All 6 monitors finally arrived and have been mounted. If I can impart any sage advice upon people... purchase all of the monitors you will ever want at the exact same time. In other news system one is mostly complete finally. System two on the other hand, which is the controller PC, is still missing its video card. The shipping issues with both AMD and Nvidia are rather frustrating. So with out a video card on it I just slapped in a soft tube run to the radiator and I am calling it good enough for now and rocking that sweet onboard video... but wait the Intel 10900kf doesn't have video... jesus ok I put an EVGA 670 FTW in... that looks pretty out of place at the moment. $15,000 PC with an 8 year old video card.

I did managed to short change myself an entire sata cable from the Cablemod order, but they have been great so I hope only about two weeks until I can finish getting the rest of the lighting working. Corsair on the other hand managed to get coolant stuck in Taiwan for 11 days so we are just on distilled water right now for burn in testing. Also Amazon is fully out of stock on Commander Pro's, and some how this build expanded to requiring 4 of them which feels real bad. The only good item this month from Corsair is the new Corsair Nexus module is in and I frankly enjoy the readability for such a small screen, its nice.

Asus also fully failed me, this is board three that has managed to lose its aura bios so it just sits in a rainbow pattern behind the other lights, with out even the ability to disable Aura in the bios. Overall not performance impacting I keep reminding myself. Though Asus followed that failure up with the Hyper board not having a backplate, come one guys get with it.

In better news the burn in F@H runs are pulling about 6 million PPD, and I look forward to adding the controller PC into that mix. If I can get a video card on it I might be able to pull over 10 million PPD out of one chassis. But while basking in the glory of the light show, I did realize that I must spray paint the sides of the DVD drives since apparently you can see them through the cage.

Today I received all of the Corsair hydro x parts. While the machine will not be assembled until September due to a house move at least we have delivery and have accounted for all of the custom cooling components. Loop design has been roughed out on paper, but until the case ships in late August the verification of the build can not proceed. Corsair was kind enough to apply a generous coupon when ordering this many parts direct, I think I also may have peeked some interest into what was being constructed while ordering dual platform components.

The last build received much praise on the corsair web form/reddit thread winning the build of the month for January. (https://www.reddit.com/r/Corsair/comments/esx3py/complete_corsair_hydro_x_custom_loop_covering_an/)
I hope that this construction will compete as well, though the size and complexity may be slightly daunting to pack both systems in, using a non Corsair case. I continue to stand behind my position that unfortunately Corsair currently does not construct a beautiful case that also supports a 5.25" drive bay and that is a requirement for how I receive some work.

I am also very excited to see how direct bench marks of the 10900x and 10900k at the same time in the same chassis plays out. I expect the 10900k to pull slightly more clock cycles due to the expected additional overhead but I expect the 10900x to complete the workloads faster. The fact that the workload fails to scale past 10 cores with current compiling limitations will make this an interesting experiment since both machines will hit the same heat soak to the same size of radiators and same GPU's. The only difference will be the additional memory channels, and additional PCIe lanes, but in cycle performance I expect to be unaffected, just the time for work ramp and work offload.