WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:09.760 i'm doing it i'm installing it this is it the SSD end game 00:00:05.600 --> 00:00:13.599 15 gigabytes per second 8 terabytes pci 00:00:09.760 --> 00:00:16.240 express gen 4 this is the SSD that i was 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:21.279 waving around on stream being like oh that's a nice SSD you've got there 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:27.840 playstation 5 be a shame if someone came along and absolutely shreked it it may 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 00:00:32.160 --> 00:00:40.000 grand in additional hardware in order to utilize it properly 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:41.920 but i will be damned if some ps5 is 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 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:51.760 by glasswire with glasswire you can instantly see current and past network 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:56.399 activity detect malware and block 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later but rather that i need 00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:58.159 the extra pci express lanes because this card requires a full pci express gen 4 00:01:54.720 --> 00:02:00.719 16x link in order to reach full speed 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:06.960 that is the same interface that would be used on a high-end next generation 00:02:04.320 --> 00:02:11.520 graphics card and Threadripper is just the only way to do it let's start with 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:16.319 the motherboard choice in the past i wouldn't describe myself as an ASUS die 00:02:14.160 --> 00:02:22.480 hard or anything like that but they've definitely been my default go-to over 00:02:18.959 --> 00:02:24.319 the years this actually changed for not 00:02:22.480 --> 00:02:30.239 only this upgrade but actually the last one as well because uh Gigabyte and 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:36.080 asrock are the only ones as far as i know that have solutions for Thunderbolt 00:02:33.760 --> 00:02:40.080 which is what this little add-in card is right here 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 00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:48.800 system in a separate room from where my monitor and my gaming peripherals and 00:02:46.640 --> 00:02:53.599 everything are so that i can completely isolate the noise from my rig and not 00:02:50.959 --> 00:02:57.120 have to listen to it so Thunderbolt is how i actually get high speed 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:02.319 connectivity to my computer that makes the trx 4d design 00:02:59.760 --> 00:03:09.040 air from Gigabyte basically the default choice for me because it's got four 16x 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:11.599 pci express gen4 slots with two of them 00:03:09.040 --> 00:03:15.760 actually being wired up at 16x so right there's the graphics card there's the 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 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:25.360 titan ridge card which has two Thunderbolt three ports on it for a 00:03:22.239 --> 00:03:26.400 total of 80 gigabit per second actually 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 00:03:29.519 --> 00:03:37.840 frustrating you know it's a generally accepted truth that Thunderbolt is flakier on pc 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:42.560 than it is on mac but the pc makers really don't do themselves any favors 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:48.080 this board literally comes with that titan ridge Thunderbolt 3 card but to my 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:53.680 knowledge the board is not actually Intel Thunderbolt 3 certified which is 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:56.319 why it doesn't say Thunderbolt 3 00:03:53.680 --> 00:04:01.599 on the box design anywhere it just says includes 40 gigabit per second gc titan 00:03:59.040 --> 00:04:05.040 ridge add-in card the instructions don't say 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 00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:13.120 recommended to install it in a slot that is hooked up to the chipset rather than 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 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:22.160 and apparently oh actually no okay i think 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:25.600 there is a cable for it somewhere in here it's just not mentioned anywhere 00:04:24.320 --> 00:04:29.080 in the manual and 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:37.280 apparently this motherboard comes with uh 00:04:34.960 --> 00:04:41.199 the same SSD carrier that i was going to install that's amusing 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:46.479 enough about that let's go ahead and get the CPU installed 00:04:42.960 --> 00:04:48.720 now aside from the 88 lanes of pci 00:04:46.479 --> 00:04:53.280 express gen 4 connectivity that 3rd gen ryzen threadripper cpus have i also 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 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:02.639 handle you know compressed game data now 00:05:00.320 --> 00:05:07.680 in their presentation about the SSD architecture of the playstation 5 mark 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:12.880 cerny said that in order to get equivalent performance to the dedicated 00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:17.680 decompression chip that they built into their custom chip you would need 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 00:05:21.280 --> 00:05:27.440 course so in order to make sure that i 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:34.160 completely overkill that mark i went from 12 cores to 32 cores so i'll be 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:35.199 able to decompress game data for days 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:41.840 here just got to make sure i installed the CPU correctly first one 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:46.080 then two and then three 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:50.160 this is one heck of a memory kit g-skill sent over 00:05:47.440 --> 00:05:53.360 now 3 200 megahertz is not crazy fast but 00:05:50.880 --> 00:05:59.039 on ryzen processors there's actually really not much benefit to going beyond 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 00:06:01.919 --> 00:06:09.199 34 at just 1.35 volts that's really tight i just realized this 00:06:06.880 --> 00:06:13.520 thing only has gigabit networking how does that make any sense for a 00:06:11.840 --> 00:06:18.479 design air 600 motherboard now for the worst part 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:22.400 of any upgrade training the water cooling loop 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:27.039 this is why i knew it 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 00:06:29.520 --> 00:06:36.160 three years between upgrades this time i'll probably go another three years 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:40.639 and then i just i had to have a faster SSD 00:06:37.280 --> 00:06:40.639 than the playstation 5. 00:06:40.880 --> 00:06:46.960 it's the ultimate first world temper tantrum all right 00:06:45.039 --> 00:06:50.800 let's drain this thing this isn't even my dumbest idea ever 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:55.680 oh 00:06:56.400 --> 00:07:02.560 who's the idiot now i gotta undo this cable tie 00:07:00.840 --> 00:07:09.199 lttstore.com oh hi there um yeah it's peeing on me 00:07:05.520 --> 00:07:09.199 okay what if i tilted it up more 00:07:14.479 --> 00:07:22.240 okay i'm gonna hold this can you lower the table please 00:07:19.440 --> 00:07:27.840 okay fantastic also this tube appears to be empty 00:07:24.880 --> 00:07:31.440 which means this is gonna be a cinch yep i only put three motherboard screws 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:34.400 in well okay then look at that 00:07:36.080 --> 00:07:39.360 how much water is left in here 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:49.280 wow none outstanding so i hadn't actually checked 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:50.880 this before we started but it turns out 00:07:49.280 --> 00:07:56.240 oh yeah the top PCIe slot on this board is the 00:07:53.440 --> 00:07:59.919 same as the one that came out so this run 00:07:57.520 --> 00:08:03.919 can just go right back where it was just gotta give this a little 00:08:02.479 --> 00:08:08.960 you know wiggly wiggle make sure everything's still in there 00:08:06.400 --> 00:08:13.120 give this a little tightly tighten make sure that's still in there 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:16.479 bam graphics card back in 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:20.960 oh wow this is going to be so much easier than 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 00:08:22.960 --> 00:08:30.000 overdo it is shave down this tube until this lines 00:08:27.520 --> 00:08:30.000 up with that 00:08:31.919 --> 00:08:36.399 this is how confident i am 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 00:08:38.479 --> 00:08:44.320 almost uneventful to the point of being boring wasn't it this could actually 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:47.600 work i'm not a huge fan of this Corsair filling thing because 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 00:08:50.560 --> 00:08:56.320 this seems to be actually working check this out 00:08:54.399 --> 00:09:01.200 it's a little slow but i'm gonna try and fill it as much as 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:03.120 i possibly can it's test boot time 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 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:13.279 code 60 and it's not firing it up it appears to 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:17.600 be oh okay that's helpful uh it appears to be a dram issue it 00:09:15.920 --> 00:09:20.560 would be very unfortunate if i had to remount the CPU in the socket i really 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 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 00:09:28.880 --> 00:09:36.880 not quite full yet okay i might be okay this might not be that bad 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:38.399 ah that's a lot of thermal compound 00:09:36.880 --> 00:09:43.680 to be clear this is not something that i recommend 00:09:40.640 --> 00:09:46.800 well that was bound to happen eventually 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:46.800 my pump is still plugged in 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 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:57.600 it's just distilled water like it's actually gonna dry and it will actually 00:09:55.760 --> 00:10:02.640 be fine it's just um thankfully the memory was over here 00:09:59.839 --> 00:10:07.120 my laptop escaped completely unscathed that could have been so much worse 00:10:04.880 --> 00:10:11.279 theoretically that won't happen again holy crap it's not unplugged okay to be 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 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 00:10:17.920 --> 00:10:22.480 immediately turn it off it does look promising come on come on come on come 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:26.560 on what's this b0 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:31.680 i want to see b0 tried mounting that 3970x a couple more times uh keep 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:36.160 getting postcode b0 no further time to diagnose this i got 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 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:45.600 okay because that still gives me you know eight extraneous cores i totally 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:47.440 don't need to uh you know 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:51.360 decompress playstation 5 games or whatever enough of that then let's 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:55.680 install an SSD shall we the titan ridge card goes in here it's 00:10:53.200 --> 00:11:00.480 got DisplayPort in on the back so that comes straight out of your graphics card 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:04.560 into the titan bridge Thunderbolt 3 cart that way you can actually run displays 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:08.000 over Thunderbolt 3. otherwise you know it's not a display adapter so it 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 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:18.480 got the SSD oh please tell me i'm gonna be able to get 00:11:16.640 --> 00:11:22.959 this in here it might have been better to put this in before 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:27.600 uh you know i might need to pull this out dang it 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:30.720 it's like full height full length card it's not exactly 00:11:28.959 --> 00:11:34.399 easy to get in when you've got hardline water cooling over it so unnecessary 00:11:32.959 --> 00:11:37.839 everything about this why am i even doing this actually you know what i'm 00:11:36.160 --> 00:11:41.200 going to throw my other SSD in here so we can do some quick benchmarking on 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 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:50.800 is my one terabyte SSD and then you can actually see each of the two terabyte 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:54.399 ssds showing up individually that's because we need to do some BIOS 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:58.720 configuration before they will all be rated together there's an internal 00:11:56.079 --> 00:12:02.000 connector here for Thunderbolt and i have no idea what the purpose of it is 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:07.279 because i haven't seen this on other Thunderbolt add-in cards but there's a 00:12:04.560 --> 00:12:10.720 usb 2 cable as well and that evidently goes into a little 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 00:12:13.839 --> 00:12:19.360 the last thing i need and i alluded to these before 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:22.839 is these little mini displayport to displayport cables so each of these will 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:27.519 plug into one of the displayport outputs from 00:12:25.680 --> 00:12:31.680 my graphics card and go into a displayport input on the Thunderbolt 00:12:29.920 --> 00:12:36.639 card like that it comes with two 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 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:44.720 to SATA configuration 00:12:41.839 --> 00:12:49.360 then NVMe raid mode enabled then we've got to give it a quick restarty start 00:12:47.760 --> 00:12:54.000 i also enabled Thunderbolt while i was at it because i put Thunderbolt card in 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:59.360 there we manually enabled bifurcation on our pci express 16x slot now we need to 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 00:13:01.920 --> 00:13:08.800 going to go ahead and not do that i'm going raid zero here 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 00:13:10.959 --> 00:13:16.600 physical disks Windows installed in basically the 00:13:14.160 --> 00:13:23.600 normal way and here it is 7.21 terabytes of usable space in 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:28.880 Windows at pci express gen 4 by 16 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:28.880 speeds and how gen 4 by 16 are they 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:38.720 wow 13.88 gigabytes per second rights and 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:41.839 just shy of actually oh 13 and a half 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:44.399 gigabytes per second reads depending on 00:13:41.839 --> 00:13:48.560 the size of the file transfer that is absolutely 00:13:45.839 --> 00:13:52.079 freaking ridiculous and it's not it's actually possible that if we just take 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:56.480 some larger ones like let's do another run from four megs to 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:59.360 uh 32 megs here we go let's see how fast these puppies go 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:07.440 that is something else i mean it's really too bad that you need so much 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:12.959 CPU in order to just like process it mind you you got 24 cores it 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:12.959 actually doesn't hit it that hard 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:19.040 oh man that's it 00:14:17.040 --> 00:14:23.760 you heard it here first i'm never upgrading this machine again 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 00:14:25.680 --> 00:14:34.000 gigs of RAM throw another kit of memory in there but 8 terabytes of 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 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:41.920 ought to be enough for anybody is that like you know what 00:14:39.839 --> 00:14:46.079 10 years 20 years am i going to need more than 00:14:42.839 --> 00:14:47.199 that oh shut up there's no way i mean 00:14:46.079 --> 00:14:52.000 we're still going to be working with text documents you know 00:14:50.160 --> 00:14:56.160 oh that's kind of crazy this machine 00:14:53.760 --> 00:15:00.480 actually has the performance to do the same things the ps5 can do 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:04.959 with like texture streaming literally while you're 00:15:02.959 --> 00:15:08.480 rendering and moving around in the game and all it cost was 00:15:10.839 --> 00:15:16.720 10x the price 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:20.800 yeah that's not so bad not as bad as this segue to our sponsor 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:26.240 today's video is brought to you by drop.com and the sennheiser pc37x gaming 00:15:23.920 --> 00:15:29.600 headset it features angled drivers and an open back design and the drivers 00:15:28.160 --> 00:15:35.680 actually come from the same family as the hd598 and hd 600 series headphones 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:39.760 it offers excellent stereo imaging and locational accuracy and comes with a 00:15:37.920 --> 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