I didn't realize there was more than one radiator. Oops. I saw the one at the bottom and thought that was it.
Perpetual Pics of Your Rig
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On a custom loop with using the common pump + res combo, air does settle in the reservoir as it’s pumped through the system, simply because it floats upward in there more easily than the pump pushes it out. Maybe I’ll do some tests the next time I have to refill my loop. I’ve got acrylic CPU and GPU blocks so I can see the air there, and I can throw the MoRa on the floor. But I think the custom loop ends up with a big advantage over the reservoir-less CLC.
Some of the boxes you good people have here look like they could have been built by The Borg. Pretty impressive hardware, and the discussion of how you're fitting it all together is remarkable to me. Compliments
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And now for something completely different.
By comparison to all of yours, the one I assembled recently I can only describe as the Anti-rig. A basic office/streaming device:
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And now for something completely different.
By comparison to all of yours, the one I assembled recently I can only describe as the Anti-rig. A basic office/streaming device:
AsRock H570M-ITX/AC
Intel Core i7-11700
32 GB Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz DDR4
be quiet! BK024 Dark Rock Slim
a couple of SSDs repurposed from a laptop and a PC, now-defunct
Seasonic FOCUS SGX-500
inside a Fractal Design Node 304
The cooler runs off the motherboard. It's silent. CPU temps are low-30s.
The fans run on the case's dedicated controller. I use the middle of three settings, 7 volts. Can't hear them unless I put my ear against the exhaust on the rear of the box.
Except for enabling xmp in the BIOS to take full advantage of the RAM, I didn't tweak anything else. For my purposes, probably didn't even need to do that.
It's a silent, peppy little tool. No complaints.
Intel Core i7-11700
32 GB Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz DDR4
be quiet! BK024 Dark Rock Slim
a couple of SSDs repurposed from a laptop and a PC, now-defunct
Seasonic FOCUS SGX-500
inside a Fractal Design Node 304
The cooler runs off the motherboard. It's silent. CPU temps are low-30s.
The fans run on the case's dedicated controller. I use the middle of three settings, 7 volts. Can't hear them unless I put my ear against the exhaust on the rear of the box.
Except for enabling xmp in the BIOS to take full advantage of the RAM, I didn't tweak anything else. For my purposes, probably didn't even need to do that.
It's a silent, peppy little tool. No complaints.
I have a Node 304 case here which has been many things in the time I've had it. Very nice wind tunnel style cooling. I really wish they'd do an updated version with a mesh front and some re-designed drive bays for greater ease in mounting drives other than death by a million screws. But it's a classic and still in production for a reason, there's nothing else like it really.
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@steelghost I went back and looked at your 2020 Node build post. Neat case! And I love how it was “old” even 5 years ago.
Yeah, that is kind of clunky.
Edit: I got a rack for mounting two 2.5" drives, that fits where a 3.5" full size HDD would go. The SSDs are stacked and stuck on the side. I even used the rubber grommets!
Finally got my server built up, following extensive soak testing. Hardware is as below, all crammed into an inexpensive 3U rackmount case, powered with a Corsair Platinum SF450 SFX PSU:
Asus X570-F Gaming with modded UEFI for additional ASPM and fan control options
5900X CPU w/ Noctua NH-D9L cooler
128GB Micron DDR4-3200 ECC
x2 Micron 7400 3.84TB M.2 SSDs (Proxmox mirrored boot pool / VM storage)
Intel ARC Pro B50 GPU
Intel X710 SFP+ NIC
TrueNAS VM storage (all mirrored)
x2 WD HC550 18TB spinning drives
x6 Micron 5100 1.92TB SSDs mounted in IcyDock plastic caddies
Assorted fannage (mostly Noctua, one Arctic slim 90mm for the 3.5" drives)
I had to borrow some "Type 4" cables from one of my spare Corsair PSUs, the stock cables weren't long enough to reach cleanly / at all.
I have a "proper" 2.5" hotswap bay that fits in a 5.25" bay, but it was a bit too long for this case.
It Idles around 80W. If I wanted to lower that I'd have built this around something like this Asus W680 board, with something power sippy (13600?) in the socket. However that board is very expensive, doesn't take DDR4, and only has one M.2 slot that accepts 110mm drives.
I already had the 5900X, I got the X570-F gaming for just over £100 and while it only has x2 M.2 slots, both of them support 110mm drives. IT also supports ECC. I've power limited the 5900X to 65W so while it definitely drops clocks on all core workloads, 24 threads means it can do a lot. Both the NIC and GPU support ASPM, so the overall draw is about as low as it can go within the constraints of the platform.
Edit: Thought occurs I could swap in something like a 5750G Pro APU, which ought to lower the idle power a bit, might even be cost neutral Vs selling the 5900X. But you lose quite a lot of PCIe lanes and it only supports PCIe Gen3, so not necessarily a great tradeoff. Plus you might get a platform locked one
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New rig! Click to embiggen.
Internals
Backplane:
In-situ - 24 oz yeti provided for scale. And that framed comic is being moved post-haste! Monitor is a 34” ultrawide.
Links provided for those curious on the specs of the case/fans.
Case: Havn BF360 Flow
https://havn.global/products/bf-360-flow
Fans: 4x Havn H18 180mm x 40mm / 1x Havn H14 140mm x 30mm
https://havn.global/products/havn-h18-pc-case-fan
https://havn.global/products/havn-h14-pc-case-fan
Front = 180x2, both intake
Top = 180x2, front intake, back exhaust
Rear = 140, exhaust
Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black
https://www.noctua.at/en/products/nh-d15-chromax-black
9800x3d
Sapphire Pulse 9070xt
MSI MAG x870 Tomahawk AM5 mobo
32gb G.Skill Flare X5 DDR5 6000
1x 1TB WD SN8100 (m.2, gen 5)
1x 2TB WD SN7100 (m.2., gen 4)
2x 1TB Samsung 850 EVO (2.5”, SATA III)
Temps! (approximates)
CPU at idle = 40°C
CPU at 100% load = 78° (during shader compilation, of all things!)
CPU in game = 59°C
GPU at idle = 16°C (I’m not sure this is right, since that is 5-10° cooler than system temp and just below ambient, but it’s what AMD Adrenalin and System Monitor in Linux is reporting, so ¯\(ツ)/¯ )
GPU in game = 50°
Noise! According to the decibel-o-meter free app I downloaded on my phone, so who the fuck knows about accuracy:
Ambient, powered off = 31 dBa
Idle = 34 dBa
Fans @ 100% = 49 dBa
In game = I can’t hear it through my Audeze Maxwells, so nyah
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Build was going to feature 6x Noctua 140mm G2 PWM fans, but it wasn’t that much quieter at idle or full load, and temperatures were 5° worse at idle and in game. The channels on the backplane keep things nice and tidy for the most part, except for the SATA stuff and the front panel connectors. But power cables? Nice and tidy. Round power cables would have been easier to work with than flats, though! The rubber grills to pass from the backplane to the main body were easy enough to manipulate, and the case comes with a BUNCH more cable separators to be used with the grills, but I didn’t need them.
Dust filters in the front panel (pull to remove), top panel (screw), and PSU intake (bottom, pull to remove).
Think that’s everything… this puppy will move some air!
Late edit: idol ≠ idle!
Internals
Backplane:
In-situ - 24 oz yeti provided for scale. And that framed comic is being moved post-haste! Monitor is a 34” ultrawide.
Links provided for those curious on the specs of the case/fans.
Case: Havn BF360 Flow
https://havn.global/products/bf-360-flow
Fans: 4x Havn H18 180mm x 40mm / 1x Havn H14 140mm x 30mm
https://havn.global/products/havn-h18-pc-case-fan
https://havn.global/products/havn-h14-pc-case-fan
Front = 180x2, both intake
Top = 180x2, front intake, back exhaust
Rear = 140, exhaust
Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black
https://www.noctua.at/en/products/nh-d15-chromax-black
9800x3d
Sapphire Pulse 9070xt
MSI MAG x870 Tomahawk AM5 mobo
32gb G.Skill Flare X5 DDR5 6000
1x 1TB WD SN8100 (m.2, gen 5)
1x 2TB WD SN7100 (m.2., gen 4)
2x 1TB Samsung 850 EVO (2.5”, SATA III)
Temps! (approximates)
CPU at idle = 40°C
CPU at 100% load = 78° (during shader compilation, of all things!)
CPU in game = 59°C
GPU at idle = 16°C (I’m not sure this is right, since that is 5-10° cooler than system temp and just below ambient, but it’s what AMD Adrenalin and System Monitor in Linux is reporting, so ¯\(ツ)/¯ )
GPU in game = 50°
Noise! According to the decibel-o-meter free app I downloaded on my phone, so who the fuck knows about accuracy:
Ambient, powered off = 31 dBa
Idle = 34 dBa
Fans @ 100% = 49 dBa
In game = I can’t hear it through my Audeze Maxwells, so nyah
.Build was going to feature 6x Noctua 140mm G2 PWM fans, but it wasn’t that much quieter at idle or full load, and temperatures were 5° worse at idle and in game. The channels on the backplane keep things nice and tidy for the most part, except for the SATA stuff and the front panel connectors. But power cables? Nice and tidy. Round power cables would have been easier to work with than flats, though! The rubber grills to pass from the backplane to the main body were easy enough to manipulate, and the case comes with a BUNCH more cable separators to be used with the grills, but I didn’t need them.
Dust filters in the front panel (pull to remove), top panel (screw), and PSU intake (bottom, pull to remove).
Think that’s everything… this puppy will move some air!
Late edit: idol ≠ idle!
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Oh, and NO GOD DAMN RGB ANYWHERE!
Not that I could see it, anyway, if there was any - I have the case on the wrong side of the desk to look in through the glass panel. The only lights when the system is fully on and booted are the power button and the debug LED numbers, which I set in the BIOS to display CPU temp once POST was completed.
Not that I could see it, anyway, if there was any - I have the case on the wrong side of the desk to look in through the glass panel. The only lights when the system is fully on and booted are the power button and the debug LED numbers, which I set in the BIOS to display CPU temp once POST was completed.
very clean build, and great temps for a 9800x3D!! Love those Noctua fan cables!!! Unfortunately I was priced out of the 2nd gen Noctua fans in my latest build, but I was okay to use Noctua extension cables for some of my fan-werk! Same cablingf, a bit over the top.
I'm not ready to photo my build, but tonight when it initially wouldn't ?boot (not sure why), I got mad and swore at it and tore off the silly glass side panel protection films, in and out. BOOT, damn you! I wrathed at it and it did boot.
On a side note, who would have guessed that Powerwasher Sim 2 would be the biggest challenge yet to my custom loop. It's even more heat-stress than Cyberpunk 2077 somehow. I saw audible fans with it until I adjusted coolant target temp from 28C to 32C and will continue to observe.
Lastly, kudos @Diabolical on your non-RGB build. I myself enjoy a bit of it, from time to time. But I respect the cleanliness of yer build!!
I'm not ready to photo my build, but tonight when it initially wouldn't ?boot (not sure why), I got mad and swore at it and tore off the silly glass side panel protection films, in and out. BOOT, damn you! I wrathed at it and it did boot.
On a side note, who would have guessed that Powerwasher Sim 2 would be the biggest challenge yet to my custom loop. It's even more heat-stress than Cyberpunk 2077 somehow. I saw audible fans with it until I adjusted coolant target temp from 28C to 32C and will continue to observe.
Lastly, kudos @Diabolical on your non-RGB build. I myself enjoy a bit of it, from time to time. But I respect the cleanliness of yer build!!
It’s so dark and lifeless.
To each their own. I could never go fully RGB insanity - I’ve seen clips of your rig in Discord, and that’s just not me.
I love a bit of in-case lighting, and will never not like it, but I also understand folks who want their PC to be quiet, cool, AND not seen. Not heard, not seen. Room here for both spectrum ends, and everything in between!!
Why would anyone want RGB. All you need is R.
I guess this is the last view of the ol’ eVGA RTX3090. Fair thee well, and have great adventures with some random eBay user in Florida.
I guess this is the last view of the ol’ eVGA RTX3090. Fair thee well, and have great adventures with some random eBay user in Florida.
Sounds like the included HAVN 180mm x 40mm are pretty good then-- although being so much thicker that doesn't surprise me!
Took me a minute to wonder why the case included a SATA backplane and how I hadn't realized that, when I realized you meant the back side of the case!
I suppose I should include some content myself, since it's been far too long:
- Phanteks Enthoo Pro
- AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
- Thermalright Royal Pretor Ultra 130
- Asus X870E Crosshair Hero
- G.Skill Flare X5 (2 x 64GB) DDR5-6000
- RTX 5070 Ti (whatever model I could get at MSRP)
- Broadcom 9670-24i
- IcyDock MB699VP-B V3
- WD Black SN8100
- 6x WD Ultrastar SN650
]*]LG Blu-ray (from previous build) - FSP Hydro Ti Pro 1000W
- 5x Noctua NF-A14x25 G2 PWM
- 4x Nocuta NF-A4x20 FLX
- CableMod 90 degree 12v-2x6 power cable
Did the build before RAM and SSD prices shot up, wasn't planning on that, but previous box was getting close to 5 years old, much older in some areas, and I find that the AMD AGESA's usually take a few months before I consider them stable enough to use in my personal box. So had waited several long months after Zen 5's release and then considered that by the time Zen 6 came out and the AGESA had been through a few releases, it was going to be too long a wait to push off upgrading past this fall.
Still had to wait for a few things:
- Tried to wait for the In-Win D5 Workstation to not only be released but get reviewed, but that's still not out and it's been nearly a full year.
- Had debated at least a 360mm AIO but that was not going to fit in the Enthoo Pro, and dimensioning out the D5 Workstation, it didn't seem likely it was going to fit in that either, at least not considering I am using 3x 5.25" bays.
- Thermalright Royal Pretor 130 Ultra finally became available in US at a reasonable price, which prompted me to order rest of the parts...
- G.Skill Flare X5 64GB DDR5-6000 AMD EXPO modules (in 2 x 64GB and 4 x 64GB kits) became available about the same time as the Royal Pretor 130 Ultra. The X870E Crosshair Hero QVL didn't have the 256GB kit on it until just a few weeks ago and since I was previously getting by with just 128GB memory, seemed reasonable to not get the 256GB kit, even though I know Wendell at Level1Techs says he was able to get it stable. Now with prices tripled, well, this will do.
- Talked to Broadcom rep last month, after I'd finished the build, their PCI-e 5.0 RAID cards are due in January. Again, got to point I didn't really want to wait, but maybe another upgrade in the future...
- Had talked to IcyDock reps a full year ago about compatibility, no complaints. Saw some other reports about fan noise being fine, actually, stock, but since replacing the fans once the build was assembled was a pain, went ahead and replaced the stock Icydock fans with the Noctua's.
- IcyDock MB600V5P-B, MB508V5P-B, both of which are PCI-e 5.0, came out not too long after this build was finished. Like so many things, not a big deal to not have them, pushing up to 14GB/sec real-world is fine and not likely to need to exceed that.
- Gigabyte 5070 Ti I ended up with has a power connector recessed just a few millimeters from the top edge, which means the Thermal Grizzly WireView Pro won't seat properly. Ugh. Picked up a CableMod 90 degree cable instead, measured temps during extended FurMark runs, no temperature issues, so decided not to worry about it.
- Like so much in this build, Noctua's G2 chromax.black fans came out not too much later. Not worth switching out, I don't mind brown Noctuas (been running brown ones for many years!).
- Will see if a 9950X3D2 comes out lol.
Yeah, it's tight.
Fitment fail.
Shows how much the 12v-2x6 is recessed. About 3mm too much for the Thermal Grizzly Wireview Pro to fit.
Did not use the case's fan hub, instead ran everything directly to motherboard (I think I did have to use one y-adapter for the exhaust fans), to take better advantage of the motherboard's PWM.
Yeah. Louder, yes, but good $deity is the air flow on this case bonkers. I think I would have been fine with the included x2 180mm that are front mounted and the single 140mm exhaust in the back - the twin 180mm set up as push/pull in the roof of the case might just be overkill.
But I’m pretty certain my components like having all that airflow, so… ¯\(ツ)/¯
Pocky Is God
Ars Legatus Legionis
No real new hardware, just the Christmas LED setup. The RAM is actually green, but the camera makes it look white. And the LEDs on the video card alternate between green and red. It's tacky as hell, but just for the holidays.
Pocky Is God
Ars Legatus Legionis
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Whoa! Where is the (in)famous @continuum cable-foo here? I've seen tidier rats nests. Don't you make your own cables anymore?
What do you mean, custom made cables is the easy way, and we don’t do things here because they are easy. The true elevation of one’s cable routing skills is doing so with premade cables all elegantly kept out of the way of airflow.
I vividly remember when @continuum wore a younger man's (smaller in size) clothes and, with nimble fingers, performed origami with ribbon cables, braided cables into bundles with graceful catenaries, and, with precision, produced laminar flows within case plenums.
Maybe I'm thinking of someone else.
When's the last time you saw an old 68-pin UW SCSI cable in a case? That's a period from a bygone era, and as we have found, braiding many cables decreases signal integrity, today's cables also tend to be too thick to do so if they don't already come pre-bundled in a way that makes braiding obsolete to start with, and things like serviceability as well as minimum bend radiuses must be observed.
We absolutely do ensure smooth airflow today with proper cable routing, and in this case (quite literally), the existing case structure already provides that once the sides are on.
You must evolve or perish.
We absolutely do ensure smooth airflow today with proper cable routing, and in this case (quite literally), the existing case structure already provides that once the sides are on.
You must evolve or perish.
Should be building now.. but mobo arrived clearly used and missing parts
New "Tuxedo" build pics delayed until end of next week if this order goes better..
New "Tuxedo" build pics delayed until end of next week if this order goes better..
@continuum you might be borrowing from the my excessively large photo playbook there!
Seriously, real Episode V vibes there with the orange back lit case holes!! Love the photos, but then again I would! And the offhanded comment about a SCSI cable...and one has to ask what is that wide cable header on the back of the case??
Old school wideflat cables sucked, and origami-like folding of them offset the pain of dealing with them but I vastly prefer modern cases when a "backstage" cable run area.
Seriously, real Episode V vibes there with the orange back lit case holes!! Love the photos, but then again I would! And the offhanded comment about a SCSI cable...and one has to ask what is that wide cable header on the back of the case??
Old school wideflat cables sucked, and origami-like folding of them offset the pain of dealing with them but I vastly prefer modern cases when a "backstage" cable run area.
It's PCI-e 8-pin cables and EPS12V cabling. The RAID controller requires a PCI-e input (not routed to back of case), but the motherboard needs one (EPS12V) and the motherboard needs one more (PCI-e) for the USB-PD support.
Or by header did you mean the fan controller I'm not using?
Or by header did you mean the fan controller I'm not using?
@continuum, is there a reason you have the intake for the power supply pulling air from inside the machine, as opposed to through the grill at the bottom of the case? Using it as part of the exhaust system, maybe?
Because accessing and cleaning the rear filter on the Enthoo Pro is a massive pain the way the system is installed. So better to have it act as an exhaust for the case air rather than taking fresh air that would eventually end up clogged and not cleaned nearly enough.
I was asking about the wide thing routed to rear of case!
Hey, just to prove that the machine isn’t completely cold and lifeless?
BEHOLD! The only “RGB” in my boxen!
And another splash of color! I replaced the panel screws (sides and top) with some CableMod thumbscrews for ease of access. These puppies were ‘next-day’ versus the black screws which were ‘not available until after Christmas’ delayed.
This post brought to you by me thinking of @Semi On, and cold & lifeless lumps.
BEHOLD! The only “RGB” in my boxen!
And another splash of color! I replaced the panel screws (sides and top) with some CableMod thumbscrews for ease of access. These puppies were ‘next-day’ versus the black screws which were ‘not available until after Christmas’ delayed.
This post brought to you by me thinking of @Semi On, and cold & lifeless lumps.