A Rack of One's Own: Difference between revisions

i'd hoped not to require watercooling, but with that dream dashed i set to work. the idea of in-case radiators was laughable, and anyway why have a rack if you're not gonna stuff it with shit? for a moment i considered immersion cooling, but due to other projects i already had two [[MO-RA3]] 420x420mm external radiators sitting around unused, whereas i had neither knowledge of nor hardware for immersion. there aren't very many LGA2011-compatible waterblocks; i was hoping for HEATKILLER IVs, but neither PerformancePCs nor TitanRig seem to be actually stocking parts as of late, so i settled for Alphacool Eisblock XPX Pro Aurora waterblocks at $50 a throw. as it turned out, i hardly needed the capability of the HEATKILLERS (my processors are rated at a mere 105W), so this was a win cashwise, and the blocks boast lovely ARGB. i went to install the XPXs, only to discover that the squarish LGA2011 socket has a rectangular cousin, the "LGA2011-Narrow", which despite its physical incompatibility apparently didn't rate a new socket designation. i raged skyward for a few moments, and set to designing [https://github.com/dankamongmen/openscad-models/blob/master/lga2011-narrow.scad custom LGA2011-Narrow mounts] in OpenSCAD. i printed them up on my SLA Elegoo Saturn, and—miracle of miracles!—they worked on the first try. that's the power of actually measuring things instead of just trying to eyeball millimeter distances, i guess! i then suffered the first of three major leaks, all of them due to shoddy manufacturing on some no-name G¼ compression fittings. no matter where in my loop i employed them, no matter how solid the connections looked to the eye, these pieces of shit lived to spray neon green coolant all over my electronics, my rugs, and myself. i was stupidly ready to give them one more try (see above regarding cheap bastardhood), when i noticed they didn't even have fucking o-rings. hell, even Challenger had goddamn o-rings...until it didn't, anyway. into the trash they went, and a week later i had a phat sack of chungal (chungusy? chungy? chungesque perhaps?) Koolance Blacks, which have served without fail since installation.

9x Arctic P14s on the MO-RA at 1200rpm plus an EKWB Dual XTOP with 2x D5s keep my ~3L of coolant barely suprambient, moving fluid at about 2.2Lpm at 4Krpm of pumping, with the four Xeons below 30 at idle, all of it silent. w00t! i'm using an ESP8266-based control, similar to my existing [[InaMORAta|inaMORAta]] solution (but slightly improved). three sets of Koolance Black QD4 quick disconnects, an XCPC filter, and an EKWB Quantum Torque drainage fitting ensure loop maintainability across almost six meters of EKWB ZMT soft tubing. distilled water plus three bottles of EKWB Acid Green Cyrofuel concentrate and a Singularity Computing Protium reservoir complete the successful cooling story. i've drilled two ¾" (technically 20mm) holes through the roof through which the ZMT protrudes, though i'm likely to replace that steel with glass or Lexan so that the internals are visible (i've got a CODI6 lighting up the Aurora LEDs, but it's currently disabled, which is unfortunate as they look fucking awesome).