Project Blood Bath 5960x Triple SLI Titan X 128gb RAM Hard Tube Watercooling *COMPLETE?*

[MoBo]

how are you affording this, this is super expensive!!!! 

[Lenidar]

how are you affording this, this is super expensive!!!! 

Same question...

[Warren Pnigel]

A black and red color scheme??!!? You truly ARE getting a new build lol. 

 

 

 

 

 

(referring to the green)

[aamirilliyas123]

@gateoo Get lutro0 customs or icemodz.com to make sleeved cables for you.

[1Scotty1]

@gateoo Get lutro0 customs or icemodz.com to make sleeved cables for you.

or @modguru He makes awesome cables and extensions also

[Cream pie filled car]

 

 

Man, with a computer like that, the PC should be up on the desk and not on the floor. Bu so far im liking the new build so far. Just don't put the new PC on the floor. It deserves better

[gateoo]

"Progress" Update
 
Got tired of waiting for the new BIOS so I decided to mod my water blocks in the mean time.
 
First up is the R5E Monoblock.
 

 
What I originally planned for all my water blocks is to tear them apart and vinyl wrap the silver parts black so they match the build more. (I saw someone else do it somewhere but I forgot who...)
 
So I took off the South Bridge piece apart first...

Everything went smoothly so I began to wrap...

After almost 2 hours of struggling it turned out great, but then it all went down hill from there.
This 1 and only screw would not hold on to the allen key and ended up getting stripped.
So thanks to this little guy right here holding the plexi glass, there was no way for me to wrap the block, so I ended up ripping the wrap off the previous part and returned the block to how it was originally.
 
So after about 6 hours of work, I'm back to square one, trying to think of some other way to black out the water block while retaining the to be red water channels. Maybe dark window tint? wrap the plexi instead? Open to suggestions:unsure:
 
That's all for my progress, or lack thereof. At least you get pictures...

[gateoo]

how are you affording this, this is super expensive!!!! 

 

Same question...

 

Moved into a new house so I'm doing some "upgrades" to it

 

A black and red color scheme??!!? You truly ARE getting a new build lol. 

 

 

 

 

 

(referring to the green)

yup, although I like green, there isn't many green components, and I'm too much of an amateur to try painting them green, so I just went with the motherboard's color. Since Razer is going from green to all chroma I can basically get all their stuff in red now, so no complaints here.

 

Man, with a computer like that, the PC should be up on the desk and not on the floor. Bu so far im liking the new build so far. Just don't put the new PC on the floor. It deserves better

Yes, this one is definitely going on top of the table, not because it deserves more but because its so tall it won't fit under haha :lol:

[gateoo]

@gateoo When do you thing asus will have the new bios ready?

Any day now... I hope... :unsure:

[skylane]

Will be interesting to see if you'll be able to use 128GB. I know there have been some anecdotal reports of it working but nothing I've seen as concrete evidence. Seems like it's a CPU limitation with Intel stating a pretty solid 64GB limit on their whitepapers but who knows. I know first hand that in the case of Xeon's that it's not a MB top limit but is a hard address limit on the CPU side. Perhaps it's different with the i7's

[skylane]

Awesome build btw

[gateoo]

Progress Update

 

This Project has been named Blood Bath

 

Finally got back from a month long vacation in China, and Asus finally released their 128gb ram compatible BIOS, also all my parts have arrived!

 

First here are some beautiful boxes lol

Yea there's four, the one in the back isn't a Superclocked version, bought it on accident oops... (its for sale btw)

 Damn this box is HUGE.

Nice looking bridge.

 

Sound Blaster ZXR Opening

Hyper Kit Opening (why is the box so big anyways...)

Intel 750 Series Opening

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I flashed the newest BIOS, Inserted one Titan, plugged it into the ROG Swift and turned the system on...

Holy shit it lit up!

So I inserted some more titans B) 

Got into the BIOS with everything plugged in! The stock XMP profile at 2400 also worked(forgot to take pic)!

Then I realized how ghetto my test bench looks so I decided to assemble the Caselabs motherboard tray for now and migrate my test bench over.

Everything finally moved off the cardboard box and onto a proper test bench!

Looks so nice from this angle :wub: 

Seems to fit okay although they are kinda squished together... Hope it ends up okay :unsure: 

 

That's all my progress for today, will be updating much more frequently these few days as I got nothing else better to do, so stay tuned

[HippY]

what is the Hyper Kit, why it is in such a large box, while the stuff is as large as a pendrive ?

[gateoo]

what is the Hyper Kit, why it is in such a large box, while the stuff is as large as a pendrive ?

 

Its a m.2 to mini SAS HD adapter, so that I can use my intel 750 ssd without taking up an actual PCI lane.

 

Why the box is that big is exactly my question :rolleyes:

[Hman1250]

O_O

[gateoo]

Mini Progress Update
 
Time to install Windows 10 Pro and all the drivers and do some benchmarks to make sure everything is working.

Booted into the boot drive just fine.

 

Could not detect the Intel 750 SSD for the life of me, wasted almost 3 hours trying to figure out what the problem was, apparently either the m.2 slot on the R5E or the Asus Hyper Kit was made really loose, even with the Hyper Kit screwed in, the board still won't detect the drive, I had to push it in really hard then screw it in while holding it there... Now with that out of the way...

 

I finally got windows installed... didn't take long at all LOL

 

Pic of the system at idle. Installed all the drivers and ran some benchmarks, almost got into the top 100 on 3dmark's leaderboards with about a 2k score difference, will definitely get in there with some overclocks. Also, dat SSD.

 

Did a slight stress test to see what temperatures I would get in this SLI config with the stock cooler and default settings. Temperatures weren't ideal at all, with the first card being the hottest and hitting the temperature target and throttling hard. Watercooling the Titan's is a definite must for a 3 way SLI config.

 

So that's it for now, next update will be assembling and putting everything into the case. Stay tuned for more beautiful pics.

[JBIZZL3Y]

Holy balls. Subbed, looking forward to seeing this progress!

[gateoo]

Phase 1 complete!
 
First off, I'm sorry for slacking on these progress updates, a friend of mine pulled me back into old school runescape and you know how it is with nostalgia...
 
So I am finally done with phase one of building. All components have been tested and their placement has all been figured out, trying to find room for all these radiators was a huge PITA. The ROG OC panel was also difficult to make it look nice but I think I have the right idea going for it. Enough talking on with the pics.
 

Mounting all 4 of the SSDs in the back.

HDD photo bomb!


Testing the top and front radiator spacing with the OC panel and ended up like this.
 

Put in the bottom rads to test the front radiator's clearance and it barely made it thank god. (The rest of the radiator fans weren't here while I took this picture)
 

Realized I can move the entire front components down a few more slots to make room for another intake fan, so it ends up like this. Just imagine the rads being there...
 

Oh yea, cable mod cables also came, and they are pretty quality cables.

Since I have no where to put the 750 ssd, I will mount it right like it is right now, on top of the OC panel so there's an intake fan directly blowing on it to cool it down because I have noticed it getting quite hot.
 

Also I'm planning to cut up some vinyl with a plotter to customize the look of the intel SSD to something like this (imagine the white part being dark gray). Please give me some suggestions for this if possible.
 

Oh and if you have noticed, the rads are missing because they're right here waiting to be flushed out.
 

My flushing set up with a water filter, tubing and a bucket.
 

Oh and the 20 dollar pond pump.
 
Now I'm off to take apart everything and put on the ek water blocks. Stay tuned, hopefully Soon^TM.

[mtbdude641]

definitely following this post, this system is absolutely amazing

[gateoo]

Any word of an update?

Finally able to get back to building this, putting on water blocks right now, a progress update will definitely happen this weekend, expect the entire thing to be done when ASUS' new 4K G-sync screen arrives.

[gateoo]

Finally Starting Phase 2!
 
Not so busy with school work anymore so I can finally restart this project and get to water cooling the system. Sad to watch over 10k worth of parts just sitting next to me doing nothing but collect dust.
 

 

 
I decide to do do my titans first since they are in the easier loop all by themselves. Here's some pictures of the Titan X getting doctored.
 
Stock HSF taken off, took me an hour trying to figure out why it won't come off when I pull it. Found out that I forgot to take off 1 screw, even after I checked it more then 10 times... Time to clean everything up.
 

All cleaned up looking nice and shiny.
 

Put on the new thermal pads and spreaded some Gelid GC-Extreme thermal compound. Life is pretty hard for a slightly OCD person...
 
Put on the water block, flipped it over and on to installing the back plate. (More thermal pads...)
 
All done! That sexy red tho...
 
And the other side of course...
 
Repeat x 3, put on some of those low profile Bitspower fittings and pre-cut crystal link tubing and bam, SEXY AF.
 
That's all my progress for this weekend, gonna do some leak testing on these crystal link tubing because I feel like they aren't going all the way in/not long enough. Next update will definitely be within a week when I get a drill bit and a funnel.
 
Stay tuned for more!

[gateoo]

Moving on to the Motherboard Block!

 

Don't have a lot of pics this time, was too focused on not damaging the board...

Remember when I was trying to wrap the Mono Block with black vinyl and a screw got stripped? So I had to think of an alternative way to "black-out" the block. So I called up a friend who has a plotter at home to help me cut out some vinyl. It turned out great in the end!

Unboxing for the R5E monoblock was already done before so no unboxing this time!

 

So I started off buying Adobe Illustrator since the plotter uses .ai files, then I scanned my monoblock and ram block face down on a scanner...

 They came out like this...

 

Then I drew this on top of the scanned picture with Adobe Illustrator, this was later cut onto a matte black vinyl.

 

While waiting for my friend to bring me the vinyl, I began taking apart the motherboard (sorry no pics). All these were taken off the board. As you can see, I had to twist the heat pipe off, I have tried all kinds of things to take it off without damaging for like a week, acetone, liquid wrench, heating it, freezing it, drilling, hammering, etc. Apparently super glue 2stronk. I ended up using some pliers and just twisted the heat pipe off along with my 3 year warranty LOL

 

And finally here's is the monoblock attached to the motherboard in all its glory. I think it came out looking very nice.

 

On to the most stressful part of the build... destroying the warranty on my 1800 dollar memory sticks (which are worth less than 1k now apparently)

 

Stay tuned to see if I threw $1800 down the drain!

[CodeBit]

This build is too expensive for me to look at, could only afford the first few pixels in each pic...

[Lavish]

sick pc, only wish I could afford it

[LabRat]

red, i didn't order red................ you should have watched barnacules video on W10 instalation.