 This video was sponsored by Intel. Vote for your favorite extreme rigs at rigchallenge.intel.com Could there be such a thing as too cool? I personally don't think so, but if there were then the systems being built in this year's Intel Extreme Rig Challenge would definitely come close That's right The Extreme Rig Challenge is not only back But now the nine contestants are well into building their mean machines and have each released their second wave of Build blog videos and this time it is all about cool Digital storm is cooling their system with over four feet of radiators with a custom LED lit fluid distribution block and gold fittings Meanwhile, Zydex's double decker PC also has a triple rad setup with an 18 fan radiator bed as well as two more smaller radiators for their second motherboard That is cool and main gear is deploying their industry first fully integrated cooling system with pressure-regulated parallel flow to the CPU and graphics cards using over 70 fittings that alone are worth nearly a thousand dollars So what does one do with so much cool? Well, they're cooling off the Intel Core i9 extreme edition processors that power each rig Riding the mighty steed that is the Asus X299 XC motherboard this overclockable CPU has Intel turbo boost max technology 3.0 so it can boost two of its 18 cores up to super high frequencies and it's got 44 PCI Express lanes for maximum scalability And the whole thing ain't over yet in the third and final batch of logs The teams will be highlighting their peripherals RAM and best of all Intel Optane 900 PS SD this is Intel's state-of-the-art NVMe drive featuring 3d crosspoint technology for incredibly low latency fast load times and seamless transitions Speaking of seamless transitions remember that you someone of perhaps only average coolness Actually have a chance to win a select rig by simply casting your vote at rigchallenge.intel.com So check it out at the link below.