be in the first wave.
Ultimately it looks like the 9800X3D will be top place for games (perhaps until the 9950X3D arrives but there's still unknowns about perforance across CCDs - although it sounds like there is now 3D cache on both CCDs). Not so hot for some production type stuff but also not terrible. The alternative is an Intel option and those seem to be good in production tasks but terrible in games. When I say "terrible", in both cases I mean relatively...so both options would be better than I have currently by some margin.

Ooh, just got a notification that the GPU block is shipping today. :D
 
Postie's been :D

I give you, 1.3 kilos of GPU block! :D






Aaaaand....this is NOT my first rodeo and I'm fully aware I'm er, somewhat accident-prone with coolant :D ....so I bought enough to play skittles!

 
If I remember correctly (and I don't, things fall out!) there's a good litre in the rad, better part of a litre in the res - that's two for a start. Existing GPU is going in Project: Self-Inflicted so that'll need a drain and a refill - and I really can't remember how much is in that one...but it's gotta be a litre easy. So that's at least half gone already and doesn't account for when I make a hash of it somewhere and spray it all over a wall :cry:
 
Just got a DPD notification so there's a possibility they may deliver me a CPU and an air-cooler tomorrow :D Impatience and air-cooling go together better, resulting in less water-logging of the carpet :cry:
 
Well, DPD turned up nice and early so....this: :D



So now the wait is over and I can get building....nope, denied! Mother-in-law is arriving to stay today so there's a list of job requirements before I'm 'allowed' to 'play' with my new 'toys' *sigh* :rolleyes:
 
Ok, this happened :D


I looked at the supplied 4mW/K grease and used Kryonaut to assemble this



Thought I'd better take the Threadripper/Titan Xp as a baseline and got this:



This is pretty stock and the RAM is at JEDEC (3200) not XMP as it wasn't stable and I have never been bothered to try and find something in between. GPU is as-it-comes (apart from the watercooling).
So, what can the new system do? Well, the moment you've all been waiting for....:



Disappointing, right? Well, it's on air and at stock apart from setting the RAM to Expo so, I probably shouldn't expect much I guess. I even got a 3DMark achievement for under 5fps in TimeSpy :D
So I thought I'd better try this!




That's better! :D


Plan for the moment is to run it on air on the back of the desk behind my monitors. Move in, as it were, and then I can start stripping the case and be able to measure things without stopping myself from working/gaming. The whine of a CPU fan isn't going to cut it for long though, I miss my silence!
 
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Ok, why has there been no progress then? Well, in the grand theme of disasters across this thread....disaster.....double disaster. *sigh*
Let's go chronologically rather than in order of importance.....you'll see what I mean in a bit.

My desk, PC, monitors etc are all in a brick-built office at the bottom of the garden. Flat mono-pitch roof with a couple of skylights. We started getting water dripping through the roof and I eventually managed to get someone to come and look at it. Plan was to rip the felt off, replace a bit of decking that had gone spongy and then re-felt. Just about enough time to get it done before the (first) storm we had hit.

It was only once they'd got the felt off and some boards up that we found that the leak wasn't because it had been done badly but because the skylights had somewhat of a design flaw that meant the water runs internally and then seeps in under the felt. Not only that but the joists of the roof around both skylights soaked it up and then dried and then soaked it up. Long story short, all the wood around those skylights is white and crumbly - missing even, in some places.
The fix for this involves emptying the room completely and then de-roofing it so there's just floor, walls and sky. There's a single layer of roof felt over the top so that it weathered the storms and we can delay until next year - can't have the dining room stacked with all my sh stuff for Christmas!

Great, so that's "sorted" - at least on paper - now what. Well, my mum has ended up in hospital and again, long story short, it'll go one of two ways. Obviously I'm hoping that the slight improvement so far is indicative of a recovery on the cards....but I'm only too aware that it may not. Between visiting and admin and trying to get some work done around it, there's not a lot of time (or enthusiasm to be honest) for getting anywhere on this project for now. I'll come back to it of course...but I've no idea what the timeline will look like currently.

So, state of play currently? Well, it's entirely functional but what you might call slightly yee-ha'd!



All running stock on air and running very nicely. Games quite happily too. Would prefer to lose the whine of the CPU fan but to be honest, if you stuck it in a case it probably wouldn't be that bad. It gives me the luxury of something to work on and game on (should I get the time!) in the meantime....but not what you'd call something to be proud of! :rolleyes: :D
 
You have to be the most unlucky person I have ever met when it comes to water. Did the kitchen ever get completely fixed?
 
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