AmbientShade opened this issue on Sep 22, 2014 · 585 posts
seachnasaigh posted Mon, 01 June 2015 at 10:58 AM
Added full-time cooling to my battery/surge units; I power the extra fans with a $13.62 PC power supply, with a jumper from the green wire of the 24-pin to the adjacent black wire. That turns the power supply on. The fans are color-coded to match the workstation which they protect (purple for Galadriel, red for Cameron, etc.)
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Added USB 3 and eSATA support to my workstations (and even the Harpertown CPU drones) to support motion capture sensors. Also added color-coded fans while I was at it. Here are Galadriel, Eir and Kara. Each of my workstations has a signature color. For example, Galadriel's chassis glow purple, her keyboard glows violet, her mouse glows purple, her Cat6 cables are purple and violet.
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Galadriel's interior. Originally equipped with a H/T quad core i7 and 12GB RAM, her X-58 mainchipped motherboard's BIOS chip died. She now has an E-ATX server/workstation motherboard, dual liquid-cooled X5690 Xeon HyperThreaded hex core processors (3.46GHz, 3.73GHz turbo, without overclocking), and 96GB of registered Error Correcting Code memory with heat spreaders. The liquid cooling radiators are double thick, with fans at both front and rear of each radiator. Twenty four render threads with 96GB of memory! :D
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