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on Christmas Eve of last year we introduced the Corsair concepts late with an air-cooled ode to mid build that was pretty neat but apparently left some of you wanting more well your blue balls can rejoice because the Blue Monster is complete and we're gonna walk you through the process of building in the dual system case that Corsair introduced as a crazy concept but looks like it is actually coming to market but first I got to tell you what's not a crazy concept Mac Weldon Mac Weldon makes great underwear t-shirts socks wallets and more they believe in simple shopping and if you use code tech tips they'll get 20% off at the link below the first step was to remove the previous air-cooled build that was done for comparison's sake starting with the one Quadro that was left in it after the system got raided for our triple projector gaming setup then finishing with both motherboards with their air-cooled Hardware still attached to them next began the tedious process of installing GT X 1080 short top blocks onto all of the quad rows these coolers have shorter acrylic covers for improved compatibility with cards like the p5 thousands that we're using and then a single standard full cover water block for the GTX 10 atti the plan here is to use that last card for a dedicated compact gaming system while the quad Rose power a top-of-the-line workstation now as much as we'd have loved to film the entire process here in real time I don't think even our petabyte project server could stomach that much 8k red footage and neither could I so time-lapse it is oh man that's looking good I don't know if I could ever get sick of gorgeous C&C work like that hmm the two CPU blocks were a little bit easier to install sort of our mini ITX Trixie 270 motherboard gets a standard ek supremacy Evo so that one was all good but getting the rampage six extremes monoblock on is a bit of a weird process that involves punching through the plastic blockages in the mounting holes on the motherboard replacing the vrm heatsink with something reminiscent of an n dot two cooler and then finally hand tightening the thumb screws on the back after popping both boards back into the slate followed by the four Quadros we arrived at terminal time the last build that we used one of these four was actually with a custom one designed for seven cards in seven gamers one CPU so then I mean by comparison quad GPUs is a pretty normal configuration so this four-way terminal is again by comparison and off-the-shelf item and a perfect way to plumb up a whole nother board full of GPU just be really careful with the o-rings don't tear them and make sure that all eight are properly seated because they leak right in your GPU stack is very likely to end up killing something to cool our dual system build ek graciously provided two quad 120 millimeter XE series radiators for the workstation portion and then an additional triple 140 thick radiator for the gaming system so that's right folks we're gonna be running two independent loops which will allow our systems to function without the need to power on both of them at a time mounting the rads was impressively easy thanks to the fancy sliding mount system that course are built into the slate but we're actually a little torn on our choice of light loops for the 13 fan slots that we're filling for the imposing but classy aesthetic that we ended up going for we think it may have actually been a bit better to go pure performance with their maglevs instead the rest of the planning bending cutting tinkering small modifications and cable management or lack thereof took about two days on and off resulting in a super clean aesthetic accomplished in part by our signature hard in the front soft in the back style you might think it's kind of dumb but it actually saves a significant amount of time both during the initial build and more importantly whenever you need to crack the loop open for maintenance then it was time to fill up the loops via the installed d5 pump and reservoir combo units starting with the workstation build this way we could make sure that no leaks sprouted in any spots that our ITX systems GPU would hide and no leaks surprisingly with thankfully the same story again for our ITX build which is really good because it would have super sucked to empty both loops and fix a leak down there with both of them mostly full we poured in some coolant concentrates from primo chill first an opaque white for the workstation then a light blue to match our cables for the gaming build but before we get to the glam montage nope not quite time yet I want to run you guys through our cooling results for the workstation temps went down from just over 70 degrees average on our 79 XC 18 core Extreme Edition to 61 degrees a pretty decent improvement even if I think we could do better with the living and then as for our GPUs those dropped almost 30 degrees from an average of 82 down to 50 3.5 at full CPU and GPU load an eye to 64 and this is with all of our fans running at their minimum speed so this thing is super quiet as for our ITX system well we saw big improvements there and not just to temperatures also performance with so many cards installed in our workstation our little mini ITX air cooled system was limited to a suffocated low profile noctua l 9i which caused our 7700 k to hit a hundred degrees and throttle 30 to 50% at stock speeds our water cooled rig predictably turbos the CPU up comfortably and maxes out the GPU at 54 degrees after a prolonged stress test now with that out of the way here's one of our famous gland montages set to music okay so that was fun but um back to reality for a minute why why would anyone need a case like this well we came up with a couple things let's say that you do 3d design work in programs that can take advantage of multiple graphics cards like blender or 3ds max with a system like this you could dramatically speed up your render times and still game or do other work while the main system is chewing away at a large job or how about streaming many streamers use two systems so that they can keep encoding to one of them to avoid impacting the primary rigs gaming performance with all that said though since literally none of the internal components get reused in a configuration like this one and the slate is slated to cost as much as two separate high-end cases there are some pretty strong arguments to be made for just having two normal systems like stacked on top of each other so once again we're turning to you guys in the comments what would you use a concept slate for let us know and while you're at it let us know if you've ever heard of iFixit I'm sure you have if you watch our Channel I fix it is all about teaching people how to take stuff apart and fix it and they're leading the charge in the electronics repair tools industry as well with their iconic black and blue Pro Tech tool kit it's now only 60 bucks and features their 64 bit driver kit a 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