Building A Rendering Monster.

The Evil Dead

That’s her name, Evil Dead. She’s built around a “dead platform” utilizing a Xeon X99 chip. 14 Cores, 28 Threads and a huge L3 cache. Before I was a designer, during my contracting days, I was a freelance custom computer builder. I easily built 50 custom computers, some of which have been maintained and upgraded through the years. Though she isn’t nearly as colorful as my previous work, with none of the custom metal corrugate pipe and midi connectors for power junctions etc., she’s still absolutely stunning through my eyes.

She needed a custom mining case…and then I needed to modify the custom mining case to align the PCI express lanes. Bitcoin miners don’t require 16 lanes..I definitely do! The trusty grinder and a few tasteful rivets did the trick to reverse the top half of this case, which houses the 1070’s aligned with the express lanes, the 980’s with riser cards, 6 top of the line cooling fans and the closed loop waterooler reservoir.

The bottom half has the motherboard, hard drives and 2 power supplies.

Since this big guy was built using a server grade chassis, it lives in a data closet. It hasn’t been swapped to windows server yet so we needed to setup some long run HDMI and USB ports. Future plans include fiber connections for even longer runs of USB-3 and updating to windows server for remote work utilizing opengl.

CPU: Closed loop watercooled 2695 V3, OC’d to 2.7ghz @ 14 cores

RAM: 4x16gb of 3000mhz 15 step + 2x8gb 3000mhz 15 step

GFX: 2x 1070 GTX @ 16 PCI lanes and 2x 980 TI @ 4 PCI lanes

Drives: 500gb 970 Evo + 500gb 970 evo on a PCI riser, + 1.5tb WD Green

Power: 1000 watt Corsair + 600 watt Corsair Golds

She recently clocked 19th on the list of top rendering speeds within our rendering platform…Evil!