WING X99 | A CNC-milled Scratch Build! (Benchmarks, temps and wallpapers posted!)

[DaftBehemoth]

Holy hell man. Stumbled upon this build from Corsair sharing it on Facebook. Absolutely brilliant work on every level. Well done.

[Marine_Boy]

This is amazing! I have never seen something like this ever in my life. It looks even better than the render. Following this build log was like watching a series in TV and every post was like one of those cliff hanger endings  Great job! 

[adams]

Damn.

[Charles Root esq.]

Magnificent.

 

Thank you for sharing your work. It has been a beautiful thing to watch this coming together.

 

[Brodholm]

On 6/8/2017 at 7:48 PM, Kevo05s said:

This is by far the most beautiful thing I've seen in a LONG time!

may I point out you just missed an easy Star wars reference here  (X-Wing 99)

Yeah  I guess I did
 

On 6/8/2017 at 7:50 PM, paddy-stone said:

Brodholm that is fantastic, I mean I thought the updates were excellent, but man it didn't prepare us for the final look of this build

 

Now just sit back for a bit and enjoy, you deserve a massive rest after all that hard work. I would love to see this in person, but doubt I will ever get the chance. I love the channels you made for the liquid to pass from one component to the next instead of using tubing all the time, it is a very well thought out design and really adds to the asthetics of the case.

Can you tell us how it runs please? like what the idle and full load temps are when running benchmarks/stress tests are please? Not that it matters as that is a really good design anyway, but just for curiousity's sake?

 

Thanks man! It runs really quiet. I have not had time to test around much yet. But idle with fans around 600 rpm. CPU package and GPUs are at 30-32 C. Air around is about 23-25 C.

When doing 4K export the fans ramp up a bit and down, goes between 800-1200rpm. CPU package bounces between 42-46 degrees. I have a curve set to increase the fans depending on the temp.
 

On 6/9/2017 at 1:20 AM, 0ld_Chicken said:

This build log has been amazing!!  You've put an incredible amount of work into JUST documenting this process, on top of the actual process it's self and I really appreciate that.  

 

Thanks so much for sharing this with all of us and I hope you enjoy it immensely!

No problem! I am just happy everyone enjoyed it this much! I find it is good to document what you do. at least I tend to be a bit more meticulous in my process! 

On 6/9/2017 at 11:35 AM, Charles Root esq. said:

Magnificent.

 

Thank you for sharing your work. It has been a beautiful thing to watch this coming together.

 

Thanks man!



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Also want to say huge thanks to everyone who posted that I did not quote. I think it gets a bit weird to say thanks to everyone in a lot of quotes in a row. But HUGE thanks to everyone who commented! Warms my heart! THANKS!

[PCGeekUt]

Absolutely beautiful work. I love watching the fill videos. Quite mesmerizing. I am currently designing a plate for a build that I am working on. Would you mind answering a question or two? I am semi-new to acrylic work and a complete noob with creating waterblocks. When you created the main cover plate, did you carve the fluid channels on both sides (the bottom plate and the lid) or just the one side. Same question for the o-ring channels, are they done on both plates facing each other? Also, what would be a good rule of thumb when deciding how many screws are needed and the placement to create a leak-proof piece?

[paddy-stone]

54 minutes ago, Brodholm said:

Yeah  I guess I did
 

Thanks man! It runs really quiet. I have not had time to test around much yet. But idle with fans around 600 rpm. CPU package and GPUs are at 30-32 C. Air around is about 23-25 C.

When doing 4K export the fans ramp up a bit and down, goes between 800-1200rpm. CPU package bounces between 42-46 degrees. I have a curve set to increase the fans depending on the temp.
 

No problem! I am just happy everyone enjoyed it this much! I find it is good to document what you do. at least I tend to be a bit more meticulous in my process! 

Thanks man!



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Also want to say huge thanks to everyone who posted that I did not quote. I think it gets a bit weird to say thanks to everyone in a lot of quotes in a row. But HUGE thanks to everyone who commented! Warms my heart! THANKS!

Nice temps   yeah fan curve is always best IMO. I love a nice cool and quiet PC... mine at the moment not so cool when doing a full workload, I need to get organised and get another AIO set up on here, but for light workloads or a lighter OC, the wraith cooler is pretty good IMO.

I bet you're going stir-crazy now the build is over huh? you have itchy fingers dying to get into another project? 

[Blaze0303]

This is hands down the best build I've seen. Bar none. The level of craftsmanship is amazing.

[Brodholm]

On 2017-06-12 at 11:35 PM, paddy-stone said:

Nice temps   yeah fan curve is always best IMO. I love a nice cool and quiet PC... mine at the moment not so cool when doing a full workload, I need to get organised and get another AIO set up on here, but for light workloads or a lighter OC, the wraith cooler is pretty good IMO.

I bet you're going stir-crazy now the build is over huh? you have itchy fingers dying to get into another project? 

Right now I just want to take some time off. That may change any time but as it is right now I am very much tired of computers

On 2017-06-13 at 8:07 PM, Blaze0303 said:

This is hands down the best build I've seen. Bar none. The level of craftsmanship is amazing.

Thanks man! Really appreciate it


Also, someone noticed that there are no pictures from behind. I must have missed to post one. But I found one now so I thought that I would post that now!
 

[paddy-stone]

5 hours ago, Brodholm said:

Right now I just want to take some time off. That may change any time but as it is right now I am very much tired of computers

 

Very understandable - enjoy your rest

 

[Brodholm]

On 2017-06-21 at 3:26 PM, paddy-stone said:

Very understandable - enjoy your rest

 

The itch is slowly but surely coming back... I can feel it

[done12many2]

@Brodholm This is absolutely fantastic!  Congrats on a job well done.  It's beautiful.  

[Cinfucious]

I subscribed to these forums just to applaud your effort @Brodholm. You are so far above the average quality of build. Even with your level of talent this build took years, imagine how long a newcomer would take! Precision in a craft is achieved over a career and you have already proven capabilities well ahead of what many could dream. 

 

Just one question. How long did the concept, design, and planning take?

[Brodholm]

On 7/6/2017 at 7:48 PM, Cinfucious said:

I subscribed to these forums just to applaud your effort @Brodholm. You are so far above the average quality of build. Even with your level of talent this build took years, imagine how long a newcomer would take! Precision in a craft is achieved over a career and you have already proven capabilities well ahead of what many could dream. 

 

Just one question. How long did the concept, design, and planning take?

Concept is basically something that comes to me and I go around and think about it for a few days and scribble some things on a paper. Design and planing is what takes a lot of time. Basically I go through 10 major revisions where the design and layout can change drastically back and forth. Then the small things like a how much radius this corner should have, what feel it should give etc that takes a long time and you have to decide on things and if it does not feel right the first time It probably isn't. So then you revisit that and change it for the better. 

Design, concept and planing is probably half of the time it took to make this

[Brodholm]

Hello again! I just did some benchmarks, temperature, fan speeds and power usage tests. I also selected a more reasonable number of pictures to fix up for wallpapers and re-did some of the edit on them to fix/adjust the color balance/hue/contrast and exposure! And I also removed the big water mark on each picture since it was a bit disturbing. The "album" should now have much more of a flow to it and have a red thread, so you can easily navigate through the pictures. That was some of the critique and I can agree on that and have made adjustments for it! 

Some people have made request for me to make some wallpaper versions so here is a Google drive 4K PNG Wallpaper Link. I also included some updates to the "Battlestation" and some updates on some small things like how the fan filter looks after 6 months

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Computer performance and temps after 5 months of constant daily use (+6h each day). All in all, the system runs perfectly with a low noise level with the fans doing around 7-800 RPM when in idle and with it ramping up to about 850 RPM when doing gaming, rendering and other heavy tasks. While I could run the system on higher fan speeds to gain a few degrees it seems hardly worth it. But It is good to know that I could If I wanted to. The Corsair Commander have been quite good and really easy to use and setup, both with hardware and software. Being able to set your own curves for the fans is a really nice feature that I value a lot. It is a nice unit all in all the only thing I wish it had was on board memory so in case the computer hangs or the software crashes it would still be able to control the fans. But that is about the only bad thing I can say about. And the Link software has come a long way for those who haven't used it for a while.

3Dmax Timespy with Gsync Off and got the following score. CPU @ 4.0 GHz and GPUs at stock settings.

 
Time to do some benchmarking now (about 5 months later). Everything have been running smooth and I have been using the computer about 8 hours a day or so. This is the result in Cinebench Running CPU test with CPU @ 4.0 GHz @ 1.20 v. Fans at Adaptive speed (goes to ~850 RPM)

 
Temps during the 3Dmax test and power consumption. We can see that with 2xD5 Pumps, 7x140mm ML Fans, Strix 1080 in SLI strix, 2x800gb PCIe SSDs from Intel and a 10-core 6950X uses about 571 Watts from the wall. Notice that the fan on the Corsair AX1200i is still at 0 RPM. Pushing the air through the radiator to the PSU is enough cooling for it to always be passive. I have never seen the fan spin on the PSU even under these types of loads for longer periods. Quite impressive I must say!

 
This is the computer at IDLE while having the fans (4xCorsair ML140 push and 3x in pull) all on a dynamic curve that I have set up. With the fans going from 500 to 1800 RPM. We can see core temps around 35-39 C with the water @ 34 C and Air in @ 27 C. Drawing from the wall socket about 240 Watts.

 
This is the computer at IDLE while having the fans (4xCorsair ML140 push and 3x in pull) all on maximum RPM. We can see core temps around 32-34 C with the water @ 32 C and Air in @ 27 C. Drawing from the wall socket about 250 Watts.

 
Doing Ray Tracing in Autodesk Inventor using 100% of the CPU. Ran for 873 seconds with the fans at dynamic speed that settled around 850 RPM. With the CPU temps being around 58C and a power consumption about 360 Watts at the wall.

 
Doing Ray Tracing in Autodesk Inventor using 100% of the CPU. Ran for 757 seconds with the fans at max speed (1800 RPM). With the CPU temps being around 53C and a power consumption about 360 Watts at the wall.

 
Running Playerunkown's Battleground @ 120-140 FPS (2K res, Ultra on AA, Textures and View Distance, rest on low or very low). You can see here how much PUBG utilizes SLI... One card is basically not used at all.

 
I upgraded my setup with some more stuff. I won a Corsair T1 RACE with WING X99. And after having used it for about 3 months I thought I would give my thoughts on it since there is not that much info out there I feel. All in all I am very pleased with it. And one of the best things with it is how nice the "roller blade" type wheels are. It is like gliding on a cloud compared to hard plastic wheels and much softer on your floor and it does not get stuck on cables and stuff. The material feels soft and has a very high quality. Also, the armrests were surprisingly comfortable. It has this "carbon" texture to it that is tightly wrapped or molded over a springy foam that feels really nice. The ability to change the width, height, "out and inwards" and back and forth position of the armrests is something I did not think I would do much, but I have ended up doing a l lot. The only thing I wished was that it was just a tiny bit wider over the back of the chair. For me it is just right but could have been a bit bigger. If I were to compare it to my previous chair (DXracer formula) this is much nicer in quality over all. The T1 RACER has a material that feels nicer, it has softer padding in the base. It is basically a higher quality chair over all. It is also quite a bit easier to assemble alone compared to the formula chair. The biggest thing for me was that the formula chair was WAY too narrow in the base so my thighs hurt while sitting in it for longer than 30 minutes. I actually had to swap back to my IKEA chair. But as always when it comes to chairs it comes down to personal preference. I would suggest trying out chairs before buying. But I can highly recommend the T1 RACE chair if you are looking for a high-quality chair. For reference I am 182 cm tall and weigh about 80-85kg and that is about 6 feet and 185 lbs.

 
This is the texture I was talking about earlier. It looks really hard, but it is actually really nice! And it does not collect dust/skin particles. I was a bit worried about that the first time I felt it. But this is how it looks after almost 3 months of usage!

 
I also swapped out my Corsair LUX K70 with MX browns to a Corsair K90 RGB Platinum with Speed switches that has a lower actuation point. Compared to the K70 if you don't compare switches the K90 has nicer media switches and a really nice wrist rest that you can swap for a rough and a smooth surface. All in all, a really nice upgrade and if you like macro keys it has 6 extra to the left that can be quite useful. My thoughts on the speed switches is that you sacrifice a bit of typing comfort compared to my overall favorite brown switches. But I ended up using the speed anyway, it still has a nice feel when typing but it feels much more fast and rapid when gaming. I went back to try brown after a few days of using the speed, but it felt sluggish in games compared to the speed ones. I definitely think it is worth it if you play a lot of games, especially FPS. On the subject of RGB I really like the ability to have specially assigned colors each key and that you can have layout profiles tied to different applications. I am not really a RGB person per say but the biggest thing is that you have options. In desktop I still use a solid red color and when I play games I have specially assigned key colors in my most played games. I would say that is basically always worth to get RGB versions compared to solid color ones.

 
I also swapped to the Corsair Harpoon mouse since the K65 mouse did not really fit my grip. It’s a really cheap and simple mouse that does its job well!

 

This is how the dust filter looked after 6 months of use! Should probably clean that more often

Also the GPU bubble is gone! But as I did some refilling and cleaning out some dust on the cars this bubble came out from one of the blocks and got stuck there... But It will be gone in a few days or so, but still annoying when you are taking a picture That is all I have to update on the WING X99 Project. So far everything has been working perfectly and I am happy with how it looks and how it performs! I am sorry that I did not get this update up earlier and I have been promising people performance benchmarks and temps for a long time! Sorry about the delay!

Cheers

[PCMods]

Perfection

[Alikhanizadeh]

Thanks for the update, your build was inspiration before I built my PC. It's beautiful!