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okay secrets out we know

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that the vast majority of the people watching our build guides

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are not at home surrounded by piles of

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new computer parts screwdriver in hand

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following along step by step assembling the exact machine that we're building on

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screen no most of you are just here for

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well hardware porn and that's okay it's nothing to be

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ashamed of and today is all about giving

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the people what they want a workstation

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slash gaming build so high-end that few people will ever have

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a genuine use for it let alone enough spare cash to justify buying it this is

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the drink spitter i mean Threadripper

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all right you guys know the drill

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just kidding we won't need one of those but what we will need is a clean

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workstation an esd strap a screwdriver

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a magnetic parts tray a pair of side cutters

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and i like to have a pair of pliers on hand just in case you gotta you know

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tighten your nuts i also recommend testing the system on

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top of the motherboard box to make sure that it works before you begin the final

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assembly all AMD threadripper cpus have a lot in

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common tons of cash up to 40 megs and 64 pci

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express lanes so it mostly came down to picking how many

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cores we wanted well we wanted all of them so we chose the

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1950x16 core 32 thread processor now i could lie

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and say i'm going to use it to live stream myself playing games while

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encoding 4k video in the background but we all know it's just for facebook and

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streaming web video on the subject of which let's insert the processor now

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normally i just copy paste these instructions from another build guide

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using a similar socket but this time our

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big new chip has a big new socket AMD's

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tr4 and it's a little different to start

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we'll use the fancy Threadripper branded size 20 torx screwdriver that

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actually comes in the CPU box

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loosen the screws labeled three two one

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in that order until the load plate lifts

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itself up next lift the rail frame by gently

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pulling on these blue handles and then slide out the external cap sled

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we're going to replace it with our Threadripper CPU and its carrier frame

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carefully slide the carrier frame into the rail frame making sure it slides all

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the way to the end of the rails and remove the pnp cap that's been

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protecting the socket's 4094 pins

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now gently close the carrier frame so that the CPU makes contact with the pins

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pushing down on the blue handles to fix the carrier frame in place

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then close the load plate and fasten screws one two and three

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in that order with a recommended torque value of 12 pounds per inch of force

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finally take a moment to bask in the glory of the cow tipper the thread

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ripper AMD's threadripper cpus support up to

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one terabyte of wait a minute actually

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yes one terabyte of RAM if you populate all

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eight dimm slots with 128 gig lr or load reduced dimms

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those aren't even out yet they'll be super expensive and

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would be total overkill so we're using eight

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16 gig sticks of trident z RGB RAM from

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g skill because you know we didn't want to be overkill

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and 128 gigs seemed pretty reasonable

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obviously though you could go with 64 or

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32 to save a buck

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to install your dimms pull back the tabs on the memory slots

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align each module according to the key in the socket and press firmly on both

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sides until the latch closes if you're using just four sticks then

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use the lighter grey slots for other configurations refer to your

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motherboard's user guide you'll probably notice that there's one more slightly

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different looking slot that's been left unoccupied leave this one alone for now

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but get excited because we will be coming back to it later we're basically

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using the pant splitter i mean Threadripper of cases it's cooler

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masters latest addition to their hallowed cosmo series the c700p

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it's got many of the characteristics that these cases have become known for

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like the suicide doors and the aluminum skids to make hauling its 49 pound heft

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around just a little easier and

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it is 2017 after all it's got integrated

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RGB lighting and a curved tempered glass

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side panel now as cool as these doors are we start by taking them off simply

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open them and while gripping near the hinge pull upward stash the panels

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particularly the glass one back in the box they came from

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this is also a good time to give ourselves more room to work by taking

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out these screws

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and sliding the internal panels free we're going to replace the case's

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included fans with cooler master master fan pro 140s placing three in the front

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for intake and one for exhaust at the back remove the case's front covers by

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tilting and then pulling up on layer one

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and then simply pushing out layer two

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then it's just a matter of screwing the fans onto the 140 millimeter rails with

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the fan leads pointing towards the motherboard tray

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next pull to remove the case's magnetic rear fairing so you can access the fan

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screws here and mount your new RGB fan with the

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sticker towards the back next check this out one of these SSD

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sleds is actually an integrated fan hub

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in disguise and this is where all of our

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fan leads will go as for the RGB leads we'll connect those

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to the RGB hub that came with the fans

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it's magnetic so we can just stick at any old place and leave the internal usb

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connector dangling for now our motherboard choice the ASUS rog

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zenith extreme is full of badass features like 802.11 ad wi-fi and their

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live dash OLED screen for measuring vitals

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it also has what's called dim.2 a riser

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that adds space for two more m.2 slots

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and a 10 gigabit pci express network card

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which is actually a pretty good value if you wanted one anyway

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if you don't care about that stuff you can still totally follow this guide and

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save about two hundred dollars with the ASUS prime x399a

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so our i o shield is pre-attached that's

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cool meaning that we can jump right to installing the standoffs that came with

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the case in all of the points labeled a

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for eatx

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set the board in place over the middle standoff post then use these screws to

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fasten the board to the rest

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you can plug in the two 8 pin CPU power connectors now to do your future self a

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solid and since we still have easy access to the motherboard we'll also

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show you guys how to plug in the rest of the annoying tiny things

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the front panel connectors for the power led hard drive led reset switch and

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power switch the fancy front usb 3.1 gen2 connector

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here and the usb 3.1 gen 1

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case RGB and system audio along the

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bottom so to keep our rig chilling out maxin relaxin all cool we're going to be

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using the cooler master master liquid 240 all-in-one liquid cooler

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high-end cooling is basically a

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requirement if you are overclocking threadripper

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this one comes with a lot of hardware for all the different sockets it

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supports but we'll be using the socket tr4 mount which at the time of filming

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is sold separately and available only from cooler master's website

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now normally this is the part of the build where i freak out and realize that

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i've installed my motherboard without first mounting the cooler bracket on the

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back but today i don't have to worry about that because the tr4 socket is

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sturdy af and the pump actually mounts directly to

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it like a little baby monkey start by fastening your fans we're using RGB ones

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to match the rest of the case with the stickers against the radiator using

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these long screws letting the fan leads hang towards the motherboard tray

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next mount the radiator to the top of the case by popping off the case's dust

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filter and fastening the rad to the mounting rails using these eight screws

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connect the fan headers to the included y adapter and plug the other end into

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the CPU fan header here we'll connect the RGB leads to the

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included hub like we did earlier but

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right now we've actually got a problem we have two RGB hubs each requiring a

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usb 2.0 header and our motherboard only

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has one such header you know what

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that's it you guys i'm done if i can't have all my RGB

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working i'm leaving just have dinner sent to my trailer

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oh okay so apparently this is a pretty simple

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problem to solve what's 25 bucks for one of these

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internal usb hubs on a 7 000

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build so we're going to mount it here

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connect up all the usb cables then wire

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up its molex power cable now it's time to mount the block to the

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CPU we'll start by peeling off this warning

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label and placing two rice grain sized

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dabs of the included thermal compound on the center of the CPU

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now arrange the two tr4 mounting brackets like this

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and start tightening them down if you think it looks weird that the

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cooler doesn't cover the entire chip don't worry on threadripper the CPU dies

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the parts that actually produce heat are in the center anyway

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so all that's left is plugging in the pump header way down here

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and then using this handy extension cable to route it behind the motherboard

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tray using a power supply calculator might

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suggest that a 600 watt psu would be

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sufficient so naturally we went with

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a power supply that cooler master says will be completely silent up to 600

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watts and is capable of double that with

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efficiency in excess of 80 plus titanium

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now we're not here to mislead you the masterbot maker 1200 mij with its all

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made in japan components and 10 year warranty not to mention

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thousand dollar price tag was a because

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we can move and the v750 at a tenth of

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the price will do you just fine for this build just make sure that whatever power

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supply you go with you grab something with two 8-pin eps connectors

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threadripper can run with a single connector but you'll be losing the

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ability to overclock and risking instability as well as issues with

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higher end memory start by connecting all the cables to the power supply while

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it's still accessible you'll need the 24 pin connector to power the motherboard

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two six plus two pin pci express connectors for the graphics card two

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SATA chains one molex cable and the two

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eight pin CPU cables that you managed earlier unfortunately the cables that

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came with this power supply aren't sleeved and cablemod doesn't make a kit

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for it but they do make cable extenders so we'll connect these to the ends of

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our cables hiding the excess slack in the basement next

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gently flex the power supply cover so you can finagle it on to the little

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pedestal in the basement or you could just take off these four screws and not

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be lazy place it fan side down install

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the four screws in the back like so then

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wipe a tear from your eye when you realize that

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no one's ever gonna see your baller power supply now we could put normal

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storage in here a single m.2 drive would be blazing fast on its own but

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before the end of this year AMD is planning to release a driver update that

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will enable bootable NVMe raid on x-399

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so how could we not be

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f-word future-proof with a view of Corsair's high-speed mp500 ssds we begin

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by removing the m.2 heat spreader by unscrewing these three fasteners being

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careful not to slip and scratch this nice plate here next we'll grab the

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small baggie from the motherboard box that contains the m.2 standoff and cap

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and install the standoff in the nut that matches the length of our m.2 drive this

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one happens to be an 80 millimeter stick so we're using the nut marked 2280 all

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that's left then is to insert the SSD at an angle press it down fasten it on the

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opposite end and replace the fancy heat spreader and you're done

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where are you we're going to use that same mounting

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procedure as before except this time instead of going directly on the board

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our two additional ssds will go on this

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nifty little add-in card one on each side

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we then slot the card into our last remaining dim slot such that this little

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gap hops over the dim.2 signpost press

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firmly until the open tab closes itself hey voila

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over a terabyte of wicked fast storage now you might

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wonder at this point why our build doesn't contain a hard drive we clearly

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have the budget for it and that last bit is exactly why we figure anyone spending

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this kind of money on their workstation especially one with 10 gig networking

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should probably just have a separate storage box elsewhere on their network

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for our graphics card we considered a quadro but from our recent findings

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they're not actually better in many applications

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than consumer cards so if your use case

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specifically benefits from quadro go with that but we chose the gtx 1080 ti

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amp extreme edition from zotac remove these three pci slot covers two

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of them are for the graphics card and one is actually for our 10 gigabit

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network card remove the protective cover from the

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card edge and align the card carefully with the motherboard's PCIe slot and the

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openings at the back of the case push the card in firmly until the slot

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tab snaps shut then put the case screws

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back in finally plug in the two eight pin pci

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express power connectors that we attached to the power supply earlier now

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this technically isn't a graphics card but you can throw your network card in

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at this point too this slot's a good choice but thanks to threadripper's 64

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pci express lanes you really don't have to think about it too much just uh throw

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it in there and put the screw in

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our case is deep covered basement and the wide gap between the motherboard

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tray and the door make cable management a piece of cake especially if you're not

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the perfectionist type since most of the mess not including our RGB hub spaghetti

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monster will be hidden behind the internal panels that we removed earlier

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so once we replace all the doors she ain't looking too shabby

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for peripherals we're using cooler masters master keys pro l RGB keyboard

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their master mouse pro l mouse and a swift rx xl mouse pad now

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let's put it all together now i promise we're getting to the

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sizzle reel soon but first a couple quick tweaks in the BIOS we're going to

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configure our RAM by going to the extreme tweaker tab and changing the ai

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overclock tuner from auto to docp

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then we're going to do a basic overclock

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using the easy tuning wizard in our case we got an easy eight percent performance

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boost now this is also a good time to

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configure your m.2 raid unfortunately we

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can't show you this now because the feature won't be supported for a couple

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more weeks meaning that we save and

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we're done now we've covered installing your operating system pretty thoroughly

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on the path so just check out this guide on the forum that we'll have linked

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below as for drivers your motherboard actually comes with a flash drive with

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the latest ones for audio uh your network card your chipset etc meaning

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you just gotta go over to NVIDIA.com and get the latest for your graphics card

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leaving us with nothing left to do but

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admire our creation is it a great value

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well in its current state it's the most expensive build we've ever done but

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with some tweaks that wouldn't affect performance noticeably for most people

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compared to what you'd have spent for a 16 core bed i mean

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thread ripping pc even a year ago it actually ends up looking pretty

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compelling so long live competition in the CPU

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industry and long live cooler master for sponsoring this build guide

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time for the sexy glam now

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oh

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at least i saw