1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,600 back in 2017 i built what at the time seemed to be essentially the fastest 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:13,759 possible server for transcoding our massive cineform raw export files we're 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:16,480 talking 50 to 70 gigabytes into h.264 4 00:00:13,759 --> 00:00:20,960 mp4s that we could upload to youtube at the time while it was a little janky 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:25,840 the performance was basically as good as i could get then i went to upgrade it 6 00:00:23,279 --> 00:00:31,439 about a year ago testing both a 5.1 gigahertz binned overclocked 9900k as 7 00:00:29,119 --> 00:00:36,480 well as the limited run auction only 9990xc 8 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:37,680 a 14 core chip capable of 5 gigahertz on 9 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:42,239 all cores and honestly the results were appalling 10 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:47,120 neither of the two flagship cpus were able to offer much more than a 10 11 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:51,840 improvement to our transcoding times making it seem like we had sort of hit a 12 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:56,559 wall but in that video i did promise you guys a follow-up building up that server 13 00:00:53,920 --> 00:01:02,480 in a sick custom water cooled chassis and we're to do that but with a twist 14 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:06,960 now that ryzen 3000 series processors are out and matured a little bit we're 15 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:11,360 going to take another crack at upgrading this machine we're going to test the top 16 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:18,159 of the line ryzen against the top of the line Intel to see who wins in a 17 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:20,320 heavyweight encoding showdown and what 18 00:01:18,159 --> 00:01:27,320 better way to do it than to retrofit our old minecraft server chassis into a 19 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:27,320 balling render server 20 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:39,759 as many of you know the ultimate minecraft server chassis was designed 21 00:01:37,439 --> 00:01:46,320 and fabbed with the help of protocase and was pretty purpose built around 22 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:49,520 holding two itx motherboards and 23 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:52,079 i can assure you guys that 24 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:57,920 this Threadripper size socket is never coming to an itx motherboard 25 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:01,600 Jake realized that by removing just one of our three sandwiched radiators in the 26 00:01:59,759 --> 00:02:06,079 front though along with some minor modifications to the motherboard hole 27 00:02:03,119 --> 00:02:11,910 layout we could actually easily fit both a full-sized motherboard and 28 00:02:09,679 --> 00:02:13,440 a compact GPU 29 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:20,400 and that is something that we're going to need to be able to run our CPU of 30 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:23,280 choice the ryzen threadripper 3970x 31 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:28,480 this is AMD's second from the top ryzen 3rd gen CPU with an astonishing 32 32 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:34,720 course that at least according to puget systems trades blows with even their top 33 00:02:31,599 --> 00:02:37,440 dog 64 core 3990x 34 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:41,920 at least for adobe premiere exports and given the price difference we're gonna 35 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:45,440 stick with the 32 core variant even if it means taking a few seconds longer on 36 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:49,360 our renders so i've got the chassis here i've got 37 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:52,879 all the bits to put together here and off camera over there 38 00:02:50,959 --> 00:02:57,040 so let's build a water cooled server shall we let's start by taking a look at 39 00:02:54,800 --> 00:03:01,280 the care package Jake sent over to me we've got three 80 millimeter Noctua 40 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:06,000 cooling fans in the front of our chassis here along with this really sweet 41 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:09,519 alphacool reservoir that's easy to fill so you just fill it up through the top 42 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:13,920 here and easy to check your coolant levels with the handy dandy little 43 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:18,239 window in the front and we've got a d5 pump wired into the back of it we've got 44 00:03:16,239 --> 00:03:23,280 a Corsair fan and RGB lighting controller here and then we've got 45 00:03:20,319 --> 00:03:28,000 another eight 80 millimeter fans between these two 80 millimeter alpha cool 46 00:03:25,519 --> 00:03:32,239 sandwiched radiators so between these three banks of fans we're trying to draw 47 00:03:30,239 --> 00:03:36,159 air in from the front of the chassis and then send it over the motherboard and 48 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:40,560 out the back and then most of the cooling is going to be handled right 49 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:45,840 here because both our CPU and graphics card are going to be water cooled with 50 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:49,599 that sorted out it's time to throw in our motherboard now you might have 51 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:54,879 noticed that we actually did not bother to change up 52 00:03:52,560 --> 00:04:00,080 the back panel here to make room for our full-sized atx i o 53 00:03:57,439 --> 00:04:04,239 and the reason for that is that honestly speaking it just doesn't matter the only 54 00:04:02,319 --> 00:04:08,239 card we're going to install in this is a graphics card and we're going to be 55 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:11,760 using a pci express extension cable in order to do that so we'll deal with that 56 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:17,840 later first let's go ahead and get the motherboard screwed in our reasons for choosing the 57 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:19,199 rog strix trx40e gaming are pretty 58 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:24,160 straightforward we wanted something that wasn't pseudo eatx so wider because that 59 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:30,639 would have interfered with our ability to mount our graphics card and our power supply and uh we wanted something with 60 00:04:28,639 --> 00:04:34,880 two and a half gig Ethernet built in so that we wouldn't need to modify the 61 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,680 chassis to put in a faster network card not that it really matters i mean 62 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:42,400 nothing we're doing requires greater than gigabit transfer speeds anyway but 63 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:45,280 it's just kind of a nice to have well i'm not sure if this is the way i would 64 00:04:43,919 --> 00:04:50,400 have preferred to have it done but it seems like Jake intends for me to mount 65 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:53,360 the graphics card with some vhb tape on 66 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:56,560 these 3d printed spacers there are screw holes here 67 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:59,600 which is curious but we apparently will not be 68 00:04:58,479 --> 00:05:04,320 using them our intention had been to go with an rtx 69 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:09,199 2060 for this build but it did not arrive in time 70 00:05:05,759 --> 00:05:12,479 thanks covid19 so we've got this zotac 71 00:05:09,199 --> 00:05:13,360 GeForce gtx 1080 ti now you might think 72 00:05:12,479 --> 00:05:17,680 oh well not having rtx means you also don't 73 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:21,759 have the new end vent encoder but that's okay we're just using the cuda cores on 74 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:26,800 the GPU as opposed to the fixed function hardware encoder so it really shouldn't 75 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:32,080 matter as long as we have enough GPU performance at least according to our 76 00:05:29,039 --> 00:05:34,560 findings um on this topic 77 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:38,320 i guess that was two or three years ago for our power supply we actually 78 00:05:36,479 --> 00:05:42,560 downgraded in a certain sense compared to the minecraft server that we built 79 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:48,320 this is Corsair's sf750 and it's a 750 rather than an 800 watt 80 00:05:45,759 --> 00:05:53,039 unit but unlike those silverstone units we used before 81 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:56,240 this has dual 8 pin eps connectors which 82 00:05:53,039 --> 00:05:58,400 both our AMD and Intel HDD platforms 83 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:01,759 require we're just going to mount it fan side up so that it gets to suck in some 84 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:05,840 of the air that's being blown over the system by these 80mm cooling fans 85 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:09,440 and we're going to go ahead and use the same mounting screws once again to 86 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:13,759 actually plug the power supply in though we've got to go ahead and run this right 87 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:18,160 angle power connector through the hole in the back of the chassis 88 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:21,280 then we get our plug correctly installed on the outside 89 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:25,440 just pull up the power supply plug the right angle connector in make sure the 90 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:27,919 power supply is powered on because we're not really going to be 91 00:06:26,479 --> 00:06:31,919 able to get that switch later oh and actually no it's not that hard to get it nevermind so we're going to leave it off 92 00:06:30,319 --> 00:06:35,360 because that's a little bit safer when you're still building the computer and 93 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:39,520 then we can go ahead and screw this down to be very clear guys we know that this 94 00:06:37,039 --> 00:06:43,759 isn't server spec hardware and i keep calling it a server a server is more of 95 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:49,440 a function and it will be serving a server role 96 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:54,880 even if it's desktop or workstation class hardware need to plug in usb for 97 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,880 our fan controller 98 00:06:55,520 --> 00:07:01,280 then we're going to run our SATA connector around the power supply here 99 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:04,639 which is sort of a weird cable management choice on the surface 100 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:09,280 but it allows us to plug just a basic SSD 101 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:13,120 there we go in response to the onslaught of comments 102 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:17,199 that i'm sure are coming over my double-sided tape drive mounting there's 103 00:07:15,599 --> 00:07:21,840 nothing wrong with it with a hard drive yes 104 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:24,400 bad idea with an SSD they're lightweight there's no moving 105 00:07:23,199 --> 00:07:29,680 parts it's fine that leaves fixing up the 106 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:31,360 water cooling tubes as my last task here 107 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:35,120 the outlet from our reservoir is this one over here so we're going to run that 108 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:40,319 over to our graphics card which is a non-direction sensitive block 109 00:07:37,919 --> 00:07:44,000 so we're going to go ahead and cut this off to size 110 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:46,960 we're going to be off to the races pretty quick here 111 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:59,360 that's what we're looking for move them bubbles through thank you 112 00:07:55,919 --> 00:08:01,599 thank you kindly wow you actually you 113 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:05,199 set this up all like real nice for me and everything it's got the the file all 114 00:08:03,599 --> 00:08:09,120 sitting there ready to just press and code the only thing you didn't include 115 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:12,960 was a SATA cable i didn't include a SATA cable what it's okay don't worry don't 116 00:08:11,039 --> 00:08:15,919 worry i found a super stylish one check this out 117 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:20,560 oh no this is like i did that to myself that's 118 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:25,039 so bad oh man i think we should just leave it in there oh yeah heck yeah on 119 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:30,160 my side we've got Intel's flagship 10980xe that's an 18 core processor 120 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:33,599 along with a matching 1080 ti the same os and media encoder is ready to start 121 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:37,839 this test so uh you ready to lose i mean probably win 122 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:42,000 you're going down you're going down brah you're going down you're definitely 123 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:44,959 probably going to win all right ready three two one 124 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:50,640 go so what is this this is a cineform to h.264 transcode yeah so it's taking the 125 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:55,120 raw output from one of our editor stations so it's gonna be like a 50 60 126 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:59,120 Gigabyte file and transcoding it to h.264 so we can actually upload it to 127 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:02,320 youtube our previous rendering server probably would have done this video in 128 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:07,279 about 20 minutes so i think i'm gonna be beating that time 129 00:09:04,399 --> 00:09:12,720 uh my estimated time remaining is 10 26 how about you uh i'm one minute into it 130 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:16,000 estimated remaining time is 14. oh it's going down to 13 but i mean it's adobe 131 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:22,640 so it's all over the place yeah fair enough what's your RAM usage like 132 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:23,600 uh i'm at 16 gigs yeah basically 16 gigs 133 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:29,279 as well CPU usage is somewhere between 134 00:09:26,399 --> 00:09:34,640 60 to 70 percent wow uh mine's at like 45 50. 135 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:39,279 um what about GPU my is kind of chilling 136 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:43,600 bounces between 10 and 20 percent oh i'm like 137 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:45,600 pretty much always below 10. in turn 138 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:49,320 six to nine everyone quiet quiet 139 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:56,160 up Jake mine was too fast it was too fast i 140 00:09:53,839 --> 00:09:59,760 finished 15 seconds ago what 141 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:03,279 yeah you heard me i still have four minutes remaining 142 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:09,440 yeah you got wrecked then didn't you 12 minutes 42 seconds oh 143 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:13,040 for comparison i'm at 14 minutes and there's still three minutes remaining 144 00:10:11,279 --> 00:10:19,200 that's crazy and the funny thing is like yeah it's got you know 145 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:21,760 whatever 80 more cores but its usage was 146 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:26,000 so low like it must just also be more efficient at encoding on a per core 147 00:10:23,519 --> 00:10:28,800 basis well here let me connect let me connect to our existing one and see if 148 00:10:27,519 --> 00:10:32,959 it's even done yet because i bet you it's not yeah okay so our existing 149 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:37,040 server which is running it right now elapsed so far it's been 18 and a half 150 00:10:35,519 --> 00:10:41,920 minutes and there's 30 seconds left so it looks like about a 19 minute encode 151 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:45,600 and then this one should be about 17 minutes so there was a little 152 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:51,920 improvement going from the 7980xc to the 10980xe but the 3970x just 153 00:10:49,519 --> 00:10:55,279 wipes the floor with them that's really impressive so thanks for watching guys 154 00:10:53,839 --> 00:11:00,079 if you enjoy these kinds of server videos maybe check out our recent 155 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:04,399 storage server upgrade deploying mnemonic it was sort of a nightmare but 156 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,399 it was also a lot of fun