Zombie Mods - The TVR Sagaris.

[Karumu]

wow! nice job man! looks real nice!

[ALXAndy]

Ermahgerd. OK so check this out. Ages ago now (weeks) I bought three fans from China. The seller sent me an email telling me they weren't in stock. I say OK, send me a refund. Then they have shipped them /rolleyes. So I thought whatever and ordered some (at a much higher price) from a UK seller. I get the shipped notification from the UK seller. I email them two days later asking what method they used to send them, they say first class ! (note the exclamation).

 

Any way, seven days later they don't arrive so I email them and ask where they are. They then go on this long load of old crap about me stealing the fans. In the end they begrudgingly send me two more via recorded post. They arrive, I repair my GPU...

 

OK so here's where it gets all weird. Last Thursday I get a card from Royal mail telling me I owe them money. They don't tell me why so much, or what for, just that some one has sent me something without paying enough postage.

 

So I pay the fine because I am expecting quite a few things.

 

Guess what? it turned out to be the fans they sent and they hadn't put ANY stamps on the envelope whatsoever..

 

So what's so messed up about today? look what else came on the very same day !!!

 

 

[Karumu]

you should make a custom shroud for the lightning and install all 7 fans you have on it, and dinoc them all read and blue!

[ALXAndy]

Nah. the H100 came, I may just mount three to the front of that

[Karumu]

Nah. the H100 came, I may just mount three to the front of that

that would be highly inefficient i think if you did that your cpu would overheat

[atrash]

But you've already sleeved those fans on the graphics card..LOL. But it looks like this one can be plugged in to the gpu right?What do you plan to do with all of that fans?

[ALXAndy]

OK H100 fun..

 

It's important that I use Dell fans. Otherwise if there is nothing plugged into the sockets on the mobo I get alarms every time I boot the PC that halt post. So, I simply took a 92mm Nidec and a 120mm Nidec and used the 120-92mm fan adapter I had. I can't use a 120 on the top because it hits the board. So mock up time..

 

First I had to remove the fan shroud.

 

 

Mock.

 

 

OK that works. In order to get it in I had to mod both the 120mm and the 92mm fans.

 

 

OK. So the stock Corsair screw system will not work and here is why.

 

 

The Corsair screws are female. The ends coming out of my board are female... The two won't work. So I removed all four of the stock cooler screws and springs. Then I hit a snag. They were too thick to go through the Corsair brackets FFS. So I got out the Dremel and ground out the slots in the spare set of Intel brackets I had..

 

 

Another angle on that..

 

 

Then I hit another snag. The springs were too long.. FFS back to the kitchen to cut them all down..

 

 

Fit my modded brackets.

 

 

And finally, after almost three hours.

 

 

OK so couple of things left to do before I fit it permanently. One, do this.

 

 

And the other one, paint all of the accessories.

 

 

And once they've had a couple of coats and have dried I can start working out the bracket that will hold it firmly in place.

[ALXAndy]

that would be highly inefficient i think if you did that your cpu would overheat

 

That's a joke yes? you do realise my CPU has a TDP max of 60 watts? a H100 will drown it lmao, fans or not !

[The_Strict_Nein]

How are you planning to cool the second CPU?

[ALXAndy]

How are you planning to cool the second CPU?

 

What second CPU?

[The_Strict_Nein]

What second CPU?

 

My bad, got you confused with another build I was thinking about

[ALXAndy]

My bad, got you confused with another build I was thinking about

 

 

The board can take another CPU but tbh I wanted the rig to be low powered (as in power at the wall) and quiet. The second CPU module has a blower fan on that looks anything but quiet.

 

The area it sits in will eventually host 6 2.5" laptop drives in RAID.

[MrSuperb]

 

The board can take another CPU but tbh I wanted the rig to be low powered (as in power at the wall) and quiet. The second CPU module has a blower fan on that looks anything but quiet.

 

haha ... 40W CPU .... GPU with 3 power connectors

[alpenwasser]

haha ... 40W CPU .... GPU with 3 power connectors

Well, you know, two power connectors deliver power to the GPU,

and one sucks it back out, so you only really have one power

delivery line to the GPU after doing the math.

@OP: Looks smashing!

[ALXAndy]

haha ... 40W CPU .... GPU with 3 power connectors

 

The GPU runs on the later drivers that down clock it to 50mhz when idle. Even though the CPU is 60w it's still got 6 cores and 12 threads and when used it's very powerful

[MrSuperb]

The GPU runs on the later drivers that down clock it to 50mhz when idle. Even though the CPU is 60w it's still got 6 cores and 12 threads and when used it's very powerful

 

Do you have a power meter? now I am curious

[ALXAndy]

Do you have a power meter? now I am curious

 

No but I will be getting one

 

Either way I can guarantee that it chows down a lot less power than my gaming rig, which runs a FX 8320 @ 4.9ghz, a 7990 overclocked and about eight hard drives

 

I do need GPU power for this workstation. I do a lot of graphics intense work.

[Rashy]

Been falling behind this build, test week and im studying(not really, been playing consoles). wow that is a beast...

[Karumu]

what i meant by my comment about the spare GPU fans being inefficient is that you would only have about 2/3 of the surface area covered, and THAT would be inefficient but with that 90 to 120mm bracket it should be fine, and since you found out that you won't need the thumb screws i'm guessing all you need is some thermal paste, but i'm assuming you have some already?

[Logan2012]

Trying not to be that guy , but this is utter shit.

[SAV1OUR]

Trying not to be that guy , but this is utter shit.

just leave the door is over there ------->

the point of this is to be made out of what he could find no shit its not going to turn out like 4 way sli titan blacks and 4960x

[Logan2012]

just leave the door is over there ------->

the point of this is to be made out of what he could find no shit its not going to turn out like 4 way sli titan blacks and 4960x

Look dude I didn't say I wanted it to be that but it just doesn't look that good to me. Wait I forgot I can't express anything on this site without receiving hate.

[SAV1OUR]

Look dude I didn't say I wanted it to be that but it just doesn't look that good to me. Wait I forgot I can't express anything on this site without receiving hate.

the reason you dont say stuff like that is because we dont want little shit heads going around if you want to be a jerk to people all the time go to reddit or something

[Logan2012]

the reason you dont say stuff like that is because we dont want little shit heads going around if you want to be a jerk to people all the time go to reddit or something

It's not called being a little shithead it's called expressing opinions.

[Karumu]

Look dude I didn't say I wanted it to be that but it just doesn't look that good to me. Wait I forgot I can't express anything on this site without receiving hate.

if you don't wanna be that guy don't post in this thread, if you don't like it, then move along no point putting a downer on something that has creative flair and what someone has sunk alot of time into.

 

i'd like to see your revamped dell workstation barebones and see how it turns out -.-'