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If you really want to clean it.
Use 90% and above isopropyl alcohol and a soft toothbrush

Yeah, it's non electrically conductive.
Whether or not you needed to clean it, honestly idk, I don't dab into custom watercooling.
 
But if it's me, and I want to custom watercool it, I'd want it as clean as humanly possible.
Because regretting later means I will have to tear down a custom watercooling, and it's a PITA

Correct. Since it's non conductive and automated in its application from the factory, they tend to put more than necessary and it just spills out to the sides like that. 

In and of themselves bigger drives are not more durable. What makes them so in this sort of situation is there are many more memory cells available to the wear leveling algorithm.

I know that people have been generally positive with Unraid in recent years, though I can't speak for how effective it would be for your specific uses
 
The only M.2 riser I have used us an Asus card which was highly proprietary, though I think this particular one is s more suitable for you

Given how small the db are, I wouldn't be concerned about finding the fastest NVMe drives. Durability is more important.
 
I would suggest using 2x4TB rather than 2x2TB. Much more than needed but should extend lifetime.
 
 

It depends on the availability of parts in your region. Epic Rome CPUs as well as 3000 series CPUs are extremely potent for huge scale like what you described, so I would suggest that to start, assuming you are comparing similar generations of AMD vs Intel (when Zen 2 processors came out they dominated Intel in the server and prosumer space)

What are the clients doing? You might not need raid for speed, but I definitely recommend it for redundancy
 
Some software like Unraid might work for you

Plug it into the PC via USB and works with Fortnite no issues.
 
Just get a  PC headset and he can carry on as normal.
Don't need that for Fortnite, windows recognises the DS4 as a controller.

I cant help with the headphones but I use DS4Widnows http://ds4windows.com/ to enable ps4 controller use on the pc. 
 
There are presets on there or you can remap buttons as you need to. 

Fortnite uses the Epic Games Launcher, so download that and then you can install Fortnite. When I have used my PS4 controller on my PC it has an audio output (I never used it though so may not be that good) and I dont know if the mic will work. You would be better off buying a PC headset.

I can't find a way to switch from my login with Facebook to a dedicated E-mail and password for Linus Forum?
 
How do you do this?
 
Never-mind, I just figured it out.

I can't find a way to switch from my login with Facebook to a dedicated E-mail and password for Linus Forum?
 
How do you do this?
 
Never-mind, I just figured it out.

Pretty rough, but did you have a particular reason preference for the Seahawk?
 
Looks like there's a Zotac waterblocked card for 184,045: Zotac 2080 Ti
or alternatively an MSI Trio Ccard for 164,444 MSI Trio and the corresponding waterblock for 24,618 Waterblock for MSI Trio

Mainly Excel and Word. Maybe same Solitaire.

This is what you call overkill.
 
 

Mainly Excel and Word. Maybe same Solitaire.

imma just stop by to say: im sad this much money have been spent on a PSU, and its not a flextronics. so its overkill on the price, but not overkill on the actuall PSU.
 
otherwise looks like a great overkill build. 

My Ferrari 308GT4 costs less to buy than that...
What do you plan on doing with this system anyway?
 

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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.
 
 
 

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Wait, no.  I've found the answer.

And here is the ASUS board.