Summer is arriving and the morning and midday sun hits my little workshop of horrors so hard that I had to activate the jank to keep my Tesla V100 from hitting the thermal limit.
My damn near 15 year windows installation got corrupted this weekend, and I'm sad about it. To clarify, I bought W7 Pro in 2012. Did a hardware upgrade in 2013 with a new motherboard and CPU. Took the free W10 upgrade in 2015. Cloned it later that year to a new drive. Cloned it again in 2018 to another new drive complete with a new motherboard and CPU. Did the W11 upgrade. In 2023 I again upgraded to a new motherboard and CPU. 2024 I cloned it AGAIN onto a larger drive. Then finally over the weekend I transferred the drive to a rebuild of the previous hardware while the current hardware is getting the water cooling treatment, and....boot files are corrupted. Could boot into safe mode, but couldn't repair and rebuild the bootloader. Had to reset windows. I'm a bit miffed because that was a fantastic run on a fresh windows installation from 2012 spanning multiple hardware upgrades, OS upgrades, and drive clonings. Sad it had to go that way.
A bit of a blessing in disguise. I've had a bootable USB with SteamOS sitting there for a while and maybe it's time to say farewell to Windows.
Actually pretty proud of this little guy. I've been a semi regular contributor to various distributed computing projects, and I've always wanted a 1/2 decent dedicated compute PC, and here we are. Fully liquid cooled using left over parts I bought to test fit from my long running Node 202 case project (which I will actually finish one day). This is probably the least jank liquid cooled PC I've ever put together. The only incomplete aspect is I'm missing two of the fasteners for the Barrow pump. Where they went I have no idea, but it doesn't leak so I'm happy. Thermal performance could be better, I might need to fanagle some intake fans on the bottom. Also, everything apart from the RAM, SSD, case, Wi-Fi card, and PSU are from AliExpress. The specs are as follows:
I3 8100 CPU, Nvidia Tesla V100 16GB SXM2 on a PCIe adapter card, Asus Z370 MB, 16GB DDR4 memory, be quiet! 650w PSU, random 120mm case fans. Cooling is handled with a Barrow pump/block combo, random AliExpress water block for the v100, fittings are a mix of Barrow and Bykski, radiator is a 30mm thick 240mm dohickey from Freezemod. The reservoir is also from Freezemod, no idea about it's capacity. Tubing is standard 10mm ID automotive silicone, with my tried and true 20/80 mix of antifreeze and demineralised water.
This is a light build up of ice on a car. This happens when the outside air temperature goes below freezing and there is little to no wind.
National pizza chain prints an Ouija board on all their boxes for multiple decades. No reports of demonic shenanigans in New Zealand. I guess demons don't want to be my friend 🙁