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Limp Gawd
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I rebuilt the prior box and this is its new incarnation
Yes, dropped the water cooling
I tried to make an ultimate pc. My personal rules is that it had to be low maintenance, stable, very powerful and do anything I threw at it.
I run at 4096x2160 true 4k and I like my games to be full eye candy and I like to run a lot of VM for the various things I do.
While at first glance one would not notice, but there where a lot of details worked out in this build.
Well here are my specs and some pictures, please enjoy
thx
V
Asus Z10PE-D8 WS dual mobo (version 1.04, bios 1202)
(2) E5-2699 v3 (36cores/72HT) (O.C. 2.6/4.0 Turbo) (sequential sr numbers)
256GB LR Samsung ram DDR4 ecc reg
(QUAD SLI) 4 Titan X SC
Corsair Aix1500 DIGITAL PSU
1 Samsung NVMe 950Pro pcie 3.0 (os drive)
8 Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SSD RAID 0 (apps drive)
9 noctua fans (almost silent)
Corsair Aluminum Red LED Keyboard, red level 10 mouse
LG 31MU97z 4096x2160 true 4K at 60hz dp
CaseLabs Mercury
2 modified Scythe ninja 3 rev b heatsinks
Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut TIM
Windows server 2012 R2, Ubuntu 15, LinuxMint
1lb. of flesh and a pint of blood
OC rock stable up to 109mhz using bios profiles, etc etc
medium to high load temps when room is 75F
My prior über workstation was the Z9PED8 WS and unfortunately it can't do NVMe or m.2 with 4x lanes,
for compatibility and speed the xp941 is very fast and as is the sm951
in order of speed (high to higher) it's xp941, sm951 ahci, sm951 nvme, 950pro nvme.
in order of heat generated (warm to warmer) it's xp941, 950pro nvme, sm951 name, sm951 ahci
I describe the heat from the drives as warm. Under load all chips are less than 49c on all models.
Having 4 titan x sc right above them may increase the environment heat, but its still with normal parameters.
If you look closely at the picture you'll see that I have heatsinks on many motherboard components as well.
There was a company this summer that did a review of the z10 and took a thermal image of the board, so when I saw the review I used the picture as guide to get rid of hot spots
in addition the 950pro only has chips on the top surface which aids in cooling and allows for all those little aluminum heatsinks.
The hottest thing on the whole board now is the chipset controller the c612, and that runs about 104F to about 109F and that sits directly under 2.5 out of 4 video cards.
I can't imagine the drives on motherboard being a heat issue, maybe, but I don't know it might be a heat issue in a tight enclosed environment like a surface or tablet laptop
All temps are so farrrr below spec I'm not concerned
I rebuilt the prior box and this is its new incarnation
Yes, dropped the water cooling
I tried to make an ultimate pc. My personal rules is that it had to be low maintenance, stable, very powerful and do anything I threw at it.
I run at 4096x2160 true 4k and I like my games to be full eye candy and I like to run a lot of VM for the various things I do.
While at first glance one would not notice, but there where a lot of details worked out in this build.
Well here are my specs and some pictures, please enjoy
thx
V
Asus Z10PE-D8 WS dual mobo (version 1.04, bios 1202)
(2) E5-2699 v3 (36cores/72HT) (O.C. 2.6/4.0 Turbo) (sequential sr numbers)
256GB LR Samsung ram DDR4 ecc reg
(QUAD SLI) 4 Titan X SC
Corsair Aix1500 DIGITAL PSU
1 Samsung NVMe 950Pro pcie 3.0 (os drive)
8 Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SSD RAID 0 (apps drive)
9 noctua fans (almost silent)
Corsair Aluminum Red LED Keyboard, red level 10 mouse
LG 31MU97z 4096x2160 true 4K at 60hz dp
CaseLabs Mercury
2 modified Scythe ninja 3 rev b heatsinks
Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut TIM
Windows server 2012 R2, Ubuntu 15, LinuxMint
1lb. of flesh and a pint of blood
OC rock stable up to 109mhz using bios profiles, etc etc
medium to high load temps when room is 75F
My prior über workstation was the Z9PED8 WS and unfortunately it can't do NVMe or m.2 with 4x lanes,
for compatibility and speed the xp941 is very fast and as is the sm951
in order of speed (high to higher) it's xp941, sm951 ahci, sm951 nvme, 950pro nvme.
in order of heat generated (warm to warmer) it's xp941, 950pro nvme, sm951 name, sm951 ahci
I describe the heat from the drives as warm. Under load all chips are less than 49c on all models.
Having 4 titan x sc right above them may increase the environment heat, but its still with normal parameters.
If you look closely at the picture you'll see that I have heatsinks on many motherboard components as well.
There was a company this summer that did a review of the z10 and took a thermal image of the board, so when I saw the review I used the picture as guide to get rid of hot spots
in addition the 950pro only has chips on the top surface which aids in cooling and allows for all those little aluminum heatsinks.
The hottest thing on the whole board now is the chipset controller the c612, and that runs about 104F to about 109F and that sits directly under 2.5 out of 4 video cards.
I can't imagine the drives on motherboard being a heat issue, maybe, but I don't know it might be a heat issue in a tight enclosed environment like a surface or tablet laptop
All temps are so farrrr below spec I'm not concerned
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