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Mod83 are delighted to announce a new build featuring the ASRock Phantom Gaming Alliance in association with Cooler Master and TeamGroup. The new build will be based on the AMD Threadripper platform using the ASRock X399 Phantom Gaming 6 motherboard, a feature-filled premium ATX board designed for gaming.

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The motherboard will be paired with components from Team Group, notably, XCalibur Phantom Gaming RGB (4x8gb) DDR4 3200 and the T-Force Delta Phantom Gaming RGB 256Gb SSD.

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The build will then be completed with hardware from Cooler Master including the H500P and Wraith Ripper cooling solution.

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We will, of course, bring you all the build updates as they happen and component reviews along the way. Stay tuned for updates as we begin this new build!

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We have now taken delivery of most of the components we will be needing for this build, we are still waiting on a few but we have enough to get started. The specs for this build will be;

AMD Threadripper 1950X
X399 Phantom Gaming 6 Motherboard
TeamGroup Excalibur 32Gb DDR4 3200
ASUS Strix GTX 1070
TeamGroup Delta 256SSD
Cooler Master 750W PSU
Cooler Master H500P
Cooler Master Wraith Ripper
Cooler Master MF120 Case Fans

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We will, of course, take a look at all the hardware in a little more depth with our reviews coming during the build. For now, we will be starting with getting the motherboard and additional components in place so that I can start looking at taking measurements for some custom trim work both internal and external.

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Our thanks once again to ASRock, TeamGroup and Cooler Master for making this build possible.

Our Phantom Gaming build is now underway with the first parts being installed. The H500P has bee stripped of its PSU basement shrouds ready for replacements to be fabricated giving us easy access to start fitting components. So far we have installed the Cooler Master MF120mm fans, V750 PSU and Phantom Gaming 6 motherboard from ASRock.

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The most exciting part today though is the CPU, AMD were kind enough to send over their flagship 2990WX instead of a 1950X for this build. This is a monster of a CPU and given its our first experience with Threadripper we are really excited to see how it performs. This rig will be used for upcoming builds as a video editing workstation so we have all the grunt we need for footage.

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So the hardware is coming along nicely so far but then we hit a snag. Due to the height of the TeamGroup Phantom Gaming DDR4 we are using the Wraith Ripper is about 3mm short of clearance and cannot be used. We are on with arranging an alternative cooler so we will bring more on that in our next update.

Now that the AMD Threadripper 200WX is installed we can get our RAM fitted. The RAM we are using for this build is kindly supplied by TeamGroup and features 4x8gb DDR4 3200 Excalibur Phantom Gaming modules.

This high-performance quad-channel kit takes up 4 of the 8 DIMM slots on our motherboard, leaving it open for us to increase capacity to 64gb at a later date if needed. The RGB headers should look amazing on this build and we can’t wait to light it up.

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After the issues we had with the Wraith Ripper, Cooler Master has kindly sent over an ML360 TR4 Edition as a replacement. We were really hoping to use the Wraith Ripper for this build, its a fantastic looking piece of kit but we overlooked the RAM height and hopefully, we can feature one in a future build.

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A 360mm radiator should offer plenty of cooling for our CPU, it's changed some aspects of our design plan but I am sure we can come up with something as an alternative. It also adds another 3 RGB 120mm fans to the build for the front panel.

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Part 5 of this build log will move to the assembly and fabrication of our new basement shroud, we shared images of that via our Facebook Page and it was really well received. Stick around and see you for the next chapter.