right in front of me my friends is everything we need to build one
behemoth of a machine we have the 28
core Intel xeon w 3175x gigabytes c621
aorus extreme motherboard look at the size of this thing we've got two
Radeon 7 graphics cards
384 gigs of Corsair vengeance memory a
silverstone st 1200 this is a 1200 watt
power supply look how small it is and
well we're still figuring out some of the other things but that's fine this is the
foundation so this is like a rockin epic build all on its own but
don't wipe the drool off your chins just yet because this whole thing gets even
better this right here
is going to be our case that's right my
friends this all of it is going into what
promises to be the fastest hackintosh of
all time and clearly
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
release is fast approaching and we want to beat them at their own game so i
challenge my team to build a computer that beats what apple is going to ship
this fall now what makes that complicated is that
in addition to sheer speed i want our machine to match as many of
apple's features as possible so that is where our
motherboard choice came in the Gigabyte c621 aorus extreme wasn't
chosen by accident we went with it because of how many pci express slots it
has so this board is going to take not just
our dual Radeon sevens but also
a piece right here that i didn't talk about in the intro so this is ASUS hyper
m.2 x16 card this holds up to four m.2
ssds and it's single slot so what we get then is
if we water cool our Radeon sevens and install this we take up a mirror
three of our seven pci express 16x slots
giving us still anywhere from three to four slots left over for future
expansion one area where we did have to compromise though was on system memory
apple's gonna offer up to one and a half terabytes of RAM on the new mac pro
thanks to Intel's refreshed xeon w CPU lineup but our processor the original
leon w here only supports a maximum of
512 gigabytes of RAM and due to
motherboard compatibility restraints we didn't even manage to end up with that
much now the good news here is that we still
have 384 gigs of RAM from Corsair
which is still enough even for
most hardcore workstation users and the benefit that we get from this trade-off
is potentially some overclocking which
may give us a measurable performance advantage over apple's hardware you know
it's crazy one of my friends had a power mac g5 back when that thing was current
and i remember looking at it going like wow that's like a huge computer
now i'm looking at all the stuff i need to
pack into this thing and i'm going
dang this is not a lot of friggin
space in here and making matters worse
as a bit of a throwback to the original g5 mac pro we are gonna be water cooling
this rig and uh that is one of the
big things that we're going to try to figure out today like we've got some
rough ideas for how it's all going to go together but in order to validate it we
need to do a little bit of testing so for the motherboard rather than trying
to reinvent the wheel we're going to go with the same inverted mount that apple favored back
in the day so our i o is going to be down at the bottom exactly where it was
on the original computer that was in this case but obviously the back panel is going to
need to be completely redesigned because apple had it all in single file like
this and they only had four expansion slots and obviously we're
going to have a total of seven so that's going to need to be reconjigured
it would be really nice if we could still retain the original side panel
latch but if we can't make that work then that is something we're willing to
compromise on the power supply mount is where things already start to get wonky
so apple already had one of those pass-through
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
outlet on the back of the power supply but
instead of orienting it in an obviously sensible way like this where all of our
modular cables could come out on this side what we're actually planning to do
is go like this and then
run all the power along the back of the motherboard tray to get to where it
needs to go the reason for doing it that way is that it may end up being the only
way that we can fit in all of the radiators that we're going to need which
i guess brings us perfectly to all the radiators that we're going to
need so we've got a couple of different options either we're going to end up
with dual 120 millimeter radiators or
we're going to end up with a single 360 and a 240 so
it all depends though on whether we can get a 360 to fit into the front of this
chassis one thing's for sure we are not going to
end up with an optical drive um yeah so this is all going to have to be
ripped out and then we may get a fan in here but
we're definitely not plugging in any SATA devices right here and there may
not be a ton of room for the check this out dual 24 pin power connectors on this
motherboard so our other rad
is going to go right where you see it and the motherboard is actually going to come right up here to the top
so theoretically
all of our pci express slots should be accessible now pump and reservoir we
haven't actually finalized yet it's very unlikely that we're going to end up with
a res this big but i think the hope is to have the res kind of live
up here or something and then maybe
whatever expansion card that we need like
if we wanted to run 10 gig networking or something maybe we could find a half
height one that we that we take for granted is going to be installed in that
slot and it goes under the res or something like that we might just end up
with a smaller one and then for our pump we're fairly committed to using a d5
pump just for its reliability and quiet we would like the machine to be quiet!
but we're not 100 sure where that's going to go yet i mean it could be as
simple as checking it down here or it could not uh what else do we have
oh yeah our fantastic underwear lttstore.com but
that has nothing to do with this build ah good so this
is one of the single slot water blocks that we're going to be using for our
Radeon sevens these are from ek they're super sexy they're super more
importantly single slot and that's what's gonna allow us to do i mean well
one two four Radeon sevens we're gonna go with
two just because we're not sure about having enough cooling capacity for more
than that but uh ta2 is not half bad
see the thing about radiators is it's really easy to get caught up in test
fitting a radiator and going oh it fits and then you go oh shoot i need another
25 millimeters for the fans that need to go on it
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
may actually give us the space that we need to squeeze this in see that how it
kind of fits at the bottom but not at the top
i think we might actually be alright there so we'll need low profile water
cooling for the vrms we don't even need low profile water
cooling necessarily for the CPU especially if this is up another two or
three inches this actually might be feasible and you know what for the
reservoir if we made a custom bracket that hangs off the cross brace that's
built into the original case we might even be able to do like a shorter res
and then like a res pump combo or something like that and save ourselves
some space for cable management and like routing the power in and stuff over here
it looks like this might be feasible but
you guys have probably figured out by this point that it's going to take a
fair bit of custom fabrication in order to make this work so instead of banging
our heads against a desk you know making things and then seeing
that they don't fit and making them again we decided that 3d modeling
everything would be a good idea that'll allow us to do preliminary fitment of
everything without having to use up valuable time fabricating and
refabricating it also lets us check clearances to make sure that we are able
to plug in all of our cables and manage them the way that we want to
so our friends over at excelsior measuring wanted to help us out so we
actually we brought them a mac case to
use their measuring tools on and have them give it a shot the problem though
is that they generally work at a much different scale scanning things like
buildings and such so due to reflectivity issues we actually haven't
gotten anything usable from them even though we did follow daniel's suggestion
and actually paint one of our mat cases flat black
so if we want to do a fancy version of our model later we might actually try
gray which was the next thing that they suggested but
it's just time to finish up our sanity check here so the last thing i want to
do today is get you guys a pretty realistic look at what the finished
system is going to look like so i've got a couple spacers in here that i'm just going to
chuck in the bottom of the case to show you where the motherboard is going to end up
yep oh wow that managed to fit okay sweet
and then like i said before the power supply is probably going to go in a
little something like this so what our cable routing is going to
look like is you can actually see we don't have to
have the motherboard right back up against the tray there so i'm going to
have some room i'm just going to pull this fan out and it is a tight fit
but i'm going to have some room to run behind the motherboard tray to get to
where i need to go and then this is going to sit up so it's
going to sit up on something probably about this high
and then it's going to all be shrouded so that you can't see the cables until
they emerge where they need to plug in and really there's not going to be that
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
they go here 24 pin here and then we've just got pci express power for our
graphics cards that's basically it we don't have to plug those in those are
optional we've only got two cards it should be okay
so yeah we can go ahead and throw this guy
in here we're not sure yet what our water
cooling solution is going to be for the motherboard um bits power has a block
but ek might actually do up something custom for us and if they do that that
would be flipping awesome because then we could control where the inlet and the
outlet are which might help us lay out our loop a little bit more efficiently
in a perfect world we'd love to hardline two-bit but honestly we might need the
flexibility that comes with well flexible tubing now let's
and then this one would kind of come you know it's not going to be the
prettiest thing ever definitely not not apple worthy in that sense but
you can see kind of the outline of what it might look like like it's all very
very plumbable
yeah this really kind of is the definition of fitting 10 pounds of crap into a five
pound bag i wasn't kidding when i said this is going to be a challenge but
fortunately it looks like every problem that we have
is going to be overcomeable so guys get subscribed so that you don't miss part
two which is going to be Linus tech tips hardcore case modding edition
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