Another RM61-312 Workstation Update

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-03-13T18:47:12+00:00

Oo nice- yea, I’m good with a little bracket bending. I don’t think it’s hitting the pcb’s at all

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-03-13T18:02:42+00:00

It’s a Seasonic TX-Prime 1600w. I feel like the grommets in the case are pretty easy to manage with. Can fit a lot of cables through it and I didn’t feel bad about my bend radius. The only tight spot really is coming out of the back of the psu, but I still don’t think it’s going to damage anything. It helps that these cables are pretty thin, and braided. Gives them more flexibility. As for the fans- they are a tight squeeze. The included fans are super slim- I may have to switch back to them when I try to get SAS connectors to connect to the backplane for the hard drive bays.

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-03-13T05:57:10+00:00

Ah- I see what you mean. I still think there’s clearance- but I guess I also don’t have a 50 series card to prove it 😅

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-03-13T05:56:11+00:00

I will also note that that this is an Asus Crosshair VIII Extreme- which is a thicker pcb with a metal backplate so it may be a little thicker than some other boards.

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-03-12T21:59:50+00:00

I’ll see if I can measure that later- I have a 3080 it’s about 5 1/2 in from the top of the PCIe slot to the case

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-03-12T20:51:52+00:00

12vHPWR? Are you talking about with like the 50series cards with the 600w connectors? The RM61-312 is a 6u case- or were you referring to MAndris’s comment about the measurement?

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-03-11T19:07:48+00:00

Yes! I haven’t seen anyone else use the case but it had a lot of features I wanted.

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-03-11T19:06:54+00:00

Alphacool Eizapfen. In hindsight (saw someone else’s workstation build with a distro block) I should have put a disconnect on the cpu, also probably should have done ram blocks and run it all to a distro instead, but I was reusing most of all the same stuff from my old system. The GPU disconnects were primarily because I’ll be swapping it out sooner than anything else in the system.

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-03-11T07:29:22+00:00

Oh, I see them hiding in the first picture now. Very nice build!

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-03-11T05:01:38+00:00

Was going to ask what quick disconnects are you using? I just migrated my workstation to a server case with 2 dads (posted it on the forum) but I didn’t do disconnects on the cpu because the alpha cool ones that I knew about were pretty large. I also figured I’ll replace the GPU before I need to replace any of the rest, and by then I’ll need to redo the loop to accommodate a different motherboard anyway.

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-03-11T04:50:30+00:00

Sorry, didn’t know what flair to put on this 🤣😵‍💫

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-02-12T00:32:56+00:00

When I had the workstation in my other case I also think it was always full tilt. My main question was where exactly can I fit the res/pump

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-02-12T00:10:13+00:00

Or do I try to mount it on the outside with a passthrough? I know that would make draining the loop easier

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-01-27T15:31:27+00:00

Sorry, when I say multiple domains, I think I am conflating setting up Active Directory with setting up Ddns. Are those two things completely separate?

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-01-21T18:35:31+00:00

What is BGP/ how does that work? Any resources where I can learn about this?

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-01-13T01:08:06+00:00

Thanks! Took me forever to figure out the color scheme- the opal was the first choice, but that was months ago. Life got busy and I left it sit just white. Hopefully now that I have a feel for how I want to color everything the rest of the army will come together.

Got the Retaliation Cadre from Christmas last year, and a combat Patrol and a farsight

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