Boxes. Lots of boxes...
Threadripper 3960x
Threadripper 3960x
128 GB G.Skill Trident Z Neo -- F4-3200C14D-32GTZN -- 14-14-14-34
128 GB G.Skill Trident Z Neo -- F4-3200C14D-32GTZN -- 14-14-14-34
2 x 970 EVO 1 TB, 4 x Inland Premium 1 TB
3960x in it's new home
Say Cheese!
Surrounded by it's new memory family
Aorus Xtreme with it's armor off, exposing the 4 x NMVe slots
In goes the 4 x Inland Premium 1 TB NVMEs
EK-Velocity sTR4 CPU Waterblock
Hug it out
Lovely 4 x NVMe AIC that comes bundled with the TRX40 AORUS Xtreme, accompanied by 2 x Samsung EVO 1 TB
All buckled up
ROG Strix RX 5700 XT with a massive 2.5 slot heatsink/fan assembly
Heatsink/fan assembly removed
Heatsink/fan support bracket removed
TIM cleaned up
Close up!
Close up!
Close up!
Thermal pads for the front
Thermal pads for the front
Thermal pads for the back
Back plate on
Process repeated for the 2nd card
New HEDT - In Progress
New workstation build.
Used for:
Overview:
Notes:
Used for:
- Virtualization
- Software development
- Occasional gaming
Overview:
- Hypervisor: Proxmox
- GPU #1: PCIe passthrough to hackintosh VM (development/photoshop/lightroom)
- GPU #2: PCIe passthrough to windows VM (games)
- Several VMs for infrastructure mocking (software development), quarantined banking, etc
- 2x 240gb SSD ZFS mirror for Proxmox, ISOs, templates, etc
- 2x 1tb 970 EVO NVMe ZFS storage pool for local shares (stripe: 4+gb read/write)
- 4x 1tb Inland Premium NVMe ZFS storage pool. Ultra fast VM storage (stripe: 10+gb read/write)
- 4x 3tb WD Red ZFS Z1 for local backups. Z1 should be fine as I also have a dedicated 50+TB FreeNAS over 10gbe for “safer” backups.
Notes:
- First post on builds.gg. Have been inspired by all the lovely content and happy to finally be able to add a build!
- The 5700 GPUs were specifically selected as they are pretty much the best you can get at PCIe 4.0 for the moment, with the bonus that it works OOB for hackintosh. Fully utilizing the 4.0 lanes was quite important as I wanted to maximize the amount of lanes I can dedicate for I/O. This means I can utilize the PCIe 4.0 x8 slots with these 5700s and not be anymore handicapped than if I had them in a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot. This allows me the freedom to save one or both x16 slots for I/O. Their price point was also great and since I only lightly game (in phases) I didn't feel like I needed anything too crazy.
- This is my first custom loop. I have only used AIOs in the past.
- Also doing all custom length wiring
Color(s): Black White
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: none
Cooling: Custom Liquid Cooling
Size: XL-ATX
Type: General Build
Build Updates
Round 1
GPU Water Conversion
All together
Hardware
CPU
Motherboard
Memory
$ 211.96
Graphics
Storage
$ 355.92
Storage
$ 458.68
Case
$ 199.99
Case Fan
$ 100.00
Case Fan
$ 170.28
Cooling
$ 627.18
Cooling
Cooling
$ 258.84
Cooling
$ 10.94
Cooling
Cooling
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