Carl Jacobs a Minecraft YouTuber with more money than brains reached out to us
because he wanted to beat Minecraft on a
$100,000 PC I can't help him beat Minecraft but I could sure as shoot
build a $100,000 PC it took 6 months and our
bill actually ended up exceeding the $100,000 payment we received from Carl
but I'm extremely proud of the product our team delivered this desk PC is an
Ode to opulence a portrait of prosperity a balid to the Bourgeois you guys get
the point it looks freaking awesome but beyond the looks every single detail of
this build was meticulously thought out and executed let's have a closer look at
our sponsor huge shout out flexy spot for sponsoring this video we decided on
their E7 desk legs and if you stick around you're going to learn more about
the build and see just how much weight these legs can support Carl was very
particular that the PC needed to cost
$100,000 the only problem with that is that gaming computers even fancy ones
don't cost $100,000 now we could just cheat and
build a server with a bunch of 30 tbte
kokia ssds or we could build an AI
workstation with half a dozen gpus in it and then just as many terabytes of RAM
but the thing is that none of those things would make it any better for
playing Minecraft in fact it would probably be worse now Minecraft does
technically support SLI as does NVIDIA's workstation line of gpus so if we could
toss four of those into a computer that would eat up a lot of our budget but
when I tested out quad SLI on the Camino Grand RM it was a mixed bag to say the
least we tripled our FPS and Rise of the Tomb Raider but the frame times were so
bad and inconsistent the experience was actually worse and when I tried to run
shadow of the Tomb Raider the system blw screen so heart I needed to completely
reinstall Windows so for components then we just picked the fastest gaming stuff
that exists a core I9 13900 K RTX 490 64
gigs of ddr5 memory and a premium z790 motherboard from ebga all of which came
to $5,000 that's it
$5,000 how are we going to spend the rest of the money by building something
to put those parts in that is so d
expensive it will blow your mind and what better way to show off a top-of-the
line PC like this one than a desk PC and
it kind of makes sense right like Furniture is crazy expensive like like
look at this thing you can't even put a computer in it what a ripoff so with
that solved we had a new set of challenges to overcome we were very
concerned about our fancy desk surviving the 5,000 km journey to Carl we don't
want another PewDiePie situation L I need tech support but what if we could
kill two birds with one stone by creating a desk that is both absurdly
expensive and also nearly impossible for FedEx to destroy but don't try by
Milling it out of a single solid block of aluminum now designing
something like that is a lot of work so I assigned it to Alex who also decided
that it was too much work and assigned Gary to hire a new employee meet Tim
I spent the next two months of my life staring at solid works and coordinating with our machinist Amish to design a
computer desk that feels like you're sitting in a TIE fighter and more
importantly is possible to machine we decided against doing it out of a single
block of aluminum because if there are internal stresses in the stock the whole
thing could banana when we take it off of the mill and also because if we break
it into three pieces Amish will be able to get extra fancy with the Machining
using his 5axis Mill many many many
revisions later we were ready to start Machining
the desk was machined by SS cadcam and Squamish and over four weeks amish's
machines removed a total of 175.2 lb of aluminum don't worry it's
all getting recycled leaving us with possibly the most beautiful computer
case ever made make sure to get subscribed by the way cuz we're going to
have a full build video for this bad boy coming out soon it was just way too much
for one video what all are you even doing over here no now when you order
from a boutique system builder the computer comes with a checklist where
they verified that everything was working as intended for instance this
one came with the origin we recently made a video on and because we here at
lonus Tech tips drive for the utmost in professionalism we have created our own
checklist that will be filled out by myself the CEO and will be included in
the package so that Carl can trust that we have tested everything that is
interesting to show in a video uh starting with the sound system in total
$112,000 was spent ensuring that the auditory experience of this PC could
blow the doors off of Carl's streaming room with incredibly accurate sound to
achieve this we've used two genac 8341 a
three-way point source studio monitors now normal speakers look a little
something like this we've got our woer and we've got our Tweeter here and here
but the distance between these two can actually cause minute phase problems
well not on the genel X here the Tweeter
the mid and the woofer all come from
exactly the same spot which in theory improves Imaging but what these can't do
is play really low notes which is why we've also included the
736a subwoofer
this should be able to Faithfully recreate 20 Herz which is widely
considered to be the lowest note that humans can
hear oh we're getting some harmonics in there weird oh that's
Minecraft and pass next up Genet claims
that this system should be able to reach 110 DB without Distortion so to verify
we hit 98 that's pretty good wa that's
really loud we settled on flexi spots E7 as the
base of our project for two reasons one
obviously we want to stick with the best of the best for this project and two we
needed something that was capable of holding up all this weight since these
legs can support up to 355 lb as you can see here within the
actual weight limit it has no issues but but in this case we underestimated just
how much our end product would weigh our PC desk ended up being about
380 lb so it needs a little bit of help
adjusting the height since we're pushing it to its limits but unless you have a
370 lb plus desk at home it shouldn't be an issue it's built with a thicker solid
carbon steel frame to make it extra durable and extra sturdy like check this
out you guys all right up there which is really important when
your desk weighs as much as this one does or actually just really important
in general so your monitor doesn't wobble while you're typing the E7 also
features a convenient built-in USB charging port that allows you to charge your phone or tablet while you're work
and uh what else can I say you're welcome Carl since we're here we can
verify that the KJ on the wings is still beautiful oh and that the sides make
that satisfying
ping it's like music to my ears glass
top still Immaculate and if you're wondering why it cost over
$11,000 I need point you only at the etching on the back
the chamfered edges to make sure that Carl doesn't cut himself and these fine
cutouts for our monitor arms this kind of thing ain't easy but hope well Works
did a great job and I think Lloyd and Sarah did a fantastic job of the design
too since we're back here by the way one thing that I'd recommend Carl is that
you ensure you have at least two power circuits for this PC because it consumes
a lot of power to deliver all of it there are a total of four power supplies
this cic SPX 750 handles power to the
motherboard and the CPU this second SPX 750 delivers power to your RTX 490 GPU
and the pumps on this side of the desk and then over on the right side of the
table we've got the power supply for the standing desk and on the left we have a
dedicated power supply for the RGB lighting this is because in addition to
all the typical gamer RGB that we've included we've thrown in five estera
Helios tubes at $800 a pop these are filming grade lights that deliver both
the brightness and color accuracy that you would expect from such a a thing no
gaming grade RGB could ever hope to come close and what's really cool is that
they're controlled through Bluetooth so you can use your phone just make sure
that you pair your phone to the three that are inside the desk before you put
the glass panel on top all four power supplies working finally for our
physical let's just ensure that the power button Works feels like nuclear
launch not Minecraft we are mostly in here to talk
about how our memory has an XMP profile of six th000 megat transfers per second
but we ended up having to slightly slow it down to 5600 since then it's been
Rock Solid you might lose one or two FPS but given how many you already get I
don't think that's going to be an issue let's go ahead and fire up Windows okay
latest BIOS installed now we're going to have to verify some of the hardware here
Carl the password is Roblox oh yeah I
can use must pad oh my God please tell me we're sending this to him now that
we're in here we just need to verify that the specs are as our customer
ordered which basically just means the absolute best yes yes two terabytes of
Samsung 980 Pro M another two terabytes
seems pretty good ooh NVIDIA RTX 490
courtesy of ASUS their stxs model looking very RGB in there and what
you're probably wondering at this point is how on Earth are we cooling all that
stuff ah fear not for inside this
computer is one of the best and most complicated Loops ever created to make
sure that a frame is never dropped in Minecraft we have a total of six
radiators six pumps and three fluidically separate loops on the right
we have three radiators and two pumps that are dedicated just to cooling the
CPU and the same goes for the GPU over here on the left did I mention that the
pumps are goldplated now it's pretty rare that you would have a task that
would hit both the CPU and the GPU equally playing a game would mostly be
on the GPU side while rendering a video out might be all on the CPU
so if the water in one side were to get more than 5° hotter than the other our
third Loop would activate in the middle EK custommade this goldplated heat
exchanger that pumps water across the tubes for both the CPU and GPU Loops to
equilibrate the temperatures of the CPU and GPU cooling water how effective is
it well to find out we grabbed the main
gear mg1 um thank you from ShortCircuit
that despite having nearly the same components automotive paint and a custom
front panel costs $93,900 less than
Carl's PC to compare the cooling solutions of each machine we fired up
Prime 95 and furmark simultaneously and if you just looked at the CPU
temperatures you might come to the wrong conclusion our main gear mg1 topped out
at 80° on the CPU while Carl's desk got
all the way up to 80 9 this isn't a problem though because the desk was able
to sustain a power bill inflating 310
Watts on the CPU continuously even after 30 minutes of FM Mark the I wasn't going
to drop it oh I dropped that well even after 30 minutes of furmark the RTX 490
in here only reached 57° that is a massive
208° lower than the main gear and this
one the front panel won't even fall off like that
Sol it how unfortunately though performance doesn't scale linearly with
power draw so even though our cooling allows Carl CPU to draw 47% more power
than the main gear its cin bench score is only 5.4% higher and in 3D Mark the
desk was only able to pull off a 3.9% higher score so Carl's desk is faster
than a high-end pre-built but we are certainly seeing diminishing returns at
this point the real test though of course is how good it is at playing
Minecraft okay are we doing Java Edition no one plays Bedrock Lin maybe we wanted
to test RTX I don't know
wow that looks freaking
awesome God that looks good like Shadow
doesn't just look like dark light it looks like shade we are using 13 gbes of
RAM running Minecraft press Escape no I
won't no like we can make it more beautiful I don't think anything could
look better than what I already saw not even my own children do they have path
traced Lighting on them I'm sorry did my memory usage just hit 35
GB oh my God this is running on a 490 it
looks absolutely magnificent
though my kingdom Simba everything that
light touches can be yours oh no elephant
graveyard Minecraft so beautiful it brings a tear to your
eye pass and we would fire up something else but one of the requirements was
that no game other than Minecraft can ever have been played on it I might play
Forza on it later though Alex you for Minecraft to look this incredible the
computer not only has to be good but so does the monitor here for the main
screen we've got the ASUS STX pg42 uq a
4K 135 HZ 41 1/2 in monitor that
basically spanks pretty much everything else in existence our display Guru from
the lab did a quick and dirty calibration on it and here are the settings that he found were best and
with a measured Delta e of just 1.49
this thing is more than good enough for gaming more than color accurate enough
for professional work now normally going with an OLED display means a drop in
brightness but thanks to a massive heat sink on the back we actually verified
that this thing can sustain 700 nits of brightness on 10% of the screen meaning
that HDR content is going to look properly HDR on here then I mean these
are no pleb tier side monitors each of these is a PG 32 uqr capable of 144 HZ
at 4K resolution now they're not quite as magnificent as the main display but
they're color accurate and more than good enough for Discord stream
monitoring and completing the ultimate battle station look now we didn't fully
calibrate all the monitors but we did ensure that the white balance and Gamma
were matched between the three because that's the most important thing for
making sure that your multim monitor setup looks matched now we've already
made sure that the speakers work well but we need to check out the rest of the
streaming peripherals for an audio interface we went with the fireface ucx
2 which delivers such a clean sound that it'll make nearly any set of half decent
headphon sound incredible but when you connect it to the Sennheiser
hd800s you get sound so good that the
menu music in Minecraft is going to make you emotional now we weren't 100% sure
how quiet Carl's streaming space was so hopefully it's not too loud because
these headphones are open backed so any ambient sounds go straight through them
we also included an electrovoice re20 microphone and a Sony zv E10 camera to
act as a webcam how do they compare to one of the best webcam M combos in a
laptop well not not very not very close what
won't be included though is the mouse and keyboard and I would like to explain
why because that was a call that I made what me yeah I didn't make that call
they were too personal ah too personal that makes sense the last thing then is
to have a little chat about warranty and support this desk comes with literally
none of that I don't want to say who but there have been creators in the past
that we've made PCS for and then people in our office become their personal
trouble shooters for a couple of months something we will not be doing again
many of the components in here were graciously sent free of charge like the
RTX 490 power supplies CPU even that
absolutely amazing look workof art distribution plate from Ek blocks but it
also means there is absolutely zero warranty if something breaks so you will
just have to go out and buy a new one uh we'd also recommend getting a good
multimeter sold separately since troubleshooting any of the wiring in
here is going to be non-trivial if something goes wrong a final bit of laying down the law dear Saudi princes
this desk is one of one and we will never build another and in the future
any clients are going to have to pay for engineering time since having Tim work
on this for two months more than two months
um he has other stuff to do with all that said we hope you love it Carl an
extraordinary amount of effort was put into making this literally the best
over-the-top gaming system to ever exist
and I think Tim Amish Alex I did a thing
hope well Works everyone involved did an utterly phenomenal job have fun beating
Minecraft on it overall I'm super happy with the way this collaboration turned
out our members have been using the E7 legs for a while now and have been
thoroughly impressed with their remarkable stability and I'm sure Carl
will be as as well it really is astonishing how little shaking there is
when you're even when you're typing while standing their unique embedded Junction and solid built carbon steel
desk frame Make It Rock Solid and what's really cool is that even though our
creation weighed too much for the E7
flexi spot later released the Odin E7 Q
legs that can support up to 440 lb we
weren't able to switch out the legs at the last second since the PC desk
chassis was custom made for the e7s but we're going to be keeping the Odin legs
in mind for any future heavy builds the E7 comes with a cable management board
and cable ties to keep your workspace tidy it's easy to assemble and can be
set up in minutes and with its sleek and modern design the E7 is a perfect
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