This is looking great. I love that color. 

Continuing .  Backing up a little bit, I'm using Crucial T500, 2 TB NVMe SSD for my main drive .  It's Gen4 .  The board only supports gen4 SSD,
so I got a very highly rated, cool running one .  The speed difference between gen4 and 5 SSD will not be detectable by a human being .
 
Below is Crucial T500 gum stick .

 
This board is also not known for supporting extreme high performance RAM ( the qualified RAM list is just depressing, yuk, not for me ),
so I got some reasonably priced, high compatibility RAM for now .  It works really well, and runs at XMP 6000 with loose timings .
I may get some snappier sticks later depending on how testing goes ... and what sales can be had :)
 
Below are two Patriot Viper Gaming Elite 5 DDR5 RAM modules installed .  48 GB total .

 
I ended up installing eight fans .  Three 120mm to feed the graphics card area, and Five 140mm fans; 3 for radiator, one for VRM and RAM area ( side ),
and one exhaust .  They are all Noctua PWM redux fans .  Very quiet, lots of air .  Six of them run on PCIe power, more on that later .
I cut down the right side fan bracket to hold just one fan so as to allow the water tubing to take nice gentle bends .  The case can hold ten fans .
 
Below are three GPU area fans .  The four spots on the corners are where the feet go if you use the case in the upright position .

 
Below are the 140mm fans installed .

 
The brains of this outfit is the intel 14900KS CPU .  Known to be an effective space heater, it is the reason for the heavy duty water cooler .
So far it purrs like a kitten, but I have not yet hit it with cinebench .  When I do, I will use the new R24 version .  It's got a new picture .
 
Below is the mighty 14900KS in its natural environment :)

 
The brawn is none other than the EVGA 1000W FTW ATX 3.0, PCIe 5.0 power supply .  You guys knew I would have to work an EVGA product
into the assembly somewhere .  I still love EVGA, and wish they would make some graphics cards n' stuff again .
 
Below is the EVGA 1000 FTW .  Powerful and compact .

 
Don't know why everything turned gray in the picture .  It's really all black .  Oh, well, digital camera .  So, after all that it started right up, no problems .
There was more work to be done, but I could not wait to see some fire !
 
Below is the first startup,. and a glimpse of the interesting Supermicro BIOS .

 
Below is the startup splash sceen .  Interestingly, the user has the opportunity to go into an "EFI shell" on this screen by entering the boot menu .
It's also a boot menu, of course .

 
 
OK, I'll post some more stuff later, right now I need to feed !
 

This build is looking great. Looking forward to final build pictures. 

With the machine start up successfully out of the way, the wiring needed to be restrained a bit .  It's all on the bottom .
I used Noctua fan speed controls/PCIe power taps to give power and PWM control from the mother board to the radiator,
and GPU area fans, three each, two controllers .  One controller gives board power, and generates PWM signal to
the right side VRM/RAM area fan, as the board header is power only .
 
Below is a Noctua controller and accessory cables .

 
Below is a shot of the bottom wiring restrained by case straps, and tie wraps .  The two controllers on top of the cables
use board PWM signal to control the fans, and PCIe power to power them .  The controller on the right uses board power,
and generates its own PWM signal to control one fan .  It protrudes up above the main board tray thru a tray cut out
so that the user can adjust fan speed with the knob .  It is supported from the bottom by an old coffee stir stick .
I had to incorporate a little garbage in my build, as usual :)

 
After that I put the case back together .  Here's what the left side looks like .

 
The whole thing sort of looks like a toaster oven, or large bread box when the smoked glass panels are on it .
Below is the right side view .

 
Below is the front view .

 
Below is the final inside with the glass panels off .  Noctua controller is on right side under hoses .

 
Since then the BIOS was updated, and Win11 installed .  Updating the Supermicro BIOS is a little intimidating,
especially if a person is not familiar with DOS-like command line stuff, but it had to be done to ensure maximum
CPU gen 14 compatibility .  It is done thru the "EFI shell" that I mentioned earlier .
Well, that's all for now .  I will be waiting for a gen 5 graphics card, fine tuning, testing, and loading software .
I hope you all were entertained, and, "make it a great day", to all !
 
P.S.  The integrated graphics works great .
 
Too The Moon !
 
 

The above results were similar to the 14900K in the Gigabyte machine .  The Supermicro BIOS is complicated, and meant
for very experienced personnel .  The board even has jumpers to "change how it operates", but the manual does not elaborate .
So, I used a simple overclocking procedure for the Supermicro Z490 board from TweakTown videos .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MTB7NwxmAs
The Z490 BIOS GUI is nearly the same .  Below are the results "locked", which is not really locked, to 5.7 GHz .

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Score is now 41538, temp. 102C, but no thermal throttling .  Power consumption is up to 413 watts max.
Intel max. operating temp. is 100C, so this was not acceptable to me .
 

Shown below is the fan installed in the bottom of the case .  The other 3.5" drive bracket is laying on top of the PSU .
The fan points up into the case mother board tray CPU area cut out, blowing air around the edge of the EK CPU cooler mounting bracket,
and into the back side of CPU socket, and also through the tray cut out to the under side of the mother board .
Now there are 9 fans total .  Almost in Mr. rjohnson's league ;)

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The new fan is on the left .  The digital camera makes it glow white-ish .  It is really Noctua mud brown .
 

I found the PL1 and PL2 power limits control in the BIOS, and lowered the Pcore freq. to "locked" 5.6 GHz for a better overclock .
The BIOS default setting for PL1 and PL2 power limits is over 4000 watts .  Seems a little high :|  Pcore base freq. is 3.2 GHz .
With PL1 and PL2 limits set to 377 watts, and processor set to 5.6 I get nearly the same score at lower temperature .
Score 41932, maximum core temp. 89C .  CPU package power is 356 watts .
See test below .

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I decided to save this one .  I'll use it again .
 
Too The Moon
 
Gamdias Neso P1 case, Supermicro C9Z790-CGW main board, Intel 14900KS CPU, 2 x 24 GB Viper ELITE5 DDR 5 RAM, one 2 TB Crucial T500 gen.4 main drive,
two 1 TB Crucial P3 gen.3 storage drives, EK Velocity Sq. pump, heat sink, and reservoir combo, plus 420 MM radiator, nine Noctua case fans .
 

B0baganoosh
Looking great!

Thanks very much, Mr. BObaganoosh .  Also to Mr. rjohnson11, Mr. Cool GTX, and Mr. Hoggle .
Your kind words have encouraged me .  I hope it's been entertaining, I've got just a little more, below :)
 
Too The Moon !
 

Also at these settings it will run RAM better at XMP2 5600 38-48-48-78 .  At the BIOS default settings XMP1 6000 42-42-42-82
works best .  Anyway I got a few points back on my R23 score by using XMP2 profile .
See XMP2 results below .

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Temperature is down to 84C now .  CPU power 322 watts .  Score is 41510 .
 
 
 

 
Just a couple more pictures .  First here are the twin NVMe SSD gumsticks I got on sale for $57 each at Best buy .  Nice to get and go .  No shipping :)
Two one TB Crucial P3 gen. 3 NVMe SSD posed on my hotdog pillow .

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They go in the motherboard under two heat sinks shown below .  Better to get them in now, before I find a huge 50 series graphics card to install .

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The heat sink-SSD covers are at the bottom of the picture, one with a blue light on it, and the other just above it in the usual place .
Now I have 4 TB of solid state storage .  All the memory products are Micron, although I did not intend them to be :)
 
Too The Moon !
 
 
Gamdias Neso P1 case, Supermicro C9Z790-CGW main board, Intel 14900KS CPU, 2 x 24 GB Viper ELITE5 DDR 5 RAM, one 2 TB Crucial T500 gen.4 main drive,
two 1 TB Crucial P3 gen.3 storage drives, EK Velocity Sq. pump, heat sink, and reservoir combo, plus 420 MM radiator, nine Noctua case fans .
 

Brad_Hawthorne
I like it. Cool to see a Supermicro not be in a rack. 

I'm in the middle of a Supermicro build myself at the moment and am tempted to un-rack the thing to be more desk friendly. It was already a rude awakening when I had to deal with the server fans to Noctua fan conversion. 

Thanks .  It's working as a horizontal case, but I may end up putting it on end anyway to use less table top space .  I might put it in the kitchen .
I bet it is nice on your ears to have those server fans out !  If you still are thinking desk top use, you might check out Supermicro website .
They have a few vertical cases for their various boards .  They all have optical drive bays, too .  What motherboard are you using ?
 
Supermicro just dropped a new BIOS for the C9Z790 boards .  So, I updated my BIOS with it .  Lost my old settings, and reset BIOS to default .
This new BIOS is even hotter than the old one was :0    Just in BIOS "optimized defaults" I'm thermal velocity boosting to 6.2 Ghz all over the place .
That's just in Windows balanced power mode .  I will have to make some adjustments before running Cinebench again .
I tried Timespy, for the fun of it, CPU went up to 98 C, with thermal throttling .
 
Also, put an old EVGA GTX1060 graphics card that I had in it .  It works great, and EVGA even had an up to date driver for it .
It's a step up from integrated graphics .  I can now run most games on my old 1080p monitor .  All at no cost :)
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The 1060 will do until the new cards come out .  Still waiting for gen. 5 :)
Have a great time with your own Supermicro build .
 
Too The Moon !
 
Gamdias Neso P1 case, Supermicro C9Z790-CGW main board, Intel 14900KS CPU, 2 x 24 GB Viper ELITE5 DDR 5 RAM, one 2 TB Crucial T500 gen.4 main drive,
two 1 TB Crucial P3 gen.3 storage drives, EK Velocity Sq. pump, heat sink, and reservoir combo, plus 420 MM radiator,
EVGA 1000G FTW Supernova ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 compliant PSU, and nine Noctua case fans .
 
 

This was a great Supermicro build

rjohnson11
This was a great Supermicro build

Thank's Mr. rjohnson11, there will be a little more .  I won't be satisfied with the 1060 forever .
BTW, I've been busy reinstalling my Win10 OS on my old ASUS computer, it got corrupted somehow, so I reinstalled it
from the old original USB stick .  Took allot of updating, and update got stuck at one point, so I used the system file
checker to correct it .  I learned a new command prompt command to go with it; DISM .  DISM downloads missing
image files so that sys. file checker can have ALL files available to repair the system .
First run  DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
Then run   sfc /scannow
 
Too The Moon !
 

Yeah, they came out with two models in 2023 .  One with WiFi, C9Z790-CGW, and one without, C9Z790-CG .
They didn't do much advertising, and production was slow .  Those are currently the only consumer boards Supermicro sells .
It's a good board .  Hasn't given me any trouble .  BIOS flashing is a little more difficult than on other consumer boards,
but not extremely hard .  Supermicro has finally updated their SuperO-booster software for the Z790 boards .  Last time I
updated BIOS, I used it, it was a cinch with that, almost completely automatic .  I think it is superior in performance to my
Gigabyte Z690 board, which is also a good board :)  It's hard to tell though because the processor is also slightly better .
 
Too The Moon !