the pudding

The W3175X build is slowly coming together, got the aforementioned 3175X in the post yesterday, most of my water bits should be here tomorrow if DHL is to be believed and my coldzero trays/bits are in production now

I had decent luck overclocking my 7980XE on air, was able to get 4.4 on an AK620 so this should handle pretty well I'd reckon

Finally got my X299 micro 2 back off of my brother haha, decided to use it for now, keep the X299 dark for playing with and for benching with my other more badder 7980XE, got a nice OCUK binned 7980XE in this one, 4.8 1.3v, likely just stick to this until I get my W3175X for the SR3 haha

Yeah as an ex prototype machinist, your early prototypes are always going to be super expensive, your later prototypes will be cheaper but still expensive and your late prototypes are when you get into engineering for manufacture and this is where your test runs for mass production begin, I recall a product I helped with having a starting prototype cost at 2000 of the kings finest beer tokens, by the time we were to late prototypes we were into the 250 range and mass produced parts were somewhere in the 85/unit range if memory serves

Speaking of xeon dark, snagged this chonky lad for a good deal local

I'd hope not, I'd love a W790 dark haha

You're welcome

just from some quick testing with a U12A, one is a bit so so, 4GHz 1.2v, one is alright, 4.2 1.17v and one seems to be pretty good with 4.4GHz with 1.2v, looking forward to seeing what this last one does under water

What's better than one 7980XE? three of them

Oh my, that's pretty, love the heatkiller blocks and all, really nice looking system that, with that said though I don't have to worry about rad space

I think the mini 18 core box is a go :3 just gotta snag the case and buy my friends 7980XE when I get paid tomorrow

More than likely, but then I kinda like the idea of shoving an 18 core into an matx box and doing my first ever hardline loop all told, recently did a build for a friend in a fractal pop mini and I was impressed by it all told so I kinda like the idea of a full on blackout build in just such a case with a few modifications Pic of the friends build for tax, pretty pleased with it considering it was a pretty budget machine all told

snagged a brand new X299 micro 2 for 185 shipped

I'm really hopeful for these yeah, time to remortgage the hoose lmao

Yeah this is the really big fly in the ointment for me, I'd have liked to just do a proper hardware NVME raid, only way around that is just to use all intel drives, or source the vroc key which is easier said than done here