Dual Xeon, Dual Titan Z. Gaming/Workstation beast. (Name TBD)

[Jumper118]

We made it to the theatre (after doing 100mph in his fancy car at one point), and got in our seats right as previews ended... I hate missing previews.  Movie was awesome, but that's off topic.  We swung back by his house and wrapped up the build at around 3 am.

100mph is quite slow. my alto could do 100 down a hill with a tail wind. also a pcie ssd would have been nice.

[Real_PhillBert]

Mother of god... 

[mcmad358]

not impressed     pocket change

[meikat]

btw what happen to the other 2 monitor?

 

 

still loss at sea?

Nope, they came in finally.  No pics of them hooked up yet though.  We have to pull the glass off to connect them.

I am calm now. Will it be a normal black one or the fancy EVGA one? o_O

I'm assuming you mean This one? If so, yes.  It's on the orderlist for Phase 2.  He has family in town all this week, so nothing will be accomplished this week, but I'm trying to get our huge orderlist ordered before the end of the week.  I'm still waiting for him to decide on a few options I presented him.

@meikat how are you going to connect the sound and RAID cards? The Titan Zs take up too much space on the board?!

The EK waterblocks we're ordering come with a dual slot conversion, so everything will fit nicely.  Right now we have some room due to using the bottom most slot for a Titan Z and letting it hang off the board.

100mph is quite slow. my alto could do 100 down a hill with a tail wind. also a pcie ssd would have been nice.

It was 100mph on a road I really probably shouldn't have been doing 100mph on.  I came off the interstate on to an offramp that put us into Disney Property, and had about 1/2 mile until a turn I had to slow down for... so naturally I floored it to 100mph and then slammed on the brakes.  

[Maki Role]

Must admit I'm very curious to see how you'll do the watercooling. The RH Cross is not easy to WC despite being designed entirely with it in mind. Sure you'll be able to put in almost any part you could want without a hitch, but it's difficult making any of it look good. So far, I haven't seen a single Cross desk build that really looks great (in my opinion that is), even Peter Brands himself made a messy one, nothing on his L3p D3sk.

So good luck, I'll be over the moon if you make this look truly fantastic. Looking forward to the future progress!

[13CA350]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/kKvbRB

 

I did my best. This doesn't have the case, or the water cooling.

 

It sits at 18,000 USD, missing the water cooling, the expensive case, the UPS, the monitors.... Cha ching.

 

Edited: Added a rough estimate for the desk, based on the OP's post. 20,000 dollars now.

 

I added the second Xeon, now it's over 20K

[meikat]

Must admit I'm very curious to see how you'll do the watercooling. The RH Cross is not easy to WC despite being designed entirely with it in mind. Sure you'll be able to put in almost any part you could want without a hitch, but it's difficult making any of it look good. So far, I haven't seen a single Cross desk build that really looks great (in my opinion that is), even Peter Brands himself made a messy one, nothing on his L3p D3sk.

So good luck, I'll be over the moon if you make this look truly fantastic. Looking forward to the future progress!

 

I agree that most cross desk builds look cluttered or messy.  The problem with being able to see everything, is of course, that you see everything.  I've been building modded PCs since before we had fancy cases with all this cable management built in, so I know a few tricks for hiding wires.  There will be a few cables I will have issues making completely hidden, but for the most part, almost no cables should be seen.  My goal is to feature the hardware, the tubing (hard acrylic with custom bends and really nice fittings), and hide the cables as much as possible.  A lot of effort over the next couple weeks will be spent getting everything in place, and extending power cabling so it can be routed around the outside edge of the case and dumped in to the rear compartment to be connected to what it needs to be.  The SSD array on the right side of the desk will have an aluminum shroud covering everything except the drives, so the cabling will be hidden.  I really think this PC should not be an eye sore, but of course if you don't think ANY of the cross builds are nice to look at, I doubt there's anything I can do to impress you.  I think some of the cross builds are gorgeous personally, so It's a matter of opinion.

[Jumper118]

Nope, they came in finally.  No pics of them hooked up yet though.  We have to pull the glass off to connect them.

I'm assuming you mean This one? If so, yes.  It's on the orderlist for Phase 2.  He has family in town all this week, so nothing will be accomplished this week, but I'm trying to get our huge orderlist ordered before the end of the week.  I'm still waiting for him to decide on a few options I presented him.

The EK waterblocks we're ordering come with a dual slot conversion, so everything will fit nicely.  Right now we have some room due to using the bottom most slot for a Titan Z and letting it hang off the board.

It was 100mph on a road I really probably shouldn't have been doing 100mph on.  I came off the interstate on to an offramp that put us into Disney Property, and had about 1/2 mile until a turn I had to slow down for... so naturally I floored it to 100mph and then slammed on the brakes.  

what car was it?

[acidydragon]

I added the second Xeon, now it's over 20K

The second Xeon was already in there.

[meikat]

what car was it?

Cadillac GTS?  The one with the supercharged corvette engine.  All I know is it's better than mine, and damn fast.  He's getting rid of it in favor for some AMG Merc in the next couple months though.

[Jumper118]

Cadillac GTS?  The one with the supercharged corvette engine.  All I know is it's better than mine, and damn fast.  He's getting rid of it in favor for some AMG Merc in the next couple months though.

nice

[Maki Role]

I agree that most cross desk builds look cluttered or messy.  The problem with being able to see everything, is of course, that you see everything.  I've been building modded PCs since before we had fancy cases with all this cable management built in, so I know a few tricks for hiding wires.  There will be a few cables I will have issues making completely hidden, but for the most part, almost no cables should be seen.  My goal is to feature the hardware, the tubing (hard acrylic with custom bends and really nice fittings), and hide the cables as much as possible.  A lot of effort over the next couple weeks will be spent getting everything in place, and extending power cabling so it can be routed around the outside edge of the case and dumped in to the rear compartment to be connected to what it needs to be.  The SSD array on the right side of the desk will have an aluminum shroud covering everything except the drives, so the cabling will be hidden.  I really think this PC should not be an eye sore, but of course if you don't think ANY of the cross builds are nice to look at, I doubt there's anything I can do to impress you.  I think some of the cross builds are gorgeous personally, so It's a matter of opinion.

 

I'd just like to preface that I think I came off as a bit more abrasive than I meant to.  I tend to play more of a hardball approach with big-budget builds as they're destined to receive a lot of attention regardless of the outcome.

 

It's not so much that there aren't any Cross builds that impress me, it's just that the ones I've seen don't tend to utilise the space carefully.  Often people resort to just stuffing loads of reservoirs, radiators and as many waterblocks as one can imagine just because the case is simply so capacious, you'll no doubt have seen the kind of builds I'm talking about.  It's easy to go this route on a build like this because everybody asks for it, the theme is overkill after all.  Given you're not at that stage on this build yet, I figured I would lend an opinion that may be contrary to many others.

 

Those ideas and mods sound really interesting btw.  You'll have a tonne of cabling in this rig as you mentioned, it would be awesome to maybe make a feature out of it.  Maybe going for a completely custom milled reservoir (fits with overkill that's for sure) in the centre aisle with the pumps built into it that feeds the rest via parallel lines (got enough waterblocks for it)?  Obviously these are just ideas and you have your own plans (it's not my place to dictate another project log), just throwing stuff around for discussion's sake.

[meikat]

 

I'd just like to preface that I think I came off as a bit more abrasive than I meant to.  I tend to play more of a hardball approach with big-budget builds as they're destined to receive a lot of attention regardless of the outcome.

 

It's not so much that there aren't any Cross builds that impress me, it's just that the ones I've seen don't tend to utilise the space carefully.  Often people resort to just stuffing loads of reservoirs, radiators and as many waterblocks as one can imagine just because the case is simply so capacious, you'll no doubt have seen the kind of builds I'm talking about.  It's easy to go this route on a build like this because everybody asks for it, the theme is overkill after all.  Given you're not at that stage on this build yet, I figured I would lend an opinion that may be contrary to many others.

 

Those ideas and mods sound really interesting btw.  You'll have a tonne of cabling in this rig as you mentioned, it would be awesome to maybe make a feature out of it.  Maybe going for a completely custom milled reservoir (fits with overkill that's for sure) in the centre aisle with the pumps built into it that feeds the rest via parallel lines (got enough waterblocks for it)?  Obviously these are just ideas and you have your own plans (it's not my place to dictate another project log), just throwing stuff around for discussion's sake.

 

Hrmm... Could be worth looking in to.  We already ordered a double pump, but we could always build it into a reservoir.  I know nothing about getting a custom res milled, nor where we'd get it done.  We were leaning towards doing 3 of the cylindrical reservoirs in a triangle, but he loves custom stuff.  If you, or someone else can point me in the direction of someone who does this kind of stuff, I'd definitely take a look at it and make the suggestion.

[meikat]

Bump for minor edit.  New spoiler for the work that was done this weekend.

[dragoon20005]

3 4k monitors

 

but yea those guys need some monitor mounts or arms

 

are you guys planning to use arms or mounts over the stock stands?

[meikat]

3 4k monitors

 

but yea those guys need some monitor mounts or arms

 

are you guys planning to use arms or mounts over the stock stands?

 

Yep yep.  Check out the wall plate I just built.  that's for the wall mounts to attach to.  We got three of these http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=109&cp_id=10917&cs_id=1091703&p_id=10464&seq=1&format=2

[Maslofski]

not overkill, 2 K6000 + 2 titanzs is overkill

[flibberdipper]

Holy shit, that is awesome.

[Abaris]

The one Rig, I second that.
I have a question, I can't really remember the name of that keyboard, can someone tell me, please?

Awesome work, btw. So jelly right now!

[ShadowCaptain]

Why have I not seen this thread before? I live on the forum ><

 

This is an awesome build!, brb gonna throw my PC in the bin

[SAV1OUR]

The one Rig, I second that.

I have a question, I can't really remember the name of that keyboard, can someone tell me, please?

Awesome work, btw. So jelly right now!

it's an alienwear one

[GhostWindGamer]

Why have I not seen this thread before? I live on the forum ><

 

This is an awesome build!, brb gonna throw my PC in the bin

I can't believe you haven't seen this until now I thought you see everything

[alby800]

Why have I not seen this thread before? I live on the forum ><

 

This is an awesome build!, brb gonna throw my PC in the bin

lol, and you have an i7 and a 780ti,

how do you think the rest of us that dont have a 780ti and an i7 feel

[ShadowCaptain]

I can't believe you haven't seen this until now I thought you see everything

 

I know right? I am looking through your window right now even....erm could you stop doing that?

 

lol, and you have an i7 and a 780ti,

how do you think the rest of us that dont have a 780ti and an i7 feel

 

shh :3

[The_Strict_Nein]

My God.

 

Just, wow.

 

This is exactly what I would do if I had more money than I knew what to do with.