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    Prototype - A friend suggested I post this here.

    I'll be keeping it bare metal. I may build another one someday using extruded aluminum for the frame and just paneling the sides. If I do that, I'll likely have the side panels powder coated.
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    Prototype - A friend suggested I post this here.

    The cooling towers do the majority of the cooling. The TEC rarely kicks on, and there's no other active or passive cooling on the thing. The towers are 15" dual pass transmission coolers, in fit glass tube. The scoops at the bottom have a couple 120mm Corsair APs pusing air up the tubes...
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    Dual Opteron 6308 (so 8 cores alltogether) 128GB DDR 3 Registered Dual Geforce GTX 980ti STRIX 512GB Samsung 850 Pro SSD 2TB Seagate 2.5" 7200 drive It is used for casual gaming, and a virtual dev environment. It lets me do both. The benefit initially, when I spec'd the box several...
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    It did. That first test boot screen was great. Also, the first time the loop passed the 20psi test against leaks was a great moment. A LOT of potential leak points here. Figure every piece of tube has four leak points, plus all plugs, elbows, bulkhead connectors (9 of them), and on and on.
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    The Dr Pepper is there to give a good size reference. The thing is . . . . not small. And I prefer the sodas bottled down in Mexico. Somehow, they taste less syrupy and are more refreshing because of it. -Dirk R
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    The last picture has the second 980ti STRIX in place (was holding off on moving it so I could still use my other machine until this one was done). My benchmarks really weren't where I wanted them to be, which is why the planned immediate upgrade. The reason for the specs is that I do a...
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    Prototype - A friend suggested I post this here.

    Here's what I ended up with. It's 30" wide, 24" tall and 22" deep. Let's start at the beginning. Hand cut sheet metal. Asus KGPE-D16 and dual Koolance CPU-360 waterblocks over dual Opteron 7372 CPUs, 128GB RAM and a GeForce 590 The first rest fire. Worked great. Seasonic...
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