Tuesday, June 5th 2018
8PACK Announces Polaris MK2 Ultimate Gaming System - £10,000
A Complete Hardware Overhaul, Featuring A New Design for 2018
Originally launched in 2013, the Polaris MK1 was 8Pack's ultimate gaming machine featuring an i7-3770K and two NVIDIA 6 GB GTX Titan cards, it was an incredible machine even by modern standards.
Today however 8Pack is proud to announce the release of the new Polaris MK2. Powered by a 4.7 GHz 12 core i9-7920X. The MK2 has been overclocked to its maximum potential for gamers who demand the very best 4K HDR gaming has to offer. Combined with two overclocked 11 GB GTX 1080Ti in SLI, the Polaris MK.2 also doubles as the ideal workstation solution too, able to tackle rendering and simulation-based tasks with ease. Starting at £9599.99 the Polaris MK2 is a tailor made system in every sense of the word, featuring chassis modifications, custom acrylic pass through plates and even a redesigned motherboard mount. It's truly a show of master craftsmanship.
Extreme Performance Thanks to the Most Exceptional Hardware
The motherboard of choice for this powerhouse is the ASUS Rampage Extreme X299 which is a fully featured flagship X299 chipset board from the Asus' Republic of Gamers series. This ensures stability of the cherry picked Core i9 7920X, 12 Core, 24 Thread CPU at the highest possible clock speeds while also enabling 64GB of 3200MHz 8pack Edition memory, made with hand selected Samsung dies to improve stability and efficiency. We've chosen 64GB because this is the ideal amount for rendering and coding.
This system contains two of NVIDIA's flagship GTX 1080Ti 11 GB cards in SLI, water-cooled and overclocked for maximum performance. Complete with it's own hand braided cables, they're also available in a variety of colours to match your colour theme of choice. In terms of storage the Polaris MK2 offers two 1 TB Samsung 960 Pro NVME SSDs, one for primary OS storage and applications with the additional for gaming or multi-media. Finally there's the PSU which is a 1600W SuperFlower Leadex Titanium Power Supply with custom braided cables to power the Polaris MK2.
Dual Loop Water-Cooling Solution, Designed and Built from Scratch
The Polaris has been built inside a Lian-Li PC-V3000WX, featuring not one but two 8Pack branded reservoirs, four custom acrylic pass-through plates and an array of EK hard-piping. The case itself has been improved, replacing the standard motherboard mount with a custom made black acrylic version. This mount provides the support needed for the entire acrylic back-plate, as well as having additional cable management slots CNC'd into the mount itself to rout the CPU, GPU and 24 pin custom braided cables.
Beginning with two EK Revo D5 pumps the Polaris runs two separate water-cooling loops, one for the CPU block and another for the two GTX 1080Ti in SLI.
The GPU loop feeds through the bottom pass through plate, up into the GPU water blocks and back down into the 480mm RAD located in the lower compartment. If you look closely however you'll notice not only is that RAD supporting the bottom acrylic pass through plate, but it's actually mounted on it's own additional black acrylic mount, designed specifically to support the pass-through plate.
The GPU loop doesn't stop there however, it then feeds back through the entire block and up into the rear mounted pass through plate to the first of it's own 8-PACK branded reservoirs. Lastly the GPU loop finishes by running across and through the identical 8Pack reservoir seen in the fourth and final acrylic plate.
The CPU loop is considerably more straightforward - following the left hand side of the 8Pack logo, into the CPU block, to the top mounted 360mm RAD and finally passing back through both of the 8Pack branded acrylic reservoirs. Unlike previous 8Pack machines, the acrylic pass-through plates have been created using a CNC machine rather than laser cutting, which whilst a more costly technique gives a more premium finish. The precision cutting also allowed the Polaris build to use two acrylic layers in each plate rather than than three in previous models. There's also a specially guarded inhouse technique which allowed the elimination the industry standard o-rings normally used in this process!
Originally launched in 2013, the Polaris MK1 was 8Pack's ultimate gaming machine featuring an i7-3770K and two NVIDIA 6 GB GTX Titan cards, it was an incredible machine even by modern standards.
Today however 8Pack is proud to announce the release of the new Polaris MK2. Powered by a 4.7 GHz 12 core i9-7920X. The MK2 has been overclocked to its maximum potential for gamers who demand the very best 4K HDR gaming has to offer. Combined with two overclocked 11 GB GTX 1080Ti in SLI, the Polaris MK.2 also doubles as the ideal workstation solution too, able to tackle rendering and simulation-based tasks with ease. Starting at £9599.99 the Polaris MK2 is a tailor made system in every sense of the word, featuring chassis modifications, custom acrylic pass through plates and even a redesigned motherboard mount. It's truly a show of master craftsmanship.
The motherboard of choice for this powerhouse is the ASUS Rampage Extreme X299 which is a fully featured flagship X299 chipset board from the Asus' Republic of Gamers series. This ensures stability of the cherry picked Core i9 7920X, 12 Core, 24 Thread CPU at the highest possible clock speeds while also enabling 64GB of 3200MHz 8pack Edition memory, made with hand selected Samsung dies to improve stability and efficiency. We've chosen 64GB because this is the ideal amount for rendering and coding.
Dual Loop Water-Cooling Solution, Designed and Built from Scratch
The Polaris has been built inside a Lian-Li PC-V3000WX, featuring not one but two 8Pack branded reservoirs, four custom acrylic pass-through plates and an array of EK hard-piping. The case itself has been improved, replacing the standard motherboard mount with a custom made black acrylic version. This mount provides the support needed for the entire acrylic back-plate, as well as having additional cable management slots CNC'd into the mount itself to rout the CPU, GPU and 24 pin custom braided cables.
The GPU loop feeds through the bottom pass through plate, up into the GPU water blocks and back down into the 480mm RAD located in the lower compartment. If you look closely however you'll notice not only is that RAD supporting the bottom acrylic pass through plate, but it's actually mounted on it's own additional black acrylic mount, designed specifically to support the pass-through plate.
The GPU loop doesn't stop there however, it then feeds back through the entire block and up into the rear mounted pass through plate to the first of it's own 8-PACK branded reservoirs. Lastly the GPU loop finishes by running across and through the identical 8Pack reservoir seen in the fourth and final acrylic plate.
14 Comments on 8PACK Announces Polaris MK2 Ultimate Gaming System - £10,000
to build it myself...
and skip that horrible yellow color theme.
Special edition DRAM kits etc from CORSAIR and G.SKILL are literally hand picked via a screening process.
The "B-die" stuff you buy off the shelf, may as well be D, or E-die in how different it is in capability to hand picked IC's on these kits.
That is, you're average Samsung B-die kit won't do C11-11-11-28 @ 3733 regardless of voltage or cooling, while these hand picked ones may do this with air (CPU and DRAM) cooling.
The difference is rather massive.
Both McLaren P1 and 12C use a 3.8L Twin Turbo V8, yet the capabilities are very different.1. The assumption is that you could actually build this yourself.
2. Chances are you couldn't build this yourself and if you could it would be slower than this one. Reason being 8-Pack has competed at the highest levels of extreme overclocking. How he tunes the machine is very different from how you would, hence fewer people are willing to pay you - random Internet expert - to build a $1,000 machine let alone a $10K one, nor would you be employed in such a capacity let alone have a line of machines outside of your own house named after you.
3. You're speaking from ignorance, in that you don't know what tweaks were applied, don't know what the GPUs are clocked at, was there a special BIOS used on them with tighter mem timings perhaps, etc. You don't know what settings the system memory is running, Don't know the frequency, load power, idle power, noise or anything at all really.
However you can discern from the pictures that you can build this.
4.You may dislike this, but perhaps others like it. Not everything is supposed to appeal to you and not everyone has the same aesthetic sensitivities as you do, i.e the world isn't made up of you only. That said, this part about the color is likely the only part you're qualified to comment on in any remotely rational way, as it is after all your aesthetic preference.
Personally I don't think I'd ever buy a PC for this kind of money or anything that looks like this regardless of the configuration, performance or anything else really. However I do realise that's just me. I would not conflate my opinion with an objective analysis of the machine. (i.e noise level, power draw, performance, warranty, after sales service, system life, resell value if any etc.)
With this kind of responses no wonder most reviews are literally what's on the box and sales kits sent to "reviewers". It looks as if sometimes the audience is incapable of appreciating anything else. :)
1. I could build a something alike but not with this level of customization. I must say, the back panes are sick.
2. Yes he used super duper prestine components, but I'd like to see the difference of performance from retail components. I guess, as you say, it's to achieve a super duper extreme overclocking.
3. True that, I may have speak too fast. Never done BIOS tweak myself.
4. It's a niche product. I'm not the kind of guy who's impressed by niche product. You pay for what you get I guess. What I'm impressed is the level of detail and tweaks put in a product and that's a part I might have skipped when criticizing this PC. I mean, the yellow theme made me blind of every other aspect :laugh:. It's BUMBLEBEE!
But, some people might like it, I don't judge anyone, except the yellow PC.
And you were half-right. I wasn't trolling, but that was a bit tongue in cheek regarding the phrasing.
Another build in a glass sided case with little airflow, and all those fans stifled inside.
(yes, I do build +1000$ computers, some of them heavily modded...as a hobby. I usually work for beer and pizza, but at least I'm not posting while grumpy...how about you?)
So many questions...
Do you know how much he spent personally, so that 8-Pack could be a name?
Do movies not bring in audiences based on the actors names (the cast, director etc. ) ? How are they not profiting from the names of those invovled?
Did Beat's By Dre not profit of Dr.Dre's name? Were you up in arms about that?
Lamborghini released the 550-2 Balboni , that cost way more than the regular Gallardo. Was it wrong for them to profit from using Valentino Balboni's name?
We live in a capitalist world, that constantly propagandises us to buy things, using virtually any means necessary including using celebrity endorsement.
If it's ok for anyone to do it in any other industry, why is it not ok for him to do so here?
K|NGP|N uses his name to sell $1,000+ GPUs literally levering his name for profit. That's ok, but 8-Pack can't do the same?
Even if this system if purely for looks, if that is appealing to someone out there - then they have a right to buy it and they will determine how much that is worth. If it doesn't appeal to you, keep walking. The system doesn't need your approval to exist or sell. Just because you do not like it, does not make it any less impressive to those who would consider it.
This man, makes a living and feeds his family based on this. You'd want to take that away because it doesn't appeal to you?
As for support, yes there is :) So that's a ok and sorted.
Greed is good.