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Just a few questions: *** Would quadros be more than you require/you don't require the additional memory? I've use Quadros in the past but IMO they are only worth the extreme high price if your employer is buying them for you. Dollar for dollar GeForce cards will out perform Quadros 10 to 1. *** Would you consider quick-disconnect fittings in the future? No, they are bulky, ugly and prone to leaks, MHO. If you use quality parts and a simple soft tube loop maintenance is infrequent and very simple. *** I saw you had at least 2 taps but you have a less usual loop, how are you anticipating maintenance? Lower tap is drain, Upper tap is vent. Open both and the entire loop drains. When draining I can also blow in the upper vent tube to get out every bit of coolant. I've drained and refilled the loop a couple times during the build and it's quite easy. Maintenance now is drain and fill the loop once a year. A 20 minute job. Oh, and don't use opaque coolants with solids in them. They will plug up your CPU & GPU water blocks. *** Also what liquid are you using? I'm based in Beijing currently and it seems my options are pretty limited unfortunately! Always interested in what others are using in case I can get my hands on some. Distilled water and EKWB EK-CryoFuel Concentrate Coolant, 100mL, Navy Blue (No solids) *** What is the rest of your setup like? I'm interested in your monitors/if you have other specialist equipment. I used a SpaceBall (old term for 3D Mouse) most of my career and won't do 3D work without one. 3DConnexion SpaceMouse Enterprise. I just started posting some of my work on my web site for Family to see. I have a couple pics of my setup here: Pictures Here *** Although you said you didn't want a showpiece, do you think you might try to make something more elaborate/push the build further? I spent about 6 months building and tinkering with this build. I finally decided it was time to stop tinkering and start using. For me, the hardware tinkering can become addicting and I lose sight of the end goal which is Graphics Work.

I dual boot this build with Win 10 for Workstations & Ubuntu. I also run a macOS Catalina VM in Ubuntu just for my macOS fix.

My only regret is not doing it 5 years earlier. I hung on to Apple for far too long.

My New Workstation - TR 3990x & (4) 2080 Ti FTW3 Ultra's Not a gaming rig but a true Workstation. The water was a necessity. Specs: • Case - Cooler Master COSMOS 11 25th Anniversary Edition • Motherboard - Gigabyte TRX40 Xtreme • Processor - AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64C/128T • RAM - CORSAIR Vengeance RGB PRO 256GB (8x32GB) DDR4 3200 • GPUs - (4) EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FTW3 Ultra • NVLinks - (2) HP Nvidia Quadro RTX x16 NVLink Bridge 2-slot • PSU - EVGA SuperNOVA 1600W T2 80+ Titanium • M.2 - (2) Sabrent 2TB Rocket NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCle M.2 • M.2 - (2) Samsung 970 EVO 2TB NVMe M.2 • Case Fans - (3) Noctua NF-A 14 iPPC-3000 PWM 140mm 3,000 RPM Custom Water Loop: • Pump - EK-XTOP Reva Dual D5 PWM Serial • Reservoir - EKWB EK-RES X3 150 RGB Reservoir • Radiator - (1) EKWB EK-CoolStream PE 360 Radiator • Radiator - (1) EKWB EK-CoolStream SE 280 Radiator • Radiator - (2) EKWB EK-CoolStream PE 240 Radiator • CPU Water Block - XSPC RayStorm Neo (AMD sTRX4) Black Chrome • GPU Water Blocks - (4) EK-Quantum Vector FTW3 RTX 2080 Ti D-RGB • GPU Back Plates - (4) EK-Vector FTW3 RTX 2080 Ti Backplate • GPU Terminal Block - EK-Scalar Quad 2-slot - Acetal • Radiator Fans - (9) Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM 120mm 2,000 RPM MORE PICS HERE

That dude has the Golden Build !

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No plans for going to hard tubing. This is just my workstation for my daily fun. I wasn't really trying to build a showpiece. Just a super strong workstation and the components really needed to be on water. If I had done 5 AIOs it would have looked like a couple octopus in my box, so I went with a simple soft tube custom loop.

Temps: After 1 hour Hybrid Render, CPU 64 cores @ 100% utilization, GPUs @ 95-99% utilization. CPU: 66-68c GPUs: 50-55c Water: 42c Power Consumption: Not sure, but when I turn it on the street lights in front of my house go dim.

Ha! I wondered the same thing !?!?! I really like using a Quad 2-slot Terminal Block. My last build had 4-1080 TI's tied together with a terminal block. It makes for a very simple and clean connection between the GPUs. It also turns the GPUs into one strong structural unit with zero sag and no twisting stress on the PCIe slots. I wish EVGA made one but they do not. So I went the more expensive route of going with EK's blocks because they have the terminals available.

Remember the old Apple Ad "I'm a Switcher"? Well after 40 years with Apple I'm Switcher from Apple to PC. Apple is now a phone company. This is my second build after the switch. First was a dual Xeon build with (4) 1080Ti's. I'm a retired Aerospace Engineer and did a lot of CAD and Graphics work during my career. I enjoyed it so much it's now my hobby in retirement. (Never did like to Golf). I use a lot of different software but currently Solidworks for modeling, Cinema 4D for modeling and animations & Redshift for rendering. This is my first build ever with an AMD CPU. All my career in engineering I used Xeon UNIX workstations as that is what they use in Aerospace. Very expensive boxes in the 70's and 80's. Like $70k per box and the CAD software I used was like $50k per seat annually. This new build of mine is 100's of times faster than those vintage boxes I used. Anyway, the main goal for this build was to build the strongest workstation possible inside a standard PC case. This workstation sits on my desk very close to me. I didn't want a mining rig, rack mounts or anything external like MoRa3's etc. My office is fully air conditioned and luckily I'm half deaf so fan noise is never an issue with me. Led Zeppelin blew out my left ear drum at a concert in 1974, indoor venue. I've never been able to hear from my left ear since that day. I feel lucky I didn't lose both. I dual boot this new build with Win 10 for Workstations and Linux Ubuntu. I still keep a Mac attached via a KVM switch but find myself using it less and less. Temps: After 1 hour Hybrid Render, CPU 64 cores @ 100% utilization, GPUs @ 95-99% utilization. CPU: 66-68c GPUs: 50-55c Water: 42c I don't do any gaming but I certainly could with this rig. It's insane fast. This build is actually more suited to Creating games. I modeled my custom Radiator Assembly to scale in Solidworks to insure it would fit in the space I had planned for it.