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12 hours ago, tictoc said:

Here is the almost final build. 

 

Missing in these pics is all of the the final HDDs and SATA SSDs, and I am also going to drain the loop to add some QDCs at the GPUs.  I meant to add the QDCs in originally, and then I got in a bit of a rush to get everything up and running for the Pent and spaced it out.  One of the NVMe boot drives is under the GPUs, which cannot be removed without disconnecting the blocks due to the limited clearance between the GPUS and the radiators.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 11, 2022 by pioneerisloud
Forgot to quote, couldn't edit on phone

[schuck6566]

Just wanna say I am seriously impressed.

[tictoc]

QDCs installed, and now I'm mostly ready to put it into full production. 

 

I have been running it through some various testing scenarios over the last few months.  Now I just need to spend a day getting the OS setup done, and then I can finally fully migrate all my data.

 

 

 

[tictoc]

After battling with some high temps on the HBA, optane drives, and the X550-T2, I finally swapped the fans around on the radiators.  Previously the fans were running as intake, and now I have them running as exhaust. 

 

In the original configuration, I was never able to get enough front->back airflow to exhaust all the heat that the radiators were dumping into the case.  Results from the swap in fan direction are pretty impressive. Temps dropped by 13°C-20°C on the hottest components, and I was also able to drop the speed of the 180mm intake fan by 200rpm.