welcome to the build log of the compensator 2 it's been a little bit
over a year since the original compensator video was released and there
have been improvements across the board in terms of CPU cores graphics card
performance memory speed tons of different stuff and we have it all here
the idea of the compensator is that there are no compromises in terms of any
of our components as long as you can just buy them on a shelf and throw them
in your computer this video isn't as crazy as it used to be because now it's
fairly common place for us to have like 30 or 70 or even more thousand computers
but compensator 2 let's
go thanks to gskill for helping make compensator 2 possible check out their
gaming mouse and keyboard down in the video description I do need like gloves of
some sort do we have gloves that moment when you need gloves because even your
RAM has brushed alum on it that moment when they also don't fit 128 gigs of
gskill trident said or Z or whatever you
want to call it 3200 MHz so on our last
build we had the Leon Lee
PC8 this is the Leon Lee
pc9 so I guess we'll see how different it is while the PC8 says that it's
compatible with triple Reds it's only like kind
of and uh I have the same cooler again
so hopefully it goes better this time oh
look at those feet it smells new seriously friend smell
this what uh there's no air intakes on this
side of the case so the Kelvin will go
up here I guess or right here this looks pretty
cool
so just like last time they have some included LED strips for the dials on the
back first I'm going to remove these fans so I can try to line up the cooler
at all and then we'll go from there now I want to thank fractal Josh I guess
real quick sort of didn't realize the fact that we didn't have a Kelvin
s36 uh yesterday so contacted Josh and
was like hey man I need one of those literally tomorrow and I mean he came
through it's here now I don't know if this is going to work I'm going to run
this back this way oh Brandon does that look
cool with fan without fan next up I'm
going to remove this big Drive cage which I don't really need at least
yet and then I'm going to try to figure
out how you're supposed to pipe this
water block if I cut a line down from that no
one would ever know I was thinking of cutting a line
right here uh so that I could bring this up feed the tubes up through the line so
they can get up in here hold this up vertically and then install them mother
board cuz yeah what it looks like is that they're like there's no way anyone's going to use an AIO in this
case yeah but then I did through there
immediately yeah oh
okay so we're going to solve our little radiator problem um by cutting through
our extremely expensive brand new case
uh so my nerves are through the roof come along with
me not too bad actually with some minor
filing work I can maybe make that look
pretty okay okay that actually looks pretty good not to like toot my horn too
much or anything watch The Tubes not fit through it didn't really think about
that part okay we're actually good so
this will fit up here and then look something like that just in Reverse cuz
it's going be on the other side of the case and that'll work maybe sort of a
little bit so now I'm just
installing the fans because uh I really
want to make sure that this all actually does fit really well before I keep on
I'm going with the build I was going to install the power supply next but I
think I'm going to install the motherboard next just cuz I really want
to get that water block mounted and see how I'm going to have to deal with that
thing that I cut out this this
PS2 okay that's cool even though it's
like a really high-end x99 a suport
still got PS2 on it I actually love that
now please tell me this reaches oh
no oh no oh that's pretty taut isn't it
this would be the worst if that doesn't fit I will be so
upset cuz then I would have cut that hole for no reason I knew it was close
but I thought it made it that socket is
so low oh no I don't think it makes it
I have a plan not necessarily completely
ideal but the logo will now be vertical
I thought I had to do it the other way the logo on G skill stricks and the logo
on Supreme FX are all also vertical so
this is just a vertical logo build it was just totally the plan from the
beginning right guys that's looking all right what do you think next up we have
to install the ax1500i and all of our custom cable mod
cables oh tolerances on that are really
close there's also going to be like a gap there what that doesn't look very
good but I actually can't even install it the other way around or this big
extra large socket interferes with things on the case so this is just how
it has to go I screwed up so this is the
Rampage 5 Edition 10 it's a motherboard
that can support four graphics cards this is the x99 stricks Edition the one
that's supposed to go in my personal rig update that we're filming later not the
one that's supposed to go in compensator I thought it was like a funny coincidence after all of that I have to
take all the RAM off I have to take that CPU Cooler off after that crazy
installation have to take the CPU out throw it all on here throw it back in
and then we're good
man this kind of a fun IO
Shield the goodlooking part of the I Shield is actually on the board already
so it just kind of slots there and this board is slightly extended that means
that I have to install the power supply first got these green and black cables
from cable mod they I believe completely
match the original cables that we had
for the very first compensator this will be the bottom graphics card so one nice
thing about custom cables like this is I can really easily splice off the extra
wires so I only need the six and the 6
plus 2 I don't have to use the extra plus two that runs all along with it now
I'm going to try to have some foresight here and install this cable too I'm
also going to try to pre-run all the SATA cables tuck all this stuff away
okay so motherboard install attempt
number three two three somewhere around
there I don't know losing track oh
please tell me this is going to work we're fine right yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah okay we're good we're good it's tight it's very tight but it's fine
nobody's freaking out the problem was
getting the actual like header block through that was an
issue whoa from here we got to install some
graphics cards and couple other things and we're good to
go I can't install that here so I'm
going to unplug the fans all right now you go in there I really hate these
openings I think they look terrible able one nice thing with the graphics card
right coming right in here is it'll cover up this cable mess down at the
bottom okay so let's put in our first Titan it looks so weird with just one
card at the
bottom compensator what's up this looks great
right so you got to add another one you
all right okay I'm going to plug this in going to plug in the little extension
cable and then everything looks terrible I hate it I hate it so much don't order
the stupid ones that have the loopd doop on them if you don't have to just run
another one look look how nice so much better no say no to loopy doop cables so
I'm just going to install the uh glass panels just before
I do the ssds and the fans if it really
needs lighting I want to figure out where those go before I start finalizing
the cable management and add a ton of cables by doing the
ssds before I do this we should see if the computer turns on at
all okay let's get our ginormous
cable do we see whoa
what I didn't know it did that like I knew okay I knew the board
lit up I didn't know like before it was even turned on that it did some cool
stuff that's pretty sweet
okay so especially with the tinted tempered glass on it looks pretty dark
so I'm probably going to try to add some ambient lighting if I
can I need it tighter there if you can ignore my ARM
how does that look can you see these
does it look
cool so I'm just removing some of the
Leon Lee fans putting in some of my
Noctua fans does it matter not really so
Leon Lee has a 2 and 1/2 in spot down here and up here and then six 3 and 1/2
in spots in the middle of the cage that do not naturally convert to 2 and 1/2 if
you have trays for your ssds you could convert them but someone's like throwing
ours away or something so I don't
actually have proper places for the ssds to go so I'm just going to end up like
dumping them in here this can power my NVMe
drive I'm going to try to make it stay right about here if I can but for the
ssds I think I'm just going to end up going with
like the stack eh too many power
cables and another one okay so all the ssds have been fed
power but I need to get the data installed so the there's our SSD spread
all plugged in data and power that doesn't look that great does it maybe
these go down here I don't know if I can pull that off but I can
try the Tower of data okay that's pretty all right cool
spin okay so the power's in the lights are all configured I only have one more
panel to put on
what okay hold up hold up hold up I can solve this did someone unplug me
no
um oh okay this power supply the the
power symbol is off and the one is on I
it's not H all right it is the next day
and it is benchmarking time everything's up and running the system is wicked fast
due to the raate array and the NVMe drives and what what not we got a bunch
of benchmarks installed and we're going to redo some from last time and do some
new ones okay so we got 1748 ah yes better than 99% of all
results frame rate not
great 130.3 those cards get so loud how hot
are they getting
88° on GPU 1 so this was my attempt to
load Far Cry 4 which just isn't working
at all control delete fail alt f4 fail
try to tab nothing we're going to try loading
this game computer just doesn't like four cards go horsey go horsey go this
is running so bad Doom is not that hard
to run okay so benchmarking complete at
idle all of our cards ran it around 50° give or take a few depending on which
one it was in the order so just like with compensator 1 we could have
obviously benefited from water cooling the gpus stacking four isn't really a
great idea without water cooling because they can't breathe and ran at about 88°
all the time when underload resulting in some pretty serious throttling just like
last time we crushed in 3D Mark fire strike and again got in the top 1% of
systems which luckily is not based off of price per performance although we did
have some pretty serious troubles with it but was able to fight through it
through some configuration stuff last time with the four original Titan X
cards all the games worked but they just chopped and glitched around and had some
tearing and all that kind of stuff this time wasn't like that at all performance
was pretty terrible really considering the cost and a couple games just refused
to work at all what I expected to happen was that the system would just
completely ignore the third and fourth cards and we just get some thermal
throttled two-way SLI performance metrics that I could laugh at but in
reality the the usage of the second card often sat at around 20% resulting in
less than desirable results the moral of the story with compensator has always
been the same you don't need a rig this insane and when you do set up something
like this there are often more drawbacks than you'd expect yeah sure they'll
perform pretty well in 3D Mark and if you water cool and overclock them you'll
do pretty well on the leaderboards but that's about it I hope you had fun
watching this build personally just like last time I think it's beautiful I love
how it looks but it's just a little misguided I chose the four Titans
knowing it would be a problem but I did so because you can still Force four-way
to work in some games and it is still Benchmark with synthetics we'll see what
next year has to offer I'll see you there with compensator
3 so as you may have noticed we were using cable mod cables for this build
just like we did with compensator 1 and now you can use their customizer to get
your own cable mod cables that are specifically for you you just choose
your sleeve type your power supply brand and model you select your size and
length then the color that you want and Bam you're done that's it that's all the
only remaining steps are waiting for them to show up and installing them in your system nice and easy if you guys
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