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[Roadhog]

Not bad at all, especially with the power supply mounted vertically wich allows the triple rad on the bottom, but where are the drives for storage?....Externally mounted?

in the 5.25" bays.

[Redeemed]

Not bad at all, especially with the power supply mounted vertically wich allows the triple rad on the bottom, but where are the drives for storage?....Externally mounted?

Erm... just taking a totally wild guess and probably pulling this straight out of my ass... but I'd hazzard a guess they're in the drive bays directly above the PSU?

Probably wrong here but... ya' know...

[BababooeyHTJ]

Where did you get the sleeving? Did mounting the psu like that make cable management a pain?

[Redeemed]

in the 5.25" bays.

Dammit hog! You completely ruined my smart-ass response! Just for that I hate your rig!

no srsly I want to sex it rly bad. I could, you know, give it some "special" thermal compound.

[Roadhog]

Where did you get the sleeving? Did mounting the psu like that make cable management a pain?

I bought the sleeving from http://www.cableorganizer.com/wire-management/

And yes, the plugging the cables into the psu is a royal pain in the ass. I might make a little access door for the psu though.

[shadow001]

in the 5.25" bays.

I see, but if i'm looking at the picture right, it leaves room for maybe 3 drives at most, unless they're SSD's of course.

[Redeemed]

I see, but if i'm looking at the picture right, it leaves room for maybe 3 drives at most, unless they're SSD's of course.

You're an analyst, aren't you?

[shadow001]

You're an analyst, aren't you?

Stickler for details, but what can i say, it's part of my job....

[Roadhog]

I see, but if i'm looking at the picture right, it leaves room for maybe 3 drives at most, unless they're SSD's of course.

actually it leaves room for 6 drives. Mind blown? I have 5 in it right now. Ninja skills at work.

[shadow001]

actually it leaves room for 6 drives. Mind blown? I have 5 in it right now. Ninja skills at work.

Let me guess... 1 or 2 of them are optical drives...

[Roadhog]

Let me guess... 1 or 2 of them are optical drives...

lol, optical drives are so 2000. Haven't used one in years...

3 of them are mechanical hard drives... other two are ssd's. I just moved the stock drive bay mounts to the 5.25" bays.. pretty simple.. lol

[shadow001]

lol, optical drives are so 2000. Haven't used one in years...

3 of them are mechanical hard drives... other two are ssd's. I just moved the stock drive bay mounts to the 5.25" bays.. pretty simple.. lol

Not even a blueray drive to watch movies on your PC?....

[Roadhog]

Not even a blueray drive to watch movies on your PC?....

nope. plus there's external ones if needed.

[mullet]

Good grief here we go again.

[slaWter]

Nice re-modeling Roadhog! Good job!
Where does the power cable go now that the PSU is moved?

Good grief here we go again.

As always with that guy...

[Roadhog]

Nice re-modeling Roadhog! Good job!
Where does the power cable go now that the PSU is moved?

Thanks. You can see I added a plug on the back of the case with a switch so you can just plug it in like normal. Then I just made a custom cable that runs inside the case and you plug it into the psu.

[demo]

Looks good! Gives me an idea, I think stainless steel braided hose or similar would look nice, although, perhaps a little dangerous.

[BababooeyHTJ]

What clamps are you using? They look better than the standard worm drive clamps. Do they work as well?

nope. plus there's external ones if needed.

Yup, its so rare that I use an optical that its just a waste of space.

[Roadhog]

What clamps are you using? They look better than the standard worm drive clamps. Do they work as well?



Yup, its so rare that I use an optical that its just a waste of space.

They are high pressure fuel injection clamps. You can get them at any auto parts store.

[slaWter]

My server received a storage upgrade yesterday.
Building the array will take a few days. I'm also verifying the first array at the same time. Since RAID 6 worked so nicely the first time, a went with RAID 6 again.

A few photos:








And old ones from the inside:

[Hapatingjaky]

You sire, have alot of porn.

[Eisberg]

[demo]

Interesting choice of coolers for a CFX set up with no spaces ^

[Eisberg]

Interesting choice of coolers for a CFX set up with no spaces ^

You talking about the coolers on the cards? They are the ones that came with the card, Gigabytes Windforce

While playing Max Payne or The Witcher for at max settings, the cards didn't get hotter then 65 degrees celcius, so there isn't anything to worry about.

[MangaSpawn64]

Interesting choice of tie-wraps for cable management ^

[demo]

You talking about the coolers on the cards? They are the ones that came with the card, Gigabytes Windforce

While playing Max Payne or The Witcher for at max settings, the cards didn't get hotter then 65 degrees celcius, so there isn't anything to worry about.

Normally, people buy cards with coolers that exhaust the hot air out of the case when using CFX or SLI, where as those dump the hot air inside the case, and the top card has no breathing room. Perhaps 7850's dont produce as much heat as high end cards, so you may be ok. Good luck in summer with an oc.

[Ristogod]

Normally, people buy cards with coolers that exhaust the hot air out of the case when using CFX or SLI, where as those dump the hot air inside the case, and the top card has no breathing room. Perhaps 7850's dont produce as much heat as high end cards, so you may be ok. Good luck in summer with an oc.

In my opinion I think it will be fine.

[demo]

Friend of mine made the same mistake with 6970's, they were not fine unfortunately

Rule of thumb; if you are not going water, buy reference cards for SLI/CFX.

[BababooeyHTJ]

Rule of thumb; if you are not going water, buy reference cards for SLI/CFX.

I was shocked to find out how bad those style coolers are with even a single space in between them. On the other hand it doesn't seem to make much of a difference with reference blower coolers.

[Redeemed]

They're 7850s, not heavily oc'd 7970 GEs. He should be fine.

[BababooeyHTJ]

My 560s ran hot as hell. I had to zip tie a 120mm fan to the side of the cards to force some air in between them.

[Greasy]

I have a second Gigabyte 670 wind-force coming today. Hope they don't get too hot when I add the second card. Right now with just the single card in, it idles at 30C, and I haven't seen it hit 60C yet.

Edit: Idle temps are great. Top card only went up 1C, so I guess it depends on your board with these non-ref coolers. My cards are almost an inch apart on this ASUS.

[bob saget]

I have a second Gigabyte 670 wind-force coming today. Hope they don't get too hot when I add the second card. Right now with just the single card in, it idles at 30C, and I haven't seen it hit 60C yet.

Edit: Idle temps are great. Top card only went up 1C, so I guess it depends on your board with these non-ref coolers. My cards are almost an inch apart on this ASUS.

fantastic setup. pics with both cards should be supplied.

[mullet]

My server received a storage upgrade yesterday.
Building the array will take a few days. I'm also verifying the first array at the same time. Since RAID 6 worked so nicely the first time, a went with RAID 6 again.

A few photos:








And old ones from the inside:

OUTSTANDING!!!!!

[slaWter]

OUTSTANDING!!!!!

Thanks mullet!

I finally have it up and running. Wasn't as issue free as I expected but it's working now:

[mullet]

Holly cow!!!

[fasedw]

Why is it that the server has cheaper cpu and motherboard and memory but has alot of money in the hardrives.? Why not xeon cpus etc more memory too. I know nothing about servers. What do you use them for?

[Greasy]

Why is it that the server has cheaper cpu and motherboard and memory but has alot of money in the hardrives.? Why not xeon cpus etc more memory too. I know nothing about servers. What do you use them for?

If it's primarily a file server, you don't need much CPU at all. Cool and quite is typically what you're after if that's all it's going to be doing.

[slaWter]

Why is it that the server has cheaper cpu and motherboard and memory but has alot of money in the hardrives.? Why not xeon cpus etc more memory too. I know nothing about servers. What do you use them for?

See below...

If it's primarily a file server, you don't need much CPU at all. Cool and quite is typically what you're after if that's all it's going to be doing.

Exactly

Plus, everything is downclocked or on power saving mode. Back then, those components were some of the most efficient ones. And the CPU is usually idling anyway.
The RAID controller handles all redundancy calculations, which are quite demanding for RAID 6. Therefore, I invested a bit of money to get proper entry-level storage equipment instead of CPU/RAM/Motherboard hardware I won't use.

[caveman-jim]

Why is it that the server has cheaper cpu and motherboard and memory but has alot of money in the hardrives.? Why not xeon cpus etc more memory too. I know nothing about servers. What do you use them for?

It very much depends on the purpose of the server. Buying top line cpu's when you want storage doesn't make sense, you don't need a lot of CPU for straight fileserving. When you add serivces on top of just a fileserver you drive the need for CPU, like if you're running A/V on the box, streaming with on-the-fly conversion, large software arrays with parity; start pushing things like compression and the deduplication and you'll ramp up the memory needs and CPU needs fast.

For modern NAS running 1GbE and housing 2-4 disks, an ARM or Atom with 2GB memory is usually sufficient for stripe or mirror modes (RAID 0/1/10).