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9. What's the best part of your rig?
This was a really hard question. But I think the best part is invisible, the operating noise. As I planned the whole table, I had much thought around the loudness of the table. So the plan was to get the most quiet pc-couch-table you can have. But my big concerns were to get to much dust in the table... Regarding to that i planned and implemented the following things:
- searched for a oversized powerful powersupply which could handle around 120-170w completely passive => EVGA Supernova 750, fan does not spin.
- searched for a mainboard where waterblocks for vrms and the bridge are available => Gigabyte X79 UD5 - searched for fans which are extremly quiet => Enermax TB Silent
- planned an impressive airflow design which effectivley cools all the passive components.
- Regarding to that I measured hotspots with a thermal-camera and covered all those chips on the Mainboard with passive Heatsinks - with the aquacomputer aquaero configured all the fans regarding the temperature of the passive-components which needed to be cooled in case of emergency => even in hot sommer the design is so great, that the two front fans will not spin up!
- against-DUST: planned a big area only for cooling the water. That means below the Display and the "Energy-Com Table" Logo there is the Watercool Mora radiator mounted to suck cold air directly below the table into it. The warmer air goes directly out on the backside of the table. This manages the dust to stay out of the hardware-area and no warm air will heat up any components. After some Weeks the table is absolutley clean in it => goal achieved.
10. Any dislikes, things you should not have bought?
Actually I eliminated all things which I mainly disliked in this project. Absolutely happy with it.
11. Did you modify anything? cases/video cards/other? Did you do it yourself? Walk us through it.
I modified everything... Firstly the whole case, the table was build from my dad, he is a carpenter. There was build and painted a Baseplate (Black bottom-plate) where all the Hardware can sit on. This baseplate can now be quickly removed for doing maintenance on the cables below the bottom-plate. besides the Hardware all the cables recieved some sleev around to have a nicer and cleaner look. These light towers, which you can find in the table were build with some white and blue leds for illuminated the inner area. Nearby that I spread out some white LEDs. All the led's electronic is controlled by an Atmel Attiny Chip which i programmed therefore. Starting the Computer in the table will start an initialisation. So the LEDs starts to light up a sequenze.
After that on the outside of the Table I printed with my 3D printer an Terminal (the orange iliminated thing) where all LEDs can be controlled. There are sitting therefore some voltage controllers, attiny-chips and some controlling pcbs under the Hardware-baseplate. Everything gets covered by small 3D-printed cases.
All the circuits, programming, drawings for the cases, soldering were planned and engineered over the years. But I dont wanted to stop with that. So therefore I calculated gear for lifting the glass plate up and down. Also, all the single gears and a case was designed which was powered by a motor which can be controlled by one of the buttoms on the side of the table. The glass plate will then automatically drive up and drive down. The lifter can recognize which state does the glass plate have and does only that movement which is necessarey. For this lifter all the electronics and programming needed to be done, too. Then there were countless cases and cable canals printed and designed... In the end i printed 66 different things for the table. I set up some worklogs in the Internet. Feel free to google for that, there are all steps explained very well, otherwise this will get too long here. # But maybe the Admins will implement this teaser of the Table there you can get some great impressions.
12. Your 3DMark scores
I really cant tell you the 3DMark score for the Table. The table was never designed for playing the newest games on max or something like that. Only classics and couchgames were played on that. For all others I do have the big-pc.
13. Do you have any future updates planned?
Yes! I am waiting for the new Ampere series graphics cards. But the idea is to pull out the Titan xp out of my big pc and spent that to the table when Ampere is there.
14. Does your rig or mod have a name?
YES - Energy-Com Table
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