Goliath Triple Cooling System

[Fusion2002]

I bet your wife's making you sleep on the couch from now on.....

I love the control panel. It looks very "industrial" very very sweet.

[Da_maniaC]

Very nice work so far!
Keep it up!

I'm wondering about a few things though.... just how loud is a cooling system such as this? Is it like a refrigerator in terms of noise?

And why did you not make full cover blocks for the graphics?

[Polizei]

No full cover for video because that whole chamber will be chilled as well. The ambient "air" temp in that chamber will also be -40c hopefully to avoid condensation.

Probably a little louder than a refigerator due to two compressors and the pump. Shouldn't be too bad though.

[delacroixp]

Probably a little louder than a refigerator due to two compressors and the pump. Shouldn't be too bad though.

Nice thing about a fridge... it hibernates (idles) most of the time.
I suppose the fans and pump will be running non-stop though ?



Pascal

[delacroixp]

This project reminds me of the IBM PS/2 model 80 .

I had a Model 80-041 in '87 (released Apr 2 - check out John Dvorak, PC Magazine) .
32-bit MCA bus at 16 MHz, Intel 80386 DX CPU, 4 MB RAM, 2 x 40 MB ST-506 HDD, VGA (640x480 x 16 colors), Caldera OpenDOS 7.01
It even had a math co-processor.
It was built like a tank with rock-solid sheet metal... full weight was over 60 lbs (27 kg).

Of course, there's no comparison with a custom built rig like the Goliath.



Pascal


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I must say... I'ld love to get hold of one of these old rigs, rip out all the innards and do a PC version of Wrecks to Riches , Pimp my Ride or American Hotrod .
It would make a super server allthough, at 166 mm wide it's a bit narrower than your regular PC case... and DVD ROM's will have to go vertical (2 slots available)... lots of HDD space !

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[lokitexas]

Looking at this....makes me feel small...

[delacroixp]

Looking at this....makes me feel small...

A couple of 1 TB HDD's will go a long way in easing the pain.

That said, speed is a great alternative for all those adrenaline junkies... and Raptors are certainly up there at No 1 on the HDD list of speed demons (after a few serious CPU's, maybe 4 and kickass RAM)...
Perhaps 2 x 150's in stripped RAID array will even break the sound/light barrier.

It's all good !



Pascal

[WA2]

Kickass job.

Ummm..where in the hell are you going put put that thing?

[coo-coo-clocker]

FIRE IT UP....FIRE IT UP....FIRE IT UP....!!!!

Can't wait to see how this project runs. Sooooo Extreme!!

Seems like the front cover will condense though if the ambient is that cold, unless you used a thermal break like two sheets with a vacuum in between or something...

[mike8913]

the front of the lexan? doubtful, its extremely dense and his cut is thick

[chris.y2k.r1]

This project reminds me of the IBM PS/2 model 80 .

I had a Model 80-041 in '87 (released Apr 2 - check out John Dvorak, PC Magazine) .
32-bit MCA bus at 16 MHz, Intel 80386 DX CPU, 4 MB RAM, 2 x 40 MB ST-506 HDD, VGA (640x480 x 16 colors), Caldera OpenDOS 7.01
It even had a math co-processor.
It was built like a tank with rock-solid sheet metal... full weight was over 60 lbs (27 kg).

Of course, there's no comparison with a custom built rig like the Goliath.



Pascal


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I must say... I'ld love to get hold of one of these old rigs, rip out all the innards and do a PC version of Wrecks to Riches , Pimp my Ride or American Hotrod .
It would make a super server allthough, at 166 mm wide it's a bit narrower than your regular PC case... and DVD ROM's will have to go vertical (2 slots available)... lots of HDD space !

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I have a case just like that and did exactly what you are talking about - It's the #1 in my sig. I'll post pictures later.

[mrmaigo]

VERY slick, though I hope you're not putting your poor drives in there

[Anti`]

simply amazing. Im speechless

[chris.y2k.r1]

Wow ambient at -40c (target) with no condensation! That's a oc'ers dream! More importantly, you can really help trouble shoot problems with mobo limits. I'm learning just how important that can be. For example, my northbridge is the bottleneck in my system - anything above 40c and instability results. With that thing, it doesn't matter what the problem might be, it's no problem.

Awesome, just awesome!

[delacroixp]

Wow ambient at -40c (target) with no condensation! That's a oc'ers dream! More importantly, you can really help trouble shoot problems with mobo limits.
I'm learning just how important that can be. For example, my northbridge is the bottleneck in my system - anything above 40c and instability results.
With that thing, it doesn't matter what the problem might be, it's no problem.

It's a monster !



Pascal

[Sweeper]

Thanks for the compliments. Sorry I've not posted any results lately.....I had a few problems with the cooling chamber compressor and now I finally got it running. Below are a few pictures of the cooling chamber evaporator and temps. Keep in mind it is not tuned....hope to start tuning both sytems, once all the components are installed.

[[XC] riptide]

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Nice!

[lloydsmart]

Lookin' good!

[Serpentarius]

looks like those STEAM PUNK themes

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Wow this is insane Sweeper. I'm glad I subscribed. Hopefully the summer time will open up your schedule a little so you can work on it some more.

[Movieman]

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Nice!

Yup, that about sums up how I feel watching this build!

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so im completely new to all these concepts ... and i was expecting some crazy s*** but man I had no idea that people would go THIS far for a rig!!!

[delacroixp]

so im completely new to all these concepts ... and i was expecting some crazy s*** but man I had no idea that people would go THIS far for a rig!!!

First off Welcome to XtremeSystems !!!
I don't even have a PC at this time and so it's been exhilirating to hang out on a forum where this level of professionalism is fairly commonplace !
I've always fantasized about supercomputers and have had great admiration for the Cray-1 .

It used a cooling system that would make grown men cry ...

All of this high-power circuitry generates considerable heat, and as always Cray's designers spent as much effort on the refrigeration system as the rest of the mechanical design. In this case each circuit board was paired with a second, placed back to back with a sheet of copper between them. The copper sheet conducted heat to the edges of the cage, where liquid freon running in pipes drew it away to the cooling unit below the machine. The first Cray-1 was delayed six months due to problems in the cooling system; lubricant that is normally mixed with the freon to keep the compressor running would leak through the seals and eventually coat the boards with oil until they shorted out. New welding techniques had to be used to properly seal the tubing.

The initial model, the Cray-1A, weighed 5.5 tons including the freon refrigeration system. Configured with 1 million words of RAM, the machine and its power supplies consumed about 115 kW of power; cooling and storage likely more than doubled this figure.

As of 2007, the fastest PC processors perform over 40 GFLOPS, over 130 times faster than a Cray-1.

Roadrunner, built by IBM with components originally developed for Sony's PlayStation 3, has become the world's fastest computer. The $133 million Roadrunner is capable of processing a petaflop (1000 GFLOPS) of data, or 1,000 trillion calculations per second. Some observers see it as a U.S. resurgence in supercomputing.

References: Tom's Hardware's 2007 CPU Charts

It's all good !



Pascal

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Well thank you for the welcoming!

Sweeper hows your project comming along!!!?

[Madness]

building a computer cooling system this awesome elevates your e-peen to "city smasher" size.