i'm doing it i'm installing it this is it the SSD end game
15 gigabytes per second 8 terabytes pci
express gen 4 this is the SSD that i was
waving around on stream being like oh that's a nice SSD you've got there
playstation 5 be a shame if someone came along and absolutely shreked it it may
be four times the price of a playstation 5 all by itself it may require another 3
grand in additional hardware in order to utilize it properly
but i will be damned if some ps5 is
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in case it wasn't all ready i want to make this clear the fact that this SSD
is really fast or whatever is not
a genuine knock against the ps5 the ps5
is expected to cost somewhere between 400 and 600 dollars for an entire gaming
system including a high speed SSD by
contrast in order to unlock the full potential of this puppy right here i
need to upgrade my gaming rig which is already a ryzen 3rd gen 12 core
processor the reason for it is not necessarily that i need the extra course
although we can talk a little bit more about that later but rather that i need
the extra pci express lanes because this card requires a full pci express gen 4
16x link in order to reach full speed
that is the same interface that would be used on a high-end next generation
graphics card and Threadripper is just the only way to do it let's start with
the motherboard choice in the past i wouldn't describe myself as an ASUS die
hard or anything like that but they've definitely been my default go-to over
the years this actually changed for not
only this upgrade but actually the last one as well because uh Gigabyte and
asrock are the only ones as far as i know that have solutions for Thunderbolt
which is what this little add-in card is right here
there we go on AMD platforms and as some of you might know i actually run my
system in a separate room from where my monitor and my gaming peripherals and
everything are so that i can completely isolate the noise from my rig and not
have to listen to it so Thunderbolt is how i actually get high speed
connectivity to my computer that makes the trx 4d design
air from Gigabyte basically the default choice for me because it's got four 16x
pci express gen4 slots with two of them
actually being wired up at 16x so right there's the graphics card there's the
storage and then in one of these other two i'm gonna go ahead and pop this
titan ridge card which has two Thunderbolt three ports on it for a
total of 80 gigabit per second actually
i don't know it might be a single controller i think it's a single controller it might be 40 combined it's
frustrating you know it's a generally accepted truth that Thunderbolt is flakier on pc
than it is on mac but the pc makers really don't do themselves any favors
this board literally comes with that titan ridge Thunderbolt 3 card but to my
knowledge the board is not actually Intel Thunderbolt 3 certified which is
why it doesn't say Thunderbolt 3
on the box design anywhere it just says includes 40 gigabit per second gc titan
ridge add-in card the instructions don't say
which slot to put it on because that can actually matter a lot of the time it's
recommended to install it in a slot that is hooked up to the chipset rather than
directly to the CPU so i'm just going to be kind of guessing as far as that goes
and apparently oh actually no okay i think
there is a cable for it somewhere in here it's just not mentioned anywhere
in the manual and
apparently this motherboard comes with uh
the same SSD carrier that i was going to install that's amusing
enough about that let's go ahead and get the CPU installed
now aside from the 88 lanes of pci
express gen 4 connectivity that 3rd gen ryzen threadripper cpus have i also
wanted to make sure that when it comes to competing with the ps5 i'm set up to
handle you know compressed game data now
in their presentation about the SSD architecture of the playstation 5 mark
cerny said that in order to get equivalent performance to the dedicated
decompression chip that they built into their custom chip you would need
anywhere from i think he said somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 to 10 zen 2 CPU
course so in order to make sure that i
completely overkill that mark i went from 12 cores to 32 cores so i'll be
able to decompress game data for days
here just got to make sure i installed the CPU correctly first one
then two and then three
this is one heck of a memory kit g-skill sent over
now 3 200 megahertz is not crazy fast but
on ryzen processors there's actually really not much benefit to going beyond
a certain speed it's the latencies that impress me these are rated for 14 14 14
34 at just 1.35 volts that's really tight i just realized this
thing only has gigabit networking how does that make any sense for a
design air 600 motherboard now for the worst part
of any upgrade training the water cooling loop
this is why i knew it
i knew i shouldn't have gone hardline i was just like well whatever it's been
three years between upgrades this time i'll probably go another three years
and then i just i had to have a faster SSD
than the playstation 5.
it's the ultimate first world temper tantrum all right
let's drain this thing this isn't even my dumbest idea ever
oh
who's the idiot now i gotta undo this cable tie
lttstore.com oh hi there um yeah it's peeing on me
okay what if i tilted it up more
okay i'm gonna hold this can you lower the table please
okay fantastic also this tube appears to be empty
which means this is gonna be a cinch yep i only put three motherboard screws
in well okay then look at that
how much water is left in here
wow none outstanding so i hadn't actually checked
this before we started but it turns out
oh yeah the top PCIe slot on this board is the
same as the one that came out so this run
can just go right back where it was just gotta give this a little
you know wiggly wiggle make sure everything's still in there
give this a little tightly tighten make sure that's still in there
bam graphics card back in
oh wow this is going to be so much easier than
i thought look at this all i've got to do as long as i don't
overdo it is shave down this tube until this lines
up with that
this is how confident i am
i'm loading up the collars and the o-rings like i'm i'm ready well this was
almost uneventful to the point of being boring wasn't it this could actually
work i'm not a huge fan of this Corsair filling thing because
like the seal here is not perfect so when you squeeze it too hard it can make a bit of a mess but
this seems to be actually working check this out
it's a little slow but i'm gonna try and fill it as much as
i possibly can it's test boot time
starting with the good news it doesn't leak the bad news is that i've got an error
code 60 and it's not firing it up it appears to
be oh okay that's helpful uh it appears to be a dram issue it
would be very unfortunate if i had to remount the CPU in the socket i really
should have tested that before i put the water cooling back in place oh i'm so upset
right now wait a second are these tubes empty i think these tubes are empty it's
not quite full yet okay i might be okay this might not be that bad
ah that's a lot of thermal compound
to be clear this is not something that i recommend
well that was bound to happen eventually
my pump is still plugged in
at least i said i didn't recommend it no no it's fine it's fine it's just
it's just distilled water like it's actually gonna dry and it will actually
be fine it's just um thankfully the memory was over here
my laptop escaped completely unscathed that could have been so much worse
theoretically that won't happen again holy crap it's not unplugged okay to be
clear i don't recommend running a CPU with no heatsink at all like this i'm
just trying to see if i get any kind of post whatsoever and then i'm going to
immediately turn it off it does look promising come on come on come on come
on what's this b0
i want to see b0 tried mounting that 3970x a couple more times uh keep
getting postcode b0 no further time to diagnose this i got
games to play this weekend so i guess we're going for our 24 core but that's
okay because that still gives me you know eight extraneous cores i totally
don't need to uh you know
decompress playstation 5 games or whatever enough of that then let's
install an SSD shall we the titan ridge card goes in here it's
got DisplayPort in on the back so that comes straight out of your graphics card
into the titan bridge Thunderbolt 3 cart that way you can actually run displays
over Thunderbolt 3. otherwise you know it's not a display adapter so it
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
got the SSD oh please tell me i'm gonna be able to get
this in here it might have been better to put this in before
uh you know i might need to pull this out dang it
it's like full height full length card it's not exactly
easy to get in when you've got hardline water cooling over it so unnecessary
everything about this why am i even doing this actually you know what i'm
going to throw my other SSD in here so we can do some quick benchmarking on
this one without actually loading an os on it so i'm booted to my old drive this
is my one terabyte SSD and then you can actually see each of the two terabyte
ssds showing up individually that's because we need to do some BIOS
configuration before they will all be rated together there's an internal
connector here for Thunderbolt and i have no idea what the purpose of it is
because i haven't seen this on other Thunderbolt add-in cards but there's a
usb 2 cable as well and that evidently goes into a little
usb2 header here on the back of the board well it can just sit there for now
the last thing i need and i alluded to these before
is these little mini displayport to displayport cables so each of these will
plug into one of the displayport outputs from
my graphics card and go into a displayport input on the Thunderbolt
card like that it comes with two
boop now to configure booting to the new SSD the first thing we need to do is go
to SATA configuration
then NVMe raid mode enabled then we've got to give it a quick restarty start
i also enabled Thunderbolt while i was at it because i put Thunderbolt card in
there we manually enabled bifurcation on our pci express 16x slot now we need to
go into raid expert 2 which only shows up if you enable PCIe raid and we're
going to go ahead and not do that i'm going raid zero here
boys i don't put any valuable data on here it's just gonna be full of games
physical disks Windows installed in basically the
normal way and here it is 7.21 terabytes of usable space in
Windows at pci express gen 4 by 16
speeds and how gen 4 by 16 are they
wow 13.88 gigabytes per second rights and
just shy of actually oh 13 and a half
gigabytes per second reads depending on
the size of the file transfer that is absolutely
freaking ridiculous and it's not it's actually possible that if we just take
some larger ones like let's do another run from four megs to
uh 32 megs here we go let's see how fast these puppies go
that is something else i mean it's really too bad that you need so much
CPU in order to just like process it mind you you got 24 cores it
actually doesn't hit it that hard
oh man that's it
you heard it here first i'm never upgrading this machine again
24 cores ought to be enough for anybody maybe you know if i need more than 64
gigs of RAM throw another kit of memory in there but 8 terabytes of
12 and a half to 14 Gigabyte per second storage i think it's fair to say that
ought to be enough for anybody is that like you know what
10 years 20 years am i going to need more than
that oh shut up there's no way i mean
we're still going to be working with text documents you know
oh that's kind of crazy this machine
actually has the performance to do the same things the ps5 can do
with like texture streaming literally while you're
rendering and moving around in the game and all it cost was
10x the price
yeah that's not so bad not as bad as this segue to our sponsor
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