I wouldn't oh crap we blew the breaker you know why this computer costs twenty
thousand dollars because it was from the bulk aisle and they charge by the pound
there just kidding it all comes down to
Performance this video is sponsored by vrla Tech and they're having us take a
look at a top tier specimen ah from
their threadripper Pro workstation lineup oh my gosh this thing is heavy
oh and on my laptop you've seen the fractal defying 7xl
before I think last time around we put about 20 hard drives in it but if you
don't fill it up with hard drives it can fit all kinds of other cool things
optional solid top panel will not be needing that with the kind of Hardware
we've got stuffed in here extra hard drive sleds
let's take a look at the accessories vrla Tech includes
okay screws this is just all the accessories that would have been included in the Box for the Enthusiast
grade parts that they're using but instead they Consolidated this is the
lot of PCI slot covers a second bag has
all the power cables that we're going to need for our power supply and the event that we want to plug it into the wall or
wish to upgrade the machine in the future not that there's anything to
upgrade it to today since it's already the absolute freaking top of the line
oh until the wheels fall off your trailer man the defined 7xl feels like
kind of a relic of a bygone era you know who wants a mini ITX small form tractor
machine the bigger the computer the better in this case that does actually
appear to be true oh
the bottom of the case is one gigantic removable mesh air filter so that's
where a ton of our air intake is Gonna Come From but just that not going to be
enough for the there goes my back panel I appear to have experienced
some shipping damage oh yeah there's no
windowed side panel or anything hey this is all professional all the times I'm
not getting derailed though I want to still talk about the outside where at
the front we're going to find oh I like this four I've Noctua's nfa12 fans
that's gonna be some hair flow oh and on
the top we got another four of them that's over 200 US dollars and fans
alone wow it's full of bubbles this is
actually more necessary than you'd probably think remember that thing that just happened where this thing probably
got kicked around by The Courier and one of the little plastic Clips managed to
break off this prevents anything like that from happening inside so that you
can at least still run the machine while you wait for vrla Tech to get you sorted
out with a replacement little plastic clip what it means though is that it is
Trey's important that you pull all of this stuff out before you actually try
to run the system it looks like this particular piece needs to be removed
from the back definitely be careful pulling this boy out because if it gets
caught on a cable like a SATA cable or something like that it could conceivably
rip it off but it looks like ours came out without anything eventful happening
I do think this system got an extremely
rough ride though you can actually see this cable right here is coming out at a
bit of a strange angle from that hard drive it's not broken or anything it
just a little bit that seems to be the worst of it though everything is
strapped down nice and tight held in place so it can't really come loose from
its connector and shipping and it's nice to see that even though there's no
window on the case they're still taking the time to Cable manage it properly and
that's one of the reasons that that's so important especially for a pre-built
system that's going to be shipped you know halfway across the continent
Brandon helpfully pointed out that the machine's not as much of a looker as you
might expect you got your brown knocked to a fans you got your no case window no
RGB to speak of and my retort to that is
sometimes it's not about the looks
sometimes it's about the raw power that
looks good to me we've got dual Founders
Edition RTX 3090 TI's in here that's
right the 3090 and the 3090 TI both
still support Envy link which means that
technically you could use them in SLI and games but realistically what you're
doing is you're using these bad boys for compute and the Envy link connection
between them ah which you can see right here enables high-speed communication
between the cards that actually allows them to share the frame buffer share the
video memory between the two cards to work on larger data sets it's a lot of
compute Honestly though I think the motherboard i o might be as impressive
as the GPU compute we have a whopping eight USB 3 10 gigabit per second ports
oh sorry that's all the type A ones we have another type C10 gig port and a
type c 20 gigabit per second Port we've got Wi-Fi six on on board as well as 7.1
audio still hook up like surround sound analog
speakers to their computer I'd love to hear from you in the comments should
they even bother to include these ports anymore and I really love this dual 10
gigabit Network ports on this thing what a beast
I guess it stands to reason this motherboard has all the bells and whistles at 999 US Dollars this is the
pro WS WRX Ade Sage Wi-Fi SE
it's got a whopping three m.2 slots on
it at PCIe Gen 4 speeds and can support additional NVMe storage devices or
really anything else via its total of seven PCI Express Gen 4 16x slots it
features one of the most oversized cooling solutions I have ever seen on a
motherboard and it is chock full of other professional features like the
whopping three PCIe auxiliary power
inputs and support for ipmi Remote
Management so you can actually remote into this machine even when it is fully
powered down update the BIOS do anything
to it completely remotely we've got a whopping
256 gigabytes of ddr4 3200 Mega transfer
per second memory in here the only thing more wild than that is the fact that
that's only about an eighth of the total memory that this platform can support
and then for cooling this is a bit of a
surprise but vrla Tech has gone with the
nhu fort teen thread repair Edition
actually I guess that's not that surprising because Noctua doesn't make a
threadripper version of their nhd14 or an hd15 so I guess we'll find out very
shortly if this is going to be enough airflow to keep this 64 core
threadripper Pro 5995 WX cool enough
teasing are we ready to fire it up there's a peel on the front
sorry
one of the things contributing to how heavy this is is the 1600 watt power
supply which I mean I could see why they
whoops I can see why they did that because if you're ever going to upgrade
these 30 90 TI's you will need it I know
I I know the n-word right you will actually need it for the f word future
proofing and then the other big contributor is the fact that it's got a
bunch of mechanical hard drives in it in addition to its m.2 storage devices so
we've got a whopping 3 by 18 terabyte
hard drives in here so you can store all your workstation stuff on the system or
you can use those dual 10 gigabit network connections to store it
elsewhere fun fact if you're in North America you will need an entire
dedicated 120 volt 15 amp breaker for
just this workstation and the peripherals you have hooked up to it
Moment of Truth considering the rough ride it got there's no guarantee that
this is going to fire up first try
try okay that's all good so far
man it turns out when you've got enough of them even Noctua fans can make some
noise oh boy
are you gonna go
let's just make sure everything's showing up okay here 64 course all right
there's our four terabyte fire Cuda 530s
for a total of eight terabytes of PCIe Gen 4 storage 16
PCIe Gen 4 bandwidth to all of those
slots absolutely Wild
I guess we're just going to boot into Windows to find if those hard drives
made it I hear them clicking so should be okay
we had an issue booting it up the first time but I think I've solved it some of
these workstation or server boards I guess is where they would inherit it
from actually number the PCIe slots one
to seven from the bottom so I asked Jake
our producer to plug the monitor into the top card thinking that would be the
primary slot when in fact it would be the bottom card that would be in the
primary slot and I think we're gonna boot up just fine now
oh well this is some useful feedback for vrla Tech what they've done is they've
tied all these cables at the back together which can actually create a
large mass that can move around in shipping putting more strain than you
would expect on the connectors that are attached to that that big massive cable
and you can see our primary card had its power to slip out whoopsie daisies here
we go Sprint
I think a receipt of our gpus might be in order here and the glass half full
angle on that is at least it gives me an excuse to talk about the LTT ratcheting
screwdriver which as you guys can see I'm using to
remove these thumb screws without accidentally dropping them got it all
sorted there can be issues with auto negotiating PCIe link speeds on some AMD
systems looks like we ran into that but by manually setting both of our gpus to
PCIe gen 4. success everything looks good
oh my word the question now becomes what can we do
with this I mean we can game
cyberpunk wouldn't launch according to CD projekt Red's website the most common
reason for that is not meeting the minimum required spec I suspect that
wasn't the issue today in any case we're going to play do maternal instead I
think it's probably been over a year since I've used SLI to be clear nobody
recommends that on a gaming machine anymore I mean not even vrla Tech like
they have a lineup of gaming machines and I'm sure that they pretty much
universally do not have SLI but they can't stop me from using it for gaming
so you know the micro stuttering here is
not bad you know why because it's only using one of the gpus
love it but it's running great 175 200 FPS I
don't know if I've ever seen it this smooth on Ultra nightmare settings at 4K
and I am of course recording at the same time effortlessly at least that's
something the second DP you can do wow
the GPU that's actually being used topped out at just a 74 degrees our CPU
never went over 55 56.
fans they work all right let's try and
find something that we'll actually use both of our gpus and our CPU though all
right here we go CPU multi-core and
done not bad
D7000 points oh my God it completes the
benchmarks so fast that it gets a short cooling cycle in between actually being
utilized it ain't the quietest machine in the world but you can't fault the
cooling performance we've settled in at around 66 degrees Celsius Max on the CPU
of course this is without the gpus blowing hot air at it so I've got an
idea for how we can hit it a little harder we're going to go into our
cinebench preferences and we are going to use only 96 of our CPU threads that's
out of 128. we're going to go ahead and start that then we're going to go into
blender I've already disabled our CPU so
I'm gonna see that it's done set it to 10 000 samples and we're going to hit
both of our gpus with Peak hardness
and see what happens uh ten thousand samples okay let's try that again hello
there we go 94 CPU usage 96 to 97 GPU
usage good this still actually has some time remaining on it let's have a look
at what our temps look like it doesn't get any louder so that's a plus
definitely a cooling first design I
wouldn't oh crap we blew the breaker
that makes sense yeah it does okay one moment please and this is why
you should always use a UPS that is appropriately sized for your machine you
see this forced to install Graphics I
don't even have GPU drivers anymore after that crash
to be clear this is not the rl8's text issue this is just you should not let
your computer shut down suddenly in the middle of a heavy load like that short
circuit more like blown circuit after a
reboot we're still having the problem so I guess it's time for a quick Tech tip
this is a little utility called ddu that
anytime you're having a GPU driver issue is the first thing you want to turn to
yes before you contact tech support at your system integrator or whatever the
case may be please wait man if the amount of effort
it takes to get a system up and running has any impact on the end result this
thing's gonna be freaking amazing ddu Tech tips
display driver uninstaller here we go GPU NVIDIA perfect clean and restart
highly recommended let's go I didn't do
anything but I think we're back
why Windows search why
why not the 64 one
that's what everyone on the web wants hey maybe that one yet
idiots feels kind of like a like a spiritual
dance at this point more than actual troubleshooting
because this is on here fine there was there was nothing wrong with how this
was installed
okay sure do not I repeat do not let your computer
suddenly lose power in the middle of a heavy load like that immediately the
message comes up I click it and then it proceeds to not launch the NVIDIA
control panel I love it it's almost like slis of dead technology no one cares
about anymore okay here we go we're enabling it be clear when I say dead I
mean for gaming for other workloads it can still be very useful
crushing Center bench brushing blender
rendering screen recording is there anything it
can't do how about go shopping on lttstore.com
wow it can do that too look at this guy
has a hood package power on that CPU
just shy of 300 watts GPU power in the
neighborhood of 300 watts each this is
really not very consumer grade I'm sure there's a consumer somewhere spending
like 20 grand on a computer just because they can not that you're stuck with Zen
3 vrla Tech offers five different workstation lineups ryzen ryzen
threadripper ryzen threadripper Pro and then also Intel Core and Xeon so you can
kind of pick your poison just depends on what you're doing depending on the industry it might be better to have
fewer cores that clock higher and are more cost effective or you might
actually need a ton of course ECC memory support and all of that full fat
workstation stuff sponsored or not this is a great result for the thermals on
this system our CPU ended up under 80 degrees 76 to be precise and our gpus
the bottom one is 65 degrees with the top one which is taking in hot air from
the bottom GPU at just 75 degrees
that is very very reasonable and it actually
didn't get any noisier thanks to the Noctua cooling fans pretty sick the main
reason vrla Tech sent over a workstation was because after looking at their
gaming PCs I was kind of curious what they can do and while nineteen thousand
dollars obviously a lot of money you can see where it went I mean spec it out
this Hardware just is that expensive if it's not for you don't worry you can
check out vrla text Frederick for pro workstations or the ones based on maybe
something more reasonable like an Intel core or a regular ryzen at the link down
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