Not that anyone here will care, but I've now finished building my latest (and hopefully last - for a while) PC. This time it's a server, but I couldn't leave it on plain old air-cooling, so I managed to grab some second-hand watercooling gear. I wanted it to be as compact as possible, so I re-used a case my brother had when I build him a PC to take to uni, which he later said he didn't need.

It was a complete bitch to work on, but I'm pretty pleased with the result. It wouldn't be one of my builds without some kind of watercooling-related mishap, so I managed to soak a motherboard when one of the waterblocks leaked - I hadn't tightened one of the fittings far enough. I later found that it's a "feature" with the block that standard fittings aren't guaranteed to fit, so I might be able to blame the inanimate object.

Anyway, photos:



















Pointless thread, but hey, some people may be interested

Haha, you should have called it the Manhattan Project.

I name all my pc's after Greek women in mythology and my cats after Viking gods. When I worked at Brum uni we named all the servers after Pokemon because it was big at the time.

NERDS FTW!

Povey wrote:I name all my pc's after Greek women in mythology and my cats after Viking gods. When I worked at Brum uni we named all the servers after Pokemon because it was big at the time.

NERDS FTW!

Indeed!

My desktop PC is named Galileo and MacBook is Scaramouche, though I really only name them in terms of network names, I usually verbally call them "the desktop" and "the MacBook"

Yeah it gets weird when I say to my dad from upstairs "Im on Pandora"

Incidentley is that a normal plastic tube you had lying around and you just put some fluorescent dye in it?

As its just gave me an idea for something, I may need to make another time.

Nope, it's Masterkleer 7/16" ID (inner diameter) tubing - specially made for watercooling I think. The coolant is Feser One UV Acid Green. I usually get all of my watercooling gear from WatercoolingUK but because it was a pretty budget build (whole rig cost me about £300 including watercooling) I went second hand for most of the gear.

Spec is:

Intel Core2Quad Q9550 CPU (2.8GHz stock, chip has done 3.4GHz stable before so may overclock)
4GB (2x2GB) OCZ Reaper PC2-6400 (800MHz) DDR2 RAM
2 x Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB hard drives (in RAID1 via an OpenFiler virtual machine)
Gigabyte motherboard
Cheapie eBuyer budget case

OS is the VMware ESXi hypervisor, and most of the guest OSes will be Linux (not sure if I should install Fedora or CentOS) so for the most part it will all be free software. Got the CPU and HDDs from work for nothing

Ah I see, well its not computer related anything but it gave me a excellent idea for something to make when I get back.