very nice, great pump as well! + rep,
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very nice, great pump as well! + rep,
looks great :bowdown:
I love your work.. can your computer and my computer make babies.. :D .. this is just awe inspiring .. I want one for my room.. just so people are like whats that? and I can say its god..
That looks awesome! Are you going to get a video of the water flowing into the res after it's done?
Looking good man, keep up the good work!
that looks awsome:D
just wanna say 2 things.
more fluid in thoose resīs
and rezise thoose pics:P
I agree with more fluid. now looking at those pics, is the return line hooked to the top of the tubes? if so is it noisy? but then again I'm sure its nothing compared to all those HDDs going lol
:O wow
The second graph shows how high, in a vertical distance, a pump can push liquid until it basically stalls. Depending on application, higher numbers are almost always better. I used to have an all grain homebrewed beer setup that had a 10 gallon per minute pump that would push up to twelve feet vertically iirc. Obviously, that's a lot of flow, so I had it hooked up to a switch that would allow me to fine tune the throughput. I also had plans at one point to make the homebrewing system fully computer controlled and automated, but after a bit of research, along with the fact that brewing beer was becoming more work than fun (fifteen gallon batches will do that to you if you have to bottle it all--that's roughly six and a half cases of 12 oz bottles), I scrapped the idea.Quote:
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Who knows though, I might revive that idea down the road.
/end thread hijack.
Edit: I didn't realize that a few pages had transpired since I last looked at this. If I just recovered territory that had already been covered, my apologies, those who were responsible for the sacking have just been sacked. :D
lol i was wondering why you where re capping it :)
EDIT: 1300 posts :)
Thx dude, appreciated =)Quote:
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haha, best comment ever :PQuote:
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Yup, for sure, just wanna get the project completed first =)Quote:
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thx dude. ill resize as soon as i get a comp with photoshop again, gief cs3 images -.-Quote:
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And more fluid is coming, just had to order up another 2l =)
At current state its not noisy at all, the water flows on the side of the tubes, it doesnt fall straight down, had to drill a few holes to get that done though, it was making really annoying splashing sounds before that 0.oQuote:
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rofl wall of quotes!!! rofl lol
haha, thats how it works when u check into a forum every now and then :P
Anyways, added some comments and progress to the previous update =)
I am loving that beast! Infact, I want one now....
/\ join the que... lol
is it going to be done anytime this year..
will it be able to think faster then the AI in games
I'm just thinking of all the SATA/Molex power splitters you are going to need for all those drives, and the SATA data cables. Looks like it will require some serious cable management.
Loving how this beast is turning out by the way. I cant imagine what the hell you would do with 22TB of storage space. Are you planning to add more drives in the future, or sticking with 22TB. You could always have an external unit that stores drives and has a seperate power supply. Hurmmmm..... I wonder, would you turn the power on before or after you plug in the data lines? I'm thinking after.
lol i didnt think of that... how do you join that many sata cables?
That's why he has 2 PSU's lol ;).
Even so, he is still gonna need 48 power cables and data cables.
Molex to SATA adapters and RAID controllers, problem solved lol.
The 1200W Thermaltake Toughpower PSU's each have 8 SATA and 8 Molex connectors. That makes 32 connectors in total. The other 16 connectors needed can easily be made up from Molex "Y" splitters and molex to SATA adapters. He could always borrow a few connectors from the 300W Chieftech PSU powering the Atom system. Plus he needs to power the DVD drive.
Attaching the drives to the system may be hard though.
The ASUS P5Q Premium motherboard he is using has connectors for 10 internal SATA drives and a single IDE channel so that is 12 drives in total. The other motherboard, the ASUS P5K Premium, has internal connectors for only 6 SATA drives and a single IDE channel, that makes 10 drives total. So combined both motherboards support 22 drives (18 SATA and 4 IDE). So RAID controllers are definitely needed.
I think he said that he was going to use a SCSI based controller, as SATA is SCSI compatible, he could then just chain them up. All he would need is the adapters I'm guessing.
Yeah pretty much.
Lets get some answers, shall we ? ^^
How to power it up:
Pretty much as you guys described, just y split up the molex for now, and ill have plenty of connections for everything... and the 16 amp rails can easily run whatever you throw at them... could have powered up all my disks with one PSU if i would have wanted =) ill have to get some custom wires going in there at some point, but the finances have kinda stopped before xmas :P
The disks and connection for now
The main rigs :
And no... i replaced the P5K premium with another P5Q premium, so the motherboards are the same now =)
That equals 20 s-ata on the mobo's alone
gonna run 2x 4 port pci s-ata controllers as well on disks that wont be used for anything but storage, since pci get bandwith problems really fast
The rest will be run on SAS controllers, still gathering up some cash to get some decent ones, so gonna run on 4x pci-x1 - 4 channel ones for now, thats a additional 24 disks there =) However, these will be replaced by some LSI 8 series ones as soon as i get some more cash to spend ^^ they have a 1500mhz cpu and 2gb onboard memory, that will help the main comp stress less =) and increase the raid performance ALOT
The mITX :
Well... it allready got 2 pata disks connected, and will be using 1 sata slot in dvd/rw , that pretty much fills it up with only 1 sata free, will see if ill put it to use at some point
Mini update :
got some decals cut on the label cutter today ^^.
Will get some pics tomorrow
I missed the motherboard upgrade lol. I couldn't help but do some research into your tech ;) lol.
Are you going to be using i7 processors/motherboards?
No he wont.
Personally I looked into upgrading and it would cost around $1,500AUD for a decent CPU and mobo, perhaps end of financial year (June/July) or end of 2009.
Who said decals cant look decent? ^^
More pics to come later today
Man that is sweet. Love that decal, goes perfectly with the orange and black.
One question though. When moving it it (if you ever do lol) wouldn't it be better to install some caster wheels to the base?
That decal looks awesome.
wheels would be a must??? that thing must weigh a lot
A new day, a new update =)
Ah well... finally getting close to completing this one, stuff is coming together quite well, and the computer is booting !
Lets take this step by step though...
New shipment
Not much to say about this one, finally received my OCZ flex kit to fill in the other mobo, and some 120mm fractal design fans rated at 19db
Etches!
Was over at a good friend a few days ago and got him to cut out a decal my ladie had drawn for a earlier project, the application is quite simple too, just tape it up, apply some force, and take off the upper layer of foil, and there we go ^^
Booting it up, the first run!
The time had finally come, time to boot it all up !
And to my huge dissapointment... IT REFUSES TO BOOT WITH TWO LSI CONTROLLERS -.- god.... the frustration was overwhelming... waiting for reply from asus on this one...
Anyways... got some first temp readings up too, and it looks more then promissing, the temperature havent budged, even after a 24 hour idle with both systems on, still showing under 25c =) The water keeps a decent 18c too, and all the disks keep under 27c, same with the 15k rpm sas drives
Will get some stress tests soon, just need to get OS installed first
Cable management
This part has caused some headaches too, trust me :P
Anyways, quite simple going, just some patience and alot of plastic strips, didnt turn out that bad at all imo, was quite alot of sleeving that was needed on the cable splits though
10cm to short
The 8 pin ATX power cable was ofcourse to short =/ had to cut it open and extend it, wired it all up on the backplate of the mobo when i was done though, so turned out OK
And have a sack trolley for transport my friends :P
turned up just a bit over 60kg btw ^^
Lol, good old sack trolley haha. Looks very good I must say, nice work on the HDD power and SATA cables, very neat and tidy.
60KG? HOLY S**T! Thats one friggin heavy computer! :eek: well, really its 2 computers, but meh :)
Actually 2 and a half if you count the Intel Atom system ;) lol.
Omg ****ing 22TB 3 graphic card i am in love LOL
60 kilo lol... thats 20 kilo more than mine xDDD and i can barely lift mine!
you handled the cable manegement well IMO :P
You need some bigger monitors than that for this beast.
wow ... 60kg isnt to bad considdring what it holds... great work on the cable management man thats awsome..
and popes weak :)
