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Beta Orionis

Beta Orionis – Part XV: Follow-up with Koolance blocks

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’m a little conflicted. Earlier I posted about a rather interesting temperature differential I was experiencing with the Koolance VID-NX680 blocks I had ...

Rack mount HDD enclosure

Rack mount hard drive enclosure project

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ve been looking around for a rack mount hard drive solution that meets certain requirements: 4×3.5″ hard drives No built-in RAID controller O...

Projects/Technology

Ramble about rack mount and other project ideas

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Projects are one thing that kind of keep me rolling — thank you to my father and grandfather for the genetic circuitry keeping that rolling. It’s wh...

Beta Orionis

Beta Orionis – Part XIV

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

It’s still on the heart lung machine. The replacement AX860 I received is exhibiting the same problem as before under load. Initially it was fine for a co...

Beta Orionis

Beta Orionis – Part XIII

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I remounted the Koolance water block, but the temperature differential still continues. Now when originally running Unigine’s benchmarking tools after put...

Beta Orionis

Beta Orionis – Part XII

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The system is back on the heart-lung machine, unfortunately. The AX860 stopped being able to handle any kind of power load for some reason, so it’s going ...

Beta Orionis

Beta Orionis – Part XI

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 2 Comments

Since the last incarnation in this series, the loop is done. Mostly. I’ll fill in that detail in a little bit. For now let’s talk building this out,...

Beta Orionis

Beta Orionis – Part X

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Building finally begins! As I mentioned the tubing straightener shipped on October 31. It arrived November 4, so that was pretty quick, certainly sooner than I ...

Beta Orionis

Beta Orionis – Part IX

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Courtesy of a train that was going through the western district of KC that includes Kemper Arena, I barely made it to UPS on time to pick up the package. When I...

First water cooled build

Follow-up on AquaTuning

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

It has been a while since I’ve written about the situation I’ve had with AquaTuning and the concern with regard to the CPU block catastrophe. I̵...

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