so i'm pitching to brandon i'm like this is gonna be a case unboxing it's gonna
be like exciting you're gonna be excited look at this
it's one case but it comes in two
gigantic not to mention very heavy boxes
and he's like now i've seen that before
with the haf stacker it was terrible
yeah that was terrible but but but no
this time it's gonna be different this is the case Labs
thw10 a massive chassis
for a project i'll get to that later for a project
that i've had on the go for several months now an attempt to
take seven gamers one CPU and make it productive
six 8k video editing stations running
off of a single motherboard and for that
i needed a case that was pretty unique
so let's open it up and make sure that everything fits
damn it
oh i bent my key i need a knife
so step number one here is figuring out
how the devil to open this thing well that explains why it didn't come off
this is like it's a it's a it's an odd sized case so
this is actually two case boxes
one put down on top of the other and they don't fit all the way
i can do this i'm a professional unboxer brandon
second person my ass wow
this thing is really big
i guess while i open it up i should explain
so once it's finished this system is going to have two 28 core cpus which is
why it needs such a large motherboard tray so we're going to be using a an ssi
eeb sized motherboard so that doesn't fit in just your standard atx case
then much of the rest of the case is going to be taken up by radiators because the
finished system is actually going to have
six high-end graphics cards if i can get my
way they're gonna be quadros which would put this system somewhere in the
neighborhood of seventy to a hundred thousand dollars
but when you consider how much a you know professional workstation with a
xeon CPU and a quadro graphics card costs in the first place 64 gigs of RAM
and all that good stuff for six of them in one tower i don't
know it's not that far off is it
come on it's like giving birth
wow from just looking at the one side panel
you clearly did not get a sense of the full scope
of this monster
i'm a professional unboxer brandon so back to why we need all that space so we
got this giant motherboard we got all these graphics cards we need cooling so
there's gonna be i don't remember how many but somewhere in the neighborhood
of like eight radiators to make sure that our dual cpus
and six graphics cards will all be adequately cooled
then things get really interesting because
you can see back here we've got almost as much space for hardware behind the
motherboard tray so there's not going to be really any graphics cards here or
anything as we do on the other side
and i have big plans for this so
i've been doing some experimenting with a really unorthodox storage solution
so have a look at these these are u.2
to pci express times 4
slot adapters so i was concerned that because i was
going to be filling up all of my pci express slots with graphics cards that i
was going to have to get down to single slot somehow i wasn't going to have any
way to put sufficiently high speed storage in the machine because these are
professional workstations i want every boot drive to be super fast so what i
wanted to do was take the four u.2 slots
here that's a really unique feature of this board and connect them to optane
memory drives however the standard two and a half inch u.2
form factor at the time i was planning the project anyway
didn't have capacities that were high enough for me to have enough space for
six vms to have a decent sized boot drive so i figured okay here's a
solution we adapt them to pci express slots so
my intention is actually to use a bunch of the space
back here to mount
these adapters from micro SATA cables
and somehow or rather
like oh like that or something i don't know so that i can have full size pci
express optane drives uh these 750 series are just here for testing
purposes then it gets even more interesting
i haven't actually even done a test fit for this yet
but there's a company that makes a pci express 16x like it just plugs
into a slot to eight times slot adapter using a
bunch of plx chips so what i was kind of hoping when i saw that is that i could
put all of those over here somehow somewhere and then every vm could have
its own usb card dedicated to it so that it could have full plug and play now
that we've got the skeleton open we can go ahead
and peek behind door number two so case Labs cases are like quite
modular so you get all these like pieces and you
kind of screw them together yourself
that also allows them to have a lot of different options so if you were the kind of person who isn't living in 2018
and wants you know a lot of five and a quarter inch bays in the front or whatever then you wouldn't go for these
like full sized or nearly full size we've got one five and a quarter inch
bay up there on each side uh like grill fronts
this is all just mounting hardware in case accessories
holy crap okay feet are on so let's start popping
some panels on this thing we've got the dual
ventilated top panel so all the side panels which are tempered glass by the
way i have now checked
i actually don't know what i'm more excited for at this point
doing the finished build or just
getting my stuff off of this horrible test bench for the rest of my testing
you know maybe you guys can let me know for a build like this
do you prefer you know
legit workstation hardware to to look legit in workstation
or do you look at an expensive machine that i mean let's face it we are going
to game on it and see those bare green RAM pcbs and go
ugh like should we put heat spreaders over those just get some after-market
ones i want to know so even though this motherboard
dwarfs a normal board
it still looks tiny in here
i don't think this system is going to be movable by a single person
when we're done
it here so lonely
so that's pretty much it let's uh take it upstairs
okay
i'll be fine
okay project bad door opening plan here we go
oh no okay okay
oh make me move
sorry not meaning to be rude but just
oh okay what
have i unleashed
all right do you want to grab an end i don't feel like doing this on my own anymore
okay ready and one two three
there we go
hopefully this thing still works after being transplanted it's always a concern
wait what where are all my drives
wait no i didn't plug in the SATA cable that
is going to power all the drives so uh
we're gonna shut this down but that's okay that's the end of the unboxing of
the thw10 hope you guys enjoyed it and stay tuned because there are going to be
more updates on this project for sure there's gonna be some crazy hardware
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