a high refresh rate monitor a carbon fiber gaming mouse a four sensitive
keyboard money everyone knows that these
are the things that you need to be a great gamer or that's what PC companies
want you to think razor Logitech NVIDIA
they all want you to feel like you need to spend big to win big but do you to
find out we built the most Tri hard PC
setup possible buying into every single claim frame and mind game that PC
Hardware manufacturer's pitch and we're going to see how much of an edge we
really get compared to the average PC which you know parts are actually worth
splurging on and which are a total waste of money you know let's talk Hardware
naturally we got to start with the best the beastly Intel Core I9 13900 K and
the Behemoth ASUS Rog stricks
4090 because frames win games we've
proven it and these two pretty much always get the most frames to manage all
that power and heat we've gone with a fractal torrent equipped with a 420 mm
nice AIO from Corsair 7 140 mm nocta
industrial fans and three NF1 12s at the
bottom of the case for fresh air to our GPU which we then exhaust through the
front mounted radiator where we've removed the dust filters entirely for
better air flow finally we swapped out the stock retention bracket for a
thermal Grizzly bracket to give us a few more degrees of cooling on the CPU and
up in the attic lives our power supply from C Sonic who sponsored this video we
chose their PX 1300 because it's 80 plus Platinum certified and so even at 20%
load this thing will be at worst 90% efficient and all their new psus in the
PX lineup come with a 12volt high power connector so you don't need this stupid
octopus adapter when you put in the 4090 for the motherboard we are using the
EVGA z790 dark Kingpin motherboard
specifically meant for extreme
overclockers notice that the RAM has been moved up to the top of the board
this is specifically to reduce the distance from the CPU to improve the
timings we've used the onboard utility to overclock our CPU to 5.8 GHz across
all cores for that extra oomph you know and of course we have ample fast storage
in the form of 10 terabytes worth of PCI Express Gen 4 and vme ssds okay now for
peripherals our Guiding Light is latency
reduction latency is the time between input and eventual output and is the
enemy of good gaming every single piece in this setup is focused on reducing the
time between targeting the enemy and seeing his head replaced with a thin Red
Mist the biggest source of latency in your system is likely going to be the
display a typical 144hz gaming display
introduces a whopping 6.94 milliseconds
of latency compared that to the 390 Herz
of the Acer Nitro X the fastest monitor
on the market today where each frame is displayed for just 2.56 milliseconds
this Nets us a nearly 4.38 millisecond
reduction that is if you can run your games that fast in scenarios where
performance is CPU limited like we are preventing us from running all of our
games at 390 frames per second you might want to consider the ASUS Rog Swift pg27
aqn which is 1440p and 360 HZ mean you
can trade 30 HZ for extra image Clarity
we have both here but to reduce GPU overhead we'll be unplugging our second
monitor while gaming and for peripherals the Aon kig
m2k uh okay this is the m1k but they
were all out of m2ks and this uses the same sensor and switches so for our
purposes it works at just 24 RS you are
basically holding nothing this mouse doesn't waste time with side buttons or
even most of the mouse what it does have is two clicks and a scroll wheel or well
the m2k has a scroll wheel and 8,000 HZ
pulling rate which means that your inputs will be delayed at most
0.125 milliseconds eight times faster
than other piddly Gamers thousand Herz pulling rates and if you simply cannot
stand the shape then maybe recommend the more more Normy razor Viper 8 khz while
it does come in at nearly three times the weight of the Zan kig it has the
same polling rate and sensor and it is a lot easier to buy we're using a glass
mouse pad for maximum slage feels like you're moving on nothing at all nothing
at all nothing at all damn sexy Flanders our keyboard is
the wooting 60 H what makes this so
special is that each switch is actually an analog input meaning we can do things
like partially push our keys down to walk rather than run and we can set our
actuation point to 0.1 mm a typical key switch actuates at
around 1.5 to 2 mm into the keystroke so
that takes about 5 milliseconds more for that key press to register just by the
force of the action alone by setting our actuation point so much higher our key
presses will register 15 to 20 times faster than the competition
just .25 milliseconds the catch is that
our keyboard only has a th000 HZ pulling rate meaning that the average latency
will still be 1 millisecond the only way we could improve this is if the next
revision adds 8,000 HZ polling what makes this actually the best for gaming
is that it's an optical instead of a mechanical switch meaning there's no
debounce delay at all so as soon as you
unpress a key it's instantly un un
pressed to ensure that no inputs get lost in the high polling rate Fray we
plugged our devices into different USP controllers on our motherboard you can
use your motherboard manual to see which ports are managed by each controller oh
wait there is one other input that we
forgot to talk about our foot pedals we
can't afford to move our fingers away from those was keys so we got elgato's
stream deck foot pedals to quickly and easily map some of our less time
critical inputs to things like reloading or taunting the polling rate on this is
not nearly as high as we would hope but we might be able to overclock the thing
for a little bit lower latency that's a whole other can of worms finally we have
our audio solution for the clearest coms we went with an electrovoice re20 with
the dynamite preamp connected to our audient Evo interface for the front end
we went with the Sennheiser hd800s for its incredible Sound Stage which allows
us to pinpoint the footsteps of our enemies with ease oh yeah and we even got the
ultimate gaming router the ASUS Rog Rapture a quadband gaming router that
has tweaks to optimize Network traffic for gaming oh and uh naturally we have
the Herman Miller embody gaming chair for maximum ergonomics and comfort we
also made some tweaks like we disabled background processes like Windows
Defender which is always a good idea we've disabled Wi-Fi on the motherboard
to reduce Emi and CPU interrupts we've turned on multi-core enhancement set
Windows to GPU accelerated scheduling and ultimate performance power plan set
XMP on and we've given our CPU and GPU a
slight overclock to get a little bit of extra performance we aren't pushing too
hard as stability is Paramount for the sweaty tryhard gamer okay enough Theory
crafting let's see if all of this is worth it by testing it with real Gamers
and by Gamers we mean lonus sup no wrong
one oh get out of here we're going to compare our two setups this is the most
average gaming PC we've made one upgrade a 144 HZ monitor sure we're going to
compare that to the full try hard setup the sweatiest gaming PC absolutely get
your bearings here enjoy it play a game with the most common peripherals the
typical kind of experience a deskmat from LTT
store.com is there anyone else on this map am I are there supposed to be people
to fight B to get out of here there's no Bots what the hell Jake okay just press
Escape go start a bot match or you can play a real match and see how you do I
never used to feel like the g502 was Heavy it's kind of heavy by today's
standards I use a G Pro Wireless at home and it's it's a lot
later okay oh shoot wow uh okay that was
probably the heavy Mouse uh was probably because of the heavy Mouse no no no oh
shoot no come on come on ah
shoot
oh ah come on no hold down tab that's where you are
on the leaderboard well you know what it's hard see that he was at the very
bottom it is hard yeah it's hard what if
we could upgrade your game all right let's try the upgrade all right welcome
to the try hard setup 999 frames per
second this is the mouse yes it weighs but 23 g wow okay and we have you
equipped with the wooting 60hp wa this
like a hair trigger keyboard because it's an optical and analog switch you
can set the actuation point as high or as low as you want I've set it to 0.1 mm
so that the moment you want to make an action you go it also has rapid trigger
so the moment you relieve any pressure from the key it just stops sending a
signal you don't have to wait for it to cross back over the actuation point again that's pretty cool what is this
doing here that's your for your comms for your team and also we equi you with
the best headphones you could find for Sound Stage okay I should definitely try
without sound first for Apples to Apples here is this a 390 HZ monitor it is it's
the fastest monitor currently on the market okay okay got
him come on he's right there what do you
mean I only hit him three times okay here I have a solution no you're getting
clammy hammed you need to use gamer goo which flavor would you like and it
comes oh I'm liking the weight of this mouse I'm not liking the shape very much
but not going to lie kind of actually feeling it okay what's the gamer goo
fine we got we got smells I don't what this got orange peppermint uh we'll put
some on your hands so you can get improve your grip it's kind of a shiny
Mouse this is chaos also we've brought you some ghost gamer neotropics what I
don't that's so a neut Tropic it's brain enhancing chemicals these are all legal
what are you even talking about I'm trying to enhance your performance Linus well it's not going to do anything
instantly well it should have taken it 15 minutes ago cuz the amount of time it
takes for caffeine to kick in that's the important thing to know about all of these the actual thing that matters is
the caffeine so you can just dry scoop it right now if you want um
sure I'm going to get him some water oh God he's going to
die I'm fine very unpleasant not recommended
honestly there's too much Randomness with just people being flipping
everywhere in this tip okay let's go
into aim lab um just press steam it's right there no I won't oh my God how do
I even oh my God how I don't have a mouse wheel I don't know how to use a
computer without a scroll wheel how do you actually the good news is that the
newer version of this mouse does have a scroll wheel but the company only makes
a certain amount every year and they ran
out they're like two guys they're working really hard okay all right all
right I'm probably not going to do very well oh yeah I definitely feel sweatier
I'm a sweatier gamer for sure okay 68% accuracy so I am above
average barely which means that you'll probably be worse when you're not
performance enhanced but I should have more caffeine in my system with my heavy
ass Mouse here all right I got better
okay now you want to go back and try this test over here what what what did I
get that time or wait I guess it's a different test you had
45,000 I'm familiar with the test now okay let's try the sweaty setup
49,27805 kill total nice oh yeah and
just so you know this computer uh this whole setup it's um it's
$111,000 this one is about uh it's about
600 so that extra $10,400 probably
better inest Ed in some coaching yeah yeah or practice practice but that's not
that's not the point pay yourself to practice but what do you think what do
you think about some of these parts do you think that any of these actually make a huge difference like this is a
huge difference maker for me a fan yeah yeah oh yeah scores and test asde which
are affected by a human element what is the actual difference in latency between
one system and the other on this system the average end to endend latency so
from click to when you see something happen on your screen that's 12
milliseconds really yeah which is a lot
faster than the average PC which is 26
milliseconds and yet I still can't
really feel the difference between them huh we are really at a point of
diminishing returns here aren't we especially when you consider like human
reaction speeds and stuff like that is like around the 180 to 280 millisecond
range you're talking about a less than a tenth of your own human reaction speed
right but in the event where two people across
the planet click at the exact same time this system's going to win out pretty
much every time damn it I haven't gotten all five of them a single time ah if you
like this video why don't you watch the one we did on the most average gaming PC
since that's really all you need evidently