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We're doing a build. We're doing a build in a ridiculously high-end case, the Alta T1. And it seems like this case is ridiculously expensive, and that is because it is a single piece of aluminum. But really, it's about the rest of the build, which is like $60,000 worth of parts, and it's not mine. I don't get to keep it. I'm just doing this because it was an opportunity to build a $60,000 computer. Why would you not do that if you have a YouTube channel, right? Okay. Starting with our case from Silverstone, which I haven't reviewed before. So, let's take a quick tour of the case, and then we'll look at the other components.
Lol, there's plastic releases on the bottom like a TV. It's oversized. Someone is very, very lucky. No, no, it's not cuz they're still employed. It's because they're building a computer that's going to be just insane. MY RIDE'S HERE. ALL RIGHT, SO WHAT HAVE WE GOT for the rest of the build? Well, it's going to be a custom loop water cooling. And white PC the rads. We're going to do Xeon. This is a 6158X, so like a 4710 with the W-890 Sage WS.
Yay, retail parts. Oh my god. Also, all Noctua cooling, all the Noctua. But before we get to that, let's break down what's inside here cuz it's aluminum body. She isn't that cool? Now, the side panel, that's steel. But the frame, the frame is what's aluminum. At the rear we've got eight expansion slots, room for dual power supplies, which is kind of important if you can't get a 3 kilowatt power supply. Foreshadowing. Our front panel IO is two USB type C, two USB type A, a combination headphone microphone port, a physical power and reset button. We also have a power LED and a hard drive activity LED. I might have liked to have
seen network activity LEDs or just some additional indicators there. For the other side panel, it has internal magnetic dust filters. It's a fine mesh. Got tons of room back here for cable routing, cable grommets. Plenty of room for your SSI EEB and extended size motherboards. Plenty of room for radiators. The front is not where you pull the air in from. It's the side and you can see we've got a lot of room for radiators. 360, 420, not a problem. Bundled with the case are four fans, one at the rear and three along the bottom. Although we're going to be doing some upgrades.
Mainly for static pressure because of the radiators. You've also got a lot of room and mounting options for radiators in the top. I really like the mounting mechanism because this is what you got for your radiator. It does have a mesh dust filter on it. So if you wanted to use the top as an intake, you could. I think in our configuration we're going to use it as an exhaust. But these two thumb screws let you remove this bracket to which we're going to mount all our stuff. And you can see down here and in the front we've got a pump mounting bracket.
There's brackets for 2 and 1/2 inch hard drives. You can get 3 and 1/2 inch hard drives in here. There's room for 2 and 1/2 inch drives on the back of the motherboard tray and those trays for the drives can be moved around to different spots inside the case. There's also a lot of extra screw holes in case you want to do you know, Silverstone accessories or 3D printable accessories or whatever you need. Yeah, let's let's get building. All right, for the rest of the parts you know, that's our that's where we're starting with the case, but we're going to make some case commentary along the way as we build as we always do.
Power supply C19 3 kilowatts. It is going to need 220 in order to deliver this amount of wattage. And you know what? We're just going to go ahead and do dual power supplies because why not? There's Xeon that I mentioned before. This is the thick C water block. I don't know if I'm saying that right. But, you know, water block there. I hope that this would be enough cooling. Good lord. That is a lot of cooling. What are these? Alphacool? So, Alphacool radiators. There's a lot of options. We can't go with the very largest radiator and also the dual power supply configuration, but
that's okay. And then it's just a lot of custom fittings. Uh we're going to start with four RTX Pro 6000s, maybe five. I mean, eventually the goal would be to get, you know, like seven or eight in here, right? But, we'll start with four, maybe five, and go from there. Cuz if you can only do that much with that many GPUs, what are you doing for cooling? As in, it needs all the watts. I also want to call out Silverstone's manual. This thing is a aluminum unibody. It is super premium. And this manual is probably the best or one of the best manuals for building on the internet, period. It has the exact sizes
and tolerances, which is very important for this build. There's a couple places where we have about 1 mm of clearance, and that was critical for planning this build. So, check out the manual. If you're contemplating building this case. Oh, the accessory box of the case is pretty modest. You basically get a power supply bracket. Now, this power supply bracket is for an enterprise power supply. So, like if you wanted a system management bus power supply, you can do that with this bracket, but it's going to be very loud because it's designed for servers. So, we're not going to do that.
We also got a extra mounting bracket, Silverstone. So, Silverstone's included the appropriate commercial build accessories in the box. It is the Charles Xavier of unibody cases. It's like, get over here, wheels. All right, let's build. I had to move to the scary basement because we needed a 220 outlet, and guess what's not in the studio? A 220 outlet. That's okay, though. You will have to use right angle fittings because it is kind of a tight fit. There's a large radiator in the top, and then the extra thick radiator is in the front. But look, the GPUs
really just seem tiny by comparison. Absolute [clears throat] bananas. So, our custom water loop build is coming together. Liquid 702, it's high-performance cooling. And then this, which is a uh and Dracana. Dracana from the old country. Dracana. That was uh I'll tell you, this is what was cheap on the internet. Uh our Alphacool radiators, fittings, right angles. Like, this is a really tight fit in this case. It's a It's aluminum unibody, but look, 2400 W of heat production just from the GPUs. Although, these are probably going to run at 450 W, so not a big deal. We don't even have our second power supply in. We're just going to do, you know, as
the AI likes to say, a smoke test with just the 3000 W uh power supply. The GPUs probably running at about 450 W, and our CPU is definitely going to be well south of 500 W, so we've got plenty of power headroom. And look, look what a mighty reservoir. We are definitely not compensating for anything. More progress B-roll. So, this is a little different than the other B-roll because now there's fittings and right angle fittings and downwardly angled fittings. So, like you know, the tube is coming out. If we had it to do over again, maybe the right angle fitting off of the top instead of the front, but you know, this is fine. It's fine.
This is not a problem. Now, we got to figure out how to get that manifold the distribution manifold mounted somewhere on the inside along with the radiator. Boom. Our water cooling is progressing. But, we still have a lot to do. The Silverstone documentation was so good, we were able to plan the radiator and fans in the top. Look, look at the top of the motherboard here. There is less than 1 mm of clearance between the top of the board, the radiator, and our Noctua fans. This is made possible with good documentation and good drawings in Silverstone's manual.
Give me more. We don't want micro bubbles. I was worried that going in series through the rads wouldn't have enough flow. That's a lot of flow. That is hauling ass. You're going to need it with 2,400 W. I like being able to see that all of the GPUs are getting adequate flow, too. Yeah, I almost put five D5s in. I'm glad you didn't. Yeah, that would have been a waste of money. Yeah. First power on, first post. The screen hasn't come on yet. It's getting ready to The fans through the radiators are at 100%. Noctua is doing its job. Got a
little bit of a vortex. We'll solve that problem later. There's no leaks. There's no drips. I'm very impressed with the uh pressure that pump is able to deliver. I mean, I know there's a lot of air bubbles in there, and I know we got to fix that, but it lets me see flow, and I can see flow through all the GPUs. That looks good. I can see flow through the little uh you know, it's like that's a big radiator. You'd expect it to restrict flow a fair bit, but you know, daisy-chaining the radiators here, I think has worked out. But, listen to how quiet this is. It's quieter than the ambient noise down here because there's a server rack about 30 ft that way.
Our blocks are ice cold. This is a very, very exciting build. Yeah, we still got to hook up the fans at the bottom. It's fine. I am a fan of this build. This Silverstone case is exceedingly nice. And the entire rest of the build to go with it, also exceedingly nice. We used almost a full gallon of fluid. Wasn't just this gallon. This gallon was completely full, plus one of these coolants bottles. So, this is an absurd amount of fluid in this machine. It's also very heavy, very dense, very hard to move. It's booting. That's booting. The first monitor this computer sees is going to be this $5 Dell monitor.
Woo! And of course, with ye oldy DisplayPort to VGA adapter, because why not? Hey! This is the first time where we are in search of incredible, and yeah, this is like $70,000 incredible. This is a This is just completely nuts. Oh, I forgot we have 120 TB SSDs or uh drives to add to it. Oh, well. We'll do that another time. It's fine. 128 gigs of memory, 658X. A new CPU has been installed. Let's deal with it. Oh, yeah, and the CPU cooler uh is not properly connected because we haven't connected the headers, but this is fine. Uh let's go to the benchmarking. Boom. There we go. We've got post, we've got cooling, no leaks.
It's on the network. Well, it will be as soon as I plug in the cable. Let's do the benchmarking. All right. Benchmarks on this thing, it's four RTX Pro 6000s, so it's going to perform like four RTX Pro 6000s with full XT X16 PCIe Gen5 links, so peer-to-peer. DeepSeek V4.1 flash is where we'll start and the is the majority of the that's that's what this machine was built to do, basically. Again, for commercial purposes, it's going to a dev team, a small dev team, and uh the numbers are kind of nuts. From context 500 to context at 985,000, full rundown on the forum, but yeah, you know, even at the insane context 7,684 tokens per second
for prompt processing. In the more reasonable, you know, 100 to 250,000, we're talking about 15,000 tokens per second prefill, and our context one is on the order of 230 tokens per second. But even ramping all the way up to C16 and C32, we're still going to be able to manage, you know, 40, 50 tokens per second with 32 sessions running. Our best-case scenario on prefill, 19,000 tokens per second. And this is the native DeepSeek V4.1 flash, like no quants, no anything. The platform's optimized. But also this is an inferencing task, and keeping the GPUs in sync, and keep in mind these are 600-W workstation class cards, so monitoring the power usage is also really interesting while running benchmarks. And 540 to 555 W, we
weren't really kissing that 600-W limit. It's also important if you're running Max-Q. If you're running Max-Q, you're power limited to 300 W, but a workstation card at 300 W and a Max-Q card at 300 W, the Max-Q card will do a little bit better, but the performance falloff is almost nil. So, you know, using NVIDIA SMI to set these cards to run at 450 W is going to have an almost immeasurable impact negative impact on these numbers. So, even running the cards at 450 W or power capping at 450 W, you're going to get really close to these numbers. Which again, for a single offline machine with frontier class intelligence for that particular model, this is absurdly fast and absurdly competent as a model.
Oh, one of the thing I'd like to note about the blocks, these are not single slot blocks. The Big See blocks are what we used here. They take up two slots. So, there's no way we're going to be able to get five GPUs in this thing. There's plenty of breathability around the GPUs, which I like. You get a little bit of extra air cooling. But, it sort of defeats the whole purpose. I think that's the system the recipient of this system is ultimately going to have to swap those blocks out. So, maybe when they do that, I can buy them the old blocks from them. But, these are not single slot blocks, which is very disappointing. It uses the PCIE mount with a little bit of an offset, so those PCBs overlap and it physically takes up two slots. It also
makes it so you can't use the second slot cover at the rear. So, keep that in mind if you're thinking about buying those Big See blocks. That's the It's like, wait, I can't get a slot cover in there. Why? Why do they do this? Why? Woo! All four GPUs. Look, all four GPUs. It's a Christmas miracle. Wait, where's the temperature? Oh, well, it's only 14 W. Well, 29 C. That's That's pretty good. It's pretty good. Kind of nuts. But, how are we going to get at least one, probably two or three more or four more in there.
Woo! I know we'll go bigger. So, once again, an epically unobtainable monster overkill build. Yeah, I don't know. Silverstone Alta T1, it's in stock. It's aluminum unibody, aluminum. It's a monster system to build in, no matter what you're building. Even if you're just building a Threadripper workstation, probably stream overkill. Aluminum unibody, wheels. They're really going to enjoy that machine. And uh at the risk of starting a new meme, it's like the token cost is too damn high. This That's why they built it, they said. So, yeah. I don't know. I'm Wendell of Level One
Techs. This has been extreme maximum overkill build. So, to make up for that, we're going to do some garbage builds coming up. Just build some garbage stuff. Uh and also, I may have uh asked Silverstone to send over the Alta T2, which is an even bigger version of the T1. It's not aluminum unibody, it's aluminum and steel. So, we're going to go head-to-head, T1 versus T2. I think the T2 is going to be interesting. Anyway, I'm Wendell of Level One, I'm signing out. You can find me at the Level One forums. So, if you want to post pictures of your own build or what you're up to, or you know, it's like
I've got my machine and it's just a motherboard on a pizza box. That's okay, I see you. You're welcome on the forum. Let's go. Let's do it. Let's get it done. And we're giving away some stuff for Devember, too. So, Devember's coming up. So, you probably want to get signed up for that, anyway. Woo! All right. See you.
