Fun with The Torture Rack

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

cheers shazza, most excellent work

[Chicken Patty]

damn shazza, that is just sooo beautiful. The nicest build i've seen on a TR hands down!

[illidan]

shazza i'm speachless... this is so beautifull

[shazza]

cheers shazza, most excellent work

Thank you, sir. I need to fly you out to drill 24 holes in the edge of my Torture Rack mobo tray

damn shazza, that is just sooo beautiful. The nicest build i've seen on a TR hands down!

Why thanks, CP - very nice of you to say that. It's a bit different than most of them, but I love Brother Esau's and RAID's. (and NaeKuh's, of course )

shazza i'm speachless... this is so beautifull

Thank you illidan. I've still some work to do, but it's coming out better than I thought it would.



Whew, it feels weird to have this almost finished, knowing I'll probably be ripping it apart in the not so distant future (I mean, it is a test rack after all).

Please do give me any suggestions folks might have. This build is all about practice and trying to get things right for future builds, so anxious to learn.

[Chicken Patty]

Thank you, sir. I need to fly you out to drill 24 holes in the edge of my Torture Rack mobo tray


Why thanks, CP - very nice of you to say that. It's a bit different than most of them, but I love Brother Esau's and RAID's. (and NaeKuh's, of course )


Thank you illidan. I've still some work to do, but it's coming out better than I thought it would.



Whew, it feels weird to have this almost finished, knowing I'll probably be ripping it apart in the not so distant future (I mean, it is a test rack after all).

Please do give me any suggestions folks might have. This build is all about practice and trying to get things right for future builds, so anxious to learn.

seen a bit of them, but for some reason I like this one. Maybe just the color selection. I dont know but its a masterpiece

[millertime359]

Great job Shazza. I love it.

For the Parallel loop, how bout returning to the T3 from the GPU and the go to CPU and back into the T3 from that rad? It seems you won't have any major criss crossing of tubes and should still look pretty sweet.

[twwen2]

Gorgeous! It's so.... blue!

Well done Shazza

[Gamekiller]

I've been following this the whole time and loving every minute of it. This is, like others have said, the best Torture Rack that has been done so far. The different shades of blue play well with each other and it's not overwhelming at all.

Good work, well done, excellent job.

[jpm804]

Great Work Shazza Amazed how organized you got it to look.

I'm finding trying to do an oragnized build on the Torture Rack is not the easiest job.

You mind me asking you if you made that customer box to hold your hard drive and slot feed DVD-Drive? also if you have more pics of it? Very good idea I would say so myself

[shazza]

Great job Shazza. I love it.

For the Parallel loop, how bout returning to the T3 from the GPU and the go to CPU and back into the T3 from that rad? It seems you won't have any major criss crossing of tubes and should still look pretty sweet.

That might work. I'm still cogitating about it (that's what us old folks do). Problem is, I just start twitching whenever I think I might get tubing criss-crossing

Gorgeous! It's so.... blue!

Well done Shazza

Thanks, twwen2. Yes ... it is BLUE, that's for sure.

I've been following this the whole time and loving every minute of it. This is, like others have said, the best Torture Rack that has been done so far. The different shades of blue play well with each other and it's not overwhelming at all.

Good work, well done, excellent job.

Much appreciated, Gamekiller. It was impossible to keep the same blue for everything, so I just decided to go with the variations available. Glad it seems to work. I think it gives some visual interest, especially since there are no LEDs or UV lights on the rack.

Great Work Shazza Amazed how organized you got it to look.

I'm finding trying to do an oragnized build on the Torture Rack is not the easiest job.

You mind me asking you if you made that customer box to hold your hard drive and slot feed DVD-Drive? also if you have more pics of it? Very good idea I would say so myself

Thanks, jpm. Believe it or not, the "box" is actually a spare acrylic bay (3x) cover that I had from my MM build. I was using it as a prototype, but it fits pretty well. The slot drive just happens to fit perfectly. The HD is my dilemma. My husband is helping me make something a bit more permanent - but he's making me do measurements and CAD drawings (yech...it sucks being married to an ex-professor sometimes).

[jpm804]

Thanks, jpm. Believe it or not, the "box" is actually a spare acrylic bay (3x) cover that I had from my MM build. I was using it as a prototype, but it fits pretty well. The slot drive just happens to fit perfectly. The HD is my dilemma. My husband is helping me make something a bit more permanent - but he's making me do measurements and CAD drawings (yech...it sucks being married to an ex-professor sometimes).

Thanks for the info.... have thought if you go SSD putting a hot swap SSD drive which would probably fit that spot you have.

Link

The bulky one I put in mine is turning out to come in handy since it allows me to swap in and out hard drives when I'm testing different MB and CPU combos without having to disconnect any power or data cables. Probably going to get a smaller one since the one I have right now is pretty big.

[freshy]

wow shazza, that looks wild, good work

[CptDreadFlint]

Shazza,
I think your sleeving came out beautiful! The pics capture the vibrancy of all the blues. Very pristine. Best TR build I've witness yet.

[matsjuw]

Looking awesome Shazza, knew you'd make it a keeper

[dingdong555]

It looks fantastic! Top work Shazza

[millertime359]

That might work. I'm still cogitating about it (that's what us old folks do). Problem is, I just start twitching whenever I think I might get tubing criss-crossing

Plenty understandable there. Spiderweb of tubing doesn't look that great.

[shazza]

Thanks for the info.... have thought if you go SSD putting a hot swap SSD drive which would probably fit that spot you have.

Link

The bulky one I put in mine is turning out to come in handy since it allows me to swap in and out hard drives when I'm testing different MB and CPU combos without having to disconnect any power or data cables. Probably going to get a smaller one since the one I have right now is pretty big.

Thanks for the great idea, jpm. That would be a lot better solution ... now I've got to go shopping!

Thanks also for the nice comments freshy, CptDreadFlint, matsjuw, and dingdong.

@millertime - I'm going to give the parallel loop setup a try in the next day or so. Not looking forward to wrestling with those fatboys again

[NaeKuh]

Shazza u need a NAS now for that HTPC. (oh there goes another worklog )

^ is so convenient because network drivers just need a Ethernet cable.

[bentleya]

Fantastic work Shaaza, and the photos to match, Bring on the next worklog.

[NaeKuh]

On a side note, shazza, you really need to play with a dual processor sammy.

I think you'll find one very interesting and fun. Also there not too expensive.

[shazza]

Shazza u need a NAS now for that HTPC. (oh there goes another worklog )

^ is so convenient because network drivers just need a Ethernet cable.

Yep ... we have a server setup currently where we store our data/photos/etc. I was planning to use it for video as well ... but maybe it does need to be updated a bit

Fantastic work Shaaza, and the photos to match, Bring on the next worklog.

Thanks, bentleya. I still need to finish this one, but the next one is in the planning stages...

Also, these components were never meant to stay on the torture rack. Ultimately, they need to go into an HTPC case. I just haven't decided which case I'm going to use. This amount of effort on a Torture Rack is obviously way overkill if it's truly to be used as a test bench, I was just using this build to practice things like sleeving and setup.

[RCG_Bex]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN! My fiance want to steal it

He loves blue, but I'm a red gal...

~Bex

[shazza]

Thanks, Bex. I like red too - just happened to be in my smurf phase for this one.


Getting ready to redo my loops - want to do two separate (but not really separate, if ya know what I mean ) loops on the T3/D5 combo. But got sidetracked and decided to run a little test to check temps. Compared the T3/D5 to the MCP355/XSPC Res Top. Set both up with the current loop order: res/pump > 240 Rad > GPU Block >CPU Block > 240 Rad > back to res/pump. I wasn't expecting to see much diff for this setup ... and that's pretty much what I found. Here are a couple of screenshots - I did the tests twice on each res/pump combo (yes, I drained / filled / drained / filled / drained / filled ). Pretty easy to do with both these reservoirs and the Torture Rack.


Ambient temp is 24-25 degrees C.


Screenshot with T3 / D5 combo:





MCP355 / XSPC Res Top



This is the first test ... similar results on the second set, except the T3/D5 was showing 1 degree higher than the MCP355/XSPC, so pretty much same performance as far as I'm concerned. DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT A REVIEW. IT IS NOT A STATISTICALLY VALID TEST. It is just a simple little check I did for myself - that's why it's in my worklog instead of the main T3 threads. Happy to answer questions or take suggestions, just don't wanna about it I realize it might be more meaningful if I presented log data over a time interval, but grabbing a quick screenie was for illustration and for later comparisons. I watched the temps for quite a while throughout all the runs.

Should have my parallel loops setup tomorrow on the T3. Again, don't expect much difference in my temps, just want to set it up to check it out. Photos will accompany the new data.

[Chicken Patty]

thanks for sharing the info shazza, can't wait to see the loops re done

[PradaG]

WOW Sharon!!!! - this end result looks fantastic

Where might i inquire will this machine go? - i.e. what will be its intended use (forgive me if you already stated & i missed the text)

i wonder what room in the house is w/o a cpu....next project on the list??....

the attention to detail paid off - this is truly a superb example of a what can be done w/ a bench NICE JOB!