sup guys i'm in denver colorado at micro center and this time around the concept
for our sponsored video sounded simple enough Linus all you got to do is build
a pc i've got what six and a half hours till
you guys close and you picked out all the parts for me
so i don't even have to like go shopping like last time what kind of a system
could take more than six hours to
you have got to be kidding me what even
is this multiple NVMe drives dual graphics cards hardline water cooling
why are we putting an nvs810 graphics card in this what am i even looking at
here this
is no simple gaming rig this is supposed to be
the showcase build for AMD's unreleased
threadripper 64 core 3990x
processor and i've got only six hours to build it
wait what are you doing there's no time for that this is a speed build now but first here
are the parts we'll be using
come on we gotta get this thing ripped open get the motherboard got the zenith
two extreme alpha but you're just gonna stand there and hold the camera david
expect you to pitch in today no i'm just no i'm kidding i'm kidding
we actually do need to make a video about it step one let's get the CPU out
of the nondescript brown box that it shipped here in with the tamper evident
tape oh we tampering boys
costs a pretty penny don't it look at that it's ten dollars cheaper than four
thousand dollars i mean it's outlandish but when you talk in terms of the
performance and price of anything comparable it's right in there because
there's nothing comparable that was close
ooh it even smells fresh the craziest thing about this CPU to me is just how
utterly unnecessary it is they already won this is just like grinding your
opponent into the ground for no reason
use my debaur edition case as a chair
what's up roman i'd be curious if one of you just like
showed up and was like yeah i really just want to buy that and take it out of the store right now what they would do
how many freaking m.2 slots are there on this thing so it's got a dim.2 module up
here which will hold two it's got two more in here and then they snuck another
one on the back freaking love it i mean i guess if you've got what is it like 88
pci express gen 4 lanes or something stupid like that coming off the CPU you
got to find some way to use them we're using PCIe gen 3 drives in this system
for desktop use anyway the performance won't make much of a difference
especially if it's a good gen 3 drive like these it's funny to me to think
about you know what the headspace of someone building
something like this would be like you'd have to basically be i'm not the kind of
person that has to ask how much things cost so just build it right
wow it needs like almost this entire tube of the included ectotherm all
thermal compound applications look the same once you put the block down and
mash it on there okay deluxe white mini valve with black
handle these fittings appear to be to link the gpus together but i don't see
any GPU blocks was there a rhyme or reason to the fittings that were
selected does anyone know like were these fittings picked for a specific
reason or no oh was the
goal to water cool the gpus
so we are just liquid cooling the CPU with
uh 720 millimeters worth of radiator i
don't know what's more crazy the fact that we've got a 550 power supply
or the fact that we've got a system that might actually justify it
four thousand dollar CPU three grand worth of GPU
even when we're done we will be nowhere near the price of like a mac pro
front panel connectors these look like
drive cages that's nice having these
rear accessible drive cages that's pretty sweet they could also be power
supply mounts let's throw the power supply in first let's do that
i don't know how to get it out maybe i don't have to
and we definitely need to remove it
so i think you have to remove the drive cages
and then put that in there
wait you just take off these screws
these ones stay on why would why did they do it like this
i'm getting very frustrated with this case
feels less like installing a power supply more like installing a power
plant poor hard drives i remember when they used to have some sex appeal and now
it's just like all right i guess i probably need a hard drive for like the
games i don't play that often pro tip by the way guys for when you're doing your next build based on this exact spec the
zenith 2 xtreme alpha has a missing mounting hole here because it's two
covered in vrms so i had to remove that standoff
just you know one more little thing
to go wrong during this build i got to give some thought to the loop
layout here i feel like i'm going to end up putting
this one towards the front just because
it's going to interfere with my GPU if i have the water coming out right over here you
know what i think six screws is plenty to hold in
a
i radiator how much this thing is 200 bucks
man these things are sick though where does it go
i thought it went to the front but i i don't see anywhere to mount that
no it doesn't look like it goes there oh if you're advanced enough to buy this
thing you should just know where it goes idiot so you throw it in here screw it
in from the back and the only problem is that it's really
designed for you to have graphics cards connected to it and if
you'll recall we didn't have blocks for our graphics cards fortunately we went
and got different graphics cards these are supposedly using reference pcbs so
we can just use some standard ek vector rtx 2080 ti RGB blocks and we should be
pretty much good to go what even is all this
oh cool so they include their own fan power hub and a separate fan RGB hub
that i just about snapped the connector off of and it's bent back cool
if the objective is lots of RGB and airflow this seems like a good way to
achieve it i feel like i'm using some primo zerg
tactics here you know you just got to get the creep everywhere and you worry about building later time to install the
top rad oh please fit
okay i'm sure glad i took the time to put all these fans on here before checking to
see if it actually fit in there do you guys have a thin triple rad while we
sort out the radiator situation i'm gonna go ahead and do some more of the
wiring that i need to get done like our front usb 3.
man these usb 3 connectors are bulky front audio there it is wow that's a
long front audio cable wait don't look at that side david it's uncomfortable
you're making everyone uncomfortable right now how will i manage all these cables
i am going full raw dog cable management back here i am so sorry everyone i feel
like as long as i keep making an excuse and saying oh i'm gonna have to do that
this time the people who don't watch the videos regularly might think that
usually i do a good job oh my goodness there's so much SATA
power back here i want one with less than four SATA connectors on it where
the heck am i gonna put this RGB controller no
no no
nothing is on fire don't say that no
no how ridiculous is that no
how could i really this one's getting four screws i don't
give a [ __ ] we've got a lot of tubing to bend but
but i'm not gonna cable manage it until i actually see this thing turn on which
we can't do obviously until we plumb it up theoretically it should be relatively
straightforward oh my o-ring just went in the garbage i give up holy crap david
we might be screwed it looks like just to clear the RAM we already need one of
these extenders and then to clear the
extender we're gonna need like double gigantor extenders this feels a little
ridiculous would you say that's too tall
the line is special we need to start putting the graphics
cards in and we're not going to have any idea where the fittings are going to
line up with our distribution block so well that's a little tighter than i
might have hoped why
why right here boom does that line up oh not quite
that is gonna be a bit of a tough shot that's a shame natasha here from micro
center has generously offered to help us out i think she felt bad for us she does
things kind of by the book though so i'm just going to be like bending stuff by
hand so can anyone cover the phones for natasha
15 mil what is this tubing
i don't know if we do have 15 mil tubing i mean if we do i've never needed to go
find it okay so i have no idea what fittings are actually installed on
anything because apparently i somehow ended up with a mix of 15 and 16
millimeter fittings if we even manage to get this thing to post i will be
you haven't posted lord no heavens now
you should do that before yeah you should it's a free tech tip for me
so that would be a 15 mil wonderful
whoever micro centers water cooling product manager is let me give you a tip
just two sizes small and compensating for something just
get rid of stuff that doesn't work with each other because there's enough
variants of like colors and extenders blah blah blah blah but your life is
difficult enough as it is ah
if they wanted it built properly they would have had you do it sideways
oh man i'm so triggered right now
you look at it and you just feel bad
all right fine this is the ocd triggering build officially
wow since we're committed to this concept now we've decided we're going to
take it to a whole other level they actually got a shipment of soft tubing
fittings in but natasha over here isn't going to stop
hardline tubing either so if it's not going to look great it might as well be
horrible what do you think david if we're going
to go soft tubing should we go soft tubing i think it's not wild enough i
think it's well remember i got one more okay all right all right i'm into it
we're doing it a wise woman once told me every pc has
to have a theme the theme of this one is oh [ __ ] it's eight o'clock and we've got
an hour left to finish you need to be more wild more wild cause i could do
yeah there i could do that oh no i kind of want it to go up the other way what
do you think of that that's it is that it that's it okay nailed it
okay how's it feel to be taking directions from a monkey
i like the 87 degree bend you've given me to work with here by the way we have
a theme you got to go all out someone at corporate's gonna be so mad it's fine
what are they gonna do take their business elsewhere uh you've been double checking my loop
order right no why would you not do that you think i'm gonna get it right i could
have easily moved that fitting oh is that so that is so sorry you want me to
sign the case i can do that but i do have a condition and that is that you
guys don't fix it when i'm done it's a conversation piece
accidents are soft while my plan to have the water come in
at the top of the reservoir is a good one we have these two openings here that
were supposed to be for the radiators so we decided we're just gonna run an empty
tube there forty dollars worth of fittings to carry nothing
um how's it look it's more crooked than the other side
i'm sorry it's definitely a piece of something
all right should we fill it ah there's a swivel fitting in here that
is very annoying
oh that's a big loop
new plan anywhere it leaks we're gonna replace the hard line with soft
all right this is going to take a lot of water ladies and gentlemen here we go
all right
is it RGB enough please tell me there's water flowing
through every component david nope what not funny it's actually kind of cool
what the i actually really like this
i'm a monster should we see if it actually posts that'd be nice
unfortunately we got eight minutes
so uh i'm just grabbing a test drive gotta throw on our rtx envy link
whatever they call it these days no you gotta be kidding me vga's stupid
thing overhangs the thing come on
by the way does anyone have any idea why this is here should we throw it in we
could put it along the bottom no okay don't do it
give it a minute it can do it uh-oh
watch pot never boils watch pot never boils please stop doing memory tests
please please does this board have a memo k button
we didn't make sure that we have the latest BIOS supporting this chip on the
board
so that is as far as we are gonna get by the time you guys drop by the micro
center in denver colorado this will be up on display natasha will have used
their usb BIOS flashback feature to throw the latest BIOS on there it's not
a conventional build but in my opinion that's kind of the spirit of diy isn't
it for better for worse what you built is with your own two hands so you know
you kind of got no choice but to love it
neat huh all right i'm back at the office with an
update for y'all natasha from micro center was able to update the BIOS for
me and it's working great so you can go check it out if you're not in the denver
area though natasha did screencap some crazy pants benchmark runs on it that
we've got loaded up here for you now as we talked about in our review the 3990x
isn't really a CPU for typical gamers but if you've got a creative workload
that needs this kind of horsepower it crams more CPU cores in a single socket
than the competition is putting in two sockets in the workstation space so in
summary always allow more time than you think you need for an advanced build
like this so thanks for watching this video massive shout out to microcenter
for sponsoring it and we will see you guys at the next one if you're looking
for something to watch right now maybe check out the last build we did at micro
center that was also a one day build but i didn't try to
full custom loop water cool it so it was a little bit easier