on episode five of holy sh we've got a
computer case so epic that it had to be
delivered on a pallet rather than via
normal means so of course we've brought with us the only tool suitable to open
such a thing chopsticks
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video description okay well that was obviously
completely stupid let's go with the more traditional knife to open this baby up
so inside this box is actually more than
just a computer case in fact there's a
case a power supply and a motherboard yes my friends
this is the first time we've ever had a chance to check out one of super micro's
barebones server units that they sell
but this one is very special one that I
wish I'd known about a month ago when I was trying to do the seven Gamers 1 CPU
project and the only way that I could figure out to put seven graphics cards
into a single computer was to water cool the whole blood with all this like
custom nonsense and I had to find the one motherboard on Earth that would work
etc etc etc no my friends there was an
easy way to do it all along all I had to
do was get one of these bad
boys oh cool they actually like pre-modded it for me so let's let's pull
this out let's pull this out check this out check this
out oh yes my friends yes my friends
that is exactly what it looks like the
entire rear of a foru chassis taken up
entirely by expansion slots all right my
friends so let's take a quick tour of
this absolute Beast of a monster this is
I'm going to read it off it the super micro 4027
gr- t which actually which actually
isn't the right thing they told me they were sending the trt the one with the 10
GB network interface built and maybe
they included like an upgrade module or something so first of all this is cool
it includes four 1,600 wat power supplies yes
friends that is for all kinds of crazy power delivery along with redundancy
which is important in any kind of a server environment you can see there are
these tiny slim little units here let's
uh let's see if we can read this baby yeah this is the DPS 1600 CB uh so the
output is actually 1,600 Watts max if oh
this is interesting I have never seen a discrepancy like that before so at 120
volt input it's 1,000 Watts Max and at 240 volt input it is 1,600 Watts
Max very very interesting so I'm going
to have to make sure I run this baby on 240 volt input but in the meantime let's
see if super micro included like an upgrade module kit or something like
that uh these are our rails these are
those really nice rails that I like so we're going to go ahead and rail mount this baby in the rack and then in here
I'm hoping to find
um well nothing
apparently uh
okay uh okay well let's open it up then
I guess oh but first no a tour of the
front so there's more to this there are
more tricks up this Baby's sleeves than just a bunch of video cards so This
Server will actually be taking the place of two servers because in addition to
accepting up to eight dual slot video cards it can also handle with these 2
and 1/2 in sleds 24 ssds so this will be
completely taking over wanic server duties in addition to being the new
output render station that we never actually properly finished because we
were trying to combine that one's duties with our inest station and that ended up
causing instability issues due to different versions of Adobe Premiere
from different years operating at same time long story anyway it was kind of
ugly and we are looking for a better way to do this so tooless uh top it looks
like let's find out if we can get this baby off oh no we need to unscrew some
things so it's only it only pretends to be
tooless check out this modification that
spoiler is actually there for a reason and I will explain it in a little while
here oh yes that that is
fun so uh here let's try and let's try
and sort these babies out a little bit see what we got see what we got going on
here so this motherboard
supports two LGA 20113 CPUs so we're
going to be putting our two 18 core 2699 v3s in here for a total of 36 cores and
on top of that it supports a total of 12
dim slots you can see they were testing it they had uh looks like 16 dims in
here before they sent it to me so 12 dim slots per CPU for a total of
244 dim slots that means with the 32 gig
dims that Kingston sent us for seven Gamers one CPU we could
put 32 time 24 whatever that works out
too inside here this is another really
cool feature that I wish would make its way to the desktop check out these
fans these are uh no these are not the
counter spinning fan so these are just regular old 92 mm fans except for one
thing do you notice that I just pulled it out where was the
connector servers have had this forever
hot swap fan so you just thunk them in and boom look at this you've got little
slots all over the place here for all these different fan connectors check
this out and you can see they've actually got two stacks of them one in
front of the other in order to give these puppies pretty much unlimited
static pressure so they're pulling all that ventilation in uh from these holes
in the front here whoop hold on oh try not to drop this from these holes in the
front here as well as through where
those SSD mounts go so they got to have a ton of static pressure because these
puppies are not just you know cooling some run-of-the-mill computer we're
talking 36 processing cores a bunch of RAM and up to yes this is where life
gets really interesting up to eight
graphics cards 1 2 3 4 1 2 three four
Each of which can be dual slot and then in addition to that it can handle
another three expansion cards of whatever type you desire so I actually
guess nothing would prevent you from putting 10 in here if you really really
wanted to which is um which is sort of
sort of bananas so let's go ahead and uh see what it'll look like with all those
installed okay you want to come with me while I go retrieve graphics cards all
right so uh let's pick some video cards shall we let's go with uh what do we got
here I don't know some kind of 290 or 390 or something all right what else we
got here ooh a GTX 580 sure thing no
problem what else we got gtx980 yeah
let's take one of those and uh ooh a GTX
780 Ti that sounds pretty good we got a good uh good representation of the
market share of these two graphics card companies all right take these back and
get them installed don't trip one really
cool thing I want to point out before we get any further in though is that most
of what you see up here is actually just
like like a like a dummy board like this is like a daughter board it's not
there's not a ton of logic on it actually um it installs into the
motherboard which is below see down here
using it looks like four hard PCB
bridges down here and then that's what does all the controlling so it's
actually all mapped out for you so here's CPU 1 here's CPU 2 and then all
of these are labeled right here so this is cpu1 slot one PCIe 3.01 16x cpu1 slot
10 okay well numbering doesn't make a ton of sense to me so far but it goes 1
10 9 8 uh uh 7 six 5 anyway so it says CPU 1
cpu2 and it's all kind of spelled out for you like that so let's start
installing video cards AMD and
NVIDIA living together in Perfect
Harmony I don't know how that song goes but I think you guys get the reference I
don't even know if I'm going to be able to find enough video cards to fill this thing up this ridiculous okay so before
we put any more in I want to take a short break and give you guys a better
appreciation of the scale of what we're dealing with here this is a normal ATX
motherboard it can fit four graphics cards total if you include one here and
if you install one in the very bottom slot and have it overhang the bottom of the board so it look a little something
like that this is what we're dealing with
here it's ridiculous so let's keep the
Ridiculousness up let's put some more graffics CS in let's put one here wow
that's a long card but it fits just fine
let's put one here let's put one
here oh balls this is a stupid modified
one from scrapyard Wars that I'll just
move it see it's not a standard width but that's okay there's so many
different spots for graphics cards server stuff all about that convenience
no PCI Express locks you want to pull a card out boom you pull it out no big
deal right
there okay lonus but what about that
thing you promised us before you said you'd explain why this thing is a
freaking humpback whale now just because we can install you know 69 90s like
crazy long cards like this doesn't mean
that you can install anything you want in a system like this and we are
somewhat Limited in terms of the height of our graphics cards because one of the
U's so U is your vertical vertical
measurement of height for a system like this one of the U's is taken up by all
those power supplies here at the back with only three left for graphics cards
that means any cards that are taller than standard are not going to fit
within that 4u enclosure size what that
also means is that any cards that are
designed with their power plugs coming out of the top of the card like this
would interfere with a flat top panel which is why we got this modified
humpback one there we go that is going to take up
a little bit of space above our server so let's go ahead and make sure that
that actually fits okay yes that fits
perfectly with all of our graphics cards
love it so we've got big plans for this thing we're going to be doing a video
where we explore uh who makes the best GPU for video encoding in Premiere so
we're going to do like an AMD versus NVIDIA to head and show a bunch of
different classes of GPU find out if you even need a super powerful one we're
going to be doing one where we have eight game streams running off of a
single machine at a time that is going to be flipping sick and finally we are
going to be maybe actually you guys let me know if you want to see this but
maybe doing a Showcase of the final build that I do in here with the 24 ssds
maybe it'll be like a follow-up holy episode rather than a normal release uh
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