Project: PrometheusCU

[pa9797]

Wah Bro u are a real Modder. 110% respect from me.

When is your project going to be completed?

 

[Langer]

Thanks a lot for the comments everyone. Much appreciated.

I hope to have the system online in a few weeks.




I decided to add HDD Activity Indicators to the 'RAID Box', 1 per drive. =)

I also added an LED that will just be on all the time to add a bit of internal p'zaz.

More soon

- Jesse

 

[KleoZy]

I have been following your mods and I admire your keen and hard work.. you have my respect as a modder.. but there is a question ... your rig is still not up and running or even using.. whatever component you purchase is depreciating, PC is not an assets, neither is it an auto mobile.. is like you are having a lets say 486 and you took your time to mod and as months pass by, when you finish your mod, your 486 is already out dated... so where is the value there? Don't you think you ought to have it running and to use it while you mod other parts?

 

[Langer]

I have plenty of computing power to spare here. I get my employers to buy my kit =) I always negotiate something into my contracts. Prometheus is nothing more than an example of design and engineering. I wish to pursue a career in interface and product design, Prometheus is something of a resume.

Once this project is complete it'll be shelved (for display) and I'll move on to the next one.

The next one is going to be a doosie by the way. It'll sport 24cores, 4gpus, 128gb RAM, 10TB HDD, 5 cooling loops, 10 pumps, 8 360mm rads, and so much more. =)

 

[KleoZy]

I have plenty of computing power to spare here. I get my employers to buy my kit =) I always negotiate something into my contracts. Prometheus is nothing more than an example of design and engineering. I wish to pursue a career in interface and product design, Prometheus is something of a resume.

Once this project is complete it'll be shelved (for display) and I'll move on to the next one.

The next one is going to be a doosie by the way. It'll sport 24cores, 4gpus, 128gb RAM, 10TB HDD, 5 cooling loops, 10 pumps, 8 360mm rads, and so much more. =)

I see.. therefore forum is the fastest way to draw crowd. showing your portfolio, not bad idea.. I advise you to do up a website for yourself and to keep a domin for yourself too.. this way you can show your resume anytime you want to whoever you wish to alias with..

 

[Langer]

The forum thing has been working for me so far. My photo album averages about 700,000 hits a month.

BTW - here's my shopping list for my next project:

 

[Langer]

JUST A TEASER:

Anyone who has ever sleeved an ATX plug knows its a pain in the ass...when you have a half inch of wire to work with it becomes a painful... when you then have to cut, crimp and solder the pins onto the little stumps it elevates maddening... if not enough - getting the ATX plug onto that mess could drive a man suicidal... and don't even get me started on the soldering end.

Suffice to say - won't be doing this again with a ribbon cable!!! It made the process about a million times more difficult.




The ribbon cable will be coated in black rubber so as to keep things perdy.

More soon. I need to run the 12V power and make the ATX power black, amung other things.


Tune in tomorrow kids - same bat time; same bat channel!

 

[bradputt]

how do you get so much fund to do this??

amazing. good work!!

 

[Langer]

I work in the field of trafficing of teenage women.

 

[Langer]

For the record ^thats^ a joke, I sell drugs. lol


Here are some better images of the ATX wire - still without a black rubber coating. I tried to get pics of the solder joints but it'll have to wait until I next remove the motherboard.

This wire probally took me 5-6hours to fabricate... and another 45mins or so to solder it in place.

 

[Langer]

The sun was out, so I did a fit test today. I'm pleased, I hope you will be as well:

Here's the Pico-ITX w/ it's 40mm rad hanging below via VHB tape:

Power source for the 40mm fans on the rear chassis wall, and the LED on the rear of the RAID card:

Note the SATA port location... right smack in the way of the watercooling ports - I'll have to flip this block 180degrees

I'll leave you with this for now:

More proper updates later. I'm going to do a little experimenting with the Ethernet port -among other things- this evening

 

[JAson1980]

Bro, anymore carbon fibre left over? you could cover the SATA and IDE (The red and blue connectors on the board) Then it look all carbon and copper.
Just a suggestion cos the red and blur really stick out like a sore thumb.

 

[Langer]

Thank you for the suggestion. I like it, next time I have the kit out of the case I'll do exactly that. Many thanks again.


So I FINALLY received by two Copper AquaComputer AquaTube reservoirs today...

These are MAGNIFICENT - they weight a tonne but they are so sexy. Lots of respect for AquaComputer!

 

[bigdickking]

good job and effort there...
*Thumbs up*

 

[Langer]

This is far from the prettiest thing I ever put together - but it gets the point across and I did it very quickly.
I crudely added in some of the parts. Including a very rough idea of the final reservoir locations:

Here are the latest iteration of the reservoir mounts - it took about 5hours of measuring and remeasuring to be certain that they are level with one another. I don't want 2kilos of copper throwing off the visual balance.

The "right" res will hang from the PSU area in the front and the back will mount to the fan - it's mounted so that it flows straight into the mosfet block. I'll need 4 spacers at the back to keep the reservoir fronts flush with one another.

The "left res fits into the slots on the hdd bay cover plate.

More soon.

 

[Langer]

So; I made a 'little' spreadsheet this evening.
It's a complete itemized list of every part and component in Prometheus - it's price, retailer, SKU, etc.

It turns out that Prometheus consists of 227 different parts (meaning duplicate parts are not counted).

This composes a total of *1413 individual pieces (not including the molex pins 1642 pieces if you count the pins.)

The total MSRP value of this project is a fair bit higher than I had expected actually... My heart jumped a couple beats when I totaled the bottom line.

Turns out I'm bat sh*t crazy afterall.

*edit 1413 individual pieces not including pins. I miscalculated.

 

[JAson1980]

Burn Wallet Burn~

 

[Langer]

Today I added another 144 pcs to the list.

I spent the past 5-hrs using a mini 22mm pipe cutter to fabricate 144x 17mm long spacers.

My hands are now crippled and blistered.

I used some old copper pipe I had laying around - the scratches and corrosion made the job about 10x harder than it needed to be.

The spacers were cut from 10mm OD copper pipe and will be used 72per side to keep the copper fins evenly distributed.


Here are the fins in question:
*click for big*



Here's a really quick Teaser:

Thanks for reading - tune in soon.

 

[Langer]

Here are some detail shots showing the pain in the ass that was.

Here's the making-of the spacers:

First up some dimensions:

Here are the tools involved:

The stages of construction - because I used a displacement style cutter I'm left with a large burr on the edge. I used a countersink bit to ream out the inner edge.

Note the funky looking tool on the right.

I made this little device using some plastic washers, some old hardware, a micro nut driver, and a broken dremel bit. (The nut driver was replaced with a drill for most of the sanding). When you tighten the screw the rubber expands ans holds the spacer nice and firmly to make sanding easier:

Repeat process 144 times... and as my joints stiffened and as the blisters grew in number I soon learned to loathe these items:

 

[reyreina]

I work in the field of trafficing of teenage women.

I lol-ed when i read this.

Bro, your work is an Art Piece