The fan in the top middle exhausting outward might steal airflow away for the AIO. I understand why you might want to have an additional one for GPU exhaust, but it would help the airflow patterns in the case if you only had 2 intakes and the AIO exhausting. Making the AIO push-pull with that fan is what I would do.
No problem! You can get a Xeon E5-1680 V2 and do a slight overclock on it with this board and BIOS version F7. It's worth a shot if you were looking for an upgrade without switching motherboards. 1680 V2 is 8 cores, 16 threads.
Yup, x16 for both GPUs, x4 for the Decklink Mini Recorder 4K, x1 for the USB 3.0 controller, plus all the onboard devices, which work for VFIO (minus the VIA USB 3.0 controller, which I disable whenever I run VFIO/QEMU/KVM)
If your X79-UP4 is revision 1.1, you can replace that 4960X with a E5-1660 V2 or E5-1680 V2 Xeon. (BTW, they're overclockable with unlocked multipliers)
If it's revision 1.0, 4960X is the best you can go.
Right, via an external controller. Many boards back then had external SATA 3 controllers. Might not have as much throughput as a native controller so I'd still get a 860 EVO.
You may need to flip your AIO radiator fans to be intake. You're completely in a negative pressure airflow situation right now which sucks in dust. All your fans are exhaust with no intakes.
For music production, you can achieve higher XMP clocks with 3200Mhz RAM if you only use 2 sticks per side. The Flare X RAM has good CAS latencies for music production, and I'd recommend a swap to 2 16GB 2x8GB sets of RAM.
Getting a Dark Rock Pro 4 might allow you to overclock your 4790K further, since it has the better thermal paste compared to the 4770K. Since you are doing 144hz, overclocking will start to become necessary with that 1070.
1440p 144hz might require more upgrades to a new CPU and GPU, so focus on overclocking the CPU with a good air cooler to maximize your 1080p 144hz.
Do be aware, that although the Samsung TN monitor is one of the cheapest 4K monitors out there, it does not support HDCP 2.2 required for Netflix 4K and Amazon Prime Video 4K.
The stock magnetic filter looks very coarse on the back wall fan, inhibiting airflow. I'd recommend a Silverstone ultra fine dust filter for that intake. The bottom intake is good though, just that one on the back wall.
If you're going for the GPU heatsink, pushing cool air on the fins is better than pulling heat away, since cool air directly hitting the fins and the VRM is better than trying to extract heat with negative pressure (also sucks in dust from other parts of the case)
That CPU will benefit vastly from a Coolit AIO, like the 280mm H115i Platinum that was just released.
Be very careful bumping up VTT and System Agent when overclocking these CPUs, as if you feed too much of those voltages (Never above 1.25 actual VTT and 1.05 actual System Agent) CPU degradation can happen within WEEKS of your overclock.
The dev is working on making the performance better, potentially seeing if NvFBC will work for making the capture better vs the current DXGI based capture solution.
Shame the 2080 can't be passed through in the primary slot. Have you attempted Looking Glass yet? The hardware seems good enough to do that: https://looking-glass.hostfission.com/
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