WEBVTT 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:25.240 well guys the lab coat's on which means it's time for another ultimate build 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:29.199 guide this time it's going to be the ultimate video editing workstation so 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:34.760 we're going to be walking you through the mechanic of putting this system together but more 00:00:32.559 --> 00:00:39.800 importantly we're going to be talking about the rationale behind each of the 00:00:37.440 --> 00:00:44.239 parts we chose as well as giving a couple of other options cuz for 00:00:41.440 --> 00:00:48.320 professional use there are often at least a half a dozen options that would 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:53.960 all be valid for any given part depending on your particular needs like 00:00:51.879 --> 00:00:58.960 most rigs a professional video editing machine starts at the CPU now our CPU 00:00:56.600 --> 00:01:04.360 choice is not the only choice we went with the 493 K on the LGA 2011 platform 00:01:02.440 --> 00:01:09.240 and we did this for a number of reasons we found the 4930k to be a good sweet 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:14.280 spot it's the lowest end six core processor that's available from the core 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:15.680 i7 family we could step down to a 4820k 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:20.320 but then we'd be losing a couple of cores even though it is less expensive 00:01:17.759 --> 00:01:23.799 or we could step up to a 4960x extreme Edition but we wouldn't be getting a lot 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:28.119 more performance and we'd be paying quite a bit more for it zons are also 00:01:26.360 --> 00:01:32.360 options but from a price to Performance standpoint we didn't find that for car 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:36.399 rig bearing in mind that adobe can be easily offloaded without even buying 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:40.840 additional licenses to a render Farm we didn't find we needed even more 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:45.680 processing cores or more than 64 gigs of RAM which would be another benefit of a 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:50.360 Zeon processor support for ECC memory now benefit number two beyond having 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:56.439 more cores of choosing the LGA 2011 platform is more PCI Express Lanes these 00:01:53.360 --> 00:01:58.320 are PCIe 3.0 lanes and it has about 00:01:56.439 --> 00:02:03.920 double the lane support of the consumer grade platform meaning that as you add 00:02:00.880 --> 00:02:06.240 in bandwidth hungry expansion cards like 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:10.759 accelerator cards and raid cards and nit cards and graphics cards and anything 00:02:09.160 --> 00:02:14.840 that you want compute cards whatever kind of crazy stuff you might want to put on here you need to make sure that 00:02:13.160 --> 00:02:19.239 bandwidth is available and only a professional grade platform will have 00:02:16.440 --> 00:02:23.920 that benefit number three is more RAM support even using consumer grade 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:30.360 modules such as these Corsair Dominator platinums these are clocked at 2133 MHz 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:33.120 we can get up to 64 gigs of RAM in this 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:36.599 board which is more than we need for our application although it'll be up to you 00:02:35.040 --> 00:02:42.680 guys to decide whether you need more than that but you might end up with something like a dual socket board with 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:48.200 even more memory slots or highdensity ECC modules now let's talk a little bit 00:02:45.440 --> 00:02:52.640 more about the memory we went with DDR3 2133 modules so remember we did a 00:02:51.040 --> 00:02:57.040 showcase a little while ago where we demonstrated that anything of around 00:02:54.080 --> 00:03:00.400 1333 or higher doesn't benefit gaming applications however with Pro 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:06.319 applications where you're swapping massive amounts of data in and out of the memory that can be a bit of a 00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:09.080 different scenario with that said you still want to find a sweet spot and you 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:15.959 don't necessarily want to spring for DDR3 3,000 MHz or anything like that so 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:18.280 we found 2133 was a good balance now why 00:03:15.959 --> 00:03:23.239 did we go with this particular kit and really a big part of the answer is not 00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:27.159 all memory kits are available in eight-way configurations so first of all 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:30.920 you have to be able to get a quad Channel kit of whatever memory it is 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:35.239 there's a chance that two dual Channel kits will work together in Quad Channel 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:39.519 but if you want maximum compatibility buying quad Channel kits is the way to 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:44.799 go remember LGA 2011 not only supports more memory but also about double the 00:03:41.959 --> 00:03:48.640 theoretical bandwidth of LGA 1150 so we had to find a quad Channel kit then we 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:54.280 wanted to find a quad Channel kit that actually has all eight modules in one 00:03:51.040 --> 00:03:56.599 kit all validated together because this 00:03:54.280 --> 00:04:01.120 again improves compatibility with your motherboard and CPU and is makes it less 00:03:59.799 --> 00:04:05.720 likely that you're going to run into any issues down the road you want a six core 00:04:03.959 --> 00:04:10.400 processor and 64 gigs of RAM you're going to need a board that supports it 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:12.959 this is the p9x 79e Ws from ASUS and 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:16.560 don't let the Ws fool you it's not just suitable for workstation use guys so if 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:21.799 you want to overclock or game on this board yeah that'll be just fine don't 00:04:18.919 --> 00:04:26.479 worry but what makes it WS well number one is there's the pure quality of the 00:04:23.840 --> 00:04:30.840 components it is an an extremely well-built board it is designed to be 00:04:28.479 --> 00:04:35.440 used in a professional environment and yes those components do cost more and 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:41.400 they do last longer next up is the expansion so check this out seven PCI 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:47.600 Express 16x physical slots three of them are wired for 8X four of them are wired 00:04:43.840 --> 00:04:50.880 for PCIe 16x 3.0 that's supported by 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:53.680 that IV brid e processor wow lots of 00:04:50.880 --> 00:04:58.840 expansion you've also got8 DDR3 module slots so that'll support up to 64 gigs 00:04:55.759 --> 00:05:01.960 of regular non-cc memory with a normal 00:04:58.840 --> 00:05:04.639 Core Series processor or you can support 00:05:01.960 --> 00:05:07.240 even more if you step up to a Zeon processor which will cost you a little 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:11.759 bit more and then you'll spend a little bit more on the memory as well to get 00:05:09.440 --> 00:05:14.960 even more Rock Solid stability and even better performance now it's got other 00:05:13.320 --> 00:05:19.080 workstation oriented features as well such as the Dual Intel NYX at the back 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:23.800 that increases throughput and decreases CPU utilization when you're working off 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:28.919 of network resources but that is not actually where it really shows its value 00:05:26.960 --> 00:05:33.319 compatibility is where this board shows its value could spend half as much less 00:05:31.440 --> 00:05:36.840 than half as much on a motherboard that would give you the same performance yes 00:05:35.520 --> 00:05:41.160 I'm going to let that sink in for a moment less than half as much so why 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:45.360 doesn't everyone just do that because when you're buying a professional grade 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:49.199 product you expect zero downtime when you buy a new red rocket accelerator 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:52.759 card and throw it into your board you expect it to work you don't expect to 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:56.800 find out that there's a compatibility issue and you've got to pull that 00:05:54.280 --> 00:05:59.680 motherboard eBay it flip it somehow buy a new one and replace it you can't 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:06.880 afford that if you want something something that you know is going to work this is it friends WS series boards are 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:10.840 validated to a much higher standard with aftermarket parts than other boards 00:06:09.280 --> 00:06:15.039 whether it is the aforementioned red rocket card raid cards multi- Channel 00:06:13.039 --> 00:06:21.599 Nicks or whatever else you can fill up these PCI Express slots Zeon F cuadros 00:06:18.479 --> 00:06:23.599 Teslas it's all validated in this board 00:06:21.599 --> 00:06:27.039 so if you can't afford the downtime and you're willing to pay an extra premium 00:06:25.080 --> 00:06:32.919 for that and you just want what I generally consider to be the best single 00:06:29.039 --> 00:06:35.319 socket board on the market p9x 79 ews my 00:06:32.919 --> 00:06:38.440 friends we went with a prograde product for the motherboard but for the power 00:06:36.880 --> 00:06:43.639 supply we're going with a bit of more of a gaming branded product why would that 00:06:41.080 --> 00:06:47.720 be well for one thing the Corsair axi series comes with a seven-year warranty 00:06:45.599 --> 00:06:51.759 so if you had any doubts as to how wellb built they are there's that you can also 00:06:49.840 --> 00:06:55.879 check out the reviews on Johnny guru.com these are extremely well-built power 00:06:54.560 --> 00:07:00.280 supplies right up there with a workstation grade power supply and they 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:04.160 come with a seven-year warranty and they come with Corsair link which allows you 00:07:01.840 --> 00:07:08.400 to monitor its usage as well as its efficiency as well as your voltage 00:07:05.919 --> 00:07:10.560 levels and all that crazy stuff so we kind of went well what's the real 00:07:09.599 --> 00:07:15.919 difference between this and a workstation power supply well there's the brand name on the front which isn't 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:19.160 terribly important to us and there's the fact that it doesn't look like an 00:07:17.479 --> 00:07:22.680 industrial piece of equipment and sound like an industrial piece of equipment 00:07:20.919 --> 00:07:27.520 it's very very quiet to go along with that 80 plus Platinum efficiency so 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:32.240 there doesn't appear to be a downside we went with the ax860i 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:36.879 now there's a million different options in terms of storage there really are 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:41.720 literally a million but we're going to walk you through what we went with SSD 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:45.879 boot Drive I still feel is the most important thing to have in any machine 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:51.039 gaming workstation doesn't really matter and for us we went with the Intel 530 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:52.680 series 240 gig drive it's got a 5-year 00:07:51.039 --> 00:07:56.520 warranty so they're standing behind it in terms of the reliability the 00:07:54.240 --> 00:08:01.240 durability of The Flash you could spend a lot more and get something like a$ 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:06.280 3500 series drive that would be an option but because we're not going to be 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:10.639 using this drive for any of the real work we're not using it as a scratch 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:15.039 disc we're not using it to actually store any HD footage on it we're just 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:20.360 basically reading off of it we did not feel it was necessary to go with a 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:22.720 prograde component in this case when 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:28.919 working with HD video files or even Ultra HD video files you will need a ton 00:08:25.919 --> 00:08:30.879 of space we wanted to try and keep our 00:08:28.919 --> 00:08:35.599 storage internal to make this workstation as as portable as possible 00:08:33.640 --> 00:08:40.680 without tying us down to an external storage array so we went with four WD 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:44.440 black 4 tbte drives we're going to be running them in RAID 10 we're going to 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:48.720 be running them off the onboard raid these are not necessarily the only 00:08:46.560 --> 00:08:53.240 options Available to You adding in a high-end raid card so that you can run 00:08:50.640 --> 00:08:58.360 something like raid five very quickly or some kind of an unraid or some kind of a 00:08:55.880 --> 00:09:02.480 raid six these are definitely options but by the time you buy a raid card 00:09:00.160 --> 00:09:06.079 that's capable of running those types of raid fast enough for professional usage 00:09:04.839 --> 00:09:11.040 you're probably looking at adding another 500 to ,000 to the cost of the 00:09:08.760 --> 00:09:15.399 build so I wanted to present that option but that's not something that we went 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:21.680 with RAID 10 allows us to take our four four terabyte drives and get a total of 00:09:17.760 --> 00:09:23.600 8 terabytes of fast safe storage we get 00:09:21.680 --> 00:09:27.760 the benefits of raid zero so that is double the sequential throughput and we 00:09:25.640 --> 00:09:32.079 get the benefits of raid one which means that we can have any one of the drives 00:09:29.760 --> 00:09:36.839 in the system fail and up to two of the drives in the system fail before any 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:41.000 data losses incurred this is so important for for professional work 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:44.839 whether you're running a raid card whether you're running raid off of your 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:49.360 onboard or whether you're running uh some kind of an external enclosure 00:09:46.839 --> 00:09:54.560 whether that's Network or USB 3 or ESAT or whatever the case may be redundancy 00:09:52.079 --> 00:09:59.399 is key it is not a substitute for backing up preferably offsite but 00:09:56.880 --> 00:10:03.240 redundancy will save you from a hardware failure choosing a graphics card for a 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:07.600 professional rig is a very personal choice and I just want you guys to maybe 00:10:05.839 --> 00:10:11.440 be able to make a better educated one even if I can't tell you exactly what's 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:16.200 right for you now graphics cards in general have always had the hardware 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:21.600 oomph to be great for applications like video editing but the software is still 00:10:18.680 --> 00:10:24.720 catching up so prior to Adobe CS5 for example if you're a premier editor 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:28.240 anyone telling you you needed a great workstation graphics card for better 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:31.640 video editing performance was probably trying to sell you a great workstation 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:36.480 graphics card that ultimately wasn't going to be doing a whole lot for you in 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:40.079 terms of performance anyway with CS5 that all changed so we're able to 00:10:38.160 --> 00:10:44.160 leverage that highly parallelized processor the onboard memory the fast 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:48.079 interconnects to the rest of the system for wholesale changes to individual 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:52.760 pixels imagine a graphics card being good for that such as uh color 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:57.639 correction scaling or compositing so that was with CS5 now we're actually 00:10:55.600 --> 00:11:02.720 continuing to improve so for example in After Effects in CS6 the Optics Ray 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:07.680 tracing engine was added that's GPU accelerated as well so that instead of 00:11:04.880 --> 00:11:14.720 fake cluggy 3D effects and after effects now editors can work in real 3D with 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:17.079 real depth values now on the NVIDIA side 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:20.760 alone you've actually got options in terms of you got two whole different 00:11:18.760 --> 00:11:23.959 lines of graphics cards to choose from so there's quadros which I was waving 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:28.519 around before the workstation grade cards and then there's also the consumer 00:11:25.959 --> 00:11:32.800 grade GeForce cards now what GeForce cards do is they offer a great price to 00:11:31.079 --> 00:11:38.240 Performance ratio if you're looking for sheer Cuda cores and Cuda performance if 00:11:36.800 --> 00:11:42.519 the application that you're running doesn't call for a specifically 00:11:40.079 --> 00:11:47.360 validated GPU where there's no easy hack GeForce cards offer great bang for the 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:52.040 buck now with that said they don't undergo the same degree of validation 00:11:50.040 --> 00:11:56.079 because there's a whole lot of variety in the implementations from different 00:11:53.800 --> 00:11:59.240 manufacturers so that means that you've got to make a pretty careful choice for 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:04.839 which one you going want to go with the the ASUS direct cu2 GTX 780 that we've 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:09.200 got for our rig is an overbuilt card it's overclocked but you know not crazy 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:12.800 like it's going to die immediately or anything like that and it has a 00:12:10.760 --> 00:12:17.839 fantastic cooler on it so we'd expect it to have a very long life cycle even 00:12:14.839 --> 00:12:19.040 though it's not rated for 24/7 operation 00:12:17.839 --> 00:12:24.320 the same way that something like a Quadro is with Quadro cards on the other 00:12:22.160 --> 00:12:28.800 hand performance takes a definite backseat to validation and reliability 00:12:26.800 --> 00:12:35.000 the things that workstation users value the most these cards are all built by NVIDIA with 00:12:32.800 --> 00:12:39.720 exactly the same components every time allowing large corporations to validate 00:12:37.760 --> 00:12:43.839 particular workloads and particular machines with this particular card and 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:47.560 know that it's going to be available in exactly that configuration over a long 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:50.160 period of time this is important in a corporate environment but not 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:55.360 necessarily something that individual users value now that goes for software 00:12:52.800 --> 00:12:59.839 makers as well this is less of an issue with Adobe software where they actually 00:12:57.480 --> 00:13:05.199 do validate some G4 uh chips and configurations in addition 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:10.839 to Quadro configurations but AVID for example only certifies workstation grade 00:13:08.079 --> 00:13:15.839 cards for their Avid software now with that said there are hacks there are text 00:13:12.880 --> 00:13:20.800 file hacks for both Adobe applications and for Avid that allow you to you know 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:25.600 cludge in GeForce cards and and allow them to be recognized as validated cards 00:13:22.880 --> 00:13:29.199 but this is a very a very home brew way of approaching it and not everyone's 00:13:26.920 --> 00:13:33.000 comfortable with that now for the multi talented video editor who also does some 00:13:30.959 --> 00:13:37.399 3D rendering work as well you'll probably just plain old need a Quadro 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:43.360 card professional 3D rendering applications such as 3ds Max and Maya 00:13:40.040 --> 00:13:45.360 are often only going to work with GPU 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:49.639 acceleration with Quadro cards this is because of the way that the quadro 00:13:46.839 --> 00:13:54.720 driver is architected to specifically enable performance profiles and 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:56.480 compatibility settings even down to if 00:13:54.720 --> 00:14:00.120 that particular rendering application is the active window on the screen it's 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:04.519 making optimization in the background for the utmost compatibility and the 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:08.079 gForce drivers just aren't tuned to operate that way they're going for Balls 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:12.639 to the walls performance rather than that stability and validation that 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:16.720 Quadro brings to the table so basically if it it comes down to choices if you're 00:14:14.920 --> 00:14:20.720 a tinkerer and you're willing to spend the time you know hacking things a 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:24.160 little bit and you don't mind if if a card isn't validated for 24/7 operation 00:14:22.880 --> 00:14:27.040 and if it dies you kind of go to yourself well I spent half as much on 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:32.199 this card as I would have on the workstation one I'll just buy another one and it'll probably be higher 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:36.360 performance by that time anyway if you're one of those kinds of folks 00:14:33.920 --> 00:14:40.480 GeForce can be a great option if you're building workstations that just need to 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:45.279 work and you don't want to ever touch them again then maybe there's a value to 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:47.959 you for the additional stability that something like a Quadro brings to the 00:14:46.680 --> 00:14:53.160 table I mean another example is if you're building a system for someone else where frankly it's not your money 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:57.160 anyway and you want them to have a great experience with your system maybe you 00:14:55.040 --> 00:15:00.759 just go for the hassle-free solution that doesn't have the hack that you 00:14:59.040 --> 00:15:03.360 implemented and validated by a driver update that comes down through GeForce 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:08.519 experience and you're kind of sitting there going well I wouldn't be dealing with that if it was a Quadro then you 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:14.839 might find that to be a better option as well now with that said you can't just 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:18.639 swap out quadros for gfor and get all of the same functionality some of it is 00:15:16.680 --> 00:15:23.680 just plain Hardware so if you're doing any kind of stereo 3D video editing and 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:27.920 you want to use a prograde 3D solution that runs off of a D connector Quadro is 00:15:25.839 --> 00:15:35.519 going to be the way to go if you wanted to take advantage of ah yes deep color 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:38.199 so 10bit panels more on this pa279q in a 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:42.279 moment for any kind of serious color work during your video editing process 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:46.279 you are going to need a Quadro because that's the only thing that is going to 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:51.240 support the 10bit output that that monitor can then interpret and finally 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:55.839 they come in form factors that GeForce cards just don't come in this Quadro 00:15:52.959 --> 00:15:59.800 k4000 is a single slot card giving you a ton of flexibility in systems where you 00:15:58.040 --> 00:16:03.560 might also have you know a red rocket accelerator and all those other things 00:16:01.839 --> 00:16:07.000 where you can run out of expansion cards pretty quickly and I mean for us it's 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:11.240 great because we were able to put a two slot GeForce card in sneak a single slot 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:15.399 Quadro card in and still have a lot of expansion for other things as well so 00:16:12.839 --> 00:16:20.959 that's yet another advantage of Quadro for peripherals particularly for 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:26.399 keyboards and mice we've moved almost completely towards gaming peripherals 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:29.600 not because gaming peripherals are you know more professionall looking in fact 00:16:28.199 --> 00:16:33.800 they're not but because the functionality and the build quality of 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:37.800 them tends to be well designed for more wear and tear than your typical mouse or 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:42.639 keyboard so this right here my friends is the g602 and this gets my 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:48.240 recommendation it lasts for weeks in performance mode and much longer than 00:16:44.880 --> 00:16:51.639 that in its endurance mode it has very 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:53.920 good precision and it has a ton of fully 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:57.720 programmable buttons which can be great not just for gaming and binding to your 00:16:55.639 --> 00:17:02.480 voice chat application or whatever else but also for programming in things like 00:16:59.920 --> 00:17:07.280 keyboard shortcuts it's comfortable it's wireless it's hard to go wrong for our 00:17:05.280 --> 00:17:11.079 keyboard same thing we've started moving towards gaming keyboards because 00:17:08.959 --> 00:17:15.039 features like lighting up in the dark having programmable keys on the sides 00:17:13.160 --> 00:17:19.520 having built-in media controls and a volume wheel well these are useful for 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:23.919 professionals as well as for gamers so the g710 plus gets my vote it has 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:27.959 excellent software it comes with Cherry MX Brown key switches with O-rings 00:17:26.280 --> 00:17:33.520 meaning that it's not that loud so you're not going to be bugging your neighbor again the loud system thing and 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:36.880 it's Logitech so it's extremely wellb built and if anything goes wrong with it 00:17:35.080 --> 00:17:40.559 you will definitely get a replacement it's also very well priced for a 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:44.600 mechanical keyboard with those features now when it comes to audio that's where 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:50.520 the gaming thing goes completely out the window most of our guys here use Im so 00:17:47.760 --> 00:17:56.320 something like sennheiser's i8s would be an excellent option although any kind of 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:58.200 closed monitoring or reference sounding 00:17:56.320 --> 00:18:04.400 headphones from the likes of AKG be Dynamics heer or Den would be great 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:08.840 choices ASUS originally told us they were going to send us a new PB 27in 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:14.480 monitor for this showcase and I kind of went okay um yeah I can dig it PB is uh 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:20.320 is a good value option if you want you know great monitors that are not Factory 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:25.240 pre-calibrated like the PA series the proart series is um and if you want me a 00:18:23.120 --> 00:18:31.120 little bit more value uh that's not what they sent they ended up sending a pa279q 00:18:28.840 --> 00:18:35.440 which is one that I can wholeheartedly recommend for use with this video 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:40.480 editing rig or pretty much any video editing rig yeah it's expensive if you 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:44.320 look at it from like a gamer's perspective you go oh Pro art monitors 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:47.520 those are really expensive but when you look at it from a professional user's 00:18:46.320 --> 00:18:52.880 perspective and you consider the features you're getting you compare it to something like an HP dream color and 00:18:50.760 --> 00:19:01.559 it starts to look a lot more attractive this right here is a 27in 2560x1440 00:18:56.159 --> 00:19:02.919 monitor it has a 10 bit Ah IPS panel so 00:19:01.559 --> 00:19:08.799 for those of you who understand what that means great for those of you who 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:11.200 don't that means a much much tighter 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:15.919 level of granularity in the colors that it can display so on your monitor when 00:19:13.360 --> 00:19:20.480 you see blocking or banding between similar colors that will not be present 00:19:18.520 --> 00:19:25.360 on this monitor as long as you are using a supported graphics card so in our case 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:30.000 a Quadro with a supported driver Quadro and a supported application such as 00:19:26.919 --> 00:19:32.960 Adobe Premiere now you are taking full 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:37.159 advantage of deep color it also has a 14bit lookup table so it can actually 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:40.880 understand even more than it can actually display to you giving it an 00:19:38.679 --> 00:19:44.679 even better approx ability to approximate those colors and it's got 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:49.880 more features as well so it's a professional monitor meaning that the onscreen display has an updated 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:54.280 navigation menu with a little four-way switch it's highly ergonomic so you got 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:58.039 your height adjust your tilt your swivel your pivot all that stuff that you could 00:19:56.120 --> 00:20:02.919 possibly want it comes pre-calibrated like all PA monitors and this time ASUS 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:07.720 is going for gold because they're promising a Delta e of less than two and 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:12.200 they actually ship a little certificate inside the box that shows you how your 00:20:09.919 --> 00:20:18.520 individual monitor tested it supports six AIS individual color adjustments so 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:20.400 that's on RGB s magenta and yellow so 00:20:18.520 --> 00:20:24.280 you can adjust individual colors without affecting the other ones it has 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:28.240 uniformity compensation which is one of the big issues with even many prograde 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:32.200 monitors and that is to say that the back leg isn't always uniform so as much 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:36.799 as the color reproduction might be perfect you might still have issues with 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:40.200 this corner being a little bit different looking than this corner and you want it 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:43.960 to be as uniform as possible comes with compensation for that of course with you 00:20:42.280 --> 00:20:52.039 know a 10B bit panel and all of these fancy features it has 99% Adobe RGB 00:20:48.159 --> 00:20:55.280 color support and 100% srgb color space 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:58.120 support and 120% ntsc color space 00:20:55.280 --> 00:21:03.600 support and I think I've probably gushed about it in enough but guys this is a 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:07.640 fantastic choice if you're looking for a great monitor for color work and you 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:11.360 don't necessarily want to spend several thousand dollars on it choosing a case 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:16.840 for this was actually a bit of a challenge because what's a professional 00:21:14.919 --> 00:21:20.840 case I mean you don't want to go and spend $300 on a case for a video editing 00:21:19.520 --> 00:21:24.919 rig unless there's some kind of a compelling reason like you need support 00:21:22.600 --> 00:21:27.880 for 12 hard drives or something like that you want something that's 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:31.799 reasonably portable if you ever had to move it around or you know take it 00:21:29.840 --> 00:21:35.000 somewhere else in order to work on it I mean we do that from time to time when 00:21:33.080 --> 00:21:39.480 we go to shows for example you don't want it to be like you know covered in 00:21:37.080 --> 00:21:43.039 like flames and plastic or all that unless you you don't mind people seeing 00:21:41.520 --> 00:21:49.440 that when they come into your office for a meeting or whatever else um so we 00:21:46.600 --> 00:21:55.240 ended up with the Silverstone tj4 e it's clean looking metal construction it has 00:21:52.320 --> 00:21:59.679 great features it's around $150 which is reasonable although it's certainly not 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:04.120 inexpensive and it's easy to build in I like this 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:07.480 case I've been using it for years actually back to the old tj4 model I 00:22:06.159 --> 00:22:11.600 don't think Silverstone gets enough attention for how high quality their 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:15.440 products are and how reasonably priced they are especially can when you 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:19.000 consider how much better built they are than some of the other really really 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:22.159 popular options that are out there now if I didn't want to spend 150 bucks and 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:28.360 I didn't mind stepping down to something that has a little bit more of a plastic construction the fractal designed Define 00:22:25.760 --> 00:22:31.480 R4 is a great option one of the reasons we didn't go with the Define R4 for this 00:22:30.080 --> 00:22:35.279 build guide is that we've already done a build guide in the Define R4 so I didn't 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:40.279 really see much of a value to doing another build guide in the Define R4 the 00:22:37.679 --> 00:22:45.760 first step as always is to prepare yourself at an anti-static workstation 00:22:43.159 --> 00:22:50.840 not working on a carpet preferably using an antistatic strap whether it's on your 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:55.279 wrist or like I prefer to wear it on my ankle you're also going to need a 00:22:53.520 --> 00:22:59.760 Phillips head screwdriver which should be pretty much all we need in terms of 00:22:57.240 --> 00:23:05.360 tools for this particular I build I always start with building the system 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:07.240 outside of the box as much as possible 00:23:05.360 --> 00:23:11.320 and by box I of course being the case not the box but I'm not going to kill 00:23:08.760 --> 00:23:16.559 the shot just for that so I've got the motherboard the CPU the CPU Cooler on 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:20.600 previous build guides when we've used liquid cooling installing the CPU Cooler 00:23:18.840 --> 00:23:24.559 prior to putting the board into the case has not been an option but this time 00:23:21.919 --> 00:23:29.480 we're going to do that and if UPS would hurry up and bring the RAM to us I would 00:23:26.679 --> 00:23:34.240 have the RAM here as well Intel uses simple eco-friendly packaging for their 00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:38.000 2011 processors it does not come with a heat sink so it's a good thing we have 00:23:36.320 --> 00:23:42.720 an aftermarket heat sink to use they expect professional and Enthusiast users 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:46.799 to have their own cooling solution we open up the plastic clamshell and find 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:50.000 the little Golden Triangle on the corner of the CPU that's important so we're 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:53.840 going to put it down on our motherboard oriented correctly relative to the 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:59.400 little triangle on the corner of the socket itself then with LGA 2011 there 00:23:56.840 --> 00:24:04.200 are two retention arms first we lift the one with the hook at the end then we 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:09.320 lift the one with the kink in the middle and the straight end once that's done we 00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:13.400 can lift up the hold down plate position the CPU carefully in the socket without 00:24:11.520 --> 00:24:18.520 putting any force on it while we're putting it down if you bend those pins 00:24:15.520 --> 00:24:20.520 you will likely be so guys because no 00:24:18.520 --> 00:24:25.000 motherboard manufacturer will warranty physical damage and they're extremely 00:24:22.360 --> 00:24:30.000 difficult to repair now we lower the hold down 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:32.600 plate lower the k ARM and lower the 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:36.679 hooked ARM then pull off the plastic plate and the CPU is installed if you 00:24:34.919 --> 00:24:40.880 follow Noz instructions carefully mounting the nhu1 14s isn't going to be 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:45.440 too complicated you'll need all the hardware from inside the Intel mounting 00:24:43.520 --> 00:24:49.360 hardware box other than the back plate for LGA 2011 that's not needed and then 00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:53.480 you'll need some stuff from the accessories box so it does come with a 00:24:51.559 --> 00:24:57.799 screwdriver which is pretty handy you'll also need the extra fan Clips the extra 00:24:55.520 --> 00:25:01.039 fan grommets as well as the thermal compound the the only thing we're not 00:24:59.080 --> 00:25:05.600 going to use from inside here is the case badge which is totally optional and 00:25:03.679 --> 00:25:10.200 the low noise adapter because this motherboard includes excellent software 00:25:07.679 --> 00:25:13.799 fan control now that we've got everything together it's pretty 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:17.960 straightforward get the four little pieces with threads on either side and 00:25:15.799 --> 00:25:24.200 the thicker thread goes into the four holes around the LGA 2011 socket next up 00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:28.320 take the two mounting bars and position them on either side just like this 00:25:26.399 --> 00:25:31.799 you've got four more nuts that then go go over top I recommend using a 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:36.320 screwdriver to tighten these ones into place because this is what's giving you 00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:41.320 the security and firmness for that large heat sink next up is applying thermal 00:25:38.840 --> 00:25:45.880 compound I recommend the line method on LGA 2011 processors use a little bit 00:25:43.880 --> 00:25:50.559 more than you'd use on a smaller LGA 1150 processor now you have to pull the 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:55.720 original fan which comes pre-mounted to your heat sink off because otherwise you 00:25:53.080 --> 00:26:01.039 won't actually be able to mount it then position it centered on top of the CP 00:25:58.440 --> 00:26:06.559 you so that both of the pre-installed tensioned screws are positioned over top 00:26:04.440 --> 00:26:13.480 of the threads that are on that mounting plate now alternating sides make sure 00:26:10.320 --> 00:26:15.919 first that the threads catch then switch 00:26:13.480 --> 00:26:21.320 back and forth until they stop and you can't screw them in any further put the 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:26.559 original fan back on then for your secondary fan which is totally optional 00:26:24.120 --> 00:26:29.720 and is only if you buy an additional fan what you're going to want to do is take 00:26:27.880 --> 00:26:35.000 the thick ER spacers that are included in the box with your heat sink swap off 00:26:32.080 --> 00:26:39.039 the four spacers that are on the side where okay that are on the side that is 00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:43.200 pulling air into the fan so you can tell from the label of the fan guys so here 00:26:41.399 --> 00:26:47.799 you go the label should be facing away from the CPU heat sink on that other 00:26:44.919 --> 00:26:51.240 side then swap on the thicker spacers that are included it's a little bit 00:26:49.679 --> 00:26:55.200 tricky you got to kind of pull the little Nubs through the corners but this 00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:59.600 will generate a little bit less turbulence when the air is passing first 00:26:57.799 --> 00:27:04.159 from the push fan through the heat sink and then is being drawn away by the pull 00:27:02.279 --> 00:27:07.960 positioned fan when you're done it should look a little something like this 00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:12.480 nice massive heat sink lots of cooling fans plenty of space for 64 gigs of RAM 00:27:11.120 --> 00:27:18.440 now something you might have noticed about this board is in order to achieve 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:20.279 its massive seven PCI Express slots 00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:25.399 there wasn't a lot of clearance between the RAM slots and the PCI E slot so Aus 00:27:23.679 --> 00:27:29.840 has done the only natural thing which is to remove the movable clips from one 00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:34.120 side so you can see here on the one side we have clips that snap forwards and 00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:37.720 back and on the other side we have no clips due to the fact that there's no 00:27:35.600 --> 00:27:41.919 clearance there so this makes installing RAM a little bit different in this board 00:27:39.520 --> 00:27:46.640 from most also if you were installing only four modules please note that you 00:27:44.120 --> 00:27:50.279 would install them in the blue slots because we're installing eight modules 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:54.440 we're just going to go to town fill them up on one side fill them up on the other 00:27:52.760 --> 00:27:59.039 side now you might have noticed that on the side where we put in the additional 00:27:55.880 --> 00:28:01.399 spacer on the fan that is a very tight 00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:04.480 fit for that first memory module so it's up to you whether you want to opt for 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:07.919 the slightly less turbulence and slightly lower noise operation or if you 00:28:06.519 --> 00:28:12.640 want to opt for having a little bit more clearance for your 00:28:09.960 --> 00:28:16.399 memory so the first thing is to open up the case by removing the two thumb 00:28:16.559 --> 00:28:24.200 screws then getting the insides basically prepared so we're going to 00:28:20.919 --> 00:28:26.000 remove that SSD mounting bracket that's 00:28:24.200 --> 00:28:29.480 down here in the bottom of the case we're also going to put our power supply 00:28:27.760 --> 00:28:33.919 right in so if you look at these These are the types of screws that we use for 00:28:31.320 --> 00:28:37.600 power supply mounting for screws there's a bit of a decision to be made when 00:28:35.559 --> 00:28:42.960 you're deciding whether to have your fan mounted up or down for your power supply 00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:46.519 fan up has the benefit of pulling air away from your graphics cards and 00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:51.640 helping cool your graphics cards but the drawback of drawing hot air into your 00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:56.200 power supply making your power supplies cooling less efficient so we opted 00:28:53.919 --> 00:29:00.360 instead to go for drawing air in through the bottom of the case this case can 00:28:58.080 --> 00:29:04.720 conveniently has an air filter down here that you can easily remove and clean 00:29:02.159 --> 00:29:08.200 whenever you need to this isolates the heat from your graphics cards away from 00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:12.919 your power supply and will make it run cooler in the long term when installing 00:29:10.919 --> 00:29:16.320 the io shield into the case do a quick sanity check and make sure you're 00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:19.440 putting it in right side up just align the io shield with the back of the 00:29:17.679 --> 00:29:25.039 motherboard make sure all the ports stick through then align it with the 00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:27.559 back of the case and press firmly on all 00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:31.440 four corners this might require some pressure in order to get it to work 00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:36.080 properly and it's not incorrectly until it snaps into place and you can put some 00:29:33.799 --> 00:29:39.679 pressure on it from behind without it falling back inside the case now to 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:44.200 continue preparing the case we're going to replace those stock fans and fill her 00:29:42.320 --> 00:29:48.840 all up with better fans for awesome cooling so Silverstone includes okay 00:29:46.840 --> 00:29:53.000 fans with their cases but that's exactly what they are they're okay in the back 00:29:51.360 --> 00:29:57.399 we're going to take that okay fan we're going to take out all four screws and 00:29:54.440 --> 00:30:02.679 replace it with an NF F12 now we don't have to use use the same stock screws to 00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:06.760 install that n12 back there because premium fans also come with some premium 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:12.640 mounting options so instead we're going to use these little rubber isolators to 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:18.880 have what is what is a very vibration resistant Mount so the way that it's 00:30:14.840 --> 00:30:21.240 done is you position the fan then push 00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:24.440 the little rubber spacers through as much as you can you won't be able to 00:30:22.760 --> 00:30:28.480 completely Mount them this way then if you have room for your fingers you can 00:30:26.320 --> 00:30:32.519 pull them through to the point where the fan now is locked into place and if you 00:30:31.120 --> 00:30:36.960 don't have room for your fingers then you can make your life a lot easier by 00:30:34.559 --> 00:30:42.200 using a pair of needle nose pliers once you're done with that check it out very 00:30:39.640 --> 00:30:47.559 little vibration if any can be passed now from the fan with its spinning 00:30:43.799 --> 00:30:49.799 blades to the case on the top there's a 00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:55.240 top piece that actually acts as both an aesthetic cover for our fans and as an 00:30:53.320 --> 00:30:58.840 easily removable and cleanable fan filter we have a bit of a unique 00:30:57.159 --> 00:31:06.679 configuration for the top of this case it accepts 1 140 mm fan and 1 120 mm fan 00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:12.159 in the top there is not enough room for us to use those rubber spacers unless we 00:31:09.240 --> 00:31:16.480 were really determined so in this case we just went for the old hard mount with 00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:20.880 screws it should be noted that again premium fan features these fans have 00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:24.840 little rubber isolators built into them as well so they're still not making 00:31:22.840 --> 00:31:29.840 direct plastic to metal contact with the case which will reduce vibration we want 00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:34.880 to pay special attention when installing all case fans to the position of the 00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:38.960 cables that are coming out of them with respect to where we expect them to plug 00:31:37.120 --> 00:31:42.600 into the motherboard or any other kind of power solution that we have planned 00:31:41.080 --> 00:31:45.880 in this case because we're one motherboard fan header short on this 00:31:44.399 --> 00:31:49.600 board for the number of fans we're going to have in the system I'm going to be 00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:53.760 using a splitter off of this top connector right here into these two top 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:58.120 fans so I want them positioned near the back so I can route them cleanly up 00:31:56.200 --> 00:32:01.960 there without any additional wire clutter the last fans that we're going 00:32:00.159 --> 00:32:07.000 to swap out are going to require us to take off the other side panel and there 00:32:04.639 --> 00:32:12.880 we go two more nf12 these are going to be used to directly cool our hard drive 00:32:10.080 --> 00:32:16.720 RAID 10 array now I want to take a moment here okay so yeah we use slightly 00:32:14.679 --> 00:32:19.639 different Hardware here it includes more of it but just to save time because 00:32:18.360 --> 00:32:24.679 we're just doing a build guide here this isn't a permanent build I'm just doing 00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:26.639 two screws per fan and at diagonals okay 00:32:24.679 --> 00:32:31.000 so maintain the cable management that's there and I want to take a moment to 00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:34.080 talk about why I love N1 12s and other 00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:35.360 pressure optimized fans um manufacturers 00:32:34.080 --> 00:32:38.919 will often make the argument you should use an air flow optimized fan for 00:32:37.080 --> 00:32:43.440 something like a case intake or rear exhaust or whatever else the negligible 00:32:41.760 --> 00:32:48.159 performance Improvement that you get with an air flow optimized fan versus a 00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:52.039 pressure optimized fan I feel is offset by the versatility of pressure optimized 00:32:50.600 --> 00:32:55.559 fans because you can do all the planning in the world and if you go and buy an 00:32:53.799 --> 00:32:59.279 airflow optimized fan that's going to end up being a case intake that sits 00:32:57.279 --> 00:33:04.320 next to hard drives pulls air through a honeycomb mesh and pulls air through a 00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:08.399 fine mesh fan filter I would make the argument that's more of a static 00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:12.679 pressure optimized application anyway and you run into that a whole lot so I 00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:17.840 love the versatility of pressure optimized fans I find them more useful 00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:22.080 in a wider variety of scenarios every manufacturer takes a 00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:27.120 slightly different approach to which motherboard standoffs come pre-installed 00:33:24.360 --> 00:33:31.679 Silverstone has opted for the skinny but fulllength ATX configuration so that is 00:33:30.080 --> 00:33:35.600 six screws two at the top two in the middle and two at the bottom in order to 00:33:33.480 --> 00:33:41.240 put a standard ATX motherboard or in this case a slightly eatx motherboard so 00:33:39.320 --> 00:33:45.840 it uses standard holes but it is a little bit wider we're going to need 00:33:42.919 --> 00:33:48.960 three more screws or standoffs rather so standoffs look a little something like 00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:52.360 this and they screw into the back of the motherboard tray you're going to also 00:33:50.600 --> 00:33:56.600 find another piece that has a Phillips head on one side and then a socket on 00:33:54.519 --> 00:33:59.799 the other side you can use that piece to screw your standoffs into the 00:33:58.279 --> 00:34:03.960 motherboard tray so we're going to install three more one in line with the 00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:08.200 two bottom ones one in line with the two middle ones and one in line with the two 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:12.119 top ones so we end up with a total of nine here here here here here here here 00:34:10.839 --> 00:34:16.639 here and here now positioning the motherboard 00:34:14.560 --> 00:34:21.000 it's important to be extremely careful the last thing you want to do is scratch 00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:24.879 the back of your board on those fancy new standoffs that you just put into the 00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:29.240 motherboard tray so what I recommend is going in at a bit of an angle and 00:34:26.679 --> 00:34:34.200 positioning the rear IO so that it sticks through the back of your IO 00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:36.800 Shield back here before you actually lay 00:34:34.200 --> 00:34:43.159 the mother board down flat on the standoffs now holding the motherboard in 00:34:39.839 --> 00:34:44.960 place put in at least one screw in this 00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:48.720 case we're using the same coarsely threaded screws that we used for the 00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:53.280 power supply although this varies from manufacturer to manufacturer and even 00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:57.000 from case to case so always do a test fit before you start installing screws 00:34:55.440 --> 00:35:03.920 into your standoffs or you might cross thread something then proceed to tighten in the other 00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:05.800 eight screws now once you've done that 00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:10.440 it's easier to install your motherboard connectors before we move on so we're 00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:16.160 going to start with the front panel connectors for the power reset and as as 00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:20.119 well as our LEDs so first up is power and reset for these ones the orientation 00:35:18.560 --> 00:35:24.680 doesn't matter so just follow the clearly labeled connectors and clearly 00:35:22.240 --> 00:35:27.200 labeled pins on the motherboard itself if you have a little bit of trouble 00:35:25.720 --> 00:35:30.960 reading those grab out the old magnifying glass or better yet just 00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:35.520 consult the manual because it'll tell you exactly where they are next up are 00:35:33.240 --> 00:35:40.960 your power LED and your hard drive activity LED for these ones the 00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:45.560 orientation of the cables does matter you want the colored wires towards the 00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:50.079 back of the motherboard or where the io and the PCI Express slots are on all 00:35:47.839 --> 00:35:53.599 ASUS motherboards that way you're going to have your positive and negative wires 00:35:51.680 --> 00:35:57.480 in the right place if you do get them wrong don't stress out about it it's not 00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:00.920 going to break anything just switch them around around when you realize that the 00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:06.040 light isn't working next up we've got our front USB 3 for this one be really 00:36:03.920 --> 00:36:10.880 careful to install it in the correct orientation there is a key on the USB 00:36:09.040 --> 00:36:14.960 connector itself as well as on the socket so you shouldn't be able to 00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:19.599 install it incorrectly but if you did you would likely Bend all those very 00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:21.680 fragile pins the usb3 connector is very 00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:26.880 large but the pins themselves are quite small and delicate finally we have our 00:36:24.319 --> 00:36:31.800 front HD audio this has been simplified so much since 10 years ago and now all 00:36:29.200 --> 00:36:35.200 you got to do is figure out which block doesn't have a pin in it align that with 00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:40.599 the one on the motherboard that doesn't have a pin in it and plug the whole 00:36:37.359 --> 00:36:42.200 thing in finally fans we actually have 00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:46.280 an opportunity here to show you a multitude of different ways that you 00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:50.599 might install fans our rear fan we have a little bit of extra slack on that wire 00:36:48.200 --> 00:36:55.960 so we're going to do my signature Knot Before we plug it into the motherboard 00:36:53.160 --> 00:37:00.599 fan header next up we've got our top fans I needed to use a splitter for 00:36:58.160 --> 00:37:04.440 these because I don't have enough stand or enough headers on the motherboard in 00:37:02.359 --> 00:37:08.240 order to install all of my fans so the splitter plugs directly into the 00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:11.680 motherboard this came with my fans another benefit of buying premium 00:37:09.680 --> 00:37:15.800 quality fans then runs around to the back of the motherboard tray where 00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:20.200 because I was thinking Cable Management as I was building my motherboard fan 00:37:18.119 --> 00:37:24.760 cables are already running so I can plug those in tuck them away and I'm good to 00:37:22.359 --> 00:37:30.040 go which leaves us finally with the front fans these ones are both different 00:37:27.839 --> 00:37:34.280 so one of them is perfect it's a perfect run to one of the remaining plugs on the 00:37:32.200 --> 00:37:39.800 motherboard that's the top one the second one the bottom one actually has a 00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:41.839 cable that's too short Noctua includes 00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:46.400 very short cables built onto their fans to allow for shorter cleater cable runs 00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:50.440 without having a lot of extra wires to tuck away so what they also include is 00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:54.880 extension cables so I'm going to use one of those extensions in order to make 00:37:52.440 --> 00:38:00.040 this wire long enough to reach my final fan header which is down in the bottom 00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:05.160 of the chassis next up we're going to install our SSD and our hard drivve so 00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:10.839 in order to do any drives we're going to have to take out that entire hard drive 00:38:07.720 --> 00:38:12.960 cage assembly so four screws two up at 00:38:10.839 --> 00:38:17.640 the top and then two up at the bottom this handle comes out and then you can 00:38:15.520 --> 00:38:22.240 pull the whole assembly out of the case now this is a very strange hard drive 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:27.720 mounting system I've never seen anything quite like it before but it's also very 00:38:25.079 --> 00:38:32.319 versatile so first things the first things first we're going to install our 00:38:29.200 --> 00:38:34.640 SSD in the very very bottom here we got 00:38:32.319 --> 00:38:38.760 to use screws that are counter sunk screws so that is to say they don't have 00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:42.000 a head sticking up above them so we're going to use anywhere from two to four 00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:46.640 of those depending what you prefer it's an SSD so it's you know not going to be 00:38:44.640 --> 00:38:49.680 moving or anything so I usually use just two screws on them so we're going to go 00:38:48.240 --> 00:38:52.960 ahead and mount that down in the bottom where it's nice and hidden then we're 00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:57.480 going to have a look at this hard drive cage it can accept up to eight drives if 00:38:56.040 --> 00:39:02.640 you're willing to stack them right up next to each other but the way we're going to install them is we're going to 00:39:00.240 --> 00:39:06.720 do four WD black drives and we're going to stagger them out so we're going to 00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:11.040 leave spaces in between them for more air flow in between the drives however 00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:14.880 how necessary this is I don't know so we're going to install one screw into 00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:19.640 each of them on this side then flip the whole cage over and install two more 00:39:17.240 --> 00:39:23.800 screws on the other side but wait we're not done yet this is a very unique 00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:27.680 feature of this case that's the kind of thing that I would expect to see as like 00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:32.079 a weird aftermarket option for most cases but Silverstone instead includes 00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:36.839 what's probably a couple bucks worth of aluminum in heat sinks for your hard 00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:40.640 drives so you can actually Mount these directly to up to eight drives on the 00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:45.560 other side they're going to be taking air flow directly from those nf12 that 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:49.240 are coming in on the side keeping your hard drives much cooler than they'd be 00:39:47.359 --> 00:39:53.400 able to be if you didn't have heat sinks on them if you wanted to go crazy you 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:56.480 could get some thermal pads and install those in there or even some thermal 00:39:55.119 --> 00:40:01.079 paste if you think you've got a nice tight Mount although you have to check and make sure it's actually mounted 00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:05.040 right up against there but this is a very unique way to keep your hard drives 00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:08.319 cool and very unexpected to see as a stock option on a case so we can go 00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:12.000 ahead and put a couple more screws into each drive with the heat sinks there 00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:16.319 then put the whole assembly together it's quite heavy now and slide it back 00:40:14.160 --> 00:40:21.040 into the case this is where Silverstone shows yet another great Innovation and 00:40:18.599 --> 00:40:25.800 that is with these SATA cable Splitters so you can see we're able to wire things 00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:28.400 up quite cleanly now we weren't quite 00:40:25.800 --> 00:40:32.440 able to reach that 2 and2 in SSD down in the bottom however if this was my own 00:40:30.359 --> 00:40:37.000 rig I would either stretch it and see if I could just barely get there or what 00:40:34.319 --> 00:40:39.839 I'd do is I'd move that SSD take the screws out of it mount it with 00:40:38.240 --> 00:40:44.440 double-sided tape to get it a little bit closer and then I'd be able to use those 00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:48.680 SATA splitters for all of my drives and I'd only need two SATA connectors to 00:40:46.240 --> 00:40:53.079 power all the drives in my case very very nice thinking now I've been using a 00:40:51.160 --> 00:40:56.079 new technique lately where instead of pre-attached 00:40:57.400 --> 00:41:03.680 modular power supply and then running them to where they need to go I've been 00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:17.119 pre-attached I'd never built in this case before but check this out behind 00:41:14.560 --> 00:41:21.079 the power supply there is a whack ton of space where you could put all the cables 00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:25.560 you need to that you're not using from a nonmodular power supply Silverstone has 00:41:23.680 --> 00:41:28.760 then put the power supply right up against the side panel which doesn't 00:41:27.359 --> 00:41:32.760 matter cuz it's not like it needs any extra space on this side very unique 00:41:30.720 --> 00:41:35.839 approach I really like this anyway we started with the 24 pin plugging that 00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:40.040 into the motherboard and then running it behind the motherboard tray next up is 00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:44.000 the eight pin for the CPU up at the top left this is a No Frills no gimmicks 00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:47.440 professional grade board so there's only one eight pin because the reality of it 00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:50.880 is guys you only need one eight pin unless you're going like crazy Wicked 00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:55.839 liquid nitrogen which you're not doing with a board like this now in order to 00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:58.760 Cable Management those cables we're going to want to install the rest of the 00:41:57.240 --> 00:42:02.319 the power supply cabl so we'll need to install our graphics cards first the 00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:06.359 first stage in installing a graphics card in this case is to remove this 00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:10.880 little cover back here that gives you access to all the screws that allow you 00:42:08.640 --> 00:42:13.880 to remove the PCI slot covers which have extra ventilation in them very nice 00:42:12.359 --> 00:42:17.680 silver Stone so we're going to go ahead take those two screws off and remove 00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:21.559 that now it is time to consult the manual because regardless of how 00:42:19.680 --> 00:42:24.319 experienced you are technically and regardless of how much you wish you 00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:29.839 could do things without the manual this one's important so the PCI Express slots 00:42:26.760 --> 00:42:31.319 on this board they're all 16x physical 00:42:29.839 --> 00:42:34.319 okay but that doesn't mean that you just take any card and install it into any 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:38.000 slot and you're going to get Optimal Performance it doesn't necessarily work 00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:41.400 that way you want to check the manual where it will give you recommendations 00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:45.520 for how many cards you have installed and which ones you should use so that 00:42:43.319 --> 00:42:51.359 you can best take advantage of native PCI Express Lanes versus ones that are 00:42:48.240 --> 00:42:53.119 relying on a plx chip for example so in 00:42:51.359 --> 00:42:57.559 this case we wanted our cards installed in PCI Express slot one and five so 00:42:56.160 --> 00:43:01.720 we're going to go ahead and remove move those slot covers then we can install 00:42:59.839 --> 00:43:05.400 the quadro into the very top one we're going to be using this for our display 00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:09.520 out the reason for using the quadro here was that with the back plate on the GTX 00:43:07.240 --> 00:43:14.359 780 it was too tight of a fit with this cooler up here even the quadro was very 00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:18.559 very tight and normally I would recommend using even something like a 00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:22.960 non any kind of non-conductive very thin material in between this heat sink and 00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:26.800 this graphics card but in this case there's a a chip on the back that is 00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:29.960 non-conductive that is causing it to not short out but anyway I would still 00:43:28.240 --> 00:43:35.160 recommend slipping something in there to make sure it doesn't short out cu they're very very close to these fan 00:43:33.079 --> 00:43:40.720 Clips in particular right here so we installed the quadro then next up is the 00:43:37.520 --> 00:43:42.559 GTX 780 so once that's done we go ahead 00:43:40.720 --> 00:43:47.200 and put the screws back into each of these cards so it's one screw for the 00:43:44.680 --> 00:43:52.720 quadro two screws for the 780 then we can go ahead and put that back cover 00:43:49.680 --> 00:43:55.559 back in place and now we are pretty much 00:43:52.720 --> 00:44:00.359 done with those so now we can do the same thing we did last time where we are 00:43:58.200 --> 00:44:05.319 installing our PCI Express cables backwards so this power supply the 00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:09.160 ax860i comes with harnesses that have two plugs and ones that have an 00:44:07.640 --> 00:44:12.760 individual plug so we're going to use an individual plug one for the quadro and 00:44:11.200 --> 00:44:17.839 then we're going to use a dual plug one for the GTX 780 so we only actually have 00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:23.240 to run two cables finally we're going to use a single four port SATA harness to 00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:26.640 plug in our 2 and 1/2 in SSD and then those two Splitters that we were using 00:44:24.720 --> 00:44:30.839 for power to our hard drives remember guys we now easily add additional hard 00:44:28.760 --> 00:44:35.839 drives without running any additional cables due to those Splitters we can 00:44:32.280 --> 00:44:37.960 fill this bad boy right up now that we 00:44:35.839 --> 00:44:42.440 have everything run I usually find it's easiest to take everything that isn't a 00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:45.680 power supply cable and tie all that down because they tend to be relatively low 00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:50.559 profile so we'll spend a little bit of time uh tucking things into nooks and 00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:54.520 crannies and tying cables down you don't necessarily have to have an anchor point 00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:58.400 in order to get a cable tied down satisfactorily you can just take a zip 00:44:56.200 --> 00:45:02.200 tie even and you know tie it to another cable that happens to be running 00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:05.839 somewhere useful or tie it to itself in such a way that you fold it so that it's 00:45:03.720 --> 00:45:09.200 not visible anymore but either way I find that it's uh you know worth the 00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:13.200 time to just kind of play around with those ones then get started on the power 00:45:11.160 --> 00:45:18.200 supply cables so now that everything's installed we can plug the power supply 00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:22.760 cables into the power supply so first the 24 pin then the eight pin and the 2 00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:27.079 PCI Express ones those all go into the same spots and finally the one lone 00:45:25.680 --> 00:45:32.599 peripheral harness that we ended up using this is one of the benefits of a modular power supply not having all 00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:36.599 those extra cables plugged in and finally we can take those power supply 00:45:34.520 --> 00:45:40.720 cables and now add them to our cable management system at the back making 00:45:38.599 --> 00:45:44.760 sure that we don't stack things up on each other so much that we're not going 00:45:42.680 --> 00:45:48.359 to be able to close the side panel there is lots of cable management room in this 00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:53.319 case but that doesn't mean that we should you know take it for granted 00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:56.520 necessarily either admittedly if I'd been thinking straight I would have done 00:45:54.640 --> 00:46:02.000 this earlier in the assembly process probably before I installed graphics 00:45:58.440 --> 00:46:04.000 cards but SATA data we have to install 00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:10.359 our SATA cables that actually deliver data to the drives so in this case this 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:15.680 motherboard has some interesting options for how we can plug in the drives the 00:46:12.319 --> 00:46:17.440 SSD for sure we needed a straight SATA 00:46:15.680 --> 00:46:20.760 cable so unfortunately the board doesn't come with any of those so we had to go 00:46:18.839 --> 00:46:25.400 scr one but we plugged in a straight SATA cable and we're going to plug that 00:46:22.200 --> 00:46:27.440 into the Intel controller SATA 3 6 GB 00:46:25.400 --> 00:46:33.599 per second ports so that's the very top SATA 3 ports all right next we've got 00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:40.119 four Intel SATA 2 3 gbit per second ports or four Marvel SATA 3 6 gbit per 00:46:37.640 --> 00:46:44.920 second ports so we could plug these drives these WD black drives into either 00:46:42.680 --> 00:46:49.559 of them they both support the raid 10 that we're going for and it's just a 00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:54.079 matter of whether we feel like we need SATA 360 gbit per second or whether we 00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:58.240 want the compatibility of Intel RAID because if our board ever did die or for 00:46:56.559 --> 00:47:02.280 some reason we needed to grab all these drives and migrate the data off of them 00:47:00.680 --> 00:47:05.960 by putting them into another system if you use Intel RAID you'll get better 00:47:03.800 --> 00:47:10.520 compatibility however we might see slightly better performance particularly 00:47:08.040 --> 00:47:14.160 in burst operations using the Marvel controller so we opted for the Marvel 00:47:12.200 --> 00:47:18.440 controller but you might opt instead for the Intel one and that's uh that's 00:47:16.240 --> 00:47:22.040 definitely a good option as well in terms of cable management we weren't 00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:26.200 able to move them back around the back of the motherboard tray so we just ran 00:47:23.720 --> 00:47:30.200 them up the drives cable tied them off and then plugged them into into the 00:47:27.240 --> 00:47:35.520 ports where they belonged well there you have it guys we're done and the Mystery 00:47:32.960 --> 00:47:40.559 of whether or not we can put that six 2 and 1/2 in Drive cage back in when we're 00:47:37.640 --> 00:47:45.599 done is has been answered the answer is yes however I think you'd be hardpressed 00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:49.960 to uh cable manage six more drives into that spot on top of being able to have 00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:55.200 another eight drives here and you would definitely need to add some kind of SATA 00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:58.599 or SAS controller card to even be able to plug in all of those drives which 00:47:56.839 --> 00:48:04.559 which I mean it's very cool the amount of capability this case has when you 00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:06.880 consider its size so without further Ado 00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:09.839 I'm going to hand it off to Slick to walk you guys through some of the 00:48:08.440 --> 00:48:14.160 performance we were able to get out of the machine as well as sort of his 00:48:11.720 --> 00:48:17.280 impressions of the overall configuration all right so we're going 00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:22.520 to jump into the BIOS here and our mission is to change to XMP profiles and 00:48:20.359 --> 00:48:27.119 to change the boot drive so first thing we're going to go to is Advan mode and 00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:30.359 then jump into AI overclock to and change it to 00:48:28.200 --> 00:48:37.480 XMP once that's done we're going to jump over to the boot menu over here go down 00:48:33.559 --> 00:48:40.280 14 times which is ridiculous down to 00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:43.599 hard drive BBS priorities don't worry I know it's not a hard drive just jump in 00:48:41.680 --> 00:48:48.520 here change boot option one to your SSD ours is an Intel 00:48:46.040 --> 00:48:53.000 520 press F10 to save you can review your changes and then just press enter 00:48:50.359 --> 00:48:57.240 for yes and you're good to go so once we get into the controller we just jump 00:48:54.839 --> 00:49:01.119 directly into the configuration wizard and go down and select all of our drives 00:48:59.160 --> 00:49:04.160 by pressing space bar and down once you've done that press enter change to 00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:09.599 raid 10 which is just raid 1 and zero keep 00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:13.240 64k stripe size as it's a little bit faster and then name it something that 00:49:11.480 --> 00:49:17.280 probably isn't default and once you've done that just go next and you are done 00:49:15.160 --> 00:49:20.240 that's all it has to do just press y to confirm that you actually want to do 00:49:18.640 --> 00:49:25.520 this and you'll see right there under virtual diss that what you've named is 00:49:22.520 --> 00:49:27.599 now an actual raid so we wanted to talk 00:49:25.520 --> 00:49:31.280 about the PA 279 but instead of just talking about it and how ridiculously 00:49:29.720 --> 00:49:36.319 good it looks we wanted to show it off so this is a 10 bit image sample that 00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:38.400 we're showing on a 10bit p279 panel and 00:49:36.319 --> 00:49:42.400 an 8bit panel you can see on the 10-bit panel that it is extremely smooth and 00:49:40.520 --> 00:49:45.760 when when you move it over to the 8bit panel you can see vertical lines running 00:49:44.119 --> 00:49:49.760 through it so while we can talk about how good it looks this actually shows 00:49:47.720 --> 00:49:53.359 how good it looks so we want to show off the raw power of this system so what 00:49:51.319 --> 00:49:58.160 we're running is Da Vinci resolve using a source file that was filmed by Brandon 00:49:55.520 --> 00:50:02.240 and then heavily eded by edited by edzel we are currently rendering it using Cuda 00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:07.280 although with this system you can use CPU encoding Cuda accelerated encoding 00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:11.200 or even h264 encoders because of all the options that you have as you can see 00:50:09.160 --> 00:50:15.440 we're using both of our gpus the quadro is at fairly low usage and is actually 00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:20.920 just being used for guy for dentally resolve and the rest of the general 00:50:17.040 --> 00:50:22.280 Monitor and then GPU 2 G the GTX 780 is 00:50:20.920 --> 00:50:28.280 actually being used for its Cuda performance so it's actually pushing pretty hard along with the CPU you can 00:50:26.359 --> 00:50:32.440 see temps in here right now both the gpus are sitting right around 50° which 00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:37.040 is totally fine and the CPU is only going around 40 to 50° tops which is 00:50:35.240 --> 00:50:40.359 also totally fine and great for this system as you can see the CPU is 00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:45.680 actually running fairly hard bouncing between 60 and 70% so with all of that 00:50:43.720 --> 00:50:50.280 out of the way a big 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