KAG Ultima

Platform anchors

Fixed components on every KAG Ultima

• Memory

  G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 CL30 64GB

  64GB (2x32GB) DDR5-6000 CL30-40-40-96 on AMD EXPO. Dual-rank dual-channel running 1:1 with the Zen 5 integrated memory controller; UCLK = MCLK = FCLK alignment removes the latency penalty of a 1:2 controller divisor.

  6000 MT/s at CL30 yields 10 ns first-word latency at the DIMM. The 9950X3D and 9800X3D memory controllers are validated at this profile; trained timings persist across warm boots without retrain. Memory-bound stalls in latency-sensitive engines compress without sacrificing throughput.

• Power Supply

  ASUS ROG Thor 1600W Titanium III

  80 PLUS Titanium efficiency: ~94% conversion at 50% load and ~96% at 20% load, holding above 90% across the typical mixed-rail draw of a 9950X3D plus RTX 5090. Less waste heat dumped into the chassis intake plane.

  ATX 3.1 with 12V-2x6 connector and full PCIe 5.1 transient compliance: tolerates 200% rated load excursions for 100 microseconds without rail droop. Holds GPU rails stable through the millisecond-scale current spikes a 5090 generates under raytraced workloads.

  OCP, OVP, UVP, OPP, OTP, and SCP monitored on dedicated controllers. 17 ms+ hold-up time carries the system through brownout events that would trip lower-tier supplies; component protection is enforced at the supply rather than deferred to the board.

• Fans

  be quiet! Light Wings full-system population

  140mm front and top, 120mm rear or bottom as the chassis dictates. Six-pole fluid-dynamic bearing for low audible signature without the wear pattern of a rifle bearing. Static-pressure-optimized blade geometry sustains airflow against radiator and dust-filter restriction.

  PWM curve resolves cleanly at low duty: fans spin down to inaudible at idle rather than clicking the bearing at 30%. Intake-positive pressure across the chassis loads filter contact at the inlet rather than at unsealed seams; GPU and CPU coolers hold their target delta-T across hours of continuous load.

• Internal Display

  Nexanic 10" 1920x1200 IPS Display

  10-inch 1920x1200 IPS panel mounted inside the chassis. 16:10 aspect, ~225 ppi, sRGB-class color. Drives over an HDMI/USB-C tap, presenting a secondary surface that does not contend with the GPU's primary display chain.

  Carries live system telemetry (CPU/GPU temperatures, clock domains, fan RPM, frame timing), in-chassis dashboards, or capture preview without occupying the primary monitor. IPS pixel response and viewing angle keep the panel readable across the chassis interior viewing geometry.

• Speakers

  Gravastar Mars Pro

  20W RMS per channel, full-range driver plus passive radiator. Class-D amplifier with sub-1% THD at typical listening level. Acoustic envelope covers 50 Hz to 20 kHz in-room without bottom-end roll-off, removing the need for a desk subwoofer.

  Bluetooth 5.0 plus USB-C analog fallback. Lossless USB audio bypasses the chassis analog stage. Speaker chain runs on BT5/USB while the wireless headset holds the 2.4 GHz radio, so both audio paths stay live without channel collisions.

• Operating System

  Windows 11 Pro pre-installed

  Process scheduler recognizes the 9950X3D dual-CCD asymmetry: latency-sensitive game threads route onto the V-Cache CCD, throughput threads onto the standard CCD, with no manual affinity required.

  Pro tier exposes Hyper-V, Windows Sandbox, BitLocker on system and data volumes, Group Policy, and Remote Desktop host. DirectStorage and Auto HDR active out of the box. Driver stack matched to the silicon ships installed; no first-boot driver scavenging.