if you're new to the compensator series the rules are simple number one no
exotic Enterprise build to order hardware and with rule number one in
mind you buy the most expensive possible
thing in every category which is how we
ended up with I kid you not 11 8 tbte
ssds believe it or not though the storage is far from the most wild thing
about this year's Bild nope that award goes to this case from ER this is the
cooling system Pro and as we already kind of teased here it has not one but
two full side panel radiators built into
the cas look how thick it is this is a Linus for scale it's thicker than me and
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needs let's start with the CPU where we've gone with the core I 9 13900 K
from Intel which it's kind of weak right where's my
Threadripper at right no really neither AMD nor Intel has a consumer high-end
desktop platform anymore meaning that if we're going to buy the highest price
consumer product this is it between the
filming of this video and its release AMD announced the return of the thread
Ripper platform HT lives on it's not out
yet though so our choice is still valid I mean it's not so bad eight perform
performance core 16 efficiency cores and it clocks over 5 GHz when it's at full
Boost but the bad news is that it is neither the fastest CPU on the market
for gaming nor is it the fastest for productivity and by the time this video
comes out it won't even be the newest from Intel though at the time of filming
it is the most expensive the good news is everything we lacked in excessive
overkill on our CPU we more than make up for with the MSI
z790 God like it has everything ddr5
7600 7 m.2 slots 2 1/2 gig and 10 gig
Ethernet 60 wat power delivery dual Thunderbolt and it comes with a
touchcreen I know right what this is the
definition of excess both in terms of included accessories and in terms of
price it cost a whopping $1,200 I could build a pretty good land
Center for $1,200 like if all I wanted to play was older games man moving on to
system memory I think this is a compensator record for how quickly our
excessive budget is actually going to cost us performance because instead of
equipping our system with the fastest ddr5 7600 memory we've actually gone
with ddr5 6800 why so we can have two kits and a
grand total of 192 GB of system RAM I
don't know what's more impressive about these how tight the latencies are
considering the speed and the capacity or the fact that each of them was only
500 bucks when we got them and has already fallen under 400 since then RAM
went from being the thing keeping gaming Out Of Reach for people to being one of
the cheapest things in this build now is the part where things get really
interesting remember how I said it supports seven m.2 storage drives but in
the intro you might have noticed we only have five that's because if you want to
connect more drives to the SATA ports you have to disable two of your m.2
slots which we felt was an okay tradeoff
to more than double our total storage capacity it just means we need to make
sure that we put all of our drives in the active slots uh where are all the
slots I found four so far this took me
longer than I'd like to admit but so cool oh these aren't cheap but
boy are they cool 8 tabt at PCI four
speeds in the form factor of a gumstick
after Consulting the manual these two are going to be disabled in our config
while the rest of them will run either off of the PCIe lanes coming from the
CPU or the ones coming from the motherboard chipset and normally I would
care which one of these has my OS on it and I'd want to put it in this primary
slot but because we traded PCIe Gen 5
speeds for more capacity it doesn't really matter we're just going to go
ahead and throw these in every time we build one of these I I just can't stop
myself from thinking wow this is just so stupid the whole
time really I know I've already said
this this is the point where this build goes completely off the rails but that
was all a big lie because it's actually happening now this cooling system the
wildest thing about it is it's not to cool the CPU it's to cool the cooler of
the CPU this is the EK Quantum Delta
squared Tech a five 100 plus doll water
block nay water block system this is the
water block and this sandwiched in between is a 210 wat thermoelectric
cooling module that's right this block
is capable of sucking up power then
using the pelch effect cooling the CPU
side to below ambient temperatures
here's the thing about that while your CPU can get so cold with this block that
condensation will start to form on your motherboard that's why we've got foam on
the back and this cool rubber booty that goes around the
socket that is only the case when you're sitting at idle unfortunately managing
idle temperatures is not the main concern of most Gamers it's load
temperatures we care about and under an intense load a modern processor like the
13900 K can draw upwards of 300 watts
which introduces two problems number number one we now have to cumulatively
remove the 210 Watts plus the 300 plus
watts and dissipate that thankfully we've got that covered but problem
number two is that this Peltier module can only move 210 Watts away from the
CPU meaning that at a certain point it becomes overwhelmed and can actually
start acting as an insulator I'm not going to say this thing is completely
pointless because that would be rude I'm just going to say that from K you could
get a block that would perform better under an all core load for half the
price and that half price block would be goldplated I'm getting ahead of myself a
little bit though I haven't even put on thermal compound and the reason is that
I'm not just going to goop this stuff on here if I'm going to pay for the most
expensive tube of thermal paste we could find I'm going to use the included
applicator kit look at this what am I
even looking at here it comes with a card I'm a card car caring nerd now I
mean guess and it has peels it has peels so it can be beautiful and pristine for
2 seconds before you put thermal Goole over it holy
schnikes this is actually a thing that
you actually stick to your CPU okay look
so pretty I know right it's going to look professionally
applied okay this block is the gift that keeps giving
did I mention that the installation is way more complex first you have to run
well your power connector for that 210 W Tech the leads for your thermal sensors
um your RGB let's run all that through the boot In fairness to EK and I believe
Intel might have helped co-develop this it does have a purpose if all you want
is one maybe two cores to boost as high
as possible this may help get you 100 200 MHz higher
which could improve game performance a little bit it's just the second you hit
it with an all core load Things Fall Apart now with the back plate the
mounting posts and the boot installed we can just put on these little
springloaded screws and we are almost halfway done is that our most expensive
driver nice this one no this one's the same price as the standard color I
should go get it but you have it I'll be right back I'm going to keep working on
this there are some technical challenges oh oh my God but if this sees the light
of day it will be substantially more expensive than the screwdriver you're
holding holy crap machined from a solid
piece of aluminum with brass end cap and
accent ring yeah I'm building the rest of the system with this okay get out of
here retro driver that you can sign up for a notification when it comes in stock LTT Store.com what about second
annoying thing to M what the heck is that this is the the controller module
that handles tech power see the thing is you don't want it running full bore all
the time because even with your insulation you could still get
condensation so this makes sure that it is only kicking in at full strength when
it's needed and allows you to set a Target temperature of course we can't Mount this until we're installing things
in the case which I think it's actually time to start wow this is
heavy I have a SC I there was a scale here okay here we go here we go
I think it's about 10 lb though 10.4 lb
so that's like 4 kilos 4 and half kilos
do you want to weigh the empty case okay
all right fine wow immediately blocks the sorry I
can't see what I'm doing okay stop wiggling 224 how about
now 164 it weighs 60 lb empty you're not be
able to move this computer no it's going to be full of water but that's okay
because you probably have a team of lackes to carry it around for you
because you can afford this computer yeah pretty
much now that is going to have
absolutely no trouble dissipating the 500 plus Watts from our CPU and our GPU
and what's really wild is that's on both
sides for the size of this case it has shockingly little room to maneuver it's
kind of like if you had an SUV on the outside but then inside is like a VW
Beetle but then if you think about it so much of the interior of cases these days
is places to put radiators and we don't need that because our radiators are in
our side panels which by the way incidentally are almost the same
thickness as an entire other computer case this is a fractal Ridge one like
this will run you about $2,200 which okay strictly speaking is
not the most expensive case that award
would go to probably the Carl Jacobs desk PC but compared to the desk PC this
is relatively available for order they do build them to order they paint them
to your specification and they include actually a lot of what you need two 400
milx 400mm radiators loaded up with noct
to of fans love to see it some 10m ID 16
mm OD tubing along with these fittings
that I guess oh these are quick releases but they're threaded medium medium speed
releases you also get a reservoir just bring your own D5 pump and a little
Corsair RGB controller along with one strip I believe in the front and then
some more strips in the Box it's pricey
but it's a pretty complete package and if the results are anywhere near what
I'm kind of expecting it's going to be very quiet and very cool you know what
else is very cool ug Green's Revo do pro 3113 if you've got data to move that's
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pro 313 at the link in the description now that I've been compensated let's
keep compensating and while it's got like a bit of a DIY Vibe like these are
3D printed yeah I see that the craftsmanship is incredible there's not
an sharp edge anywhere on this case oh yeah that's in there oh she's not going
anywhere let's take a short break from the cooler though and talk about how
we're going to power it surprisingly the Rog Thor 1600 watt titanium is the first
appearance from ASUS Rog they do charge quite a premium for their R Parts I
guess just not the biggest
premium wow that's a lot of modular
connectors that's a lot of screen I mean
it's only one screen but that for a power supply that's a lot of screen oh
this is something to watch out for unlike most cases there is no Grill at
the bottom so if you put your power supply in this way you're in trouble but
also you wouldn't be able to see your screen so why would you do that do we want to talk cables next I do
wow yeah those are cool now we wanted to
use a cable kit cuz that's something you can just like buy off the Shelf at New Egg but because of the way this case is
we have really really long cable runs that need to be accounted
for what this motherboard has right angle
power imagine building a motherboard that is a way wider than normal and B
has the power plugs coming out the side dang it MSI it has four typa USB 3s
and two type-c what motherboard even has two type-c headers I think this one
might it totally does wow match made in
heaven how about I do cable management for a bit sure let me just go ahead and
plug these into the power supply with my small hands power and
whoa that looks awesome yeah the gold
connector not tasteful but awesome we got most of the
important cables run all of custom cables they're pretty long runs just
because of the nature of this case it doesn't have a big hole up here it's got
no space cables are annoying to run we want it to look nice you know we're
going to try and make this 90° turn that goes behind the reservoir look a little
bit nicer it looks kind of sloppy we just don't want to commit to anything
yet and then up here is just honestly
the most annoying position for any EPS connector it's uh we're doing our best
we actually ended up buying another kit of the most expensive RGB we could find
uh but this is for technically outside of the computer it's for behind your
monitor I think we can still get away with it I think it's going to make
actually a really nice glow it might be a little inconvenient cuz we're going to have to run a cable out through the back
to get power from the wall but I think it'll be worth it to have a cool Golden
Glow hey these RGB strips look great
yeah um just just don't look at how they're like wired in this doesn't look
that bad maybe you'll see it later basically all that's left is to get this
thing in there and then we start water cooling oh good you save the best part for last yeah and the plan is to mount
this at the back yep that is awful M
yeah especially when you look at where the wires come out on that thing oh both
sides great you can't hide them not even
90° opposite sides oh my God there is no
good way to do this no I don't like that
and this USB cable why have it be type c so it can go either way no let's have it
go this way um neither of these are threaded you
know that right yeah we use nuts there's uh EK
provides nuts which ones uh these ah
how am I supposed to punch a hole in this did you have a plan for this uh no
I just shot we just Jam screws through oh my God but we could cut we could Jam
knife through you saw it here first guys the metal screwdriver it can do anything
it can screw up your case interesting update by the way on the ssds yeah these
look great yeah you've got three 2 and 1/2 in ssds per 3 and 1/2 in Drive Bay I
love it is this a special Mount or is that how they intend you to do it this
is exactly how they intend you to do it that's so cool it's super cool but oh
but uh we just found out when we asked for the drives from Team group they said
sorry we don't have any more 16 tab drives we don't make those anymore right
right cuz why would anyone buy a 16 Tab 2 and2 in SATA drive it's like silly
product doesn't really make sense for most people however Apparently after we
got these suddenly a listing for 16
terab drives appears on new EG oh so
this is the only part in here that isn't actually the most
expensive oh cuz these are 8 tab these are 8 tab Drive
but New Egg must have just found them somewhere team group doesn't make them
anymore so if you want to pay $2,000 for 16 terabytes of storage now's your
chance this is not the way to do it you should get a different interface than
SATA that is way too much to spend on a SATA interface Drive even with only 8
tab per SSD this was over $4,000 oh okay it's two pumps it's the
most expensive one
did you not realize that one of the pumps goes directly onto here though
yeah we realized but you just got it was
the most expensive one knowing you would be throwing away one of the two pumps
hey maybe we could hook it up later in the loop we need yet another differen
Siz bit to install the pump on the reservoir so I'm just going to go get a
whole pack of them Adam bye bye while
he's doing that I'm going to take apart this
pump done now water cooling can get like
really really really expensive especially when you go like all custom
Hardline stuff so we didn't want to go down that rabbit hole this being
compensator so we just kind of got like some zmt tubing from Ek as well as some
fittings that look like kind of the ones that are in the case already I'm a
little confused as to what to do next we could start Plumbing it up but without
the GPU it doesn't really make sense should we put it in yeah here we go in3d
Brutal by Nature a brutal graphics card okay you
could definitely kill a person
I'm not saying you should I'm just
saying like you could full back plate
full nickel plated copper
front at about $2,000 this isn't
strictly speaking the most expensive 490
on the market but it is the most expensive one that doesn't have an aiio
cooler attached to it and given there's nowhere for us to even mount a radiator
in this case yeah did you notice that no vents uh this is the best we can
do this is not good as much as I love the functionality of quick disconnects
and the high price when I'm trying to build the most expensive system I do not
like the look this is awful how many
hands are you supposed to have to install this side panel you got to get
the cables and tubing in here get
go okay and then you got to line up the
thing oh
boy uh is this going to
fit is that even fit there no no no I got this i got this i got this he
doesn't got it I no I got it I got it yeah hey I told you guys I got
it wait a crap that's the other side
panel has a really cool logo here now
it's on the back ah h ERS what the heck
no they're both the same they're interchangeable you just have the logo
on the front and the back I could have just left that
on dang it all
right sick made in Germany baby I
realize the tube I'm attaching right now is way too long but the issue is that to
get it any shorter I'm going to have to be working
on it through a teeny tiny little Gap in the panel and then I got to lift this up
and I got to slide it on so I guess we're stuck with it the more
compensator thing to do would be to put one radiator right before each of my
heat generating components oh yeah rather than going straight from the GPU
to the CPU I mean we have to right 100% let's do it we're going to cross all our
streams anyway then it not going to lie
I really did not think this this through look at this I got to get back down here
to this radiator with a quick connect yeah I know right there we go like that
then I got to get this bad boy up to the
CPU oh no I know I know oh I should have
I should have done the ugly stuff from the back one but it is what it is at
this point okay I moved this we go out from here into the GPU out of the GPU
into this radiator straight out of this rad into the CPU we take that we go back
to the other radiator rinse and repeat hopefully no rinsing no rinsing just
repeating and all while being able to detach our side panels if we really need
to this is going to take a minute to
fill the sheer volume of water these radiators are going to hold uh let me
get a filler tool our original plan was to just put tap water I went no wait we
can't do that but I see you couldn't decide what the most expensive water was
so you bought both well we have the most expensive water but if you want to pull
that out and take a look at it I was a little worried o carbonated natural
mineral water oh it's carbonated yeah so I was worried you want to put carbonated
water in a water cooling loop it's technically the most expensive all right
if we want to go still we do have this uh nope wait how much did we pay for
this water that was a that was seven bucks a bottle $7 a bottle yep fun fact
I know one of okay carbonation and this
is not a great
combo oh my God feel like I'm doing a shoot for the
only fans we should get it in there yeah this is this is going to be a disaster
yeah this is a terrible idea it's actually the worst idea we've ever had
no using this water is a bad idea because until it goes completely flat
it's still going to be pressurizing the inside of the loop so we basically have
to have our Reservoir open it's also full of minerals oh it's full
of minerals oh good yeah you don't generally want mineral water for your
water cooling rout uh we should plug this into our power oh hey that's right
our sponsor ug green is going to be powering the system with a portable
battery bank which is kind of impressive
given that this is a 4090 and a 13900 K
yeah this actually has an overdrive mode that lets it run at 2500 watts these
things are great man for the few times a year that I take it camping I am so glad
that I have it that if I were to pay $50 per time I would still be really happy
with my purchase and I've probably already reached the break even point now
owning one for I think I've had one for about 3 years now it's like very handy I
yeah I steal one from work frequently oh my God no way I think the pump is air
locked just from like the air of the
fizziness should we water it down that is hilarious absolutely not look there's
so much air on the antivortex filter thing that I think it's just having a
hard time getting water okay oh whoa okay buddy oh my
goodness okay hold on a second we got anything in the oh yeah it's it's in the
GPU block already I mean that could that is that
noise that's the pump running dry see in
places where they don't have good tap water I get it
but our tap water is so good in BC that
I just do not understand people paying $7 for freaking water I mean at least
this is sparkling unlike the $6 bottles of water that we have over there that
are just still okay that was a pretty clean pour so we are going to get some
serious carbonation action here you guys
ready yeah that there's no water oh shoot I
got I got the water I got the water this is very hard water absolutely I'm
noticing just from the little bits that have dried on the side of the res um
this is awful awful for water cooling
awful now that the system's almost ready to fire up it's time to show our
monitor now you might think well that's
not that big lonus is just a tiny
human but here Adam you stand next to it
oh yeah it's that big the main selling point here is
it's big uh 55 in
4k 165 HZ refresh rate 600 nits Peak
brightness almost the most curvature out
of any monitor on the market and all this can be yours for just
$3,000 you know the worst part is it's
not even Samsung's best monitor no you can get the Odyssey G9 OLED it's way
better it's just the most expensive one wait no there's still parts we haven't
inst installed I forgot about the most
expensive kit of three fans which we ended up not being able to use because
haha there are no fan mounts in the case
and also the most expensive capture card
that isn't professional grade yeah you can get very expensive capture cards but
this is for gamers yeah game streaming a live gamer
live yeah live Gamers no day Gamers no and we're about to Power It Up all off
this portable power station from ug green that has been sitting here fast charging this whole time and it's now at
100% we also have this 12 in1 dock from ug green and oh there's like a gan
nitrate charger in it oh cool so that's just the power supply for that it's not
just like it's just a regular power supply that you could also just use for
any USBC oh it even supports PD that's awesome that's super cool 100 watts and
we need that because we also got the most expensive laptop for our setup yep
okay not technically the most expensive laptop but it's it's the most compensatory M uh MacBook you can get
this is not the most expensive keyboard once
you get into custom keyboards there is pretty much no limit to what they can
cost you could buy a key cap that costs as much as this entire keyboard but what
this is is a very expensive keyboard
it's the mountain Everest oh wow so oh
that's a good packaging it's full of modules then has a media dock a dial
like a numpad that can go on either side it's it's pretty sick oh whoa oh all
right uh why did we never see a bio screen or anything it's a TV 5 minutes
until we're just unceremoniously dumped on the desktop yeah okay well before we
get anywhere we're going to need to use our Mouse oh yeah right what do we have
for Mouse what we have is the Razer Viper mini signature addiction wow it's
magnesium it's like almost entirely
Hollow it weighs Just 4 49 G 30,000 DPI
and 8,000 HZ polling rate if you plug this in and Max the
polling rate you will legit see your CPU usage go up by like 5%
honestly it feels somehow light yet
premium how'd they do that magnesium
baby wow magnesium alloy just to be
clear you're not going to like have your hand light on fire the second you start
sweating we got the Odyssey and and the
a the lcdx gaming headset a
nuts oh micro b really on a product that
costs how much how much is this thing uh it's like $900 but it is out of date and
theyve basically replaced it with a better model called The Odyssey Maxwell
that's like literally half the price but it's literally half the price so we had
to buy this one yep it's definitely
working our CPU is idling at 20 to
22° 13 freaking degrees there we are we're
below the due Point yeah well well remember for the CPU to be below the due
point the block is way below the D point
that classy water is really working hard okay here we go wow that's really
big at least it scales properly I hate bioses don't support Ultra wide yet I
have a G9 at home and so everything's just like well XM is enabled 6,800 megat
transf per second are we going to get that no no wait this thing has 200 gigs
of RAM yeah yeah why did we ever think that was a good idea anyway screw it we
can't even get it running at 5600 so we're going to rip two of the sticks out
and then we're just going to do the most compensator thing ever and put the
sticks we're not using on display hey 1600 MHz disappointingly you are rarely
if ever going to see that 6 GHz turbo behavior in the real world as you can
see with even a single core load on it we're turboing at 5.6 cuz you know
there's still stuff running in the background but uh you know hey if you
really want to play around with it you can use XTU to uh you know change your
turbo ratios I've seen these KS chips do 6 GHz across all performance cores in
the past and you might get lucky with this cooler we probably won't we're at
40° right now but that's only because we're running a single core Lo the
second we hit this thing with a multi-core load you are going to see
trouble with that said this is
360 watts of 370 and we're at 101° oh
boy oh coolant temperature must be great
I mean yeah the coolant is ow why did I
try to touch the radiator through the fan while we wait for it to reboot why
don't we answer the question you guys have all been waiting for how much does
the finished system weigh
okay I'm 167.5 today with computor oh
wow that's really heavy that is
26 263 oh my God crap it weighs almost
100 lb wow 500 watts from this thing and
all I'm doing is downloading a game In fairness a lot of that is probably the
monitor we got the setup h 50 WTS doing
absolutely nothing do we have the monitor on this too no that's just the
cooler that's over 700 WTS that's just the CPU what the actual is going on
right now the the GPU is not doing anything sir no let's let's try it I'm
trying to scroll down to the GPU and it's just this wall of
ssds I'm still going there it is okay
there we go all right oh those GPU temps okay so we need firm Mark ready to go as
well right yeah sorry how many watts are we at at 700 watt we at 700 Watts okay
you're kicking in the CPU now oh okay so the thing is it can do
2500 watts in boost mode or whatever but
that's for a limited amount of time and the voltage can drop which is not good
for sensitive Electronics so we are riding we are riding the limits of what
this thing can do how's the heat how you doing
buddy not bad how long do we get to run 36 minutes actually no that's a lot
1,200 WS for 36 minutes how many Pizza Pockets could you microwave quite a few
it turns out 37 W like 38 Pizza Pock that's enough to
feed like your whole family and then a couple campsites around you that
excellent for extended gaming testing though obviously that's not going to be
enough time why don't we plug it into the wall and see if it can run Crisis
crisis yeah no something new crisis new crisis we got Starfield right hey there
we go we got Starfield let's go we got cyberpunk so what what what did you
change such that we are actually exceeding 1200 watts now we're at 1,300
Watts for the tower alone I tossed on a quick little uh dirty overclock on boat
on everything oh good and now we're at 1300 but now we're throttling down
because CPU got too dang hot oh I am
holding up oh error we overloaded
it 100 lb monitor plus 100lb computer
how is this still running at like 60 FPS average the 1%
lows are still above
40 this looks absolutely flipping stupid
good new question though what's our power consumption and our temps like in
games the intended use case for the cryocooler wow CPU is at 30 to 40°
depending on how you want to measure it and power consumptions at just shy of
900 watts if all you ever do is
game cry cool yeah if you do anything
else alt to draw your weapon uh well
that weren't it and crashed oh what the what is
happening right now over real good there now the cops after you what is happening
he
this is definitely the fastest most Overkill ludicrous gaming experience I
think I've had today
today well if you guys enjoyed this
video maybe go check out any of our past
compensator videos they're kind of awesome no my car is not
working um oh how' I end up there I got
out of the car and I end up I end up behind the car F the camera over there
Focus I need I need this car I I like these cars I like this model of car I
need another one video thanks for watching