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banned coz don't carry that too far...

Thanks :-) ...yeah, the X399 Creation has been flawless, though I wasn't: During an early test fitting while modding the TT Core P5 to accept E-ATX, still-too-tight PSU cables pulled the mobo off the standoffs and shaved a cap off :-( But MSI was GREAT about it, and gave me an RMA anyway, perhaps because I did not tell them any 'BS' and explained what and how it had happened. I just had to pay a nominal amount for shipping and shipped the original X399 creation w/o the two mobo cover metal pieces. The replacement board arrived with their own set, so that's how this build ended up with those extra decorative pieces. The four horizontal white tubes are actually copper pipes, and the painted-white 'end-plate' on the right used to do duty as a backplate for a R290X... As to the 4x D5s and 5x XSPC RX360 rads, per above, they are divided into two discreet loops (2x D5 & 3X RX360 for GPUs, 2x D5 & 2x RX360 for CPU). I had most of the water-cooling parts laying around anyway from various earlier builds, including work-related servers. They just needed a thorough cleaning. I did plan an an eventual upgrade with a simple mobo swap (ie TRX40 / 3970X) so the cooling system was over-engineered to handle higher core-count CPUs later on from the get-go. At the same time, I usually build any discreet loop with 2x D5 in series anyway...First and foremost, that's 'fail-over' insurance, especially for servers and workstations where downtime is more expensive than the computer parts and peripherals. In addition, with for example 3x rads and 2x GPU waterblocks in just the GPU loop, 2x D5s are useful - even with 2x rads, a CPU and GPU block per your question above, I would still employ dual D5s in series for the above reasons, though it is not absolutely necessary from a flow POV. A final comment on D5 (also as compared to DDC pumps). DerBauer had a nice comparison on those last fall. On paper, a D5 slightly outperforms the smaller DDC, with DDC also running a bit hotter. The D5 have a larger diameter - but a such, they are also MORE sensitive to serious flow-drop (and thus temp spikes) if there are air bubbles - yet with dual D5s, that problem is all but eliminated and flow is superb even with the odd set of air bubbles (which can easily get trapped in GPU blocks with all its nooks and crannies). Quick tip for systems with multiple rads and blocks: I pre-fill the rads with the pre-sized tubes / pipes with the cooling liquid solution and temporarily plug the tubes / pipes at one end. Then I mount the whole thing (PSU disconnected of course) and connect all the bits of the loop(s) with usually just a bit of spillage when removing the temp plugs and connecting them...even just pre-filling the rads makes bleeding the loop(s) much easier and quicker...

[uSER=31]SeriousDon[/uSER] ....banned for not banning enough. Also, Leo and Gus called re. their missing extra helping of 'Sunday chicken'. They want you banned...

Thanks :-) 2 rads (sideways) on the front, 3 rads (again sideways) and 4 pumps, 2 mini-reservoirs 'hidden' on the back. Wiring and fan control boxes 'inside' the black back area which splits and which also mounts the mobo. With the exception of the top VRM/DRAM top slim 120mm fan, all other fans pull air from the left (by a window) and blow out on the right Dual 2080 Ti are 'pigs on gas, err watts', but with 1080x55 rad space in their dedicated loop, temp stay under control, per pic from a PortRoyal run below

With 2x w-cooled 2080 TIs rocking away on a 4K monitor, I haven't really hit a performance barrier yet, so if there's some additional confirmation re. 5nm Hopper in latish 2021, I might skip Ampere and go straight to Hopper

This is an abbreviated, mostly picture based summary of a workstation prototype project "Orca". The Project was realized about a year ago (with continued tinkering since then) in order to test out RTX cores for some database DLSS analysis tasks The system has part workstation, part desktop functions. Living on the Pacific Coast and with a project that had black, white and silver (before RGB) as its main theme, "Orca" seemed appropriate as a project title Basic description and major parts: TT Core P5 case, heavily modded AMD TR 2950X 16 core / 32 thread at 4.3GHz all-core MSI X399 Creation motherboard with 32GB / 64 GB of TridentZ DDR4 3466 MHz (14-14-14-30 setting) 2x AORUS GeForce RTX™ 2080 Ti XTREME WATERFORCE WB 11G GPUs (factory full waterblocks) Philips 4K / 40 inch monitor on DisplayPort 3x WD Blue 1TB M.2 Antec HPC 1300W Platinum PSU Dual cooling loops with a total of 5x XSPC RX 360/55 rads and 4x MPC655 (D5) pumps Cooling system is partly copper tubing and copper elbows Some GPU (desktop bench) performance

Cool ! Thanks again.

Thanks ! I am definitely going to try this...question is whether I go for a 8700K or 9900K - once the 10900k / LGA 1200 series is available for consumers, I expect current gen 9900K to drop in price, and that's when I'm going to move ahead with this. Luumi has been able to get a 9900K working on Z170 ASRock, but the process should be similar. Biggest hurdle is getting the right Gigabyte Bios update, and any help is appreciated then

banned for taking banning too seriously...

...fine (ultra large) puppies indeed - I love them. Long live LeoGustus Gigglebytes ! Also, how's the 48 core coming along ? ban

Neon Noir at 4K and 2080 TI NVlink..."AFR2" settings in pic below. Will try CFR (checkerboard / tile NVLink setting on the weekend if I can get it going). Anyhow, I really like this bench...! For comparison, 2x 2080 TI at Superposition 8K, Heaven 4K and Valley 4K ...will try to rerun those with "CFR" as well - sometimes, CFR produces lower FPS but much better 1%, 0.1% frame times :-)

..say...me thinks we met somewhere before with those massive mastiffs...ah, at the meat and poultry wholesalers ! oh yeah, 'banned'

This is very interesting ! ...I got a Gigabyte SOC Force Z170 which currently serves as a testbench w/ a 4.8GHZ 6700K and 16GB of 3866 RAM (and also runs the 55 inch LG bedroom TV) - I would dearly like to update that to a 5Giggles 8700K. That Z170 SOC Force is one of my fav mobos (22 phases and all)...wondering if this method will work with it....?