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back in 2017 i built what at the time seemed to be essentially the fastest

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possible server for transcoding our massive cineform raw export files we're

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talking 50 to 70 gigabytes into h.264

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mp4s that we could upload to youtube at the time while it was a little janky

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the performance was basically as good as i could get then i went to upgrade it

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about a year ago testing both a 5.1 gigahertz binned overclocked 9900k as

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well as the limited run auction only 9990xc

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a 14 core chip capable of 5 gigahertz on

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all cores and honestly the results were appalling

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neither of the two flagship cpus were able to offer much more than a 10

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improvement to our transcoding times making it seem like we had sort of hit a

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wall but in that video i did promise you guys a follow-up building up that server

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in a sick custom water cooled chassis and we're to do that but with a twist

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now that ryzen 3000 series processors are out and matured a little bit we're

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going to take another crack at upgrading this machine we're going to test the top

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of the line ryzen against the top of the line Intel to see who wins in a

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heavyweight encoding showdown and what

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better way to do it than to retrofit our old minecraft server chassis into a

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balling render server

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as many of you know the ultimate minecraft server chassis was designed

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and fabbed with the help of protocase and was pretty purpose built around

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holding two itx motherboards and

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i can assure you guys that

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this Threadripper size socket is never coming to an itx motherboard

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Jake realized that by removing just one of our three sandwiched radiators in the

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front though along with some minor modifications to the motherboard hole

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layout we could actually easily fit both a full-sized motherboard and

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a compact GPU

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and that is something that we're going to need to be able to run our CPU of

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choice the ryzen threadripper 3970x

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this is AMD's second from the top ryzen 3rd gen CPU with an astonishing 32

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course that at least according to puget systems trades blows with even their top

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dog 64 core 3990x

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at least for adobe premiere exports and given the price difference we're gonna

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stick with the 32 core variant even if it means taking a few seconds longer on

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our renders so i've got the chassis here i've got

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all the bits to put together here and off camera over there

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so let's build a water cooled server shall we let's start by taking a look at

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the care package Jake sent over to me we've got three 80 millimeter Noctua

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cooling fans in the front of our chassis here along with this really sweet

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alphacool reservoir that's easy to fill so you just fill it up through the top

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here and easy to check your coolant levels with the handy dandy little

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window in the front and we've got a d5 pump wired into the back of it we've got

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a Corsair fan and RGB lighting controller here and then we've got

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another eight 80 millimeter fans between these two 80 millimeter alpha cool

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sandwiched radiators so between these three banks of fans we're trying to draw

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air in from the front of the chassis and then send it over the motherboard and

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out the back and then most of the cooling is going to be handled right

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here because both our CPU and graphics card are going to be water cooled with

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that sorted out it's time to throw in our motherboard now you might have

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noticed that we actually did not bother to change up

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the back panel here to make room for our full-sized atx i o

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and the reason for that is that honestly speaking it just doesn't matter the only

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card we're going to install in this is a graphics card and we're going to be

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using a pci express extension cable in order to do that so we'll deal with that

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later first let's go ahead and get the motherboard screwed in our reasons for choosing the

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rog strix trx40e gaming are pretty

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straightforward we wanted something that wasn't pseudo eatx so wider because that

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would have interfered with our ability to mount our graphics card and our power supply and uh we wanted something with

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two and a half gig Ethernet built in so that we wouldn't need to modify the

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chassis to put in a faster network card not that it really matters i mean

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nothing we're doing requires greater than gigabit transfer speeds anyway but

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it's just kind of a nice to have well i'm not sure if this is the way i would

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have preferred to have it done but it seems like Jake intends for me to mount

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the graphics card with some vhb tape on

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these 3d printed spacers there are screw holes here

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which is curious but we apparently will not be

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using them our intention had been to go with an rtx

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2060 for this build but it did not arrive in time

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thanks covid19 so we've got this zotac

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GeForce gtx 1080 ti now you might think

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oh well not having rtx means you also don't

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have the new end vent encoder but that's okay we're just using the cuda cores on

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the GPU as opposed to the fixed function hardware encoder so it really shouldn't

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matter as long as we have enough GPU performance at least according to our

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findings um on this topic

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i guess that was two or three years ago for our power supply we actually

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downgraded in a certain sense compared to the minecraft server that we built

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this is Corsair's sf750 and it's a 750 rather than an 800 watt

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unit but unlike those silverstone units we used before

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this has dual 8 pin eps connectors which

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both our AMD and Intel HDD platforms

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require we're just going to mount it fan side up so that it gets to suck in some

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of the air that's being blown over the system by these 80mm cooling fans

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and we're going to go ahead and use the same mounting screws once again to

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actually plug the power supply in though we've got to go ahead and run this right

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angle power connector through the hole in the back of the chassis

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then we get our plug correctly installed on the outside

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just pull up the power supply plug the right angle connector in make sure the

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power supply is powered on because we're not really going to be

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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

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because that's a little bit safer when you're still building the computer and

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then we can go ahead and screw this down to be very clear guys we know that this

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isn't server spec hardware and i keep calling it a server a server is more of

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a function and it will be serving a server role

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even if it's desktop or workstation class hardware need to plug in usb for

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our fan controller

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then we're going to run our SATA connector around the power supply here

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which is sort of a weird cable management choice on the surface

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but it allows us to plug just a basic SSD

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there we go in response to the onslaught of comments

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that i'm sure are coming over my double-sided tape drive mounting there's

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nothing wrong with it with a hard drive yes

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bad idea with an SSD they're lightweight there's no moving

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parts it's fine that leaves fixing up the

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water cooling tubes as my last task here

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the outlet from our reservoir is this one over here so we're going to run that

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over to our graphics card which is a non-direction sensitive block

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so we're going to go ahead and cut this off to size

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we're going to be off to the races pretty quick here

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that's what we're looking for move them bubbles through thank you

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thank you kindly wow you actually you

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set this up all like real nice for me and everything it's got the the file all

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sitting there ready to just press and code the only thing you didn't include

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was a SATA cable i didn't include a SATA cable what it's okay don't worry don't

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worry i found a super stylish one check this out

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oh no this is like i did that to myself that's

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so bad oh man i think we should just leave it in there oh yeah heck yeah on

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my side we've got Intel's flagship 10980xe that's an 18 core processor

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along with a matching 1080 ti the same os and media encoder is ready to start

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this test so uh you ready to lose i mean probably win

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you're going down you're going down brah you're going down you're definitely

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probably going to win all right ready three two one

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go so what is this this is a cineform to h.264 transcode yeah so it's taking the

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raw output from one of our editor stations so it's gonna be like a 50 60

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Gigabyte file and transcoding it to h.264 so we can actually upload it to

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youtube our previous rendering server probably would have done this video in

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about 20 minutes so i think i'm gonna be beating that time

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uh my estimated time remaining is 10 26 how about you uh i'm one minute into it

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estimated remaining time is 14. oh it's going down to 13 but i mean it's adobe

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so it's all over the place yeah fair enough what's your RAM usage like

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uh i'm at 16 gigs yeah basically 16 gigs

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as well CPU usage is somewhere between

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60 to 70 percent wow uh mine's at like 45 50.

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um what about GPU my is kind of chilling

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bounces between 10 and 20 percent oh i'm like

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pretty much always below 10. in turn

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six to nine everyone quiet quiet

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up Jake mine was too fast it was too fast i

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finished 15 seconds ago what

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yeah you heard me i still have four minutes remaining

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yeah you got wrecked then didn't you 12 minutes 42 seconds oh

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for comparison i'm at 14 minutes and there's still three minutes remaining

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that's crazy and the funny thing is like yeah it's got you know

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whatever 80 more cores but its usage was

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so low like it must just also be more efficient at encoding on a per core

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basis well here let me connect let me connect to our existing one and see if

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it's even done yet because i bet you it's not yeah okay so our existing

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server which is running it right now elapsed so far it's been 18 and a half

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minutes and there's 30 seconds left so it looks like about a 19 minute encode

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and then this one should be about 17 minutes so there was a little

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improvement going from the 7980xc to the 10980xe but the 3970x just

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wipes the floor with them that's really impressive so thanks for watching guys

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if you enjoy these kinds of server videos maybe check out our recent

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storage server upgrade deploying mnemonic it was sort of a nightmare but

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it was also a lot of fun