So some of you may remember my last build, many years ago. Two 3930k machines in a single smallish case. It served me well all these years, although overclocking claimed first one cpu, then, a month ago, in the middle of a job, the other .
Well. They lasted a good many years, and simply made my new build (long planned) urgent. My obsession with fitting things in smaller spaces than they should be has not diminished.
So. Take the smallest atx case available, the wonderful Cerberus X, and add the most powerful single cpu on the market, the mighty 3990x, and squeeze one inside the other. What do you get?
Super low temps, decent OC, and capacity for 4 full size gpus... What? Impossible?
I did cheat somewhat.
A project i did a few years back was a massive external watercooler, designed to silently cool multiple machines - the start of a renderfarm project which never materialised.
Its theoretically capable of dealing with 4kw.
turns out its just perfect for cooling a 64 core cpu and 4x gpus.
(at the moment im recycling the 2x gen1 titan x from my old machine, wallet needs to recover)
Its (almost) silent, and even gpu rendering on both cards ad cpu, with cpu running at 3.9 ghz (430 watts!) my cpu temps never go above 65 degrees. Gpus stay around 30.
"whats the point of a small case if its attached to that big ugly lump?" i hear you ask.
Well, the advantage is, its connected with quick disconnects:
So when i go away, i can disconnect it and easily (not so easily, it weighs 20kg) take it round to a safe place. Its worth more than my car after all.
The other point, perhaps more important: if i already have the cooler, why use a big case?
At the moment its missing a carrying handle on top. It was delayed and is being shipped seperately.
She has been running for a week, and so far.. Wow! Rock solid stable.. And the step up from a 3930k is.. Notable.
Well. They lasted a good many years, and simply made my new build (long planned) urgent. My obsession with fitting things in smaller spaces than they should be has not diminished.
So. Take the smallest atx case available, the wonderful Cerberus X, and add the most powerful single cpu on the market, the mighty 3990x, and squeeze one inside the other. What do you get?
Super low temps, decent OC, and capacity for 4 full size gpus... What? Impossible?
I did cheat somewhat.
A project i did a few years back was a massive external watercooler, designed to silently cool multiple machines - the start of a renderfarm project which never materialised.
Its theoretically capable of dealing with 4kw.
turns out its just perfect for cooling a 64 core cpu and 4x gpus.
(at the moment im recycling the 2x gen1 titan x from my old machine, wallet needs to recover)
Its (almost) silent, and even gpu rendering on both cards ad cpu, with cpu running at 3.9 ghz (430 watts!) my cpu temps never go above 65 degrees. Gpus stay around 30.
"whats the point of a small case if its attached to that big ugly lump?" i hear you ask.
Well, the advantage is, its connected with quick disconnects:
So when i go away, i can disconnect it and easily (not so easily, it weighs 20kg) take it round to a safe place. Its worth more than my car after all.
The other point, perhaps more important: if i already have the cooler, why use a big case?
At the moment its missing a carrying handle on top. It was delayed and is being shipped seperately.
She has been running for a week, and so far.. Wow! Rock solid stable.. And the step up from a 3930k is.. Notable.
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