wow is that RGB or what
that is so cool more and more people are asking
themselves the question do i build a powerful workstation so that i can work
from home and do a little bit of gaming or do i build a powerful gaming rig that
is also capable of doing work when micro center reached out and asked us that
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workstation combined with the ultimate
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this is legitimately going to be one of the most overkill systems i've ever
built this right here is the leon lee
dk05 and it is a desk pc that you're able to put
two systems in one for gaming one for
business oh
i wonder how much that cost
look at the size of this piece of tempered glass
wow that's like basically the whole deck
right there and the final bit of box here so there's the legs this might
actually be pretty easy you've got to absolutely love it
when they pre-sort all the screws for you there's a 100 watt inverter i have
no clue what this is for all that i have to do is attach some legs to it it took
Jake what like nearly a week last time to build the whole thing
so we got the legs on it was a bit tricky figuring out how to get it in but
it turns out if you have someone lift up on this end and push down in the
center at the same time it makes this hole a lot bigger and it's really easy
to just have the second person stick it in and you're basically good to go as
for the construction i'm not totally sure how i feel about it it's like on
one hand this is the absolute pinnacle of pc case design like the sheet metal
that's here is just pretty incredible and like the thickness of this aluminum
everything about it is super premium but at the same time
it's a desk and like this desk right here i think is built in
a way that makes a lot more sense for a desk using like these massive big old
bolts instead of like 30 little tiny
computer screws well i probably should have continued building the computer but
i got distracted a little bit by science here so i was curious how this tempered
glass panel can turn opaque and then transparent just kind of at the push of
a button so it turns out if you look here there's tempered glass
on each side but in the middle there's actually a layer of like plastic polymer
stuff so what's in there are a bunch of liquid crystals it's
actually kind of similar to how like your lcd tv would work so it's called
electrochromic glass and basically what happens is when there's no voltage
applied across it all of the liquid crystals in there are
just kind of orientated at random so the light comes in maybe it bounces off
there maybe it bounces up there maybe just stops or goes back out so you know
some of it gets through but not all of it although when you do apply a voltage all
of them orientate themselves in the same direction so the light shoots straight
through basically i set up a dirty thing uh you know hot wired the power supply
hooked up the inverter and when i turn it on it should turn transparent yes
and it's it's sick i guess we can start building a pc in here now um i'm
thinking that the gaming system is going to go on the left side and the work
system on the right the main reason why i think that is just because when you're
gaming you want to have a lot more space for your mouse
whereas when you're working you can kind of get away with a lot less like you
don't need to do massive flick shots and solid works or
whatever the heck you're doing uh which one do you want to build first brandon
let's do the work one work one okay perfect that one we don't have to water
cool so i'm very down for that this doesn't quite make sense but
it sort of makes sense it's the 3970x
which is a 32 core threadripper processor which is going to be the heart
of our workstation system this thing is basically the best processor that you
can get for a workstation because the 64 core one you generally
don't need 64 cores that's basically it if you're the sort
of person that needs 64 cores you're probably better off just using like a
render farm or something for the motherboard we've gone with the creator
trx40 uh highlights include 10 gig
networking and a sick RGB lighting thing
it was a while ago so i don't quite remember what i expect for storage but i
definitely didn't ball hood as hard as specking three two terabyte 970 evos but
can't complain now my logic is going to be i'm going to put
one into the workstation and two into the gaming one
because when you use a workstation you're probably just going to be using the 10 gigabit networking to transfer
all your files to and from a server whereas when you're gaming you want to be able to boot them up fast from you
know local storage maybe we'll even raid zero them but
we'll see if i have time realistically for any proper workstation you need
heaps of RAM which is why we have gone with
128 gigabytes of crucial ballistics it's
3200 c18 so not the fastest stuff around but you
know it gets pretty expensive pretty fast when you have 32 gig dimms for
cooling i called an audible uh we were supposed to be using the nhu14s
but the ice giant came out in the time since
we inspected out and this is basically the best cooler that you can use for
threadripper besides custom water cooling it also really fits with the
clean aesthetic of our workstation so i really like it you might be surprised
that in a system that includes a water cooled rtx 3090
that is not the most expensive graphics card
instead this guy right here is
this is the NVIDIA quadro rtx 5000 what it does
have that the 3090 doesn't are certified drivers which means professional
programs work with it well now we just have to see if this system works and
we're well on our way to getting it right into the system there uh
let's just do it oh i think we're all good a 32 core processor got all 128
gigs of RAM beautiful
now we're able to just take the whole system
just like that i have to say props to leon lee for how easy that was like if
you just want to build an air cooled system in this that is one of the
simplest computer builds that i have ever done
i'm gonna pull out our second motherboard tray and get going on the
gaming side so we're using the meg x570
ace from MSI this is about as tricked
out as it gets for a ryzen 5000 series motherboard for storage we've gone a
little overkill technically the 970 evo
plus is not as fast as a 980 pro okay
i'll grant you that but each of these is two terabytes we're gonna run them in
raid zero giving us a total of four flippin terabytes of high speed storage
wait 5800x what kind of pleb CPU is this only eight
cores i thought this was AMD i actually thought it was 5900x so there
you go no well it's not it's a 5800x the
good news is that a 5800x is still
basically as fast as it gets for modern gaming so
womp and like realistically if we had a multi-core workload
the computer ain't far away for RAM we've gone with 32 gigs of crucial
ballistics RGB 3600 megahertz cl 16
that's basically your sweet spot where yeah there's a little bit more
performance to be gained by going higher but not a lot you know my favorite thing
is about the graphics card we're using here if you didn't know exactly what all
these numbers and letters mean you'd look at this and go oh yeah it's
probably like a mid-range card pick up the box be like oh yeah it doesn't have
much heft to it probably has a crappy cooler on it no my friends
it ain't this is the ekwb
collaboration with ASUS GeForce rtx 3090
a pre water blocked graphics card and it is as
fast as it gets my friends
so this right here is our pump and reservoir which looks
for one freaking sweet and two already has pre-drilled holes in this case
so you just remove this fan and just boom it goes in right there
we also have this awesome distribution plate
that you put in like right here and it's
designed so that all of your runs just go straight across to all of your
components so we've got funnel hooked up to a quick disconnect it's going to be
sealed with some gaff tape
absolutely beautiful this is how the pros do it
oh water hasn't made it through the
radiator yet it also hasn't posted yet but it also
might have overheated by now got the gaming system running turns out
the problem was just i needed a BIOS update super easy using the usb BIOS
flashback although i do wish MSI had documented it instead
i had to use this reddit post here but anyway um i'd love to show you it
working but unfortunately one of one of the tubes on the CPU popped off and
spilled water all over the place should be fine but we're not going to turn it
on for a day just to be sure yeah this in theory should be really easy we have
the custom reservoir designed for this case we have the custom pump also
designed for the case yeah how much is this thing
it's like 300 bucks oh my god i mean i guess by the time you're spending two
grand on your desk case yeah same with the pump it's like 300 bucks so ek sent
us over like literally a box full of these fans right
here and they don't work with this
this mount that they have right here does not work with oh with their faces
yeah oh i see why would they do that okay there is a
little bit of room behind the motherboard tray here but it is
not that easy to get in there with your fingers hey there we go see not bad i
can make this work oh there's so much front usb front usb for days as far as
hardline water cooling goes this is about as simple as it gets i might be
able to get away with doing the whole thing with no bends although i might do
a couple for the CPU we'll see how i'm feeling anyway especially in a shop like
this it's not very hard my personal favorite method is to just mark it a little bit
long cut it and then sand it down to size that way i find when you're cutting
the tubes you can sometimes get jagged ends whereas if you just sand it down
it's perfect every time you know it's more of an art than a science
we need we don't need to get super technical measuring things here this
tool just removes any sharp edges and i'm also going to
sand it just to make sure that it's extra smooth
you don't need it but i'd recommend putting on just a little bit of o-ring lube the sort of thing that can just
make it last a little bit longer and
again less chances of ripping the o-ring while you're putting it in another thing
i'd strongly recommend is to do your longest runs first so like we did these
two here and now i'm doing this one and the main reason is because if you take
off a little bit too much it's kind of fine like this right here i
can make work in this spot but i'm not totally comfortable because i think i
took off just a tiny bit too much so instead bippity boppity the one that's
just a tiny bit shorter than it you can come right in here and
you don't waste a whole bunch of tube you only waste like half an inch
i think it's about ready to get filled now i did have some issues with the RGB
on the front fans because for whatever reason has a different RGB standard than
everything else some solder hot glue and this little RGB hub here fixed that but
what might not be fixed is the motherboard i'm a little bit scared
from just how much water got on it when we had the leak that
it might not be doing too great but at the same time if there's anything that we learned from the electro boom video
it's that electronics can take a lot more than you would expect
i'm clearing the cmos now the power button's lighting up
but nothing's happening when i press it electronics can take a lot more than you
would expect okay good news good news
so it turns out the only thing that died was the old motherboard which
sucks but at the same time when you're afraid that you've killed like an rtx
3090 and all of the other stuff
just a motherboard dying really isn't that bad we've actually had
we've had a bit of an upgrade so we've changed to the MSI godlike
it's a ridiculously expensive motherboard like this thing's seven
hundred dollars and as far as i can tell
the only difference in spending that you get between the ace and the god like is
that this one right here let's be able to tell everyone that you have a really
big dac quarter inch input why yeah why
david said it perfectly all that's left then is to wire up the
last couple of dude atomic jigs then hey yeah pretty much okay so there's a
couple of interesting things in here yeah yeah so i've been doing this a
while but i haven't really mentioned it but in hardline water cooling it's
kind of smart to not quite do 90 degree bends like this one's just a tiny bit
shy of it if you can see that there yeah so then when you put it in like so that
little bit of a bend is pushing this tube in there and down
that way ah so you know you just have a
little bit of force yeah that's keeping it in automatically
so you got to use it yeah the force that is i'm going to ignore that and here's
another thing that was quite difficult about this oh yeah there is a lot of
rigidity here yeah this one can go in
and it still is too short oh so what you need to do is come in here
like so now you can just move the whole thing
wait that oh okay yeah yeah that makes sense so for all the like six people out there
that are gonna buy this desk now they know yeah
oh we also added after the last test fit
you don't need to be doing that we added a drain a smart with this and
also an input fill thing yeah fill things genius it's almost like lee lee
and ek thought of that well they did but they put the drain port right here so
when we just had a fitting in it last time
you just let it go and it just sprayed fluid all over everything neat you know
ek has a pressure tester so you can make sure there's no leaks in your loop
before you do the thing right wow that would actually be pretty smart to use right now
we should okay do you know where it is uh no
do you think we have time to find it um yeah forget it
do you see any leaks uh not yet oh is that not draining yeah it makes sense
here let me just crack a fitting over here a little faster hey yo hey how are you
doing okay just gotta keep an eye on this when it starts to come up this way
hey holy hell okay let's uh go ahead and close that let's let's crack it fitting
let's crack it today let's give it a little cracky crack here
in it okay
we're good we're good it's all good we should power cycle it oh one thing
before we do that oh i don't know what it was what a tease but getting the
front i o into this was the worst that i have ever experienced really and it took
me like 15 minutes and i ended up having to just hot glue it in yeah don't touch it i'm afraid it'll pop
out again you're sure that's the front i o then right i'm not going to just break
it because usually the front eye is a front is over here
in fact this is it wait wait wait wait wait it's not even plugged into the front i o you spent 15
minutes on this that's the trusted platform module header gosh darn it alex
and you bent the pins now the thing is full of glue and it's hard to put on the
real header there's glue in there
dang it what we can do is we can like take this pen
sort of shove it up in there and get all the glue out you know what how about how about i figure out the plan oh i think i
might have just broken the RGB header
okay it's only a little bent hey attempt number two
she fires up boys wow is that RGB or what yeah that's a lot of
our where'd all the RGB go well it's breathing
okay we got any water i don't think so no water hey
this is the pump working wait uh yeah that's a hard no we have plugged in the
pump that was a bit of a problem let's see if the water moves now come on water
hey now it's moving yeah now we're moving
hey moving water that's good
uh hello that just needs a little wiggle do the wiggle worm we do just a
little like uh no no no no it needs to wiggle oh god
oh that was close that was real close
so what's happening is i'm letting out air at the top of the reservoir here to
let the water from here come in move bubbles you gotta shuck them
yeah oh my fingernail yeah normally in the situation i'd like
take the case and put it upside down but you can't exactly do that no not really
i mean you can kind of you know oh where
oh i don't like this all right how on earth are we supposed to put this
fitting on here now uh i was thinking that we would take a bucket
dump this into the bucket and then just kind of
you're making up this plan on the spot you weren't thinking any of those things no i was thinking this beforehand
it's not a good plan
oh my god that looks freaking crazy that effect is so trippy
that is so cool i mean it's not clear clear but it's
like bam bam bam like what
okay to be clear it's not like i've never seen what's it called electro
voltaic or chromic sorry electrochromic
electrochromic glass it's not like i've never seen this stuff before they have
it at science world just to like make the hvac more efficient actually it's to
keep the sun out of it so it doesn't heat up all the time but
just the idea of integrating it into a pc is like
and it it works so well that looks so cool look i don't want to be distracted
by my computer or whatever i'm like i'm like working and then i'm like
gamer mode bam oh yeah low checkpoint i died this is
when my boss walks in like uh uh
oh there's no alt tab there's no getting rid of it uh no but really these this
was over here uh pause plus no more so you can just be like
so click like run oh and i'm keeping an eye on it yeah oh and then you just push
the keyboard away yeah i've heard that from the editors before yeah yeah i'm
exporting or like you know i'm i'm rendering so i just gotta you know i
gotta gotta keep an eye on it okay so how much
do you think all of this cost 15 grand
uh 19 416.49
this is the part where i say i don't recommend the solution right yeah not at
all we we don't think people should buy this do you want to make something that
people should buy ah that's right micro center sponsored this
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RAM grip draws v 16 gig two by eight 3200
for case we can still go lee and lee but maybe just something more reasonable
like how about the 011 mini that thing's sick 650 80 plus gold sure okay evga
supernova graphics card a man i mean if
you're going higher than like 30 70. you better have a 4k display and you better
be like playing you know latest aaa games with all the eye candy we're going
30 70. is there anything in stock yeah
this is not biker center's fault yeah there you have it fifteen hundred
dollars and that is a pretty smoking
fast machine like okay one eighth as many course
so if that's a problem for you then i guess you need to go you need to go this
route but for everyone else there's this you can either build it yourself or
micro center will build it for you i think that's pretty much all there is to
it folks if you enjoyed this video you might enjoy our previous desk pc which
was more of like a cleanest desk pc
setup this is definitely not cleanest
unless you press this button bam now it's like stealthy i love it