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The full build has been completed and I'll be uploading the last of the water cooling portion soon. It's Christmas and I'll be playing Battlefield and flying back home, sorry I guess Thanks for coming along with me in this journey!

It's for me. I built my first PC 6-7 years ago, and I was looking to upgrade. It's my first time water cooling too.

SPECS: CPU: Intel - Core i9-7900X 3.3 GHz 10-Core Processor (DELID) Motherboard: Asus - PRIME X299-A Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 32 GB DDR4-3200 Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 1 TB Video Card: EVGA - GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Case: Lian-Li - PC-O11DW Power Supply: Corsair - 1000 W PSU Monitor: Dell - AW3418DW 34.1" 3440x1440 120 Hz Monitor Other: EK Vector 2080ti GPU Waterblock Other: EK Coolstream XE 360 Triple (x2) Other: Radikult Custom 280 Reservoir Sorry! Totally forgot to post them

The year is 2049. The replicant threat has spread to the net. In order to go against the rogue replicants, you'll need a better weapon. Wallace Corporation has you covered. Hello, I've spent the last two months putting together a new system. Inspired by the design elements in Blade Runner 2049, a 2017 film directed by Denis Villeneuve, I tried to encapsulate the environment inside of the Wallace Corp building. While the outside world of 2049 is bleak and cold, Wallace Corp is warm and natural, filled with wood grain and pseudo-sunlight. I have a write up of the design and build here. The total cost came to around 5K. I was able to get some good deals, through employee purchase programs, etc. SPECS: CPU: Intel - Core i9-7900X 3.3 GHz 10-Core Processor (DELID) Motherboard: Asus - PRIME X299-A Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 32 GB DDR4-3200 Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 1 TB Video Card: EVGA - GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Case: Lian-Li - PC-O11DW Power Supply: Corsair - 1000 W PSU Monitor: Dell - AW3418DW 34.1" 3440x1440 120 Hz Monitor Other: EK Vector 2080ti GPU Waterblock Other: EK Coolstream XE 360 Triple (x2) Other: Radikult Custom 280 Reservoir Thanks for taking this trip with me and I hope you enjoy. You can find the full album here.

My contracting rate is 150$ an hour ?

While that would probably work, it would probably be pretty ineffecient. If you have desktop access to the VM running the games, you could encode directly on the VM then, compose and upload to twitch. Pulling it off a capture card, then pushing it back up to a cloud provider, which is ultimately limited by your upload speeds.

Fan shrouds are finished! Spent a few hours CAD'ing and laser cutting. Here's me checking the brightness and "light pipe" effect of the material, normally this stuff looks greenish, but with the wood and warmer light it shapes up nicely. Here's all the fans attached! I mocked up a test design with some scrap acrylic, mainly to see how much of the ring diffusers I wanted to cover up. Here's what the material looks like on the laser bed, it essentially projects any incoming light to the edges. Neat effect! It's really a shame that I'm not doing a cyber punk 2077 build Tossed to the wayside..... I simply repeated my top shroud cuts onto my veneer pieces and applied a double sided tape mask, peeled off the backing and stuck it on. I also made a side panel to cover the side of the fan housings. Since this veener is slightly transparent, some of that light bleeds through as well. Here's the finished product! And here it is with both of them mounted in the case! It looks very very similar to the renders, I'm happy with how it turned out. I finally got shipping confirmation on my CPU so stay tuned for when I delid and install the water cooling bends. I ordered parts to do loop pressure testing and I'll be getting some final odds and ends for when I finish this build, probably next week!

I FINALLY found out a good usage for the veneer I've got left. I picked up some beautiful acrylic from a local plastics shop and plan to do the following. I'll laser cut out some of the florescent orange and place it over my fans. Their Corsair LL 120s which are f**king expensive, fortunately I got some of them on a black friday sale. Basically, I plan to veneer the acrylic on the top side, then let the light from the fans spill through. This will create a nice orange lit edge which fits well into the over all aesthetic. I'll do some test runs this Friday. Check the parent post for my latest render. NEXT UP! The wallace corp emblems. I'll keep the branding minimal, I'll most likely make a badge for the front and one to cover up the water pump

Definitely seems like homework! But I'll give you a few pointers. You're looking to bucket (i.e. group) people who have the same items. A dict will do. Iterate through the given dictionary, for each key, iterate through the items. Set this as your key for your new dictionary. You'll need a way to store this collection of people grouped by item, I'll leave that up to you. After you've grouped by item, simply iterate once more and output the list of people for each key.

Here's some info I gleaned from an interviews with some DICE devs. I'll dig up the link. As someone who does a lot of work with GPUs. NVIDIA does a great job of supporting their technology with well written drivers CUDA, any of the GPU acceleration libraries. Basically, DICE had implemented BF5's raytracing passes with NVIDIA's lower level libraries, and from what I heard they're able to push the same FPS with RTX. However, in order to release this to a wide platform and integration with DX12, they had to use DX12's version of NVIDIA's RTX implementation. Essentially, they're waiting on MSFT devs to update DX12 backend. I was able to get my hand on an nvidia debug profile while running RTX in BF5 and it's clear that the "RTX" cores are severely underutilized.

GPU / CPU Water block time! First off EVGA does a KILLER job with their thermal management. The back plate has tons of thermal pads, and there's an intermediate layer for capturing heat from the VRMS / chokes. I'm really sad to remove this cooler, oh well the EKWB one will perform better since it's got a MUCH larger surface area and the VRM cooling is only 1.0mm from the metal. I digress. I'm planning on reusing the EVGA back plate by machining out the existing holes and using the larger EK screws. Cleaned off all the gunk with some ArtiClean 2-step. I had it laying around, it works well and it smells good too. Time to apply thermal pads and paste. Now, contrary to popular belief, you can go nuts on the GPU thermal paste. EK says to make a "star shape" Next is to smush it all together and put it in! But, before that I'm going to change out the JET in my CPU waterblock. It's .2 mm thinner so I guess that's going to give me better cooling. Off comes the shiny base, and in goes the metal piece. NEXT, I did a test fit in the case. Still no CPU but I'm really liking the look. I'll probably pick up an EK backplate if I can't mod my EVGA one. Looks pretty good with the colors! Stay tuned! I'll probably fabricate some more wood parts soon.

Custom Veneer time. I ordered some absolutely beautiful veneer from thinwoodandoldtools on ebay. It's Marbled Sapele Wood and it was only 6$!!!! Considering what other components cost, it's a bargain. With a bit of contact cement and some exacto blade work, I was able to apply the veneer pretty well! I decided not to veneer the entire shroud because these are largely accents and will be covered up by the GPU / water cooling system. I also decided not to veneer the front panel since it can't be easily removed, and it's brushed aluminum is beautiful as is and would detract from the case design. Here's a test fit with my custom wood pieces installed, it's a really clean look IMO. I'm still on the fence about the "ice blue" accents, I'll probably paint or tint them a darker orange color. I've got some really nice orange acrylic. The white cable mod extension kit is looking pretty good too! I've got a sticky note as a cheaper stand in for my 7900x which is getting shipped to me by a friend later this week.

GPU Testing! I picked up my RTX 2080ti (EVGA Flavor) on black friday. A local computer store had 100$ off the XC gaming model. I ended up paying 1169$, which is nearly how much I paid for my FIRST gaming computer 6 years ago. I think they might have dropped the price since EVGA cards, and RTX in general, had been catching on fire. That's what a good warranty is for right? ? I popped that bad boy into my existing system. i5-3570k OC'd to 4.2, 8gb ram, etc. Surprise, surprise, the CPU is bottle necking preeeety hard here. I was still getting the same frames in BF5. I was mainly testing the GPU, I wanted to try RTX but windows update was causing BSOD's. I didn't end up overclocking it since I only have a 600W PSU. Ooooh RGB! (I think?) I received my EKWB for the GPU in the mail so I'll be installing that shortly.

Reservoir has been mounted! Had to drill some holes but the fit is nearly perfect. Thanks to Radikult Customs!

Here's a fish eye render.