I figured I might as well link to F@H since the whole Pandora's Box project came up because of it. See URL below (and for those new to the site, I always end each post with an interesting URL related to the story).
Above you can see Pandora's Box - almost completed. All it needs now is the top to be put on. I've got two cool fan grills that came off the original BEHEMOTH computer (from a very long time ago) that will look great on the top of the box where the two openings will be for the PSU fans. Then, we just need two holes for the power to enter the box and it's done.
I'll try quickly to explain the picture above. On the top side of the box is the old SERVER motherboard - now EPIMETHEUS. It's an ECS K7S5A (piece of crap). I'm not quite sure what processor is in it now - but it can't be any faster than an AMD 1600+. It has 512 MB of RAM and you can see the ATI Radeon 7000 graphics card and on-board LAN. The connectors for the keyboard, video and mouse come from my KVM switch, so I can play around with it all from one central keyboard, video and mouse (which also controls ARION and BEHEMOTH). The ECS motherboard is powered by the PSU on the right (as you can see that it's plugged in). Below the PSU on the right is a 20GB Maxtor HD that controls the motherboard on the bottom - an ASUS - which came from the MAME computer - now known as PROMETHEUS. It is running a AMD Duron 850 with 512MB of RAM. This computer is idle for the time being since Greg has my other graphics card which will provide the video for the ASUS. The ASUS motherboard is powered by the PSU on the left. Below the PSU on the left is the hard drive (30GB Maxtor) for the ECS on the top. It has a hard drive cooler attached which provides just a little extra cooling - I really wish I would have put a cooler on the other Maxtor, but it's too late now (or maybe not, but we'll see tomorrow).
As you can see, everything is held in place with zip ties. Every cable, every motherboard, every power supply, every fan. It looks great! (I love zip ties)
What you can't see is a new addition to the box - where the handles would be, I've enlarged the holes and added two Vantec Silent fans. One pulling air in and the other pushing it out on the other side. Should create a good amount of airflow in an otherwise cramped box.
And, since I had to get the picture for Pandora's Box off the camera, I also got pictures of the insides of ARION. So here you go:
I tried my best to keep the cables together out of the way (thanks, zip ties) and the power cables as hidden as possible. We've got 2 120mm fans (one in the front out of sight) pushing air through the case and this picture is before the installation of my Thermalright XP90, so there's only a stock heatsink on the AMD Athlon XP64 3700+. There is one optical drive (a BenQ DVD+-RW that you can't see in the top picture) and one FDD - a Western Digital Raptor 74GB drive. Video is provided via the eVGA 6600 GT card in the PCIe slot.
In the second picture, you can see the Antec NeoPower 480 power supply and the BenQ drive. Most of my cables are stored up there because the main concern for air flow is at the bottom - over the hard drive and up and over the CPU and the video card.
Feel free to leave any questions or comments below!
Quick update 1:00am - EPIMETHEUS continues to fold without problems. PROMETHEUS could be plugged in, however, my switch is maxed out, so I need to visit Fry's tomorrow to see if I can either a) buy two cheap wireless cards for the computers or b) buy a cheap switch for the computers. I'm leaning towards the wireless card option since that would enable me to drop Pandora's box wherever there is power rather than having to drop it where there is power AND a wired internet connection. However, it would be cool to mount the switch inside the box and run the cables internally with just one cable reaching out of the box for an internet connection (it'd also be cheaper to go the switch route as well).
URL: Folding@Home Distributed Computing
Above you can see Pandora's Box - almost completed. All it needs now is the top to be put on. I've got two cool fan grills that came off the original BEHEMOTH computer (from a very long time ago) that will look great on the top of the box where the two openings will be for the PSU fans. Then, we just need two holes for the power to enter the box and it's done.
I'll try quickly to explain the picture above. On the top side of the box is the old SERVER motherboard - now EPIMETHEUS. It's an ECS K7S5A (piece of crap). I'm not quite sure what processor is in it now - but it can't be any faster than an AMD 1600+. It has 512 MB of RAM and you can see the ATI Radeon 7000 graphics card and on-board LAN. The connectors for the keyboard, video and mouse come from my KVM switch, so I can play around with it all from one central keyboard, video and mouse (which also controls ARION and BEHEMOTH). The ECS motherboard is powered by the PSU on the right (as you can see that it's plugged in). Below the PSU on the right is a 20GB Maxtor HD that controls the motherboard on the bottom - an ASUS - which came from the MAME computer - now known as PROMETHEUS. It is running a AMD Duron 850 with 512MB of RAM. This computer is idle for the time being since Greg has my other graphics card which will provide the video for the ASUS. The ASUS motherboard is powered by the PSU on the left. Below the PSU on the left is the hard drive (30GB Maxtor) for the ECS on the top. It has a hard drive cooler attached which provides just a little extra cooling - I really wish I would have put a cooler on the other Maxtor, but it's too late now (or maybe not, but we'll see tomorrow).
As you can see, everything is held in place with zip ties. Every cable, every motherboard, every power supply, every fan. It looks great! (I love zip ties)
What you can't see is a new addition to the box - where the handles would be, I've enlarged the holes and added two Vantec Silent fans. One pulling air in and the other pushing it out on the other side. Should create a good amount of airflow in an otherwise cramped box.
And, since I had to get the picture for Pandora's Box off the camera, I also got pictures of the insides of ARION. So here you go:
I tried my best to keep the cables together out of the way (thanks, zip ties) and the power cables as hidden as possible. We've got 2 120mm fans (one in the front out of sight) pushing air through the case and this picture is before the installation of my Thermalright XP90, so there's only a stock heatsink on the AMD Athlon XP64 3700+. There is one optical drive (a BenQ DVD+-RW that you can't see in the top picture) and one FDD - a Western Digital Raptor 74GB drive. Video is provided via the eVGA 6600 GT card in the PCIe slot.
In the second picture, you can see the Antec NeoPower 480 power supply and the BenQ drive. Most of my cables are stored up there because the main concern for air flow is at the bottom - over the hard drive and up and over the CPU and the video card.
Feel free to leave any questions or comments below!
Quick update 1:00am - EPIMETHEUS continues to fold without problems. PROMETHEUS could be plugged in, however, my switch is maxed out, so I need to visit Fry's tomorrow to see if I can either a) buy two cheap wireless cards for the computers or b) buy a cheap switch for the computers. I'm leaning towards the wireless card option since that would enable me to drop Pandora's box wherever there is power rather than having to drop it where there is power AND a wired internet connection. However, it would be cool to mount the switch inside the box and run the cables internally with just one cable reaching out of the box for an internet connection (it'd also be cheaper to go the switch route as well).
URL: Folding@Home Distributed Computing
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