I've had the 4.5mm stainless steel plate cut to size, drilled and skimmed down to 4mm and I've now ordered the required tapping kit to tap the holes with the correct thread: (This will give the required space for the CEK Springs to sit between it and the motherboard.)

This is how the plate looks with the CPU Coolers positioned on it:

So I'm getting there slowly!

I've received my taping kit and have successfully tapped the holes for the CPU Coolers! The complete unit weighs in @ 2365g, so the plate will definitely have to be mounted to the chassis (Motherboard tray)

So my next step will be to mount the motherboard with this assembly into the case, with the case lying horizontally and then mark off the places where the holes marked off with the blue circles sit and then proceed to drill and tap the plate appropriately. (Another four holes!)

I've got the board in the case, and interestingly it doesn't seem like the plate will have to be secured to the chassis due the the pressure between the Motherboard, CEK Springs and the plate. There's no sign of bending on the Motherboard.

It will stay as is for now, until I purchase KAPTON Tape with a 10cm width to act as an insulator between the board and the plate. (There is a gap between the legs of the components and the plate, but I don't want to take any chances!)

This plate is MASSIVE !
It looks awesome!

acl wrote on 2023-08-30, 17:10:

This plate is MASSIVE !
It looks awesome!

Thanks!

It's overkill, I know! 😀

nah, it's

pshipkov wrote on 2023-08-30, 18:43:

nah, it's
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Thanks Man! 😀

The system's up and running!

Now all I need to do is purchase and fit the InWin fans and make final adjustments to the cabling!

As a future thought, I really think that this thing needs a TITAN Z!

Some more benchmarking:

The system rendered test.blend in 1 minute and 35 seconds making use of four threads:

Here's how it compares to some of my other systems:

And here's how the Task Manager sees the system:

Congratulations. Very nice setup.
Is the temperature correct with the case closed ?

acl wrote on 2023-08-31, 20:01:

Congratulations. Very nice setup.
Is the temperature correct with the case closed ?

Thanks! 😀

I still need to install nine of these fans into the case:

I'll only run the system with the case closed once the fans are installed.

Once this is done and the wiring's neatened up, then the only thing left to do will be to purchase and install one of these into the system to give it the maximum possible SLI performance, given that it only has one 16x PCIe slot: (A GTX TITAN Z)

The purpose of this experiment will be to see how much of a performance increase I get, if any at all, over that of the GTX 690. Taking into account that when I was running Crysis on this system in its current configuration the GPU memory on the GTX 690 was basically maxed out! (So the available memory on the GTX 690 may have been a bottleneck!!!)

That's RAM usage. 64-bit version can easily chomp over 2Gb of RAM. But Crysis can consume around 2Gb of VRAM at 1600(1920)x1200 with 8x anti-aliasing though, which is beyond playable capabilities of GTX690 with FPS dips to 30.

Irinikus wrote on 2023-09-01, 10:46:

Once this is done and the wiring's neatened up, then the only thing left to do will be to purchase and install one of these into […]
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Once this is done and the wiring's neatened up, then the only thing left to do will be to purchase and install one of these into the system to give it the maximum possible SLI performance, given that it only has one 16x PCIe slot: (A GTX TITAN Z)

The purpose of this experiment will be to see how much of a performance increase I get, if any at all, over that of the GTX 690. Taking into account that when I was running Crysis on this system in its current configuration the GPU memory on the GTX 690 was basically maxed out! (So the available memory on the GTX 690 may have been a bottleneck!!!)

Be sure to install case fans first then 😄
I have a friend using this card currently. He is looking for an AMD 7900XT/XTX to replace it (Starfield convinced him to change)

Here's the latest on this build. I've installed a Creative X-FI Extreme Gamer Fatality Pro, as I simply couldn't find a driver for the onboard sound on this motherboard for Windows 8 anywhere! (It's a SoundMax chip)

Here's what CPU Z sees: (It's running 10 MHz too slow!!!! 🙁 )

Here's the GPU SLI setup:

Here are the latest Crysis performance shots using MSI Afterburner to supply additional GPU and CPU information: (Note that I've lost at least 5FPS with the Sound Card installed 🙁 )

It's crazy how much sound impacts performance on these machines!

It's interesting to note how low both the CPU and GPU usage are!?

Here's the latest Blender teat result with a 4 second improvement! 😀

I'm not going to post again until I have the fans installed!

It's interesting to note how low both the CPU and GPU usage are!?

Crysis is mostly single-threaded, but modern GPU drivers and NT6.x+ scheduler are attempting to even out the CPU load when it's possible. You may want to try DXVK wrapper to improve performance in Vulkan API, but without active SLI.

"Windows 8"

EWW... WHY?

7 is SO much better

Same stuff really.

I've just discovered these InWIn High Static Pressure fans: (Don't they look awesome!!!)

Much better than RGB Fans!!! (I hate RGB!!!)

I'm going to have to look at getting eight 140mm and one 120mm, but it will be a while before I can source them locally!!! 🙁 (So this may take a while, but it will be worth it!)