Project: HeXeon

[coolmiester]

This was a mod done in March 2010 for Supermicro and Boston who asked i didn't post a project log at the time as it was going to be used for a promotion so a year and a half later i thought it was time to post.

Obviously the hardware is a little of of date but still pretty decent

Anyway, here we go and please bear with me and i'll post the entire log in one go.

Just got a few new toys to play with so thought i'd start another worklog.

I can't really give to much away at present but the name pretty much says it all and i'm sure more will follow once the gag order is removed.

It will all be going under water in due course but running it on air at present for testing.

Anyway, just thought i'd share

System Spec:

Corsair Obsidian 800D

Corsair HX1000 PSU

Supermicro X8DAi Rev2

Intel X5680 CPU's

12GB DDR3-1333 Non ECC

32GB Intel Extreme SSD

2TB Western Digital Sata Drives x2

XFX HD 5970 Black Edition Crossfire

Watercooling Spec:

Watercool HK3 CPU Blocks

MIPs RAM Freezers

EK Nickel 5970 GPU Blocks

Hardware Labs SR-1 360 XFlow & 240 Radiators

Bitspower Fittings

XSPC Dual Bay-Res

Laing DDC Pumps

Tygon Hose

 

[coolmiester]

I've been away on holiday for a while so not much going on here but i did have a couple of XFX Radeon 5970's waiting for me so just got them installed on the bench.

Should have some Bitspower goodness turning up this week along with a bunch of fans i found from a new manufacturer in Taiwan so thanks to Vincent for shipping alltogether and i guess things should start moving pretty quick from here on in

This is turning into a pretty badass system but currently looks like

 

[coolmiester]

While i was out at CeBIT earlier this month, i came across a new company called Reeven who turned out to be a great bunch of guys. As soon as i saw their fans i just knew i had to have some but the only ones they had were the display fans but luckily Vincent at Bitspower came to the rescue so a massive thanks to both him and Yasushi at Reeven.

As they are both located in Taiwan, i had the fans shipped to Vincent who forward them to me along with a bunch of his fan grills which i got to say are very nice indeed.

Anyway, i got a few mounted to a custom HardwareLabs SR-1 360 X-Flow and a standard 240 with Bitspower black 1/2" barbs and they look fantastic so i'm well happy.........just the look i was looking for

 

[coolmiester]

Why oh why didn't Corsair get in touch when they were designing this chassis as it could have been so much more water friendly with just a little bit more thought - i mean why only do half a job and make placement for a 360 rad up top when quite easily it could have accepted upto a 480.....and what's this secret compartment beside the PSU all about.

Corsair, give me a call

Anyway, what could have been an easy job of mounting a 240, side on, vertically has turned into a complete strip down with major surgery and then having to build a whole new false centre floor due to the hose holes and the fan grill being totally useless

So a few pictures of the de-riveted 800D just before the jig-saw comes out

red lines mark the cuts

 

[coolmiester]

Well here we go with loads of pictures

Basically cut the corner of the motherboard tray and also a section off the false floor then marked out a piece of 1.5mm aluminium sheet.

Bent a lip onto it with a (dirty wet) bend brake for strength which replicates the bit i cut off the stock one.

Few cuts with a jig-saw and jobs a gud'n

It will be riveted together for strength and obviously powder coated black after i find out where to cut the two holes for hose but that's pretty much it.

 

[coolmiester]

Got the centre plate all riveted together so just need holes cut for hose routing but can't do that just yet until i get the GPU blocks fitted and see where the barbs line up so i can cut the holes and then get it powder coated satin black.

Also got a nice present off EK - a couple of Nickel / Acetal 5970 blocks complete with black back plates so best get these fitted

As you can see, i'm using matt black BP fittings and his new link pipe

 

[coolmiester]

Test fitting the false floor and yet to be riveted in but it fits perfect so happy with that

Painted satin black an got a couple of holes cut in there and waiting on BP fittings courteous of Gary to finish off

 

[coolmiester]

Should have posted a couple of shots of the other side to show how well the rad actually fits

 

[coolmiester]

Remember this is a corporate build for Supermicro and Boston so it's got to have the obligatory logos but they are going to fit in well and should look cool once they are painted and all lit up.

 

[coolmiester]

Not much of an update as i thought i'd taken way more pictures than i had.

Anyway the other panel is pretty much the same as this but with two vents.

I decided not to use BP grills but rather just the inserts and have them mount flush with the panels.

I've also laid the first coats of paint on and will be clear coating tomorrow so you'll see better then

Time for a

 

[coolmiester]

Don't you just love it when a plan comes together and it all fits pretty much as planed

Got the BP bulk head fittings arrive this morning (thanks Gary) so decided to do a bit of a test fit with SR-1 rad and fans. Its like a jig-saw puzzle and it actually only fits back together one way which i'll have to remember once i do the final fit and rivet it all back together

 

[coolmiester]

High Gloss Black 800D anyone

Still need a final machine polish and the Supermicro grill needs wet sanding but looking pretty nice if i say so myself

Anyway, here's a few photo's of my garden........i mean paint

 

[coolmiester]

Things are starting to get going now with a final test fit of all blocks and cards.

Its always a worry if you thought everything through and things will line up but its pretty much how i imagined it would look and should make for a couple of nice clean loops........just wish the board PCB wasn't green but not much i can do about that

Anyway, a few pictures as always

 

[coolmiester]

Let the hose commence

This is always the fun bit for me and its all looking pretty tight thus far so moving onto getting both loops filled and leak tested.

First the GPU loop folled by CPU

 

[coolmiester]

Just about to drill the mount holes for the TFT display, hence the blue tac holding it in but thought i'd get a few pictures before filling the loops.

The window will also have black out film on it so it all matches shiny black but its not looking to bad overall

Oh yeah, Tango Man helped out in trying to get a decent shot of the paint and the Supermicro logo lights up

 

[coolmiester]

It lives

 

[coolmiester]

A few UV shots

 

[coolmiester]

Only thing i'm not happy with is the liquid colour as Feser made me some yellow which should match the fans...........but it doesn't and is more green so might see Mayhem for some proper Yellow

Not a lot i can do about it this late in the game as i'm dropping this off in the next day or so and it will be making its way to Computex in Taiwan.

Anyway, a few pictures......well quite a lot actually

.......and thanks for taking the time out to have a look

 

[SieB]

Nice work, Coolmiester

I like those Reeven fans as well the specs on the 1500rpm ones are good, they have been added to my my maybe list anyway.

 

[SkinToxicated]

Awesone looking rig there matey