There are a plethora of car enthusiasts out there who want one thing, and one thing only—power. More power often equates to better performance and speed. Blistering zero-to-60 times and 200-plus-mph top speeds can make a gaggle of speed demons melt like butter on a warm pancake. There’s another aspect of life outside transportation that draws equally passionate speed demons—computers. And sometimes, interest in cars and computers intersect, such as they do for Matt Herman, a C7 Corvette owner who built a Corvette-themed PC that requires its own radiator.
While Herman has a 700-horsepower, supercharged Corvette in his garage, he now has a computer in his office that he claims is in the top one percent of all high-end desktop computers—in the world. That’s a bold claim, but you wouldn’t doubt his claim look at the specs. Beefy parts include Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX, MSI X399 MEG Creation motherboard, 32 gigabytes of G.Skill Flare-X F4-3200 C14 memory, and much more. Onboard storage includes two 512-GB hard drives and one one-terabyte hard drive.
The computer also features a water cooling system to keep the PC from overheating. Much like adding a supercharger to his Corvette for more power, Herman overclocked his PC, which allows the components to operate beyond their original specifications. However, overclocking a computer requires more power, and that additional power generations heat. An easy way to keep all the components cool is to add a cooling system that goes far beyond a few chintzy cooling fans. Herman rigged his computer with a water cooling system that required a reservoir, radiators, fans, and carbon-fiber tubing to route the water through the PC.
The build is insane. The computer is massive, and unlucky anything we’ve ever seen before. Herman not only painted it white to match his Corvette, but he also added a Corvette and Supercharged badge along with the Corvette emblem, too. Herman chronicled his build here if you wanted to follow in his footsteps and build an equally powerful computer. Just use it for more than Facebook and cat videos.
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And just like the Corvette Z06 and ZR1, the key to keeping a Corvette theme personal computer running at top efficiency is keeping the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX processor cool; but sadly.. there aren’t any real software written to be handled the 32-core 64-thread processor.
“there aren’t any real software written to be handled the 32-core 64-thread processor.”
Not at the consumer level at least. I know of at least one BIM application that can only ever use 16 cores for real-time rendering, but outside of that and academic or geotechnical modeling, this computer is largely a show-piece.
“Top one percent” for photo editing, maybe. No gaming software that I’ve heard if can use more than a few of the 32 cores available on that monster CPU. At least post some benchmarks if you’re going to make claims like that.
No talk of the video card, either, which I assume it has. And water cooled PC is not something exotic or unusual, it’s the norm for overclocking modern video cards. There are tons of kits from many manufacturers, along with “custom loops”, which are usually still kits from the same manufacturers that require tube bending and cutting by the installer.
The author is obviously not qualified to write an article about high end computers, Corvette themed or otherwise.
“No talk of the video card, either, which I assume it has.”
The photos show a pair of 2080ti RTX’s under EK blocks.
Lol I could cripple it and never leave the shell 🙂
..and unlucky as anything we have seen before. Really? Well, I will just hang on to my C7 for now. LOL
It appears that GM Authority got this story from CorvetteOnline.com…..
https://www.corvetteonline.com/news/building-a-hot-rodded-corvette-themed-computer/