WEBVTT 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:07.960 So normally I stand amidst the hardware to introduce the topic of the video, but as you can tell today 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:11.500 There's legitimately no room for me because this is by far 00:00:11.760 --> 00:00:18.260 The highest end machine that I have ever built and the hardware barely even fits on the table 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:22.900 But what is this build for? Linus, you've been teasing this thing on social media for weeks 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:29.440 Well inspired by our two gamers one CPU build back in whenever the heck we did that 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:35.700 This is taking it to the next level Michael Bay sequel style. We are doing seven 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:38.200 Gamers running off of one 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:45.720 Tower, but before we begin I should tell you something and that is that I legitimately don't know if this is gonna work at this 00:00:45.720 --> 00:00:47.660 Time now, I mean we've done some pre-testing 00:00:47.660 --> 00:00:55.080 We've got four VMs working with you know the performance you'd expect from an AMD Radeon R9 nano and a quad-core gaming 00:00:55.300 --> 00:00:59.400 Processor, but we have no way of testing seven until we install all 00:00:59.440 --> 00:01:04.680 The custom water cooling and get the whole thing assembled so without further ado a huge 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:07.960 Thanks to Kingston for sponsoring this video providing 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:14.200 256 gigs of their kick-ass DDR4 ECC memory providing eight one terabyte SSDs 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:21.580 So all those gaming VMs have nice high speed storage and for demoing this machine at their booth at CES 2016 00:01:21.580 --> 00:01:25.900 So if you're there at the show definitely go check it out. You can see it in person 00:01:26.540 --> 00:01:28.420 Let's get started 00:01:28.420 --> 00:01:38.060 So it's 00:01:38.060 --> 00:01:43.180 24 hours later, and if I look like I haven't slept much. It's probably because I didn't 00:01:43.960 --> 00:01:46.340 But it's totally worth it. It's 00:01:47.180 --> 00:01:53.200 Working so I'm gonna take you guys through the journey now that I know that it's successful of how we created 00:01:53.720 --> 00:01:55.720 seven gamers one CPU 00:01:56.220 --> 00:02:01.760 it starts I guess actually with the CPU or I should say CPUs because there isn't a 00:02:02.160 --> 00:02:08.080 CPU on the market that could deliver a full-on high-end gaming experience to seven gamers 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:11.500 All at the same time so our system is equipped with two 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:16.280 Intel Xeon E5 2697 V3 processors 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:20.780 So these are fourteen core processors that are clocked at up to 00:02:21.780 --> 00:02:27.640 3.6 gigahertz when they're turboing as high as they can and they actually have hyperthreading as well for a total of 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:34.100 56 threads meaning that each of our VMs has four cores and four hyperthreads 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:37.960 just like you would if you were running on something like a core i5 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:45.480 or a core i7 normal desktop processor for our motherboard obviously we needed something that 00:02:45.480 --> 00:02:55.380 could hold both of these cpus and seven graphics cards so the ASUS z10ped8ws is one of the only 00:02:55.380 --> 00:03:01.880 standard form factor boards that would fit in like a gaming case that is capable of carrying 00:03:01.880 --> 00:03:10.980 seven gpus two sockets for some cpus and that can hold all of the RAM that we need and it's got some 00:03:10.980 --> 00:03:17.380 other key features as well so it has a vga output for our unraid console it's got enough SATA ports 00:03:17.380 --> 00:03:22.940 for us to throw in as many ssds and hard drives as we pretty much want it can handle a total of 12 00:03:22.940 --> 00:03:29.360 out of the box and it's got an m.2 slot on it which could be useful in the future as like a 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:31.860 cache for the array on to RAM 00:03:31.880 --> 00:03:37.700 some custom RAM development for relates to the etc RAM conversion because it has the encoding 00:03:37.700 --> 00:03:44.220 unit and it's got yet another feature called RAM oh yeah etc RAM actually kingston hooked us 00:03:44.220 --> 00:03:49.960 the crap up for this machine and sent us because we could only have eight sticks of memory 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:57.780 in this board they hooked us up with 32 gig sticks of ddr4 ecc RAM what that means is each 00:03:57.780 --> 00:04:01.880 of our gamers can have 32 gigs of RAM for a zero compromises gaming experience 00:04:01.880 --> 00:04:04.080 First and foremost, actually, 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:06.680 is that pretty much nothing else on the market 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:08.000 was gonna work for us, 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:09.440 so we needed something that supported 00:04:09.440 --> 00:04:10.960 our extended ATX motherboard, 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:12.880 and this one has an optional tray available. 00:04:12.880 --> 00:04:14.680 And in addition to that, 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:16.280 because there's lots of server cases out there 00:04:16.280 --> 00:04:17.740 that would support this motherboard, 00:04:17.740 --> 00:04:20.660 we needed support for water cooling. 00:04:20.660 --> 00:04:23.280 So it's got lots of room for radiators, 00:04:23.280 --> 00:04:26.420 pumps, reservoirs, all of that good stuff. 00:04:26.420 --> 00:04:27.520 Not to mention it's got room 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:28.880 for all the hard drives we need, 00:04:28.880 --> 00:04:31.480 and it's got a full aluminum construction, 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:33.040 so it's actually fairly lightweight 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:34.820 considering all the hardware we have in there. 00:04:34.820 --> 00:04:37.580 And personally, I think it looks pretty badass 00:04:37.580 --> 00:04:40.580 with the selection of windowed and mesh panels 00:04:40.580 --> 00:04:43.260 that we chose for our particular rig. 00:04:43.260 --> 00:04:45.220 Not only that, the Case Labs also hooked us up 00:04:45.220 --> 00:04:48.520 on a sweet black and orange powder coat paint job 00:04:48.520 --> 00:04:52.580 that I think looks fan-freaking-tastic. 00:04:52.580 --> 00:04:55.060 For our power supply, again, 00:04:55.060 --> 00:04:56.580 we didn't have a ton of choices 00:04:56.580 --> 00:04:58.520 because doing quick napkin math, 00:04:58.520 --> 00:05:01.020 I figured this rig was going to pull 00:05:01.020 --> 00:05:05.880 anywhere from 1,500 watts or more from the wall 00:05:05.880 --> 00:05:07.800 when it was under max load. 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:12.800 So EVGA hooked us up with their T2 1,600-watt power supply. 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:16.760 Yes, my friends, it is 80-plus titanium 00:05:16.760 --> 00:05:21.300 and capable of a continuous load of 1,600 watts. 00:05:21.300 --> 00:05:23.800 And then, to make it look even more badass, 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:27.060 Cable Mod hooked us up with a black and orange cable set 00:05:27.060 --> 00:05:29.640 to just kind of trick this baby out, 00:05:29.640 --> 00:05:31.020 and even some custom cable, 00:05:31.020 --> 00:05:33.560 so we could run single eight-pin connectors 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:35.900 to each of our video cards, 00:05:35.900 --> 00:05:39.440 making the whole thing come together just, mm. 00:05:39.440 --> 00:05:40.720 Man, that's beautiful. 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:42.260 And I'll tell you how close I was 00:05:42.260 --> 00:05:46.960 to that 1,500-watt number a little bit later on in the video. 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:49.800 Now, I've water-cooled a lot of systems before in the past. 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:54.800 I have never done one with this many blocks before. 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:56.860 Fortunately, as far as the CPU went, 00:05:56.860 --> 00:05:58.160 it was really straightforward. 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.360 I really like EK's mounting mechanism here. 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:03.940 So we're using their Supremacy EVOs with nickel tops 00:06:03.940 --> 00:06:06.720 to match some of the other nickel accents in our system. 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:10.540 And the GPU block's actually fairly straightforward as well. 00:06:10.540 --> 00:06:12.220 Too straightforward. 00:06:12.220 --> 00:06:13.660 It's kind of therapeutic for me, 00:06:13.660 --> 00:06:15.360 water-cooling systems these days, 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:17.680 because it's like, you know, that's my old hobby. 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:19.480 Like, it's relaxing for me. 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:22.740 But after seven GPU blocks in a row, 00:06:22.740 --> 00:06:25.700 I was definitely ready for a new challenge. 00:06:25.700 --> 00:06:29.140 And fortunately, that's exactly what was waiting for me. 00:06:29.140 --> 00:06:30.140 EK Custom. 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:33.040 EK Custom designed and manufactured 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:38.040 this seven-block connector slash splitter thing 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:39.900 that went on top of our GPUs, 00:06:39.900 --> 00:06:42.940 effectively transforming them into a block 00:06:42.940 --> 00:06:45.980 of seven graphics cards that could be installed 00:06:45.980 --> 00:06:50.980 in one fell swoop into all seven of the PCIe slots 00:06:50.980 --> 00:06:52.220 on the motherboard. 00:06:52.220 --> 00:06:56.580 This was the only way that we were gonna be able to fit 00:06:56.580 --> 00:07:00.200 not just a bunch of graphics cards into a system, 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:05.360 but a bunch of high-end gaming cards into a system. 00:07:05.520 --> 00:07:08.260 Which leads us, I guess, to the radiators, 00:07:08.260 --> 00:07:11.600 because you gotta cool a bunch of high-end gaming cards 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:12.440 in one system. 00:07:12.440 --> 00:07:15.740 So we went with two of their high-end, super-thick 00:07:15.740 --> 00:07:19.080 XE series triple 120 millimeter radiators. 00:07:19.080 --> 00:07:21.920 And then we're using on my LTT edition Noctua fans 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:22.800 to cool them. 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:26.740 And then the original plan was to use one D5 pump 00:07:26.740 --> 00:07:28.520 connected to one of their reservoirs 00:07:28.520 --> 00:07:29.920 and mount that in the front. 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:31.520 That didn't end up working. 00:07:31.520 --> 00:07:33.820 I actually had a number of challenges 00:07:33.820 --> 00:07:34.920 and things were overheating 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:36.800 and I was trying to turn the system on 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:40.960 and I ended up actually having to add another pump 00:07:40.960 --> 00:07:43.780 to the system in order to get this baby working. 00:07:43.780 --> 00:07:46.280 Cause we're talking nine blocks, right? 00:07:46.280 --> 00:07:51.280 Two CPU blocks, seven GPU blocks to make this thing happen. 00:07:51.980 --> 00:07:54.380 So let's talk about those GPUs. 00:07:54.380 --> 00:07:57.420 That was another careful decision for this system. 00:07:57.420 --> 00:07:59.220 I originally planned to use, 00:07:59.220 --> 00:07:59.240 I originally planned to use, 00:07:59.240 --> 00:07:59.380 I originally planned to use, 00:07:59.380 --> 00:08:01.600 I originally planned to use something else entirely, 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:03.620 realized it wasn't gonna work 00:08:03.620 --> 00:08:07.300 because even though I could get single slot blocks on them, 00:08:07.300 --> 00:08:10.240 I couldn't adjust the back plates 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:14.220 and they had display interfaces in two of the slots. 00:08:14.220 --> 00:08:16.960 So I was gonna go with the Theory X 00:08:16.960 --> 00:08:19.420 and then I realized, oh no, 00:08:19.420 --> 00:08:20.740 it's gonna draw too much power. 00:08:20.740 --> 00:08:22.680 There isn't a power supply on earth 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:25.150 that's gonna be able to handle seven of these. 00:08:25.150 --> 00:08:28.730 So the AMD R9 Nano saved my bacon. 00:08:28.730 --> 00:08:32.410 My bacon, the efficient gaming card 00:08:32.410 --> 00:08:34.170 that thermal throttles unfortunately 00:08:34.170 --> 00:08:36.670 with its stock cooler in a normal size case. 00:08:36.670 --> 00:08:38.410 Yeah, we took care of that. 00:08:38.410 --> 00:08:42.570 All GPUs, all the time, no throttling, high-end gaming card, 00:08:42.570 --> 00:08:46.770 super efficient and something I didn't even foresee. 00:08:46.770 --> 00:08:48.610 Because the card is short, 00:08:48.610 --> 00:08:51.610 I'm actually able to get at the PCIe locks 00:08:51.610 --> 00:08:53.950 so that I can remove the cards from the system 00:08:53.950 --> 00:08:55.650 in the event that I need to do that. 00:08:55.650 --> 00:08:58.730 Any other card and I probably wouldn't be able to pull, 00:08:58.730 --> 00:09:01.490 the cards out. 00:09:01.490 --> 00:09:02.850 So at the end of the build, 00:09:02.850 --> 00:09:06.650 I actually realized Kingston's our sponsor for this. 00:09:06.650 --> 00:09:11.650 And I didn't have mounting adapters for my SSDs. 00:09:11.690 --> 00:09:15.590 So I went for the double-sided tape, 00:09:15.590 --> 00:09:16.550 bippity boppity boop. 00:09:16.550 --> 00:09:18.230 I made a stack of SSDs in the bottom 00:09:18.230 --> 00:09:21.410 that I actually think ended up looking pretty bad-ass, 00:09:21.410 --> 00:09:22.970 booted it up. 00:09:22.970 --> 00:09:25.470 It kind of cycled a few times. 00:09:25.470 --> 00:09:28.710 I experienced a moment of unparalleled despair. 00:09:28.710 --> 00:09:30.750 When I thought that, okay, we went from, 00:09:30.750 --> 00:09:33.030 cause we originally tested it with four GPUs. 00:09:33.030 --> 00:09:35.510 We went from four GPUs kind of working to, 00:09:35.510 --> 00:09:38.520 oh no, seven doesn't post. 00:09:38.520 --> 00:09:41.800 And then it turned on. 00:09:41.800 --> 00:09:44.240 We needed a few BIOS tweaks to make this happen. 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:46.020 Over 4G decoding, 00:09:46.020 --> 00:09:48.540 setting the default video output to the onboard video, 00:09:48.540 --> 00:09:52.660 making sure our boot device was the USB drive for Unraid. 00:09:52.660 --> 00:09:57.260 And then it was off to the races. 00:09:57.260 --> 00:09:59.100 In terms of software, truthfully, 00:09:59.100 --> 00:10:01.680 we didn't have to do a whole lot differently 00:10:01.680 --> 00:10:05.060 from two gamers, one CPU on the software side of things. 00:10:05.060 --> 00:10:08.220 We are still using Unraid to manage our pooled storage. 00:10:08.220 --> 00:10:09.060 So in this case, 00:10:09.060 --> 00:10:11.940 it's eight of Kingston's shiny new one terabyte 00:10:11.940 --> 00:10:14.340 KC 400 series drives, 00:10:14.340 --> 00:10:17.220 running in a RAID 10 for hyper reliability 00:10:17.220 --> 00:10:20.900 and enough speed to run seven freaking computers off of them 00:10:20.900 --> 00:10:22.300 at the same time. 00:10:22.300 --> 00:10:24.820 And then we had to do like this funny, 00:10:24.820 --> 00:10:26.820 you know, guess and check thing 00:10:26.820 --> 00:10:29.060 for assigning keyboards and mice to VMs, 00:10:29.060 --> 00:10:32.700 because a lot of USB device manufacturers 00:10:32.700 --> 00:10:34.200 don't correctly label them. 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:36.880 So we just had to kind of unplug and plug things in 00:10:36.880 --> 00:10:38.820 and run around and move them around. 00:10:38.820 --> 00:10:43.820 So we got this whole thing working and then, well, okay. 00:10:43.820 --> 00:10:44.920 There were a bunch of other problems, 00:10:44.920 --> 00:10:47.200 but I'm not gonna bore all of you guys with that. 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:50.420 But I will tell you about one cool trick that we used 00:10:50.420 --> 00:10:52.240 to save some space on our SSDs 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:54.760 and make room for more games and applications 00:10:54.760 --> 00:10:56.060 for each of our gamers. 00:10:56.060 --> 00:10:58.680 And that's a snapshotting like feature of ButterF. 00:10:59.060 --> 00:11:03.200 That allowed us to create one of our virtual hard disks 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:07.180 and then clone it kind of like a shortcut in Windows 00:11:07.180 --> 00:11:08.660 for all of the other six. 00:11:08.660 --> 00:11:10.380 So none of those files get replicated. 00:11:10.380 --> 00:11:12.580 And what's cool about that is even if you delete, 00:11:12.580 --> 00:11:15.000 you know, this file or that one, 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:17.180 the file system is smart enough to know 00:11:17.180 --> 00:11:18.940 not to actually eliminate the data 00:11:18.940 --> 00:11:20.660 so that everyone can access it. 00:11:20.660 --> 00:11:21.840 Very, very cool. 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:23.360 So if one person uninstalls a program, 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:26.560 it doesn't uninstall it for everybody. 00:11:26.560 --> 00:11:28.520 Which leads us finally, 00:11:29.060 --> 00:11:31.110 to testing. 00:11:31.110 --> 00:11:32.740 It works. 00:11:32.740 --> 00:11:34.040 Thank goodness it works. 00:11:35.100 --> 00:11:38.760 Not everything is possible for me to capture, unfortunately. 00:11:38.760 --> 00:11:41.040 Some of our GPUs are not reading 00:11:41.040 --> 00:11:42.520 their temperatures correctly. 00:11:42.520 --> 00:11:44.660 There are some quirks, 00:11:44.660 --> 00:11:47.040 but I can tell you guys this. 00:11:47.040 --> 00:11:50.540 Our idle power consumption is 250 watts. 00:11:50.540 --> 00:11:53.840 Yes, our idle power consumption is as much 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:56.560 as a mid-range gaming machine under load. 00:11:56.560 --> 00:11:59.420 And our load power consumption from the wall, 00:11:59.420 --> 00:12:04.040 is 1,500 watts when running seven instances 00:12:04.040 --> 00:12:05.420 of Unigine Heaven, 00:12:05.420 --> 00:12:08.300 which you guys can see going on behind me. 00:12:08.300 --> 00:12:11.540 And I have another cool fact for you as well. 00:12:11.540 --> 00:12:14.260 We actually got 3DMark Fire Strike scores 00:12:14.260 --> 00:12:18.200 that were 800 points higher per VM 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:20.460 than we did running the cards air-cooled. 00:12:20.460 --> 00:12:23.200 Yes, my friends, that is the power 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:26.740 of custom liquid cooling. 00:12:26.740 --> 00:12:29.180 So I think that pretty much, you know, 00:12:29.180 --> 00:12:31.320 pretty much wraps it up. 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:33.100 Other than to do a quick, 00:12:33.100 --> 00:12:36.240 I'm actually surprising my camera operator with this, 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:38.420 but I'm gonna do a quick proof. 00:12:38.420 --> 00:12:42.180 Proof that it is all real, my friends. 00:12:42.180 --> 00:12:44.940 All right, so we sat through the incredibly boring 00:12:44.940 --> 00:12:49.000 intro cinematic for Crysis 3, and this is it. 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:52.120 This is the real deal gaming experience 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:55.220 of the 7Gamers One CPU machine. 00:12:55.220 --> 00:12:56.220 And you might ask yourselves, 00:12:56.220 --> 00:12:59.180 well, Linus, why did you go to all the effort? 00:12:59.180 --> 00:13:03.640 To put all these 34 inch Predator X34 monitors on here? 00:13:03.640 --> 00:13:05.640 Because what I wanted to demo 00:13:05.640 --> 00:13:08.960 was that you can't just have a gaming experience 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:10.360 seven times on this machine. 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:13.120 You can have the gaming experience 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:15.660 seven times on this machine, my friends. 00:13:15.660 --> 00:13:19.920 We're talking 3440 by 1440 ultra wide IPS. 00:13:19.920 --> 00:13:21.960 And yes, that frame rate counter 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:24.440 in the top right is accurate. 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:27.500 This game is running at anywhere from about 60 00:13:27.500 --> 00:13:29.120 to upwards of 100 frames per second. 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:33.160 And all my instances, if you want to just look up, 00:13:33.160 --> 00:13:35.660 all my instances of Unigine Heaven 00:13:35.660 --> 00:13:44.210 are still running in the background. 00:13:44.210 --> 00:13:46.510 Not a hitch, except for that I just ended up 00:13:46.510 --> 00:13:48.780 in the same room that I started in. 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