it's been a long time my friends
since we've built a compensator machine but the reality of it is there just
hasn't been anything that's enough better than last time to justify it well
not today this machine is going to be the
hands down fastest most craziest
unbelievable rig that you can build using all off-the-shelf components that
just go together like you could do for yourself at home assuming that you had
the 20 plus thousand dollars or so to
purchase all the components that would go in it
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let's kick things off by unboxing the case now this was a limited edition run
from in win this is the z tower but it
is technically an off-the-shelf part
that any consumer with the cashola could
have purchased like many of our hardware choices we
went with this not for any
practical reason but just to show
how big our front mounted swinger is
that is a solid
cast aluminum
work of computer art my friends
holy crap once this has a system in it it's not going to be movable
oh i still don't know there we go exactly what the weight is
we are number 93 though look at that like i actually love
how raw it is it comes with a cleaning cloth a vip
club membership and all the mounting screws
your heart could desire i'm actually having a lot of fun like it's not that often i work with hardware that's so far
beyond reasonable even i look at it and i go what
this video has been like months in the
making inwin probably forgot they ever even sent us this thing it's been so
long what the hell do you do with this kind of case nothing i don't know it
goes in indiana jones's warehouse this is the rog zenith to extreme
the alpha was not available at the time we began planning this video
uh so you'll have to deal with the 10 price difference so it's got a little
RGB fan controller doodad oh hey it
comes with five m.2 mounting screws and
we're gonna be using all of them so this is our dim.2 ASUS ran out of
space on the motherboard pcb to put enough m.2 mounting points for their
liking so they built an extra card that you can install in your system to add
more and we will be using both of them this
thing is insane holy crap just don't hurt yourself but like try to
lift it oh my god
it's a two terabyte drive but it says the saber one terabyte rocket NVMe PCIe
gen4 SSD maximum performance solid state
drive with heatsink so it actually comes in two boxes
one for the SSD itself we're gonna have a total of five of them and one
for the crazy pants heatsink that comes
with it look at this thing
it's got three heat pipes on it one of the mounts is on the back of the board
like that's not gonna fit it might actually fit
because there's oh there's holes yeah there's a big hole right here and that's where the thing is oh no way
oh that would be awesome okay i'm going for it i'm going for gold let's install
one of these puppies hey i have no idea how this works place the SSD in the tray
on the thermal tape okay there's a little groove here that
you gotta line up i guess i can understand why they don't pre-install it because most people would just use the
included cooler on the motherboard it is so
heavy i love it
all right here we go giant SSD hanging off the back of the
motherboard time this is so ridiculous
how the hell are you supposed to install that oh no
okay i found the problem i put the heatsink on backwards ah that's on there
for better or for worse the slots i want to put my graphics
cards in are here and here and
yeah that's not going in so i'll have to
settle for just the one on the back assuming that it does line up with that
all right like this
and that's it five m.2s shouldn't even call this the
red ripper anymore just call it thread disintegrator
64 cores
i love their new packaging for these like
slots into this thing
sick and for 3990 dollars
i better feel pretty special block time this is the ek velocity
str4 so it's got a nice
big cooling patch oh please remove yes yes i got this and
it's got 5 volt addressable RGB lighting
these red ripper chips take up like an entire one of these little wimpy tubes
there we go with the 4 000 CPU out of the way
now it's time for the 4 000 RAM
not only is this kit 256 gigs it's clocked at 3 600 megahertz
and cl 16. this is zero compromises
i swear high capacity RAM is heavier
it's not i'm going to figure out how on earth to get it into the case i mean
what do you think the weight capacity of this table is can i hop up here with it
that should be fine okay
each one of these big old hunks of aluminum seems to have two torx head
screws it's one of those things where it's like yeah it's fine and good that
you provide me with this vip club card but where's my manual
oh there's a qr code to the manual all
right fine label where all the ports are specs of
the riser cable how to install the riser cable
package contents and important notice and warranty number one please follow
user manual instructions for installation that's the end
how do i open it it seems to me that if i take off this piece which is one piece
right here that i should be able to get at everything
it's actually kind of rough the way it goes together eh this is really not the
sort of thing i would buy most of this system is really not the
sort of thing i would buy
look at that
that's kind of incredible isn't it i don't know what these standoffs are
anymore because there are other standoffs in here that
look more like motherboard standoffs i'm not even installing it permanently right
now i'm just trying to make sure i've got the standoffs in the right spot
nope i got it wrong okay i'm good i'm good i got this
this is it i think i've got everything lined up so this is where we find out if
my giant SSD heatsink is going to fit oh nice it does
yes that looks good of course it looks good
this is a 20 000 computer brandon have you seen rich people furniture uh that's
fair that's fair the manual mentions the
uh excellent airflow characteristics of the chassis i mean it doesn't even have
like pci slot covers it's just
open it's too angsty for vader though it's more like a kylo ren i mean
everything about this machine is overkill so it shouldn't matter but this
is our overkill 1300 watt power supply
so they've kind of got cable management holes man it is hard to get at some of
this stuff though yeah the cable combs really do
go a long way don't they not really much you can do to hide the cables on the
back eh i'm starting to really like this thing
now let's install the hard drives captive thumb thumbscrews i likey
you might think a build like this what do you guys even need hard drives for
well let me tell you these are 16 terabyte iron wolf pros
so we could take maybe one of our m.2s
used it as a cache for this raid 1 of 16
terabytes of game drive storage and
boom there's your steem library your gog
library oops your uplay library your epic game store library your origin
library you see the problem with this there we go hard drives are installed
you know for all the challenges getting the bigger things into place
having it open like this is making this build go fairly quickly
it's the starter liquid cooling kit extreme 360. so there's no performance
compromises compared to a full custom loop you just don't have to do any of
the thinking everything you need is ready to
go there it is thick boy radiator and a manual so i was
trying to figure out what all these weirdo random holes were here
that's our radiator mount makes total sense now easy peasy
tons of room for fans no idea where we're gonna put the pump at this point
or the reservoir could possibly go here
but what about the pump with a normal case i could just grab a
drill throw a couple holes in it and screw it
in from the bottom of the case
is this just like a thing
is that an option they look like hard drive knobs
they taste like hard drive mounts they've got to have the labeling wrong
it lines up perfectly all i have to do is widen the holes a little bit and boom
it's on you ever get that feeling when you're just cutting something up that
cost five grand and you're just like oh you know should i be doing this no
no nobody else has this problem you know i didn't ruin it that hard
right like it looks kind of the same ish yup that works just fine i kind of like
this multi-purpose plate concept theoretically this
should be a good spot for it ish now is the time to make a critical
decision RGB fans on the top of the radiator
visible from the top or RGB fans on the bottom of the radiator visible with the
internals bottom bottom all right adding Jake
why am i here because this is taking too long and i
need help uh you're gonna be in charge of RGB oh oh
yeah i know that's the worst that's why you're here though and the gold is gonna
be so tacky i mean the hard drives are like right
there too you got these like obnoxious cable ties
hey lttstore.com oh right so we're
actually using these super cool RGB strips from silverstone they've got this
diffusion layer on them that makes it so that the transition between the RGB leds
looks a lot smoother at least in pictures um we're going to see how that
works out do you like one here and then like one here yeah well we've got a lot
more than that we only have got like eight of them yeah but like wiring that's going to be a nightmare well yeah
but that's your problem isn't it so what i'm thinking is i'll use the RPM
sense off the pump for the CPU header and then we'll run these fans off of the
RGB controller well i'm normally a fan of just plugging everything into the
controller because then you can set like pump speed like a channel like press f1
CPU fan error blah blah blah it takes like 10 seconds nope nope and then you
have this ugly wire up here come on it's in there already it's too
late pull it out it's too late pull it out you can't have it yes you can't
stab my finger i didn't i specifically asked for
addressable RGB fans no but i remember i told you that we don't have running
right now so now what well we could switch to light loops oh no they have a
proprietary connector yeah so that's our problem of course there dang it dale do
you have to take that off to take the fans yeah i have to take this off that's why it's so inconvenient oh so it turns
out this case they sent us fans and they're addressable thanks inwin whoa
are they mud oh whoa oh cool those are those uh daisy
chainable ones okay i'm not expecting the cooling
performance of these to be amazing well i think you daisy chained them with the
little baby one okay so there you go okay so i'll daisy
chain this might actually be like really easy to wire oh and this does power too
yeah oh that's pretty cool this is actually pretty nice this plugs in that
thing plugs into our drgb thing where is it there this this this one this wait
what there's no instructions okay well where's our ek thing is this gonna fit
in here oh because that's probably not no wait i
think it might it's not lined up that great it's in there fine no it's not
this is look at the other one it's fine it's fine i want to use l1 that's l6
there's nothing you can do to stop here
AMD compensator day two part three what's wrong
well nothing's wrong it's just that i went away for 45 minutes are you gonna
throw me under the bus and i come back he's throwing me under the bus and he
has jb welded the mounts to the inside
of the case nothing would stick get a better case
wait get a better case i chose this one dang it
in his defense i actually did sign on for this too it will be a very good
permanent way to hold them on the RGB bones connected to the RGB bone horrible
uh which end is which i don't think it matters on these ones i also think this
is backwards but i can which is backwards the way you have it in there right now what do you mean backwards you
just told me it doesn't matter no no i mean the side of the strip oh shoot i
did do it backwards
have you ever like gone to poop and forgot to mute your mic has he ever this
is so tacky this is baller though that is
the like eight pound gold chain around
the like baseball player's neck giant die-cast
polished aluminum baseball player rng like bridge is silver
yeah that's actually like horrifying that is spectacularly bad oh crap it's
silver too that's even tackier yeah this is worse should we switch to it
no i mean we've gone down this path already hold on just let me see it oh no
please oh no oh no i love it
that's okay we're not doing this no we're not doing it this is horrible we're not doing that oh we're getting so
close everybody hope this thing posts me too i kind of wish i had pre-tested it
i'm going to put it in really fast i love receiving yeah
it's pretty big huh oh yeah it's obnoxious it's all hell but i love it ow
okay oh wow it did not get lighter that's for sure
how the crap do you plug anything into the back of it i can't see the res can
you uh oh wait well then stop i can sort of see it see that air bubble is that
coming yeah it's coming good air bubble uh couples okay there's a lot of air oh
yeah there's a ton of air in the pump i can see it there was nothing i could
really do like ideally i would want the pump lower than the bottom of the res
but i i couldn't really do that those fans are cray cray these RGB strips are
sick yeah they're pretty cool this is i think the right number of strips though
i think this is pretty good all the effects are kind of dumb oh
okay more importantly why are we stuck on HDD code e6 it's probably a memory
thing okay so to get AMD raid going not only
do you have to install a driver in Windows you have to install three
drivers in a specific order it's a show but either way Windows is installing i
think compensator day three i discovered something so Jake and i were sort of
both wrong about these RGB strips so see that they
come out this side but not out this side yeah
now that is sufficiently RGB now we finally get to talk performance
of the most ep machine money can buy yesterday we were literally installing
games across four different launchers at over four gigabit per second on our 10
gig network card so hey 10 gig networking overkill for gamers i think
not yes my friends we are reading and writing in the neighborhood of 10
gigabytes per second on this raid array
i'm not recommending it i'm just saying it's real cool yes we know crystal disk
mark is not a great indicator of performance but this machine is about
putting up big numbers now time for an equally for funsies test but for the CPU
this time cinebench r20 wow
24 777. now we're gonna play some games
this is crisis three running absolutely
maxed the f out at 4k at
120 frames per second oh oh don't die don't die Linus it is amazing how good
this game still looks here's something we're not going to see in any of the
other games though both gpus while the game was running sitting up near 100
utilization the good news for shadow of the tomb raider is that even absolutely
cranked at 4k like man that is detailed looking
we're still able to crack 120 frames per
second HDR's enabled of course oh the sun once again our CPU barely
being touched anywhere from five to eight percent utilization
oh wait i was completely wrong shadow of the tomb raider uses alternate frame
rendering multi GPU in directx 12. that was great now i'm
firing up something a little more CPU intensive anno 1800
everything once again is maxed so it is only running at 35 to 45 frames per
second but every horse and cart every person
walking around with their little sun bonnet on
look at the detail oh i don't have enough farmers as for our CPU usage
we're sitting at a cool six percent let's get our doom settings updated
we're actually getting pretty decent sli utilization oh yeah bud
and all of that while sitting at a tidy
twelve percent CPU utilization the good news is look at that both of our gpus
were really giving
so that's it ladies and gentlemen if you've got a cool 21 000 us dollars burning a hole in your
pocket and a team of unix to carry your system around for you whenever you need
to transport it this is the way to go now i would make one
small change i'd go with the alpha version of the board because it allows for better overclocking with the 3990x
but other than that this is as epeen as it gets i'm gonna
try to lift it
i think we lost some rubber grippy pads oh they're all just stuck to the table
now
oh yeah it's heavier than my wife okay
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over compensating enough but
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