Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build
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Why : just because!!
This was originally going to be a Win 10 build (now Win 10 will run as a vm.)
MB: SuperMicro X9DA7
NVMe SSD: Samsung EVO 960: 1 x 500GB, 1x 1TB
M.2 module: Amfeltec Gen 3 Carrier Board
CPU: 2x Xeon E5-26xx
RAM: 128GB DDR3
GPU: Gigabyte GTX1080Ti Founders Edition
LCD: 2x Dell 3007WFP (2560 x 1600) + 1x Dell U2415 (1920 x 1200)
Networking: Mellanox ConnectX-3 dual NIC
Water block parts: EKWB & Koolance
Case: Silverstone Temjin TJ11 -
Testing for water leaks.
The pump has been running for an hour, so far, no leaks. -
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Nifty.
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Why water rather than actual coolant?
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Need to clean up the cabling....
On Monday, I'll order some custom cables from Mod-One
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@DustinB3403 said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
Why water rather than actual coolant?
My guess, since coolant can be toxic, this stuff is preferred, 'coz it's mainly distilled water, additives & coloring
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@FATeknollogee said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
@DustinB3403 said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
Why water rather than actual coolant?
My guess, since coolant can be toxic, this stuff is preferred, 'coz it's mainly distilled water, additives & coloring
Can be if you consume it.... assuming you aren't a pet or child I would think it safe enough.
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@FATeknollogee said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
@DustinB3403 said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
Why water rather than actual coolant?
My guess, since coolant can be toxic, this stuff is preferred, 'coz it's mainly distilled water, additives & coloring
If you're not going to use coolant you really need to put a silver kill coil in your reservoir to prevent algae growth. Both coolant or distilled water with a kill coil work fine, but you really need to pick one or you will end up with a ton more maintenance and possibly nasty parts.
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Nice looking machine. Those are some serious specs!
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Nice build! Definitely looks like a fun system to have.
But seems like a whole lot of video horse power to be a Linux main OS... at least for gaming. You planning on doing a ton of video editing on Linux or have you made sure you'll get the most out of your card on Korora? What will you be doing that will even consume that amount of ram? Running a lot of VMs simultaneously? Are you using some of it as a cache? Big personal SQL instance for something?
I too had high hopes of running Korora as my main OS on my personal computer. Take a wild guess on what happened with that. Yeah, forced to dual boot... and with Fedora 26, which is the only distribution I could get working enough to keep it powered on.
I wasn't able to get the mouse pointer fully working with-in a game inside of a VM. It worked fine until I would hold the mouse button down and move the mouse to look around. Other than that, the mouse worked fine as far as pointing and clicking in a game.
Also, gaming inside a VM was done on Hyper-V... not KVM or from a Linux host. Maybe you'll have better luck that way. Please do let me know!
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@EddieJennings @scottalanmiller @Tim_G Thanks for the compliments!
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@Tim_G said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
Nice build! Definitely looks like a fun system to have.
But seems like a whole lot of video horse power to be a Linux main OS...Please do let me know!
I had planned to build this (and purchased most of the parts) 3/4 years ago, hence the SM X9 board.
Back then, I was 100% Windows with zero Linux knowledge & I hadn't been contaminated by the folks here at ML
Since I still need Windows, like you, I've decided to flip the script (I read & used your laptop thread) & run W10 as a vm.I'm hoping between Korora 25/Fedora 26/Korora 26 (when available), one of them should work out.
I do plan on editing videos...my daughter plays club volleyball & I shoot her games in 4K.
What is the preferred video editing software?
Will also run plenty of vms...I need to practice & get better at using "Linux" -
@FATeknollogee said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
@Tim_G said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
Nice build! Definitely looks like a fun system to have.
But seems like a whole lot of video horse power to be a Linux main OS...Please do let me know!
I had planned to build this (and purchased most of the parts) 3/4 years ago, hence the SM X9 board.
Back then, I was 100% Windows with zero Linux knowledge & I hadn't been contaminated by the folks here at ML
Since I still need Windows, like you, I've decided to flip the script (I read & used your laptop thread) & run W10 as a vm.I'm hoping between Korora 25/Fedora 26/Korora 26 (when available), one of them should work out.
I do plan on editing videos...my daughter plays club volleyball & I shoot her games in 4K.
What is the preferred video editing software?
Will also run plenty of vms...I need to practice & get better at using "Linux"Lightworks. But, give this thread a read. It gives a breakdown on some other really nice installs.
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@BBigford Thx, will check it out.
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@Tim_G said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
Also, gaming inside a VM was done on Hyper-V... not KVM or from a Linux host. Maybe you'll have better luck that way. Please do let me know!
KVM and Xen can both do it via PCI passthrough. You will just need another dedicated video card (onboard motherboard card?) for the Linux graphical systems.
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@BBigford Lightworks and Openshot are the two I see talked about mostly. Lightworks is supposed to be very very good, top of the line video editing software. Openshot is from what I saw, and I have used Openshot, a good basic video editor, however in Korora I had it crash on me enough that I went to Lightworks.
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@coliver said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
@Tim_G said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
Also, gaming inside a VM was done on Hyper-V... not KVM or from a Linux host. Maybe you'll have better luck that way. Please do let me know!
KVM and Xen can both do it via PCI passthrough. You will just need another dedicated video card (onboard motherboard card?) for the Linux graphical systems.
Yeah I was hoping for something similar to RemoteFX in Hyper-V. I haven't looked into it at all, like zero. SO for all I know there's something better a mouse click away on KVM.
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@Tim_G said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
@coliver said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
@Tim_G said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
Also, gaming inside a VM was done on Hyper-V... not KVM or from a Linux host. Maybe you'll have better luck that way. Please do let me know!
KVM and Xen can both do it via PCI passthrough. You will just need another dedicated video card (onboard motherboard card?) for the Linux graphical systems.
Yeah I was hoping for something similar to RemoteFX in Hyper-V. I haven't looked into it at all, like zero. SO for all I know there's something better a mouse click away on KVM.
I don't think anything on KVM / Xen competes with RemoteFX.
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@scottalanmiller said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
@Tim_G said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
@coliver said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
@Tim_G said in Korora 25 Cinnamon: watercooled workstation build:
Also, gaming inside a VM was done on Hyper-V... not KVM or from a Linux host. Maybe you'll have better luck that way. Please do let me know!
KVM and Xen can both do it via PCI passthrough. You will just need another dedicated video card (onboard motherboard card?) for the Linux graphical systems.
Yeah I was hoping for something similar to RemoteFX in Hyper-V. I haven't looked into it at all, like zero. SO for all I know there's something better a mouse click away on KVM.
I don't think anything on KVM / Xen competes with RemoteFX.
Nothing that I'm aware of. RemoteFX send to be much more vdi oriented.
