D-WAVE X2 Quantum computer - scratch build

[HCP]

You who seen me before know that i´m soft for supercomputers and have begun to do alot of scratchbuilds.

 

When i saw a article about D-Wave X2 i fell in love, how cool is this.

 

Instantly i started to gather information about the X2 and planning it out in Sketchup to get a grasp of what size is needed for my replica.

 

 

To be aesthetically appealing, i have made some changes.

- Racks in front of the chamber not in my replica

- Rear panels are moved to the front side, where the racks were.

 

Hardware

Gigabyte GA-Z97N ITX motherboard

Intel G3258 CPU

2x4gb Corsair Vengeance memory

Cooler Master 120V cooler

Samsung 840 120GB EVO OS-drive

3x4TB drives

 

All panels cut, gluing them to a 2mm acrylic piece to make up the walls.

Wanted to keep the glue from oozing out in the spacing between all small pieces, worked good. Looks awful - right now

 

 

 

Side and front panel cut and glued

 

 

See ya in the next update!

[TheRandomness]

Ok now this is cool. Maybe put the HDD mounts in the front chamber things? Followed.

[Altecice]

Incoming copyright lawsuit.... just kidding GL!  

 

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Also I hate to burst your bubble but they are not true Quantum computers

[GodSpoon]

Looks great! Following!

[HCP]

Incoming copyright lawsuit.... just kidding GL!  

 

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Also I hate to burst your bubble but they are not true Quantum computers

 

 

Not real quantum computer- 1/7.9- IGN

hehe yeah i read that too somewhere when doing research, but the D-Wave is recognized by it, so it was easier to put in the info than explaining why its not.

And the G3258 cpu i´m using is a light year away from being close to running any Quantum algorithms.

I´m happy its a kind of super computer, and a cool looking one

[TheRandomness]

Just tell people it's a quantum computer, and that if you question its legitimacy, then it will outsmart you 69:1 and kill you with your own mind.

Nah, it is a quantum computer at the same time that it isn't HAH

[TheRandomness]

The components exist at the same time as they don't, therefore he can pick them up whilst dropping them.

[enRodjavel]

As usual a nice scratch build on the way. Love your "chopped prodigy hehe

[NumLock21]

Would be cool, if you can make the inside looks like a quantum computer too.

[HCP]

Would be cool, if you can make the inside looks like a quantum computer too.

Hehe, would be crazy, but i really want a computer on the insides so no space for it.

But your idea made me make a decal cutout for the front piece, i´ll see later if i use it or not

This one, a silhouette of the inside CPU and cooling part of the X2

[BeardRex]

YES YES YES

[HCP]

First mistake...

I cut out the D-Wave logo in a piece of flat black vinyl, and had a idea of mounting a LED behind the panel to light it up.

 

But.. got it on off-centre in both directions...

Back to the cutting machine again

 

The black paint is only for the spacing between all small panels, the panels themselves will be wrapped in vinyl to get a easy surface without painting and sanding.

 

Here is how it looks in front of my desk light.

Some light coming trough, will isolate the logo on the back some more.

 

 

And without a light behind it.

 

 

Not much of progress to show today, i have mostly put time into the bottom and designing all parts holding the motherboard and drives inside the case and thinking of a way to open the case to change parts and whatnot.

 

To be continued

[TheRandomness]

Please make the front box thingies the drive bays with the window.. That'd look awesome

[HCP]

A smaller update today

 

Made the floor (left) and the back (right) and put a 140mm fan in the floor and a 120 in the back.

Probably do 2x120 in the roof too, not sure yet, or a single 140 there too.

 

Made a mistake with the IO-cutout, internal floor will be 30mm up from the bottom, forgot to add that to the back. Not visible later when painted and wrapped.

 

 

Front and side pieces glued.

 

[b00st3d]

awesome progress!

[TheRandomness]

Oh now that looks good

[HCP]

More updates

 

Made a simple drive bay to hold the three hdd´s.

Could be made better but didnt see why, it´s the outside of this puppy thats cool

 

 

And it is removable, for easy access to other parts.

 

 

Bottom fan and case feets mounted

 

 

 

Close up of the case feets

 

 

Now its time for some sanding and paint/wrap of the bottom part.

[Pitythefool]

This is pretty sweet, the fact that you are fabricating the case is pretty impressive.

[Sunshine1868]

This looks great! Keep up the good work!!

[HCP]

Mounted and painted.

Found another motherboard, AMD E35M1 with passive cooling, worked good. Been running it under load for a day in the case just to be sure the cooling is enough.

 

 

Bought a SSD-DOM unit, 16GB is enough for my Linux system.

 

 

And a collection of some pictures on the desk.

 

 

[TheRandomness]

Imo drives in those front box thingies would've been cooler c: That'd also open up space for a larger cooler.

[Stefan1024]

I really like it!