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We mostly followed the original hardware spec from NVIDIA, updating the capacity of the drives and other minor things, as we had many of these parts available as salvage from other boxes. We had to buy the ASUS X99-E WS motherboard (we got the ASUS X99-E WS/USB variant as the original wasn't available and this one has USB3.1), as well as some new drives, just for this project.
We opted to use a Xeon e5-2620v3 processor, rather than the Core i7-5930K. We had both available and both support 40 channels, mount in the LGA 2011-v3 socket, have 6 cores, 15mb caches, etc. Although the i7 has a faster clock speed, the Xeon takes registered (buffered), ECC DDR4 RDIMMs, which means we can put 256Gb on the board, rather than just 64Gb. For the GPUs , we have a TITAN RTX and an older TITAN Xp available to start, and we can add a 1080Ti later, or buy some additional GPUs if needed. We also put the whole thing in a Rosewill RSV-L4000 case.
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