for a long time now we've talked about how we're approaching the point where
you could buy a single computer and have two users enjoy it simultaneously but
some recent advancements notably the high core count third generation ryzen
processors from AMD have gotten us to the point where we think we're finally
ready to do it today we build the one pc
for you and your so and it's sponsored by sk
hynix their gold p31 series ssds are going to act as the high speed storage
we need to have two users simultaneously loading up heavy games at the same time
which is the same as simultaneous you know what it doesn't matter let's just roll this thing simultaneous is the
theme today anyway
now normally we'd start by going through the hardware that we're using for the
build but today the star of the show is actually the
case this is the phanteks p600s and we've chosen it both for its ease of use
in terms of building but also for its ease of disassembly because
i've got something really fun today instead of just you know lame-o painting
with spray bombs we've actually leaned on our one and only ed zlayago our
production manager who brought in his own like hobbyist grade spray whatever
this is what is this it's a hvlp turbine sprayer
the advantage of having a sprayer versus a spray bomb is that you just have more
control you can adjust the nozzle the pressure so we're going to be using some
acrylic polyurethane enamel because it's pretty hard wearing it's a in a satin
finish so that it doesn't show off all the imperfections of my spray job i have
only sprayed a case twice yeah hopefully
this will be good that's a good rationale for a satin finish which
side's going to be blue and which side is going to be pink so the left side is
going to be pink it's going to be split two tone so it's actually going to be
diagonally pink this way cool and then this right side is going to be blue the
whole panel here is going to be blue and on the inside
this part's going to be pink not the rest of that yeah we're not
doing the motherboard tray blue are we no no that's riveted in
yeah so it's not going to be too bad we're just going to have to mask this
off and just have paper or plastic to cover that up
that's going to look pretty sharp so because this is a hinge
side panel normally you would have to worry about
scratching the paint here and here if you're painting the inside because when
you slide on a panel you're doing a sliding mechanical motion and it's just
always going to scrape everything scuffing helps our primer coat adhere to
what is otherwise a very very glossy
shiny surface that's difficult for paint to adhere to this is actually pretty
good though okay you want it to not be glossy anymore
while i build up the bench to make sure the system's going to actually
work after we assemble it ed is masking off
our case so how good of a job of masking
do you uh you care about here suitably adequate is what i aim for we'll put
that on your performance review i've got the latest beta of unraid fired up on my
system 6.9 nice which means that i'm
ready to shut it down and get my two NVMe ssds installed the benefit for us
of going with NVMe storage is that we get low latency operation even when both
of our users are hitting our drives at the same time now there's a number of
ways that we can configure our two sk
hynix gold ssds here either we can have
both of them running independently and pass them through to our virtual
machines which is similar to how we're going to pass through CPU cores and our
graphics cards which are going to be installed on the pci express slots here
another way that we can do it is we can run them in raid 1 and then we can just
have both of the vms running on this redundant raid 1 configuration so that
in the event that one of them were to fail or even that a slot failed on the
motherboard we would experience no data loss whatsoever the drawback of that
approach is that our two one terabyte drives would give us only one terabyte
of total usable capacity the last way
the way i'm leaning towards is we can run these two in raid zero for maximum
speed what do you think david yeah in the event that one fails all the data
is gone it's gaming it's gaming and honestly i'm not expecting that to
happen so we're going raid zero boys frog tape is one of those things that i
think is actually worth the extra money the lines you get are just so crisp
compared to the random masking tape that you can get for cheaper
yes it is okay free two terabytes so we are running in raid zero now i've got my
rtx 2080 super installed this is the one i want to pass through so that i can
actually game off of it but that presents some challenges because
this is kind of the primary GPU slot in the system where we've got most of the
pci express bandwidth i want my high performance card there but that means
this guy is not outputting my os so i've got a
remote into it which is fine it just
means that when i go to boot my vm
womp womp we've got to stub this fortunately this
is cool the beta has a new tool for
stubbing system devices so instead of typing a bunch of crap all you do is
find it click it bind select it to vi fio at boot and
theoretically you reboot and you're done
my confidence level is not actually super high i can't have any stress with
water this cold lttstore.com i finally have progress
unfortunately i do have to have my pinner card in the top slot due to some
BIOS Linux funkery but oh boy
i mean at least we're booted up with the 2080 super pass through a quick xml edit
to our vm later we changed from CPU host model to CPU host passthrough
we're in we can expand that 30 gigs later
is that actually 10 water again not healthy you know that's kind
of like eating more because you've over salted your food like
did you have something helpful to say or now
wow that's actually really good i think two coats and that's nailed
i may have added too much water to the paint or i didn't mix it well enough
after i added the water because uh that's a bit thin and uneven could also
just be my painting after all the teasing add about
us running out of time it's actually me who's in more trouble than him at this
point painting's looking great but i've tried sea BIOS i've tried changing
around the xml i cannot get the second vm to fire up here with the second
graphics card and talking to the unraid guys they're basically like yeah you
know we love AMD and there's members of our community that
are having great luck with AMD graphics you know with using GPU passthrough but
it is just not as polished compared to the experience on Intel so at this point
i'm going you know what i'm going to stop trying to put a square peg in a round hole because switching to Intel
who actually has think about it the highest core count
CPU with onboard graphics built into it means i don't have to have this anymore
i'm only giving up two CPU cores i've still got 10 cores so i can have a quad
core machine for each of my gamers and
it means that hopefully the virtualization experience is just going
to be simple and the benefits of the switch
kind of keep rolling here i found a board in our inventory that has a much
more ideal layout so we're going to be left with this pci express slot and this
one with our two graphics cards installed with more space in between
them um and because Intel is still using a
monolithic design for their CPU course it means that we don't
have to worry about you know which vm has cores on which ccx and you know
where the pci express ports are connected and all that kind of stuff
so we're just we're taking the easy path okay
i guess this gives us an opportunity to uh install our m.2 drives again the sk
hynix gold p31 SSD features class leading pci express gen 3 read speeds of
up to 3 500 megabytes per second it's the world's first NVMe SSD for consumers
with a 128 layer nand flash and all the
core components are designed and built by sk hynix using their in-house
technology so you know it's good sk hynix has been supplying global pc oems
with high quality competitive ssds for years and they're backing this up with a
five year warranty you can learn more at the link in the video description
all right i think that's it for the blue nice
now i'm just gonna clean out my gun and switch paints
it's not bad it ranges from absolutely perfect to
reasonable hey that's a pretty good range yeah meanwhile after switching
platforms everything is hunky-dory so
it's normal within a virtual machine for our clock speed to just be reported as
the base clock so 3.7 gigahertz here but i would actually expect it to be
boosting and we'd be able to see that on our hypervisor in the background we've
got eight virtual cores so that's four
true cores and four hyper threaded cores which should be plenty for basically any
modern game and our yep graphics card
not only showed up but it's actually installing the drivers as well and the
icing on the cake is that this is actually vm number two
one extra little bonus is that because this motherboard happens to have two and
a half gig Ethernet each of us should get
one gigabit per second plus so when we're downloading games we can actually
both download them at high speeds i'm downloading a game in uplay and i'm
downloading a game in steam it's sitting in the neighborhood of
0.1 to 0.4 milliseconds uh Jake's sitting in the 1.2 to 1.5
millisecond range also pretty good so in terms of the
responsiveness of this experience you know you fire up a web browser or whatever the case may be you go to
lttstore.com you want to do that kind of stuff
neither of these users is going to know
that they're not on a dedicated machine which is the beauty of virtualization
with high performance hardware like what we've got right now pretty sleek hey
what the what is this now that all our games are installed we
just need to set our array to start automatically and also set our vms to
start automatically which means that when we press the power button on the
computer all of this stuff happens completely
transparently and just our two computers
light up on their own in theory all right
that's it how does it look
press the button let's do it you saw something oh there you go are they both
going with the way we've got it set up then booting it up is just like booting
up any normal computer
dang it i just got killed by a butt no
dang it i gotta run faster with my knife here swinging my knife swinging my knife
around how does it feel it feels like a regular system uh
delayed not bad so mission accomplished then i mean i
don't like being beside you here
look it's a couple's pc okay fine we'll trade you out we'll trade you get out of
here so is this actually cheaper than building two pcs
well it's a little complicated i mean you could build two pcs with cheaper
lower tier components that would be combined less than just this one but if
you wanted you know two pcs that were at a similar performance tier it would
actually be similar or maybe even more expensive to build the two and what's
cool is particularly using unraid we've actually got those couple CPU cores and
a little bit of RAM left over we could throw some hard drives in this thing and
we could actually use it also for a third purpose as network attached
storage for the rest of our house if we were into that sort of thing a
disadvantage you have to deal with is obviously both of the players are
tethered to the same machine so you have to not mind
being in close proximity to each other fortunately we're good with that so i've
got them both fired up with ano just go ahead and accept my invite both of us
just running the game here we've actually settled into more like 40 to 60
CPU usage you'll see little spikes like that
sometimes up around 70 75 percent but
that's freaking awesome one test that we can do on our storage subsystem is both
of us try to load up the game at the same time so go ahead and press play
and 800. let's see how we do
did you notice anything abnormal about the loading times
i wasn't really paying attention sorry okay perfect
with everything cranked in my game and the view distance increased so that's a
gameplay option over here i'm getting anywhere from
50 mid to 70 mid FPS even when i'm
pulled back so i can actually see more of my islands which personally i really
prefer and then Yvonne running at 4k is wow that's not bad 90 FPS you're out
in the middle of the ocean though do you want to go look at one of the islands
how does it feel not bad
it was stuttering a little bit before but now it's not we're supposed to try this game called fall guys now this
one's not particularly demanding but the use case that we're trying to show here
is that this game doesn't support local multiplayer yet so
virtualization yeah we're to die like right away aren't we
can you jump yeah yeah space i guess i've only i have an
ps4 okay well that was not very successful
oh come on
i'm doing so bad
don't give up there's like giant donuts and stuff dang it no i can't do this
i'm so adorable and useless
is that you no
somehow i doubt this is hitting the CPU quite as hard as anno was
yeah yeah we had we had like thirty percent thirty percent oh no no no no oh i fell
oh come on but can you recover can you
recover it you can recover it recover just keep going dive dive yes i qualified
where are you i don't know speaking of freaking awesome
just want to shout out sk hynix for sponsoring this really fun build this
was a blast for us to put together it actually
ended up performing and just generally functioning better than i could have
possibly hoped for because you never know when you're doing like cutting edge
virtualization stuff like this their storage held up extremely well so these
are pci express gen 3 NVMe drives they're a great upgrade whether you're
running a desktop a laptop or whatever the case may be if you want great
responsiveness and a lot of storage actually i mean if you told me like five
years ago we were gonna have ssds that were the size of a stick of gum that
were a terabyte of capacity that you just slip into your motherboard like that no cables no mess i told you i
think you're crazy but great idea you know go out there and make it happen if
you want to get 10 percent off the sk hynix gold p31 one terabyte SSD just
head to amazon and use code 10 LTT skh1tb we're going to have that in the
video description so you don't have to like remember it thanks sk hynix for
making it happen thanks for making this video happen and thanks to you guys for
watching