on christmas eve of last year we introduced the Corsair concept slate
with an air-cooled ultimate 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 going
to 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 gotta tell you what's not a crazy concept mac weldon mac
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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 gtx 1080 short top blocks
onto all of the quadros these coolers
have shorter acrylic covers for improved compatibility with cards like the p5000
that we're using and then a single standard full cover water block for the
gtx 1080 ti the plan here is to use that
last card for a dedicated compact gaming
system while the quadros 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 cnc work like that
the two CPU blocks were a little bit easier to install sort of our mini itx
strix z270 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 m.2 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 for 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 motherboard full of gpus just be
really careful with the o-rings don't tear them and make sure that all eight
are properly seated because of 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 xc 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 going to 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 Corsair 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 leak 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 resolves 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
lidding and then as for our gpus those dropped almost 30 degrees from an
average of 82 down to 53.5 at full CPU
and GPU load in id64 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 knock to a l9i
which caused our 7700k to hit 100 degrees and throttle 30 to 50
percent 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 glam montages set to music
my eyes
it'll be
oh
i told you
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 rig's 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
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