Project: Honeycomb

[Fuganater]

Honeycomb will by a scratch build, double wide server case.

This mod is brought to you by:

Thanks to John and his team at Delvie's for helping with the Plexi!

Thanks to Bill for providing some goodies!

Thanks to Maurizio at Lamptron for providing a fan controller and some UV Cold Cathodes.

Thanks go Gregor at EK for providing a bunch of the watercooling parts.

Thanks to the guys at Bitspower for loads of watercooling bits.

Hardware
Motherboard: Gigabyte 880GA
CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640 @3.0GHz
GPU: 2x something
HDD: 1x 320 HDD (OS), 2x 2TB HDDs (Case can hold roughly HDDs 20 total)
PSU: Corsair 100W
Optical Drive: Blu-ray Player
RAM: 4GB G.Skill PC 1600


The Case

Here are my original Sketchup designs.

Updates:
Update #1: Received Mobo and Plexi Sizes
Update #2: Received more parts
Update #3: The Saw
Update #4: Drill Press
UPdate #5: New Mobo Side Panel Design
Update #6: Testing
Update #7: Case Fans
Update #8: An Evening Designing
Update #9: MNPCTECH Sponsor
Update #10: Experimenting
Update #11: Fabricating
Update #12: Finishing the Frame
Update #13: Plexi Work
Update #14: Lamptron Sponsor
Update #15: MNPCTECH Goodies
Update #16: How I Keep it Together
Update #17: EK Waterblocks Sponsor
Update #18: Woe Is Me
Update #19: Front Panel
Update #20: Lamptron Goodies
Update #21: Media Card Reader Cutout
Update #22: Coming Together and Side Panel Design
Update #23: Cutting the Mobo Side Panel
Update #24: Custom Waterblock and Cables
Update #25: EK Waterblock Goodies
Update #26: Installing the Rad/Res
Update #27: Lighting
Update #28: Supplies, Rivets and Sleeving

[Technochicken]

Your pictures aren't working for me.

[xr4man]

work for me.

[Airbozo]

not working for me either...

[Fuganater]

Sorry about that. Reorganized my Photobucket albums. Should be good now.

[Airbozo]

Sorry about that. Reorganized my Photobucket albums. Should be good now.

Works now!

[x88x]

Looks nice.

[Fuganater]

I need some AMD help. AMD's CPUs are much cheaper than Intel's so I figure thats a better bet for this server. I saw an AMD Athlon II X4 for $92 on Newegg. Is this a decent chip? I haven't used AMD in about 5+ years.

If not can any one recommend a CPU under $100 that's decent? And a mobo that would work out with a lot of SATA ports.

Thanks in advance!

[slaveofconvention]

What do you actually plan to do with the server - if it's only going to be a big file server, any quad core is major overkill - any dual core would be more than capable and you could then use the savings to get other toys

[Fuganater]

Well it was only $90 for a quad core so I was like "why not?" Which proc do you suggest then?