Project Illuminated - XtremeSystems Tribute

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how the hell are you gonna fill with the pump outlet on the reservoir? you cant. the pump will try to draw water from its inlet and have nothing there...

also, why are you using 3 pumps for a GPU loop? FC blocks are not restrictive and I doubt you will be voltmodding so ~1gpm is perfectly adequate. - in fact as hondacitys (maybe HES but I dont think its him) recent tests have shown FC blocks can perform 95% the same with only .5gpm per block. Also d5's dont die often, in fact it is extremely rare, so I might understand a second pump for redundancy but a third, no.

I understand that you are trying to be "extreme" but 3 pumps in series for a loop with FC gpu blocks is just plain stupid.

If my understanding or intuition on this matter is correct, a system first primed (filled to full volume) with fluids, then connected as I've suggested, will have no trouble drawing liquid from the reservoir (please explain in greater detail why you feel/(perhaps know) this won't work. It seems to me if water is returning to the reservoir inlet in a loop that is fully occupied with liquid it cannot magically have "gaps" in the loop where liquid is not present. So why can't the water be drawn out downwards via the res outlet. I'll test this soon perhaps.

Your idea of stupidity is perhaps my idea of harmless fun. One thing, even if this idea is stupid it's certainly not "plain". Example of my kind of stupidity: (fun) ... the odds of any of my 4 16 hard drive (4x4x4[raid5]) fileservers linked with some extremely high speed infiniband cards to operate as a RAIN that sits on an array of batteries with enough juice to power the systems to rewrite and check parity on all the drives a million times over (... well 12 hours, pretty impressive for a UPS), which itself is powered entirely on solar so the only real chance of outage is at night... Also, it's contained in a faraday cage with a number of other safety precautions taken and has no internet/ethernet connection of any type... All backups take place via manually walking to the servers with the encrypted data medium, entering in a 30+ digit keycode within 4 minutes or else a home brew thermite compound will ignite and destroy every drive in the systems in about 27 seconds, not to mention the biometric authentication.... Now, I have calculated the risk metric using a couple of standards and the probability of me losing any data (excluding natural disasters as a cause or a memory lapse) is somewhere around 1: (insert number of atoms in the universe) ... however this doesn't stop me from doing it... I know it's excessive, I know it's "stupid", but it still manages to place a smile on my face every single time I think about it. You see, sometimes a lack of good reasoning creates something unexpected and if lucky, even something new. One might summarize: my reason based on reasonless reasoning resonates raisins and.... oops, guess I last track on that one... I tend to ask myself... why not first, without ever taking the time to answer the question.

Again, if you're correct about the inlet feeding issue I'll openly admit I had better flip some stuff about.

Appreciate your frankness.