so it was from the observation that when you tighten an LGA retention bracket
you'll have to look closely to see it though there's actually a lot of
pressure on the CPU and it moves
significantly as you lower the retention arms so I figured you know we're
probably just not applying enough pressure if we'd found a way to tighten
the heat sink down enough I think we could have pulled it
off but we didn't do that so now we need
need a new way to mount our
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business of breakage it's really great that Intel
Provisions uh you know these emergency
mounting mechanisms into their socket
designs they think of everything I think
we're on look at
that hey hey there you go she's posting
with two gpus installed let's get that other cooler on okay so we're booted
into Windows it looks like all the hardware is working oh we haven't put in
the second Titan x yet but there's time there's time for that I think we have to
close out this video though so we'll finish up with just a validation that
everything's in here so we can see the maximum speed of our CPUs how many
sockets how many cores and threads we
have stay tuned guys we're going to Benchmark this thing I want to check out
power consumption want to see if we can Crush some leaderboards um so stay tuned
for that in the meantime like this video now for you guys it won't really
seem like we've made a ton of progress since last week it has been a full week
since I've even been able to touch this but actually I've aside from cleaning up
the desk area here I have been hard at
work on trying to get this thing working now you can see it's working now but the
issue is that this motherboard is really designed for Server use not workstation
use and in spite of mine and super micro's best efforts to dink around with
a bazillion different bio settings and all of that stuff we got one card going
but we couldn't get two and I really wanted two Titan x's in here not for SLI
or gaming or anything but for more compute performance more of dat Cuda
so I have been waiting for two things to arrive number one is ASUS's whatever
this thing is Z10 pe- D16 this is an
ASUS dual socket board as well as the
dual 10 gbit Nick that I'm going to need since that board doesn't have two 10
gbit land ports on board the other thing
I thought I needed is these Noctua narrow mounting brackets
but uh I don't think that board actually uses the narrow ilm so I may not
actually really need these anymore my zip ties were a great
solution anyway I am so excited actually super
micro has sent an additional board as
well they sent one of their workstation ones so we're still not locked into
using this one especially because their workstation one does have the land ports
we need which means I can reuse that card somewhere else but you know JJ was
all up in my business on Twitter being like yo lonus you should really be using
Aus for everything so I uh I figured I
might as well at least give them a chance so here it is my friends the
unboxing experience so many
CDs and that my friends is the board itself so as I suspected it does not use
the narrow ilm so that was all for nothing
potentially and there we go still got 16
memory slots still got two LGA 2011 3
sockets it still uses 24 pin 8 Pin 8 Pin
and waa what's that we've got an additional four pin power down here so
that is three CPU power connectors pretty fantastic we've got six SATA
ports another four down here we've got whatever the devil all this stuff is USB
3 on a front panel header' got an m.2 socket which is pretty interesting
so let's go ahead and get this baby uh get this baby rigged up maybe with
proper mounting hardware this time yeah I know right well people keep
complaining that I'm not doing it properly so this time I'm going to do it
properly they're going to end up with a boring video then no one's going to be
happy except maybe a Seuss to not see their Hardware being
mistreated okay now here's something you know many
of you haters probably aren't noticing but go back and look for it me grounding
myself out while I'm working I actually do do it I kill surprisingly Little
Hardware almost kill a lot of
Hardware eight okay it just counts down
it it here it's here it just counts down
the entire range of post codes that it can display this is not fair like
why
okay hey
um well gee man I have had I have had
better I went through hell with that super micro board and I was just hoping
a s quality man I'm going to plug everything in and it's going to be like
rocking out and I am I'm in a super sad
state right now do you need sort of the full
update uh yeah I I'm not aware of any of
this I mean I guess it's something you were working on with with Roger yeah if
you can at least let let me know what what Bo you have I can see what Insight
I can give you and then hopefully we can help help get things moving forward okay
uh in consumer based boards because there's a much higher likelihood that consumers are utilizing higher-end cards
and newer cards that have uh GOP and nalization policy support uh we have an
auto routine built in that should have neiz that detect it allow it to become
in play but okay so we actually got it
to post and we didn't get that error with the network card in the Bottom PC
Express 16x slot but we ran into a new thing where we couldn't see any of our
our boot devices so we pulled that out
and we're trying again now so one way or another I'm not
getting this video out on Sunday am I uh uh it's it still might be a
possibility might be a possibility depends I I I might be able to actually
get a hold of them today it just depends on if I can get a hold of our PM team to
to get them to get me request that so unfortunately ASUS's BIOS team was not
available to work on a custom BIOS for
me on the weekend so we're going to have to settle for One Titan X but I don't
want to leave you guys hanging any longer so we are going to run some
rudimentary benchmarks with our two 2699
v3s so our 36 cores our 128 gigs of RAM
and a single titanx graphics card so we're going to kick things off and one
of the things that I want to look at well a number of things I want to look at is power consumption temps now that
we have proper coolers on them I want to see what what kind of turboing we get
out of a something like a gaming workload and of course I want to see
that cinebench number check this out
idle power consumption is under 100 Watts from the wall closer to 90 Watts
this is with an 80 plus Platinum efficiency power supply but still that
means it's actually only consuming somewhere in the neighborhood of 85
Watts at idle of course the story is going to change somewhat underload so
let's go ahead and see how much we can actually draw here so at idle the CPU
was sitting at about 1.2 GHz now it's turboing up to 2.6 when we're hitting it
with a full load so you can see we've started a stability test here in Ida 64
and our CP usage is sitting in the neighborhood of 98 to probably 100 by
the time it refreshes again percent and check that out that is with just the
CPUs working that's the kind of power consumption we'd expect to see see from
a gaming rig including graphics cards but these are not CPUs for the faint of
heart I think I saw that touch 500 watts
just hitting the CPUs so let's go ahead and let's add system memory does it let
me change the stress test mid-flight it really doesn't like
that let's see okay so memory usage is closing in
at 100% now and you can see that thanks
to the efficiency of the ddr4 modules from Kingston that we're using we're
still hovering around that 500 watt Mark but now we're consistently or much more
frequently around that 500 watt Mark now
we're going to throw GPU into the mix and see what happens so now with the GPU
running we're actually seeing sustained loads in the high 600s and I've even
seen Peaks at around 700 Watts but
what's cool is we're still running at our max turbo frequency uh CPU temps are
still very much under control in the low 60s to high 50s range in spite of the
fact that the air is noticeably warmer in a sphere around this open test bench
computer so this is good news it means everything's stable and we can proceed
with the rest of our benchmarks next up is everyone's favorite multicore CPU
benchmarks c a bench R15 let's go ahead and run that bad boy
so that is what it looks like to see 72
threads ripped through cine bench I have
never seen anything quite like it
wow so that's a score of
3981 in cinebench R15 so for perspective
that's what a 12 core xon at 2.66 GHz is
capable of and uh we completely left
that in the Dust by more than
3x 3D Mark I wasn't expecting in to get
like Powerhouse amazing results thanks to the low clock speed of the CPU and
the fact that we're only running one GPU so it's not exactly optimized for it but
I was expecting a little bit better on the physics score that's actually
significantly lower than you can do on a 4770k showing that while it is a
multi-threaded test it can't handle 72
threads not so much so for our last
trick we're going to try and top the real bench so that's ASUS's Rog
Benchmark score board without an Rog
motherboard I mean it's still an isus motherboard I'm sure they won't be too upset about it but oh I want to be able
to have a look at how our multi-threaded CPU is helping us during this Benchmark
so let's get that baby open it looks like we're using like one
of our threads maybe two two maybe two threads I have no idea if that image
editing score is any good but the encoding Benchmark is running and we're
finally getting some CPU utilization only 50% Max so far oh oh oh here we go
here we go okay so our final test is heavy multitasking and once again I am
not getting necessarily the results I was hoping for we have not yet we have
not yet broken our second SE oh yeah there it is yes so our score was not
that great system score
91,000 is which puts us
actually pretty far down the leaderboard
something about the Dual socket is not
appreciated by a lot of the benchmarks that we've been playing around with here
but this is something that we kind of expected and I think ties pretty well
into the conclusion for this video so I'm actually going to go I'm going to stand next to it here this kind of a
system is not for desktop use we know
this and it's I had a lot of people criticizing me on social media about the
fact that we're even running Windows on it because this is the kind of thing
that if you're doing some kind of serious number crunching that for
whatever reason doesn't benefit from GPU you really need CPU for it for some
reason that's what this is for and it's becoming more and more of a n case
scenario in a lot of cases something like Linux might be better for those
particular workloads but what people don't know is what we're actually doing
with this system and what we'll be doing with it is not going to be General usage
where we've demonstrated that you probably shouldn't have 36 cores and 72
threads what we'll be doing with it is we'll be running a specialized piece of
software right now the front runner is sorin and squeeze server um to
significantly reduce the output times of
our videos so that we can turn them around much more quickly as well as
actually transcode footage upon
ingesting off of our cameras so that it's easier for our PCS to work with
while we're editing the videos creating something called a proxy so that is what
this system is for and for that it will be excellent so you guys are going to
want to stay tuned where we'll show well it hooked up to the 10 gbit Network
we're going to show its performance rendering videos over the network once
we've actually got the software we're using finalized and that is going to be
a sight to behold even if running desktop grade benchmarks with CPUs that
are running at well not that high clock speeds wasn't that impressive today so
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