1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,859 we all make mistakes what a blue screened single graphics and 2 00:00:06,180 --> 00:00:13,799 when I built my personal gaming machine I made a few I bought a workstation CPU 3 00:00:11,519 --> 00:00:18,660 for no good reason I Hardline water cooled it which has caused me hours of 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:21,660 headaches and I chose arguably the worst 5 00:00:18,660 --> 00:00:25,500 possible solution for storage an 8 6 00:00:21,660 --> 00:00:27,180 terabyte software Raid 0 SSD array they 7 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:31,859 say don't let your memes be dreams you know what I say don't let them be your 8 00:00:29,099 --> 00:00:37,020 actual life the good news is I had a chance to rectify all of that in our 9 00:00:34,079 --> 00:00:42,239 epic tour of micron's Idaho r d facility I had the honor of manufacturing my own 10 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:46,200 custom memory modules using engineering sample chips but micron's condition for 11 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:51,300 that was that if they were going to go to so much trouble I had to actually 12 00:00:48,420 --> 00:00:55,680 daily drive them but my system doesn't support ddr5 so I guess I need a 13 00:00:53,820 --> 00:01:00,300 platform upgrade now the Intel versus AMD question was settled already in our 14 00:00:58,199 --> 00:01:04,440 recent drag race but it's taken until now to sort out all the other details 15 00:01:02,219 --> 00:01:08,520 and well I guess I'll just put it this way this is going to be a very 16 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:13,140 unconventional video given that I am actually downgrading the system in more 17 00:01:10,799 --> 00:01:17,640 ways than one just like I downgraded this Segway to our sponsor let me see 18 00:01:15,119 --> 00:01:22,200 how low effort that was signal RGB with signal RGB you can control and sync your 19 00:01:19,979 --> 00:01:27,420 favorite RGB devices with a single easy to use app best of all it's free so 20 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:30,020 download signal RGB at the link in the video description 21 00:01:36,380 --> 00:01:43,619 it makes sense to start with the very no not that no it was supposed to go into 22 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:48,479 place like that that's what I meant to do but I 23 00:01:46,079 --> 00:01:53,159 let's start with the very worst decision that I made the eight terabyte raid card 24 00:01:51,180 --> 00:02:00,240 unlike a conventional raid card the aorus Gen 4 AIC SSD doesn't actually 25 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:03,299 contain any raid Logic on it it just 26 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:05,640 takes the 16 PCIe Gen 4 lanes that come 27 00:02:03,299 --> 00:02:10,259 up through the slot here and then splits them up into four quad Lane m.2 slots 28 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:13,680 the advantage of this approach is that it's economical since you don't need an 29 00:02:11,879 --> 00:02:18,360 expensive controller on the board but the disadvantage is that this card will 30 00:02:15,959 --> 00:02:24,360 only work on a motherboard that supports PCIe Lane bifurcation so the ability to 31 00:02:21,660 --> 00:02:28,980 take a slot and split it into more Lower Lane count slots now some consumer 32 00:02:27,180 --> 00:02:33,480 motherboards support that but it's most common on workstation and server boards 33 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:37,739 the other disadvantage is that because this is essentially just four 34 00:02:35,459 --> 00:02:41,280 independent drives the only way to get them to operate together is using 35 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:45,780 software raid meaning that you can't just take this card plunk it in any 36 00:02:44,220 --> 00:02:50,280 system and assume that it's going to boot up as the eagle-eyed among you have 37 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:54,599 probably noticed that last bit is not necessarily a problem today since I am 38 00:02:52,319 --> 00:02:58,680 sticking with AMD this time around but it doesn't change the fact that this is 39 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:02,280 not a very elegant solution which means you're probably thinking one of two 40 00:02:59,819 --> 00:03:06,300 things right now either why did he do something so stupid when he knows it's 41 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:10,680 stupid or that April Fool's video is real and the guy's actually an idiot and 42 00:03:09,239 --> 00:03:16,920 I wouldn't really blame you for either of them the honest answer is that I 50 43 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:21,720 percent just wanted more capacity than you could get on a single m.2 at the 44 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:27,180 time and the other 50 percent was straight memeing I absolutely know 45 00:03:24,659 --> 00:03:32,940 better but I mean come on when they said the PS5 SSD was faster than any pcssd 46 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:36,239 they practically dared me to put one of these in my system also I couldn't 47 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:41,280 resist seeing the look on Jake's face now to introduce the new life drive this 48 00:03:39,180 --> 00:03:47,879 is the sabrin eight terabyte Gen 4 plus it's PCIe gen 4x4 rated for 7.1 and 6.6 49 00:03:45,959 --> 00:03:52,620 gigabytes per second reading writes it's got the same eight terabyte capacity in 50 00:03:50,220 --> 00:03:57,000 a tiny little package like this and I don't have to deal with any software 51 00:03:54,599 --> 00:04:00,480 raid Shenanigans yeah this is much more sensible we were worried that my 52 00:03:58,620 --> 00:04:04,200 software raid setup would cause me one last inconvenience on my way out the 53 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:07,620 door but thankfully with a compatible board and an old copy of paragon disk 54 00:04:06,239 --> 00:04:12,060 manager we were able to make short work of it this is actually booted to the new 55 00:04:09,900 --> 00:04:15,900 drive and we're ready to shutter down and move on with the build now a funny 56 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:20,459 thing we noticed during the migration is that based on the data rates it seems 57 00:04:18,479 --> 00:04:27,240 like trim might not have been working properly meaning that while the raid 58 00:04:22,919 --> 00:04:29,820 card does use a full Gen 4 by 16 slot 59 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:35,280 with 31.5 gigabytes a second of theoretical bandwidth that's twice the 60 00:04:32,340 --> 00:04:40,919 bandwidth of even a Gen 5 m.2 slot it was using basically none of it 61 00:04:37,979 --> 00:04:46,440 meaning that our first downgrade where I go from this to this is probably going 62 00:04:44,100 --> 00:04:51,660 to improve performance now that we've got a sensible SSD that doesn't require 63 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:53,580 16 PCIe Lanes off of the CPU we can go 64 00:04:51,660 --> 00:05:00,540 with a much more sensible platform the heart of which will be the ryzen 9 7950x 65 00:04:56,280 --> 00:05:03,120 with only 16 cores this is our second 66 00:05:00,540 --> 00:05:11,820 technical downgrade I was running a threadripper 3960x before which is a 24 67 00:05:05,940 --> 00:05:14,520 core CPU but the 3960x is Zen 2. while 68 00:05:11,820 --> 00:05:19,199 this uses AMD's shiny new Zen 4 architecture meaning that even though 69 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:22,979 the clock speeds are only a little bit higher the real world performance 70 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:28,740 particularly in single threaded applications like games is a lot faster 71 00:05:26,039 --> 00:05:33,840 now when we tested the 7950x versus Intel's core I9 13900k the gaming 72 00:05:31,979 --> 00:05:39,780 performance was basically neck and neck meaning that when it came time to pick 73 00:05:36,180 --> 00:05:42,360 one it came down to price AMD has 74 00:05:39,780 --> 00:05:46,979 slashed the 7950x from its introductory price all the way down to 600 US dollars 75 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:50,460 in the time since we did that video it looks like Intel has followed suit but 76 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:53,639 we made the decision I've got water blocks and motherboards and all that 77 00:05:51,900 --> 00:05:57,360 kind of stuff anyway so I guess this is what we're doing you're probably wondering by the way what's going to 78 00:05:55,740 --> 00:06:02,460 happen to my old threadripper it's going to be going into one of our editing workstations since not only did AMD 79 00:06:00,660 --> 00:06:06,120 never provide an upgrade path for this platform they aren't even producing any 80 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:10,500 more chips for it so they're really hard to get along with the price drop on the 81 00:06:07,979 --> 00:06:15,720 chips the motherboards for socket am5 have become much more affordable I mean 82 00:06:13,020 --> 00:06:21,419 look at this the x670e PG lightning isn't cheap it's 250 bucks but that's 83 00:06:18,780 --> 00:06:25,440 still half the price even a third of the price of some premium Boards out there 84 00:06:23,039 --> 00:06:29,520 and has basically everything that you could need 14 plus two plus one phase 85 00:06:27,780 --> 00:06:36,300 power design two and a half gig Lan ample PCIe and USB expansion and perhaps 86 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:40,020 most importantly for me a gen 4x4 slot that's wired up directly to the PCIe 87 00:06:38,039 --> 00:06:44,220 lanes coming off of the CPU where I can install a Thunderbolt 4 card I have kind 88 00:06:42,539 --> 00:06:48,060 of an unconventional setup at home with my PC in another room and Thunderbolt 89 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:51,900 allows me to have all the i o that I could want at my desk over a single 90 00:06:50,460 --> 00:06:58,740 cable I haven't even got my board installed yet and I'm already stripping it down I found something interesting 91 00:06:55,340 --> 00:07:01,440 AMD's x670 extreme platform supports 92 00:06:58,740 --> 00:07:06,300 more PCIe Lanes than their regular x670 and the way that they do that is they 93 00:07:03,539 --> 00:07:10,620 actually just wire up two of their motherboard chipsets in serial one after 94 00:07:08,460 --> 00:07:15,240 the other the reason I came across this is this is my first in detail am5 build 95 00:07:13,620 --> 00:07:19,080 and I was trying to figure out where to put my SSD so the way you do that is you 96 00:07:17,699 --> 00:07:26,220 check the block diagram for the motherboard and you're looking for whichever m.2 slots are wired up most 97 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:30,060 directly to the CPU notice the block diagrams that there were two chipsets 98 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:34,440 first one then the other which means that if I were to use this slot or this 99 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:38,819 slot there's more potential bottlenecks as those PCIe Lanes make their way back 100 00:07:36,180 --> 00:07:42,419 to the CPU compared to this one and this one since this is a Gen 4 drive and I 101 00:07:40,860 --> 00:07:45,660 might want to add a higher speed Gen 5 Drive in the future I'm going to go 102 00:07:44,099 --> 00:07:50,400 ahead and choose the slot that's wired up through only one chipset rather than 103 00:07:48,180 --> 00:07:53,880 the one that goes through two of them it probably won't make any difference but 104 00:07:52,020 --> 00:07:58,319 you know hey if you want to be a purist about it then this is the best gen 4x4 105 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:01,860 slot on the board this one also happens to be the only Gen 4 slot that comes 106 00:08:00,060 --> 00:08:07,020 with a heatsink not again like that matters but hey it's there oh next up 107 00:08:04,919 --> 00:08:14,060 we're doing water cooling here we go holy crap this thing is heavy apparently 108 00:08:10,919 --> 00:08:19,860 EK sent over their Quantum velocity to 109 00:08:14,060 --> 00:08:21,660 drgb am5 full nickel oh that explains it 110 00:08:19,860 --> 00:08:25,560 the bottom is machined out of pure electrolytic copper and then unlike most 111 00:08:23,699 --> 00:08:30,660 blocks which will have an acrylic top so you can see through them the top is more 112 00:08:28,259 --> 00:08:34,740 nickel plated copper I don't know that I would recommend water cooling these days 113 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:38,940 the price to Performance just isn't there but you can't deny the looks and 114 00:08:37,380 --> 00:08:43,919 the advantage of this particular block is that it is designed for socket am5 115 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:48,140 and the dye layout of ryzen 7000 specifically to provide optimal Cooling 116 00:08:50,580 --> 00:08:56,459 to be a back plate in here I don't believe it I think you have to 117 00:08:54,240 --> 00:09:01,440 disassemble the Block in order to install it what look I don't want to 118 00:08:59,279 --> 00:09:06,420 believe it either I know I know you'd think I was just finding an excuse to 119 00:09:03,060 --> 00:09:08,700 talk about the high quality ratchet and 120 00:09:06,420 --> 00:09:13,260 included bits of the LTT storage screwdriver but no I think I actually do 121 00:09:11,339 --> 00:09:16,320 need to do this I've never met a water block I couldn't figure out how to 122 00:09:14,580 --> 00:09:21,060 install I'm not about to start now I'm taking my shot my one shot my one 123 00:09:18,180 --> 00:09:26,399 opportunity mom's spaghetti right now yep oh I see because I gotta install 124 00:09:24,420 --> 00:09:30,420 these yeah yeah yeah I thought that you know there was going to be more of this 125 00:09:27,839 --> 00:09:33,720 and these were gonna be screwable into the back 126 00:09:31,740 --> 00:09:39,420 I might have to look this up installing the water block put it there and then 127 00:09:36,180 --> 00:09:42,060 using the included t7 L-shaped wrench 128 00:09:39,420 --> 00:09:46,140 fasten that wait what we brought Alex in as a consultant here to make sure that 129 00:09:43,740 --> 00:09:48,680 I'm not a complete idiot am I missing something here 130 00:09:49,019 --> 00:09:58,620 okay in the meantime let's talk memory these are super weird 131 00:09:55,440 --> 00:10:00,779 modules they are 24 gig modules meaning 132 00:09:58,620 --> 00:10:05,399 that with two of them which really is kind of optimal for am5 I'll have a 133 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:10,500 total of 48 gigs of RAM my third downgrade from the 64 gigs in my old 134 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:16,260 system but since they're ddr5 they should be substantially faster how much 135 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:18,899 faster I don't know the Micron straight 136 00:10:16,260 --> 00:10:23,220 up memed the labels and while I have run them before I don't remember what they 137 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:28,500 are so we'll find out once we Boot It Up of course we're not going to install them just like this as a gaming system 138 00:10:26,279 --> 00:10:34,440 we need some heat spreaders but not just any old heat spreaders will do we 139 00:10:31,140 --> 00:10:36,420 settled on these matching blue I have a 140 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:42,360 bit of a theme going on here matching blue heat spreaders from some ancient 141 00:10:39,180 --> 00:10:44,279 Micron fully buffered dims from back in 142 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:48,180 the day and there's a couple of reasons that we decided on an FB dim spreader 143 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:51,779 when I said there were a couple reasons for using these spreaders there was 144 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:56,100 actually just one reason see this little raised bit in the middle here that's to 145 00:10:54,420 --> 00:11:00,180 accommodate the buffer chip on these fully buffered dims 146 00:10:57,779 --> 00:11:05,220 now ddr5 doesn't have a buffer chip but what it does have is onboard power 147 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:09,720 control so this is called the pmic and it seems to my eye like it's a little 148 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:14,300 bit higher than the memory ICS themselves meaning that I wanted a 149 00:11:11,100 --> 00:11:14,300 spreader that would 150 00:11:14,820 --> 00:11:21,899 for that here's something I didn't really anticipate the memory packages on 151 00:11:19,019 --> 00:11:27,420 this are a lot lower is this even going to cover them also ddr5 is a touch wider 152 00:11:25,140 --> 00:11:32,519 so if I can just wow that's wild look how much this has 153 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:36,540 faded there's no ICS on the back of this module so probably it wouldn't do 154 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:39,660 anything bad but there's a possibility that it would short something if I put 155 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:43,800 this on here like this what I'm going to do is I'm just going to put like a 156 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:47,579 thermal pad back there and to help space it out this thermal pad is very sticky 157 00:11:45,959 --> 00:11:51,120 which is good that's what it's supposed to do right there yeah good good good 158 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:54,720 good good good good good good good okay now I'm just going to try to hand Bend 159 00:11:52,680 --> 00:12:02,700 this oh yeah now I just got to put the clips on stickers back on stealthy ddr5 160 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:08,700 nice nice 161 00:12:03,959 --> 00:12:11,399 yeah we figured it out this 162 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:15,120 is how you turn it oh and you turn it this way so you're taking the screw and 163 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:21,300 instead of screwing it in from the top you are pulling it into the threads from 164 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:23,459 the bottom with this little Torx key 165 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:28,440 that means that our stock backplate on this motherboard was perfectly fine and 166 00:12:26,279 --> 00:12:34,200 everything was fine all we needed to do was look more closely here 167 00:12:32,399 --> 00:12:39,440 please tell me this isn't cross-threaded we're going to forge our own path here 168 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,440 new threads 169 00:12:41,300 --> 00:12:48,060 hopefully that was tight enough that will have to be drilled out this block 170 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:53,040 is never coming off the sport now that the board's all geared up we are 171 00:12:49,620 --> 00:12:55,560 basically ready to do the upgrade huh 172 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:59,399 not really the weight distribution is not what I thought it was yeah there's 173 00:12:57,420 --> 00:13:03,480 clearly still a lot of water in it though well I don't know you know what 174 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:09,540 sure how bad could this be all right easy peasy no problem it's gonna be like 175 00:13:07,019 --> 00:13:14,100 the fastest system upgrade ever until we go to put in hard line tubing 176 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,700 oh yeah also we're gonna need to water block this card 177 00:13:15,420 --> 00:13:21,120 oh I'm feeling good about this assembly of 178 00:13:19,380 --> 00:13:24,480 this card it looks like it's just a handful of screws on the back plate and 179 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:29,940 then more screws through the PCB and this cooler is just going to pop right off please tell me it's easy to 180 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:33,180 disassemble oh I mean there's some water but that's fine 181 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:36,420 there was a spill at some point evidently for those of you wondering I 182 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:40,920 am not going to be changing the power supply and the reason is that this 183 00:13:38,339 --> 00:13:44,339 particular 80 plus titanium unit from seasonic 184 00:13:42,180 --> 00:13:47,940 it's a thousand Watts that's more than enough for a single GPU system which is 185 00:13:46,260 --> 00:13:50,440 all anyone really does these days anyway so I'm just going to go ahead and leave 186 00:13:49,740 --> 00:14:05,480 it alone 187 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:11,579 blow harder okay oh oh yeah definitely 188 00:14:08,820 --> 00:14:15,740 to blow harder I was joking following instructions yeah it's really going in 189 00:14:13,380 --> 00:14:15,740 the bucket 190 00:14:18,660 --> 00:14:26,779 it occurs to me that I don't know the exact height that that inlet's at that's 191 00:14:22,860 --> 00:14:26,779 what I'm doing this aha okay 192 00:14:31,980 --> 00:14:36,660 and now oh my gosh it is close to being 193 00:14:35,339 --> 00:14:41,279 too long hey look at that beautiful 194 00:14:41,279 --> 00:14:46,440 we definitely took one shortcut but 195 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:51,300 In fairness to us this is a really hard Bend so we didn't 196 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:55,980 we're pretty much ready to Cable manage it up and go given the last time that I 197 00:14:53,399 --> 00:15:00,480 daily drove AMD was over 10 years ago you guys are probably wondering what's 198 00:14:57,959 --> 00:15:03,779 the deal with the 7900 XTX in the build well there's a couple reasons for it 199 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:11,040 first I'm in the middle of the AMD challenge so I'm going to AMD whether I 200 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:12,720 like it or not and second why not AMD 201 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:17,040 right now I mean yeah it's still expensive it's a thousand dollars for 202 00:15:14,339 --> 00:15:21,240 this card but for the first time in a long time AMD's not only competitive 203 00:15:18,959 --> 00:15:26,279 with the top offerings from NVIDIA but their driver improvements over the last 204 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:28,279 few years have been unbelievable so I've 205 00:15:26,279 --> 00:15:33,899 already had this card in my system for at least a couple of weeks I just 206 00:15:31,199 --> 00:15:40,199 haven't had any issues with it so by all means you're welcome to stay Radeon 7900 207 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:43,980 XTX it might not look new but it's kind of having a pretty new 208 00:15:42,180 --> 00:15:49,740 looking Vibe here David what do you think yeah you know I wasn't sure about that 209 00:15:47,339 --> 00:15:52,440 crusty blue memory but I am loving it it looks good it fits all your cables and 210 00:15:51,180 --> 00:15:56,220 everything looks awesome yeah it looks like oh we didn't put in the Thunderbolt 211 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:59,399 card yeah oh and the 10 gig did you put the 10 gig in no okay so yeah they're 212 00:15:58,019 --> 00:16:03,839 still here there's still stuff for us to install yeah getting our hands on this guy was kind of a pain in the butt 213 00:16:02,399 --> 00:16:07,380 they're sold out everywhere so we had to go to eBay but it's an essential 214 00:16:05,519 --> 00:16:11,279 component of my build because I use Optical Thunderbolt cables to run my 215 00:16:09,540 --> 00:16:15,420 peripherals really far away from my tower this is a Thunderbolt add-in card 216 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:19,320 and it's using the latest Intel controller codename Maple Ridge which I 217 00:16:17,639 --> 00:16:23,240 love because that's the town that I grew up in 218 00:16:20,699 --> 00:16:27,540 shout out Maple Ridge yeah all right anyway the point is it 219 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:32,040 adds two 40 gigabit per second Thunderbolt ports supports up to 27 watt 220 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:36,540 charging and you can use it to add Thunderbolt to any supported motherboard 221 00:16:34,260 --> 00:16:42,480 and you might be thinking really Thunderbolt on an AMD board the answer 222 00:16:38,699 --> 00:16:44,519 is yes not just usb4 actual Thunderbolt 223 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:48,240 because the Intel Thunderbolt chip is this guy right here and while 224 00:16:46,500 --> 00:16:52,680 motherboard manufacturers are super cagey about this for some reason if you 225 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:57,180 dig into the specs for these add-in cards they aren't Intel only and you can 226 00:16:55,079 --> 00:17:00,779 find lots of AMD boards that support them including this one right here the 227 00:16:59,339 --> 00:17:05,400 main requirement is that while Thunderbolt is PCIe based so 228 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:09,360 theoretically those four lanes are what we're using to get all the bandwidth out 229 00:17:06,780 --> 00:17:14,339 of these ports the board has to have a special Thunderbolt header so I just 230 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:16,620 need to go ahead and plug this guy 231 00:17:14,339 --> 00:17:22,319 Boop just like that so much for cable management and then it's weird but this 232 00:17:18,959 --> 00:17:24,780 particular card calls for a second USB 2 233 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:30,480 connection to an internal header now I already used up both of my usb2 headers 234 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:37,260 for my front panel connectors but here's a perhaps little-known trick 235 00:17:33,179 --> 00:17:39,660 you can convert USB 3 to USB 2 by simply 236 00:17:37,260 --> 00:17:47,940 not using all of the extra pins boom boom wow that bottom PCIe 16x slot 237 00:17:45,179 --> 00:17:51,419 is just 1X electrically that explains why we couldn't use almost any of the 10 238 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:55,679 gig network cards that are out there because most of them use a buy four 239 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:58,620 interface so a longer interface which you could absolutely plug into one of 240 00:17:57,299 --> 00:18:03,419 these slots but it would only be getting a quarter of its expected bandwidth oh 241 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:08,100 except this one from OWC which uses a gen 4x1 interface which happens to be 242 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:12,419 just about the right amount the 10 gig networking let's go ahead and put this 243 00:18:11,039 --> 00:18:16,740 little guy in here are you going to tell the people why you need 10 gig I mean I 244 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:22,140 don't need it it's fast though it's really fast two and a half gig is such a 245 00:18:19,740 --> 00:18:26,880 good middle ground these days okay here we go let's fire it up 246 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:33,299 oh wow those blocks look incredible you got 247 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:36,660 a red light hey oh oh are you kidding me that's not good I hope it's not a RAM 248 00:18:34,740 --> 00:18:40,200 well actually I hope it is RAM that's probably the easiest solution why is it 249 00:18:38,340 --> 00:18:44,780 that every video we make turns into a troubleshooting video oh it's posting 250 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:49,740 automatic repair wait automatic repair diagnosis diagnosing your PC hey this is 251 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:54,360 a lot better than the red light and no screen we got 20 seconds ago now we blue 252 00:18:52,140 --> 00:18:58,080 screened sorry we lose an accessible boot device it's your drive blue blue 253 00:18:55,980 --> 00:19:02,520 screen yeah and it's an accessible boot device 254 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:08,100 this is why you don't set up your boot Drive in the 4x2 grade zero 255 00:19:05,580 --> 00:19:13,080 configuration and then we transfer it to an eight terabyte Sovereign Drive what's 256 00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:17,340 the point there was none take that PlayStation we've got a couple ideas for 257 00:19:14,820 --> 00:19:22,200 how to fix this one is to just try the drive cloning process again and see if 258 00:19:19,140 --> 00:19:25,260 maybe something went wrong another is to 259 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:27,179 try to drive as is but maybe enable AMD 260 00:19:25,260 --> 00:19:30,419 raid in the BIOS and just see if it's something to do with trying to load the 261 00:19:28,740 --> 00:19:33,600 AMD raid driver as it's trying to boot since that's faster why don't we do that 262 00:19:32,340 --> 00:19:37,620 first actually all right we're going to try NVMe RAID 263 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:45,840 Mode oh yeah yeah nice yes oh hey what speed does 264 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:48,299 this RAM run at 5600 CL 46 not the 265 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:52,919 fastest thing ever but then it might be slow but damn it it's mine you know how 266 00:19:50,340 --> 00:19:56,940 sometimes a computer is not just fast but it's like Snappy and I could be like 267 00:19:55,140 --> 00:20:01,380 boom like I'm open Steam and then it's gonna be like wow connecting to your 268 00:19:58,799 --> 00:20:06,240 account boom steam let's go oh why have I not configured this to not come up 269 00:20:03,059 --> 00:20:09,660 it's like I hate myself I am all AMD for 270 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:12,120 the first time since I was 18 years old 271 00:20:09,660 --> 00:20:17,700 is that wild or what like they're not just competitive on one because even in 272 00:20:15,780 --> 00:20:23,720 the dark times they would occasionally be competitive on GPU or like kind of on 273 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:30,720 CPU but both so long 274 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:32,039 casual 240 FPS in Halo infinite and make 275 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:36,320 sure it's all cranked yeah let's turn it to 200 render scaling now I mean why not 276 00:20:34,559 --> 00:20:43,320 right a 150 frames per second Halo infinite 200 277 00:20:40,260 --> 00:20:44,700 we're running 4K boys come on come on 278 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:49,740 come on get back here what are you doing yeah he's gonna turn around and kill you 279 00:20:46,980 --> 00:20:53,940 it's not gonna melee nothing I got him boom and he wasted his rocket launcher I 280 00:20:52,140 --> 00:20:58,140 consider that a win a one-to-one trade where you take out the rocket launcher 281 00:20:56,280 --> 00:21:02,220 okay look I play the objective David just like objective of this video is to 282 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:07,500 segue to our sponsor that's not bad actually I like it Squarespace if you're 283 00:21:05,100 --> 00:21:11,580 building a brand in 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