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ok very cool, thanks for the input and ideas guys i will check this stuff out and see what i can do!

i am looking to speed up my network. i have a computer connected directly to my router that is fairly quick and used as a file server and for bittorent and gaming primarily. does anyone know if there is a way that i could allocate some hard drive space from this computer to act as a cache for my entire home network to speed up my connections of all devices? i have a ramdisk that i can expand to about 16gb if that much speed is needed but i doubt it is as i have two ssds in raid0 as my main drives which are pretty quick as well. i dont want to use pfsense as i need to have windows installed. i also have a dell e6500 laptop with linux mint and mac osx 10.7 installed on it on seperate disks, and i wouldnt mind using that for the same purpose if it is something that i could do within linux more easily but again i dont want to use pfsense and i want to continue to use my current wifi router and switch that are installed. is this even possible?

thats certainly interesting..the issue i have been having with windows as a host using VM's is the lack of gpu pass thru with virtualbox which really sucks....unraid could work but i need to have windows running and readily accessible so i dont see that as an option unless i install it in another VM but i really dont want to do that, i would much rather have windows be the host...im going to look for other (free) vm wares with pass thru but i am doubtful that i will find much...very neat idea for a use case though

yea sure and i will do that here and there, and also the system will do that by using the TEMP and TMP folders but they're pretty small and not utilizing much of the disk.....i thought if i did video or large photo file editing that may be a good place to house them during the modifications only of course, but i rarely do anything like that so perhaps my situation just doesnt really warrant having a big ramdisk

as far as the lifespan of the disks....yea i agree...not really a huge concern but a nice benefit...and yea i dont have the patience to install a program or wait for an image to do it for me on each bootup for any applications and no need for any one particular application to load and run especially quickly, id rather if possible have all of windows be a little bit faster than one program being a lot faster....ive thought about an NVMe PCIe SSD but my HP Z600 is only PCIe 2.0 so id max out at i believe 2000MB/s transfer rate (theoretical, i KNOW) which is slower than many of the drives out there today so the expense i dont think is worth it for me there yet but with that said its kinda nice to know that i wont see a huge benefit from my R0 setup in real time usage atm...i am beginning to wonder if the setup i have now is about as good as it gets in terms of the benefits of a ramdisk

so i have a ramdisk using softperfect, i have 24gb of ram with another 24 on the way will be here soon. right now i am using only 4gb for the disk but will probably allocate another 4gb total 8gb. i have TEMP and TMP folders as well as the chrome cache in there, it helps greatly with popcorntime and is surely saving my SSD's limited number of write cycles....question is since i am using it anyways, what other uses can i get out of this with the understanding that the system is volatile so, in other words, what else can i feed through there that likely wont matter to me if i lose it? i dont want to be installing programs to it and i dont intend to save the disk contents to an image. any suggestions on speeding this thing up? general purpose workstation and gaming rig as well as media center mostly used for gaming but occasional autocad ptc creo and similar programs and occasional VM's running different flavors of linux.

i wonder what brand and model that was and what the pump was that he used...smoothness of the pipes is surely an issue as well as the bends but there are some BIG heatpipes on some of these coolers, Ive just got to think with the right combo it could work well

yea i thought the same thing about the mineral oil....otherwise somebody smarter than me would have done it years ago....as for the connection points yea i absolutely agree, each point is a possible source of failure so it would probably be best to assemble at least the CPU cooler/block portion of the watercooling system outside of the puter then gently install it once you know it doesnt leak then throw the rest together.......im really hoping that either someone has the money and balls to try this (as i have neither, my wife neutered me and my wallet) or that this post gets a bazillion hits and linus tries it!

I had an idea...I've been thinking about a liquid cooled rig for a while and I know ya'll are making stuff work in weird ways, so I thought, to save some $$ do you think it would be possible to use a standard HSF with heatpipes that go from one side of the CPU to the other BUT cut off the tops and take out the wicking material with like a metal hanger or something, and then add barbs to each of the pipes or just remove a few fins so that you have a length of pipe a tube can fit on to so that you can liquid cool it that way? I realize the heatpipes are much smaller than typical water cooling tubes of course so I was thinking you could get something with 3 heatpipes total for 6 connections (3 per side of course) and connect the three with 3 pieces of flexible tubing which would then use an adapter to convert the three small heatpipe size tubes to one larger water cooling tube (auto store or home depot plumbing section?). THEN for a rad use a car heater core which a bunch of people have done apparently in the past. The only thing you would need to buy then would be a pump and reservoir and I am unsure if a reservoir is needed as some of those heater cores have reservoirs on them. Two other things, I was thinking you could possibly use a cheap aftermarket fuel pump as a pump (not sure though because they are 12V with only two leads, no sense or control, I think) and mineral oil as the coolant (does that work)? It would be ghetto as fuck but if it worked it would use a typical HSF that is pretty inexpensive and so no waterblock required, it would use the HSF fan as well as the rad and fans there so, sort of a dual solution with some redundancy if something failed, and some automotive parts that are really easy and cheap to get at any auto parts store. The mineral oil idea would simply lubricate the pump and IF it leaked it would NOT cause any damage to components (has this been done before? it seems SO obvious as a solution IF it can carry as much heat away as water?). I would try it all myself but I only have one rig because I'm a broke ass teacher in Turkey (making me even more broke than when I was in the States) and I cant afford to fuck something up. Also I am using an HP Z600 with a pair of X5660's and EVERYTHING is proprietary including the fan plugs and stuff so it would take a ton of fucking around. Anyways I thought if anyone might consider trying it yall would. If you wanted I could make a diagram of what you mean, Im actually a mechanical engineer so I can draw some shit up if you aren't sure what I mean. BTW you guys are awesome, I check out linus videos all day long and they're fantastic. Anyways I love doing this stuff I just don't have the money to do it myself anymore so, I am living vicariously through you!!!

checking now to see if anybody has one that they're looking to sell...?? ive gotta pretty nice setup as it is but no overclocking and i reeeaallly want to overclock a pair of x5660's to see how they compare with an overclocked 5960x....so if any one has one please let me know what youre looking for on it