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At 60l it's yuuuuge, i'm more in the market for something I could take on an airplane with half that size You're just not utilizing them to the full potential. Beefy chips like 2696/2699 v3/v4 even at stock settings (18-22 cores at 2.8GHz) are rated for a respectable 140W and can actually reach that thermal dissipation and go even higher with all-core-turbo hack. I'm considering ATX form factor boards, of which there basically only two noteworthy options: Asus Z10PA-D8 and Supermicro X10DAL. Both claim to not support SLI officially. Good to hear Asus's board supports it away, and it looks like for the Supermicro board its BIOS probably also can be coerced into supporting SLI - https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/6841zw/til_nvidia_sli_support_is_drm/. I'd probably go with Supermicro - it's more featureful, whereas Asus is a really barebone server without even onboard audio. Yeah I fear thermals and cooler would be a problem for a small ATX board and case. Water cooling however is a big no-no if I were to board with it on an airplane. U12's should fit even on ATX, this guy managed to fit two U14S just fine: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/D6QZxr. Both are >160mm however, more than 140mm supported by the tiny Lian Li case I'm considering, so I might have to compromise on overclocking or the small case in the end Edit: found Jonsbo U4 - similarly small case, airflow a little worse but supports 170mm coolers, cheaper and available right now, it just might be my new case

Nice build, I'm think of building something like that with my pair of good old 2696's. I don't see much the point of using not top-of-the-line processors for dual xeon builds when even a single cpu from newer generation can be much better and get you there for a fraction of the price. Fortunately 2696 are very competitive even today thanks to all-core-turbo hack and very good value used today, two of them would be a real monster (72-88x 3.4-3.8Ghz or so), good bye public cloud One thing I'm worried about is will it blend run tensorflow & co if I stuff it full of GPUs? From some quick searches about dual xeon motherboards I gather these things pretty much universally don't support SLI (PCI lanes routing is hard or some sh*t like that). Is SLI just a silly gaming thing? CUDA workloads work just fine without it? What's your experience? I'd seriously choose a smaller case than Phanteks. Currently looking forward to Lian Li V720 which should be coming "any moment now", it's ATX with what seems like nice airflows and looks and most importantly cabin baggage sized at about 30l. 140mm cooler height restriction for it is just somewhat disappointing, and it has to be aircooled for airline's safety, any recommendations for best under 140mm 2011v3 cooler?