alpenwasser
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Haha, thank you! What part specifically are you referring to?
ZEUS (Fractal R4 | blue/black | internal UT60 Rad) - by alpenwasser
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Haha, thank you! What part specifically are you referring to?
Permafrost
Compo Whore
the modding of the psu cables mate, just looks so badass!
alpenwasser
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Ah, ok. Part of it was just figuring it out as I go along. For example, the SATA power sleeving,
(although as mentioned I'm not yet absolutely satisfied with the result), cutting the unneeded
wires and all that. The rest is mainly from watching videos on Youtube and looking at other
people's mods.
IIRC, these are the main vids I watched to start with:
Lutro0 - Paracord Sleeve Guide
I never thought I'd spend 50 minutes watching a video on crimping, but there I was
one evening with a cup of coffee and open eyes... :lol:
Lutro0 - Crimping Guide
This is the guy I bought my paracord sleeving tool from. His website is offline, but
Lutro0 says the one he's selling is actually made by this guy, so you can still get
that tool if you want (it's an excellent investment imho).
Heat-shrink Free Paracord Sleeving
It's not really rocket science to be honest (although don't open a PSU unless you know what
you're doing). The most important ingredients are basic motor skills, a halfway intact intuition
about technology (this helps with improvising and adapting as you go along) and lots (and lots
and lots...) of patience
EDIT: About that "figuring it out as I go along" bit: This might of course take me a while.
Getting to the basic idea of the build (mounting the radiator at the back, switching the PSU to
the front) took me quite a while, and that was just the basic idea. Figuring out how to actually
go about it in practice was an entirely thing altogether and required quite some time all by itself.
And I've already spent several hours staring at the case and contemplating how to best do the
water loop (and it's not an overly complex one, just the pump/res, radiator and CPU block, maybe
a drain line).
So yes, one more basic ingredient: Lots of staring, sketching and thinking. :lol:
(although as mentioned I'm not yet absolutely satisfied with the result), cutting the unneeded
wires and all that. The rest is mainly from watching videos on Youtube and looking at other
people's mods.
IIRC, these are the main vids I watched to start with:
Lutro0 - Paracord Sleeve Guide
I never thought I'd spend 50 minutes watching a video on crimping, but there I was
one evening with a cup of coffee and open eyes... :lol:
Lutro0 - Crimping Guide
This is the guy I bought my paracord sleeving tool from. His website is offline, but
Lutro0 says the one he's selling is actually made by this guy, so you can still get
that tool if you want (it's an excellent investment imho).
Heat-shrink Free Paracord Sleeving
It's not really rocket science to be honest (although don't open a PSU unless you know what
you're doing). The most important ingredients are basic motor skills, a halfway intact intuition
about technology (this helps with improvising and adapting as you go along) and lots (and lots
and lots...) of patience
EDIT: About that "figuring it out as I go along" bit: This might of course take me a while.
Getting to the basic idea of the build (mounting the radiator at the back, switching the PSU to
the front) took me quite a while, and that was just the basic idea. Figuring out how to actually
go about it in practice was an entirely thing altogether and required quite some time all by itself.
And I've already spent several hours staring at the case and contemplating how to best do the
water loop (and it's not an overly complex one, just the pump/res, radiator and CPU block, maybe
a drain line).
So yes, one more basic ingredient: Lots of staring, sketching and thinking. :lol:
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alpenwasser
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:rollinglaugh:
Tbh though, I find it rather relaxing. It would be a different thing if I had a deadline or something
like that, but since I can take all the time I need, I can just stop and go do something else if
(when) my head starts to hurt.
alpenwasser
New member
Thanks!
In the end it will be ~17 TB of storage (4 x RE4 + 3 x Red). I already have ~ 11 TB of data,
so there will be some extra room, but not that much.
Thank you!
Yes, this will never be seen again. I have ordered the window panel for the other side, but
I doubt it will ever be seen since it's going to be placed inside the sideboard in our living
room. But it's not so much about what you see, it's about knowing what's in there.
Tripp
too many shrooms
Thanks!
In the end it will be ~17 TB of storage (4 x RE4 + 3 x Red). I already have ~ 11 TB of data,
so there will be some extra room, but not that much.
that's a lot of storage mate sounds like it will get used though
alpenwasser
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Yeah you can fill insane amounts of storage with high definition video and uncompressed
image files. I wrote a few simple web crawlers last fall for the purpose of automatically
downloading the Hubble Space Telescope image library, the European Southern Observatory
and one or two other sites (not sure anymore, and I currently don't have access to the data).
Over the span of about two weeks, those scripts downloaded a few hundred thousand pictures
weighing in at ~ 300 GB. It was primarily TIFF files, which of course are rather large.
Then there's my little 4chan scripts which allow me to subscribe to a thread and automatically
download any new additions to it (yes I know, it's against their policiy, so sue me
).That's also ~ 130 GB at the moment (work of a few months).
I intend to do similar things with other sites in the future, and considering how quickly you
can create an extremely vast image library of high resolution pictures I think I'll be filling
those HDD's sooner rather than later (and that's not taking into account my own photography,
the video library and all my music files).
yassarikhan786
New member
Loving the PSU work dude, love the attention to detail, keep it coming 
sheroo
New member
Now you have me sidetracked looking into this... My life seems to be one constant distraction...I wrote a few simple web crawlers last fall for the purpose of automatically downloading
alpenwasser
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Loving the PSU work dude, love the attention to detail, keep it coming
Thank you!
I certainly intend to.
Haha, isn't it grand? :lol:
My 4chan scripts have saved me an absolutely insane amount of work. All I have to do is
register a thread with the script and it will keep downloading any new pictures added to it
until the thread vanishes. No more "right click"->"save as" nonsense.
And the rest of them... yeah it's pretty awesome what you can do with a few lines of code
and some regular expression magic.
alpenwasser
New member
Making a Custom Fan Controller
Making a Custom Fan Controller
As some of you may know, the SP120's are not exactly all that quiet on 12 V. Now,
I could just use the old 5 V or 7 V wire switcheroo mod, but that would not give
me very good control over the fan speed. Since I don't yet know what the temps
are going to be like, and since I will need this machine to be as quiet as possible,
I have decided to make a custom fan controller.
The idea of this is not so much to constantly change the fan speeds, but to be able
to adjust the fan speed to the optimal level and then leave it at that, possibly
changing it if it gets very hot in summer. But other than that, I won't be tinkering
around with fan speeds all the time on this, it's more of a set-and-forget thing.
The Phobya Fan Splitter PCB
First things first: I need some connectors. So I desoldered this Phobya fan splitter.
(click image for full res)
The New PCB
Then I soldered those connectors onto a new PCB, along with a variable resistor.
(click image for full res)
Cutting it down to Size
Obviously it couldn't stay like that.
(click image for full res)
And another angle:
(click image for full res)
The Backside
I gotta say: This was one tricky bastard. I'm talking about tweezers and taking more
than an hour to solder these few wires. To be honest I would have required an additional
pair of hands, doing it like this wasn't really an optimal solution. Since my soldering
iron can't be adjusted I ended up melting off some of the insultation on the wires (they
heat up extremely quickly since they're so short and tiny).
The red tape is just for support, that's already gone. To give it a bit of extra strength
and to compensate for the melted insulation I've encased the connections with epoxy glue.
I'll post a picture of that once it's all set and solid.
If I was to do this more often I would definitely get a proper soldering iron and make
myself some sort of contraption which could hold everything in place so that I could do
some properly precise work.
(click image for full res)
It Lives!
Yeah, despite the not exactly stellar soldering job it works as planned. And there are
no loose connections or anything like that. I applied some force to the connectors while
it was running, no problem at all. So it might not look very nice, but it's solid,
especially once it has some additional strength from the glue (the 4 pin connector does
wiggle around quite a bit when I take out the plug, so that definitely needs additional
strengthening).
I certainly won't be doing it again just to get the soldering perfect since it's working
without flaw.
(click image for full res)
That's it for today, thanks for stopping by.
Making a Custom Fan Controller
As some of you may know, the SP120's are not exactly all that quiet on 12 V. Now,
I could just use the old 5 V or 7 V wire switcheroo mod, but that would not give
me very good control over the fan speed. Since I don't yet know what the temps
are going to be like, and since I will need this machine to be as quiet as possible,
I have decided to make a custom fan controller.
The idea of this is not so much to constantly change the fan speeds, but to be able
to adjust the fan speed to the optimal level and then leave it at that, possibly
changing it if it gets very hot in summer. But other than that, I won't be tinkering
around with fan speeds all the time on this, it's more of a set-and-forget thing.
The Phobya Fan Splitter PCB
First things first: I need some connectors. So I desoldered this Phobya fan splitter.
(click image for full res)
The New PCB
Then I soldered those connectors onto a new PCB, along with a variable resistor.
(click image for full res)
Cutting it down to Size
Obviously it couldn't stay like that.
(click image for full res)
And another angle:
(click image for full res)
The Backside
I gotta say: This was one tricky bastard. I'm talking about tweezers and taking more
than an hour to solder these few wires. To be honest I would have required an additional
pair of hands, doing it like this wasn't really an optimal solution. Since my soldering
iron can't be adjusted I ended up melting off some of the insultation on the wires (they
heat up extremely quickly since they're so short and tiny).
The red tape is just for support, that's already gone. To give it a bit of extra strength
and to compensate for the melted insulation I've encased the connections with epoxy glue.
I'll post a picture of that once it's all set and solid.
If I was to do this more often I would definitely get a proper soldering iron and make
myself some sort of contraption which could hold everything in place so that I could do
some properly precise work.
(click image for full res)
It Lives!
Yeah, despite the not exactly stellar soldering job it works as planned. And there are
no loose connections or anything like that. I applied some force to the connectors while
it was running, no problem at all. So it might not look very nice, but it's solid,
especially once it has some additional strength from the glue (the 4 pin connector does
wiggle around quite a bit when I take out the plug, so that definitely needs additional
strengthening).
I certainly won't be doing it again just to get the soldering perfect since it's working
without flaw.
(click image for full res)
That's it for today, thanks for stopping by.
Permafrost
Compo Whore
wow that's a lot of work!!
alpenwasser
New member
That might be a slight understatement. :lol:
Permafrost
Compo Whore
alpenwasser
New member
yeah just i bit.... but it looks worth it
Well otherwise this would be a lot of wasted time. :lol:
But yes, I think it's worth it, or else I wouldn't be doing it.
Permafrost
Compo Whore
alpenwasser
New member
Damn it, you have discovered my secret plan!
Off the top of my head, the following comes to mind:
- Mod the reservoir (more info later ).
- PSU: Finish sleeving, modify the enclosure to accommodate the additional girth of the
sleeved wires. - Order a few small bits for the W/C loop.
- Case: Take off a few mm here and there in order for the whole thing to properly fit together,
finalize the back panel mounting, paint the PSU mount and the back panel radiator mesh
area as well as other areas that require some touching up. - Figure out how to best lay out the water loop.
- Assemble.
- Test.
- Rejoice, curse and/or cry.
