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 Mach Extreme SSD DOM - 16gb SSD-unit - for OS 1x4TB WD drive, 1x4TB Toshiba, 1x3TB Toshiba 1x640GB WD 2,5" drive Asus E45M1-M PRO motherboard with 4gb DDR3 memory // Hardware changed at the end of the build from a G3258 cpu to a AMD E450 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 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. 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. 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.
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.
Nailed it. I figured you would. Have you thought about sanding the paint out of the cracks so they can glow with LEDs? I know it doesn't match the original, but I think it would look pretty cool like that.
Thats a pretty good idea to bring to V2, thanks! I´m already sketching on the V2, a bit bigger han this case for a mATX-board, watercooling and a GPU Learned alot by building this ITX-version.
