Creative-Minded X99 Workstation: Asus X99 Deluxe || - i7-6850K - Asus GTX Titan X - Thunderbolt2

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CREATIVE-MINDED X99 Workstation:
Core i7 6850K - Asus X99 Deluxe || - 64GB RAM - Asus GTX Titan X - Thunderbolt2

Components

Phanteks Evolve ATX Tempered Glass Galaxy Silver Midtower Case - Amazon Link | Newegg Link

Asus X99-Deluxe 2011-3 Socket X99 Chipset Motherboard - Amazon Link | Newegg Link

Intel Core i7-6850K[ Broadwell-E 6 Core 3,8Ghz 15M Cache - Amazon Link | Newegg Link

Corsair Dominator Platinum 64GB (8x 8GB) DDR4 RAM 3000Mhz - Amazon Link | Newegg Link

Asus Geforce GTX Titan X 12GB GDDR5 RAM - Amazon Link

Corsair Hydro H115i 280mm Radiator - Amazon Link | Newegg Link

Corsair RM1000x 1.000W Modular Power Supply - Amazon Link | Newegg Link

Asus ThunderboltEX || / Dual 2 ports TB2 PCI-e 2.0 x4-interface - Newegg Link

Syba SY-PEX30016 3 port Firewire 1394A & 1394B PCI-e x1 interface - Amazon Link | Newegg Link

Storage

2x Samsung 950 Pro 512GB NVMe M.2 SSD - Samsung 950 Pro 512GB (RAID0 ?) (Multimedia Work OS) - Amazon Link | Newegg Link

Samsung 850 Pro SATA SSDs - Amazon Link | Newegg Link

- Samsung 850 Pro 1TB ( Windows 8.1 )
- Samsung 850 Pro 512GB ( Music DAW OS )
- Samsung 850 Pro 256GB ( Personal OS )​

Samsung 850 EVO 1TB SSD ( Applications ) - Amazon Link | Newegg Link

Intel 535 SSD 120GB (Cache Drive) - Amazon Link | Newegg Link

Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB WD2002FAEX ( Time Machine Backup ) - Amazon Link | Newegg Link​

Monitors

LG 34UM95-P 3440x1440 Thunderbolt, Displayport, HDMI - Amazon Link | Newegg Link

LG 29EA93-P 2560x1080 Displayport, HDMI, DVI - Amazon Link | Newegg Link

2x Samsung U28D590 3840x2160 DisplayPort, HDMI - Amazon Link | Newegg Link
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Casemoding

2x Corsair ML140 Pro LED 37dB @ 2000RPM - Amazon Link | Newegg Link

2x Thermaltake Riing RGB Triple Pack 24,6dB @ 1500RPM - Amazon Link | Newegg Link

Cablemod Modflex C-Series White Sleeved Cable Kit - Amazon Link

Corsair Dominator Platinum Light bar kit / White Sleeved Cable Kit - Amazon Link | Newegg Link​

Already Owned

Logitech G510 + G13 & G602 Mouse

Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Surround set

Logitech C910 Webcam


Comments

The Build
After already build 3 other succeeded systems, and my 6 year old X79 was not power full enough anymore for multimedia. I decide to build a new system for my work and beside that to make a multiboot system. Beside the use for my work, want to use it also for music production / personal use / maybe some gaming (mostly playing on my PS4).

I have choose this combination of hardware components because I need this for my own multimedia company where I'm doing webdesign & development, graphic design, video editing, 3D rendering. In my free time also producing & mastering music and with this hardware the requirements for gaming would be good to go, I think.

So with this choice of components for using + upgrading this works hopefully for a couple years again..
And I'm having a great experience with Asus / Samsung / Western Digital / Corsair hardware !

Installation

I will later write a full description of the installation of the system

Bios Setup & Configuration

Pre-Installation

Mac OS X 10.11.6 Install

Post Installation


Overview


What works


What don’t work


Benchmarks
I will later post some benchmarks of the system ( especially when the NVMe M.2 SSD’sworks in RAID0 )

• Blackmagic Diskspeed Test
• AJA System Test
• Cinebench
• Prime95
• Luxmark OpenCL Benchmark
• Enigine Valley Benchmark
• Enigine Heaven Benchmark

Future Plans

For geeks like us we always looking to get better performance for our system, so i am about to plan in the future some upgrades..

Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 2,1Ghz - 3Ghz 16 Core 40MB Cache

Geforce GTX Titan X @ SLI 12GB GDDR5 RAM

Dual NGFF M.2 PCI-e Adapter

Startech USB 3.0 SuperSpeed UASP PCI-e 4x 5Gbps port USB 3.0 SuperSpeed (20Gbps total) Renesas / NEC - µPD720202 chipset

Sonnet Echo Express SE || Thunderbolt2 PCI-e Expansion 2 Slot

WD MyBook Pro 12TB 2x WD Black 6TB HDD Thunderbolt2 + USB 3.0

EKWB Custom watercooling

After archive all the other components im gonna make a full EKWB custom water cooling loop..
Because the GPU's getting warm with rendering stuff, with some helping advice from the legendary L3P

 

[Creative-Minded]

Music Hardware​

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[f4llens]

What for is this collection of links to 10K+ usd components?

 

[Creative-Minded]

What for is this collection of links to 10K+ usd components?

It's my already builded system, without the upgrades yet as you can read i have to write the installation steps.

And do some benchmarks en upload the screenshot's but didn't have the time yet to work it out because im busy with work..

The installation is already done and fully working and a stable system for me

( P.S maybe a can make a new guide when i have done a new OS installation with M.2 RAID0 )