1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,359 portions of this video are sponsored by lastpass like five years ago on the lan 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:12,719 show luke and i made the prediction that even if cloud gaming could never solve 3 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:18,560 its problems with latency and game licensing the hardware that was used to 4 00:00:15,519 --> 00:00:20,480 run it was gonna get so powerful that it 5 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:26,160 would be feasible to use a single computer as like the computing brain of 6 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:30,400 your house and run all of the gaming machines under a single roof off of a 7 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:36,079 single box and my friends 8 00:00:32,239 --> 00:00:38,000 it has happened AMD's epic lineup of 9 00:00:36,079 --> 00:00:41,600 server processors are available in configurations with up to 10 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:46,239 64 processing cores guys that is enough CPU 11 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:53,600 resources to run 16 virtual machines each with a quad 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:56,320 core processor off of a single chip in a 13 00:00:53,600 --> 00:01:01,039 single socket and guys these are not weak cores so we don't actually need 14 00:00:59,039 --> 00:01:07,600 quite that many of them for my house so we've gone with an epic 7502 p that's a 15 00:01:04,479 --> 00:01:10,400 32 core processor that runs that 2.5 16 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:14,320 gigahertz base and actually boosts up to 3.3 17 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:20,640 gigahertz so we're going to be using this as well as 18 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:23,759 all of this to convert all my computers 19 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:26,000 to run off of a single motherboard 20 00:01:23,759 --> 00:01:30,159 my personal gaming rig which i also use for streaming very occasionally my 21 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:34,560 wife's rig which she uses for work and also very occasionally gaming so i like 22 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:39,920 to still keep it up to spec this one's not actually running right now because we got a 23 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:43,920 broken Thunderbolt optical cable the gaming machine that runs the world's 24 00:01:41,439 --> 00:01:48,159 most comfortable gaming setup my nas that i use for bulk storage and as a 25 00:01:45,759 --> 00:01:53,200 plex media server and finally the home theater pc slash vr gaming rig that's in 26 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:57,040 my living room so managing credentials between all of these different machines 27 00:01:55,040 --> 00:02:00,960 can be a bit of a hassle thanks laspass for sponsoring this portion of today's 28 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:05,119 video that's why i use our sponsor lastpass and i've been using them for 29 00:02:02,479 --> 00:02:10,399 years now lastpass's browser extension and app makes signing into your accounts 30 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:12,400 across all of your devices fast and easy 31 00:02:10,399 --> 00:02:15,920 without writing down passwords learn more about it at the link below or by 32 00:02:14,239 --> 00:02:20,820 waiting until the end of the video thanks to lastpass for sponsoring this 33 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:25,789 portion now on to the rest of the video 34 00:02:28,959 --> 00:02:35,360 what does a machine that's powerful enough to take the place of four to five 35 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:41,040 others look like let's walk through all the specs starting of course with the 36 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:44,000 processor so our 7502p here it's 32 37 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:49,280 cores 64 threads but more importantly than that it's got 38 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:52,080 128 pci express gen 4 lanes on it that 39 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:57,440 means that almost no matter what we plug into this thing whether it's m.2 drives 40 00:02:55,040 --> 00:03:02,319 for high speed storage or regular SATA drives or a ton of pci 41 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:06,959 express expansion cards including graphics cards everything is going to be 42 00:03:04,319 --> 00:03:13,280 getting the full bandwidth that is absolutely incredible and all while 43 00:03:09,519 --> 00:03:15,760 consuming only 200 watts which sounds 44 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:20,000 like a lot but remember that's gonna be four to five cpus so 45 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:24,800 now as for what we've got it installed on this is a Gigabyte 46 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:30,000 mz32ar0 this is one of the few standalone extended atx motherboards 47 00:03:27,519 --> 00:03:34,640 that has full support for pci express gen 4 almost across the board pun 48 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:39,200 definitely intended it's got an incredible amount of connectivity 49 00:03:36,319 --> 00:03:44,959 including a bunch of NVMe storage regular storage seven pci express slots 50 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:48,720 uh only two of them i think are even gen 3 which is 51 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:52,959 unbelievable and it's got a remote management port as well as one of these 52 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:56,799 ocp mezzanine card ports where we've got an ASUS dual 10 gigabit lan card so this 53 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:01,840 thing is going to have high speed connectivity both in and out 54 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:06,720 now as for our graphics cards unfortunately unless you go full 55 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:11,920 enterprise NVIDIA doesn't currently support splitting a GPU into multiple 56 00:04:09,599 --> 00:04:17,600 virtual machines the same way that a CPU manufacturer does so we've actually got 57 00:04:14,879 --> 00:04:23,680 four total graphics cards one for each of the gaming rigs provided by NVIDIA 58 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:26,080 and then of course ASUS rog so an rtx 59 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:30,000 titan for my gaming rig a 2080 ti for the vr rig and then a couple 2070s for 60 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,800 the ones that just need to be like basically up to spec 61 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:39,000 finally this is amazing we have 62 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:42,479 512 gigs of ddr4 63 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:44,560 2666 memory from micron they sent this 64 00:04:42,479 --> 00:04:48,800 over for this project today and it's running in eight 65 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:53,919 channel mode that means we have a ton of bandwidth each of my individual vms is 66 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:58,960 going to have effectively dual channel ddr4 worth of memory bandwidth that is 67 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:01,840 unfreaking believable not to mention that each one could have over 100 gigs 68 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:06,720 of RAM by the way if you're into tons of RAM make sure you're subscribed because 69 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:11,280 we've got a project up coming soon where we're gonna have two terabytes of RAM on 70 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:15,280 a single epic processor now in a perfect world what we'd really 71 00:05:13,039 --> 00:05:19,440 like to do is install all of our graphics cards directly in the slots put 72 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:24,080 water blocks on them so they only take up a single slot and you know water cool 73 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:28,000 the whole thing so you get that that density 74 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:33,520 but because we're at the really proof of concept phase right now we're just going 75 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:36,000 to use these pci express extenders 76 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:39,440 here we go to run the cards out of the motherboard 77 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:42,880 like this and then we'll run our power cables a little something like this it's 78 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:46,560 not the prettiest way to do this but 79 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:50,800 it's functional and uh you know all we need to do is plug into 80 00:05:48,479 --> 00:05:54,960 it so you know the card can just kind of sit there the last thing i'm installing 81 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:58,560 here is a couple of usb 3 cards we're going to need to pass through usb 3 82 00:05:56,639 --> 00:06:03,440 ports to our virtual machines in order to have usb 3 ports and unfortunately 83 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:07,680 this motherboard only has three of them one of which is going to 84 00:06:05,199 --> 00:06:11,199 be taken up by this usb drive that we're installing our os on i'm going to be 85 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:15,680 using unraid just because i'm most comfortable with it and also because i 86 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:20,000 use unraid for my personal nas at home so if this works amazingly and we end up 87 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:23,840 deploying this in the long term that is how i would end up using it just with a 88 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:29,039 bunch of hard drives connected as well oh actually wait i forgot about the 89 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:31,360 internal usb 3 ports 90 00:06:29,039 --> 00:06:35,280 there we go we can use that for our os so now that our machine is assembled 91 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:38,560 we've got all this power but we don't really have a solution for 92 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:44,160 how to pipe it around the house so to speak now 93 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:48,479 we used to do this with Thunderbolt back when i set up my gaming rig in the next 94 00:06:45,919 --> 00:06:53,600 room over along with my wife's but between the reliability issues with the 95 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:57,199 Thunderbolt 2 optical cables random weirdness like displays see look at this 96 00:06:55,680 --> 00:07:02,720 this has been sitting here since we started filming this failing to go to 97 00:06:59,199 --> 00:07:05,440 sleep and the lack of especially server 98 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:09,520 motherboards with like four or more Thunderbolt ports on them we needed 99 00:07:07,759 --> 00:07:16,319 another solution now display was easy this is a 50 foot 100 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:20,000 light link DisplayPort connector from sewell direct that they sent over 101 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:26,880 actually for an unrelated sponsor spot a few months ago hey these are finally 102 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:29,840 come in handy but usb 3 was shockingly 103 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:35,360 difficult until we found this this nondescript brown box is from icron 104 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:39,919 technologies who are shockingly headquartered about 30 minutes from my 105 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:46,720 house that's super cool this is the raven 106 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:51,120 3124 usb over fiber extension and this 107 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:53,759 is the only usb 3 extender on the market 108 00:07:51,120 --> 00:08:01,840 that uses multi-mode fiber with backwards compatibility for both usb 2 109 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:04,160 and even usb 1. trust me guys we looked 110 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:08,639 everywhere they have extremely low latency on the order of microseconds 111 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:14,400 which is very important for our vr gaming setup and thanks to their 112 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:20,720 extreme usb technology funny branding aside they can go up to 113 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:23,199 200 meters with complete transparency 114 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:26,560 that means no drivers and no funny business whatsoever 115 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:31,520 the problem is that this right here is a connector 116 00:08:28,879 --> 00:08:34,479 that you are unlikely to find in the average house 117 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:37,599 so uh colin hasn't actually said much up until 118 00:08:36,399 --> 00:08:40,399 now in this video and you're probably wondering why he's here well you're 119 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:45,120 probably not wondering that because you haven't seen him uh he's gonna be running 120 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:50,399 these what are these and what's special about them so these are fiber optic cables um 121 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:54,800 we have two different ends here strictly because we want to connect them into 122 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:59,120 these wall plates oh okay these wall plates the only option was an sc 123 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:02,720 connector so we're taking this sc connector 124 00:09:00,399 --> 00:09:05,120 oh i broke that good thing we don't need it anymore not 125 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:11,040 anymore and everything with fiber optics has little plugs on it because we want to 126 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:15,200 keep these fibers really clean and so we will plug in the sc connector 127 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:19,120 on one side of our box and then on the other side we're going to plug in the 128 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:24,080 same sc cable and that leaves us with two lc ends and these lcns are what 129 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:28,880 interface with our boxes and now it's as simple as that 130 00:09:26,399 --> 00:09:33,200 plug and play it's not that hard just don't break these cables they're very 131 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:36,560 fragile and expensive and expensive they actually weren't that bad well in the 132 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:39,440 context of how much this costs they're not that bad 133 00:09:37,839 --> 00:09:43,360 these are really cool plates where did you get these so these are data pro uh 134 00:09:41,839 --> 00:09:48,000 they're a company down in the states somewhere might be canada i can't 135 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:52,000 remember honestly but they do custom wall plates and you can get them laser 136 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:55,040 etched and you can get whatever you want they have a real cool configurator on 137 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:59,600 the website you can just plug in all the ports you want and uh they even send in 138 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:03,279 the the keystone connectors so we plug in like our fiber optic DisplayPort 139 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:07,040 into here and then we just have a port so normal and then a normal plug so we 140 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:10,240 just throw this Linus and Yvonne's machines we throw that in the wall there 141 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:13,279 we just plug in normal cables bippidy off you go so this is the one for the vr 142 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:16,800 machine and then this is the one for world's most comfortable yeah that is 143 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:21,200 sick we're going to start with a vr system run so what challenges are we 144 00:10:18,959 --> 00:10:26,000 expecting so the hardest part of this whole ordeal is keeping these cables 145 00:10:23,519 --> 00:10:31,200 from breaking we have to be very gentle it's just a glass fiber so we're going 146 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:34,959 to gently attach them to this fish cable and we're going to fish it 147 00:10:32,959 --> 00:10:38,959 all the way to the server room and then we're going to drop some down to the vr 148 00:10:37,279 --> 00:10:42,320 setup and then bring some all the way around to here by the way if you smell p 149 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:46,079 around here it's because our old cats used to pee here so it's p 150 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:49,200 so in order to get access to the wall here careful careful it's cable managed 151 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:54,000 real tight back there so you want to just spot me while i pull it out okay 152 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,800 move the speaker we good we good 153 00:10:55,360 --> 00:11:00,480 okay so to get access to the 154 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:04,399 uh to the wall back here we're just gonna need to pull the media console out 155 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:08,160 is that enough yeah i think so okay and what we're gonna do is we're actually 156 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:12,880 gonna use the same wall box from the existing Ethernet run except 157 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:18,320 this time we're gonna bring it down with fiber and DisplayPort and then we're 158 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:20,959 going to use that usb extension which 159 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:23,920 conveniently also has Ethernet yep pipes the right through 160 00:11:22,079 --> 00:11:27,279 to go ahead and provide Ethernet for the rest of the devices here now it's not 10 161 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:32,240 gigs so at some point i'll probably run another one you know just diva thing 162 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:36,320 it's only five gig for now we're no no the Ethernet is probably one gig 163 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:40,959 which is like realistically fine yeah okay let's go do 164 00:11:38,959 --> 00:11:44,320 that okay uh bye bye colin bye 165 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:51,040 also there's definitely something actively in here what yeah there's like wet spots 166 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:54,720 and i'm like if my roof is leaking no it kind of smells like pee 167 00:11:52,640 --> 00:12:00,880 i wonder if the cat got in there either the cat or something like there's 168 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:02,320 like so many dirt ah sorry it's okay 169 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:06,959 i just have to wash my pants wash everything wash all the 170 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:10,880 things yeah so full self really need this to boot up like now okay let's go 171 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:15,279 what's going on here why is it not booting i have drilled a hole in line 172 00:12:13,519 --> 00:12:19,279 with this pot light and i'm really hoping that the fish tape that i shove 173 00:12:16,959 --> 00:12:24,480 down that hole into the wall is going to line up with 174 00:12:20,639 --> 00:12:25,279 the uh the plate here i kind of doubt it 175 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:30,720 it's it's like a foot too far in but worst case scenario i'll 176 00:12:29,279 --> 00:12:34,959 go back drill another hole and just try to get in the next wall space so this is 177 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:39,920 the Ethernet that was run outside 178 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:43,760 so i can't really use it to fish my fiber optics back up the hill 179 00:12:42,399 --> 00:12:48,720 so to speak um all right so i think what we're going to 180 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:51,760 do is unplug all the graphics cards get this booted up and then start 181 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:57,040 plugging them back in one at a time we've seen this before with six workstations one CPU and the good news 182 00:12:55,120 --> 00:13:00,720 is because we haven't water cooled it all together and created a custom 183 00:12:58,639 --> 00:13:05,120 chassis there's plenty of time to sort out these kinds of issues the big thing 184 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:09,760 we're testing today is whether the fiber optic usb and displayport solution is 185 00:13:08,079 --> 00:13:14,959 actually any good ew dead squirrel 186 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:19,040 what what there's a dead squirrel in here 187 00:13:16,079 --> 00:13:24,000 oh my god that's disgusting yep okay how old is it uh 188 00:13:22,399 --> 00:13:28,959 it's not moist anymore if that's what you're wondering 189 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:33,120 okay sorry i've shoved the fish tape all the way 190 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:35,839 down but there's no saying it so 191 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:40,480 and i'm in line with this box i think 192 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:46,800 so i'm in the next wall space over so i think i'm going to 193 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:48,959 mark out poke a hole and 194 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:55,040 pray and we're going to see if we can find the tape in there 195 00:13:52,079 --> 00:13:59,600 i get to wreck Linus's house yes i think i have like a 50 chance of 196 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:04,880 finding it in the wall you said 70. i did say 70 earlier i just dropped it 197 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:07,839 down to be realistic um so i found the 198 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:12,320 edge of the next stud yeah and so that's where i think i am in the wall given the 199 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:15,360 pot light so i'm ready to poke a hole i just need to kill the power okay and 200 00:14:14,079 --> 00:14:20,079 then we can fish the cable down and hope we find it okay well there's nothing powered up 201 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:24,399 over here that matters so go ahead and start flipping breakers i they're sort 202 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:28,000 of labeled oh that helps why did i drill two holes because i 203 00:14:26,079 --> 00:14:32,079 should have put the first hole on the edge of where i need to cut so i can get 204 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,079 the saw in there 205 00:14:32,399 --> 00:14:38,399 hey there it is okay 206 00:14:36,079 --> 00:14:41,920 so i think i know what the issue is this board is still running the release 207 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:47,760 BIOS from four months ago so there's a new one 208 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:52,240 that apparently fixes blue screen issues with graphics cards 209 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:56,320 apparently fixes issues with Intel network cards which is 210 00:14:54,800 --> 00:15:00,240 exactly the kind of nick that we had plugged in so 211 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:07,440 um cd fs zero 212 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,440 current directory not specified 213 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:14,399 what does that mean so we've put a uh a hole in the wall 214 00:15:11,519 --> 00:15:20,000 this guy fits quite nicely if i do say so myself 215 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:24,320 and uh now i'm going to go up to above this and uh 216 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:27,839 let's try and show the fish tape down there and see if i can find it 217 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:33,760 like a fox did you get it yeah nice 218 00:15:33,839 --> 00:15:38,839 nice uh this sc connector is too big to fit 219 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:43,120 in the hole that i drilled in the joist upstairs so we're going to run the lc 220 00:15:41,519 --> 00:15:47,120 connector which is what actually plugs into the devices 221 00:15:44,639 --> 00:15:51,519 this guy will screw onto the end here i'm probably doing this wrong so any 222 00:15:49,199 --> 00:15:55,040 electricians or people who pull data lines professionally 223 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:58,079 don't at me we are going to take 224 00:15:57,279 --> 00:16:02,720 the actual usb fiber not just the display 225 00:16:01,199 --> 00:16:06,000 port fiber this nice small end 226 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:11,680 that i can actually fit through the hole i drilled i'm gonna try and pull mostly from the 227 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:15,440 plug in the jacket boom we've got a nice little missile 228 00:16:12,959 --> 00:16:19,440 to drag up okay so BIOS update seems to have worked i am in unread everything is 229 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:23,199 behaving as it should but i have a couple problems to solve 230 00:16:20,959 --> 00:16:27,040 one is that my old vdisk so with a Windows 10 install on it it doesn't seem 231 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:31,120 to be booting for some reason not sure why oh i think we're stuck in a boot 232 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:35,040 loop you've got to be kidding me oh i think we're stuck in a boot loop you've 233 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:39,040 got to be kidding me i see that that's the same thing you brought me last time 234 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:41,920 oh there's a pattern in there where'd you get that 235 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:46,240 from my chair what the heck 236 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:53,120 please just need these graphics cards to show 237 00:16:50,959 --> 00:16:53,120 up 238 00:16:54,560 --> 00:17:02,639 wow i still need a few more things to go right but okay so devices that we need to plug in 239 00:16:59,839 --> 00:17:06,480 then um oh 240 00:17:04,959 --> 00:17:13,280 here's something i really didn't think of uh colin yes sir how many display 241 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:15,679 ports did we run down here just one 242 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:19,199 that's all you said to run um thinking 243 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:22,720 yeah there's no way to like get another one down here quickly and easily we 244 00:17:21,120 --> 00:17:28,000 don't have another one thinking okay i have an idea we are 245 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:31,520 going to plug the primary display in upstairs we will plug the vr headset in 246 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:36,720 down here oh why how did i not think of this 247 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:40,080 let's try it just with the main tv first then 248 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:45,440 okay so things we need plugged in this 249 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:47,120 that's our keyboard mouse dongle doodad 250 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:52,799 is there a front one no i guess they're all in the back okay that's fine 251 00:17:49,679 --> 00:17:54,640 i pulled the plugs off 252 00:17:52,799 --> 00:18:00,240 we're connected and now we have the correct connector 253 00:17:57,360 --> 00:18:04,640 to go into the back of the extender pull the little plug 254 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,640 send it Linus 255 00:18:05,679 --> 00:18:12,320 oh it said it said HDMI displayport no 256 00:18:09,919 --> 00:18:16,559 signal should we just test with something that 257 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:19,919 we know works yeah sure uh why don't you go ahead and plug it into the blue one 258 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:26,400 over there the blue one yeah in the back okay oh 259 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:30,640 yeah i gotta be that katarsonist again hold on a second what 260 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:36,000 did you unplug it no it was just sitting there 261 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:36,000 oh did you not plug it in 262 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:45,600 plug into the 2080 ti then i guess uh 2080 yep 263 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:48,559 no signal that's heartbreaking 264 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:54,000 okay we're locked in displayport so hopefully at some point it'll just go 265 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:58,799 nothing yet but the little light at the bottom is flashing orange wait 266 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:02,080 what am i plugging in the wrong thing these are directional 267 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:14,960 i didn't realize they were directional oh wait wait wait 268 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:20,720 got it okay 269 00:19:17,039 --> 00:19:22,400 new plan since we had to rerun it anyway 270 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:26,960 we're gonna run the two here so we can have the tv and the vr setup running at 271 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:31,120 the same time i mean hey 272 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:35,200 look at that it's up yeah yep 273 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:40,400 oh okay honestly i think we got to call it here 274 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:45,120 today and pick this up again tomorrow with GPU pass-through working now we can 275 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:49,039 focus on setting up all of our vms and getting our peripherals working 276 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:52,960 as you guys might be able to tell i was up for quite a few hours last night 277 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:56,960 getting this all configured so not really feeling my best anymore but 278 00:19:55,039 --> 00:20:01,120 the good news is we're ready to show you guys all four machines are running super 279 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:05,120 smoothly right now i'm just extracting a copy of the cinebench benchmark the only 280 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:09,360 real way to tell the difference between them is to fire up task manager and look 281 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:16,799 at their different specs so this one's got 128 gigs of RAM six cores i actually 282 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:19,679 have smt disabled on the CPU due to a 283 00:20:16,799 --> 00:20:25,200 BIOS irregularity on our motherboard so those are six true cores and these are 284 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:28,720 eight true cores as opposed to uh you 285 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:31,440 know a virtual core and a true core so 286 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:35,760 eight true cores and finally what's this one got 287 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:41,200 a true course now remember guys individually these scores might not be 288 00:20:38,559 --> 00:20:47,200 crazy impressive or anything but you gotta remember that this is four 289 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:50,480 instances running off of a single chip 290 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:51,919 so let's go ahead and go run run 291 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:55,039 run and we are two cores short because i've 292 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:58,640 reserved two of them for our virtualization hypervisor 293 00:20:57,120 --> 00:21:03,440 they are all lit up right now ladies and gentlemen 294 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:07,440 this thing is working hard now let's just see how they do in terms 295 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:12,720 of performance here we come in at anywhere between around 2700 and 2000 296 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:16,480 but that's without having our smt enabled and that's with all of them 297 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:20,799 running at the same time so what i'm expecting is that even without altering 298 00:21:18,799 --> 00:21:25,200 the core counts i'm gonna run one of these again we would actually get a 299 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:29,600 higher score if not all machines are going full tilt at the same time which 300 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:33,760 would be a pretty unlikely scenario and as expected we got 301 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:37,679 2900 points without changing any configuration just thanks to our CPU 302 00:21:35,919 --> 00:21:43,039 being able to boost higher so that's great everything is performing 303 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:48,880 as we would expect so it's time to throw some gpus back into the vms and try and 304 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:51,360 light these monitors up okay 305 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:56,240 in theory everything's linked up so now it's just a matter of unplugging my 306 00:21:53,760 --> 00:22:01,360 Thunderbolt dock here and switching over to optical displayport and optical usb 307 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:07,760 oh execution error oh crap okay uh one moment please 308 00:22:05,039 --> 00:22:07,760 all right 309 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:16,880 peripherals lit up so our usb 2 backwards compatibility is running okay 310 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:20,400 so now what we need to do is get evons turned on 311 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:24,400 this is great so we had a connectivity issue there our usb 3 was flashing all 312 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:28,559 we needed to do was unplug and replug our fiber pass through and we're good to 313 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:32,880 go oh 314 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:34,400 150 gigs of RAM ladies and gentlemen 315 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:38,799 so uh this is it colin and i are going to try 316 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:43,120 and game on both of these machines at the same time over fiber optic 317 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:47,090 connections you might say we're gonna game at the 318 00:22:45,039 --> 00:22:48,240 speed of light 319 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:54,080 you were waiting to do it if i didn't in case you're wondering why it's rise 320 00:22:52,559 --> 00:22:58,559 of the tomb raider and not shadow of the tomb raider um i set up the vms with 321 00:22:56,559 --> 00:23:02,320 really small virtual disks and shadow didn't fit 322 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:06,640 and i could have expanded them but then it would have taken longer to copy them back and forth over the network and 323 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:10,880 stuff so this is what we're doing 324 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:13,840 and the craziest thing about this kind of virtualized setup is that even though 325 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:18,640 we're using the same machine we don't have to both play the same game this is something not some game console you know 326 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:22,960 i want to do some you know 3d rendering or some crap on my 327 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:28,640 CPU colin shouldn't feel it at all in his 328 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:31,360 game while i crank the eight cores that are assigned to me 329 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:37,760 pretty sick hey so for world's most comfortable gaming 330 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:43,280 it's about to get uncomfortable because we actually totally forgot i forgot uh 331 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:48,720 this doesn't have DisplayPort so our wall jack is kind of useless we pulled 332 00:23:45,679 --> 00:23:53,120 that out and then this was the only 333 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:55,039 long HDMI cable we had on and it's a 300 334 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:59,760 footer and we couldn't get it unspooled to get you know what just whatever don't 335 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:02,799 worry about it fiber optics are so cool 336 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:05,679 like that is a 300 foot HDMI cable and 337 00:24:02,799 --> 00:24:10,400 we are at 4k 60 frames per second right now is that not freaking awesome 338 00:24:08,159 --> 00:24:16,760 and of course guys just you know proof's in the pudding right 339 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:16,760 we are not running off of this pc 340 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:27,840 now something i haven't tried yet is whether we can actually run 120 hertz 341 00:24:25,679 --> 00:24:32,720 4k or oh wow that was quick and worked just fine oh that's smooth 342 00:24:30,559 --> 00:24:38,720 that is freaking awesome 50 feet of 120 hertz 4k oh and our 343 00:24:36,799 --> 00:24:42,000 control panel's showing up now okay let's play a game 344 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:46,000 man i really hope this works so this is the 2080 ti equipped machine so 345 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:51,039 theoretically performance should be flipping awesome so far everything just 346 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:55,760 works you just plug stuff in and 347 00:24:53,200 --> 00:25:02,720 usb 2 usb 3 this is 4k 120 hertz over long distance 348 00:25:00,159 --> 00:25:08,559 we're running at like 80 FPS yeah it's a bit of an older game but 349 00:25:03,919 --> 00:25:09,600 this thing is freaking cranked guys and 350 00:25:08,559 --> 00:25:13,120 that's my gaming pc right there 351 00:25:11,679 --> 00:25:16,640 look ma not actually hooked up 352 00:25:15,039 --> 00:25:21,760 this is cool too so because we're using this usb extender 353 00:25:19,679 --> 00:25:26,840 box it has lots of power going into it and that re-boosts the signal 354 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:31,840 we can even plug in peripherals with long cables like an 355 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:38,080 xbox controller or something like that boom plug and play the thing about vr 356 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:42,720 is between the cameras and the extremely latency sensitive nature of it 357 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:48,400 any problems with either your display connection or your usb connection are 358 00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:49,520 going to result in a very very bad 359 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:54,000 experience so i think i found a problem generic 360 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:58,640 super speed usb hub here is showing up as a yellow exclamation mark 361 00:25:56,559 --> 00:26:01,600 and it only happens when i plug in the index 362 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:05,440 it's okay i've got an idea right now i'm using this ASUS card with an as media 363 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:09,760 chipset to plug into my optical box and i'd like to swap it out for another one 364 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:16,720 but i don't have anything else handy which got me thinking 365 00:26:11,919 --> 00:26:20,320 what do all rtx touring cards have 366 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:22,159 a usb type c port for that vr link or 367 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:27,360 whatever it's called thing so what if i plugged in a type c hub and 368 00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:30,159 i plugged into that and passed that through 369 00:26:28,799 --> 00:26:34,400 let's see what happens well the good news is it works at all i 370 00:26:32,159 --> 00:26:38,480 wasn't 100 sure because i know that it's a slightly non-standard implementation 371 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:42,080 of usb type-c but uh the vr headset's still not 372 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:46,640 working let's go ahead and give it the old the old replug right now we've got 373 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:52,240 one of two possibilities either our miracle usb box is not a miracle or 374 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:57,039 there's something about virtualizing our usb controller that causes it to have 375 00:26:55,039 --> 00:27:01,039 virtual hubs in the chain or something that's causing performance issues so to 376 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:04,880 diagnose this we're gonna take my vr gaming setup 377 00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:08,799 we're gonna pop it in the room upstairs and see if that works with the usb box 378 00:27:07,279 --> 00:27:15,120 well it picked up we're in game i will say last night i did manage to 379 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:18,320 get this far connected via the virtual machine 380 00:27:16,159 --> 00:27:22,799 but it wouldn't go longer than about 10 or 15 seconds without the tracking going 381 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:26,640 all wonky which was making me pretty sick 382 00:27:24,559 --> 00:27:31,279 so just because it's going now doesn't mean that we're out of the woods yet so 383 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:34,640 far i've had no performance and no tracking issues which is really 384 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:40,240 impressive when you consider that between the pc and the vr headset 385 00:27:37,679 --> 00:27:45,760 there's not only my optical links but also the long tether so what all this 386 00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:49,840 means then is that the concept of having our computers separated physically and 387 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:52,960 all in a centralized location and then accessing them over optical fiber in our 388 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:58,559 homes is sound it's just a matter of 389 00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:02,799 the cost becoming controllable and maybe some software or driver issues being 390 00:28:00,799 --> 00:28:06,880 sorted out pretty freaking cool 391 00:28:05,360 --> 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