Show Us Your Rig [8]

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Wow what an improvement Phil. You system can run cooler and will be easier to clean without all the excess cables in the main compartment. Great work !

Excellent point about being easier to clean. I totally missed that!

 

[Lava King]

My "backup solution" for my media repository arrived yesterday (Friday).

Two Western Digital My Book 4TB external drives.

Inateck USB 3.0 PCIe 2-port card with power adapter cables and low profile bracket.

The media repository is 4x2TB WD Green drives in software RAID 5 on an AMD X2 4200+ running Ubuntu 10.04.

After installing the Inateck card in my sig rig I downloaded and installed the latest drivers. The install was a total yawn, no excitement at all.

Preliminary test results going from one machine to another over Gigabit LAN:


Single 7GB Zip file averaged 90 MB/s.
Folder with 8GB of unzipped e-books averaged 9 MB/s.


My media collection will probably fill one My Book completely and partially fill the other. Once the transfer is complete, the My Book drives will be put away and connected only to add new items.


Kent

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Wow what an improvement Phil. You system can run cooler and will be easier to clean without all the excess cables in the main compartment. Great work !

Excellent point about being easier to clean. I totally missed that!

Yep, we all enjoy the aesthetics benefits and understand the cool air flow increase but it's also less surface area for dust to collect on that also make your life a whole lot easier when cleaning the rig.

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Lava King,
That's a nice system you'll have in place for back ups. I used to run twin My 2TB Studio Books.

 

[AddRAM]

Great job Phill, looks much better

 

[Mellon Head]

Well, I decided to do my usual biannual cleaning, and as usual, this is what greeted me:





What a mess, eh? I decided that I was totally fed up with bad airflow and some fussy temperatures.

I picked up a CoolerMaster HAF 912+ case and a Seidon 240M water cooler and got to work. The water cooler rad was a difficult mount, as the case was just a little short, but with some longish screws and some patience, I got it in. Mounting the fans inside the case was a little daunting. I had to cut one down with a jigsaw. It's a very tight fit. I mounted two fans on the outside top of the case for a push pull configuration, and the rear fan had to go on the outside of the case, as well.

Here's a closeup of my machining:



And the new case, after ward:



A couple of closeups:





I'm not the biggest genius when it comes to cable management, and I'm no Lady Fitz (awesome machine she's building!), but it's a heckuvalot better than it was. The idle temp is 2C over ambient, and the load temp runs around 48C. I'm waiting for the thermal paste to cure, and I'll see how the temps stack up then. It's much better than the old air cooler that was almost the size of my head.

I have to do a little bit more work, but I ran out of cable ties. I also have to build a fan splitter for the two top case fans. Right now I only have one of them running, though the two inside are running. The temps might improve later this afternoon.

 

[paulpicks21]

Looks a lot better Mellon. Nice job!

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Thanks for the compliment, Bryan, but take a few bows for yourself! That was a remarkable job of shoehorning that radiator into that case and corralling the extra cables from the PSU. You were definitely thinking outside the box (pun intended); most people would have said, "Won't fit" and dropped the matter. And those temps are outstanding, even if one doesn't consider that not all the fans are running yet!

 

[Mellon Head]

Thanks you guys. I'm pretty happy with the results.

 

[essenbe]

Very nice job, Mellon Head. It looks much neater and cleaner now and the temps are very good. Well done. I know you are proud of your work and very well should be.

 

[Dude]

Nice job Mellon Head. I need to do my biannual cleaning myself.

 

[NoN]

Hey,

Just got done doing some cable hiding check out the before and after pictures

BEFORE:





AFTER



Phill3990

Nice, you learned fast make those cables tidy...

Well, I decided to do my usual biannual cleaning, and as usual, this is what greeted me:

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What a mess, eh? I decided that I was totally fed up with bad airflow and some fussy temperatures.

I picked up a CoolerMaster HAF 912+ case and a Seidon 240M water cooler and got to work. The water cooler rad was a difficult mount, as the case was just a little short, but with some longish screws and some patience, I got it in. Mounting the fans inside the case was a little daunting. I had to cut one down with a jigsaw. It's a very tight fit. I mounted two fans on the outside top of the case for a push pull configuration, and the rear fan had to go on the outside of the case, as well.

Here's a closeup of my machining:

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And the new case, after ward:

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A couple of closeups:

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I'm not the biggest genius when it comes to cable management, and I'm no Lady Fitz (awesome machine she's building!), but it's a heckuvalot better than it was. The idle temp is 2C over ambient, and the load temp runs around 48C. I'm waiting for the thermal paste to cure, and I'll see how the temps stack up then. It's much better than the old air cooler that was almost the size of my head.

I have to do a little bit more work, but I ran out of cable ties. I also have to build a fan splitter for the two top case fans. Right now I only have one of them running, though the two inside are running. The temps might improve later this afternoon.

Nice upgrade on case and cooling...much effort to place that Fan on top! I recon Aircooler take a huge place in a Pc Case and is a little satisfaction to have a new view on your Mobo.

 

[AddRAM]

Excellent improvement Bryan :shock:

Great job

 

[Layback Bear]

Phill great improvement. Huge difference.

 

[paulpicks21]

NoN great improvement. Huge difference.

It's not NoN's rig Jack, he was quoting Phill's pics from the page before

 

[NoN]

NoN great improvement. Huge difference.

:roflmao:Too much rigs around....!

NoN great improvement. Huge difference.

It's not NoN's rig Jack, he was quoting Phill's pics from the page before

Thanks!

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

There is no such thing as too many rigs!

 

[Layback Bear]

NoN great improvement. Huge difference.

It's not NoN's rig Jack, he was quoting Phill's pics from the page before

Opp's thank for point it out to me.

I have corrected my post.

 

[Layback Bear]

The desktops are not dieing as some say.
They are just getting a good cleaning and the wiring and harness are getting neatly arranged.
Long live the desktop.

If one thinks they have to many computers they just need a bigger computer room.
Problem solved.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

The desktops are not dieing as some say.
They are just getting a good cleaning and the wiring and harness are getting neatly arranged.
Long live the desktop.

If one thinks they have to many computers they just need a bigger computer room.
Problem solved.

I have only one desktop and need more room for the peripherals.

You have hit a glancing blow on one strongly possible reason why desktop sales are so depressed. More people are keeping their present desktops instead of buying new ones with the despised Win 8 on them. Many of the people buying tablets also have desktops. I agree, desktops are far from dead.