I'm not going to lie this only came about yesterday. I saw a video and an idea I had had for about what? 17 years finally became viable.
So what in tarnation is a G.E.C.K? well any one who played Fallout 3 to completion will know. It is located in Vault 87 and you need it for Project Purity. It has something to do with farming and vitality of land, but more importantly it filters water from radiation etc making it safe. This is a GECK.
However, it also stands for something else. After Fallout 3 launched Bethesda released a tool for modders to make quests and items with. The Garden Of Eden Creation Kit. Very clever.
So what is my GECK for and what will it do? hilariously it will be a working computer (running Linux, it does not work with Windows **yet**) that is built solely for the playing of Fallout games.
And this is where it gets very different indeed.
So yes yesterday I was watching the tube of poo and a video popped up from Hamish, AKA Budget Builds Official. I mean no disrespect here but I don't sub to his channel because it is mostly him playing with cheap crap (literally) for lots of views. Picking the peanuts out of poo is not something I would normally partake in so yeah.
However, yesterday he posted what is, IMO, his most interesting video yet. Basically he got hold of a back plane that was built for mining that contains a Ryzen APU (most specifically the one from the PS5) as well as 16gb memory and etc. IE, a whole PC on a back plane. This.
It is dual slot and about the size of a GPU. Yet, it is an entire computer on a single board. Couple more pics.
It is a very simple thing to power. You literally just need a PSU. Now I want to keep this thing as small as humanly possible, so I got this.
Now these are known for being noisy. However, I have two options. First one is to put a Noctua fan in it. Which will make it silent. The second option? remove the fan completely. This may sound sketchy, but the design of the unit will be such that it will get tons of air shoved through its bottom just like the plane. How? Well, imagine a PC with a front panel that is, IDK, 130mm x 130mm square. With a nice powerful fan in it. Then imagine the PC being the depth of the back plane so you can connect things to it. This design is also known as the wind tunnel. Which, amazingly, is how the server it once lived in would operate. Hamish stuck a fan to the top of it, but that is not how you would go about cooling it.
The plan.
Machine the entire machine from 5mm acrylic, in the Vault Tec colours. Only unlike Modular I will not be relying on these pieces of acrylic to be straight. That was where I went wrong last time. This time around not only will I machine out any vents, details and logos myself but I will also cut the entire panels at the same time using the machine so I know they are all perfectly straight.
The cool part of this all is that it should cost less than 200 quid all done and running. I have been waiting for a project idea for my new CNC since I got it. So far it has machined out a few parts but nothing on this scale.
LFG !!
So what in tarnation is a G.E.C.K? well any one who played Fallout 3 to completion will know. It is located in Vault 87 and you need it for Project Purity. It has something to do with farming and vitality of land, but more importantly it filters water from radiation etc making it safe. This is a GECK.
However, it also stands for something else. After Fallout 3 launched Bethesda released a tool for modders to make quests and items with. The Garden Of Eden Creation Kit. Very clever.
So what is my GECK for and what will it do? hilariously it will be a working computer (running Linux, it does not work with Windows **yet**) that is built solely for the playing of Fallout games.
And this is where it gets very different indeed.
So yes yesterday I was watching the tube of poo and a video popped up from Hamish, AKA Budget Builds Official. I mean no disrespect here but I don't sub to his channel because it is mostly him playing with cheap crap (literally) for lots of views. Picking the peanuts out of poo is not something I would normally partake in so yeah.
However, yesterday he posted what is, IMO, his most interesting video yet. Basically he got hold of a back plane that was built for mining that contains a Ryzen APU (most specifically the one from the PS5) as well as 16gb memory and etc. IE, a whole PC on a back plane. This.
It is dual slot and about the size of a GPU. Yet, it is an entire computer on a single board. Couple more pics.
It is a very simple thing to power. You literally just need a PSU. Now I want to keep this thing as small as humanly possible, so I got this.
Now these are known for being noisy. However, I have two options. First one is to put a Noctua fan in it. Which will make it silent. The second option? remove the fan completely. This may sound sketchy, but the design of the unit will be such that it will get tons of air shoved through its bottom just like the plane. How? Well, imagine a PC with a front panel that is, IDK, 130mm x 130mm square. With a nice powerful fan in it. Then imagine the PC being the depth of the back plane so you can connect things to it. This design is also known as the wind tunnel. Which, amazingly, is how the server it once lived in would operate. Hamish stuck a fan to the top of it, but that is not how you would go about cooling it.
The plan.
Machine the entire machine from 5mm acrylic, in the Vault Tec colours. Only unlike Modular I will not be relying on these pieces of acrylic to be straight. That was where I went wrong last time. This time around not only will I machine out any vents, details and logos myself but I will also cut the entire panels at the same time using the machine so I know they are all perfectly straight.
The cool part of this all is that it should cost less than 200 quid all done and running. I have been waiting for a project idea for my new CNC since I got it. So far it has machined out a few parts but nothing on this scale.
LFG !!
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