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how on earth do you pack two terabytes

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of RAM onto a single system i mean it sounds crazy to say it out loud

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and it is a little crazy i mean unless you're looking at exotic quad or eight

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CPU socket designs even a server grade

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motherboard like this one from Gigabyte typically tops out in the neighborhood

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of 16 memory slots so step one then

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is we are going to need some very special memory a single stick of this

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RAM has more capacity than your entire

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system one of these is 128gb

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of memory and naturally to hit two terabytes as advertised in the video

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title we are going to need a lot of them

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sk hynix is also promoting their new gold s31 SSD every component of the gold

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s31 sata3 SSD was produced built and

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designed by sk hynix to meet their quality and performance standards we're

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going to be using this as our boot drive during our testing and i'm going to have

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a link to where you guys can learn more in the video description

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i've got to ground myself here i'm pretty sure sk hynix isn't sending me more of these if i zap them so get ready

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for a technical deep dive guys traditional registered server dimms

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operate in parallel such that effectively each of the individual

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memory chips on the module is wired

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directly to the memory controller that's built into the CPU so that's where all

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the traces that you see running between your memory slots and your CPU socket

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come into play now there are two ways that you can

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increase the capacity of a memory module you can add more chips by putting them

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on both sides or by double stacking them

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like we see here or you can actually engineer the chips

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themselves with more data areas or

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ranks a dual rank memory module might have

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exactly the same number of visible chips

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soldered onto it but it's effectively like smushing two single ranked modules

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into a single slot and a quadrant module

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is like stuffing four modules into a single slot

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which is pretty cool if you need more capacity but

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it causes a small problem the memory controller on a given CPU has

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a limited number of ranks that it can be wired into directly before performance

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starts to drop off or it reaches a hard

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limit so you might run into cases in the server world where even though a

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motherboard has you know let's say 16 slots you could populate all of them

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with dual rank modules or only half of them with quad rank modules and then

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running at a reduced speed there's not much point in doubling your memory

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density if you cut away half of your expansion slots and some speed right

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like that's classic one step forward two steps back

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so we're getting around that problem today using what's called load reduced

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or lr dimms and there is a lot of engineering packed into these they run

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at a blistering 29 33 megahertz so that is the rated speed of our AMD epic 64

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core processor and they have both a ninth chip in each one of these rows

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for ecc or error correction and an extra memory buffer chip that

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allows the processor's memory controller to operate in serial mode this serial

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operation causes a quad rank dim to load the memory controller like a dual rank

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dim or an 8 rank dim to operate like a

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quad now it comes with a performance penalty

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but if you find any matching places i'm not talking to you siri

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what what even is this what are you talking about

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now it comes with a performance penalty but if your workload requires a ton of

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memory taking a small latency hit is a lot better than not having enough RAM at

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all

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set a good example i love these sockets where you just

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screw the cooler right into the socket just need a boot SSD so all the

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memory volatile or otherwise in our system is actually made by sk hynix in

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korea they're one of only a handful of actual memory manufacturers

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in the world and they've been making ssds for years but it's only recently

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that they branched out of just system builders and enterprise users into

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retail so let's get Windows 10 loaded up on this puppy

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moment of truth time server boards lack a lot of the creature comforts of

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consumer boards so we're just going to short a couple pins turn it on

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like i'm standing here eagerly waiting but i'm not actually expecting it to do

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anything anytime soon every time you boot up a motherboard

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with a new hardware configuration it needs to go through a process called

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memory training and the more RAM you have the longer it takes so this could

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take like 10 minutes to turn on the first time

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it may have taken long enough for a wardrobe change lttstore.com

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but we're up 2 million 97

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152 megabytes of memory running at 29 33

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million transfers per second 64 cores of processor goodness and i

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actually got a cool tip from Gigabyte that apparently if you pop in here and

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ignore all of this warning stuff right here you can actually

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overclock your memory on this platform so it turns out the maximum limit for

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installed memory for Windows 10 pro happens to be

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boom you guessed it exactly two terabytes so this is a bog standard

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Windows 10 install with

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zero percent memory usage

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i could probably even open up chrome and it would still be zero

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percent before we proceed with our entire test though i do plan to find out

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just how many tabs we can handle i want to have a look at what performance looks

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like with our configuration it's worth noting that our 64 core processor

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actually doesn't have smt enabled so it's only running 64 threads it's a bit

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of an idiosyncrasy of this board right now and i haven't spent any time

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figuring out boom 52.44 seconds so we're not looking at

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some kind of you know crippling performance difference or anything like

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that so we got to figure out a good way to do this so brandon hit me with some

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websites youtube all right b h photo video i just got

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some neopets in there you know linkedin

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what are you talking about brandon what are you doing on linkedin

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oh she's sure yeah hey there he is

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nope this is a terrible linkedin profile all right it seems like he's

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seems like he's sticking around new grounds oh i love it and we'll head

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over to the mkbhd store this is my favorite uh 10 million subscriber

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commemorative merch right here chrome is actually using two and a half gigs of

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RAM right now doing functionally nothing

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so it's a hog still it just doesn't make a

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dent it doesn't even register it's flatlined

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so let's do it let's open all 20 tabs in

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a new window yes i'm sure all right we jumped from 5 to 5.8

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now i wanna find out if cycling through them actually increases it so we're

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gonna control tab over through all these tabs and see if it jumps

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it's gonna slow us down quite a bit in terms of how many tabs we can open per

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minute here if we have to do that and it looks like we don't

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hey that's great news so now this just becomes an exercise in

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how fast can i click this is super dumb

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i want a piece of paper you know i'm going to start tallying how

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many tabs i'm opening i need paper update for you guys

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at 200 chrome tabs we are now at 10 gigs

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of RAM and 1 usage 600 tabs 700 tabs 900

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tabs 1 000 tabs

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5 this is interesting neopets seems to be

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our heaviest website first you take my

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youth then you take my CPU cycles we are up to 69 CPU usage well i think we're

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gonna run at a CPU before we run out of memory here guys we are over one stick

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of memory use now 132 gigs chrome at least admits that

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it's using over 100 gigs of RAM now power usage very high 5 000 tabs here we

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go boys rent hey we're at 10 RAM usage

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now so that's sick

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but what's interesting is that in spite of us having resources available to us

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the system is getting slower and slower and slower to the point where even when

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this ad managed to load in i couldn't help but notice it was running at a

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super crazy low resolution look at this

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here here's a perfect example it just froze while it was playing back that's

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what it looks like opening a hundred now when we already have 5000 open in the

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background was like opening up the first

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500 when we did it now this is interesting i was going to rearrange the

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tabs to shoot the thumbnail and we got a spike in CPU usage and i'm not sure if

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memory actually changed but check this out a bunch of these tabs

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that were already open before are reloading now so it seems like

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interacting with the window actually gets it to refresh but that

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doesn't change our RAM usage and since that's what we're after i guess that's

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still okay uh-oh oh no

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we might have hit our limit brandon

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brandon i'm rolling we might have hit our limit brendan

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but i want to get the thumbnail

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if i have to open them all again to get the damn thumbnail it's gonna suck

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six thousand we're at the point now we're doing

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almost anything in chrome on the system i'm trying to combine a tab i

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accidentally dragged out of a browser window back into it and it just

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it's not responsive enough to do it but what oh hey

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it did it okay so we got that

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i mean gimp's managing to open up so that's cool

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we are just shy of 200 gigs of memory

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usage now and that's just from rearranging all the

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tabs we were at closer to like 185 weren't we this is so weird check this

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out this up here says amazon

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but mkbhd is also selected and this is

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an apple website

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so strictly speaking we may not be at

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the limit but from a practical standpoint

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i think we've reached the limit oh no i think i just did the wavy thing

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where everything minimizes

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the system is completely unusable at this point

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look at them all go a right click three four five six seven 25 20 there it

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is just shy of 30 seconds just to right

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click so we only managed to use about a tenth of

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our RAM half of our CPU

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but we seem to have reached architectural limits of the software

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itself whether it's chrome or Windows

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and 6000 tabs is well beyond what is

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actually usable in google chrome i hope

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you guys enjoyed coming along with us on the ride massive shout out to sk hynix

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for sponsoring this video sending over two terabytes of memory even though we

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didn't manage to use it all this time and of course providing their

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gold s31 SSD for us to boot off of it's available in 250 gig 500 gig and one

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terabyte capacities it comes with a five year warranty and if you're looking for

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a high performance say SSD you guys can check it out it is at the link in the

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video description so thanks for watching guys hope you had as much fun as we did

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with this insanity and we will see you in the next video if

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you enjoy more server type content like this we actually built a crazy nas a

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little while ago you can check out that video down below