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Limp Gawd
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July-August 2018 Update: I have upgraded this to X299 with the MSI X299M 'Gaming Pro Carbon' mATX board, along with an i7-7800x. X299 updates begin on post #34
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Here is the latest iteration of my liquid-cooled μATX X99 system. The original contents of this (first) post of this thread has been moved to here.
Objective: To build as powerful of a workstation in as small of a chassis as possible without necessitating high speed (above 4000 RPM) fans. Speficially to maximize the ratio of capabilities / volume as much great as possible.
Components
Here are the latest images of the setup. Clicking on images directs to full-resolution versions.


Questions, comments, suggestions, criticisms, are encouraged and appreciated.
July-August 2018 Update: I have upgraded this to X299 with the MSI X299M 'Gaming Pro Carbon' mATX board, along with an i7-7800x. X299 updates begin on post #34
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Here is the latest iteration of my liquid-cooled μATX X99 system. The original contents of this (first) post of this thread has been moved to here.
Objective: To build as powerful of a workstation in as small of a chassis as possible without necessitating high speed (above 4000 RPM) fans. Speficially to maximize the ratio of capabilities / volume as much great as possible.
Components
- Case - Fractal Design ARC Mini R2 μATX
- Motherboard - ASRock X99M Extreme4 MicroATX
- CPU - Intel Core i7-5820K Clocked to 4.5GHz, with Koolance CPU-370SI Water block
- RAM - Crucial Ballistix 4x4GB DDR4-2400
- Storage - Dell PERC H310 with 3x240GB Mushkin SSD striped in RAID0. (The Dell controller is an OEM Rebadge of LSI MegaRAID 9240-8i)
- Slot 1 - AMD Radeon R9 290 overclocked to 1150 MHz Core, 1440 MHz vRAM with Heatkiller GPU-X R9-290X Full Coverage Water block
- M.2 - Awaiting Bplus/MFactors to hurry up and release M2J32 or M2J34 extender boards.
- Slot 2 - Dell PERC H310 (re-badged LSI 9240-8i) PCIe 2.0 x8 RAID controller - with 2x256GB mSATA SSDs striped in RAID0
- Slot 3 - Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB overclocked to 1320 MHz Core, 1753 MHz vRAM with Heatkiller GPU-X GTX-770 Full Coverage Water block. The 2nd DVI port was removed, and the slot bracket was modified to allow the card to occupy only a single slot.
- Pump - Swiftech MCP35x2 Dual PWM Pump
- Radiators- Four copper radiators:
- 360x120mm top
- 240x120mm front
- 120x120mm bottom
- 120x120mm rear
- Fans - PWM Controlled Enermax UCTVQ12P with this "lifesaving" 5-way PWM fan header splitter allowing me to split the single onboard PWM Fan header to 5 seperate fans.
Here are the latest images of the setup. Clicking on images directs to full-resolution versions.


Questions, comments, suggestions, criticisms, are encouraged and appreciated.
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