G34 4P Supermicro Pics

Very handsome

 

Nicely done my friend.

 

very nice,very clean, very well done.

 

Awesome case! What mods if any were required to fit the 4P system?

 

that is one clean system. and perfect lighting !!

 

Beautiful system...
Good job on the PSU mounting.

 

Love the rocketfish case .... plenty of space ..

 

Looks great, kudos

 

This is the "good" twin to my G34, 4P.

 

Be careful not to choke those chokes underneath the musky mod crossbar. Make sure it gets some air flow.

 

This is a good looking build, made all the more so by the fact most of its siblings around here run naked.

Its like a guy wearing a suit in the middle of burning man...

 

My 4P doesn't even have a burlap sack, just a wedge of cardboard it sits on.

 

I just printed out the close up picture and taped it to the window on the side of my case.... at least I can pretend.

 

Thought i'd bump this thread with photos of my project 4P G34 home system (its been running flawlessly for over a year now).

 

Very professional looking setup!
Where'd you find the case? I'm looking for something quieter than my 1U case but more secure than just taking off the top and mounting tower heatsinks.

 

Looks like the http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/748/SC748TQ-R1400.cfm
I had one. Big, heavy and expensive. Oh, and those included 8,000 rpm fans are screamers!

 

I thought those looked like hot swap fans. And fans not meant to be sitting on a desktop either. Yikes.

 

if you ran the rear fans at full speed you would be right (see photo below... they run around 2050-2100 rpms). Case temps usually run around 82F. 91F at the hottest... but this thing doesn't run at full bore or even close to it.

i use a fan controller and run those rear fans more slowly... there is an "elbow" point in the rpm speed after which they become loud... i run them just below this elbow point. i also added an additional SuperMicro fan kit normally used for the GPU units so i had 4 fans instead of the original 3... this also lets me run them all slower for the same airflow.

i also upgraded the dual 1000w removeable PSU to more efficient 1400w ones... with the variable duty cycle 25mm fans... so they are barely making any noise either. To help them out i also installed additional Noctua 92mm fan right where they exhaust to pull hot air into the main motherboard area (unfortunately the above photos taken before i did this).

EDIT: i forgot to add that i also removed the backplane on the unused SCSI drive as well as the drive holders... this gives a straight shot through improving airflow through the case and was good for about 5C or so in case temps.

its perfectly fine for home desktop use now and it sits right behind my monitor

 

Nice job modding that 4U SuperMicro case. I've done similar with the 4P E5-4650 setup. The cases are beasts; luckily mine are rack-mounted and I don't have to listen to them.

 

Nice except on mine I was bothered by the disrupting up down CPU cooler air flow so I jerry rigged it to make it front back.

 

Thanks i ran across it new at an Ebay auction for $80 (seller mislabeled it or didn't know what they were selling)... not knowing how loud it would be. i just had to have it. Didn't want a boat anchor so ended up spending about $300 quieting it down. So in a way i didn't have much of a choice Once i had it i was stuck Its a tank at 80 lbs or so.

i'd like to water cool it one of these days, and take it down to the machine shop and have a side window cut out for it.

 

I looked up that case. Holy mother of God is it expensive.

 

Partly because in the case of the link I gave it comes with redundant 1,400 watt PSUs.

 

So about $500 in PSU's give or take $100. Still does't explain the other $500+.

 

$799.99+$29.99 shipping at SuperBiiz: http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=CA-748TQ4B

Might as well get 2 while your at it Skillz.

 

I'd rather use cardboard. lol

 

I'll get pics of some of my systems later this week--I have a 32c 4P setup in a Spootswood case, a 48c 4P setup in a Spootswood case, and a 1U 64c setup. Also have parts on the way for 2 more 1U 48c setups

 

I have scored (at 800$, more of a steal, i think) myself one of those as well:

- Supermicro H8QG6-F
- 4x 6274 with passive coolers
- Supermicro SC748 chassis w/2 redudant 1400W powersupplies
- 16 dimms x 8 Gb each

and I must say: the loudness overrides the nice points. Boinc is chugging along nicely, running 16 MCM1 tasks @ about 5 hours 30 minutes each. That is the same time as a dual X5650 Xeon system. It won't download more tasks at the moment, both CEP2 and UGM1 complain about 'transient HTTP errors'.

Do I read correctly that better CPU coolers (Noctua NH-9UD0) and a fan-controller on the existing fans are enough to bring the noiselevel down? Did you do anything with the fans behind the drivecage inside? This system will move to my office, so it needn't be absolutlely silent, but right now even the bios option Balanced gives a lot of noise.

 

Jurriaan, are you behind a proxy by chance?

If so, you may need to create a cc_config.xml file.

<cc_config>
<options>
<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
<http_1_0>1</http_1_0>
<report_results_immediately>1</report_results_immediately>
</options>
</cc_config>

 

Unfortunately, no. I'm behind a router - another PC on that same router has no problems and I don't think there's anything wrong with the network on the Opteron system, since a Debian netinstall went fine.

 

Unfortunately, no. I'm behind a router - another PC on that same router has no problems and I don't think there's anything wrong with the network on the Opteron system, since a Debian netinstall went fine.

I think it's something else:

Code:

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However, I wouldn't like to steer this thread too much offtopic, I'm primarily interested in cooling and sound here!

 

I use Dynatron A14 coolers on my server. They're only $30 at Directron. My server heats my house and the noise isn't bad. I replaced all the case fans with some 80mm Thermaltake fans I already had. They have fan controllers.
http://www.directron.com/a14.html?gsear=1
Most guys here use the Cooler Master 212+ heatsinks with the musky mod. They are very quiet but a real pain to mount in a server case.