Build 88 – Red Guardian: Live Streaming Workstation

Red Guardian is a live streaming workstation, designed around a 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X processor and an RTX 2080Ti 11GB video card.

Description

Red Guardian is a live streaming workstation, designed around a 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X processor and an RTX 2080Ti 11GB video card.

General System Design

This custom water cooled workstation is designed around a 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X processor and an RTX 2080Ti 11GB video card.

Software Workload/Customer Need

This customer needed a powerful new workstation to handle their growing professional workload that would last a long time. This customer was getting more into gaming and live streaming, while also doing CAD work for their firearm fabrication business.

This build influenced Tiger 437.

System Spec

Processor (CPU): AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING X570 Plus WiFi

Memory: GSkill Trident Z RGB 2x32GB DDR4-3600

Storage (SSD): HP EX950 512GB NVME

Storage (SSD): HP EX950 1TB NVME

Storage (HDD): 2x WD Red 8TB (RAID 1)

Video Card (GPU): Asus RTX 2080Ti 11GB ROG Strix Gaming OC

Power Supply (PSU): Corsair RM (2019) 850W

Case: Cougar Conquer

Fans: 5x Corsair ML120 PRO RGB

Accessories: Elgato HD60 Pro, CableMod PRO Cable Kit (Black/Blood Red)

Custom Water Cooling: EK CoolStream SE 360, EK CoolStream SE 240, EK CPU Lignum (Walnut), EK Classic GPU Water Block Strix RTX 2080 Ti D-RGB, EK FC Strix RTX 2080 Ti Backplate Classic (Black), EK-Quantum Inertia D5 PWM D-RGB (Plexi), Bykski Distro Plate COUGAR Conquer V2, Bitspower G1/4″ Flow Indicator (Clear Main Body, Black Blade, Matte Black), EK CryoFuel Solid Scarlet Red, EK Quantum Torque 6-Pack HTC 16 (Black)

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Design Rationale

  • The Ryzen 9 3900X gave the customer a great amount of single-core performance for gaming and editing, and multicore performance for heavily-threaded tasks.
  • We integrated a custom water loop for the CPU and GPU, using a 360mm radiator and a 240mm radiator.
  • The customer wanted a stable motherboard with a good amount of desktop functionality.
  • The customer wanted at least 64GB of RAM, 128GB was an easy upgrade.
  • The customer was mostly fine with our default storage setup, only adding 2x8TB HDD RAID1.
  • We recommended the RTX 2080Ti for gaming and streaming performance.
  • The overall design of the build meant that a 850W power supply was recommended.
  • We used a special case for the build, one that we heavily weathered to best fit the customer.
  • We used our high-end RGB fans to ensure proper airflow and static pressure.

Customer Review

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