Build Log: 100,000 PPD by 1/23/2011

[trn]

I'm interested in seeing the effects of galvanic corrosion with the cast iron pump over time.

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.

Good Luck and awesome job on everything- this has been an fantastic Thread with Lots O Sexy eye-candy

Thanks, I'll continue my strip tease

2 new toys arrived today, 2 more L5640's:


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.)

[Mydog]

Great setup you got there
Have you selected mobos for the L5640's andyou got a special deal on those L5640's?

[trn]

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

[disturbed13]

but we are here cheering you on
KEEP GOING!!!!!







okay that was lame
hush

[Reflex1]

Now this is xtreme crunching! Thats the biggest pc watercooling setup and radiator shroud ive ever seen

[shoota]

update?

[onex]

lol, was thinking the same! trn ..?

[Otis11]

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?

[Movieman]

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!

[Plan.B]

Hell,he's been digging into that pan with both hands and grabbing like a starving man at a all you can eat buffet!

Muuaaahahahaa

Seen that movie American Pie? that's whats he's doing...

[D_A]

Don't think I want pie so much any more.

[trn]

update?

A lot of face-palming recently...

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 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

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.


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 .... 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

*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

[disturbed13]

man i would get one of those dip-s on the phone and burn their ear off about those fans
that sucks

[hedge]

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!

[lkiller123]

man i would get one of those dip-s on the phone and burn their ear off about those fans
that sucks

Ask Dave about it

[rintamarotta]

A lot of face-palming recently...

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 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

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.


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 .... 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

*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

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.

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.

[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

[Sparky]

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

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

[trn]

man i would get one of those dip-s on the phone and burn their ear off about those fans
that sucks

Oh and I did... but they must get that all day long because they seemed like pro's at dealing with it Just a line of BS... Oh... our mistake.. we will work really hard to get a better a ship date!

Yeah... they got me a better ship date... longer wait expected ship date of 10/21 now

[lkiller123]

Can't you just cancel the order?

[disturbed13]

either that or i would take a road trip
get there in person
SURPRISE!!!!!!
now, where are my damn fans!

[Jaco]

that socket looks real nasty
I see bent pins in 5 different places .

[Movieman]

That board is good for one thing only: filling up a waste barrel..
OT: New egg has for TODAY ONLY GB X58 UD3R boards for $179.99 shipped.
Limit of 5..

[trn]

That board is good for one thing only: filling up a waste barrel..
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.

[artemm]

pin on the lower left isn't missing, it's just bent back 180 degrees I think this socket was used to groom a cat or something.

Dave, why do you say that about the UD3R?