i'm actually not 100 sure how i got roped into this but somehow
Anthony and i are going head-to-head competing in the first ever tech
triathlon sponsored by Gigabyte aorus
it's very simple in the next however long it takes each
of us has to build a gaming computer overclock it and complete this level in
do maternal and whoever does it the fastest wins go
z490 we're going 10th gen baby zed 490.
this is going to be all about controlled
speed okay so thinking carefully before
doing something like closing a box to make sure that i'm not going to need
anything else from inside like the mounting hardware for my m.2 drive later
oh wow is Gigabyte the one sensible manufacturer that actually just puts it
in the slot where you're going to need it that would be cool because i don't see any mounting hardware in there we're
going to do something unconventional here we're going to start with m.2
and here is our aorus SSD that actually probably i'm not
going to be able to put that cooler back on because i think it's got its own color all right component one
done you feeling threatened Anthony no
look i'm doing harder stuff are you i
put the m.2 drive on i already did that actually i should probably put the yeah
put the cooler hardware on first see that pile feeling threatened yet
Anthony oh lordy there's an aio sure is
oh that's gonna slow me down uh are you just gonna throw it on the bench and not
put it in the case is that what your plan is no
i am going to build this computer completely properly like you've never
seen done before okay mr president yeah who's got their case unboxed now so you
might be a professional pc builder but i happen to be a professional unboxer your
overconfidence is your weakness now i gotta let you guys in on a little secret
here i think Anthony's gonna do at least some
basic cable management i'm not
nothing now under normal circumstances i love to
win and i would pick someone that i'm pretty confident i can beat
but i didn't pick who i was competing against today under normal circumstances
you cheat you mean okay we're going to stash that right there i'm going to be
building right side up we're going to see if my standing build technique is
better than Anthony's lying down build technique you want me to be able to
build a pc lying down is that what you want me to do i mean anyway you can get
an advantage right this is a perfectly fair and square
competition we're having here Anthony young i'm nothing if not an honorable
competitor Linus and i are doing things in a little bit of a different order we'll see which way works out best
motherboards going in what am i doing
yeah Linus is really in my head right now not to do that
oh no this fan has closed corners
corner blocked i can't you can't stick a cable management thing through the
corner because it's a closed corner ah no please don't do that this is the most
challenging part of a build with an aio oh you mean you
haven't done that yet you've got your aio mounted already no
oh well what i just thought i was really behind because i looked over and i saw
the fans like oh wow i'm gonna need to get going i think i'm doing okay
actually you're not bad i might even be out of head right you might be
well the reason that i'm pushing as hard as i can to go as fast as i can
for the build is that i am quite worried about Anthony's overclocking skills
versus my own these days hashtag lie nus
i usually just ask him to deal with it for me if i need something overclocked
because it's been so long since i've
really been you know into the little details around
overclocking i do not have that luxury today
this is where Linus's more nimble fingers come in handy for him so that goes there
rtx 2060 super it's a really nice pairing for our 10th
gen core i7 oh yes this is a spectacular it's a good
it's a good pairing fruity aroma
the way overclocking works is for every
percent extra performance you get you get a 2 modifier to your overall time
so there is definitely a benefit to overclocking
but neither of us are going to have the time to fully you know dial it in and
spend hours and hours fine-tuning it
oh i hear screws dropping over there uh-oh yeah i'll clean those up while the
operating system's installing
computer is it a computer it is what kind of monitors are we rocking
here cv27q 165 hertz refresh rate one
millisecond pixel response times freesync 2 HDR display HDR but to what
degree i'm gonna assume 400 if it doesn't say otherwise that's usually the
safest bet in the meantime moment of truth are you ready baby
oh oh it's
it's awful well there's your problem
what is that
uh not actually endorsing this method
is yours rubbing too a little bit
fortunately i have engineered a quick fix let's call back off the screws a little
bit okay now's the time to see that bio screen
and i am in le BIOS
you know what thanks for sponsoring this ars i'm gonna
leave your i'm gonna leave your marketing bullet points right there okay
advanced mode we're going uh CPU upgrade
um advan what did that even do
gaming profile advance profile what does that even okay well we can turn xmp on
hey ddr4 3600 that's fast
hey Anthony what's Gigabyte's version of multi-core
enhancement called i don't know i haven't used many Gigabyte boards you
dick oh no it's called enhanced multi-core performance
fantastic enabled why is there a european plug-in here
they thought maybe you had to go to the bathroom huh get it huh cause european
wait a minute hey uh Colton do these drives have Windows on them
Jake hit me with the Windows 10 install usb
i came prepared wait is this usb2
how much did you pay him Anthony i didn't pay him anything alex how much did you pay him i didn't pay it what
alex what do you mean how much did you pay him to give me a usb 2 drive 500 gig
SSD show me that NVMe install speed
what is with my screwdriver today oh god
i forgot about that where are you at Anthony
uh installing the operating system
i am pretty far out ahead right now actually i am going to get aorus engine
and do some graphics card overclocking
and then i'm going to configure obs that's part of the challenge we have to get obs configured so that we can
capture our gaming while we game this is my secret weapon
gaming optimized BIOS there it is
see we're on f3 so that's an older one this is gaming optimized for gamers
now i just have to hope that the power doesn't go out while i'm updating it because then i lose
everything i'm just grabbing some updates
doing some other stuff i mean i might as well grab that bias update i guess
he's copying my strat i need to figure out what's going on
with this weird stability stuff my problem is i think what i need to do is
remove my GPU overclocking utility in order to get it behaving normally but
it's really hard to do that when it's not behaving normally i decided to go a
little unorthodox i don't think that the CPU overclock is going to make too big
of a difference so i'm just removing the terminal limit to make sure that that's
not a limitation for the GPU i'm gonna
try and push the clocks as far as they'll go this is my secret weapon i
bet he turned off hyper threading and stuff too
you're going to turn off hyper threading well for gaming sure why not
you know what that might be a decent idea maybe see now that i'm sharing
ideas why don't we all just you know collaborate and share ideas what's your
secret weapon again uh it's Linux wait what
oh that's a pretty clever idea
so it's a bit of a gamble we'll see if it pays off
i just found out Anthony is planning to compete with Linux which i probably
should have seen coming a mile away we're gonna see how that works out for him because when we did our last gaming
on Linux update i was really really impressed by how seamless the experience
has gotten and then there were also times when i was disappointed because
between moving the computer from upstairs to downstairs it wasn't behaving the way that we were expecting
in a couple of cases to be clear i can't blame that on Linux necessarily we've
seen the same thing on Windows machines but there's just always a bit of a
die roll involved in this sort of thing for GPU overclocking what i'm using is
green with envy it's an open source tool and what it allows me to do is set
custom fan profiles set my overclock all of that is currently applied so
i just have the fan running at full tilt power limit at 200 watts and
the GPU offset and memory offset are both set
here i might see if i can get away with a little bit more on the memory so it
seems stable on the desktop but i'm not 100 sure if this is gonna work in a game
33 seconds i get the feeling this is going to come down whoever's better at
doom i'm gonna tell you guys something i'm pretty sure i'm significantly better
at FPS games than him so wait you're saying you're significantly better at
FPS games than i am pretty sure i am okay pretty sure we've played together
before we played halo yeah and
you were sniping on top of a hill and
were there bullets in your head or not i don't know
yeah exactly because when there's bullets in your head you don't exactly have the self-awareness anymore to know
that they're there meanwhile my screen is black that's always a good sign if it
completes a run i'm pretty sure my overclock is dialed in pretty well uh i
could probably squeeze more out of it but i'm not sure if i want to spend that much time seems pretty good so far this
is about what i'd expect i've got a good feeling about this
famous last words all i know is i'm looking at about
70 FPS around the fountain here 69 there
hopefully that's nice i don't know if it is though all right
average FPS 66. not great
okay so i'm at 85. i'm calling that good enough okay we're out of here oh hey there it
is okay
okay so i'm gonna have to be a lot more
careful than i'm accustomed to being holy i feel like uh my mouse is not
quite doing right come on glory kills i don't have the chainsaw equipped no time
for this gotta win how's Anthony doing
how am i doing pretty sure i'm further along but i may
die here never mind
whew i may still die yeah i died
shoot shoot low health low health and i'm dead
crap
oh okay restart the recording steam
do me turn on me i think i'm still at a head of Linus
is he really what can i say i'm better at shooters than you thought
i was how good is shooters i probably shouldn't be talking smack right about
now can't get in there okay this is a problem
it's gone again
83. okay
i'll take that am i done campaign fortress of doom
did i finish is this the end or do i have to fight something
so what was Anthony's tomb raider FPS 83 what was mine
okay hey did i win you know what gg though yeah you definitely won gg you
were you were way better at gaming than i expected i was like five minutes ahead
but then it crashed and i couldn't get it to reload so like i had to go back and
change a bunch of BIOS settings and it wasn't actually any of that five minutes
ahead would have been enough for the win yeah oh
it was i'm so disappointed and it was my own
fault because i chose Linux but like also you you went back into the BIOS and
you were fine-tuning like the hyper-threading stuff i ended up not bothering yeah i just left it on and was
like forget it i just need to get in this game actually
it was worth doing that because when i went back see my original FPS was 66 it was below
what Colton got but then i went back disabled hyper threading and then
reapplied everything and i got 83. yeah like just trying to diagnose all of this
is just not possible in the time we had well either way
that was a lot of fun congratulations it takes oh thanks uh we showed that there
is no excuse for not building your own gaming rig because between the two of us
it only took about two hours to build
and beat the first level of doom eternal one nightmare or whatever difficulty we
were playing ultra violence ultraviolets and now i'm the proud owner of this
trophy that i already owned before we started because it belongs to Linus
media group incorporated you also have a sticky note though
massive thank you to Gigabyte aorus for
providing these sick Intel 10th gen gaming rigs i was really impressed with
the do maternal performance like look at this i was at like 200 FPS in my in my
spaceship or whatever i'm in sick stuff you guys can check out the links to
where to buy all the parts of these rigs in the video description and of course
shout out to Anthony for being a good sport that was a real back and forth
battle there well played sir yeah it was it was looking like it could go either
way for a long time there