New Build for Work

neverknowu

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Hi There,
Working on a new build for work. A few things that I need are:

1) Portability. I travel a lot for work.
2) Cores. At least an 8 core Xeon.
3) GPUs. 2 Titan X's.

I guess the latter is the real kicker: how small can the case be to hold 2 GPUs. I did a building here: PC Part Picker

It has:
Fractal Design Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower Case
Asus X99-M WS Micro ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard
Intel Xeon E5-2630 V3 2.4GHz 8-Core OEM/Tray Processor
G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Noctua NH-U9S 46.4 CFM CPU Cooler
EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
and the 2 Titan X's. (2 SSD's and a HDD as well)

I wanted to make sure that it's possible to have 2 large cards in a case like this.

Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.
 

neverknowu

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Thank you for your review! I want to keep the smaller case though as I need it for transportation.

Oh and do you think I'm going to have issues with the 850W PSU?
 


850w is more than enough for that system.
 

The Node 804 has very good airflow - it'll be fine.


Max load is ~720W, so you've got 15% headway for capacitor degradation over time, etc.

EDIT: I would normally say look at the U12S instead of the U9, but if you're moving it, it means you have to be more careful (due to the weight on the motherboard, shocks during transportation can be very bad, and the U12 is heavier). In fact, I'd say probably look at water cooling...

Also, why 2 identical SSDs? RAIDing them isn't particularly helpful, and a single M.2 Samsung 950 Pro will be faster and cheaper.

Finally ... populate all of the fan slots on the GPU side ... Fractal Design's fans are cheap and quiet, and it means you can run them slower (and therefore less noise, or more cooling).
 

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Can you recommend a water cooling system to look at? I have never used em and therefore know nothing about them.

I guess I need an SSD for the programs, main HD, etc. and another SSD for the huge (4k, 6k and 8k) video files that I will be working with. I need a large drive system able to handle some fast read/write speeds. If RAID0 is no good for this, maybe I should look for a 1TB SSD?

Thank you for your reply!