It serves a dual purpose too, as
it’s also connected to an UnRAID
boot drive.
The machine has two different
setups to boot – one regular one
using all the hardware, and the
second via UnRAID has two virtual
machines (each one is separated
into ten cores, 16GB of memory
and a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti each).
It’s quite complex, and there was
quite a bit of trial and error involved
in getting it to work this way.
However, it means I can boot up
a separate mode that allows two
gamers to play on the one rig.Where did you get the Keanu
Reeves model?
Richi: This was probably the
cheapest product in the whole setup- it was £22 on Amazon – a bargain if
you ask me.
There are some substantial
curves in the tubing down the
bottom. What tubing did you use,
and how did you cut and bend it?
Richi: It’s 14mm Bitspower Crystal
Link Tube, and I’m probably going
to upset a few people now, butmy bending tools just involve a
hacksaw, a tube insert, a reamer,
some sandpaper, a heat gun
and some Mayhems silicon cord
bending spray – no mandrels
are needed.
With acrylic, I like to heat a
substantial amount of the tube,
then I bend it, lay it flat on a
clean surface and do any minor
adjustment while it cools. I work
by sight with my bends and don’t
measure, say, the curves at the
bottom. I start with a bigger piece
than I need, get the bend as tight
as possible, then cut it down before
finishing it off with a reamer and
sandpaper. Good-quality tubing is
the key to getting good curves.The magenta and cyan
lighting really helps this machine
to stand out. How did you plan the
lighting setup in the PC?
Richi: I just wanted a whole
dystopian feel inside the rig, and
blues, reds and magenta are at
the forefront of that style, so it
was a natural choice. The GPU
waterblock’s lights, as well as
the upper and case lights, are allMODDING / READERS’ DRIVES
SYSTEM SPECS
CPU Intel Xeon W3275
Case Lian Li PC011 Dynamic XL
with Razer Chroma, Gigabyte
Fusion and Philips Hue lighting
GPU 2 x Gigabyte Gaming OC
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, 1 x Gigabyte
Gaming GeForce GTX 1650 Super
Storage 2 x 2TB Kioxia Excercia
Plus NVMe SSD RAID array in
U.2 enclosure, 2 x 960GB 2TB
Kioxia Excercia SATA SSDs,
2 x 240GB Kioxia Excercia
SATA SSDs in RAID array
Memory 6 x 8GB (48GB
total) G.Skill Trident Royal
3200MHz 14-14-14-34
Motherboard Gigabyte
C621 Aorus Xtreme
PSU 2 x Seasonic Prime
Platinum Modular PSU
Cooling Bitspower D5 pump
with Crystal Clear Reservoir,
Bitspower Summit LGA3647 CPU
waterblock, Bitspower Gigabyte
C621 Aorus Xtreme Mos Block,
Bitspower Lateral VGA waterblock
for Nvidia, 2 x Bitspower 360mm
Slim Radiators, 1 x Bitspower
240mm Slim Radiator, Bitspower
14mm Carbon Black Fittings,
Bitspower 14mm Crystal Link
tube, 9 x 120mm Lian Li UNI fans