SketchUp MNPCtech & Bit-Tech.net case design contest

lol beetle juice makes more sense I didnt really get what you ment by file name all I could pull out of the image was a ** dark lol

 

nice confusis !

i've always wanted to have a multi cpu m-atx motherboard, but would be better with intel I7 cpus xD

 

Thinking about it I will probably change the sockets to amd socket f or even better g34. mmmm 48 cores on an m-atx. I may have to bend the rules and create a power distribution mezzanine or card as there is no way I can fit all of the caps and mosfets required on the board.

 

socket 940 it is Too much effort reconfiguring the mainboard, when I could be designing the

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custom rack case

entry

 

Id like to enter, but being very new to google sketchup, i have no hardware in the case im designing, can i still enter please?, i literally dont know how to get those pretty hardware designs i see in other peoples cases, do i make my own?

 

http://scc.jezmckean.com/home


The only link you need

 

Yo confusis; you could always pop caps et-all on the underside of the board too, just need extra long stand-offs.

A 240 to cool 4cpu's and a gpu?

 

Confusis and Seth are in!
@Sethn - You might like this link too. SU plugins. Editor sent me that link.
@asura - That's what I was wondering. It's hard to stay SFF when the rig needs insane amounts of radiator. BTW, Dark... How many radiators would the setup you supplied require in real life? 360 seems a little light.

 

i don't really know but shouldn't 2x240 be enough ?

 

I don't really know either, just working off assumptions... Let's find out...

A quick check on Wikipedia tells us that socket 940 (that's what you were using right) rates it's self as a max TDP of 89W. The 5870 has a TDP of 188W, so add this to our 356W from the processors for a grand total of 544W.

A flitt to Skinnee's labs (unfortunately no 240 rad's so we'll just have to extrapolate - 550W as 2/3 gives 275W as 1/3 and 825W as 3/3) and we get a set of figures for (lets assume the HW that you've got in your model) your radiator... we can see that with 2.8Krpm fans you can expect a water delta-t of approx 7.5 degrees-C (and some very sore ears). A more realistic speed let's go for 1.5Krpm, sitting in the middle ground between noisy and quiet, for that we get a disappointing delta-t of approx 17.5 degrees-C. Skinnee reckons a 15 degree delta t is "Low Performance, an overloaded but capable loop." And for a quiet (sub 1Krpm) well, that's so far off the graph even guessing is hard... about 50-60 degrees-C...

So, yes (and this quite surprised me) you can run that on one 240 rad . Just don't expect to be getting any awards for a quiet, or cool pc. You'll be creating a luke warm turbo jet.

***Just read your last post... 2X240's, I saw only one... oops. Well, for 2X240's... That gives us a low, medium, and high delta-t of 28, 8.5, and 3.5 degrees-C respectively. That's still assuming a HW GTX(s) doesn't take several small variables into account, including thermal output of pump, etc.***

 

although my 2x240 rad suggestion was for this ^^;

 

Looking at the plan, that's not going to be the cooling solution.

Can anyone say lots

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18x120

of radiatorness

 

(188)2+130=504=7.5% less TDP. i.e. see above it's, for all intents and purposes the same.

Of course, if you want to overclock the cpu, things get a little hairy, the "extreme power supply calculator" says that an i7 oc at 4Ghz & 1.55V will yeald 325W, which changes things considerably. Taking you up to 701W (525 comparative) which, using the same "low, medium, and high" fan speeds gives us delta-t's (punk-tuition Cheesecake) of 37(guess-tamated), 11, and 4.5 degrees-c.

I should totally go and work out mine now... Ahh, it's all good. Will post a progress pic on Sunday/Monday, once I narrow down the arrangement.

Of course remember that's for HWLabs GTX, a very THICK rad; results for other radiators will vary, some considerably.

 

I re read the thread a few times but I'm none the wiser as to what asura is chatting about : / sounds interesting though

 

Air Cheesecake?

 

More like portable space heater cheesecake. Why don't you house the thing in a central AC heat exchanger. 18x120...Dual Mora?


-More ideas... This will be an attempt at steampunk.

-and more fused radiators. This time I even fused the reservoir to the rads. The two knobs on top are going to look like vacuum tubes when finished.
I still can't get the design down to SFF.

 

nice cheapskate ! i think it looks small enough ^^

 

WIP Update:

 

Since I am already making my version of SFF bliss, I will hold off until next year. I do however have an excellent design for a server, if we ever have that type of contest.

BTW, the black anodized feet are EXTREMELY nice prizes for the lucky winner.

 

Mine's basically a folder/server