hmm what is better than a single system in a single case two systems in a single
case that's right so today we're finally building my dual system inside the Evolv
X I'm not gonna lie but I will miss the super compact and elegant nature of what
I've been using so far the Streamcom da2 make sure to check out that video
right over here but in my space it fits perfectly well and I think it's time to
upgrade the case to a mid Tower just for fun alright so here's the situation
currently my 9900K system with the RTX 2080 ti
are inside the Silent Base 601 and my intent here is to keep all the same
hardware and cooling even the fans and just transfer them over into the Evolv
X and then I want to take all my ITX hardware with 8600K and the Titan XP
this is what I've been using to render videos and put it as a second
system inside the evolv X because this has a ITX slot above your main ATX
motherboard area is gonna go up up there and I'm hoping I will not encounter any
compatibility issues with the coolers because I intend to keep the giant
knocked or cooler so I do have a few concerns about this whole dual system
configuration 1 are the temperatures I'm gonna have a lot of hardware in there
that's running hot the GPUs is the Titan XP and the RTX 2080 ti based on my
review the GPU temperatures are really hot so I'm just curious if I'll just
have to keep the the side panel open and number 2 is actually using the dual
system configuration for my workflow now the thing is I've never done a dual
system configuration in the past and I'm having a hard time figuring out on how
to utilize it so if you have any suggestions on what I could do with the
second system please let me know or any helpful feedback that I could
potentially take for the next part of this project that would be appreciated
and of course the thing I'm most excited about is actually utilizing this really
powerful hardware for video production you know I've been on this 6 course 6
thread part and I'm really powerful GPU but we're moving to the 9900K and the
rtx 2080 TI for video production I'm hoping that would be a nice little
upgrade now the reason why I've been delaying
this project for a while now is because I've been waiting for this the evolv X
power supply from Phanteks this thing can power two systems so you
don't need a power splitter you don't need any additional accessories
everything is sort of built in here because has dual 24 pin dual eight pin
it's also 80 plus platinum efficiency which is awesome and it's 1200 watts so
plenty of juice there for the 9900K the 8600K and those dual GPUs
and I think I'll have six SSDs and is always nerve-racking doing a complete
rebuild of my main production machine because usually you know I have that as
like station everything that's always running and I'm working with other
hardware and what I've been told so far is that at least one of the system has
to use an all-in-one cooler or some form of water cooling or a really low profile
air cooler but here I'm sticking with 8600K so need something you know that
has nice cooling capacity for that chip and power outage good thing I have these
I go through the disassembly procedure on every single case video that we do
and you know with the Silent Base 601 that was a pretty simple operation with
this big ATX enclosure however with this unique to where everything is attached
to be eclipsed and I have to disassemble it that is what I'm not looking forward
hey the powers back let's resume the assembly so my first order of business
is trying to figure out how cable management would work for both systems
and more importantly figure out the compatibility for the height of the CPU
cooler or the pump for the ITX motherboard all right one two and three
no luck now obviously I expect the hiccups but
given my current situation I might have to rethink some things and so as I
expected this pump is just a little bit too tall to pass the clearance for you
know this massive Noctua cooler of course they've had an old one cooler for
this ATX motherboard I would have no issues with the top room but I'll
substitute it for the low profile be quiet silent loop 360 it is a 360 rad
that I was planning to put in the front anyway so this kind of works out well
okay so the ITX mount is installed onto the top fan bracket and you have to
insert it from the bottom not from the top which is unfortunate this would be
much easier installation if you could just insert the ITX motherboard from the
top but that's not possible the power button for the i/o is right over here
and the i/o slightly pushed back so there's a little bit of spacing in
between the frame and the i/o not really a big issue and as you can see there is
a little bit of clearance between the motherboard backplate and the frame
which means that if you have any nvme SSDs or like M.2 mounts behind the
motherboard tray this is fine however as you can see the fan bracket doesn't
really allow access for the cooler so like I have to remove the motherboard in
order to install any cooling the clearance here is very tight so I'm
thinking I have to put this in rout all the cables and install the cooler and
then mount my ATX motherboard because otherwise it will be a pretty big
challenge and so this is where I am right now
there were no issues mounting the pump but the tubing it's not exactly low
profile so I cannot rotate the pump for the tubes to exit on that side because
it just interferes with the CPU tower so I had to remove the middle fan on the
cooler in order to have the tubes kind of like pass through here a little bit
bend / and then just kind of manure the back
so this way it gives me enough length for the tube so I can mount the radio to
the front of the frame but of course another option is to go with a different
all-in-one cooler so this corsair h150i and it has a low-profile pump and
tubes that also exit from the side therefore not interfering with my cpu
tower heatsink but then I'm thinking if I have a 360 right at the front it will
warm up and block a lot of the airflow that's coming for the main ATX system
which is what I'm more concerned about and also I don't want to lose the middle
fan on the main knocked or cooler so instead of going the 360 route I'm
decided to go the other route of still having three fans at the front but for
the ITX system going with a really low profile CPU tower so this entire duel
system configuration will be air-cooled and I'm hoping that's not the big
compromise for the 8600K it'll still have a nice powerful GPU but I might
have to down clog the 4.8 overclocked to something a little bit more than you
know compatible with this little guy now I know this looks a bit unconventional
I'm not worried about this configuration temperatures on this car they're fine
this cooler is pretty capable I am worried about temperatures on the 8600K
but the compromise there is the ease of assembly and cable management so when
I populate this in I can rather there's no problem and then when I put this back
in you know it's not going to interfere with anything that's above it which is
which is a positive but of course I think I'll get hotter temperatures on
this little guy so let's populate the rest of the fans and the rest of the
hardware and hopefully our temperatures are not complete
so this Evolv X power supply is pretty interesting because for one for a 1200
watt unit it's pretty compact lovely aluminum based over here and for your
connections we have a pretty interesting row over here for system 1 and system 2
I mean it's pretty good for just closing these rear panels I could make it better
but I am more interested to see if this thing actually boots
okay well look what we have here is basically booted on the first try I had
to just readjust one of the 24 pin connectors on the power supply because
the second system was not booting but after a little troubleshooting right now
about that five on my main 9900K RTX 2080 ti system and just changing the
input here we're gonna go back to the ITX system and we've got youtube full
audio everything is working fine not bad at all the next thing to do would be
color coordination so it's not an ugly piece of you know there's so much
horsepower in it and I want to showcase that a little bit and I know it's a bit
difficult doing any color coordination with the Brown fans but going orange is
always an option however my Jedi Order Titan XP is not RGB so that's green so
I'm gonna try and explore my options over here but yeah should be fun all
right good people so have you worked in the evolv X for the second time now and
configuring my dual assistant build I can say that you know if you're going
that route be prepared to pay the extra for those accessories like the ITX
motherboard mount the riser cable that's necessary if you're mounting a GPU for
that ITX system above it and also the power supply because this one has no
dual power supply mounts so you have to go with the Evolv X or some other power
supply and buying the power supply splitter from fantex
so that whole approach definitely requires many many add-ons on top of
that pun intended the entire clearance above the ATX motherboard is I think a
little bit too tight right now it's cool because you cannot tell there's a second
system installed but with it comes a really difficult assembly process
because for me to access that ITX motherboard now would mean I have to
remove that entire ATX portion because the installation of the motherboard is
from the bottom and not from the top of course the heat will get trapped in that
corner so definitely again targeted to water cooling getting the heat away via
tubes to your radiators and in terms of my temperatures I haven't done full
extensive testing the ATX system is perfectly fine the GPU is fine as well
but having to close the side panels yet and I'm afraid that the top system with
that time a cooler for the 8600K will get
toasty because at idle it is running around 50 degrees Celsius and so that is
an issue and I'll definitely have to lower my overclock now a very
interesting visual observation you can see because of the upside-down
motherboard is the RAM here I have installed team groups nighthawk memory
in white which looks pretty cool beautiful RGB illumination but it also
gives you the opportunity to match the memory on the ATX motherboard side of
things for that really cool cohesive look just something to keep in mind and
my last comment would be about the cable management and how easy it was to route
everything you know with the additional 24 pin and the 8 pin connections they
don't really add too much bulk to the rear of the chassis plus add in those
plates that close everything fine I did not even have to use a zip tie which is
great and now I'm going to spend some time actually using this dual system
configuration to get into the mindset of a potential buyer of what they might use
this for you know dual systems I don't even know what I'm gonna do with it now
that I have this really powerful ATX system but we shall see
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