Gaming on a plane. Ah, that's been done maybe most famously by the 1999 San
Antonio Spurs. But what about building a
gaming PC at 40,000 ft? Far as we can tell, it is not. So today, Elijah and I
are going to set the world record for the highest
PC build ever. Be honest. What? This
whole project is just so you have an excuse to tag along on this trip. >> Yeah, but that doesn't mean that we can
just build any random PC and call it a day. If our intention is to use this
thing in flight, we need to optimize it for weight and maybe more importantly
for power consumption. Now, I know what you're going to say. Couldn't you just
stuff a laptop or even a framework desktop into that comfortable, stylish
commuter backpack from ltstore.com? Yes. Yes, I could. But that's unboxing
the highest PC,
not building the highest PC.
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To start with, taking the Gamer Jet up just to build a PC would be colossally
stupid. So, we're taking advantage of Equinex sponsoring a tour of one of
their data centers in Virginia. They have all the power they could possibly need. But, we don't, which is why we're
starting our PC with a CPU that maybe isn't the fastest, but it is among the
most efficient. the Ryzen 5 9600X. An
X3D chip with additional cores and especially the extra cache might yield
more FPS, but some of those chips draw nearly twice as much power as, you know,
this little guy here. And furthermore, this is the screen we're going to be
targeting. I don't even know if it's 60 Hz. For our motherboard, we've gone with
the Asus RG Strix X870i.
And the reason for that is that while I probably could stash a full-size
computer somewhere, there's a spot kind of here above the subwoofer like, okay,
definitely not in there. Every pound counts, so it was important to keep our
system compact. Now, in a perfect world, what I would have liked to do is just
like take this keyboard out of here and mount the whole thing inside the drawer,
kind of like we did with the IKEA desk PC. But the aviation world is very
restrictive when it comes to modifications to planes, which seriously
limits our options. Like even say
putting a screw into here is a huge no
no. Shall we? >> We shall. We should put a mat down first
though. >> Oh, that's a good idea. >> Yeah.
>> Get it, sir. >> I got it. >> Oh, mod mat.
>> Nope. I'm not acknowledging it yet. >> Okay. This might give people a hint as
to why the modmat is delayed. >> They made them with this big hole in it.
>> No. >> Oh, >> but some samples needed to be cut out of
them for testing. >> Got it. >> All right. I guess I'm no longer silent
on it. Where'd I put the CPU? >> Oh, right here.
>> I mean, it can't go anywhere. >> It was definitely in the place.
>> It's got to be here somewhere. Yeah, unlike the case. >> Okay. Are we really bringing up this
early? >> We were supposed to film this on the way there. Someone I'm convinced I put it in
the cargo hold. >> Huge moment. This is it. Huge moment.
There it is. >> Damn it. It's right there. >> It's right there along with the sword that we wanted to bring. Captain Lance
said no. Someone left our case on the
ground. I mean, in fairness,
the fractal designed Terra clearly
wasn't meant for the sky. >> Yeah, Fractal, get on it. It's your
fault. >> Yeah, we need the fractal arrow.
While you put that in, why don't I talk about our RAM? Another big no no in
aviation would be failing to disclose these highv value imports that I'm going
to be bringing with me into the United States. At only 6,000 mega transfers per
second and CL36, it's not the fastest or
the tightest, but it's still miles sorry
above what we need. And it was already
an earpopping $255.
>> I'm kind of scared to install this. I'm like a little bit of turbulence. Yeah, I
really don't want to mess this up. >> Just strap in. Strap in. We got this. >> Oh, yeah. My my bad.
>> Here's kind of a fun fact. If you're trying to do a hyperefficient build, you
might be surprised by how much power gets drawn by the RGB LEDs.
>> That's right. >> Now, obviously, in a full tower where you're already drawing like 600, 700 W,
get out.
4 watts is not going to make a difference. But we're targeting about
250 W and every little bit counts. So,
we'll be disabling that once we boot it up. This is an older bird with very
limited 120 volt power, which is to say absolutely none in the cabin at all. In
fact, we might want to take a little break from building so that we can show
you how we're planning to power this thing. >> Yeah, it's kind of sketch.
>> Where's the outlet? >> Okay, listen. Listen. Okay. You see how there's USB ports at a bunch of the
seats? >> Okay. USB type A. That's for two
reasons. First is because it was done a long time ago, thankfully on someone
else's dime. Second is because replacing them with USBC would be crazy expensive.
Got it. >> I found replacement modules. They were
either 700 or $900 each for a USBC plug.
One. And that assumes that whatever company we get to install them is
willing to just use whatever random ones we give them. Most of them won't.
Finally, the inverter for this plane has a grand total of 960 W of power. So, as
soon as you start doing even 30 W PD at every seat.
>> Oh, sure. That adds up. >> You just used up half your budget that you need for the galley. So, there's two
food warmers. >> Yeah. There's an outlet for a kettle and
there's like this the world's wimpiest microwave oven. All of that has to fit
within that power budget along with our PC which the genius plan because this is
the only AC outlet in the aircraft is to plug into the kettle outlet and then run
past the sleeping man.
>> Why can't we use something like a jacker instead? Well, even a private flight is
still subject to FAA regulations. So, aside from the safety issues of having a
giant lithium battery on an airplane, you're still limited to that less than
100 W hours. So, you'd have to have like a bunch of them.
>> Am I allowed to bring this? >> Yes. Turns out that the FAA doesn't care
about that. You can bring any size blade you want on your own aircraft.
>> Oh, okay. >> If you do anything with it, you'll still
get in trouble when you land. >> So, don't get any ideas. Smart guy.
Captain Lance said no. >> Okay, I'll put it away then.
>> The hope is that by drawing as little power as possible with the system, our
cabin crew will still be able to operate the warming of it and stuff while we are
gaming, but that remains to be seen. For storage, we're starting with a 1 TB
drive we had lying around. >> We might want to upgrade it in the future, though, if we want to actually
store more games or any media or any amount we want.
>> Right. While we do have Wi-Fi, downloading or installing games in
flight is uh not an option. We we haven't actually done a speed test yet.
Do you want to try it? Do you want to Do you want to do the honors? Let's do it. >> All right, you can do the honors.
>> Hold on. I'm loading the speed tests website.
>> Try again. >> This kind of inconsistency is just due
to how older aviation Wi-Fi works. The service that we're subscribed to is fed
by towers on the ground. And we actually hop between them as we move, which means
super inconsistent speeds and pretty darn near constant disconnection. Oh,
you've got it. >> Well, no. I'm trying to run the one on Google and even that just goes to
testing download and then it stays here forever. >> Speedtest.net.
This did not work. >> Can you try fast.com? Even though that's
Netflix. >> Our internet. No, our internet is up. So, like it's enough to like load a web
page because I mean I was able to search the Google results for speed test,
>> but I couldn't get to the speed test website. >> Okay. >> So,
>> I got an idea. Uh, Steam.
>> Oh, see if we can download something. Do that as a speed test. >> Yeah.
>> Oh, boy. I can't wait to play Battro at the end of my 8 hour flight when it's
done downloading. >> Starting download.
>> Yeah. Am I going to spoil my privilege here by saying I don't think I've ever
seen a K at the front of my download speed?
Sorry. Oh, you dropped your connection. We must
be hopping to a different tower. Hey, you got
0% done >> for now. Maybe some cooling for our
computer that we've barely even touched so far. What even is this video? I feel
like there's going to be some extras. lg.gg/flatplane.
Uh, sorry, the cooler. >> Yeah. >> Oh, that cooler. CPU cooler.
>> Sorry, I thought you meant the cooler in the galley. >> I just I I spaced. Okay. I'm closer to
space, so I >> No, you're definitely not closer to
space. >> What? Yes, I compared to being on the ground. >> We're closer to the ground than space.
>> No, no, no. I mean, well, I'm closer to space than I was before.
>> Oh, okay. I thought you meant in comparison to the ground. I'm like, dude, we're not even close, brother.
>> For cooling, we've gone with a Noctua NHL 9AM5. Why? Because even though our
CPU defaults to I think it's 95 W >> 65.
>> Yeah. Yeah. We're going to be turning that down to 45 from our initial
testing, we should still be able to get pretty decent performance out of it. So,
this is all we need. Ever applied thermal paste at 40,000 ft.
>> No, believe it or not, I have not. And I still haven't cuz you did. >> Oh, actually, I need a little more.
>> Oh, you want to top me up? >> Yeah, sure. >> Nice.
Solid. Yeah.
Now I have
Oh my lord, dude. Holy cow.
What was that? >> That's some fractal terra packet.
Terrible. Five messed the line up. >> Why did we go with this case? We could
have gone with something smaller, but come on. It's the Terra. It looks super
nice. It's basically one giant
ventilation hole on all sides. Did you
actually check if it would fit in there? >> I didn't. No.
>> Well, it doesn't. >> Okay. >> I mean, realistically, we were never
going to put it in there anyway because there's no ventilation. So, >> yeah.
>> This is probably something that more realistically we would stash in the
cargo hold until we wanted to pull it out and play games. Or more
realistically, you know, probably use a framework desktop or something. But we
already explained why we didn't do that today. >> Really awkward doing this in the plane
together. Just >> No, you're good. Okay. >> No, you're good. You can join the Mile
High Club. >> Oh, yeah. >> Don't lie, you would.
>> 100%. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Have you already?
>> No, actually. >> Okay. >> Are you saying that because the camera's
rolling? >> Nope. >> Okay. >> I'm not going to lie. It is my intent
to join the club before I divest of this asset.
>> So, if you guys ever see like a 30-se secondond flight, that's probably what
it was. as if I would need 30 seconds.
Are you calling me slow? Okay, this uh panel Mconnect thing, I don't think we
actually need it for our build, right? >> Is that not the front panel stuff or
>> I only need a power button. >> Oh, then yeah, we're probably fine.
>> Okay, on the subject of power, I will need a power supply.
>> The highest line has drop. It's been It's happened.
Well, never letting that one down then.
>> Since we don't need a ton of power, we went with the fully modular CIC Focus
SGX 650 watt. It might have been worth picking up something that was higher
efficiency. This one is only 80 plus gold. But what we found is most of the
higher efficiency ones are much higher wattage units as well. And if you're at
the very bottom rated end of your power draw, you can actually end up losing a
lot of that efficiency. All right, to get this PC to its final destination,
we'll need one more piece too soon.
An MSI Ventus RTX 5060 Ti. Now, this is
going to raise some Yeah, you lowered your eyebrows, but sure, it's going to
do something to some eyebrows, but hear me out. Our main priority is performance
per watt. This little guy has a TDP of just 180 W, and with a bit of tuning, we
actually managed to undervolt it, so it draws even less. Combine that with DLSS
4.5 upscaling and there really isn't anything even close in terms of FPS per
watt. A boop. You ready to fire it up? >> Yeah, I am. Now, we can't actually hook
it up to this thing yet. Technically, it does appear to have digital, whatever
that is, analog S video, composite, and SDI. But as you
can see, the image is not even centered on the screen. And not only me, but the
one and only Hacksmith were here on the plane trying to figure out how to get
access to the back of this thing. And between the two of us, we could not. So,
that's going to be part of a project for another day. Uh, you brought a monitor,
right? >> I did. It's up near the front. >> Oh, thank goodness. Because there's no
microenter in the air. >> I'd hate to have to do another trip.
Eli, is there a reason you brought a whole ass desktop monitor instead of
just one of those like little portable laptop ones? >> No.
>> Okay. Did you forget a monitor? Did you just buy this at MicroEnter?
>> No, no, no, no, no. I I brought that from the office. I even booted it at the
office and it works.
>> We don't have MicroEnter in Canada. So, his story got a lot of holes in it. Man,
is it beautiful out there right now. >> It's very pretty.
>> It's a shame Sherrod's missing it. Step one, enable expo.
>> Done. >> Nice. >> Step two, save. >> Nice. Solid.
>> Step two, go. Or we're on three now.
>> We should play multiplayer. >> What are we going to play?
>> CS2. >> Oh, like on your laptop or whatever.
>> No, like on here. >> No, the internet, dude. There's no way
we're going to connect to anything. >> That says play CS2.
>> Yeah, against bots is what I plan on. You're more than welcome to try. I want
to get the first Counter Strike 2 kill from 40,000 ft away.
>> There's no way you're going to >> Can we download OBS?
>> How is this like so responsive right now? >> It's doing pretty good actually. Oh my
gosh. >> Uh, no. >> 30 minutes left.
>> 24 22 >> 20. >> Are we going to live stream from a
>> like four pixels per frame? Yeah, sure. Well, one for the webcam, one for the
alerts whenever when someone subscribes, and then two for gameplay.
>> Why don't we play a single player game? What? You look stressed out.
>> I'm just excited. I This is so stupid. I played Cyberpunk like 70 times in the
office. Never played it in the air. Oh,
hopefully it'll pull up our cloud save.
>> I get it.
We got Cyberpunk on a jet before GTA 6.
This is a real good experience though. Like it looks great.
>> Yeah. Say what you want about DLSS. If I
was really on a power budget, nothing matches this for frames per watt. I
mean, there's definitely some garbage. >> Yeah. >> You see the garbage?
>> I see the garbage. >> But I'm not focused on that right now.
I'm playing the game and it's not bothering me unless I go looking for it.
>> And our goal was FPS per watt. And we can't beat that right now. I don't think
>> I can't even hear these DLSS artifacts. How high I'm flying. Oh, the jet engine
is very loud. >> That's true. >> Actually, that's one thing we never
showed them. Uh, editor, cut any noise dubbing you're
doing or noise cancelling. >> Oh, yeah. Now, let's lower the power profile and have a look at how much of
that performance we get to keep once we uh dial back our power consumption a
little bit cuz our CPU is at like 80 watts right now. Default low power 45
watt. Apply.
>> All right. >> And the GPU too. Open MSI after. >> Sorry. Yep.
>> So, profile one is our default profile 5. >> Okay.
>> And then we apply. Perfect. >> And basically what we've applied is a
custom curve here that's designed to give us most of the default performance
at much less power. >> Let's try Cyber Punk again. >> Yeah, we're going to be throwing things
for a bit of a loop now that we have screen recording running in the background. But still, the main goal is
just to bring up hardware info and see if we've managed to hit something
resembling our 250 W target. I can't believe we downloaded OBS from a plane.
Do >> you think that's another world record? World's first OBS download on a plane.
>> No, can't be. >> We're breaking all the records today.
Highest PC build. You're going to get highest CS GO kill, highest Linus drop.
We're off to a good start. >> Really, brother? >> We're definitely getting a little less
FPS, I think. >> Yeah, but you know what's funny
is it's mostly the averages. >> Yeah, >> the 1% lows are not actually that much
lower. >> Oh, yeah. They're still around that 7580, which is like more important,
right? Keeping your 1% low is a bit more consistent instead of having the low
hitches. So, >> this doesn't feel worse. This is still
awesome. >> This is pretty cool, >> dude. And our CPU is at 70°.
>> Oh, wow. We saved like a lot off that cuz it was 90 plus, right?
>> The GPU, curiously, is pretty much exactly the same.
>> Can't win them all. >> Yeah. I mean, that's NVIDIA for you, right? Let's have a look at what kind of
power consumption we're looking at here. So, yeah, CPU is now capped
>> 45 watts. >> Wait, our GPU power is only like 60.
>> Well, you're not peaked at 125 >> cuz right now it's 60.
>> Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. >> We have to play Flights in.
>> We have to play. >> You're not wrong. Wait, 2020. Is that
the new That's not the newest one. >> Well, 2020 is a lot smaller in size
>> and we don't have to stream the assets. >> Yes. which we should be able to do in
the cloud. >> It's checking for updates. >> You've got to be kidding me right now.
>> Can we Can we disconnect it? You're not going to get your online CS:GO kill. If
we're doing this >> Oh,
no. >> I love modern gaming so much. I can't
even play it on my private jet. Dude, this is so frustrating.
>> Can I get you some champagne to go with your problems? >> I don't drink.
>> You've been switched to offline mode. Yeah, we're fine with it. >> Ready to fly.
>> Let's go. Oh, in first. >> Let's go. Here we go. >> Oh, shoot. Okay, hold on. Where's the
runway? >> You got to find it. Find the runway, Elijah. Feel the force. That This is not
This is a river. So, go look somewhere else. >> I'm trying to feel the force really
quick. Oh, is that it? >> No. >> Oh, there
>> a runway would be so obvious. >> Oh, the sun from the windshield straight
in my eye. >> I just got blinded. Oh, this is like the
real flight experience. >> Go into the light, Elijah. Go into the
light. >> Flight sim's going away.
CS2 is coming back. >> You have 5 minutes. If you don't load
into the lobby, we're done.
>> Well, there you go. We gamed at 40,000 ft. It's pretty funny. But what's the
plan for this? Are we just going to do like the same thing but on a jet?
>> Uh, no. Uh, well, okay. There will obviously be some of that,
but the cooler ideas are going to be the ones that maybe you guys are going to
give us in the comments below. Is there somewhere that you'd like to see us go
that might not have been practical in the past that would have normally put me
out of the office for 2 and 1/2 or 3 days, which is really hard on our
production team, but now we could maybe do in a day or a day and a half. There
is one thing that I do want to do. >> Okay. >> We have to recreate that legendary
photo. You're talking about the Spurs, right? >> Yeah. I don't know if that's a video,
but it's certainly something. >> I was going to say, you know what else?
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maybe check out the one where we first toured the plane. It was me and Elijah
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up close and personal with some parts of a jet that I didn't think I would ever
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