that feeling when a package that you ordered on eBay or whatever finally
arrives you tear it open take out the packing material and it's that last part
you need to build a machine that you've been waiting forever to build this is my
new motherboard for the DIY PF sense router machine and hopefully the one
that's going to survive drop a like on the video if you
like that feeling as well and drop a dislike if uh you hate seeing me kill
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respectful this is a graveyard the graveyard of
motherboards so here is everything for the DIY PF sense
router including my two dead s1200 KP Intel
server boards let's see if third time really is
a charm now in the comments under part
one of this video there's a lot of people criticizing the choices that I've
made in terms of the hardware for this machine with crit criticism number one
being lonus why didn't you just buy a cheap oneu machine on eBay and use that
with my response being well because
that's not a very interesting video me sitting at my computer clicking by and
number two with people saying how over kill it is that I'm using a Zeon for a
router I know we already had it I didn't
I didn't run out and and buy it to make this video now with that said I have
bought a couple motherboards now but that is because we are already many
hours of 3D printing into creating some custom Hardware in order to make this
project work and could we have found something that would fit together better
out of the box yes of course we could
but that's not fun and we are going to start by testing this motherboard
outside of the system to find out if it
works at all before we uh introduce some
of the variables that might end up killing it so we'll start with CPU
installation this CPU known good I
actually ran it uh right before I started up this
build log in the first place and it was fine RAM very unlikely that's killing
our motherboard it's actually on the validated list not to mention that it's
Kingston RAM and the last time Kingston produced RAM that killed anything was oh
I don't know never now I've got a lot of people saying that it's my cooler and
back plate that are killing the board to which I would reply did you even watch
like did you even watch the video the entire back plate is covered in
electrical tape that is not what happened but for the haters I'm going to
go and I'm going to grab a stock heat sink to test the board with
first for extra safety I'm going to try
a standard desktop power supply next
now I don't think the problem is my
power supply what I think the problem is is someone that almost nobody in the
comments actually picked up on and that
is this four pin connector that comes off of the oneu power supply that I
plugged into a fan header on the motherboard that I checked with a
multimeter later and which appeared to be
supplying rather than requiring power
no power to my mouse and keyboard why don't we start
with different RAM and see how it goes
from there now it's always possible when a motherboard dies that it can take
other Hardware with it and I really hoping that it didn't kill our Zeon
CPU let's try a different CPU so now
I've got a 3570k from the CPU pile to try the weird
thing is with the the other chip I wasn't getting any beep codes and it was
warming up it was actually getting power okay this time it's failing post new
plan it's quite possible that even though they're on the same socket uh
this motherboard doesn't actually support the 3000 Series processor so I
grabbed a 2600 and we're going to take this baby
for a spin no power to the peripheral
still I'm starting to think we've got a dead board on our hands
here I can try a different stick of memory so oh oh hello so she's a little
picky on the memory compatibility but we
have a post this is good news now let's
try our Zeon chip with that
RAM and see how that goes I think we may
have not only killed our board but also
killed our CPU and RAM so we're going to
the 2600 and the full height RAM even
though that's not really going to work for the final build I'm going to give it
a shot first I'm going to try the
3570k to see if our BIOS update at the very least might have given us more
options for newer generation processors to work in this board well that's the
end of that chapter now let's try the uh now let's
try the original Zeon
hey all right the RAM
works but the CPU is dead which means I
can build today and change out the CPU
if I decide to do that at all remember
zon for ECC support so we're not actually taking advantage of the ECC
memory so if I decide to change out the CPU I can do that at another time all
right let's let's let's Forge ahead then I'm gon give you guys a little lesson on
electronics a piece of plastic shroud
over top of a speaker does not affect
the functionality as I will prove right
now so as you can see just like on the
previous two attempts I have only
removed the top of the plastic let's go
power it on oh what's that oh oh cutting
down oh cutting down the speaker doesn't do anything because why would it I could
rip the speaker right off and it wouldn't do anything the speaker just
wouldn't work huh how about that the
number of people educating me about the dangers of a metal back
plate fairly High I don't know if you guys know this but uh the manufacturer
of this CPU heat sink is also aware of
the dangers of metal back plates and the back plate actually had a non-conductive
coating on it um
so yeah that that was a thing
um but just in case I had damaged that
non-conductive coating I did there we go we've got CPU contact I
did cover it in electricians tape last
time around the internet was right I think the back plate heat sink mount did
Kill the board because we are now down to well up to three dead boards but not
for the reason that they think it did because the back plates anti- conductive
coating was not penetrated I think the reason it died was actually from too
much mounting pressure but there's good news and we are going ahead with the
project because I've discovered that my Z87 n Wi-Fi
motherboard happens to be almost
identically laid out to the Intel board
that we were using before so I've grabbed a different Zeon and we are just
going to build a router today damn it no
matter what because our gigabit internet upgrade is already done so here we go
now for my next trick I'm going to take
my test bench and physically move it into the
case all right power supply still
works very good we are in good shape shape friends
we are in good shapee okay there's still one more thing to go wrong actually now
I'm not going to use the same PCI e1x
Riser that I was using before if I can get away with it because my 16x Riser
that I ordered on eBay actually has finally arrived so we should be able to
get full 4X performance out of this card assuming that this solution works at all
um so now we're going to go almost all
the way and boot into the OS and see if
our network card is
recognized let's pull this back off oh
oh I think that was plugged in kind of funny maybe that was the issue all
right that was the issue just needed to receip that
puppy and I really don't like that this keeps going load optimize default then
boot you stop that What's your
deal so it actually blue screened even without our network card in there which
leads me to believe maybe it's something else my Windows 7 bench Drive could be
just kind of flaky right now so let's try my Windows 8 test drive so we're
booted into the Windows 8 drive so we're going to try our network card
again if anyone from Microsoft is watching why the
actual if I start typing my password immediately on that screen and I only
have a single user account on the machine does it not just log me in
there's always like a quarter of a second delay and it misses the first
character or two fix that all of our
Network ports are showing up it is time
to actually install it inside the
machine so what I'm doing is I'm actually trying to jam enough wires
through this Gap that even if I
accidentally press down on this tab
while I close it it actually can't open
cuz that'll release my memory modules just for doing some some quick testing
here so I'm going to put this baby up
here right oh we're close I can smell it
now this is a cool thing about this case you can actually
install your expansion card either way and I think we may be better served by
doing it this way this time so if I
press on these is it going to move
nope it's finally here everything is
working which leads us at
last to the whole point the thing I
wanted to test with this video our
custom cooling shroud
forour heat sink we need to test two
different scenarios number one how does
it perform with only these high RPM fans
pulling air from the front and blowing it out the back of the chassis towards
our aligned CPU heat sink and in order
to give this config the best fighting chance we're actually going to try it a
couple of different ways because you can see
the way the chassis is meant to channel airf flow is in the front SL top a
little bit and then out these ventilation holes at the back so we can
actually try it both with the whole
thing open and with everything around
the CPU heat sink itself actually
blocked off so that we're getting more air flow through the fins of the heat
sink but let's try it completely open first so our idle temps actually look
pretty good sitting in the 35 to you know 40° range so for the sake
of this video I think we're going to use the uh CPU package temperature here all
right let's start a stress test and see what happens to that well 65 still
climbing uh so what are our so our
hottest core is sitting at around 60° with the package sitting at
63 all right we'll let that reach equilibrium and we'll come back in just
a moment okay small update temperatures are still Rising we've reached 70° on
the CPU package 71 now okay I think our
maximum temps have settled in now per my
usual approach I'm taking the highest number that it's recorded So CPU package
has spiked as high as an 80°
reading a little higher than I'd be comfortable with with that said this
system's not going to be under that kind of a load 24/7 but still so we're going
to go ahead and we're going to block off the holes that we don't want it
using and see if that helps now it's actually kind of hard to tell from
looking at these temperatures because they're kind of all over the place but
with our blocked off holes you can actually see from the curve that shows
all of the cart temperatures that we're getting a little bit
more empty space under that 70° Mark
right there so I would say yes we did get a few degrees
Improvement by using this approach this is kind of a funny story I've got the uh
the architect of the fan shroud that we'll be installing for our second test
and he was about to explain to me why one of the pieces of the Shroud has like
this janky thing cut in it so when I was modeling it originally I forgot that
there's is it I think it's this thing yeah yeah this thing is right in the way
so oh look it perfectly fits now okay so we actually had to change the
motherboard yeah I know so now my all my
plans are are wrecked uh all the
original measurements like is it significantly different
no okay so now that you move that where it belongs this shroud should fit very
oh look at how perfect perfect that is it's so perfect and I gave this buffer
room here I didn't make it as long as it needs to be cuz it can overlap a little
bit your modesty is truly amazing yeah
just be careful
just supposed to be flex room for it to be able to go in there that fits that's
correct okay okay now no I I want to do it I want to do it I want do it all
right note that the design still allows these three fans to cool the network
card although we did not determine that we needed a shroud for that that little
that thing is in the way I didn't model that so it's uh oh well it's supposed to
be flush on the top it's not the way I designed it but yeah I mean it it's
supposed to be flush I mean it's mostly flush most of the air flow is going to
make it to the heat sink I think which is okay because it won't kill the system
to have a little bit of air flow over here looks cool doesn't it all right
let's close it up and and find out if
our Maniac scheme here worked so for
those wondering we actually 3D printed this sucker on the ultimaker 2 that we
reviewed in the video that you can check out right over
here there you have it folks absolutely
fantastic by using our 3D printed shroud to direct more air flow towards our
passive heat s we were able to drop our CPU
temperatures by somewhere in the neighborhood of about
10° meaning that even Under full load I
would be extremely comfortable running this system all the time it took a long
time for us to get here but our router is finally ready to
load up pfSense and deploy in the server
room with our new gigabit connection woo
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