Operation Fire wall V2.0 water cooled!

[Xeon th MG Pony]

Well instead of water cooling my old tired P1 fire wall I figured I might as well update to a better fire wall so :


[1] AMD K6 400MHz
[2] 256 Megs SD-RAM @ 100MHz Buss
[3] Compact Flash Card to IDE Converter
[4] 512 Meg Compact Flash Card
[5] 2 * 3C905B 100 MBit NICs
[6] 1 Thermal-Crap VGA water block
[7] Arctic Silver Ceramique
[8] V72MA Mother board


After seeing all thees wonderfully clean builds have gotten me motivated to do one my self, unfortunately cash is Ultra tight so I can't do much with new stuff :( BUT I have tons of old parts :)

I use smooth wall as my fire wall/router/DHCP/QoS machine for my network, currently it is a P1 @ 200MHz MMX and it does the job but gets toasty easily and a bit slow on updates or when I want to check the logs.

So with V2.0 water cooled and improved speed :) I'll mod the PSU to get rid of unwanted wires, I want this to be stupidly clean! and perhaps some cheap home made water blocks for the chipset and built in vid card lol.

[SaFrOuT]

as a side note, r u good with QoS

cause i am trying to find guides or something to use on my SW firewall also

sorry for the off-topic

[Xeon th MG Pony]

No prob, on the smooth wall community board there is a how to along with the file, most of it is set up when you install the modual. you want to leave 100K under your max thing

Been a long while since I've don it so rusty my self, you use smooth wall to? :D awsome isn't it :)

[NickS]

Subscribed, I wanna see this :D.

[jaguarking11]

Subscribed, I wanna see this :D.


same here

[Xeon th MG Pony]

well some meandering about yeilded the following


((Picks re-uploaded) sunday November the 19th 2006))

[septim]

awfully small hose bulkhead?...

[NickS]

This has inspired me to want to watercool my old Socket A rig... nice job ;).

[Xeon th MG Pony]

lol Ya it IS thermal take you know the ones who think you can get good cooling with 1/8th Hose's at least they when't with 1/4 after all!

Added 2 pics to upper post

[NickS]

What radiator are you going to use? Prolly an 80MM right?

[_G_]

nice, now that will be an xtreme firewall:toast:
I have an old k6 366 that I was going to setup smoothwall on
(its nice and quiet but does'nt run vista too well lol)

[Xeon th MG Pony]

lol, as for the rad it will tie in with my main system and bleed, the block is so restrictive the system won't even notice the parallel loop

[septim]

yah really smal tubings on that one...

hmm, you really should invest on a camera to picture all your setup, would like to see that...

[SaFrOuT]

No prob, on the smooth wall community board there is a how to along with the file, most of it is set up when you install the modual. you want to leave 100K under your max thing

Been a long while since I've don it so rusty my self, you use smooth wall to? :D awsome isn't it :)


thanks gonna check later

[Xeon th MG Pony]

yah really smal tubings on that one...

hmm, you really should invest on a camera to picture all your setup, would like to see that...


I just have to wait till day light, it seems any thing under 100% day light it gets all grainy and crappy on my, that and the bats are dying lol. toss em on the charger and in the morning try n get a cleaner pic.

[Xeon th MG Pony]

http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7922 < QoQ thread with the How too FAQ

[Xeon th MG Pony]

Well it is all most finnished water cooling parts arrived about three weeks ago but I was moving and started working full time so hadn't had much time to post and work on it! So some updated picies and the parts!

[Xeon th MG Pony]

and some more


The test set up was to see how much flow would go through the 1/4 loop rufly, by simulating a parallel 3/8 loop, in the end I found an impressive flow was acheived! Using the back pressure of the 3/8 loop no real balancing was needed.

[Xeon th MG Pony]

I reuploaded all the pics (Apperantly they where lost at some point.).

And here is a pic of the main 3/8th loop of the server that the fire wall will be protecting!