back at ces 2017 we got our first look
at the Corsair concept slate a
theoretical spiritual successor to the
big bold and beautiful 900d 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 balls to the wall 18 core
workstation whoa yeah
wait the producers are telling me that it
will also have a second rig in it for
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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 save for the angular top brushed aluminum accents both of the
side panels rock strong hinges with magnetic catches and they open like
suicide doors for what i'm assuming is extra style points now most hinged 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 two
quadruple one twenty millimeter radiators a triple one forty 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 going to be kind of a mullet uh business so 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 LTT fashion it's
the best of the best Intel's flagship 18
core 7980xe 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
four quadros with a serious amount of motherboard to accommodate them all ASUS
rampage six extreme was up to the task with all the pci express lots that we or
pretty much anyone could ever need triple m.2 slots for some rated 480 gig
NVMe goodness 10 gig networking and lots
and lots of RGB actually our planning is 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 bites Corsair somehow managed
to get us 128 gigs of their vengeance RGB
it's 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 quadros lying around to choose
from so these four p5000s
they don't really match our color scheme but they conveniently support ek's
universal 1080 water block 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 the
Corsair ax1500i 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
on to our itx gaming rig this one is a whole other ball game instead of
focusing on quantity like say cores or
gpus it's all about quality now the core
i7 7700k isn't 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 NVIDIA's 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 dimms of Corsair's vengeance RGB ddr4 bringing our case total to a
whopping 160 gigabytes of RAM all of that fits
neatly into ASUS z270i 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 mp500 NVMe
SSD for the os and any important programs or games finally it gets
powered by Corsair's sf600 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 three 12 terabyte seagate iron wolf pro
drives that could actually be set up as a nas 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 op
hardware the slate still looks almost
empty so hopefully water cooling components and lighting will fill it up
a little bit more in part two 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 knocked out nhd15 on a 7980xe 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 l9i in the space
available temperatures on our 7700k were
basically pegged at 100 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
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