The successor to Vampire, my first enthusiast AMD machine, Vermilion uses all that I learned from that build and in the years since. Using the latest (as of August 2019) AMD hardware, combined with custom water cooling, this system is meant to be a showcase of what the Red Team is capable of.

I'll be using this machine primarily for gaming and entertainment purposes, but I may get into some content creation in the future. I'm thinking of making a head-to-head video of Vampire vs Vermilion, as a way to demonstrate how far AMD has come in the last few years.

This was my first time doing rigid tubing (2nd water cooled machine overall), and I'm pretty proud of how it turned out! I have a couple of minor issues to address, but once those are resolved I can start finding out what kind of overclocks I can get from it.

System specs:

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8GHz 12C/24T

ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (Wi-Fi)

32GB (4 x 8GB) G.Skill Trident Z Neo DDR4-3600 (Samsung ICs / 16-16-16-36 / 1.35V)

Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB

Corsair MP600 Force Series 1TB PCI-E Gen 4 NVME SSD (Windows 10 Enterprise)

Kingston HyperX Savage 240GB SSD (Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS)

Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2x2TB) RAID 0

Corsair HX1200i PSU

beQuiet! Dark Base 700

Watercooling:

Thermaltake Pacific PR22-D5 Plus w/ Singularity Computers D5 Pump Cover

EKWB Velocity AMD RGB (Clear Plexi/Nickel) CPU block

EKWB EK-Vector Radeon RX 5700 +XT RGB (Plexi/Nickel) GPU Block and Backplate

Hardware Labs Black Ice GTS 360mm Radiator x 2 (Top/Front)

14MM OD/ 10MM ID PETG Hard tubing

EKWB Cryofuel Solid Red Coolant

Peripherals:

ASUS MG279Q 2560x1440 144hz IPS monitor w/ AMD Freesync

ASUS PG277Q 2560x1440 75hz monitor (9:16 Portrait)

CMStorm Quickfire XTi (Cherry MX Blue w/ O-rings)

Steelseries Rival 300

Edifier M3300SF 2.1 Speakers

Sennheiser PC360 SE Headset