I built this rig around April 2017 with AiO water cooling on both the CPU and GPU. Overclocked the i7-7700K CPU to 5GHz stable on auto and plenty of room to go higher, but hitting 5GHz was my goal achieved. Temperatures on CPU remained around 55-60°C on full load. Overclocked the NVidia Titan X (Pascal) to 2.088GHz stable without touching voltage, felt like it would tweak higher without much problem, but hitting 2GHz stable was my goal achieved there. Temperatures on GPU remained around 50-55°C on load – the EVGA Hybrid cooler made a huge difference to the Titan X Pascal. HUGE. At the time this was a very high-end build, the Titan X (Pascal) being the most powerful graphics card available on the market. Here’s the components list:
Intel Kaby Lake i7-7700k CPU [link] (water cooled)
EVGA CLC 280 AIO CPU water cooler [link]
NVidia Titan X (Pascal) GPU [link] (water cooled)
EVGA Titan X (Pascal) GPU AIO water cooler (part# 400-HY-5388-B1) [link]
Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 3000MHz memory C15-17-17-35 [link]
Corsair light bar upgrade kits [link]
ASUS ROG Maximus IX Hero Z270 motherboard [link]
3D printed motherboard parts via Shapeways – M.2 fan holder and custom nameplate “Nereus” – see photos.
ASUS ROG Swift PG278Q 144Hz G-SYNC 27″ monitor (2560×1440) [link]
EVGA SuperNOVA 850 P2 PSU [link]
EVGA black individually sleeved cables (part# 100-CK-1300-B9)
Corsair Carbide Air 540 ATX case (arctic white) [link]
Samsung 960 EVO NVMe M.2 500GB drive – primary o/s drive
Samsung 850 EVO 2.5″ 500GB SSD – games.
2x Samsung 850 EVO 2.5″ 250GB SSD – media, backups etc.
be quiet! SilentWings3 high speed PWM fans; 4 x 140mm model BL071 and 1 x 120mm model BL070 [link]
Fractal Design Silent Series R3 40mm case fan [link] – for cooling M.2 drive
Artic MX-4 thermal compound
Razer Black Widow Ultimate Stealth (2014) keyboard [link]
Logitech G Pro gaming mouse [link]
SteelSeries Siberia v2 gaming headset (black and gold edition) [link]
3DMark Fire Strike score 22729 [link] – I only ran it once, so it may have gotten higher scores with some tweaking, and apparently I had my RAM on auto and running at 2133MHz instead of XMP settings @ 3000MHz. Oops.
Ok some photos – the desk back and sides were modded with a dremel so air flow was not restricted. Somewhat surprisingly, everything kept nice and cool. The little tablet you see to the right of the 27″ monitor is a 6″ Amazon Fire tablet I used to monitor the temps and other component using AIDA64.
