This build is sponsored by Nvidia, Danger Den, Smooth Creations, Performance PCs, and Crucial, and Silverstone.

The purpose is to showcase Nvidia's Hybrid SLI technology. I am not sure what the final project name will be yet. The project will premier at PDXLAN 12 in July and will also be presented at Nvision along with several of my other projects which feature Nvidia technology.

First step: Aquire an awesome globe . . .thanks to Spherical Concepts . . .they gave me a really sweet deal!
Here is a shot from their warehouse
and their shot of globe:
apart on my table with prototype of Cherry X backpack to give idea of scale



Danger Den and I are working on acrylic platforms to house the components.

rough ideas . . .

mobo tray ready for action . . .just need the rads and psu back from the the air-brusher (Smooth Creations):

working on it during the 4th of July weekend (took it to the beach):


Custom ram from Crucial . . .green PCB, LEDS, and heat spreader . . .these are 2 gig sticks at 1066 . . .

Partially finished and on display at PDXLAN 12. I am adding fiber optics that will travel from the Ballistix Tracer ram and terminate at different strategic points on the globe. The cities will light up with teh ram activity . . .I also will add fans to the top and bottom of the globe to help air flow and also need to add a power button . . .

Adding fiber optics for cities to be lit by the ram:

Now to add the 250mm fan in the top

I added ten specific cities like San Jose for Nvidia, Portland/Astoria for PDXLAN/Danger Den, a spot in Romania for a buddy there, a spot in Florida for Slayer from PCAPex and Texas for Geno from Boxgods . . .others such as in India for one of my MBA professors, England, etc. There will be around 60 or so all together tho most are random.