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#467063 - 04/27/06 08:53 AM super sawtooth [Re: Anonymous]
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Registered: 11/16/07
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It's been a while but I want to share on a mod i've been working on. I have came across some sawtooth parts. Enough to build a whole system but with no case. Heres the sepcs.

G4 450MHz
640MB RAM
16MB vRam ATI Rage
20GB Hard Drive
16x DVD Drive

My mod is to build a custom case and house two sawtooths in it. Since I own the caseless one and another one that is a complete system I'm going to build a mini beowulf cluster. Heres the specs for my other sawtooth.

400MHz
1.25GB RAM
120GB Hard drive
Pioneer super drive
Zip 100
Jaz tape drive.

The plan on having both systems in one case will be simple. It will be the same size in height but twice the width of a standard case. Each side panel will be access able to each system. Since the case will be custom built by your's trully I can add water cooling. I've found a lot of info on building a home made water cooling system as well so I can build a nice water tank for it out of plexi glass or metal. Also I have a lot of extra silicon vacuum hoses left over from my corolla engine rebuild so i'll have plenty of hoses to go about the case for the CPUs, HDs, and Video cards. The pump can be easy done with a fish tank pump with a little moding. Also to complete the water cooler I have a extra oil cooler from my car project that will work perfect for a raiditor. Who says you can't use car parts for a computer lol. Just now thinking of this I may have to make the case a full tower to beable to house all of the water cooling gear. Thing is i'll have to have two pumps. One to pump water from the tank to get things moving and one for the raiditor to keep it flowing nicely. Maybe three in all, two for the tank to pump water to each system and one for the raiditor. This will be a trial and error test.

Also i'm planing to add a small RAID to the server for file server use and backing up files. Also a 5Port USB 2.0 card for all of my USB devices. The server will run Mac OS X Tiger for sure. I might try out Pooch for this or just build the cluster part from source that most people use for BSD and Linux. I'll keep up with the updates and I go along. Wish me luck.
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#467064 - 04/27/06 10:57 AM super sawtooth [Re: Anonymous]
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Don't forget Xgrid.

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#467065 - 05/06/06 08:20 PM super sawtooth [Re: Anonymous]
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I have almost completly changed the idea for this mod. I was putting on some bondo on my car not too long ago and it gave me a killer idea. Why not use it for a computer case? I tryed using fiber glass in the past and it never came out to the way I wanted it so im going to use bondo. I don't want to go into much detail on this because I want to save it for the next Mod Challenge. All I can say is it will have pretty much the same stuff that I listed before but the case will be the best part and it will be nothing like you guys have thought of yet.
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#467066 - 05/06/06 11:34 PM super sawtooth [Re: Anonymous]
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Posts: 517
Server, eh? You may find this interesting:

http://chris.tandiono.googlepages.com/upgradetomacosx10.4.6server

Cheers!

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#467067 - 05/07/06 11:42 AM super sawtooth [Re: Anonymous]
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Sweet, thanks man. I owe you one.
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