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back at CES 2017 we got our first look at the Corsair concepts late a theoretical spiritual successor to the big bold and beautiful 900 D fast forward to today and we somehow got one of the only two prototypes in existence here in the lab what are we gonna do with it well how about a bowls to the wall 18 core workstation whoa the producers are telling me that it will also have a second rig in it for gaming this is madness but you know what isn't madness tunnel bear tunnel bear makes it easy to privately and securely browse a more open Internet to try toddle bear for free go to total Vericom slash LTTE to give you an idea of how big this case is the box that it came in is big enough for me to comfortably fit inside and hey when you're this big there's a lot to talk about so let's jump right into an overview of the slate anyway it features nearly 360 degree tempered glass coverage safe for the angular top brushed aluminum accents both of the side panels rocked strong hinges with magnetic catches and they open like suicide doors from what I'm assuming is extra style points now most hinge side panels actually do open this way but there's something extra special feeling about these ones maybe thanks to their sheer girth and weight each air intake comes with what are likely the largest slide-in air filters of any case ever though I guess that comes with the territory then moving on to the inside there's mounting for a whole heck of a lot of hardware and since we have a lot more to cover in this video we're gonna do this in lightning round fashion here in no particular order the slate has mounting for two motherboards five GPUs eight SSDs five hard drives thirteen fans to quadruple 120-millimeter radiators a triple 140 millimeter radiators two power supplies and probably a dog or three and believe it or not we're planning to make use of all of that space with full custom hardline water cooling first some planning though yes we plan let's talk about our parts list and do a dry fit to ensure a that everything is working and B that it will actually all go in there so the final system is gonna be kind of a mullet business that's like content creation 3d rendering etc in the front and then party that's gaming in the back the ultimate best of both worlds within a single tower though like a mullet it clearly won't be for everyone let's start with the content creation rig in typical ltte fashion it's the best of the best Intel's flagship 18 core 79 80 XE might not be a great value for like Adobe Premiere but it does allow for the virtualization of four quad core systems with two cores left over to run the hypervisor and for 3d rendering and blender it absolutely slays in the same spirit of overkill how about for quad rows with a serious amount of motherboard to accommodate them all Asus Rampage 6 Xtreme was up to the task with all the PCI Express slots that we or pretty much anyone could ever need triple m dot two slots for some rated 480 gig nvme goodness 10 gig networking and lots and lots of RGB actually our plans are set to white for the color scheme we have planned so haha take that 2017 to feed those 18 cores with sweet sweet bits and bytes of course they're somehow managed to get us a hundred and twenty eight gigs of their vengeance RGB it's not entirely possible that we are single-handedly causing the continuation of the global DRAM shortage so sorry about that and then as for a GPU choosing one was a bit of a challenge a challenge in the sense that convincing Alex to let us disassemble the 16k gaming machine that he's been using as a SolidWorks workstation since then was a challenge not in the sense that we actually had a ton of cuadros lying around to choose from so these four p5 thousands they don't really match our color scheme but they conveniently support eqi's Universal 1080 waterblock so that is going to be fixed by the next video each GPU here has a cool 16 gigs of vram and 2560 CUDA cores for our power supply we went with a corsair ax 1500 i it's one of the only units on the market that can handle everything in this system then we added some sexy white gray and blue cables from cable mod onto our ITX gaming rig this one is a whole other ballgame instead of focusing on quantity like sake cores or GPUs it's all about quality now the core i7 7700 K isn't it technically Intel's top consumer CPU right now but with a little bit of overclocking we aren't really making any compromises here because like we're still talking about 22 processing cores in a single box the GPU was an easy choice here we went for the NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti which should handle gaming all the way up to 4k resolution with relative ease and then we actually managed to get two more 16 gig dims of Corsairs vengence RGB ddr4 bringing our case total to a whopping 160 gigabytes of RAM all that fits neatly into a Suzy 270 I which shares a similar monochrome aesthetic with our rampage board and of course has even more RGB which again we're probably not going to use and then this rig has to slum it with a single 480 gig MP 500 nvme SSD for the OS and any important programs or games finally it gets powered by Corsairs SF 600 power supply which also gets the same cable mod treatment to stay consistent with the rest of the build while we're around the back here let's talk storage each one of our systems will get its own triple 480 gig SATA SSD raid 5 array for super fast but not as fast as nvme storage then for mass storage the main workstation system has an additional 312 terabyte Seagate iron wolf pro drives that could actually be set up as an as for both rigs with virtualization actually it could probably serve the rest of the house too if you're into that sort of thing even with though all this incredibly opie hardware the slate still looks almost empty so hopefully water cooling components and lighting will fill it up a little bit more in part 2 but before we get to that we want to show you guys some baseline air-cooled numbers for our rig as expected we're looking at pretty good temperatures on the main system with nocked who has NHD 15 on a 79 and then unsurprising GPU thermals for cards that are installed this close together our gaming system was a completely different story though since we could only fit a Noctua l9 I in the space available temperatures on our 7700 K were basically pegged at a hundred degrees even with the absurd 30 to 50% throttling we encountered definitely no thanks to the massive airflow restrictions in the form of the four Quadros and the 1080 TI hopefully though we'll be able to do a little bit better than both of them with a couple of d5 pumps and some thick radiators but again you'll have to stay tuned for part two for that speaking of part two have you ever had one of your devices and it's in two parts and you want to put them back together wow that was painful I fix it has got the tools for you not to mention the guides I fix it is all about helping people repair and upgrade 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