be proud about it, man. What is this?
Wait, what is this? Okay, wait. This is
evil. This is This is Donald
from Ireland from here in Canada. Good old USA.
This is the whole room water cooling project.
This is crazy.
Day four. Day four. This was not supposed to take 4 days.
So, what's the plan? Okay, the plan is
to get these fittings to stop leaking
first. So, I have come armed with the
Uber wrench, which is kind of like the Uber mench, but wrench
here. Um, this one is almost big enough
for this, but not quite. But that's okay
because I have an even uber wrench. We'll have a plumbers's crack.
Okay, these are not going to leak this
time.
Gordon Freeman should have carried one of these. It's a lot heavier than a
crowbar.
Vice grip. Yeah.
the compression fan doing it the right way. So, we're doing a bit of a longer
tubing run this time so that we can make sure that the pump
is nice and below the reservoir.
Isn't there like a better way to see if it
uh yeah, we don't have one more than you think of
it. There we go.
In theory,
in theory, it should work. Let's fill this bad boy.
Okay, head stop.
That's not leaking, which is a good sign.
So, at this point, we're testing the loop to find out if this whole thing is
actually even working. And even though it would have been wiser to do this
before we hooked everything up to the whole room, I'm actually testing to make
sure that each of the individual systems is not leaking. So, checking fittings,
checking blocks, everything looks to be
okay. But if a leak were to be sprung at this point, it would be pretty crummy.
With the systems powered on, it looked like everything was working fine. CPU
temperatures looked normal. I could see water within the blocks, but then
temperatures started to creep up on some of the PCs and not others. And then they
would go up up up up and then they'd settle right back down to what looks
like a normal water cooled idle temperature. So, not having a whole lot
of time to figure out what the problem was, I had to do a little bit of running
around diagnosing what exactly is going on with these CPU temps.
So, the issue ended up being that some of the systems were getting some water
flow and others weren't due to air bubbles being stuck in some of the pipes
and not others. And essentially, well, our pump not having not head pressure
because we were actually getting reasonable flow out of the system once
we got the whole thing filled, but not a high enough flow rate in order to get
the water moving fast enough in order to force the bubbles down the downside of
their tubes through the systems and then back up the other side into our
reservoir.
Okay, CPU temps are 28°,
not rising. Oh, that pump just grabbed.
Can hear all the air bubbles going.
Okay.
What you mean the pump just to scratch? Uh, when it's got air bubbles stuck in
it, it spins, but not very It doesn't really pump water effectively.
Okay.
6°.
So, you're 12. Uh, the whole thing will quiet down once
the air bleeds out of the room. Here we go.
That seems to be
Okay, let's get some boot drives, shall we? All right. You know where they are.
Uh, probably in our old systems. I took them. You took them out. You took
them out and gave them to Luke. That is what you did. Are they down?
Okay. Okay.
All right. Okay. Let's do this. This is minus
because it says L.
No. What is problem?
Because the first time we bled the loop
on every one of these Mhm. we connected
them. So, right now, it's going to be
really hard to bleed the system because
these ones that we're not using
have no water flow.
disconnect, right? Yeah, we may have to drain this bad boy. God damn it.
Okay.
Okay, it's not so bad. We just have to do
what? One, two, three. Right.
Okay. Okay. Did I get Paragon working or we
get on that? Um,
might as well fire up Paragon if you want. Might as well get your system
clone so you're ready to go when the time comes.
Okay, that one.
I wish we'd planned for a more graceful way to do that.
Can I have that rag back at her? Yep.
So, what we have to do is
What do we have to do? Just put the opposite ends on them.
Yeah. Compression fittings from Yeah.
Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Compression fittings onto here connected
to the pipe. So, what do you do now? Do you put the
compression fitting on before you attach it to the wall? Yeah. I'll try that and
use that.
Which one? This thing. Oh,
what I do to get this thing close to that, just yank
like on the tubing. Yeah, I guess that could work.
I want this pump as low as it can be.
And then I want this red tilted a little
bit. Okay, here we go.
Are you ready? All right. Hit it
for the third time.
Okay. pump them off. Um,
come up. Well, they're not enough to
Something needs to push the air
through this. And that's supposed to be that one. But
that one needs a lot more head pressure in order to make that happen.
So you can see that this is getting
even without all the other systems connected, it's getting like no flow at
all. What's different now? We're not really
getting any Oh, it's going back up. Yeah, we're not really getting any appreciable
flow in here, though. That
is kind of bizarre.
There be a blockage. No
temps now.
39. Yeah.
58 37
56
55
Oh, it's flowing now.
So, wait, the big tube's empty now. Yeah. That's terrific.
hurry. That takes me a long time. Let's have to
see. Uh yeah, but we got a prop land show, too. You don't want the uh the uh
the show where you're the first first time you're on to be terrible, right? Uh
I can come up with the opinions on the spot.
Um what?
I don't know about that deal.
That's what I do anyways. Make
sure to talk about that in there.
All that. Yeah, that's good.
Making the bubbles my [ __ ]
Running another one your way.
Oops. got too enthusiastic about my bubble
slaying. And with the bubbles out, the
pumps can help us. But with the bubbles in there, they can't do anything.
All righty then. Zero cares given.
100%.
It's running. Yeah.
No way, dog. It's running. All right.
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more. again. Wow. Is there even room for that
power supply?
Should be just barely.
Fortunately, these cables are intercompatible,
so we actually only have to swap out the power supply. So, that's it for the
summer portion of this project. We actually did not finish it at all. We
got distracted with a bunch of other things. I mean, it's finished in that it
works some parts of it, but we're going to have at least one more update here
with the finishing touches as well as the final results. Stay tuned for that.