Recent content by JonCl

Anyone know where to find the "+" version of Supermicro X9SCL+-F motherboard?: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C202_C204/X9SCL_-F.cfm

Those heatpipes are just copper tubes with a few drops of coolant inside and sealed in a vacuum. Nothing too dangerous with cutting them I don't think. At least luckily, I was not harmed in the processes. By the way, I have some more pics of the waterblock that I installed on the RAID card. Why...

Thanks guys, I appreciate the comments. Good suggestion. Luckily, those heatsinks should have pretty good airflow coming from the 120mm hard drive fan just adjacent to them. The card is pretty long and it should fit in close with that fan. Here's a view with the previous card installed...

To fit mosfet heatsinks onto the card, I needed to trim the heatsink base in a few places... And a few places on the underside as well... Here is the heatsink and base all cleaned up and ready to install... Next step was to mount the mostfet heatsinks... These thermal pads came...

Modding the cover so that it misses the south bridge cooler presented an interesting challenge. This issue also arose during the original build of this project pictured here: Basically, the block will need to be moved to the left and rotated so that the two barbs line up parallel to the PCI-E...

Woah! When you said "may disturb you" you weren't kidding! I was doing OK until I got to this one: Crazy but awesome! I am interested in seeing your temps. Interesting use of plenums. Please comment on your fan noise. Nice work!

It turns out that watercooling this GTX260 wasn't going to be as easy as I first thought. Mounting a Swiftech waterblock on the GPU should not be a problem, but there doesn't seem to be an off-the-shelf heatsink available to cool the rest of this version 2 card. As you can see in this pic, the...

After tearing everything down, I was pretty surprised at the condition of the CPU block after three years of use. There is only a few bits of gunk and no corrosion... The next thing to do is water cool the GPU. I picked up a Swiftech MCW60-R2 waterblock for the GPU and a GTX200 heatsink for...

Yeah, I know. This project is a relic! I usually upgrade every year or so, but since 2007, two additions to the family plus other events have slowed me down a bit in this department. ;) I'm planning a new project on all new hardware later this year though (sometime after the home theater...

Thanks Oldie!

Oldie, I was wondering if you could change the title of a worklog to "Project: TYPHOON (Stacker+ GTX480) **2010 REBUILD**" The thread is here: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1177022 Thanks! Jon

2010 REBUILD Hello! I'm back with an update to this project that started three years ago already! TYPHOON has been working great as my everyday workstation, but it's time for a rebuilt to fix a few issues and to give it a thorough cleaning. This hardware is pretty dated now, but I really can't...

Great! Thanks for the mini-review. You're right, those are hard to find. That was a good deal at frozen. Hopefully one will come again. Anyway, I'll keep watching your progress. That's going to be one sweet rig! :)

Hi Craig, awesome project as usual from you. I'm curious to know if your Sanyo fans put off any sort of growling like my panaflos do when running at about half-speed. I have two 120x38mm pannys (like here) connected to a sunbeam fan controller and when the knob is set anywhere past about...

Cool, I just learned how to save my entire worklog in one click from the LoFi version. Nice!