Gorgeous build dude!!! so clean even with that much hardware. This is an achievement. 
 
 
 
Ginger beard FTW too. 

Chris21010

well how many GPU's and on what motherboard are you trying to run them on? i ask because if you are only using a single 40 pci-e lane cpu you could be limiting your GPU's to x8 or less depending on setup. so there is no need to spend extra on x16 by x16 lane risers when you will not actually be using all 16 lanes. if you want either post some of your specs here or make a thread and i am certain many here 
 
Briefly
CPU Xeon E5 -2630 v4 + liquid cooler,
on Asus X99-E WS SSI CEB LGA2011-3 motherboard,
with Kingston FURY 4x 8Gb DDR4-2400 memory,
250 Gb SSD,
up to six GTX 1070s,
Corsair AX1500i Titanium modular PSU,
basic optical drive,
running Win 8.1 OEM 64-bit .
 
Thanks for explanation about links and useful forums. I've often been up late at night like this,  often with only small snippets of information, until now .
I'm hoping to use at least the four double space PCIe slots. Yes the CPU / motherboard above is 40 lanes. 
 Six of GTX 1070s would be my ambition - just to see if it works. Could always use any spares on other motherboards when the budget permits, or upgrade my older PC.   The X99 being a single CPU motherboard lets me spend more money on GPUs that use CUDA cores to crunch work units more efficiently per watt [of electricity  that is expensive over here in Australia] .
 
Would a  SSD with  PCIe interface make a worthwhile improvement for number crunching? 
  A brief browse of " Distributed-Computing --- " looks most intriguing. I'll migrate over there as soon as appropriate.  Your correspondence is much appreciated.
 

Well i do not know how much other crunching jobs but i would assume none would be using the hard drive, but i would research and make sure. Also i wouldn't cut your pci-e lanes anymore if avoidable. I know that once you go below x8 lanes you will start to loose performance in F@H but other jobs might not care about lanes at all, like btc mining. So basically you will need to do some research on whatever you want to run and make sure you are not hurting yourself.

ragevirusqq
Gorgeous build dude!!! so clean even with that much hardware. This is an achievement. 
 
 
 
Ginger beard FTW too. 

Such a great build. Thanks for the video, that's a lot of work!! Nice color scheme. Hey, you should add a few pics in your Modrig page. It will qualify you for the MR drawing as well.


Edit: Great beard hack as well!

notfordman

ragevirusqq
Gorgeous build dude!!! so clean even with that much hardware. This is an achievement. 
 
Ginger beard FTW too. 

Such a great build. Thanks for the video, that's a lot of work!! Nice color scheme. Hey, you should add a few pics in your Modrig page. It will qualify you for the MR drawing as well.


Edit: Great beard hack as well!

oh ya, forgot i started that. well i'll wrap it up when i can finish stage 3 of my build, which may be a couple months...

WOW, this new UV Green, what i thought i originally got but didnt, is SUPPER BRIGHT! i can not wait to re-sleeve EVERYTHING now ^_^
 

I wish I had the cash to make a build of that magnitude.
I also have a red beard.

Simply beautiful build, Video was outstanding!!
 
Someone give this guy a BR!!!!!
 
Edit: I will now never ever post a photo of my builds................just will not compare!!!!

sigh, just found out i can not use half the ATX terminals from ModDiy as the wings that bite the insulation are too short for a double wire crimp, so back to MainFrameCustom for my terminals. the ModDiy terminals are usable just for single wire only applications. so now i got yet another week delay. But look at how perfect it looks when i use one of the few terminals i had from last time:
 

Question for you Chris.  It looks like your custom cables basically split out one 8pin PCIE power connection from the PSU into a two 8-Pin PCIE's for the 1070.  Is that common practice?  I would love to do that just reduce some cabling...