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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....?