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I didn't know that those words could go together...

They have a massdrop for 34UC87M-B right now for $714. It's next goal is $699.

I didn't know that those words could go together...

They have a massdrop for 34UC87M-B right now for $714. It's next goal is $699.

Thanks for the shout out!
It's exciting to finally have it on my desk, but I won't have benchmarks till this weekend.

I have a feeling that you are replying to a wrong thread X]

A custom chassis is going to cost you a bit of cash. I'd recommend finding something off the shelf and see what you can adapt to fit your purpose. The 3U chassis I used in my NAS will likely fit your needs given what you've profiled, and shorter chassis are available from that distributor if you need something shorter, and they support standard ATX power supplies.
 
Rather than trying to profile for radiators as well, I'd recommend looking at the Noctua NH-D9L, which is a low-profile, 3U compatible, quiet CPU cooler. I've used it in my NAS and I can speak to how well it works.
 
Again, though, look at what is available off the shelf before going with something custom.

maybe with a pcie riser for the gpu and a min itx board so the mobo side isn't overwhelmingly larger? haha

I love the PSU stomach and the cable spine idea haha 

not sure how well that pump config will work...
its impossible to get both pumps to run exactly the same with the same pressure and flow
that may cause air problems

If you want brain, I don't know if you want to try painting stuff Pink? Lol, just a thought. If you're putting the power supply hidden or something, you could route some of the cables and use long cables to make a spine that like goes down the back, to the power supply if you put it where like the stomach is, cause like, the stomach digests food, and like energy.....idk, I didn't take Biology this year  I'm past that easy shit

pcie riser is a must, but the board is square while the gpu is rectangle lol,
maybe you can make a casing thats the same shape but fits both on the inside?

There's a few problems with your idea.
 
The GPU can only address to it's RAM and that RAM is specialized for GPU computations. It doesn't have the ability to run programs directly, merely the graphical aspect of the program. So, for your idea to work, the GPU would need to sacrifice it's specialization toward ALU function and strap on CPU functions. This takes up valuable space on the card and reduces its performance. Sure, you could place a CPU on the card, but what's the point really if you don't have RAM as well? You're gonna have to communicate across the PCI-E bus to store addresses for the SSD chips after all. So, let's add RAM to the video card too. Cool! Now everything is on the video card. The problem is, you've just designed a video card that isn't upgrade-able and is at least $500 more than the video card was in the first place.
 
You see, everything in your system is extremely specialized. When you load a game from your SSD, the CPU isn't just pointing its finger at the GPU. It's actually executing the program in all aspects except the graphics. It delegates that to the GPU, because it knows the GPU can handle that part of the job the best.

The PCIe bus is fast enougth to handle a GPU and an SDD at the same time. So you can use the normal (SATA) SSD, but you need a good DMA (direct memory access) controller to bypass the CPU.
But it's still better to have the data in the system RAM as it is way faster.

Bit of both. Those loading screens in your games? That's when the system is pulling data from the HDD/ssd and putting it in the GPUs RAM. It stays there until the system doesn't need it - eg. the match ends or you move to a new map or level. 

so something like 64+GB of super speed SSD storage for all the textures on the graphics card and then some normal storage of your choice for all the scripts and executables? i actiually like the idea but i think it might be hard to acomplish, because the textures would have to be downloaded into another place from everything, but maby you could have a program do that after downloadeing? hmmm its an interesting idea but i imagine there is a reson beyond cost that this hasent ever been on a production graphics card yet

They already have high speed, dedicated temporary storage on graphics card: IT'S CALLED THE RAM.
 
Further more, the graphics card can't read anything but it's RAM for actually using it.  Just like how your PC can't directly read the HDD, it has load anything into RAM to actually display it.  Everything has to go into RAM.  With a 16x PCI-Express 3.0 connection  to the system, there's MORE than enough bandwidth to bring in texture data off the storage.

I love the way you phrased your last sentence. It makes it feel like my idea is something that is good and on the path of next level of processing hahahaha.
 
In any case, yeah, that's the idea. As I replied to an above comment, I feel like this could be really useful for eGPU solutions since they have a bottlenecking bandwidth connection between the CPU and the GPU.