So. I am going to be building a new rig. I can't say for 100% certain when I will get all the parts to complete it, but Fairly soon (as in, sometime in February) I am going to be ordering the case.
The case I will be going with, will be the Caselabs Magnum SMA8. When I get it, I will be posting pictures of it here as a bit of a teaser for the eventual final build.
When I do, feel free to ask for any closeup pictures of any parts of the case that you might want, and I will do my best to provide them.
Planned components
Fans: All fans will be Noctua black fans.
CPU: Either the best Ryzen CPU I can get, or X99 or possibly X299 if that comes out soon enough. Only time will tell.
Motherboard: I really want to go with a workstation grade board. That or possibly a Gigabyte overclocking board (SOC Force, etc.).
GPU: This is the hard part. I am going with Vega. Why? Because I'm sick of Nvidia's (there isn't a word strong enough) poor multi-monitor "support". I'm sick and tired of my PC crashing every other time I switch between normal triple monitor and triple monitor surround. Depending on my mood, I MIGHT also throw in an EVGA 1080p, because I love their new stock cooler to death. That thing is straight up sexy.
Power supply: This is where I am at a bit of a loss. I was going to go with Seasonic, but I have heard some grumblings that Seasonic is no longer the god-emperor of PSU's. I love them for their 7 year warranty, but if they're quality is slipping, I need to have some alternatives. I am more than open to suggestions and discussion on this bit. Keep in mind that I will need to do custom cabling for this.
Storage: A LOT of SSD's including M.2's as well as the standard kind. Maybe one giant HDD to use as a backup drive.
Cooling: Custom hardline tubing water cooling loops. Going balls out here. I will definitely need to update this later, once I get some of the components so I can get a better idea of where things will go and how I will do things. This may come much, much later in the build.
Hopefully I will be able to upgrade to at least three 1440p monitors, or, barring that, a single ultrawide 1440p monitor, with two of my current 1080p ASUS 60hz monitors in portrait mode on the sides, with the third 1080p ASUS 60hz monitor on top. I seriously want to get the same kind of monitor arms that @wendell has (Any advice you can give me Wendell, would be appreciated. I know you are busy). Which can be seen in this video that I have time stamped for you.
I like to think that you can tell, merely by the sound of the arms, that they are seriously high quality products.
I am debating on lighting and coolant. Part of me wants to go with fluorescent coolant of some kind, but something that's still semi-transparent (pastel coolant is hideous and idiotic, in my opinion. You'd be better off just painting the damned tubing a solid color and not hurting your waterblocks and possibly the pumps themselves. If they clog up the waterblocks, which is well documented, imagine what they do to your pumps.). The overall theme here will be something that looks like something a scientist or engineer would build, but also something "heavy duty", or industrial. I want it to look like something built to function, and function reliably. I don't want it to just look like another custom PC, I want it to also look sort of machine like, but not "steampunk". I definitely want the lighting to be hidden, but also extremely bright (I want the inside of the case to "glow".), but I might just go with plain, non-dyed water as the coolant.
I'm not sure how better to convey my overall theme. I really want to replace the stock window in the Caselabs case with that glass that has a grid pattern in it. Not sure if I will be able to do that. Bear in mind, nothing about this build will be "minimalist". I might go with a custom glass reservoir that has a "scientific" feel to it. I was thinking of something that has a glass coil inside of it. I have tossed around the idea of using glass tubing as well, with metal fixtures. It's possible, but would be extremely difficult to do (there are fittings out there that would actually work with glass. I can't remember the name) after I researched it a few years ago, and I've decided I don't have the thousands of dollars needed to pay a professional glass worker to do the work needed.
I'm open to suggestions and discussion of course, this is just a teaser that will be updated as the build progresses.
