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right in front of me my friends is everything we need to build one

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behemoth of a machine we have the 28

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core Intel xeon w 3175x gigabytes c621

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aorus extreme motherboard look at the size of this thing we've got two

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384 gigs of Corsair vengeance memory a

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silverstone st 1200 this is a 1200 watt

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power supply look how small it is and

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well we're still figuring out some of the other things but that's fine this is the

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foundation so this is like a rockin epic build all on its own but

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don't wipe the drool off your chins just yet because this whole thing gets even

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better this right here

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is going to be our case that's right my

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friends this all of it is going into what

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promises to be the fastest hackintosh of

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all time and clearly

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um this is going to be a bit of a challenge

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let's start with what we're trying to accomplish here apple's new mac pro

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release is fast approaching and we want to beat them at their own game so i

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challenge my team to build a computer that beats what apple is going to ship

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this fall now what makes that complicated is that

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in addition to sheer speed i want our machine to match as many of

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apple's features as possible so that is where our

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motherboard choice came in the Gigabyte c621 aorus extreme wasn't

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chosen by accident we went with it because of how many pci express slots it

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has so this board is going to take not just

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our dual Radeon sevens but also

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a piece right here that i didn't talk about in the intro so this is ASUS hyper

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m.2 x16 card this holds up to four m.2

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ssds and it's single slot so what we get then is

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if we water cool our Radeon sevens and install this we take up a mirror

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three of our seven pci express 16x slots

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giving us still anywhere from three to four slots left over for future

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expansion one area where we did have to compromise though was on system memory

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apple's gonna offer up to one and a half terabytes of RAM on the new mac pro

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thanks to Intel's refreshed xeon w CPU lineup but our processor the original

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leon w here only supports a maximum of

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512 gigabytes of RAM and due to

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motherboard compatibility restraints we didn't even manage to end up with that

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much now the good news here is that we still

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have 384 gigs of RAM from Corsair

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which is still enough even for

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most hardcore workstation users and the benefit that we get from this trade-off

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is potentially some overclocking which

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may give us a measurable performance advantage over apple's hardware you know

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it's crazy one of my friends had a power mac g5 back when that thing was current

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and i remember looking at it going like wow that's like a huge computer

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now i'm looking at all the stuff i need to

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pack into this thing and i'm going

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dang this is not a lot of friggin

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space in here and making matters worse

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as a bit of a throwback to the original g5 mac pro we are gonna be water cooling

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this rig and uh that is one of the

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big things that we're going to try to figure out today like we've got some

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rough ideas for how it's all going to go together but in order to validate it we

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need to do a little bit of testing so for the motherboard rather than trying

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to reinvent the wheel we're going to go with the same inverted mount that apple favored back

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in the day so our i o is going to be down at the bottom exactly where it was

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on the original computer that was in this case but obviously the back panel is going to

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need to be completely redesigned because apple had it all in single file like

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this and they only had four expansion slots and obviously we're

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going to have a total of seven so that's going to need to be reconjigured

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it would be really nice if we could still retain the original side panel

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latch but if we can't make that work then that is something we're willing to

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compromise on the power supply mount is where things already start to get wonky

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so apple already had one of those pass-through

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power things here so the plug is at the back and then there's going to be a cable that has to go into the actual

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outlet on the back of the power supply but

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instead of orienting it in an obviously sensible way like this where all of our

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modular cables could come out on this side what we're actually planning to do

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is go like this and then

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run all the power along the back of the motherboard tray to get to where it

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needs to go the reason for doing it that way is that it may end up being the only

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way that we can fit in all of the radiators that we're going to need which

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i guess brings us perfectly to all the radiators that we're going to

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need so we've got a couple of different options either we're going to end up

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with dual 120 millimeter radiators or

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we're going to end up with a single 360 and a 240 so

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it all depends though on whether we can get a 360 to fit into the front of this

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chassis one thing's for sure we are not going to

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end up with an optical drive um yeah so this is all going to have to be

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ripped out and then we may get a fan in here but

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we're definitely not plugging in any SATA devices right here and there may

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not be a ton of room for the check this out dual 24 pin power connectors on this

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motherboard so our other rad

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is going to go right where you see it and the motherboard is actually going to come right up here to the top

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so theoretically

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all of our pci express slots should be accessible now pump and reservoir we

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haven't actually finalized yet it's very unlikely that we're going to end up with

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a res this big but i think the hope is to have the res kind of live

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up here or something and then maybe

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whatever expansion card that we need like

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if we wanted to run 10 gig networking or something maybe we could find a half

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height one that we that we take for granted is going to be installed in that

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slot and it goes under the res or something like that we might just end up

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with a smaller one and then for our pump we're fairly committed to using a d5

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pump just for its reliability and quiet we would like the machine to be quiet!

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but we're not 100 sure where that's going to go yet i mean it could be as

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simple as checking it down here or it could not uh what else do we have

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oh yeah our fantastic underwear lttstore.com but

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that has nothing to do with this build ah good so this

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is one of the single slot water blocks that we're going to be using for our

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Radeon sevens these are from ek they're super sexy they're super more

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importantly single slot and that's what's gonna allow us to do i mean well

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one two four Radeon sevens we're gonna go with

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two just because we're not sure about having enough cooling capacity for more

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than that but uh ta2 is not half bad

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see the thing about radiators is it's really easy to get caught up in test

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fitting a radiator and going oh it fits and then you go oh shoot i need another

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25 millimeters for the fans that need to go on it

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that's what i was a little bit worried about here in the front but you can see once we pull this optical drive out that

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may actually give us the space that we need to squeeze this in see that how it

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kind of fits at the bottom but not at the top

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i think we might actually be alright there so we'll need low profile water

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cooling for the vrms we don't even need low profile water

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cooling necessarily for the CPU especially if this is up another two or

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three inches this actually might be feasible and you know what for the

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reservoir if we made a custom bracket that hangs off the cross brace that's

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built into the original case we might even be able to do like a shorter res

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and then like a res pump combo or something like that and save ourselves

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some space for cable management and like routing the power in and stuff over here

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it looks like this might be feasible but

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you guys have probably figured out by this point that it's going to take a

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fair bit of custom fabrication in order to make this work so instead of banging

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our heads against a desk you know making things and then seeing

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that they don't fit and making them again we decided that 3d modeling

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everything would be a good idea that'll allow us to do preliminary fitment of

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everything without having to use up valuable time fabricating and

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refabricating it also lets us check clearances to make sure that we are able

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to plug in all of our cables and manage them the way that we want to

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so our friends over at excelsior measuring wanted to help us out so we

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actually we brought them a mac case to

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use their measuring tools on and have them give it a shot the problem though

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is that they generally work at a much different scale scanning things like

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buildings and such so due to reflectivity issues we actually haven't

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gotten anything usable from them even though we did follow daniel's suggestion

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and actually paint one of our mat cases flat black

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so if we want to do a fancy version of our model later we might actually try

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gray which was the next thing that they suggested but

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it's just time to finish up our sanity check here so the last thing i want to

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do today is get you guys a pretty realistic look at what the finished

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system is going to look like so i've got a couple spacers in here that i'm just going to

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chuck in the bottom of the case to show you where the motherboard is going to end up

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yep oh wow that managed to fit okay sweet

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and then like i said before the power supply is probably going to go in a

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little something like this so what our cable routing is going to

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look like is you can actually see we don't have to

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have the motherboard right back up against the tray there so i'm going to

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have some room i'm just going to pull this fan out and it is a tight fit

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but i'm going to have some room to run behind the motherboard tray to get to

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where i need to go and then this is going to sit up so it's

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going to sit up on something probably about this high

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and then it's going to all be shrouded so that you can't see the cables until

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they emerge where they need to plug in and really there's not going to be that

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many of them there's two eight pins that are going to go down in the bottom of the motherboard here two more eight pins

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they go here 24 pin here and then we've just got pci express power for our

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graphics cards that's basically it we don't have to plug those in those are

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optional we've only got two cards it should be okay

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so yeah we can go ahead and throw this guy

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in here we're not sure yet what our water

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cooling solution is going to be for the motherboard um bits power has a block

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but ek might actually do up something custom for us and if they do that that

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would be flipping awesome because then we could control where the inlet and the

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outlet are which might help us lay out our loop a little bit more efficiently

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in a perfect world we'd love to hardline two-bit but honestly we might need the

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flexibility that comes with well flexible tubing now let's

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and then this one would kind of come you know it's not going to be the

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prettiest thing ever definitely not not apple worthy in that sense but

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you can see kind of the outline of what it might look like like it's all very

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very plumbable

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yeah this really kind of is the definition of fitting 10 pounds of crap into a five

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pound bag i wasn't kidding when i said this is going to be a challenge but

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