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Beta Orionis

Beta Orionis – Part XXII

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I wasn’t done with the mainboard yet. After the last segment, I started with preparing the EK Supremacy EVO block. The backplate was first, then I made th...

Colony West

No cabinet, yet…

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Not long after publishing the last part to this series, I decided to test whether I could get four graphics cards recognized through the USB plugs. The fourth c...

Beta Orionis

Beta Orionis – Part XXI

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Nothing like a holiday weekend to continue a build, especially since I’ve been putting this off for a lot longer than I originally anticipated. Okay I did...

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ASRock BTC Pro Kit

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

In building out a large project to put some spare hardware back into some kind of use, I purchased this as part of an experiment to connect graphics cards to an...

Server projects

Building a Minecraft server

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

As I mentioned in a previous article, I decided to co-opt the original game server to use for distributed computing projects. This will actually work out for th...

Colony West

Finalizing the graphics host

Posted on July 11, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

In a previous article I showed how I had the PCI-Express extenders going through USB panel mount extension cables, with the intention of finishing out that syst...

Colony West

Adding a GTX 680 and water cooling

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Time to finalize the X2 system and also do a little experimenting. I ordered a GTX 680 used through eBay as I wanted to test how well it’d work through th...

Colony West

More proof of concept

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The Colony West project continues… this time with more proof of concept on the ideas I have in mind. In this case it’s hooking up the graphics cards...

Colony West

Follow-up on ASRock BTC Pro and other options

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ll just say this up front: the ASRock PCI-E extender can be a little finnicky. For some reason, the GT 620 would stop being recognized by the BOINC clie...

Colony West

Adding the GT 620

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

In the previous article in the series on this project, I mentioned I had a spare GT 620. The card specifically is the Zotac GT 620 2GB. Unfortunately I couldn&#...

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