smicha wrote:I am impressed with the chiller and the temperature results. As a 'silence searcher' I see it perfect if only I could place the chiller in another room. Tutor, are you saying you'll go with this solution?
Smitcha,
What I should have said more clearly is that I haven't given up on my getting my mini-freezer to replicate on my H2O loop the success of the chiller that Glimpse referenced. Right now, that particular chiller in Glimpse's pic is just to expensive in the model of it that I'd need to cool 14 GPU processors.
Glimpse,
On a different, but somewhat related, note, the two Tyan 8xGPU Servers that I have are the old Intel 1366 dual CPU models. Since they have been EOLed, there will not be any further bios developments for them. I'm running the last bios that those systems will have. The person who I recent spoke with at Tyan indicated that those systems, in fact, do have an 8 GPU processor limit and pointed out that those systems were meant to use then Tesla cards, most of which didn't even have display capability and dual processors when these systems were released. GTX video cards usually use more IO space than Tesla cards and even getting 8 GTX cards to work properly might not work and, of course and as I'd already read that, the successor Tyan 2011 dual CPU/8 GPU chassis has a version that's specifically designed to run 8 GTX cards and there's another version for Tesla cards. In sum, running 8 of my 780 Ti ACX SC OCs in my Tyan causes 4 of my 18 ram sticks to be disabled. That reminded me of Amfeltecs caution to users of their external chassis -
"To be able support 7-8 GPUs on the general purpose motherboard sometimes requested disable extra peripherals to free up more IO space for GPUs." Apparently, the GTX 780 TI ACX SC OC is a IO space hog by comparison to the other GTXs, because I can run 8 original Titans, 4 Titan Zs, 8 GTX 780 6G, etc. in my Tyans without experiencing any memory/IO space issues. Thus,
at most, I can run 8 GPU cards each with a single processor in one of my Tyans, or 4 dual processor GTX GPU cards in either of them, or other permutations/combinations that add up to 8 or fewer GPU processors. That's it. However, with 4xGTX Titan Zs there, I end up with 4 empty slots. Trying to operate my Tyans by filling those 4 empty slots with other PCIe cards such as for SATA, SSDs etc. isn't even an option because the system will not boot with them installed because of IO space limits. To make a long story a bit shorter, I'm contemplating just installing the eight GTX cards (that together have 14 GPUs and that I'd originally planned to be in one system, i.e., 6XGTXTitan Z's, 1xGTX Titans, and 1xGTX Titan Black) into two other systems (and only put single processor GPU cards in both of my Tyans) so that no PCIe slot space goes wasted in either of them. I plan to use my water cooling system to cool both of those systems' GPUs. In other words - with the GPUs I'd originally planned be installed and water-cooled in one Tyan system, I'll split them up into 2 groups and water-cool them in 2 Gigabyte-UP4 systems.
P.S. Glimpse, I also realized that my water flow rate was to high using the Tyan because of its fan controller settings. Thus, Mr. Freeze(r) didn't have the opportunity to cool the water sufficiently. By moving the GPUs to my Gigabyte-UP4 systems, I expect that I'll be better able to adequately lower the flow rate and, thus, the cooling of the water.
Because I have 180+ GPU processers in 16 tweaked/multiOS systems - Character limit prevents detailed stats.
