Planning The GuilleAcoustic design thread

Going back to the half-ssi boards:
Do they take normal PSU's?
I expect they're designed for high airflow 1u systems so chipset cooling would need to be looked at if board isn't in a 1u chassis?

I has ideas!

 

If you look at them, you'll see that they need two 20+4-pin power-connections. One for each socket.

 

That's doable 2x 200watt flex-atx psu's

SKU time

 

Did I ignite some new idea with those boards ?

I'm curious to see what you'll create around them as you always come with great designs

 

The modder summed up in one sentence.

I think I'll stay with my original plan for now. I would have to depart from the design too much to accommodate this board, much as I like all the SMP goodness. MV02 was meant to be more flexible to upgrade, not less...

 

Board done (Tyan S8238, dual socket G34.. interlagos 16 core goodness). now time for teh modding

 

Nice one, I'm interested in your SU file if I may .

Just one point about the PSU .... I do not know about the Tyan, but the Supermicro ones also have 2x 20 pins power connectors but only ONE should be used as input power. Since those card are ment for high density server, meaning 2 half-SSI boards in a single chassi, I think the second one is used as a kind of bridge to relay the PSU from one board to the other.

In addition, the supermicro boards have a proprietary pinout (mentioned on their manual) and require SSI EPS psu (do not know yet the diff with standard ATX ... maybe just some higher noise filtering due to the high density of electronic on stacked server chassis).

Here is the text about the PSU from supermicro (damn I can't used SM to short their name ) :

 

The board i've modelled uses a 20pin but its mostly 12v!

Comparison with Antec 300 (and a shot of where im going with this):


File:
http://sharesend.com/cldiz

 

Thanks for the link, I'll DL it at home ... this is blocked at work .

I was going to quote the Tyan manual, but you've already read it. They recommand a minimum of 450W and their special pinout. This board looks nice, any idea about the price ?

Nice packing there, can't wait to see it dressed !

 

No idea on price, tbh this is fantasy stuff

Dressing in progress

 

fantasy is good ... be crazy then , no money restraining you back

Edit : I saw it retailing at $461.

 

No money? What money!



Sorry if I'm spamming your thread!

 

Dun worry, you can spam it ... this is totaly inside the topic. SPAM IT YOU LIL' GENUINELY GENIOUS, SPAAAAAAAM ITTTT .... SSPPPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM.

* taking a cold shower *

More seriously, I like the case

 

While we are at half-SSI boards and fantasy ... I wanted to try something :



I called it CRAY-nolith. It houses 5x dual 12-cores opterons for a total of 120 cores !! Not shown, but the case houses a central huge passif reservoir shared between the 5 boards. The res has 5 outputs on it's base, 1 pump -> RAD+fan per board on the base of the case (will modeled it later).

The case foot print is only 350mm x 350mm

 

I've progressed a little.

Added :

- Custom passive reservoir (5 inputs on top, 5 outputs at bottom)
- 5x 160mm radiator at the bottom
- Overall size displayed



Next update :

- PSUs
- Mobo trays (with SSD on the back)
- Tubing

What do you think of this ?

 

Muhahahah I have 3 PA160's, it's a start!

Looking good so far, can't quite visualise what you're going to do with PSUs, vertical orientation, on rails, under the radiators?

 

It's a good start I'd say . About the PSUs, I think I'll translate the rad downward to free some space and use SFX 450W psu (like the silverstone one). I want to keep the rad at the bottom, it'll look better that way.

 

@Confusis - Put a 120x 4 or even 6 on it and call it 'the log.'
-Move the psu to the front too. Make it skinny.

 

Maybe the next Sketchup Design comp should be based around these half-SSI boards. Could result in some very interesting designs.

 

A comp around a non ATX form factor could be nice (nano-ITX, mini-ITX, half-SSI, non-gaming machine, etc.).