Project: PrometheusCu

Emission said:
Everything I've ever heard as far as ASUS boards go is that they suck, period. I've had several, cheap ones and expensive ones, and I think I only had ONE that didn't prematurely die on me, or have some horrible engineering fault (I'm looking at you, P5GD1, with your horrible vDroop).
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It's weird how things are, because all the ASUS mobo's I've owned have been rock solid, from Socket A to LGA775, probably about 8 different boards.

My Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 was a POS though... and so was my MSI K7 Neo2... but I replaced those with similarly spec'd ASUS boards and never had a problem with them.

And when I finally go i7 or i5, it'll be on an ASUS board.

I am inclined to believe that the 965 chipset was just terrible anyway, especially for RAM compatibility, as my friends Gigabyte P45 is great, and my other friends ABIT IP35-E is solid (except it doesn't have solid caps heh..), but yeah, I've not had to RMA any of my ASUS products and would gladly purchase another, but that's my experience, luck of the draw I guess.
 
Before this awesome thread starts turning into an ASUS against the world type of deal and who makes the least crapping out MoBo's....lets do what they did in Star Wars when they were in the trench of the Deathstar,......Stay on Target.

Incredible build!!
 
Emission said:
Everything I've ever heard as far as ASUS boards go is that they suck, period. I've had several, cheap ones and expensive ones, and I think I only had ONE that didn't prematurely die on me, or have some horrible engineering fault (I'm looking at you, P5GD1, with your horrible vDroop).
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I had what many consider to be the nightmare board of nightmare boards from ASUS: A7N266-D for 2 Athlon MPs/XPs(taking a pencil to one of the cut leads makes an XP and MP so it was SMP on the cheap - a dream). Even with all of the initial bugs and quirks, I have a rock-solid machine that still boots without issue to this day because ASUS worked really hard to put out BIOS fixes to address each major issue.

That being said, there was a popular Tyan board with no headaches and the same features. However, ASUS got a lot of respect for making the A7N-Ds work at a lower cost...
 
formula409 said:
Before this awesome thread starts turning into an ASUS against the world type of deal and who makes the least crapping out MoBo's....lets do what what they did in Star Wars when they were in the trench of the Deathstar,......Stay on Target.

Incredible build!!
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That's a good idea: I'm on board.

*thumbs up* to Langer for the thought provoking worklog ;)
 
dammit, i saw page 28 and thought we had an update :( WAAAAAA boo whooo, lets start a donation lol
 
clubmed112 said:
dammit, i saw page 28 and thought we had an update :( WAAAAAA boo whooo, lets start a donation lol
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Page 28? HAHA!

Dude, in your User Control Panel enable 40 posts per page, makes life here so much easier, in GenMay you'd have been laughed into exile for still using 20 posts per page.
 
@mrmylanman - haha, if only.

@ADDICT76 - Thank you. No upgrades here, when it's done I start a new project... tbh I've started planning the next project already.

@ZMTToxics - Thanks a lot mate.

@tuberc - By all means... I could use an assistant.

@Elledan - eep, a real woman... i've only read about these in books. lol

@Markistehnamezor - Thanks man, more coming soon. I haven't stopped working.

@Monkeypillow - First off, thank you very much. Prometheus is an example of product development and design, more than anything else. I am studying for a career in interactive virtual environments, and hoping for viable product design. Prometheus is a living resume for me, an example of concept-completion design. It's for me. =) The next 'uber'project will also be for me, in a manner of speaking. I have great plans for it - I've conceived of a new interface design and I need a graphical super-computer to drive it.

@clubmed112 - I'm working on it, at this point I'm relying on outside contractors to finish my cutting bending and engraving. Thanks a lot for the support.

@Blt44 - Thanks for your time and support mate. I appreciate that.

@johnnynj - Thanks for the kind words, thanks a lot. As for Asus... I fucking love their stuff. I've had more Asus products than 10 people could count and they've all be rock solid. As for the eeePC... I was the first one to mod the eeePC and still today have the most heavily modded eeePC. I've modded about a dozen of these things now - here's a link to mine: clicky.

@formula409 - Thanks for that, and also for the support.

@clubmed112 - Soon sir, soon. Thanks for reading.

@supaspoon - Soon.

@lcpleel - Thanks a lot mate. More coming soon.
 
Is the internal router/ firewall going to be used for 'only' the two computers inside Prometheus, or will it be your central router for the home network?

I do not know if you mentioned it earlier or not, but what are your intentions for the two different computer systems? My curiosity really relies on how the 'second' system with the small screen is going to be used. I would also like to know the day to day activites for the 'main' system.
 
I post the same stuff here as I do over on SLiZone mate.

I've just not yet completed anything more to reveal just yet.

I want to complete the chassis before going any further and much of that work is being done by an outside party. I'm having a hard time getting people to follow-up on their word.


Allow me to elaborate.

-I'm trying to get this work done for free - or at least as close to as possible.
-There is several thousand bucks worth of machine time alone in my required parts, and I don't want to pay that. ;)
-My Dad offered to cut the parts for me using his carbon fiber companies waterjet machines in his California based plant. (the of his factories outside China with waterjets)
-It took Dad about 6-weeks to actually get on it to the point where notable progress is being made.
-Unfortunately the General Manager of the Cali plant doesn't want to do any personal jobs - which I can respect because it's unfair that the big-boss' kid should get to use the production equipment.
-I'm in the process of negotiating with the California GM, and also with another local source who is offering me a really great price (hopefully he will stand by it... I've encountered several other who have not).


Long story short... I keep meeting asshole machinists that offer a price - then delay after delay come up with a ludicrous price. This process has added months of delays unfortunately.
 
Thanks for the update Jesse. Hopefully you can get something worked out with a machinist. Luckily the results should make the wait worth it!
 
That sucks to hear about the machinists. Hopefully some progress is made soon because this looks like a very sweet build.
 
In the spirit of progress, I decided to change my fittings and tubing style and configuration to accommodate the new reservoirs.

I made a "small" AquaTuning.de order just now:
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and as I mentioned I also have 2 of these puppies en-route as well...
AquaComputer-CopperTube-01.jpg

AquaComputer-CopperTube-02.jpg

AquaComputer-CopperTube-03.jpg

AquaComputer-CopperTube-04.jpg

With special thanks to Shoggy from Aquacomputer for giving me the heads up on their re-release (I pleaded with him several months back for a pair of these reservoirs... so I'm elated to see them available again).



More stuff to fit into this already jam packed case. I may only be able to fit one of these reservoirs into Prometheus... but not a big deal I'll be happy to have a spare "copperTube" in my collection of parts.


Some of you may be wondering why I don't just use my router for all the cutting?

Answer - the router is old and out of alignment and one of the motors is burned out... that is until last week. An engineer friend of mine had experience with such things so I put him to work.

I'll be cutting my own parts again - but this time with a capable machine.

Before it was unlevel - didn't travel smoothly - a motor was burned out - and it was a decade out of service... this time it's all calibrated and ready to go and I actually have time allocated to finishing.

I have everything for this project complete and waiting... once I get the actual structural elements done it wont be more than a week to + build + plug in + test + tweak + cry.

Today I spent the afternoon in the shop preparing my drawings and the machine for cutting. I'll be going back to the shop Monday/Tuesday to complete cutting of the FINAL carbon parts.

TUESDAY there will be much progress. Stay tuned until then. ;)
 
I wouldn't necessarily go as far as saying its sexy but it is a very clean looking reservoir and would probably look even better under some lights or something. IMHO
 
johnnynj said:
I had what many consider to be the nightmare board of nightmare boards from ASUS: A7N266-D for 2 Athlon MPs/XPs(taking a pencil to one of the cut leads makes an XP and MP so it was SMP on the cheap - a dream). Even with all of the initial bugs and quirks, I have a rock-solid machine that still boots without issue to this day because ASUS worked really hard to put out BIOS fixes to address each major issue.

That being said, there was a popular Tyan board with no headaches and the same features. However, ASUS got a lot of respect for making the A7N-Ds work at a lower cost...
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They may have addressed issues in the direction of their more common boards, but the P5GD1 I had was horrible with vDroop, and it was fairly mature in terms of how long it had been out, kinda odd.
 
Updates?!

Updates are good... :)

@Langer: PS: I beat fallout 3, not sure if you did yet or not but it was awesome. :)
 
I still haven't even installed Falout 3 - I told myself it has to wait until Prometheus is complete.
 
In the spirit of the 'RealRedRaider forums' overkill style that I've come to love and appreciate I've decided to step up my fans, and with them my fan controller...

I emailed Sidewinders for a quote on the below just a few moments ago:
[edit]: I revised my order - swapped the AFB1212SHE fans for AFB1212GHE models instead (the difference between the two is 151.85 vs 240.96cfm)[/edit]
SidewinderOrder-rev2.png


The thermal material and cleaner is for another unrelated project.
 
Up and over 18k would be my best guess... I review the damage after the fact.
 
I have a dozen or so Sanyo Denki's in my parts pile - I still could use them... but I want super deltas. =)
 
I made a 'few' revisions to the part designs over the past week.
I've settled on the -absolute- FINAL design for this project.

I'll give you a taste below in the form of my Concept drawings, but you'll have to visualize the bends yourself... As for where these parts are going to be installed - you'll just have to wait and see if you can't already.

Black Lines = Cuts.
Dotted Lines = Bends.
Grey Lines = Rastering.

48" x 48" = 2mm copper plate
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36"x 36" = 1mm 'Rigid' Aerospace Milspec Carbon
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36"x 48" = 1.58mm 'Ultra Rigid' Aerospace Milspec Carbon
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Illustration showing how Carbon and Copper come together - minus the raster etchings.
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Comments are welcome as always. Pictures follow Wednesday.
 
Well we all have seen your work before so we know what to expect so, it looks like you are just one crazy person.
 
Update... the cutting is going extremely well.

The freshly tuned CNC router is running like new and the cuts are perfect.
I should have most if not all of the carbon fiber parts ready tomorrow evening.

The only drawback is that CF eats through carbide like butter - hence the reason why I was hoping for water or later cutting. I'm using 1/16" high grade 2 flute cutters - every 100inches or so I have to adjust the height to use a fresh sharp spot on the cutter.

I'll go though a few cutters before the day is done methinks. =)

Stay tuned! Exciting sexy CF bling, and perhaps some "quality" blackberry videos of the router in action coming soon =).

I know I'm excited... it's been too long in the making.
 
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