Hello everyone!
The folding section is a bit slow of late and to spruce up some interest before the Forum Folding War I thought I'd make a thread dedicated to everyone showing off pictures of their folding gear.
So lets see what you have! Or have had in the past...pictures of older or "Retro" folding rigs are highly encouraged! Depending on the amount of attention this gets I may categorize the results but I'll try not to get ahead of myself...
I'll start. Here is a picture from when the Nvidia 400 series was in its infancy. Despite their energy inefficiency they were the cards to have for folding. GTX 460s pulled 15k ppd (until stanford nerfed the WUs). Naturally I decided to cobble together a folding rig composed of the most least energy efficient hardware at the time. Three GTX 465s one 9800GX2, and an AMD 1055T.
The whole rig was like a hand dryer and pulled a whopping 1100watts from the wall. Also note the awesome dummy plugs!
Check out that improvisation with the stock heat sink...
Don't have a fan mount? It's all good. Coffee cup works too.
Custom painted HAF 922 in Clear Red Glass paint color. Thats right you can see the brushed steel through the paint. (See log here)
AMD 1090T @ Stock
Asus Crosshair V Formula Z Motherboard
16GB GSkill Ripjaws X RAM 9-9-9-24
1xSapphire VaporX HD7950 @ Stock
Used for Foldathons and former Captain of the now retired Royal Navy Folding Team. Mised the last 2 Foldathons due to internet issues in September and moving to Ohio from Michigan in October.
Mine? No, it's an AMD reference 7950 board with R9280 BIOS and PCS cooler on it. I want a water block for it, or new GPU with a water block already on it to add to my loop.
And since I forgot to add proper pics which describe why you could laugh at my rig:
I'm using a plastic T for the my drain port, which is a long piece of tubing (don't worry, I've clamped them - photos were taken soon after filling of the loop and leak testing)
the drain tube is held in place because it is jammed between my hard drive cage and the middle horizontal bar of the frame;
drive cage is free-floating because the res does not allow for it to be mounted, I will have to rearrange my loop at some point. Until then - zip ties it is;
I need more fans. Currently, out of the four rads, top RX360s have 2 fans each, the bottom RS360 has two fans (which are not even Vardars), and the vertically mounted 120mm is passive. I have a CM high-flow fan lying on top of my videocards to take care of the VRMs, but I can't mount the 200mm fan in front because of the res mount.
I had plans to connect the top rads to each other via 2 90o fittings, but it would complicate my loop order a lot more, so I've given up on it until I switch to acrylic tubing.
It turned out that the pump top's mounting bracket has a bit of non-standard hole spacing, so I can't mount it the way I wanted to - at the front. I assumed it had the same cutout as a 120mm. I'll have to fabricate an adapter plate at some point in time.
And since I forgot to add proper pics which describe why you could laugh at my rig:
I'm using a plastic T for the my drain port, which is a long piece of tubing (don't worry, I've clamped them - photos were taken soon after filling of the loop and leak testing)
the drain tube is held in place because it is jammed between my hard drive cage and the middle horizontal bar of the frame;
drive cage is free-floating because the res does not allow for it to be mounted, I will have to rearrange my loop at some point. Until then - zip ties it is;
I need more fans. Currently, out of the four rads, top RX360s have 2 fans each, the bottom RS360 has two fans (which are not even Vardars), and the vertically mounted 120mm is passive. I have a CM high-flow fan lying on top of my videocards to take care of the VRMs, but I can't mount the 200mm fan in front because of the res mount.
I had plans to connect the top rads to each other via 2 90o fittings, but it would complicate my loop order a lot more, so I've given up on it until I switch to acrylic tubing.
It turned out that the pump top's mounting bracket has a bit of non-standard hole spacing, so I can't mount it the way I wanted to - at the front. I assumed it had the same cutout as a 120mm. I'll have to fabricate an adapter plate at some point in time.
I once used a funnel for a reservoir and zip tied a smaller piece of tubing inside a larger piece of tubing to make one big long piece of tubing that could reach my funnel res. I have a picture somewhere...
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