Cooler Master Announces Its 2017 Endorsements
 

Cooler Master is proud to announce its 2017 endorsement lineup. We cant wait to work with these teams on projects throughout the year! Additionally, we will continue to support everyone else via discounts (see signature), giveaways, and product support. Look for updates throughout the season and keep your eyes peeled while surfing the web, you might just recognize some of the students and mentors on our sites.

702- Bagel Bytes
207- Metalcrafters
599- Robodox
1868- Space Cookies
3476- Code Orange
294- Beach Cities
4- Team 4 Element
589- Falkon Robotics





Oh, and one more thing. Each team will be getting a full CAD system thanks to our partners at AMD, Patriot Memory, and MSI built in our new MasterCase Maker 5.

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Awesome! This just makes me even more excited for the Cooler Master workshops at Beach Blitz this weekend! I can't wait to learn from the CM professionals about how to approach building a CAD computer.

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Any chance you could tell us the specs on the CAD computers? They look absolutely awesome.

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MasterCase Maker 5 Case
Liquid Pro 240 CPU Cooler
MasterKeys Pro L RGB Keyboard
MasterPulse Headset
Tempered Glass Side Panel
Cooler Master PSU
Cooler Master Mouse
Custom Team Side Panel

We partnered up with AMD, Patriot Memory, and MSI for the other components:

AMD FX8370 CPU
AMD 480 GPU
Patriot Viper 16gb Memory
Patriot 256gb SSD
MSI 970A Gaming Pro Carbon Motherboard with RGB lighting

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PCPartPicker list made to the best of my abilities

Did they come overclocked or are you leaving that up to the teams? I assume that with the liquid cooler, there must be some sort of overclocking potential.

Edit: changed part list to be slightly more accurate, can't find the spark series on PCPartPicker

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Especially with the ridiculously power hungry AMD Vishera chips, you want to make sure that the power circuitry on the motherboard is up to snuff before overclocking. I couldn't find any independent reviews of the motherboard, nor any pictures with the heatsinks removed.

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We will be leaving the builds up to the teams, that's part of the fun!

Our goal with these systems is that they get upgraded over time. As new products come out we will swap parts, extending the life of the system. Your build list is close, they are getting the Spark series SSD from patriot and I guarantee the power supply we give them will be at least 650w.

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sigh. My inner intel and nvidia fanboy died a little.

That being said, I don't see why a team would need a quadro card to render a 120 pound robot.

I am loving having these big tech companies getting involved in FRC. Next thing you know teams will be sponsored by Corsair for their innovative use of RGB leds

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The Zebracorns wanted to take a minute to thank Cooler Master for the case and power supply they sent us (and the awesome mouse!). We were finally able to complete our build for a new system for training neural networks today.

It's not much but it's got it where it counts... mainly an Nvidia Titan X Pascal thanks to another generous donation by our friends at Nvidia! Thank you Nvidia!!

Unboxing after one of our mentors spent some time getting it together:


Examining the innards:


The beast in its new home:

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Awesome! That looks great!

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Thanks! We have some plans for a few e-bay special programmable LED strips ... let's see how much spare time we have with build season upon us.