This is my first ever custom loop build! I went all out as this was a massive passion project I had wanted to do my entire life. I savored each moment - planning and building, cutting glass and sanding it down, measuring distances with calipers, tracking down one of the last silver In-Win 909's available worldwide and paying way too much for international shipping, squeezing an XL PSU into a place where regular sized PSU's go, accidentally cutting your fingers, and configuring the dang thing.

Planning time was around 3-4 months (mostly due to product availability constraints in late 2017). Build time was about 40 hours. Overclocking and configuring final settings took 3 weeks. I wanted to build a machine which had (a) no traditional hard drives, (b) enough cooling for SLI + heavy overclocking, and (c) used up most of the PCI-E lanes for my purposes. The primary usage is gaming and media creation (audio production, media encoding etc.).

The settings below are what I consider the overclock maximum for 24/7 use. Could push a tiny bit farther but starts to get unstable and generate exponentially more heat.

The Build
Case: InWin 909 Full Tower
CPU: Intel i9-7900x @ 4.7ghz | 3.2ghz mesh | 1.25v | delidded |Copper IHS
Motherboard: Asus Rampage VI Extreme x299
Memory: G.Skill TridentZ 64gb @ DDR4 4000 CL17-17-17-37-350
GPU: Nvidia 1080Ti FE @ 2088/6040 1.15v
Storage 1: Intel 900p 480gb (OS drive)
Storage 2: 4x Samsung 960 EVO 500gb RAID0 = 2TB Drive
Storage Accessory: Asus Hyper M.2 x16
Sound: Asus Xonar Essence STX II modded with 3x Burson Audio V6 Vivid Opamps
PSU: EVGA SuperNova 1600 G2
Cables: Ensourced Custom

Cooling
Radiator 1 (Rear): EK PE360
Radiator 2 (Bottom): Koolance 2x120 Slim
Radiator 3 (Front): EK PE240
Fans: 8x EK Vardar EVO 2200rpm
Pump: EK XTOP Revo D5
Reservoir: EK Res X3 250
Tubing: Mayhems UK 16mm Borosilicate Glass

Performance & Cooling
Aida64 CPU Stress (1hr): 64c avg | ΔMax-Min Core 8c | 38c idle avg
Aida64 Cache Stress (1hr): 68c avg | ΔMax-Min Core 6c | 38c idle avg
Furmark GPU Stress 3440x1440 (30m): 49c avg
Cinebench Benchmark: 2612 MT | 210 ST
3DMark Time Spy: 11311
3DMark Time Spy Extreme: 5307
RealBench 2.56: 198,068