This is a work in progress - a system ordered to crunch numbers in a university somewhere, numbers that will help to create data sets for supercomputers for further processing, in the area of chemistry and pharmaceuticals.
Or so I'm told, I'm not an expert in that.

There was a single objective here - stick to a somewhat limited budget of ~RUR200000 (~USD3071) and cram the most processor cores into the build as possible.
So this whole massive thing is centered around Threadripper 2870WX, massive TR4-specific AIO and the power delivery system to feed this hungry beast.
Processor cores, yes. Because the software it will run is thread-intensive, but is not designed for GPU calculations (excluding maybe nVidia Tesla, but who owns that).

So this is a 24-core massive monstrosity - paired with an old-as-hell nVidia GT240 graphics card (because a), no onboard graphics and b), the cheapest card I could find supporting UEFI GOP, a GT710, did NOT work well with this mobo).

Even though this is an AIO build with decent overclocking headroom, the client specifically requested no overclocking, so there is none.

For those who want to experiment with ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha - be warned. System takes forever to boot (50 seconds from power on to windows desktop), I expect it to get better with time as better firmware revisions are released, but its is still a far cry from 13 to 20 seconds I'm already used to. If you manage to make it boot faster, drop me a note on how you accomplish this.