This is my currently daily use PC. With very high specifications this beast of a workstation is able to drive all my engineering needs with 3D modeling capabilities as well as high memory count for long demanding MatLab calculations.
REBUILT AS OF: 5/16/2019
I decided to return to this case once more as the WP100 Case I was using was too large to be practical. The build recieved some newer faster components.
- CPU: Intel i9 7980xe OC: 5.1ghz
- GPU: EVGA 1080ti Black Edition
- RAM: Corsair 3666mhz 16gb x4 (64GB total)
- Motherboard: EVGA MATX 2 x299
- PSU: EVGA 1600 T2
- HDD: 2x Hitachi 10TB Helium Drives
- SSD: 2TB Samsung 970 EVO NVME drive, 2 x 2TB RAID 0 Samsung 960 EVO Sata SSD
- Cooling: Custom EK WB Loop with bitspower reservoir and Koolance pump
DISSASSEMBLED AS OF 11/10/2018
- CPU: Intel i7 6850k OC: 4.5ghz
- GPU: 2x EVGA 1080ti Founders Edition SLI
- RAM: Corsair 3666mhz 16gb x4 (64GB total)
- Motherboard: ASUS X99M-WS
- PSU: Corsair RM1000 PSU
- HDD: 2x Hitachi 10TB Helium Drives
- SSD: 512GB Samsung 960 Pro NVME drive, 2 x 2TB RAID 0 Samsung 960 EVO Sata SSD
- Cooling: Custom EK WB Loop with bitspower reservoir and Koolance pump
This build started out with an innocent goal in mind. To have a powerful system while cutting corners in the right places to keep costs down. I went from a Fractal Design Node 804 that cost a merely $95 but then soon realized that I wanted more. I bought the CaseLabs Mercury S5 gun metal grey at this point there was no more return and my most custom water cooling pc build had begun.
I realized that the water cooling support on the Node 804 was too limited and CaseLabs had what I wanted. I needed to be able to pack tons of performance into a package that was able to keep high performance and never thermal throttle while sounding whisper quiet. This was the only way. My adventure began with a large purchase from EK WB a company that provides top of the line water cooling gear from Slovenia. The beginning of the build things were not so smooth sailing.
Here are some of the issues I had with the beginning of the build. I first had a leaky radiator that EKWB graciously replaced very quickly. I also messed up and cracked some acrylic panels that I over tightened. I also cracked multiple pump blocks that used very thin acrylic (no longer using them and using solid polymer blocks).
The final big change I made was from tossing out the DDC pump from EKWB and replaced it with a Koolance D5 pump that has much more flow as well as performance and is even quieter.
