EvelynX

@firereverieThanks for the advice! I saw Jays video with that drill bit and it was impressive! I'll take a look and see about bending the tubes. I'll probably just buy in excess so I can do a few practice bends.
And yeah the water fittings, cable management I suspect would ruin it because id want clear tubes and fluid to take advantage of them but then youve got wires everywhere!

@firereverieThanks for the advice! I saw Jays video with that drill bit and it was impressive! I'll take a look and see about bending the tubes. I'll probably just buy in excess so I can do a few practice bends.
And yeah the water fittings, cable management I suspect would ruin it because id want clear tubes and fluid to take advantage of them but then youve got wires everywhere!

Oh one more tool that I forgot about, a 24 pin power jumper, if you have cable sleeving tools you can make one for less then a dollar, otherwise they sell them for about $3.50. They connect to the end of your 24 pin in place of your MB so you don’t have to power your system to fill your loop. You can also do it with a paper clip or a bit of wire if you’re confident you won’t short the wrong pins and release the magic smoke.

1. Check your clearance! Measure, measure, and measure again. The more radiator you add, the more thermal displacement, the more thermal displacement the less hard you have to run your fans and the quieter your system will be. That being said if it ends up being too thick by the time you have fans on the rads that you can’t get to connections to put it together then it’s a waste. If you have the space check out hardware labs GTX, 54mm thick and $105 USD on performancepcs.com.
2. More fittings == more possible leaks and much higher cost. IMO if you’re willing to learn to bend buy some extra tubing and practice, Jay has some really good how to videos.
3. Not sure what you mean by tweaking using EK blocks, but EK also has a discord server where you can chat people up on specifics too.
4. If you decide to bend, thermaltake and some others sell bending jigs (thermaltakes is about $60 USD on amazon), also make sure you have the correct size silicon insert for your tubing and a good heat gun. Primo chill makes a tube end chamfering bit for getting a clean finish on your tube ends which is important for getting a good seal in your fittings. 
5. Personally I wouldn’t risk those, they go together kinda wonky and I read about one too many leaks, the risk plus the extra cable management seem like a no go to me and the only build I’ve seen that really leveraged them was where the builder laser etched all his tubing so the designs glowed.
 
Do your homework and planning and tripple check. Best case if you fucked up something just won’t fit, worst case it leaks all over the insides of your build and ruins all your expensive components. Take your time, and you’ll have a great rig.

Exactly!
 
When you look at cost it isnt 2700x vs 9900k, its more like 2700(because Oc'in) vs 9400(because higher platform costs and intel shortages) or so. 
 
when I got my 1700 it was a choice between 1700 and the 7600(non-K) after taking into account platform costs too. 

The thing is, SLi isnt all that consistent, you can get 50% improvement, or even a small unimprovment(cant think of a better word) in some games compared to a single card. 
 
P.S. this isnt folding, currently we are crunching CPU projects only here. 
 
Cant you drop the card to a lower PCIe slot? 

you are almost always better off with a single more powerful card than you are with SLI when gaming is involved.
 
So... 2080ti I say!
 
also, it would be great to see you putting that hardware to do some good in its downtime, we are currently competing in a BOINC event if you are interested.
 
 

For case build, ProtoCase has an in house software specifically designed for Case manufacturing, which is VERY helpful, say for example you dont know the exact motherboard standoff hole spacing.
 
https://www.protocase.com/price/protocase-designer.php
 
Otherwise I'd start with Sketchup and use their cutouts (assuming sketchup can use DXF 2d drawings or the SLDPRT Solidworks 3D drawings....
https://www.protocase.com/design/cutout-library/cutouts.php

Within 3 months the i7-9700k and possibly i9-9900K should be available. There may also be a new chipset. Why not wait?
 
Asus ROG motherboards will probably do a better job overclocking. Something like the ROG Maximus X or the ROG Maximus X Formula.
 
Dual RTX 2080 Ti on an LGA1151 motherboard run the real risk of bottlenecking with x8 PCIe 3.0 connections. https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_RTX_2080_Ti_PCI-Express_Scaling/, https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3366-nvlink-benchmark-rtx-2080-ti-pcie-bandwidth-x16-vs-x8 

I would probably go 4k plus maybe a secondary monitor.
8086k is the best but 8700k is barely slower. If you wanna go this overkill you could even check out somewhere like silicon lottery who sell binned and delidded cpus.
It's just a gaming build so nvme woild be unnecessary. You'd be best off grabbing a 4tb 860 Evo or something.
I doubt anything would give you better ocing results, but you could go higher end say, for a maximus x hero
The difference in bandwidth would on average probably improve performance by 2% ish. Not that worth it imo

I might have to agree. They are pretty nice looking and it would fit the rest of the build which at the moment seems to be almost entirely Corsair. 

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro - Black
 
Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro - White
 
This would work better for your build 

Inwin 806 but it's only a concept case

I'm pretty sure at 4K60Hz an i5-4670k (OC) is totally fine.

You really only see bottle necking with a quad-core i5+GTX 1070 (or better) when trying to run at 1080p144Hz

I wouldn't think it to be worth the cost of upgrading.

I haven't used the Wireless HDMI that he uses in the video, but I do have an IOGear Wireless 5x2 Matrix setup at home to transmit HDMI to my projector and it appears to work fairly decently...  Haven't checked it for latency, but there probably is a bit more than running over a straight cable, just doesn't impact my gameplay.

I guess I can wight in seeing as I have used more than one. (uitm would be dumb to make a suggestion if I only have ever had one)

I currently own and use two different mechanical keyboards on the regular.
The K70 and The Roccat Sova (couch gaming)
The K70 uses cherry red and the Roccat uses an equivalent of MX Browns.

In my opinion the Reds have a much better tactile feel although this is very subjective.
The Roccat's software is abysmal and very buggy, and the need for a function-key to use media keys sucks.

the K70 however has dedicated ketys for this and I went with one that even had a full number pad. It is second nature skipping songs using the dedicated keys and the volume roller is superior to any buttons.



My dream keyboard would be the RGB version with a USB 3 hub instead of USB 2. Or maybe 2 in the back instead of one.
I get a fair amount of use out of the Roccat even though I dont really like it cos it means I can play on the couch without writ cramp.

But he did the whole pc for 69

My two cents:
 
Rack mounted case
Graphics card with 4 minidisplay ports (you'd need 4 and dedicate one to each VM, each can run 4x 4K via Mini DisplayPort 1.2 as per the specification page) <- No personal experience, most screens I've ran simultaniously is 3x 1080p off of a FirePro card.
X99 motherboard with 4 PCI-E x16 slots
Some bog standard DDR4-2133 RAM, get 4x4GB or something, to give each VM at least 3GB.
A Xeon E5-2609 v4 1.7GHz 8 core (you don't need extreme GHz, you do want multiple cores, plus Intel VT-d support to passthrough GPUs to the VMs)
VMware will be able to do what you need, take a look at Puget Systems' website for some more information
Bunch of drives, maybe two mirrored drives for fail safety. Or give each VM it's own small drive and back it up to another.

Are you planning to run 4 OSs on that rig with 4 displays each, or one OS with 16 displays?

It can be done then. I'm kind of worried about your CPU though.

If he ends up using 4x of the HD 7750's he's linked above, he'll have very little issues with power consumption. A single 980 Ti or Fury X can probably pull almost as much power as all four 7750's combined.

That's true, but the problem is those cards draw all of that power through the PCI slots.
Altogether that's 280 watts total (assuming you put all of them under load) running to your PCIs. That's quite a bit I think. I'd rather confirm whether my mobo can handle it before trying.

The i7 is something like 20-30% faster, sometimes a bit more I believe.
 
So that means if you had to render a video that would take 10 hours on the 4690k, it may only take 7 hours on a 4790k.
 
 
Here's someone rendering something with both CPU's, the 4790k was 28% faster, that 28% is a big difference the longer it takes to render something means more time saved.
 

It's just from a video on YT, here's a link
 
 
 
 
 
I'm sure if you look hard enough with google searches you can find lot's more evidence / tangible stuffs.  
 
For the most part, if you just look at any synthetic benchmark that can properly utilize every thread, then compare both scores and get the %, the % increase in speed with the 4790k will basically scale perfectly into any other program that can utilize the threads. 
Basically the same goes for clock speed, it's nearly linear for increase in clock speed vs increase in score.   IE: 10% overclock usually will net you nearly 10% of extra performance.

What purchases have you made as a direct or indirect response to a YouTube sponsorship or review video?
Doesn't have to be LMG!
 But if that is your weapon of choice then go ahead, dont complain to me if your back hurts holding a machine gun that heavy.


Corsair K70, I ate that right up after seeing all the ads for the RGB's a while back.

A Second 970 Strix, Tek Syndicate did a video on going from single to SLI. That prompted me to take a look at some other benchmarks and go SLI.

Private Internet Access. Tek Syndicate again.

Lynda Linus Linus Linus... You eventually wore me down and I gave it ago. Loved it and wish I had the time to continue. 10/10 monster trucks though.

Corsair Air 540. Found a two year old video and decided that was the case for me. Ordering this month!

I'd have done other stuff too like Dollar Shave Club but they don't ship to the UK!
So what has Linus coerced you into buying?