1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:09,760 i'm doing it i'm installing it this is it the SSD end game 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:13,599 15 gigabytes per second 8 terabytes pci 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:16,240 express gen 4 this is the SSD that i was 4 00:00:13,599 --> 00:00:21,279 waving around on stream being like oh that's a nice SSD you've got there 5 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:27,840 playstation 5 be a shame if someone came along and absolutely shreked it it may 6 00:00:25,039 --> 00:00:34,480 be four times the price of a playstation 5 all by itself it may require another 3 7 00:00:32,160 --> 00:00:40,000 grand in additional hardware in order to utilize it properly 8 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:41,920 but i will be damned if some ps5 is 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:47,200 going to come along and be faster than my pc and this video is brought to you 10 00:00:44,399 --> 00:00:51,760 by glasswire with glasswire you can instantly see current and past network 11 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:56,399 activity detect malware and block badly behaving apps on your pc or Android 12 00:00:53,680 --> 00:01:01,359 device use offer code Linus to get 25 off glass wire at the link in the video 13 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,359 description 14 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:17,600 in case it wasn't all ready i want to make this clear the fact that this SSD 15 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:20,640 is really fast or whatever is not 16 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:22,720 a genuine knock against the ps5 the ps5 17 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:29,119 is expected to cost somewhere between 400 and 600 dollars for an entire gaming 18 00:01:25,439 --> 00:01:31,680 system including a high speed SSD by 19 00:01:29,119 --> 00:01:36,320 contrast in order to unlock the full potential of this puppy right here i 20 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:41,439 need to upgrade my gaming rig which is already a ryzen 3rd gen 12 core 21 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:44,720 processor the reason for it is not necessarily that i need the extra course 22 00:01:43,439 --> 00:01:49,920 although we can talk a little bit more about that later but rather that i need 23 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:58,159 the extra pci express lanes because this card requires a full pci express gen 4 24 00:01:54,720 --> 00:02:00,719 16x link in order to reach full speed 25 00:01:58,159 --> 00:02:06,960 that is the same interface that would be used on a high-end next generation 26 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:11,520 graphics card and Threadripper is just the only way to do it let's start with 27 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:16,319 the motherboard choice in the past i wouldn't describe myself as an ASUS die 28 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:22,480 hard or anything like that but they've definitely been my default go-to over 29 00:02:18,959 --> 00:02:24,319 the years this actually changed for not 30 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:30,239 only this upgrade but actually the last one as well because uh Gigabyte and 31 00:02:27,599 --> 00:02:36,080 asrock are the only ones as far as i know that have solutions for Thunderbolt 32 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:40,080 which is what this little add-in card is right here 33 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:44,959 there we go on AMD platforms and as some of you might know i actually run my 34 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:48,800 system in a separate room from where my monitor and my gaming peripherals and 35 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:53,599 everything are so that i can completely isolate the noise from my rig and not 36 00:02:50,959 --> 00:02:57,120 have to listen to it so Thunderbolt is how i actually get high speed 37 00:02:55,120 --> 00:03:02,319 connectivity to my computer that makes the trx 4d design 38 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:09,040 air from Gigabyte basically the default choice for me because it's got four 16x 39 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:11,599 pci express gen4 slots with two of them 40 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:15,760 actually being wired up at 16x so right there's the graphics card there's the 41 00:03:13,519 --> 00:03:20,000 storage and then in one of these other two i'm gonna go ahead and pop this 42 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:25,360 titan ridge card which has two Thunderbolt three ports on it for a 43 00:03:22,239 --> 00:03:26,400 total of 80 gigabit per second actually 44 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:31,280 i don't know it might be a single controller i think it's a single controller it might be 40 combined it's 45 00:03:29,519 --> 00:03:37,840 frustrating you know it's a generally accepted truth that Thunderbolt is flakier on pc 46 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:42,560 than it is on mac but the pc makers really don't do themselves any favors 47 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:48,080 this board literally comes with that titan ridge Thunderbolt 3 card but to my 48 00:03:46,319 --> 00:03:53,680 knowledge the board is not actually Intel Thunderbolt 3 certified which is 49 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:56,319 why it doesn't say Thunderbolt 3 50 00:03:53,680 --> 00:04:01,599 on the box design anywhere it just says includes 40 gigabit per second gc titan 51 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:05,040 ridge add-in card the instructions don't say 52 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:09,439 which slot to put it on because that can actually matter a lot of the time it's 53 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:13,120 recommended to install it in a slot that is hooked up to the chipset rather than 54 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:17,199 directly to the CPU so i'm just going to be kind of guessing as far as that goes 55 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:22,160 and apparently oh actually no okay i think 56 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:25,600 there is a cable for it somewhere in here it's just not mentioned anywhere 57 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:29,080 in the manual and 58 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:37,280 apparently this motherboard comes with uh 59 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:41,199 the same SSD carrier that i was going to install that's amusing 60 00:04:39,759 --> 00:04:46,479 enough about that let's go ahead and get the CPU installed 61 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:48,720 now aside from the 88 lanes of pci 62 00:04:46,479 --> 00:04:53,280 express gen 4 connectivity that 3rd gen ryzen threadripper cpus have i also 63 00:04:51,440 --> 00:05:00,320 wanted to make sure that when it comes to competing with the ps5 i'm set up to 64 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:02,639 handle you know compressed game data now 65 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:07,680 in their presentation about the SSD architecture of the playstation 5 mark 66 00:05:05,199 --> 00:05:12,880 cerny said that in order to get equivalent performance to the dedicated 67 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:17,680 decompression chip that they built into their custom chip you would need 68 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:25,120 anywhere from i think he said somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 to 10 zen 2 CPU 69 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:27,440 course so in order to make sure that i 70 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:34,160 completely overkill that mark i went from 12 cores to 32 cores so i'll be 71 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:35,199 able to decompress game data for days 72 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:41,840 here just got to make sure i installed the CPU correctly first one 73 00:05:39,759 --> 00:05:46,080 then two and then three 74 00:05:43,759 --> 00:05:50,160 this is one heck of a memory kit g-skill sent over 75 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:53,360 now 3 200 megahertz is not crazy fast but 76 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:59,039 on ryzen processors there's actually really not much benefit to going beyond 77 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:04,720 a certain speed it's the latencies that impress me these are rated for 14 14 14 78 00:06:01,919 --> 00:06:09,199 34 at just 1.35 volts that's really tight i just realized this 79 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:13,520 thing only has gigabit networking how does that make any sense for a 80 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:18,479 design air 600 motherboard now for the worst part 81 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:22,400 of any upgrade training the water cooling loop 82 00:06:21,199 --> 00:06:27,039 this is why i knew it 83 00:06:24,319 --> 00:06:31,280 i knew i shouldn't have gone hardline i was just like well whatever it's been 84 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:36,160 three years between upgrades this time i'll probably go another three years 85 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:40,639 and then i just i had to have a faster SSD 86 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:40,639 than the playstation 5. 87 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:46,960 it's the ultimate first world temper tantrum all right 88 00:06:45,039 --> 00:06:50,800 let's drain this thing this isn't even my dumbest idea ever 89 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,680 oh 90 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:02,560 who's the idiot now i gotta undo this cable tie 91 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:09,199 lttstore.com oh hi there um yeah it's peeing on me 92 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:09,199 okay what if i tilted it up more 93 00:07:14,479 --> 00:07:22,240 okay i'm gonna hold this can you lower the table please 94 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:27,840 okay fantastic also this tube appears to be empty 95 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:31,440 which means this is gonna be a cinch yep i only put three motherboard screws 96 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:34,400 in well okay then look at that 97 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:39,360 how much water is left in here 98 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:49,280 wow none outstanding so i hadn't actually checked 99 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:50,880 this before we started but it turns out 100 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:56,240 oh yeah the top PCIe slot on this board is the 101 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:59,919 same as the one that came out so this run 102 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:03,919 can just go right back where it was just gotta give this a little 103 00:08:02,479 --> 00:08:08,960 you know wiggly wiggle make sure everything's still in there 104 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:13,120 give this a little tightly tighten make sure that's still in there 105 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,479 bam graphics card back in 106 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:20,960 oh wow this is going to be so much easier than 107 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:24,560 i thought look at this all i've got to do as long as i don't 108 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:30,000 overdo it is shave down this tube until this lines 109 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,000 up with that 110 00:08:31,919 --> 00:08:36,399 this is how confident i am 111 00:08:34,959 --> 00:08:40,080 i'm loading up the collars and the o-rings like i'm i'm ready well this was 112 00:08:38,479 --> 00:08:44,320 almost uneventful to the point of being boring wasn't it this could actually 113 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:47,600 work i'm not a huge fan of this Corsair filling thing because 114 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:52,240 like the seal here is not perfect so when you squeeze it too hard it can make a bit of a mess but 115 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:56,320 this seems to be actually working check this out 116 00:08:54,399 --> 00:09:01,200 it's a little slow but i'm gonna try and fill it as much as 117 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:03,120 i possibly can it's test boot time 118 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:08,480 starting with the good news it doesn't leak the bad news is that i've got an error 119 00:09:06,399 --> 00:09:13,279 code 60 and it's not firing it up it appears to 120 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:17,600 be oh okay that's helpful uh it appears to be a dram issue it 121 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:20,560 would be very unfortunate if i had to remount the CPU in the socket i really 122 00:09:19,519 --> 00:09:27,040 should have tested that before i put the water cooling back in place oh i'm so upset 123 00:09:24,959 --> 00:09:31,120 right now wait a second are these tubes empty i think these tubes are empty it's 124 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:36,880 not quite full yet okay i might be okay this might not be that bad 125 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:38,399 ah that's a lot of thermal compound 126 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:43,680 to be clear this is not something that i recommend 127 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:46,800 well that was bound to happen eventually 128 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:46,800 my pump is still plugged in 129 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:54,160 at least i said i didn't recommend it no no it's fine it's fine it's just 130 00:09:52,399 --> 00:09:57,600 it's just distilled water like it's actually gonna dry and it will actually 131 00:09:55,760 --> 00:10:02,640 be fine it's just um thankfully the memory was over here 132 00:09:59,839 --> 00:10:07,120 my laptop escaped completely unscathed that could have been so much worse 133 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:11,279 theoretically that won't happen again holy crap it's not unplugged okay to be 134 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:16,000 clear i don't recommend running a CPU with no heatsink at all like this i'm 135 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:19,519 just trying to see if i get any kind of post whatsoever and then i'm going to 136 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:22,480 immediately turn it off it does look promising come on come on come on come 137 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:26,560 on what's this b0 138 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:31,680 i want to see b0 tried mounting that 3970x a couple more times uh keep 139 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:36,160 getting postcode b0 no further time to diagnose this i got 140 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:40,320 games to play this weekend so i guess we're going for our 24 core but that's 141 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:45,600 okay because that still gives me you know eight extraneous cores i totally 142 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:47,440 don't need to uh you know 143 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:51,360 decompress playstation 5 games or whatever enough of that then let's 144 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:55,680 install an SSD shall we the titan ridge card goes in here it's 145 00:10:53,200 --> 00:11:00,480 got DisplayPort in on the back so that comes straight out of your graphics card 146 00:10:57,519 --> 00:11:04,560 into the titan bridge Thunderbolt 3 cart that way you can actually run displays 147 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:08,000 over Thunderbolt 3. otherwise you know it's not a display adapter so it 148 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:14,560 wouldn't have any way of outputting that so you got to kind of tie that in in a clutchy way with an external cable 149 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:18,480 got the SSD oh please tell me i'm gonna be able to get 150 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:22,959 this in here it might have been better to put this in before 151 00:11:21,279 --> 00:11:27,600 uh you know i might need to pull this out dang it 152 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:30,720 it's like full height full length card it's not exactly 153 00:11:28,959 --> 00:11:34,399 easy to get in when you've got hardline water cooling over it so unnecessary 154 00:11:32,959 --> 00:11:37,839 everything about this why am i even doing this actually you know what i'm 155 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:41,200 going to throw my other SSD in here so we can do some quick benchmarking on 156 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:46,079 this one without actually loading an os on it so i'm booted to my old drive this 157 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:50,800 is my one terabyte SSD and then you can actually see each of the two terabyte 158 00:11:48,399 --> 00:11:54,399 ssds showing up individually that's because we need to do some BIOS 159 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:58,720 configuration before they will all be rated together there's an internal 160 00:11:56,079 --> 00:12:02,000 connector here for Thunderbolt and i have no idea what the purpose of it is 161 00:12:00,399 --> 00:12:07,279 because i haven't seen this on other Thunderbolt add-in cards but there's a 162 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:10,720 usb 2 cable as well and that evidently goes into a little 163 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:15,519 usb2 header here on the back of the board well it can just sit there for now 164 00:12:13,839 --> 00:12:19,360 the last thing i need and i alluded to these before 165 00:12:17,519 --> 00:12:22,839 is these little mini displayport to displayport cables so each of these will 166 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:27,519 plug into one of the displayport outputs from 167 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:31,680 my graphics card and go into a displayport input on the Thunderbolt 168 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:36,639 card like that it comes with two 169 00:12:34,079 --> 00:12:41,839 boop now to configure booting to the new SSD the first thing we need to do is go 170 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:44,720 to SATA configuration 171 00:12:41,839 --> 00:12:49,360 then NVMe raid mode enabled then we've got to give it a quick restarty start 172 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:54,000 i also enabled Thunderbolt while i was at it because i put Thunderbolt card in 173 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:59,360 there we manually enabled bifurcation on our pci express 16x slot now we need to 174 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:04,320 go into raid expert 2 which only shows up if you enable PCIe raid and we're 175 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:08,800 going to go ahead and not do that i'm going raid zero here 176 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:12,399 boys i don't put any valuable data on here it's just gonna be full of games 177 00:13:10,959 --> 00:13:16,600 physical disks Windows installed in basically the 178 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:23,600 normal way and here it is 7.21 terabytes of usable space in 179 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:28,880 Windows at pci express gen 4 by 16 180 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:28,880 speeds and how gen 4 by 16 are they 181 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:38,720 wow 13.88 gigabytes per second rights and 182 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:41,839 just shy of actually oh 13 and a half 183 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:44,399 gigabytes per second reads depending on 184 00:13:41,839 --> 00:13:48,560 the size of the file transfer that is absolutely 185 00:13:45,839 --> 00:13:52,079 freaking ridiculous and it's not it's actually possible that if we just take 186 00:13:50,399 --> 00:13:56,480 some larger ones like let's do another run from four megs to 187 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:59,360 uh 32 megs here we go let's see how fast these puppies go 188 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:07,440 that is something else i mean it's really too bad that you need so much 189 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:12,959 CPU in order to just like process it mind you you got 24 cores it 190 00:14:09,519 --> 00:14:12,959 actually doesn't hit it that hard 191 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:19,040 oh man that's it 192 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:23,760 you heard it here first i'm never upgrading this machine again 193 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:27,360 24 cores ought to be enough for anybody maybe you know if i need more than 64 194 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:34,000 gigs of RAM throw another kit of memory in there but 8 terabytes of 195 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:38,480 12 and a half to 14 Gigabyte per second storage i think it's fair to say that 196 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:41,920 ought to be enough for anybody is that like you know what 197 00:14:39,839 --> 00:14:46,079 10 years 20 years am i going to need more than 198 00:14:42,839 --> 00:14:47,199 that oh shut up there's no way i mean 199 00:14:46,079 --> 00:14:52,000 we're still going to be working with text documents you know 200 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:56,160 oh that's kind of crazy this machine 201 00:14:53,760 --> 00:15:00,480 actually has the performance to do the same things the ps5 can do 202 00:14:59,279 --> 00:15:04,959 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