I just got an email update from PC Design Lab regarding their new case. Those of you who follow the blog will know my ComputeCube machine is built into their QMicro2 case, which has been really good with only one or two tiny niggles. Although in fairness they are caused by the the amount of power cables and the heat emitted by the Asus rampage 2 gene northbridge arrangement and the Tesla C1060.
The new case looks good and their have adopted the suggestions from their clients. You may have a look at the new pre-order case here. Even though they have raised the cage I would have liked it to be slightly taller to help with airflow over the GPU's and power cable routing. Strangely they mention it can now support 750w power supplies, but I have been running a 1250w one in the older case for a while now with no problems.
The radiator bracket is a really good idea and would have helped sort out the Rampage 2 Genes overheating northbridge rather nicely.
If you are looking for a SFF case in my opinion there is nothing better out there and this new model raises the bar even further. Now if I could only get my hands on the new one and a watercooling kit :)
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Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Compute Cube
In a previous post I mentioned fitting my Tesla C1060 onto my aging Asus motherboard. It has been working well but a combination of slow host<->device transfers speeds of less than 1GB/s, 2GB ram and a relatively slow processor encouraged me to upgrade.
Some of the prerequisites for my new personal super computer were:
a) Must be small - my desk area is limited and I don't like putting computers on the floor where they consume dust better than any known vacuum cleaner...
b) Must have at least 2x pci express 2 (gen 2) slots as for decent GPU computing you need to get data in and out of the device as quickly as possible.
c) As quiet and cool as possible.
As it turns out the last one was the most tricky and needed the C1060 to do a bit of CFD for the airflow in the case.
After a lot of research, measurement and two days of building here are some pictures of the final result. The case is only 11" x 11" x 14" - ok it's not Exactly a cube.... but close enough :) The tape measure in the photos is to give some sense of scale.
Many thanks to NVidia who very kindly sent me two NVidia Tesla logos for me to stick onto the case!
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Some of the prerequisites for my new personal super computer were:
a) Must be small - my desk area is limited and I don't like putting computers on the floor where they consume dust better than any known vacuum cleaner...
b) Must have at least 2x pci express 2 (gen 2) slots as for decent GPU computing you need to get data in and out of the device as quickly as possible.
c) As quiet and cool as possible.
As it turns out the last one was the most tricky and needed the C1060 to do a bit of CFD for the airflow in the case.
After a lot of research, measurement and two days of building here are some pictures of the final result. The case is only 11" x 11" x 14" - ok it's not Exactly a cube.... but close enough :) The tape measure in the photos is to give some sense of scale.
Many thanks to NVidia who very kindly sent me two NVidia Tesla logos for me to stick onto the case!
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