[project]6th GeN. 30TB TriplX

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For perfectly silent, getting 'green' HDDs will also help a lot (especially with 16 of them). IDK about exact figures, but I have 5 1.5TB WD Green and Samsung F2 drives in my fileserver, and the only thing I can hear in it is the CPU fan. Biig difference from when I was running with normal 7200RPM HDDs, and they actually made a decent amount of noise.

For the watercooling, I take it you're wanting to run it with no fans? I don't think I've ever seen that done with high performance parts before..should be interesting. I don't think the Radeon 5890 is actually even out yet (could be wrong about that, please correct me if I am), so no, to my knowledge, nobody makes a block for it. However, whenever it does come out, Danger Den will most likely make a block for it really quick. They already have them for the 5970, 5870, and 5850.

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5970* lol, too many damn models out now.... will be going for 5970's 0.o

So in total... if the 5970 would be in crossfire.. that would be 281w - x2 - 125w for each of the cpu's, 30w from chipsets x2, and assume ill be going for a 4770 or a 5770 for the file server, that will be another 130w

So in total should it be around 1000w that needs to be dissipated, higly doubt its possible to do passive, but theres alot of truly low noise fans out there, nexus being one of them 0.o

Havent found numbers for how much heat radiators can get rid of yet though.. guess ill have to do some numbers myself there..

Should be perfectly possible to fit around 6x 360 radiators in there or maybe 480's?, it havent been buildt yet, so just have to take height for a solution like that ^^

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You also might want to look into the MO-RA radiator. IDK if it's actually better than 3 good 360's though; you'd have to ask p0Pe about that.

OOC, why are you putting a high end GPU on the fileserver?

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You could always get some car radiators!

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You also might want to look into the MO-RA radiator. IDK if it's actually better than 3 good 360's though; you'd have to ask p0Pe about that.

OOC, why are you putting a high end GPU on the fileserver?

Its not high end, its mid range might as well have the possibility to play on it while its there 0.o the cost increase aint really there ^^

You could always get some car radiators!

Tried both car radiators and mc ones in the past... they are just too bulky... weigh much, and have wierd angles and mounting brackets, they also have like... 4-9 inlets for cooling fluid 0.o

So its just impractical from what ive figured out earlier atleast, but prove me wrong, find some decent ones plx ^^ and i might give it a try

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I'll start looking around

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Its not high end, its mid range might as well have the possibility to play on it while its there 0.o the cost increase aint really there ^^

Hahaha, ok, fair enough. I've always just run my fileservers with onboard video (or none). Of course, it's rather difficult to game on a headless Debian box...