Ultimate $20,000 Dual System Build – Corsair Slate Part 2
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,524 words · ~7 min read
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on christmas eve of last year we introduced the Corsair concept slate
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with an air-cooled ultimate build that was pretty neat but apparently left some
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of you wanting more well
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your blue balls can rejoice because the blue monster is complete and we're going
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to walk you through the process of building in the dual system case that
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Corsair introduced as a crazy concept
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but looks like it is actually coming to
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market but first i gotta tell you what's not a crazy concept mac weldon mac
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the first step was to remove the previous air cooled build that was done
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for comparison's sake starting with the one quadro that was left in it after the
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system got raided for our triple projector gaming setup then finishing
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with both motherboards with their air-cooled hardware still attached to
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them next began the tedious process of
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installing gtx 1080 short top blocks
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onto all of the quadros these coolers
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have shorter acrylic covers for improved compatibility with cards like the p5000
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that we're using and then a single standard full cover water block for the
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gtx 1080 ti the plan here is to use that
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last card for a dedicated compact gaming
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system while the quadros power a top of the line workstation
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now as much as we'd have loved to film the entire process here in real time i
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don't think even our petabyte project server could stomach that much 8k red
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footage and neither could i so time lapse it is oh man that's looking good i
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don't know if i could ever get sick of gorgeous cnc work like that
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the two CPU blocks were a little bit easier to install sort of our mini itx
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strix z270 motherboard gets a standard ek supremacy evo so that one was all
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good but getting the rampage six extremes monoblock on is a bit of a
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weird process that involves punching through the plastic
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blockages in the mounting holes on the motherboard replacing the vrm heatsink with
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something reminiscent of an m.2 cooler and then finally hand tightening the
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thumb screws on the back after popping both boards back into the
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slate followed by the four quadros we arrived
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at terminal time the last build that we used one of these for was actually with
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a custom one designed for seven cards in
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seven gamers one CPU so then i mean by comparison
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quad gpus is a pretty normal configuration so this four-way terminal
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is again by comparison and off-the-shelf
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item and a perfect way to plumb up a whole motherboard full of gpus just be
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really careful with the o-rings don't tear them and make sure that all eight
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are properly seated because of leak right in your GPU stack is very likely
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to end up killing something to cool our dual system build ek
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graciously provided two quad 120 millimeter xc series radiators
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for the workstation portion and then an additional triple 140 thick radiator for
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the gaming system so that's right folks we're going to be
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running two independent loops which will allow our systems to function without
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the need to power on both of them at a time
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mounting the rads was impressively easy thanks to the fancy sliding mount system
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that Corsair built into the slate but
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we're actually a little torn on our choice of light loops for the 13 fan
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slots that we're filling for the imposing but classy aesthetic
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that we ended up going for we think it may have actually been a bit better to
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go pure performance with their maglevs instead the rest of the planning bending
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cutting tinkering small modifications and cable management or lack thereof
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took about two days on and off resulting in a super clean aesthetic accomplished
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in part by our signature hard in the front
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soft in the back style you might think it's kind of dumb but it actually saves
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a significant amount of time both during the initial build and more importantly
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whenever you need to crack the loop open for maintenance then it was time to fill
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up the loops via the installed d5 pump and reservoir combo units starting with
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the workstation build this way we could make sure that no leak sprouted in any
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spots that our itx systems GPU would
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hide and no leaks surprisingly with thankfully
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the same story again for our itx build which is really good because it would
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have super sucked to empty both loops
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and fix a leak down there with both of them mostly full we poured
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in some coolant concentrates from primo chill first an opaque white for the
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workstation then a light blue to match our cables for the gaming build but
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before we get to the glam montage nope not quite time yet i want to run you
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guys through our cooling resolves for the workstation temps went down from
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just over 70 degrees average on our 79 xc 18 core extreme edition to 61 degrees
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a pretty decent improvement even if i think we could do better with the
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lidding and then as for our gpus those dropped almost 30 degrees from an
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average of 82 down to 53.5 at full CPU
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and GPU load in id64 and this is with
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all of our fans running at their minimum speed so this thing is super quiet
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as for our itx system well we saw big improvements there and not just to
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temperatures also performance with so many cards installed in our
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workstation our little mini itx air cooled system was limited to a
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suffocated low profile knock to a l9i
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which caused our 7700k to hit 100 degrees and throttle 30 to 50
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percent at stock speeds our water cooled rig predictably turbos the CPU up
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comfortably and maxes out the GPU at 54
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degrees after a prolonged stress test now with that out of the way here's one
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of our famous glam montages set to music
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my eyes
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it'll be
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oh
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i told you
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okay so that was fun but um back to reality for a minute
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why why would anyone need
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a case like this well we came up with a couple things
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let's say that you do 3d design work in programs that can take advantage of
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multiple graphics cards like blender or 3ds max
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with a system like this you could dramatically speed up your render times
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and still game or do other work while
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the main system is chewing away at a large job or how about streaming many streamers
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use two systems so that they can keep encoding to one of them to avoid
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impacting the primary rig's gaming performance
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with all that said though since literally none of the internal
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components get reused in a configuration like this one
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and the slate is slated to cost as much as two separate high-end
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cases there are some pretty strong arguments to be made for just having two normal
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systems like stacked on top of each other
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so once again we're turning to you guys in the comments what would you use a
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concept slate for let us know
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