The reliable monster build

[binji556]

Background

 

Country: United Kingdom

Budget: £9000

Aim gaming / rendering / trading / statistical analysis, these might be very broad for now, but it might be useful to know that I’m not looking to do several tasks at a time!

Peripherals I listed the ones I want within the build

Overclocking plans yes, but not for professional level purposes

Monitors Not yet decided, but expecting to spend more for multi-screening (1 super ultrawide + 2  ‘’27’s  most likely if I can get them to fit in )

 

 

 

Build

 

Case CORSAIR OBSIDIAN SERIES™ 1000D FULL TOWER CASE

 

CPU  AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32 Core

Motherboard ASUS® ROG ZENITH EXTREME ALPHA

RAM 64GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 3200MHz (4 x 16GB)

 

Custom Liquid Cooling Kit Corsair Hydro X - RGB High Kit

Tubing Clear Hardline Acrylic (Metallic Fittings)

Graphics Card Cooling GPU Water Block - For Two Identical Graphics Cards

Coolant Mayhems X1

 

Graphics Card 8GB ASUS ROG STRIX GEFORCE RTX 2080 - HDMI, DP

2 Graphics Card 8GB ASUS ROG STRIX GEFORCE RTX 2080 - HDMI, DP

 

1 Storage Drive 2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA 2.5" SSD

2 Storage Drive 4TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s

3 Storage Drive 4TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s

 

1 M.2 SSD Drive 2TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2

2 M.2 SSD Drive 2TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2

 

Power Supply CORSAIR 1200W HX SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® PLATINUM, ULTRA QUIET

 

Power Supply Cables CORSAIR Premium Individually Sleeved PSU Cable Kit Pro

Thermal Paste COOLER MASTER MASTERGEL MAKER THERMAL COMPOUND

Sound Card ASUS STRIX Raid Pro 7.1 PCIe sound card

Wireless/Wired Networking 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT

USB/Thunderbolt Options 2 PORT (2 x TYPE A) USB 3.1 PCI-E CARD + STANDARD USB PORTS

LED Lighting 3x Corsair 50cm White LED Strip

 

I was pushing for the best performance/money ratio as much as I could in this build, let me know if I have done anything wrong that contradicts such fact, safety comes first for me since I’m going water-cooling specially after lots of reading and YouTube reviews I realized I have to go for hard tubing due to the fact that PETG most likely to loosen up with fittings over time, I found it the safest option to go for I might be wrong though, I know some serious chunk of what I’m paying going for storage but honestly I do expect in fact that I will go that heavy that’s why I provided for it, I might change my mind later but don’t give them too much attention, I want to make sure that there is enough measures put in place in case I want to unlock all potential performance out of what I have in my build and I would love to know how to optimize some of my choices to a better performance/money ratio balance to make sure I’m not either overpaying or underpaying any of my choices. Quality/money ratio is something that I want to improvise on, I want to make sure that I get a very good quality component for what I’m paying and that means I would rather Not to go for a cheaper option unless I’m guaranteed such good level of quality that competes with the one I’m referring to in my build, in a nutshell I prefer to pay more for the best but with reasonable limits towards the price differences.

 

Note that my choice of graphic card is restrained by the space between pci ports based on my choice of motherboard or else I could have opted in upgrading my choice for a better performance one within the same brand range.

 

Also note that some of my choices in the build are rgb since im choosing this theme for my interior lighting color preference.

 

I’m clearly looking for a dope look for my interiors including lighting aspect of it and how the water-cooling will look and I’m not going to sacrifice the look of my build against other component options unless there is a good reason for this trade off, for instance I had to choose acrylic over PETG for the fact that PETG is not safe, even though personally I would have loved the look of PETG over acrylic and also it would have been more flexible to work with PETG compared to acrylic.

 

Extra Questions:

 

What is the ultimate solution to leaks? what precautions can you implement in your build that would prevent leaks or lessen the risk of damaging other components in case of any leak happening?

 

Is there any type of insurance that you can buy to cover accidental leak damaging other parts of the build?

 

Is it possible to hire someone to do the usual maintenance service for your water-cooling system as long as you are running it? what do you call such a job? Is there really a difference safety wise doing it myself or hiring someone to do it for me? Are there any companies offering such services rather than freelancers?

[TheNaitsyrk]

5 minutes ago, binji556 said:

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I did something like this, but better:

 

[seon123]

13 minutes ago, binji556 said:

What is the ultimate solution to leaks?

Not having water in your system. If you want reliability, go for air cooling. If you want your system to be loud and less reliable, get water cooling. Your choice.

15 minutes ago, binji556 said:

Power Supply CORSAIR 1200W HX SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® PLATINUM, ULTRA QUIET

For normal ATX form factor PSUs, you will get most uptime by having redundancy. The FSP Twins is available in up to 700W. It's essentially two PSUs stuffed into one. If one fails, you can swap in a replacement. There are tradeoffs for the redundancy, though. You might also need to change the system specs, depending on how you will use your PC.

https://www.amazon.com/FSP-Swappable-Redundant-Guardian-700/dp/B072WHHL7F

Another alternative is to get an actual server grade PSU.

17 minutes ago, binji556 said:

2 Storage Drive 4TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s

QLC will not be as durable as MLC or even TLC, but it is cheaper.

19 minutes ago, binji556 said:

RAM 64GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 3200MHz (4 x 16GB)

Depending on what you do with your PC, you might want to consider ECC memory.

20 minutes ago, binji556 said:

Overclocking plans yes, but not for professional level purposes

Are you just planning on switching the overclock profile on and off depending on what you do with your PC...?

[TheNaitsyrk]

The build will suck. I suggest to fix things.

Last gen 32 core that's not even fully utilised in certain applications, gaming on it is horrible, budget quality SSDs, case that makes 0 sense because it's made for water-cooling and it weighs a ton so it's not even easily movable and you want warranty for leaks. It doesn't exist. You need to check your priorities, more cores doesn't mean superior performance in everything.

 

"Maintenance for water cooling system", if you mean replacing coolant, then learn how to do it yourself, it's not hard.

Worst thermal paste there is. Use Thermal Grizzly Kyronaut.

Server grade CPU and no 10GbE in sight... 

No Acrylic, PETG is safer.

Overclocking with Ryzen... Not going to get much.

GPUs make 0 sense in this budget range too.

Doesn't add up. Get 2x 2080 Ti.

Edited October 12, 2019 by LogicalDrm
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[LogicalDrm]

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Seriously people, I have better things to do than babysit forum. Stay on topic or don't stay at all. There's no point of responding if it isn't constructive and helpful to OP.