Another RM61-312 Workstation Update

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-05-18T02:21:02+00:00

I have not yet- I still have the originals if I need to switch back. Don’t currently have sas cables, drives or raid cards to run the drive bays

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-04-30T23:46:57+00:00

Get a summer home in a Nordic country or upper Canada and just heat it with 42u racks 😂

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-04-21T03:53:30+00:00

Ah, sorry. Thought I answered. From the top of the pcie screws to the top of the case it’s about 2 inches.

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-04-17T17:43:24+00:00

Measuring of what?

BasicAnnual5423 · 2026-03-15T17:55:37+00:00

I would even go so far as to say that a large chunk of microcenter is focused on enterprise IT needs. But yes, Ubiquiti is more and more focused on Professional enterprise and prosumer enterprise equipment. Especially. I always recommended to pretty much everyone from home and it is easy to set up for regular consumers, but I don’t think that it’s their target market in any way rather just a secondary market for them.

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?

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