Computer Builds
Water-cooled PCs, GPU clusters and mods.
Computer performance is one of the most beautiful and eloquent metrics of human technological advancement. Watching components work in harmony, tuned for the fastest possible calculations, is like watching a song and dance.
Accolades
In the press · Motherboard (VICE)
You Can Use a Weed Grow Tent to Cool Your Bitcoin Mining Rig
A cool but noisy way to cool your cryptocurrency mining rig.
Read the article →PC benchmarking · January 2019
#1 fastest 4-way SLI PC with closed-loop water cooling in the world
- #10Fire Strike Ultra
- #11Fire Strike Extreme
- #12Time Spy Extreme
- #14Time Spy Graphics, Hall of Fame
- #49Time Spy CPU, Hall of Fame
3DMark world rankings, 2019
See the “Fallen King” build →These days most of my time goes into running my own company, so new projects show up here only now and then.
Four KingPin 1080 Tis in SLI with a 28-core Xeon W-3175X on an EVGA SR-3 Dark.
Getting EVGA's last flagship card, the RTX 3090 KingPin, ready for liquid nitrogen.
Testing liquid nitrogen cooling on processors, at −195.8 °C.
The first stage of my LN2 overclocking setup.
Four GTX 1080 Tis in 4-way SLI and four 480 mm radiators: #10 in the world in 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra.
Twelve GTX 1080 Tis on a custom water loop, built to run my MATLAB parallel computing research.
A step-by-step teardown of the 2017 Razer Blade Pro to replace its thermal paste.
The air-cooled version of the 12-GPU cluster: two stacked aluminum frames inside a tent that vents the heat outside.
My everyday engineering workstation: a custom water-cooled Core i9-7980XE in a CaseLabs Mercury S5.
Gaming across three 4K screens at 11520 × 2160, powered by two GTX 1080 Tis in SLI.
An audio PC through three revisions, from an air-cooled i7 to a silent, water-cooled i9.
Photos of my Dell XPS 630i.
An old case split in half and stacked into a water-cooled test bench.
A BitFenix Prodigy mod, from renders and test fits to the finished build.
Nine years of one case, from stock to a full Bitspower water-cooling build.
Photos of my modified NZXT Source 210 Elite.