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gotcha, well, if you remember to do so, i would appreciate the info, and i also meant what radiator core did you go with for the EK setup.

@CCPSSteve which core did you opt for? care to share the temps you see at idle, and under load?

thanks, my only hesitation with custom loop is that this will be my first liquid cooling endeavor,

bummer man, sorry to hear that, but glad you mentioned it, I will probably avoid Enermax then,

@King Poet First off, sorry to drag you back to this oldish thread, but I am finally about to pull the trigger on my Threadripper Virtualization build, and wanted to do a quick sanity check. So i have pretty well settled in on the Zenith Extreme Alpha, and the 2950x, but my question to you is this, have you been satisfied with the Enermax LiqTech TR4 II 360? I have read some pretty negative reviews on it, and just thought I would ask you about your experience with it, I am thinking either just getting a Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 for the time being, then upgrading down the road to either an AiO or custom loop, I have been having some issues finding compatibility listed straight out for TR4 sockets on many of the AiO websites descriptions, Thanks,

nice, if you do get a chance to play with it today, I would be interested in seeing how your results turn out!

Silicon Lottery ? and no, we arent necessarily supposed to just change chips, its just that the 4770k is now almost a 6 year old chip, and those that purchased at launch (myself included), have been using for a solid amount of time now. I was musing that the haswell chips seem to be a rock solid chip, that a large portion of people are still using, especially since the 4770k at least has been discontinued for just over 3 years now as well.

delidded? or just on the outside of the IHS?

basically this guy. https://www.youtube.com/user/MrBeast6000

Awesome! you should let me know how high you can take it! I would be interested in your results.

LOL im no expert either lol ?

Gotcha, really, its not to much to tackle. you can find fully built out CSS and just tweak it to what you want it to look like, if you wanted to get that gem up and running.

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Always a good plan. you never know when you will need to stretch that extra little bit.

I see you went with the 1200 watt PSU as well. ?

well experience is better than what I could offer.

No problem! you can also plug all your stuff into this site, to see the absolute bare minimum that your setup will draw, this number seems to be short typically though. especially since any heavy load tasks with increase power draw. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU Intel - Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $529.99 @ Amazon CPU Cooler Antec - Mercury 360 RGB 73.31 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler Motherboard ASRock - Z390 Taichi ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $189.99 @ Newegg Memory G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $289.99 @ Newegg Storage Corsair - MP510 960 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $249.99 @ Corsair Video Card EVGA - GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB XC ULTRA GAMING Video Card (2-Way SLI) $1717.04 @ Amazon Video Card EVGA - GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB XC ULTRA GAMING Video Card (2-Way SLI) $1717.04 @ Amazon Case Lian-Li - PC-O11 Dynamic (White) ATX Full Tower Case Power Supply EVGA - SuperNOVA P2 1200 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $179.89 @ OutletPC Case Fan Corsair - HD120 RGB 3-Pack w/Controller 54.4 CFM 120mm Fans $74.99 @ Amazon Case Fan Corsair - HD120 RGB 3-Pack w/Controller 54.4 CFM 120mm Fans $74.99 @ Amazon Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $5073.91 Mail-in rebates -$50.00 Total $5023.91 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-01-22 17:18 EST-0500 You can edit the parts as you see fit to make sure everything is correct.

Thats good option, Honestly though, if you are not considering pinching pennies, I would opt for something more like a 1200W PSU, especially if you think that you might ever Overclock any of it. Plus the EVGA XC will draw more power than the Zotac, something like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KYK1CKI/

and what model are the 2080 TI's?

lol yep! do you have a budget you want to stick to for the either additional or upgraded PSU?

Ouch, I am still running the 7850, I know, crappy, but just dont game on it any more, and it pushes what I need it to do lol

I guess though with all that RGB, aesthetics may be important to you. ?

Power supply replacement is pretty easy actually, especially if you dont care about aesthetics of the build. I would say that you would get less headache from doing the power supply replacement instead of an additional PSU down the road.

That is a pretty sweet deal!