Review - Velox 13900KS, 4090, Hydrolux CPU/GPU

Hello,

I received my system yesterday and now have it up and running —the configuration is pasted below.

The machine arrived extremely well-packaged, attached to a pallet, and plastic wrapped. The computer box itself was flawless. The packaging in the box and the foam and other inserts inside the computer give immediate confidence that shipping issues were unlikely.

It was very straightforward to add the provided coolant. I had never done this before. I went slowly, but it was drip-free and went just like the video shows. The fill (and drain) port is very easy to access.

The internal plumbing and cabling are very impressive and give confidence the system is built to a high standard. In two past (non-DS) systems, I've had dangling cables near the motherboard cause problems.

I've rarely seen good cable management in a PC. This is very impressive. The coolant lines, both radiators, reservoir, and fans, are similarly nicely configured while leaving key internal components readily accessible should the need arise.

I recommend the Noctua fan upgrade (which DS recommended to me). I don't know what the stock system would sound like, but this system is silent at idle and has just a little fan noise when heavily loaded.


The machine started and booted into Windows 11 without any issues. It is already configured as my primary workstation, with only a handful of apps to handle as I need them.

I'm using the 4090 for machine learning purposes, and it is already showing many times the performance of my 4-year-old machine (which had a much lower-grade video card). During ML tasks lasting a couple of hours at 100% GPU, the GPU stayed in the 30s (C) range.

Nice system Digital Storm. Thank you!

-Dan Hoogterp



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System Configuration:
- Item - Out of Pocket: Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM, Premium Quiet Fan QTY-8
- Item - Out of Pocket: Noctua NF-A14 PWM, Premium Quiet Fan QTY-2
- Item - Out of Pocket: Special order fee - Noctua install

Chassis Model: Digital Storm Velox PRO Workstation
Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish
Processor: Intel Core i9-13900KS (6.0 GHz Turbo) (32-Thread) (24-Core) 3.2 GHz (Raptor Lake)
Motherboard: ASUS Prime Z790-P D5 (Wi-Fi) (Intel Z790 Chipset) (Up to 3x PCI-E Devices) (No SLI) (DDR5)
System Memory: 128GB DDR5 4800MHz Digital Storm Performance Series
Power Supply: 1000W Digital Storm Performance Series (Semi-Modular) (80 Plus Gold)
Expansion Bay: - No Thanks
Optical Drive: - No Thanks
Storage Set 1: 1x SSD M.2 (2TB Samsung 980 PRO) (NVM Express)
Storage Set 2: 1x SSD M.2 (2TB Samsung 980 PRO) (NVM Express)
Storage Set 3: 1x Storage (6TB Seagate / Toshiba)
RAID Config: - No Thanks
RAID Card: - No Thanks
Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Graphics Card(s): 1x GeForce RTX 4090 24GB (VR Ready)
Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio
Add On Card: - No Thanks
Extreme Cooling: H20: HydroLux PRO: Exotic Custom Cooling System (1x Graphics Card + CPU)
HydroLux Tubing Style: Flexible Tubing (Requires HydroLux Liquid Cooling System)
HydroLux Fluid Color: Blue Flexible Tubing + Clear Fluid (Requires HydroLux Liquid Cooling System)
Cable Management: Exotic Cable Management - Red - (Cable Combs with Custom Color Sleeved Extension Cables)
Chassis Fans: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: Digital Storm LED Lighting System
Software Control: - No Thanks
Chassis Mods: - No Thanks
Noise Reduction: - No Thanks
LaserMark: Option Not Available
CPU Boost: Turbo Boost Advanced Automatic Overclocking
Graphics: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s)
OS Boost: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11 Professional (64-Bit)
Recovery Tools: USB Drive - Windows Installation (Format and Clean Install)
Virus Protection: Windows Defender Antivirus (Built-in to Windows)

Awesome- congrats

Pictures?

Edited by hoserator - 27 Feb 2023 at 3:18am