JapanDave

BTW, here is the link to the Card I bought on Amazon Japan. RTX 2080 Ti SEA Hawk Ek X The Japan Yen price is 295,632 Yen, which works out to $2,700 or there abouts. Actually at today's rate it is $2,821, but I added the price conservatively.

Thats b/c , I have not fully flushed the red coolant out completely. You have a good eye!!!

Things are just expensive here. What stains are you talking about?

This is what you call overkill.

Not a bad idea.....

Why return it when you could have it for a unit to run leaks tests!!! An expensive one at that.....

Entirely possible, since I have replaced just about everything else. I have enough parts to build another 3 PC's.

I was disappointed to know that the RGB fan does not work unless on overload.

Mainly Excel and Word. Maybe same Solitaire.

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Welcome to the the Why so much Over Kill build Log: My first Hard tube water cooling attempt. Well, finally I can say I have everything working, thanks to the many experts here on this forum as this is my first build in 8 years. Firstly, my parts list. AORUS XTREME ThreadRipper 3970x MSI Sea Hawk RTX 2080 Ti x 2 G.Skill Royal Trident 256GB 4 x AORUS 2TB NVMe Thermaltake Core P7 Thermaltake RGB PSU 1250w EKWB and Thermaltake water cooling parts I am still waiting on GPU as the place I bought it from says it will arrive in mid April. OK, so I am guessing a few of you guys may already know this, but I went through a bit to get to here. Five motherboards, two CPU's, four aluminum Radiators, one set of 126Gb of RAM, one set of 256Gb RAM and a lot of beer later I am finally able to say I have a stable system. I would hate to include all the wasted parts in this build, but I will leave it as is. This build for some reason escalated to a full on hard core build as I destroyed MOBO's and ordered while the BEER was flowing. So, here goes, the timeline of my build. MOBO No 1, ROG Strix X570-E Gaming: This MOBO was a causality a un-tightened hard tubing fitting and spurted coolant on the board which caused booting issues. MOBO No 2, ROG Crosshair VIII Formula, MOBO cost escalating. This MOBO was an unfortunate issue with over tightening a fitting on the V-RAM water cooler, even though I tightened the fitting with my fingers. MOBO No 3, ROG Zenith II Extreme | Motherboards | ASUS Global. Decided to go all out and go ThreadRipper. Problem was that I could only get half the 128Gb G.Skill memory I had bought to work. So I bought another MOBO. MOBO No 4, ROG Zenith II Extreme | Motherboards | ASUS Global. I decided it must be the RAM so I went ahead and bought 256Gb of G.Skill Royal Trident 256Gb of RAM and I was able to get 192Gb of RAM to show, plus I was getting issues overclocking of the RAM and really bad bench test scores. So I said F**k it and went with the AORUS XTREME MOBO to see if this would change anything. MOBO No 5, TRX40 AORUS XTREME (rev. 1.0) | Motherboard - GIGABYTE So, initially it would not post, even after many attempts with many RAM sticks tried. Had some beer as I thought I was screwed again and low and behold it posted. Added the RAM one stick at a time and what do you know, I was able to get all RAM registered. Install Windows and all necessary drivers (Which BTW was much better than the ASUS experience). I was then able to OC the RAM and run some bench marks which well exceed anything I was able to get previously. Anyway, I did not plan on build log so I only have half finished pics and vids.

OK, So let me just make sure I am interpreting the correctly, slot 1 and 3 for the Aorus board are the best and the Asus board won't matter which slot it is in?

WTF, can't control what I have just posted.

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZHGpDx CPU: AMD Threadripper 3970X 3.7 GHz 32-Core Processor ($1949.99 @ B&H) Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Royal 128 GB (4 x 32 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($699.99 @ Newegg) Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Royal 128 GB (4 x 32 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($699.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($379.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($379.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($379.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($379.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Seagate IronWolf Pro 16 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($499.99 @ Adorama) Storage: Seagate IronWolf Pro 16 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($499.99 @ Adorama) Storage: Seagate IronWolf Pro 16 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($499.99 @ Adorama) Case: Thermaltake Core P7 ATX Mid Tower Case ($299.99 @ Amazon) Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower iRGB PLUS 1250 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($449.99 @ Amazon) Operating System: *Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 32/64-bit ($199.99 @ Adorama) Case Fan: Thermaltake Riing Plus 14 RGB TT Premium Edition (5 Fan Pack) 63.19 CFM 140 mm Fans ($149.99 @ Amazon) Case Fan: *Thermaltake Riing Plus 14 RGB TT Premium Edition (5 Fan Pack) 63.19 CFM 140 mm Fans ($149.99 @ Amazon) Case Fan: *Thermaltake Riing Plus 14 RGB TT Premium Edition (5 Fan Pack) 63.19 CFM 140 mm Fans ($149.99 @ Amazon) Case Fan: *Corsair LL120RGB LED (Three Fans With Lighting Node PRO) 43.25 CFM 120 mm Fans ($129.99 @ Best Buy) Case Fan: *Corsair LL120RGB LED (Three Fans With Lighting Node PRO) 43.25 CFM 120 mm Fans ($129.99 @ Best Buy) Monitor: LG 38GL950G-B 37.5" 3840x1600 175 Hz Monitor ($1796.99 @ B&H) Monitor: *LG 38GL950G-B 37.5" 3840x1600 175 Hz Monitor ($1796.99 @ B&H) Custom: MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk EK X (Purchased For $2773.00) Custom: MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk EK X (Purchased For $2773.00) Custom: EK-Quantum Velocity sTR4 - Nickel + Plexi (Purchased For $134.00) Custom: EK-CoolStream XE 480 (Quad) (Purchased For $170.00) Custom: EK-CoolStream XE 120 (Single) (Purchased For $76.00) Custom: Pacific DP100-D5 Plus (Purchased For $249.00) Custom: Pacific DP100-D5 Plus (Purchased For $249.00) Custom: Pacific PR22-D5 Plus (Purchased For $189.00) Custom: Thermaltake Pacific DIY LCS R15 200ml Reservoir (Purchased For $44.00) Custom: Thermaltake Pacific Red 4 Build-in O-Rings C-ProG1/4 PETG 16mm OD Compression Fitting (Purchased For $350.00) Custom: Thermaltake Pacific DIY LCS Chrome G1/4 90 Degree Adapter (Purchased For $130.00) Custom: EKWB EK-HD PETG Tube (Purchased For $378.00) Custom: Zopsc G1/4 Internal Threads Water Cooling Valve (Purchased For $60.00) Custom: Bitspower Water Tank Hexagon 34 with RGB (Purchased For $194.00) Custom: FREEZEMOD BLACK DIGITAL THERMOMETER (Purchased For $30.00) Custom: Thermaltake TtMod Sleeve Extension (Purchased For $107.00) Custom: EK-CoolStream CE 560 (Quad) (Purchased For $260.00) Custom: EK-CoolStream CE 560 (Quad) (Purchased For $260.00) Custom: Bitspower 90-Degree (Purchased For $156.00) Custom: Shipping to Japan (Purchased For $1970.00) Custom: TRX40 AORUS XTREME (rev. 1.0) (Purchased For $1290.00) Total: $23465.80 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available *Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-03-07 08:34 EST-0500

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Does that mean it does not matter which slot they are in?

I can't find anything on this in the Manuals. It just says install the the slot that supports your card.

Hey All, Is there a performance difference with running in either slot 2 or 3 pcie 4.0 over the first slot with a GPU or two. Ie, on a AORUS EXTREME or a ROG ZENITH II EXTREME motherboard with RTX 2080 ti's Cheers

OK, checked all the RAM and slots. The RAM is all OK as all sticks run fine in the working slots.But I have found the the DIMM B1 and B2 are not registering RAM at all and slot B1 is causing a post error.But , what I can't work out is that this is the second MOBO with the same results. Is this just a fluke or is something wrong here?

Good point, I will add that to the OP. Sorry for my dumbness, but what is PBO?

Ahh, Thanks so much. Finally got the 10gb Ethernet working.

Are you using the 10gb lan port? If so, how did you get it to work?