[airspirit]

If I could setup my dream WC system, I would buy a server rack and a stack of 4U cases (since I am pretending I am rich and ultra-competent, I made them all from acrylic and chrome). I'd take all of my machines apart and install them in these cases and stack them in. I would use one NPU2400 to power the four machines in parallel (1" threaded, must be submerged due to extreme power consumption, but pumps 1100 gallons per hour at 12 feet of head). At the bottom of my rack I would use 8U of space and make a custom acrylic box that would contain four BIX2s (the double sized BIXs) and a big water tank/res holding my pump. The pump would pump up through the tubing to the four machines, each containing a Cuplex WB from aqua-computer.de and one of their twinplex chipset blocks (for no reason other than that they look sexy). The backside of the cases (after the block) would dump into a long section of 2" clear PVC pipe that would be mounted onto the side of the server rack. This would expand into a 4" clear holding tank at the bottom and would split off to the four rads from here (doing it this way would eliminate a ton of hosing and would look frickin' cool). To keep things simple, the chipset would be in series (after) the CPUs, and after the initial 1" section of hise coming directly from the pump, it would split off into 4x.5" tubing until it returned to the drain tube. The kicker would be that if I had the money to do this, I would also set up an AC unit that I would duct through the radiators (via 2x120mm Panaflo on each @12V, all on a potentiometer array, and the fans being powered by their own 300W PSU ... 8 Pflos @ 6V or so shouldn't be too loud, hehe ... not when ducted like this, at least), with the warmed air from the radiators in turn ducted through the back of each 4U case. The ducting would be ugly, so I would have to keep it in the back of the server rack. This would help prevent condensation, and since the air is being forcibly exhausted through the system, no fans should be needed in the 4U cases (besides the GPU fans which aren't loud anyway). This whole setup would have a nice dull roar, but would be one intimidating SOB. I would hook extensions to all the peripherals, and if I had the money to do this, I'd also have the money to design a room around it so that all the desks/workstations feeding off it would be facing it in a big square. I'd finish the thing off with a bumper sticker on the front in flaming red naming it the Geeky Tower of Moscow. In the end it would contain about 4-7 gallons of coolant, and would contain enough cathodes to be seen from space.

*pant* *pant*

Oh, and since everything is acrylic, I'd have to shield my house with lead sheets to prevent my humble toy from interfering with NORAD. Did I mention the dancing nudie girls that would be in the cage bolted onto the side ... ?