OK -- I finally finished it yesterday. I'm not a web guy -- I
handle the equipment, not the content -- so I just threw some images
up in my space. I'll make a detailed page... eventually. I need
some practice with the digital camera and a room with some light, and
some time to poke around with HTML. (The default page that's there
was done by a friend about 10 or 11 years ago, to try to force me to
put up something of my own. I've been too lazy to change it -- as I
said, it's only been 10 years.)
Some of these are pretty large, and the DSL's pretty slow upstream.
The last two are the finished product.
http://www.redsword.com/pfry/junipers-before-1.jpg
http://www.redsword.com/pfry/junipers-before-2.jpg
http://www.redsword.com/pfry/stock-ssg550-open-1.jpg
http://www.redsword.com/pfry/ssg550-mb-detail-1.jpg
http://www.redsword.com/pfry/swiftech-installed.jpg
http://www.redsword.com/pfry/ssg550-done-af-lid-off-1.jpg
http://www.redsword.com/pfry/ssg550-done-lid-on-1.jpg
Now it's a bit more than 2U. I'm a bit disappointed with its
performance -- space constraints and Juniper's odd decision to use
3.125" centers rather than (Intel Socket T standard) 72mm limited my
choice of heat sink somewhat (it's a Swiftech MCX603-V adapted to the
Juniper's mounting hardware), and the power supply is the source of a
surprising amount of noise and vibration. Even so, the system
performs well enough:
SSG550-> get chassis
Chassis Environment:
Power Supply: Good
CPU Temperature: 123'F ( 51'C)
System Temperature: 80'F ( 27'C)
[...]
...and it's not as though I expected the Rotron Major to be quiet
when pulling through a restrictive filter in any case. (The knob in
the corner is the speed control; I limited the range somewhat so
curious folks can't cut the fan speed too much.) So it's a qualified
success: It equals stock cooling performance at a minimum, it's
quieter, and it cleans the whole room while remaining sparkly clean
inside (no joke). Oh -- as a baseline, the room A/C thinks the
ambient temperature is 78F, while my APC UPS environmental monitor
thinks it's 86F; the reality seems to be somewhere in between.
Y'all have to admit -- it looks pretty silly. Now I need to get
off my backside and put this up in place of my old 7140.
Peter E. Fry
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