so the editing team here asked me for something very specific they want the
fastest machine that I can build for exporting videos and they want it in the
server room so that they can just remote into it and Export their projects
directly from Premiere instead of going
from premere to C form and then having a separate machine take it to h264 so I
kind of went okay only one small
problem with petabyte project coming
space in our rack is at something of a premium and if you want the fastest
machine I can build I want to overclock it but I've only got two used to do it
so what's the solution water
cooling tunnel bear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse
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water cooling servers is actually a pretty common thing but as with anything
that we do around here there's a right way to do it and there's a wrong way to
do it so the right way to water cool a server is to buy a server or usually
server solution that is designed to be
water cooled so typically that'll be servers that plug in with quick
disconnect fittings to a a cabinet or
even an entire room or building that has
giant heat dissipation units located on
the outside the wrong way to do it as the uh
regular viewers have probably already figured out is the way that we're going
to go about this is to just grab an off the-shelf server and uh jury rig some
liquid cooling into it
come on out you bastard
okay so let's meet our victim then shall
we I actually threw this box together
during our server maintenance weekend yesterday and the day before and the day
before that it was a it was a long weekend just to make sure that it was
all working before I went and water cooled it so in here we've got an ASUS
x99 Delux 2 we've got a coree i7 6950x
extreme Edition 10 core we've got a
Noctua cooler that's clearly got to go I mean I love Noctua but not going to be
suitable for that CPU we've got uh 32
gigs of Corsair Dominator Platinum painted orange RAM we've actually got a
GTX 980 in here that's about all we need
for video acceleration and then I wasn't sure what to do on the boot Drive I
actually have a PCI Express SSD down there just to see if it was going to
work in that second slot but I think we're going to go with these two guys in
raid one yes I know they're refurbished yes I know they're old but it's raid one
it should be
okay so now I need some water cooling gear normally I would reach out to all
The Usual Suspects and get them to send
over some cool stuff but uh this project
was not planned out at all
so what I'm stuck with is just kind of going through the shelves here and
seeing what I can find some of this is what I would have used anyway like the
Primo chill Advanced LRT tubing I found some in red uh but some of this stuff is
a very random mish mash of what I had on
the water cooling shelf so here's um a
D5 pump with a top from Ek that was from a previous project here's a a phobia
Reservoir that's just the smallest tube Reservoir that I have on hand here's an
old Alpha cool rad that I found and
finally this is an interesting story I
take pride in completing the sponsored projects that I asked for hardware for
and over two years ago I asked bits power for a very specific set of
fittings for a water cooled bit Phoenix Prodigy built and I never delivered it
for a number of reasons and so I've just
kind of shamefully looked at these every
time I've gone through the fittings box having not really any use for all these
like 45s and right angles it only had two straight fittings in it but that all
changes today because I finally have a
project that I can use them for so stage
one is to kind of tear everything out that I already had in there and have a
look at the space we're working with this was actually our old router case
and as you can see there is a lot of wasted space for like 5 and 1/4 in Drive
Bay these fans that are just kind of hanging
out in the middle of nowhere we're still going to need intake fans but a lot of
this space could be utilized for something else but I still have some
concerns so we've got an EK Supremacy Evo block I'm using the all metal
version we don't want to take any unnecessary risks with leaks since this
will actually be sitting above paby project and I just wanted to make sure
that it's actually going to fit in the
2u height with our 90° fitting so that's
good then same thing metal caps for the
end of our tube Reservoir I need to find somewhere to put that which looks like
it's going to be right about here and then I need somewhere to put my
radiator and it looks like we've got a small clearance issue there but nothing
we can't resolve so this is great everything came out really easily giving
us actually more space what we're going
to do is actually sub in a triple
radiator where I had intended to use a dual
radiator now the mounting though is
going to be a little bit tricky we're actually going to raise it a little bit
off the bottom of the case then we're going to have the fans blowing up this
way and we're going to have these three fans carrying the air through the case
as a whole bear in mind guys this is a
triple radiator and we don't have enough room to cool the video card anyway so
it's only responsible for cooling the
CPU so there are a couple of things you're going to notice me doing about
this build that would be a little bit different than normal uh number one is
I'm going to be using everywhere that I can so on the radiator on the CPU block
and on the reservoir actually I'm going to be using vice grips to tighten up
these nled fittings like this because I
can cannot risk a leak and as long as we are screwing into metal there's no
danger other than to the finish on the nled fittings the other thing you're
going to notice is that I'm going to be optimizing for the shortest possible
tubing runs wherever I can because no matter how good your tubing is it will
be slightly porous and that's where
water evaporates from a water cooling
system so I'm going to have as little of
that exposed as possible now I'm getting really excited I think I
finally got a pretty solid plan for how
this is going to come together so I need some kind of riser for this Reservoir to
make sure that it is high enough that the pump's Inlet is going to be easily
fed by it then that conveniently gets me right up to the same level as this right
angle coming off the radiator that will go back into the res very cool stuff
then the CPU is easy this tube looks like it's just going to fit under the
graphics card and this one comes right over here giving me a total of only
about like two feet and change of
exposed tubing mounting everything to the bottom
of the case is extremely important and
needs to be very precise if I screw up
the placement just a little bit for the radiator the pump and the reservoir they
aren't all going to fit the other thing that's going to be really tricky down
down here is the fact that this is a rack
mounted case so I can't just have like
the head of a screw sticking through here it'll bump on the next one down so
what I've got are these sunken type screws here and the plan is to use what
is not a proper bit for metal but I only
need a few holes out of it but I'm going to use one of these uh stepped style
drill bits to see if I can create a counter sunk hole as as best as I can
yes I know it's not 100% the best way to do it but come on you're watching M the
decks we're going to pre-drill a hole in
the red to tap
into
oh went too far hit the tube well I am
not sure if I could be more pissed off right now so the bad news is that we
punctured the radiator and I don't have another one of the same but the good
news is that that hole that I was drilling these screws thread in and kind
of self-tap perfectly nice solid
connection the plan would have worked perfectly if I had just put something
back I thought I could control it but it
slipped so I have to fix this now which
means the best solution we have on hand is Marine
epoxy claims to bond brass so I have
mixed it thoroughly for 1 minute I have actually done this before
with jbweld that radiator continued to work for years but I've never tried
using epoxy so here we
go this is how you can tell the difference in my videos between a
problem and a
problem that will go there for a bit
let's get the pump and res mounted we now return to you live from
problems lonus was expecting to have to solve okay so when we try and close the
lid we're going to see that there's a
bit of a bit of a bulge so to speak I can't have even that
little bit of play it's only about this much fortunately this mount for the pump
has a little bit of unnecessary
thickness at the bottom that I think we can just remove we bought the sticky
kind when we need the velcro kind no
problem this is just a finer grit than I had wanted to use it'll just take a
little bit
longer I should have just mounted the radiator with double-sided
tape why did did I screw through it
anyway cart before the horse let's find out if it
fits perfect no bulge
whatsoever all right I was bound to be successful at
something not having a good day today
it's okay I always pull it off usually
oh man did you see those scissors Bend always pull back before trying to insert
yep I am never too mad to make a dick
joke maybe we should just call this video problems linet could solve easily
if he had enough time to wait around for a 3D print job I need spacers I need
spacers for my screws so I found this old acrylic CPU block hold down and I'm
cutting it up to get
holes these may be the jankiest
spacers of all
time oh shoot just call this video lonus
being grumpy for 20 minutes so as long as everything stays in place exactly
perfectly okay oh
sh the radiator is in making real
progress now we're getting
close here we are again a 3D printed Mount
would be a perfect solution for our Reservoir but
uh no time so it came to
me Minecraft boom brick boom Another Brick
oh yes wait is that too
high ah back to the drawing
board D Minecraft
we'll use this Square hockey puck okay not my straightest
cut
okay we have a big problem we are like
done it's time to power it up and this
this is how set our epoxy is clearly
that's not enough but possibly fractal design to the rescue fractal has
removable fittings from the components of their AO
but what I don't know yet is if they're using G1 qu threads if
they are then I can just Swap this
Radiator in it is it is right it's right
we have another
red love
tap love tap now I'm having fun
okay oh could that have been any
easier oh yes in there just fine we've
got our tubing run all our fittings are tightened so all that's left to do is
throw in our network card throw in our graphics card wait what is this really
going to interfere with this oh come on now you vicious bastard
okay well this computer doesn't get 10 gbit networking
ssds and one tape it down and a two tape
it on top of the other one power for the
ssds one MOX connector over
here 24 pin power oh we're close now
baby we got to make sure everything here is nice and flat cuz this graphics card
does not have a lot of clearance
here and you
go okay that is a Primo Rat's Nest right
there Moment of
Truth okay so this is it it's finally
done the pump was dead to replace that
anyway the project is a success so our
hottest core after about 20 minutes of
sitting running small ffts in IID to 64
is 60° which is pretty darn impressive
given how low profile this sucker
is what a
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