Building in Corsair's BIGGEST Case EVER - Corsair Slate Worldwide Exclusive!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,514 words · ~7 min read
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back at ces 2017 we got our first look
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at the Corsair concept slate a
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theoretical spiritual successor to the
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big bold and beautiful 900d fast forward
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to today and we somehow got one of the only two prototypes in existence here in
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the lab what are we gonna do with it well
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how about a balls to the wall 18 core
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workstation whoa yeah
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wait the producers are telling me that it
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will also have a second rig in it for
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gaming this is madness
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to give you an idea of how big this case is the box that it came in is big enough
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for me to comfortably fit inside and
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hey when you're this big there's a lot to talk about so let's
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jump right into an overview of the slate
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anyway it features nearly 360 degree tempered
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glass coverage save for the angular top brushed aluminum accents both of the
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side panels rock strong hinges with magnetic catches and they open like
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suicide doors for what i'm assuming is extra style points now most hinged side
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panels actually do open this way but there's something extra special feeling
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about these ones maybe thanks to their sheer girth and weight
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each air intake comes with what are likely the largest slide-in air filters
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of any case ever though i guess that comes with the territory then moving on
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to the inside there's mounting for a whole heck of a lot of hardware
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and since we have a lot more to cover in this video we're gonna do this in
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lightning round fashion here in no particular order the slate has mounting
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for two motherboards five gpus eight
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ssds five hard drives thirteen fans two
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quadruple one twenty millimeter radiators a triple one forty millimeter
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radiators two power supplies
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and probably a dog or three and believe it or not we're planning to
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make use of all of that space with full
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custom hardline water cooling first some planning though
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yes we plan let's talk about our parts list and do a
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dry fit to ensure a that everything is working and b that it will actually all
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go in there so the final system is going to be kind of a mullet uh business so that's like
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content creation 3d rendering etc in the
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front and then party that's gaming in the back the ultimate best of both
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worlds within a single tower though like
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a mullet it clearly won't be for everyone let's start with the content
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creation rig in typical LTT fashion it's
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the best of the best Intel's flagship 18
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core 7980xe might not be a great value for like
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adobe premiere but it does allow for the virtualization
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of four quad-core systems with two cores
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left over to run the hypervisor and for
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3d rendering and blender it absolutely
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slays in the same spirit of overkill how about
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four quadros with a serious amount of motherboard to accommodate them all ASUS
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rampage six extreme was up to the task with all the pci express lots that we or
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pretty much anyone could ever need triple m.2 slots for some rated 480 gig
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NVMe goodness 10 gig networking and lots
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and lots of RGB actually our planning is set to white for the color scheme we
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have planned so haha take that 2017.
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to feed those 18 cores with sweet sweet bits and bites Corsair somehow managed
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to get us 128 gigs of their vengeance RGB
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it's entirely possible that we are single-handedly causing the continuation
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of the global dram shortage so sorry about that and then as for a GPU
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choosing one was a bit of a challenge a challenge in the sense that convincing
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alex to let us disassemble the 16k gaming machine that he's been using as a
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solidworks workstation since then was a challenge
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not in the sense that we actually had a ton of quadros lying around to choose
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from so these four p5000s
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they don't really match our color scheme but they conveniently support ek's
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universal 1080 water block so that is going to be fixed by the next video each
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GPU here has a cool 16 gigs of vram and
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2560 cuda cores for our power supply we went with the
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Corsair ax1500i it's one of the only units on the market
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that can handle everything in this system then we added some sexy white
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gray and blue cables from cable mod
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on to our itx gaming rig this one is a whole other ball game instead of
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focusing on quantity like say cores or
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gpus it's all about quality now the core
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i7 7700k isn't technically Intel's top
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consumer CPU right now but with a little bit of overclocking we aren't really
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making any compromises here because like we're still talking about 22 processing
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cores in a single box the GPU was an easy choice here we went
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for NVIDIA's gtx 1080 ti which should handle gaming all the way up to 4k
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resolution with relative ease and then we actually managed to get two more 16
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gig dimms of Corsair's vengeance RGB ddr4 bringing our case total to a
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whopping 160 gigabytes of RAM all of that fits
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neatly into ASUS z270i which shares a similar monochrome aesthetic with our
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rampage board and of course has even more RGB which again we're probably not
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going to use and then this rig has to slum it with a single 480 gig mp500 NVMe
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SSD for the os and any important programs or games finally it gets
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powered by Corsair's sf600 power supply
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which also gets the same cable mod treatment to stay consistent with the
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rest of the build while we're around the back here let's
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talk storage each one of our systems will get its own
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triple 480 gig SATA SSD raid 5 array for
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super fast but not as fast as NVMe
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storage then for mass storage the main
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workstation system has an additional three 12 terabyte seagate iron wolf pro
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drives that could actually be set up as a nas for both rigs with virtualization
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actually it could probably serve the rest of the house too if you're into that sort of thing
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even with though all this incredibly op
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hardware the slate still looks almost
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empty so hopefully water cooling components and lighting will fill it up
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a little bit more in part two but before we get to that we want to show you guys
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some baseline air cooled numbers for our rig as expected we're looking at pretty
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good temperatures on the main system with knocked out nhd15 on a 7980xe and
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then unsurprising GPU thermals for cards that are installed this close together
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our gaming system was a completely different story though since we could
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only fit a Noctua l9i in the space
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available temperatures on our 7700k were
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basically pegged at 100 degrees even with the absurd 30 to 50 throttling we
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encountered definitely no thanks to the massive
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airflow restrictions in the form of the four quadros and the 1080 ti hopefully
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though we'll be able to do a little bit better than both of them with a couple
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of d5 pumps and some thick radiators but
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again you'll have to stay tuned for part two for that
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