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That only has 32GB of ram? It would have been SO much better with 33!
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It's surprisingly quiet. Honestly thought it was going to end up sounding like a spaceship taking off when I fired it up. It's nice to be able to put everything on ultra though. Rogue Trader was stuttering in any sort of cutscene, but now it's smooth as silk. I just didn't realize how old and outdated my other computer was, but it's definitely a night and day difference.
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Or the USR 56K Sportster with X2 tech, what a beast!
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This is the “trap” I fall into, start to do an incremental upgrade and then figure I might as well do a whole build because either the wife or the kid could use a hand me down upgrade or we need a media PC for one of our half dozen TVs.
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We're replacing our server with just a big PC, because we no longer do any of the shit the server originally did, and now it is pretty much just a big fileserver.
Long story short, my boss is so excited about how much less it will cost for this vs. what we've paid on actual servers in the past. So he let me go overboard ($400) on the case, even though we don't close to needing it, even if we increased our disk usage by a factor of 100. Fuck it, it isn't in a climate controlled room like it should be, so I wanted as many fans as possible.
So I got a Thermaltake AX700, which is fucking huge. You can see the specs here: AX700 Super Tower Chassis
It is the one with glass on one side. I didn't want it, but the other one was several weeks backordered. Anyway, I bought all the fucking fans in the world, and now I'm trying to decide which direction to point them all. Here is a diagram of where they all can go. The top is going to be the CPU water-cooler radiator, so scratch those. All fans are 140mm too.
From looking at the case, it appears that the two on the bottom will not be in the power supply area, so despite my misgivings about pulling in dust (it has dust covers at least), I think those should pull into the case. Front obviously pulls in. Back will exhaust, as will the radiator on top. That leaves the side fans (remember, one side is glass so they will all be on one side). If I have them all exhaust, is that too much? By my count, before the side fans and not counting the PSU in/out, I'll have 5 in (3 front, 2 bottom) and 4 out (3 top, 1 rear).
If I have all 8 side fans exhaust (or intake for that matter), isn't my airflow imbalanced? I mean, I got a degree in Aeronautical Engineering about a century ago, so I'm not completely unfamiliar with this shit, but I don't think splitting the side fans is smart either. Seems like I might get a lot of turbulent flow, which is bad. But if I make all 8 the same, I feel like having them exhaust is safer than having them intake? Or am I wrong?
What would you guys suggest? Besides "don't use all the fans, dumbass!" I bought them, I'm gonna use them! Besides, even 4 on the side still puts the balance way out of whack, just not as much as 8.
Long story short, my boss is so excited about how much less it will cost for this vs. what we've paid on actual servers in the past. So he let me go overboard ($400) on the case, even though we don't close to needing it, even if we increased our disk usage by a factor of 100. Fuck it, it isn't in a climate controlled room like it should be, so I wanted as many fans as possible.
So I got a Thermaltake AX700, which is fucking huge. You can see the specs here: AX700 Super Tower Chassis
It is the one with glass on one side. I didn't want it, but the other one was several weeks backordered. Anyway, I bought all the fucking fans in the world, and now I'm trying to decide which direction to point them all. Here is a diagram of where they all can go. The top is going to be the CPU water-cooler radiator, so scratch those. All fans are 140mm too.
From looking at the case, it appears that the two on the bottom will not be in the power supply area, so despite my misgivings about pulling in dust (it has dust covers at least), I think those should pull into the case. Front obviously pulls in. Back will exhaust, as will the radiator on top. That leaves the side fans (remember, one side is glass so they will all be on one side). If I have them all exhaust, is that too much? By my count, before the side fans and not counting the PSU in/out, I'll have 5 in (3 front, 2 bottom) and 4 out (3 top, 1 rear).
If I have all 8 side fans exhaust (or intake for that matter), isn't my airflow imbalanced? I mean, I got a degree in Aeronautical Engineering about a century ago, so I'm not completely unfamiliar with this shit, but I don't think splitting the side fans is smart either. Seems like I might get a lot of turbulent flow, which is bad. But if I make all 8 the same, I feel like having them exhaust is safer than having them intake? Or am I wrong?
What would you guys suggest? Besides "don't use all the fans, dumbass!" I bought them, I'm gonna use them! Besides, even 4 on the side still puts the balance way out of whack, just not as much as 8.
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i have a tt500 so the design is the same
as in, it's kinda shit w/ the "possibilities" of cooling but not really
first off, youre not going to use the bottom 2 fans, i mean you might? but you will have to sacrifice at least 2 hdd trays, (so why bother buying such a huge case)
also the 8 fans on the side? half are worthless b/c 4 will not be pulling any air b/c it will be directly behind the motherboard. (which is also where they will put 4 slots for ssds)