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12 hours ago, tictoc said:

Here is the almost final build. 

 

Missing in these pics is all of the the final HDDs and SATA SSDs, and I am also going to drain the loop to add some QDCs at the GPUs.  I meant to add the QDCs in originally, and then I got in a bit of a rush to get everything up and running for the Pent and spaced it out.  One of the NVMe boot drives is under the GPUs, which cannot be removed without disconnecting the blocks due to the limited clearance between the GPUS and the radiators.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 11, 2022 by pioneerisloud
Forgot to quote, couldn't edit on phone

[schuck6566]

Just wanna say I am seriously impressed.

[tictoc]

QDCs installed, and now I'm mostly ready to put it into full production. 

 

I have been running it through some various testing scenarios over the last few months.  Now I just need to spend a day getting the OS setup done, and then I can finally fully migrate all my data.

 

 

 

[tictoc]

After battling with some high temps on the HBA, optane drives, and the X550-T2, I finally swapped the fans around on the radiators.  Previously the fans were running as intake, and now I have them running as exhaust. 

 

In the original configuration, I was never able to get enough front->back airflow to exhaust all the heat that the radiators were dumping into the case.  Results from the swap in fan direction are pretty impressive. Temps dropped by 13°C-20°C on the hottest components, and I was also able to drop the speed of the 180mm intake fan by 200rpm.   

[tictoc]

I can't update the OP, so updated components are below.  Thinking about swapping the board and CPU.  I really don't have any justification for that, since I know all the idiosyncrasies of the 2970WX and overall it's still overkill for what it does.

 

Components

Case - Thermaltake Core X5

Motherboard - ASRock Rack X399D8A-2T

PSU - EVGA Supernova G2 1000W Silverstone Strider Platimum 1200W

CPU - AMD Threadripper 2970WX

RAM - 4x 8x Micron 16GB SK Hynix 32GB DDR4-3200 ECC-UDIMM (eventually 8x 16GB)

GPUs - Radeon 5700XT 2x Vega 64 2x Radeon VII Radeon 6900XT

SSDs - 2x Intel Optane 905P 960GB U.2 NVMe, Intel Optane 905P 480GB U.2 NVMe, ADATA SX8200 Pro 1TB NVMe, SK Hynix P31 1TB NVMe, 4x Inland Premium 1TB NVMe, 2x crucial MX500 2TB SATA

HDDs - 2x HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB, 1x Seagate IronWolf Pro 4TB, 5x 1x Seagate EXOS 8TB, 1x Seagate Ironwolf Pro 8TB, 4x 8x 4x Seagate EXOS X18 16TB, 1x Seagate Ironwolf Pro 20TB,  1x Seagate EXOS X20 20TB 1x 4TB Toshiba N300 (Hot swap bay for backups)

CD/DVD/BluRay - LG WH14NS40 flashed for 4k UHD

 

Cooling

CPU - Watercool HEATKILLER IV Pro Copper

GPU - EK-Quantum Vector Radeon VII Copper/Acetal Alphacool Eisblock Radeon 6900XT

Radiator - 2x XSPC EX360 2x Watercool HEATKILLER 360-L

Pump - 2x Watercool D5 w/ EK-XRES 100 Reservoir Watercool Industrial Dual D5 Top w/ 100mm Watercool HEATKILLER Tube Reservoir

Fans - Silverstone AP183 (front intake), 6x Arctic P14 PWM (rear exhaust, HDD fans, midplane), 6x Artic P12 PWM (radiator fans)