clarkmcc

I put a fan controller on my fans. Just open it up and plug it in. Other option is to put in silent fans but my best choice is to get a silent computer. Tell this guy the he needs something THAT WORKS. He's an idiot if he just wants something that sounds cool while compromising quality.

Sorry about the delay. Final pictures are here
 

 
 

 

 


 

Yeah we can do that too

Yes this was us...
 
 

I think I have the most athletic RAM here...

I think I have the most athletic RAM here...

I think I have the most athletic RAM here...

I think I have the most athletic RAM here...

Yes

small update:
I've cleaned the pumps.
Changed the fittings from Bitspower to Barrow.

original state:

New fittings, later I exchanged the green o-rings  for black ones.

Besides that, I used some new screws.
the result:

Forum ID: clarkmcc
Build Title: CSLC (Consumer Server Liquid Cooling)
Thread URL: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/577653-temp-results-custom-loop-in-a-dual-xeon-780ti-dell-2u-server-8k-realtime-render-server/
 
Description: What makes this project unique, is its one of the very few stock data center servers that has a custom loop squished/attached/installed onto/into it. I pulled my radiator from my last rig, picked up two waterblocks and BAM, my temps are rarely over 30C even under load. Oh did I mention I squished a full graphics card in there? It currently acts as a gaming rig/file server/render server and can real time edit 8k footage by using RAM drives. While the original server (C2100) was 2U, it is now 3U with the modifications. The advantage to liquid cooling in this “case” was it’s very quiet and runs extremely cool for the components that are squished into it.


 
 

the FX6300 doesnt even have iGPU, so...

We will see  this is kind of a build where decisions are made as we go on  we'll keep you posted!
Thanks man! I'm excited too 
 

We've started the case stripping. We're getting a bigger photo booth for a full case pic but in the mean time, here is the stripped side panel!
 

 

 

 
Radiator positioning test
 

Gentlemen, it's happening: I have a week off work and I'm building a new version of my scratchbuilt case I made two years ago.
I love it, it was a really good first attempt... but it wasn't without its faults so now, I'm going to rectify these problems. For the original one you can check my signature.
Here's a short list of what's been changed from last time:
 
-support for three 140mm intake fans instead of four 120mms
-support for an additional 140mm intake fan in the bottom instead of two 120mm exhausts
-an attempt to support up to eATX motherboards, and also a Raspberry Pi
-a dedicated fan mount for cooling motherboard VRMs
-two 120mm exhaust fan mounts in the rear instead of one
-moved PSU down to the bottom of the case instead of the top
-much better sound mufflers (hopefully; time will tell)
-support for up to 24 SSDs (not that I will use that many obviously but this is just for giggles)
-watercooling support for a 420mm, a 140mm, a 280mm and a 240mm radiator simultaneously (will be aircooling for the foreseeable future though)
-support for adding an SD card reader.
 
Trust me, this thing is going to be just as big as the last one, which comfortably outsizes a Corsair Obsidian 900D. And almost entirely made of MDF.
I'm at the FabLab right now waiting for one of the laser cutters to become available
Stay tuned.

Thanks! I hope so fingers crossed 
 
Stripped a few engine parts as well. We ordered the paint stripper for the cases. Apparently the C70 has some REALLY thick paint. 
 

Hey guys,


 
Here are the final photos of the build! Sorry for getting these up so late, the build has been finished for a while now but I have been super busy with a new job, moving state and city I haven't had time to go on the forums much.


 
Would like to thank Parvum Systems, Primochill and Icemodz for their support on this build!


 
As I said from the start this was being built for a friend of mine and with budget constraints it has taken a while to acquire everything needed to finish it.


 
Anyways, hope you've enjoyed this build log and like how the build turned out!


 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 
Thanks for checking it out guys!


 
Cheers,


 
Alex


 

Let's pick up where we left off eh?

I had a serious inconvenience last week when some crucial materials didn't arrive on time, which put me two days behind. Been pulling ridiculously long days to get this all done in time, hopefully I'll be able to manage 


Connected all the panels together, until now things were mostly balanced in place

 
Phew, everything does indeed fit

 
I decided to split the Riing fans down the middle, should work better for my design

 
Fans in place

 
Finishing up the front bracket

 
Made a bending jig so that I could bend 2 pieces of 2mm aluminium along with a thicker 3mm section

 
Lots of filing here, wanted to make sure the windows would fit flush and with strength


Things are taking shape!

 
Making sure edges are flush and flat


Post workshop cleanup operation. The case is all sanded and the relevant parts ready for painting

 

 

 
Strung up ready for primer!
 

 
If anybody has the nerve to tell me this time that the CNC machine did all the work I'll mail them a knuckle sandwich. I spent a good 10 solid hours just filing and sanding, never mind the rest of the time spent actually cutting, drilling, checking, starting over and finally finishing.

2C in the winter with delta fans in-taking from outside.

Sorry about the delay. Final pictures are here
 

 
 

 

 


 

Hey there,
Thanks for stepping by.

A few weeks ago, I saw a
picture of some awesome wallmounted pc and 
decided:
Yeah...imma build something like this.
 
After maybe three weeks of sketching and figuring it
had evolved into a "simple" case...I dont know why it ended up beeing what it is now but
it just somehow did.
 
Honestly speaking it isn't finished yet so if you want to come along with my experiment I would be 
quite pleased.
 
First of all, I am a 23 year old student with literally no workshop or tools...so everything was build from scratch...
I had to buy all the tools like a drill, a saw, screwdrivers and so on.
But i did not waver and soldiered on.
 
Here she is...with my...case...and cable managment from my first pc
(Specs are listed on my profile)
 

Well...i know...its a little bit of an eyesore...but thats why i decided to build my own   (because screw logic )
 
 

The final sketch looked like this...(Sorry for no fancy renderings or gooogle sketchup models)
 
it kind of evolved during the building process but i had to do some adjustments and dumping the two loop plan was neccessary...would be overkill anyway for this setup
And now the fun started. I found a company which would cut all my pieces out of wood and acrylic and send it to me for i had no big saw and i wanted it to be as precise as possible.
I ordered some watercooling parts too because i needed everything in front of me for the dimensions and visualisation
 

The wooden pieces arrived
Why wood you may, completely correct ask, because it is the most affordable material and the one I am most comfortable working with.
 

getting an idea of how it is going to look
 
Then i went on and throwed a whole lot of money around to get the tools and all the little things i needed..
and instantly had a broken drill which i sent back to get it replaced, what left me playing with the stuff i already had laying around.
 

like those LTT Edition Noctua NF F12
 
 

aaaand another test fit
 
After recieving another ton of stuff and the drill, I began to work. It was a real challenge do do this in my room...
because i had nowhere else to go but it somhow worked...not brilliantly but it did the trick.
 
After that I made the commitment that my rig is not going to see another case until this thing is finished, by ripping out all the good stuff while waiting for additional deliveries
 

There it is...the crappy thing...never going to see the light of day
 
 
Now she sits on my desk waiting for a new case. 

 
Without further ado I went back to work and did a lot of test fitting, drilling and sawing.
 
My "workshop"

 
 
It was probably at this point where i dumped the second loop  because it would be to much of a hassle to hardpipe the whole thing with two loops and simply not justified especially looking at my bankaccount.
 



Drilling and rasping
 

my little touch of OCD
 

First steps and little bit of progress
 

more progress...
 
with this kind of results showing i was fired up to get it done.
 

firing her up for the first time with parts of the new case
 

now it is slowly becoming what i had invisioned it to be (not sure about the grammar here )
 

that was the point where she got her name
she is just too goddam big...but yeah...too late to stop now
 

trying to get some "glamshots"...not really working with a smartphone camera 
 
now the whole assembling and disassembling was a pain in the neck...and in the back...

 
 
and there where times where I simply was too dumb/lazy to read thoroughly what was required..like that time when I went full retard and bought a holesaw just to realize i couldnt use it with my drill because I needed a standing drill...like one of those big ones...well i did what was needed and pulled it of with my bare hands...damn that hurt

for a little bit of ventilation for the graphics card and the motherboard
 
time to go crazy with filler and let all the screws and screwups disapear

and for a smooth finish after sanding and before vinyl wrapping.
 
or i ordered the carbon vinyl...aaaand overdid it because it was in the middle of the night...now i have enough of that shit to cover my whole room...maybe not really but you get the point, do you.

thats like 9 squaremeters of vinyl...
  with that much material at disposal i went full moron on the vinyl wrapping but surprisingly never screwed up.
 


 
some pieces...and then
 
*BOOM* assemled and running...geezuz that blue RAM hurts my eyes...thats what you get for changing the coloursceme in the middle of the build

 
Well folks...thanks for coming along...and hopefully sticking around as this is still far from finished...she needs the watercooling loop finished...she needs a cablemod and fancy cablemanagment. 
The aluminum needs to be brushed and then reassembled...the bottom and the top need to be finished as well as replacing the RAM with somthing like dominator Platinum or colouring it...
and finally an GPU upgrade which is going to be watecooled as  I'm not going to do so with this GPU because i don't want to spend
120 bucks for watercooling a 970 when i know I'm going to upgrade it anyway with the upcoming pascal/polaris release. I forgot the red LED lighting.
 
I'll try to update this Build Log every time when there is progress.
 
 
 
Hello there,
 
nearly one month later I am back with a little more done to her.
 
first of all I helped myself with the stupid holesaw to drill two holes into the bottom plate for some fans. But this time I figured a way to do the job without 
killing my hands.

worked way better and easier...and ignore the markings...they where wrong and I was to lazy to erase them.
 


there they are...mounted and ready to go.
 
at this point in time my desk looks like this.

WAN Show ftw
 
With the rest of the watercooling stuff on the way I gave the aluminium brackets a brushed finish

brushed vs factory look                                                                                                       all ready and looking fine
 
and the top plate with the holes for the four radiator fans.


Topplate wrapped and assembled
 
Yeiiiii finally the  the Watercoolingstuff is complete and ready for my first ever watercooling expirience....an yes i know even Linus said that one should not start with a hard tubing loop but this build
simply isn't going to look good with soft tubing and my bit of OCD didnt allow it either.
With that in mind i decided to go for gold and try

Btw...this picture was taken after the whole loop was done so there are a few fittings and tubes missing 
 
I started with some easy bends to get used to the whole thing and did good for the first bends of my life and got really excited.

There where some screwups at first but i ignored them mostly because they where only hideous but not damaged or bent in the wrong way (like the one leading into the pump)
 
 
The following part probably needs a little bit of explanation. I was just recently enlightened by some videos i didnt watch before...that it doesn't matter in which order your components are located in the loop.
My loop was designed with the thought that it would be good if the coolant goes through a radiator before entering the next component...like this:
...Rad -> CPU -> Rad ->  GPU...
which hopefully explains the crazy bends i did there.
 
Without further ado...
lets go completely crazy with the tubing!

yeah i know...they are not the prettiest and straightest bends in the world but i am completely satisfied with how the turned out.
remeber....this is my first watercooled build...and at some point in time i will redo some of the bends but for now they suffice...
and i kinda like the unrefined look remembering me that nothing is perfect from the start.
 
Time to install the CPU block and do the rest of the loop...yeah...i ran out of money and wasnt able to fit the GPU block in my budget...
aaaand i couldnt wait 

         old cooler off ...                                                cleaning                                    new cooler on...dat excitement
 
now thats a look on every bend i had to do and every fitting that went into this stupid thing...fittings can really blow your budget

thats actually a lot...sheesh...my poor wallet
 

now filling her up for the first time...(that sounds a little bit wrong..
anyway)
 
aaaand there goes the red....of course i let her run for more than a day to look for leaks...(it isn't getting any better isn't it )

 
 
thats looking good i think...have some more pictures (i tried to do some kind of fancy pro looking photos )
 

 

ah...that inlet bend on the right of the CPU is getting reworked as soon as the GPU is getting its treatment.
 
now the whole Deskemperess in her glory...

 
 
Well folks...thanks again for checking out my build...this is it...at least for the time being because i really need to stop spending the money i had planned for my food...
no it is not that aweful but I really dont have enough to include the GPU at the moment but it'll happen in a little bit...meaning like one maybe two months.
Until then i will paint the RAM if i have the time and do some LED lighting. And if I am really bored...the cabelsleeving. 
Geezuz dat blue RAM looks super dumb...well i have to deal with it.
 
The best part of the whole thing is...every time i walk into my room I really enjoy the accomplishment standing there on my desk in all her glory.
And I really like her with all the mistakes, being big or small, I made because it is the first thing in a while i had the energy to finish.
 
And thanks for the kind words after the first part was done...that kept me going.
See you another time.
 
................
 
2017
 
Hey again...it's been  a while...geez its been nearly a year.
I thought I'd update the buildlog.
 
I did different things to my Red Queen.
New Hardware were the red RAM Sticks (Corsair Dominator 16 GB)
God they look good...but they are a little on the Orange side but im fine with it for now.
Coolermaster V850 PSU 
Bitfenix Custom Red cables
aand the goodness...
finally the EK waterblock for my GPU.
 
But first she got a new place to sit on and some lighting

 
few weeks later i started (what i thought would be the) final stage of building.
 
I added some ventilation holes because i had problems with the airtemperatures inside the case.
(Still learning )
 

 
Cablemanagment...well i tried

 
Looook now with new and fresh fluid

 
Well until the stupid Fluid changed color again...so i cleaned the whole system and tried my luck with pastel coolant from EK because i thought it should work as the Coolingparts are nearly all from EK.
 
disassembling and cleaning 

 
aaaaaaaaand there she is back together
 

That was last year....
 
the sad thing is...the fluids are changing color again...
and i have no idea whats wrong.
 
Better pictures following after another cleaning and fluid change.
 
well then...see you soon

I forgot one picture...
 

she is really big isn't she?

 

UPDATE 4/20/2016 -
 

 
Hello LTT!
 
It's been ages since I was on here, however I'm in the middle of a cool project in my opinion. I just parted out my custom loop PC and invested $500 in a dual Xeon L5640  2U server w/96GB of ECC RAM. I plan to turn it into a render server/file server/ gaming rig. I pulled the reference 780Ti out of my last build and put the blower back on and managed to fit it in a PCI slot under the SAS card. I set up the drive array with a friend and am not totally sure what specific RAID we used, its 8 drives, 4x 2 drive mirrors striped between 2 blocks of 4 drives (120GB boot SSD and 500GB caching SSD). I'll post some pictures and clarification soon!
 
As for the modifications, it's not on a rack so I'm thinking about really putting some design into making it look attractive and cool at the same time. Here's what I have in mind:
Liquid cooling the CPUs, RAM, and VRMs with 5x 120s worth of radiator space and 10 SP120s in push pull config Expanded RAM for 4K realtime editing on RAM drives Upgraded CPU to X5650 Mounted Radiator Specs
2x Xeon L5640 @ 2.7GHz GTX 780Ti LSI SAS Card supporting 8 drives in RAID 10  2.25TB of redundant, striped storage Triple 120MM Radiator 96GB Ram Dual Load-Balancing 750W PSU  
FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT RENDER VIDEOS you'll want to keep an eye on this. I've been able to speed up my REDCODE 4k/5k/6k workflow drastically by getting the footage on RAM drives which have a couple GB/s transfer speed into premiere, drastically. I can now EDIT 6K REALTIME.
 
Also, I've been able to transcode REDCODE to ProRes 4:4:4:4 in realtime as well, which according to the folks at REDUSER, is very rare without a couple titans or a red-rocket card. 
 
(P.S. let me know if liquid cooling a server is a stupid idea)
 

 

Sorry about the delay. Final pictures are here
 

 
 

 

 


 

Forum ID: kickasssloth
Build Title: The Quantum Loop
Thread URL: 
Description: A high tech piece of military equipment, hidden from most eyes, locked away in a basement, it was left untouched for 25 years, but now its back... and boy does it look cool!

the cpu will meet the work requirements that i need it too. I knew that the motherboard was over kill ( I relied heavily on the parts that linus talked about in his build logs haha)
I picked the case because of the dust filters, i live in the desert and it is killer on pcs around here. 
as for the ram, i didnt know. I should have come here and asked but i had done so before a couple of months back and didnt buy the parts then ( felt anxiety over asking again about these parts)
I plan on upgrading the ssd in the future.