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Why was i not informed of this thread!!!:slapass: Fantastic build log! :up:
it's only been at the top of the WCG subforum for three weeks!! :slapass:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kingcarcas
Update time :)
First of all:
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...ject/tomhd.jpg
I installed a "Taco" 1/35th HP water circulator pump in my loop. My loop(s) go a little something like this now; Res/manifold > pumps (655's) > 3 cpu blocks > manifold > Taco pump > rad > rad > res/manifold. I rebuilt the return manifold and am much happier with the design. Instead of custom gluing my 3/4" pipe into a 4" pvc pipe with drilled holes then gluing the hell out of it to get it water tight this manifold is all stock screw-n-glue connections. building this was super easy.
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...comanifold.jpg
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...tacoaction.jpg
And heres some shots from inside the radiator box showing the depth and how the pump mounts. The fans will mount on the top of the box (if I ever get them :rolleyes:):
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...sideofbox2.jpg
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...nsideofbox.jpg
Before my flow was a little wimpy; I snapped a shot of the tubing when I first turned on the loop. All the tiny air bubbles were clearing out at warp-speed. So far no leaks or pump backup with the mismatched pumps. The taco 1/35th HP is powerful enough to drive water through the MCP655's without them even being powered on. In hindsight i'm not even sure they are needed, a single inline water circulator 1/25th HP pump might have been more than enough.
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...oject/Flow.jpg
I came up with a mounting solution for the MCP655's, they are mounted to the side of my rad box with the outputs facing the farm and the inputs toward the inlet:
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...ct/pumps-1.jpg
And heres the farm in action as of right now. I spaced out the mother boards on the racks more instead of worring about jamming them all in too tight. I did a little bit of cable management but still need a bunch more later on. The new spacing might give me density problems when I get everything up and running, I will probably have to add a 3rd rack on the adjacent wall.
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...ject/farm1.jpg
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...ject/farm2.jpg
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...newspacing.jpg
Thats it for now; i'm still unpaitently awaiting my fans from Newark. 1 week of waiting down and probably a few more to go... :mad: They haven't even charged my card yet, bad sign :mad: So i'm still dead in the water for now without fans. i'm running 5 rigs on the system now and still no signs of heat increase or heat issues. Ambient temps in the garage seem to be about +1 or +2F above outside temps surprisingly. I might get the 6th rig in sub-loop #2 up and running later this week :shrug:
hurry up Newark! I want my fans!!:mad::mad:
You deserve this:
http://iamunderthebridge.files.wordp...-legendary.jpg
I wish I had something to donate, but most of my funds are going towards a project that will do a good amount of folding.
And... for fun. Farm in the dark:
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...minthedark.jpg
looking great trn!
cheer up trn,
GREAT project,
that extra pump makes these MCP's look like babies :)! 3K L/h.
you can probably set many more rigs there with these rads and flow rate,
btw,
car rads are spec'd at up to 240K BTU (~70,000W) for professional designs and others show ~70-150K for the more moderate/generic one's.
you can have a lot of load on these, though these temps in the garage would probably climb up with insufficient cooling,
radiator water in cars are being heated much more then a few CPU's setup and the wind factor going at high speeds is giving an additional effect to the fans!
p.s - place those plywood surfaces underneath the MB's,
that look a little bit too risky...
Busted :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by onex
I keep meaning to do that and keep putting it off...
You are simply awesome trn! :up:
this is so :banana::banana::banana::banana:ing cool :)
edit: sofa king cool!
Mmmmm tacos.
That is one beastly looking guacamole taco.:eek2:
I can't imagine what your friends, family, and neighbors must think. To the average person a PC is just a Dell.
What you have going on there fits in something like out of Super Prison's crazy world:D
Crunch!! Crunch!! Crunch!! :cord:
A lot of straaaange things :) So far I've heard everything from building bombs to brewing beer. And i've only got a few computers up and going so far... I can't imagine the comments when I have 15+ crunchers all going in there :DQuote:
Originally Posted by slaveondope
I put up a privacy curtian over my side window now so the pumps, hosing, and fans are no longer visible from outside because it looked like I had some sort of hydroponic growing farm going on in there if anything :D
*Edit: just got off the phone with Newark... They were sitting on my order and no processing it for absolutely zero reason. A quick call straightened it out... but really? They couldn't have sent an email or called or anything? They are just going to sit on orders and not processes them until the customer calls up and complains? Really great way to run a business :mad:
*double edit... now they say the fans are back-ordered when I ordered 6 and they have 7 in stock and they won't ship till 10/18... awesome, go Newark! I highly recommend ordering from Newark if you want a reason to want to pull your hair out and put your face through a deli slicer.
Honestly... If I didn't know better I would think you were decrypting peoples credit card info.
What else do "sane" people do with 15 computers? :rofl:
Good point, why am I wasting my money on WCG when I could be hacking bank encryption!Quote:
Originally Posted by Otis11
The lack of cases and the water tubes throws people off, they've never seen a case-less headless water cooled "PC" before.
Wow Wow. Your build is coming along nicely. Extremely Xtreme WCG.
Looks great! :clap: I'm glad the Taco worked out for you. :up:
The reliability/durability of the Taco pump should far exceed that of the smaller pumps. I would take out the 655 pumps. No sense having those in the loop if you are not going to use them. It's just one more thing that can be a potential leak.
NEEDDDDSSSSS!!!!
MOAR!
MOBOS!!!!!
i wanna see it completely finished and crunching :D
I'm interested in seeing the effects of galvanic corrosion with the cast iron pump over time.
I feel better having a 655 on each sub-loop. I think that having them can help keep the flow equal across all the sub-loops. I have 6 sub loops; I found that the majority of the water will take the path of least resistance. So if I had 5 sub loops with 3 blocks and then 1 loop with 1 block the loop with 1 block will get much stronger flow and the other 5 will be weak. Right now i'm running 2 sub loops with 3 blocks on each and on the other 3 loops I turned off the 655's; the Taco still forces water through them but the resistance of the powered off pumps is keeping the flow of 2 sub loops good. So anyways, by keeping a 655 on each loop I think it will help maintain the flow across all the sub loops and help make sure I don't have a dead sub-loop.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pointhore
Don't we all. Trn's kinda doing a strip tease with these updates - except more ram and clocks than T&A :down: BOOO! Get yer kit off! ;pQuote:
Originally Posted by disturbed13
You are an inspiration to us all to kick it up a notch :up:
^ love the explanation
it made me laugh
Wicked build so far, trn.
I'm curious... what do you have in the water to prevent algae growth?
:rofl::rofl::ROTF:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kryja
PTNuke mixed in whatever the the bottle recommends (and a lot of it; it took ~45 drops the first time i nuked my system.) This is very important because I no longer have a drainport. The only way to drain my system is by dissembling it and I don't have to have to do that often. I flushed my Rads well but neglected to flush the pumps first; somehow a thin white film got deposited on the insides of my system. Temps are holding steady so I think i'll just rough it out and try and wait a year or so before tearing down the water system for a routine flushing if needed.Quote:
Originally Posted by artemm
Good Luck and awesome job on everything:up:- this has been an fantastic Thread with Lots O Sexy eye-candy:eek::D
The pumps are painted pretty well on the inside with a heavy enamel paint and the pump rotor is a plastic so I'm not expecting rust or anything horrible any time soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMojoZ
Thanks, I'll continue my strip tease :DQuote:
Originally Posted by CaptMorgan
2 new toys arrived today, 2 more L5640's:
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...oject/2new.jpg
And posing with some of their brothers. I have 6 hexa's not running yet, these 5 plus one more sitting a water sub loop that i'll probably get up and running later this week. So this 6 plus I have one L5640 thats running stock (need to OC that) plus what i'm currently running; thats my total firepower. I think it should be good enough to get me to just about my goal or top my goal (100,000 Boinc PPD.)
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/IMG_1002.jpg
Great setup you got there:clap:
Have you selected mobos for the L5640's andyou got a special deal on those L5640's?
I've been buying up Gigabyte x58a-UD3R's in mass; they work well with Westmere's. I may only need 1 or two more mobo's and a few sets of ram and a few PSU's and 1 cpu block. I'll have to get an exact count of what I need later but I have most everything except... my fans :mad:
but we are here cheering you on
KEEP GOING!!!!!
okay that was lame
hush
Now this is xtreme crunching! Thats the biggest pc watercooling setup and radiator shroud ive ever seen :eek2:
update?
lol, was thinking the same! trn :)..?
Well he's definitely doing something right so far... been getting some good pie recently.
Is that everything or is he going to take a bigger slice?
Hell,he's been digging into that pan with both hands and grabbing like a starving man at a all you can eat buffet!:rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by Otis11
MuuaaahahahaaQuote:
Originally Posted by Movieman
Seen that movie American Pie? that's whats he's doing...
Don't think I want pie so much any more.
A lot of face-palming recently...Quote:
Originally Posted by shoota
I've let this thread go quiet because I've been impatiently waiting on my fans to arrive. Without Fans I don't really want to load up the WC loop much more, 5 crunchers is fine passive but I don't want to push it. Unfortunately my fans are still back-ordered/ doing-a-warehouse-shuffle from Newark. They are "in-stock" but its going to take 1 month for Newark to process the order and get them to me :mad: They aren't suppose to ship till the 15th so... i'm sorta stuck for now.
The pump and WC setting is working great, zero leaks this time around using screw n' glue PVC piping and staying away from custom drilling holes and gluing and filling cracks. The vinyl tubing from HD has collected a film on the inside of the tubing very quickly. And i'm sure everything else in the loop has the same film, it seems that every WC loop I build always has this film despite my best flushing and distilled H20 efforts; oh well :shrug:
I bought a bunch of Gigabyte x58a-UD3R's off e-bay with mixed results. I was paying ~$160 per board (Rev 1.0's) which was nice... I won one auction for ~$150 and the description said "bent pins", it was to late to retract my bid, I figured I'd roll the dice and pay up figuring I could bend back a pin or two no problem.... Well I got that board in today and I think its a total write off. A lot of pins are bent and it looks like 1 pin in the lower left is completely missing which makes bending pins back in shape hopeless. My dumb mistake; I should not paid up waited for another board. Anyone think they can fix this and want a x58a-UD3R; free to a good home if anyone has the know how to fix this.
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...336-ruined.jpg
And finally... I tried to get another two crunchers up and running temporarily on air but failed to even make them run at stock clocks. this RAM I bought really really sucks.... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820144266 I have two crunchers with this RAM in it that I did manage to make run but the RAM causes massive instability so they automatically restart throughout the day. I bought 4 x 4gb kits of this :banana::banana::banana::banana:.... another dumb mistake; I shoulda paid a few bucks more for what I know works good before buying in mass quanaties. Once I get in replacement G.Skill kits i'll just dump this crap for cheap on flea-bay :rolleyes:
*edit, and on a positive note... I did get some nice slices of PIE a few times but it looks like it was only because DAK was having an off day or two :)
man i would get one of those dip-:banana::banana::banana::banana:s on the phone and burn their ear off about those fans
that sucks
That sucks about the board...although I can see that the pin on the bottom left is not missing, but is in fact back all the way back. I have fixed few bent pins on socket 775 and those were hit and miss if they were still good or not, but those tiny ones for 1366...I wouldn't dare because they can break at the bends very easily.
On a better note, I saw that you were just over 80,000 boinc points yesterday so congrats!
Ask Dave about it :DQuote:
Originally Posted by disturbed13
For me, it would take about two to three weeks to fix that with help of small pin, but i dont think its worth of time since i dont have any cpu's for it atm.Quote:
Originally Posted by trn
I could get new socket and solder it with LGA/BGA equipment but that would also take 2-3 weeks with speed im working with and its not 100% guaranteed success rate.
Thanks for the info, thats way beyond my abilities. I've donated the mobo to disturbed who will give it a shot :)Quote:
Originally Posted by rintamarotta
I was gonna say, if he doesn't, I'll try. I like going crosseyed doing small stuff like that. I've replaced pins on some AMD CPUs a while back... they still work too :D
Yeah, that's the reason for the wacky smiley in my sig on the corner... that's what I feel like after I've been staring at little pins for a while :lol2:
Oh and I did... but they must get that :banana::banana::banana::banana: all day long because they seemed like pro's at dealing with it :rolleyes: Just a line of BS... Oh... our mistake.. we will work really hard to get a better a ship date!Quote:
Originally Posted by disturbed13
Yeah... they got me a better ship date... longer wait :mad: expected ship date of 10/21 now :rolleyes:
Can't you just cancel the order?
either that or i would take a road trip
get there in person
SURPRISE!!!!!!
now, where are my damn fans!
that socket looks real nasty :eek:
I see bent pins in 5 different places .
That board is good for one thing only: filling up a waste barrel..:D
OT: New egg has for TODAY ONLY GB X58 UD3R boards for $179.99 shipped.
Limit of 5..
Thanks for the heads-up, i'll have to grab a replacement board tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Movieman
pin on the lower left isn't missing, it's just bent back 180 degrees :eek: I think this socket was used to groom a cat or something.
Dave, why do you say that about the UD3R? :confused:
Well I am using 3 of rev 2's and I say (after flashing to the FB bios :D) : solid boards :up:
:rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by artemm
I'm stuck waiting for the fans... heres the fans I ordered http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/pro...sp?SKU=20M3858 they are rather specialized; 254mm (10") 120v and high static pressure. They still show 7 (i've ordered 6 of those) in stock with a 10-15 delivery date, HA!! :mad:
The UD3R's are good, I have a nice mix of Rev 1.0's and 2.0's. Both work nicely. I ran overclocked 920's at 4.0GHz on some 1.0's for over 4 months without touching them, restarting or crashes and those 920's drew a lot of power.
man, just go to wal-mart and hack up a box fan. it won't generate much pressure, but it'll provide enough cooling for you to add more rigs.Quote:
Originally Posted by trn
okay i just noticed something
on the site it says ' Non-Cancelable/Non-Returnable' right under the avaliablity and in the box above the buy button
thats just gay
trn, you should probably ditch these guys and cancel your order.
Why not try a car rad fan for your car rads? :p:
Massive CFM and you'll only have to buy 2. Quieter too (not like it really matters, but you may have to poke around in there a lot, might as well not have it be deafening.)
http://www.flex-a-lite.com/auto/html/electric-fans.html
Most car fans respond well to rheostat-based voltage control, too.
wow those fans are 63 bucks apiece?!?! and non-cancellable?? that's just wrong. what about some of these 250mm fans: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...e=&srchInDesc=
the static pressure may not be great but they move air for less money
My first fan attempt was with low-cost car radiator fans just like some shown on that site; I bought mine off flea-bay. I had terrible results, the fans were loud as could be, unbalanced and just low quality. The biggest problem with them was that they would draw ~90W and would not under volt. I temporarily rigged them to a ~600W PSU and ran them all off of one fan controller :rofl: (for a very very short time.) I'm suprised I didn't kill the fan controller; I thought it was going to be a sucide run for my lamptron FC-6 or even the PSU, I had a fire-extinguisher sitting by ready to go for that test :ROTF:Quote:
Originally Posted by artemm
I do believe high quality car radiator fans could be a great solution. Fallwind runs his farm with 2 real-deal car rad fans (not ebay aftermarket garbage.) His undervolt nicely and keep his farm nice and cool.
Quote:
Originally Posted by shoota
I paid more for quality fans and dont' regret it. Unfortunately that means I have to wait longer because Newark isn't much of a customer friendly web site, they are more of an industrial supply company who doesn't give a crap about a customer who occasionally order a few hundred bucks of stuff from them.
I'm planning for the long term. I feel like i'm getting fans that will work well for my needs for the next 2+ years until I need to rebuild or whatever. Static pressure is also very important for my build because I need draw fresh air into my garage then force it through the rads and out the window. 6 x 660CFM = 3,960CFM which should be good for my needs too. While I haven't bothered with measuring the cubic footage of my 2 car garage that should be good enough to turn over the air every 60 - 90 seconds and keep the garage from building up heat.
These fans also run at 120v and 26W a piece which is great because I can run them off a single UPS or powerstrip and not have to worry about over-loading any PSU lines etc. Wattage wise my WC loop should run:
6 x 26 = 156W (fans)
5 x 24 = 120W (mcp655's)
60W (Taco 1/35th HP pump)
or 336W total.
I should be able to get a good UPS to keep the loop up and running through brownouts and Power outages of a few minutes. Long term reliability and stability is a goal of mine. Some times I travel for extended periods of time so I need to keep everything up and running and somewhat redundant.
And also as a Public Service Announcement:
DON'T EVER BUY THIS :banana::banana::banana::banana: GEIL RAM!!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820144266
Two of my crunchers that I was able to get it running with are instable as can be, they crash and reboot through the day. I can't even make that ram run at stock settings on some rigs!
Time to get FCC to step in:down:Quote:
Originally Posted by disturbed13
I took 20 minutes and worked on bending these pins in an attempt to salvage this mobo. A few of you had good eyes and spotted that pin that was bent 180 degrees backward and tucked under 2 other pins. I managed to fix that and the rest of the pins all look bent good enough in shape for me except the heads of one of the pins looks broken off. I gave it a shot and it didn't post :p:
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...ct/pinhead.jpg
hh, that look like these SEM photos..:),
you got some 5 pins to the right another one that seems short, and that left bottom one seems all screwed up, yet mobo's usually post with a broken pin or 2, no issue, maybe it depends which exactly one,
i would have tried to contact the dealer, that isn't fair, 150$ for an unusable mobo, he said it was bent not dead..
oh, and these 360W for the entire water loop fans and all is quite all right!
Good point. Anything can happen on eBay..Quote:
Originally Posted by onex
There is one time I bought a CPU chip from a seller on eBay. The eBay listing said "New Others:", while the seller description said used.
So when I received it, I told the seller about it; and he offered me either the partial refund or full refund..
Just give it a shot and talk to the seller.:up:
You guys are right; i'm giving it a shot with the EBay seller and hoping for the best :up:
Make your message as power as it can be, it will intimidate the seller a bit.:D
Too late, I whined and cried like a wimp :rofl:
That works too :ROTF:
Any updates? :D
Unfortunately nothing very update worth :rolleyes: In other news:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pik4chu
Don't buy motherboards off of EBay, I bought a bunch of broken motherboards... so lesson learned there.
I've gotten a lot more computers up and running recently; my dining room has been completely borg'd.
I decided to build one dualie with two L5640's in an Asus z8pe-d12 that I bought open box from newegg for a good deal. It won't overclock but I figure i'll stick two of the more problematic L5640's that I have in it and run it at stock clocks and probably not even in the farm. I think i'll build it out eventually as a linux desktop machine/cruncher with a... case :eek: and everything. I'm expecting it won't work with the 32nm 5600's xeons out of the box and expecting to have to take apart my dual E5520 (same mobo acctually) to update the bios with those chips. Should be good for ~8500-9000 boinc ppd. Not putting this in the farm will also free up more space for more rigs in the farm (which its looking like I'll need to get a steady 100,000ppd, if I build everything I have now I think i'll be falling a little short in the 95,000 ppd range.) Another gulfie... or maybe something different like a SB might be a good final piece later to complete my goal... I'll have to think about this.
If i'm lucky my fans will be arriving next week (they are on a boat from england :ROTF:) then I can get on with the real building.
"On a boat from England" ? "Oh, sorry sir, what voltage did you want then? :ROTF:
I just want them in a "working" and "here quickly" voltage :D Its a bit odd why a Chinese manufacturer would have a stock of 110v fans in stock in England:shrug: I guess thats why they didn't sell out on that side of the pond :ROTF:Quote:
Originally Posted by OldChap
Another lesson learned: Next time I should have ordered roughly the same fan but from a different manufacturer, Mulitcomp. Newark had hundreds of those in stock, and I ordered 6 of the Sunon fans when they showed 7 in stock (in England little did I know!)
*edit for some boincview p0rn*
My current home setup is 14 hexacores; L5640's, 970s, and 980x's. In addition I also part time crunch with my dual Gainstown rig at my office. 6 Linux rigs and 8 windows 7 and Sever 08 rigs.
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...dboincview.jpg
:rocker::woot::hump:
After too long I finally get to post a worthy update :rocker:
My Fans:
Their trek started at a Buddhist monistairy atop a 15,000 foot Himalayan peak where Buddhist monks hand crafted each fan per my order, the fans then traveled by Yak through some of the most treacherous roads in the world dating back to the age of the Silk Roads down to India. Once in India crooked custom officials had to be payed off; fans loaded on a WWI to make their Indiana Jones red-dash style journey Europe! But oh no! the ship was hijacked by Somalian pirates! Have no fear the Navy Seals showed up and guns blazing saved the day... The ship made it safely to England where they were lorried to Heathrow to be aired to the US but the package got lost in the freight terminal for a week. Volcanic ash from an icelandic volcano named Eujagonnafukwitualljokull grounded all flights (not sure why this wasn't on the news :shrug:) Newark now realizing they might not meet their promised "orders delivered within 14 days" jumped into action and called in a favor from Sir Richard Branson who strapped the fans to the side of his hot air balloon and fired them up to full power and personally delivered them via Virgin Gallactic Hot Ballon to my door step today!! (this made the local news, should be on at 11pm!) So a big huge sarcastic :up::up::up::up: for Newark's prompt shipping and awesome customer service! I would personally recommend using them to anyone who loves to wait over 6 weeks for an in-stock product to be delivered!!
Comparison shot with a 120mm S-Flex; the Sunon is a 254mm (10") fan:
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...ct/sizing1.jpg
And here's the real money shot, 3.5" of depth for awesome-sucking static power; Girth and Length!
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...ct/sizing2.jpg
Test Run on my counter, the fans run at 120v and use only 26w which is nice and push 660CFM at a moderately noise 50db. This picture looks like a random object search; find the bananas, sun glasses, pliers, passport for bonus points!
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...ct/TestRun.jpg
This shot is for OneX who has called me out on not properly insulating my boards from the rack TWICE! I put 1' sections of PVC piping under the boards and zip-tied them down to the racks. Less than a dollar per board and I still get good airflow to keep the back plate cool.
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...insulation.jpg
My Cheapo Home Despot clear vinyl tubing has turned brown as can be. Coolant is distilled water and PTnuke. The water is fine but it now looks like I have a farm cooled by diarrhea.
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...brownhoses.jpg
Some quick work with the saws and I rigged up 4 of the 6 fans for a temporary mounting solution. Each fan weighs around nine pounds, nothing is holding them in place now but they are well balanced so it should be good enough for a while until I finish everything up later. The fans work awesome, they are sucking and blowing nicely :)
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...ct/action1.jpg
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...ct/action2.jpg
Here's what I currently have been running on the diarrhea cooled system for a few weeks. Two 970's and four L5640's. I have six L5640's on air and one 980x on air that have borgged my house and are waiting to be put out to pasture in the farm. Some of those are not overclocked or have a minimal overclock so I can get more performance from most of those rigs under water.
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/IMG_1046.jpg
This should be the coup d'état for my goal of 100,000ppd average. A dualie, which I will put my last two L5640's that have been paperweights on my table for to long. It won't overclock but i'm going to run it stock :eek: and eventually even put it in a case and turn it into a Linux workstation to screw around with and load it up with a raid 5 array for network storage.
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...ect/dualie.jpg
And for a closer, here is the current result. Temps dropped a lot and so far zero heat build up in the garage (look at the old real temp max temps.) Gotta start working on getting everything under diarr.... uh I mean H20 before Supercomputer Week!
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p.../farmtemps.jpg
:rofl::rofl::rofl::up:Quote:
Originally Posted by trn
Awesome setup! :clap:
Those fans look killer. Your farm keeps looking better and better. :D
Those fans look like they kind of blow.
The fans look like they can power a lawnmower a motorcycle :D
Does the tubes look orange-ish or like straight-up diarrhea?
You shoulda seen the FedEx tracking page for that shipment :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by PoppaGeek
And they really suck :) They are really doing their job and sucking fresh air into the garage and exhausting them through the RadsQuote:
Originally Posted by jspace
Straight-up 拉肚子. I think its the heat that discolored the vinyl. The water temp was at least 95F or even hotter for a few weeks as I ran fan-less. Now they feel room temperature to the touch. I had one tube from my intake manifold running directly back to the collection reservoir and I had the ball-joints on that tube turned off so there is water + nuke in there but no heat (or water flowing through it, just still room temp water and nuke) and its still clear.Quote:
Originally Posted by lkiller123
You can see the one ball joint turned off in this picture and the single clear tube, the rest of the tubing had hot water flowing through it. Maybe it was my Taco pump also, I never flushed that out :dunno:
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...ct/action1.jpg
Ugh, that's just tubes intestine :D
:D what a :banana::banana::banana::banana:ty watercooling system :D
I guess the brown color comes from the pump.
TRN I just discovered this thread which simply made me stare at your pics.:eek2:
Congratulations for your farm. :clap::clap::clap:
14 Hexacores with a kind of general distributed watercooling system. WoW, that is impressive.:up::up::up:
It gives the feeling of a kind of organic electronic brain pumping green fluid through arteries. You could do a hell of an artistic object there by carefully playing with coloured lights here and there and take glowing night shots.
On WCG, under which username are you registered. I can't find any "trn".
14 soon to be 16 Hexa's :) When I get the farm all up and running some night shots with a real camera should be pretty cool, 13 rigs all running with a lot of blue lights on the Gigabyte mobo's.Quote:
Originally Posted by EtaCarinae
I'm hiding in plain sight, "trn-XS" is my WCG name, i'm averaging about ~640,000 WCG right now; Once I finish getting the farm all up and running I should give you a better run for your money :p: I'm pretty sure that right now your the top 'private' daily contributor to WCG:up::up: all the other top producers look like Companies or Colleges.
That's absolutely incredible!!! :up:
Found you on WCG. It is difficult to know who is private and who is a company, school, university etc.. There is a chance I am the top private one when running at over 700'000. I had a good series with five days in a row over 700'000 and three days in a row over 790'000 points. Unfortunately not able to reach 800'000.Quote:
Originally Posted by trn
I have some machines are going down for unknown reasons, I see them dying and I cannot access them from abroad at the moment. Yesterday I was around 580'000 and you were at about 520'000. But tomorrow you will surely beat me I am afraid.
I am very happy to have a powerful contender here. We will have the "clash of titans", two gods competing: RA (Representing the Solar System) vs Poseidon (my proposal for your system). I find this Poseidon name nice for your farm as you have so much fluid all over the place, but it is up to you to decide.
My farm will be finished I hope in two weeks. It should have in total 18 Hexas and one Quad. But due to family obligations full power will not be allways possible, so we'll see what I will be able to reach.
oh my god you guys are awesome! great looking set up trn.
Yep trn that is a fine looking setup ...and I reckon that EtaCarinae is a bit of a star too ;)
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Originally Posted by EtaCarinae
You are without a doubt the highest average daily contributor to WCG right now. Almost all the top daily producers are colleges or companies. And i'm nearly 100% sure that DAK is 3rd (and has been #2 or #3 for a while :up:) Stoneageman is #5 (not to even mention his astronomical GPUGrid output :eek:)
I've been eyeing your output ever since you returned to WCG a month ago, http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...39&postcount=1 :D A month ago you weren't producing as much as now so my comment is horribly outdated.
I like the suggestion for the farm name; I'll work on that, once completed I think I need a christening ceremony. Right now with my sewage brown water and huricane force winds i'm thinking Katrina might be a better name :D
That's not such an attractive description....I much prefer Poseidon ;)
The amount of wind and shyte flowing around those pipes, I'd call it Kenny (one for the Aussies ;) )
That + Kenny made me think of that old episode of South Park where Mr Hankey does a Fantasia with the brown stuff from the sewers :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by trn
Nice work as always Trn :up:
Aussie toilet humour has gone international? :eek:
<sniff>
I'm so proud!
:rofl::rofl::rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by D_A
Sorry, I'm still a child at heart :D
Dammit. I need moar Hexas... I feel like I need to run at least 10 now :rofl:
Just fired up a 970 @ 4Ghz earlier today to make me feel better. Still, one short :shakes: :rofl: :up:
Jcool I was on the fence about asking 'Snurk' for one of those sigs (https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.or...29840_offset,0) But now that I see you using it I need one :) And I now know the lightning bolts on the globe (like Jcool's) are for 100 years of runtime on a project :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by jcool
How do you like that 970? Not many people using them, I've only seen myself, SAM and now you. I have two ES's and they overclock well, same Vcore's as my A Batch 980x's.
Yeah, that sig rocks!
As to the 970, I am rather impressed with Intel's continuing work on 32nm. This is the 2nd (retail) one I have now, I started using them for customer rigs only a week ago. Both CPUs have been able to run 4Ghz at stock Vcore (1,200V load) and stay VERY cool and power-efficient while doing so. I haven't maxed either of them but I think crunching at 4,5Ghz would be no problem. I may try tomorrow ;)
I paid 610€ each (w/o taxes), and in my opinion, they are well worth that if you can't get your hands on ES :wasntme:
That's just awesome, my i7 860 struggles to do even 4ghz (3.8 seems to be a reasonable max for it).
Amazing :clap: :up:
Those are great results, I run all my gulftowns at 4.2GHz which requires 1.34v under load for stability. 980x's and 970's that I have require the same Vcore. Benching's not really my thing but if I would have to take a guess I would think your 970's ought to run 4.5GHz stable at 1.41v under load or less (thats what my 980's take.)Quote:
Originally Posted by jcool
For those without shady underground chip mafia ES connections theres always EBay, ~$750 buys an ES 970 which saves a few bucks vs retail.
And the future is looking even brighter with SB, early indications show the 4c/8t SB's OC'ing very well. If I don't break my 100,000 PPD average with what I have now I think I'll hold out for a new SB setup to cross the finish line in style :)Quote:
Originally Posted by [Ion]
I'll give this 2nd 970 a real workout tomorrow ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by trn
I've tested 4,2Ghz successfully at 1,25V and the machine is equipped with some heavy-duty watercooling, so I shouldn't be temperature-limited. I am having issues with the GB UD7 board though. It worked great with the old Bios (F4 from half a year ago), but as soon as I updated to the latest F7 it suddenly started taking minutes (!) to pass the post screen. However, it does not always do that. Internet forums says the problem is due to the SATA3 chip, but disabling it in Bios didn't help :shrug:
Really weird for GB to have issues like that.. aynway, getting OT :sofa:
Yeah, I can't wait to see what they can do. I personally can't imagine going back to a main rig with less than 8 threads (WCG ;)), so the 4c/8t ones are all I really care about (and no way I can afford a 6c/12t chip w/ the job I have) :shakes:Quote:
Originally Posted by trn
You say that... but ramen and tomato soup go a long ways. :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by [Ion]
(I only have income 3 months out of the year, so trust me, I feel ya)