How this PC Case Fits SIX Editing Workstations Inside!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,462 words · ~7 min read
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so i'm pitching to brandon i'm like this is gonna be a case unboxing it's gonna
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be like exciting you're gonna be excited look at this
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it's one case but it comes in two
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gigantic not to mention very heavy boxes
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and he's like now i've seen that before
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with the haf stacker it was terrible
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yeah that was terrible but but but no
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this time it's gonna be different this is the case Labs
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thw10 a massive chassis
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for a project i'll get to that later for a project
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that i've had on the go for several months now an attempt to
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take seven gamers one CPU and make it productive
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six 8k video editing stations running
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off of a single motherboard and for that
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i needed a case that was pretty unique
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so let's open it up and make sure that everything fits
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damn it
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oh i bent my key i need a knife
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so step number one here is figuring out
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how the devil to open this thing well that explains why it didn't come off
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this is like it's a it's a it's an odd sized case so
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this is actually two case boxes
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one put down on top of the other and they don't fit all the way
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i can do this i'm a professional unboxer brandon
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second person my ass wow
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this thing is really big
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i guess while i open it up i should explain
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so once it's finished this system is going to have two 28 core cpus which is
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why it needs such a large motherboard tray so we're going to be using a an ssi
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eeb sized motherboard so that doesn't fit in just your standard atx case
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then much of the rest of the case is going to be taken up by radiators because the
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finished system is actually going to have
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six high-end graphics cards if i can get my
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way they're gonna be quadros which would put this system somewhere in the
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neighborhood of seventy to a hundred thousand dollars
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but when you consider how much a you know professional workstation with a
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xeon CPU and a quadro graphics card costs in the first place 64 gigs of RAM
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and all that good stuff for six of them in one tower i don't
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know it's not that far off is it
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come on it's like giving birth
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wow from just looking at the one side panel
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you clearly did not get a sense of the full scope
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of this monster
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i'm a professional unboxer brandon so back to why we need all that space so we
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got this giant motherboard we got all these graphics cards we need cooling so
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there's gonna be i don't remember how many but somewhere in the neighborhood
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of like eight radiators to make sure that our dual cpus
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and six graphics cards will all be adequately cooled
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then things get really interesting because
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you can see back here we've got almost as much space for hardware behind the
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motherboard tray so there's not going to be really any graphics cards here or
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anything as we do on the other side
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and i have big plans for this so
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i've been doing some experimenting with a really unorthodox storage solution
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so have a look at these these are u.2
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to pci express times 4
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slot adapters so i was concerned that because i was
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going to be filling up all of my pci express slots with graphics cards that i
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was going to have to get down to single slot somehow i wasn't going to have any
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way to put sufficiently high speed storage in the machine because these are
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professional workstations i want every boot drive to be super fast so what i
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wanted to do was take the four u.2 slots
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here that's a really unique feature of this board and connect them to optane
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memory drives however the standard two and a half inch u.2
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form factor at the time i was planning the project anyway
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didn't have capacities that were high enough for me to have enough space for
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six vms to have a decent sized boot drive so i figured okay here's a
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solution we adapt them to pci express slots so
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my intention is actually to use a bunch of the space
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back here to mount
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these adapters from micro SATA cables
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and somehow or rather
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like oh like that or something i don't know so that i can have full size pci
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express optane drives uh these 750 series are just here for testing
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purposes then it gets even more interesting
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i haven't actually even done a test fit for this yet
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but there's a company that makes a pci express 16x like it just plugs
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into a slot to eight times slot adapter using a
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bunch of plx chips so what i was kind of hoping when i saw that is that i could
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put all of those over here somehow somewhere and then every vm could have
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its own usb card dedicated to it so that it could have full plug and play now
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that we've got the skeleton open we can go ahead
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and peek behind door number two so case Labs cases are like quite
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modular so you get all these like pieces and you
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kind of screw them together yourself
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that also allows them to have a lot of different options so if you were the kind of person who isn't living in 2018
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and wants you know a lot of five and a quarter inch bays in the front or whatever then you wouldn't go for these
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like full sized or nearly full size we've got one five and a quarter inch
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bay up there on each side uh like grill fronts
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this is all just mounting hardware in case accessories
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holy crap okay feet are on so let's start popping
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some panels on this thing we've got the dual
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ventilated top panel so all the side panels which are tempered glass by the
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way i have now checked
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i actually don't know what i'm more excited for at this point
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doing the finished build or just
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getting my stuff off of this horrible test bench for the rest of my testing
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you know maybe you guys can let me know for a build like this
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do you prefer you know
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legit workstation hardware to to look legit in workstation
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or do you look at an expensive machine that i mean let's face it we are going
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to game on it and see those bare green RAM pcbs and go
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ugh like should we put heat spreaders over those just get some after-market
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ones i want to know so even though this motherboard
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dwarfs a normal board
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it still looks tiny in here
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i don't think this system is going to be movable by a single person
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when we're done
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it here so lonely
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so that's pretty much it let's uh take it upstairs
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okay
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i'll be fine
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okay project bad door opening plan here we go
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oh no okay okay
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oh make me move
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sorry not meaning to be rude but just
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oh okay what
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have i unleashed
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all right do you want to grab an end i don't feel like doing this on my own anymore
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okay ready and one two three
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there we go
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hopefully this thing still works after being transplanted it's always a concern
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wait what where are all my drives
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wait no i didn't plug in the SATA cable that
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is going to power all the drives so uh
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we're gonna shut this down but that's okay that's the end of the unboxing of
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the thw10 hope you guys enjoyed it and stay tuned because there are going to be
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more updates on this project for sure there's gonna be some crazy hardware
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that we are using in it thanks for watching guys if you disliked
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your very own thw10 or maybe one of their more reasonably sized options over
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on case Labs website also in the video description is our merch store which has
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