WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.359 portions of this video are sponsored by lastpass like five years ago on the lan 00:00:04.880 --> 00:00:12.719 show luke and i made the prediction that even if cloud gaming could never solve 00:00:09.920 --> 00:00:18.560 its problems with latency and game licensing the hardware that was used to 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:20.480 run it was gonna get so powerful that it 00:00:18.560 --> 00:00:26.160 would be feasible to use a single computer as like the computing brain of 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:30.400 your house and run all of the gaming machines under a single roof off of a 00:00:28.720 --> 00:00:36.079 single box and my friends 00:00:32.239 --> 00:00:38.000 it has happened AMD's epic lineup of 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:41.600 server processors are available in configurations with up to 00:00:40.040 --> 00:00:46.239 64 processing cores guys that is enough CPU 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:53.600 resources to run 16 virtual machines each with a quad 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:56.320 core processor off of a single chip in a 00:00:53.600 --> 00:01:01.039 single socket and guys these are not weak cores so we don't actually need 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 00:01:04.479 --> 00:01:10.400 32 core processor that runs that 2.5 00:01:07.600 --> 00:01:14.320 gigahertz base and actually boosts up to 3.3 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:20.640 gigahertz so we're going to be using this as well as 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:23.759 all of this to convert all my computers 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:26.000 to run off of a single motherboard 00:01:23.759 --> 00:01:30.159 my personal gaming rig which i also use for streaming very occasionally my 00:01:28.080 --> 00:01:34.560 wife's rig which she uses for work and also very occasionally gaming so i like 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 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:43.920 broken 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00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:25.789 portion now on to the rest of the video 00:02:28.959 --> 00:02:35.360 what does a machine that's powerful enough to take the place of four to five 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:41.040 others look like let's walk through all the specs starting of course with the 00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:44.000 processor so our 7502p here it's 32 00:02:41.040 --> 00:02:49.280 cores 64 threads but more importantly than that it's got 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:52.080 128 pci express gen 4 lanes on it that 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 00:02:55.040 --> 00:03:02.319 for high speed storage or regular SATA drives or a ton of pci 00:03:00.640 --> 00:03:06.959 express expansion cards including graphics cards everything is going to be 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:13.280 getting the full bandwidth that is absolutely incredible and all while 00:03:09.519 --> 00:03:15.760 consuming only 200 watts which sounds 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:20.000 like a lot but remember that's gonna be four to five cpus so 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:24.800 now as for what we've got it installed on this is a Gigabyte 00:03:22.440 --> 00:03:30.000 mz32ar0 this is one of the few standalone extended atx motherboards 00:03:27.519 --> 00:03:34.640 that has full support for pci express gen 4 almost across the board pun 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:39.200 definitely intended it's got an incredible amount of connectivity 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:44.959 including a bunch of NVMe storage regular storage seven pci express slots 00:03:42.720 --> 00:03:48.720 uh only two of them i think are even gen 3 which is 00:03:46.200 --> 00:03:52.959 unbelievable and it's got a remote management port as well as one of these 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 00:03:55.760 --> 00:04:01.840 thing is going to have high speed connectivity both in and out 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:06.720 now as for our graphics cards unfortunately unless you go full 00:04:04.480 --> 00:04:11.920 enterprise NVIDIA doesn't currently support splitting a GPU into multiple 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:17.600 virtual machines the same way that a CPU manufacturer does so we've actually got 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:23.680 four total graphics cards one for each of the gaming rigs provided by NVIDIA 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:26.080 and then of course ASUS rog so an rtx 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 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:32.800 the ones that just need to be like basically up to spec 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:39.000 finally this is amazing we have 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:42.479 512 gigs of ddr4 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:44.560 2666 memory from micron they sent this 00:04:42.479 --> 00:04:48.800 over for this project today and it's running in eight 00:04:46.080 --> 00:04:53.919 channel mode that means we have a ton of bandwidth each of my individual vms is 00:04:51.520 --> 00:04:58.960 going to have effectively dual channel ddr4 worth of memory bandwidth that is 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:01.840 unfreaking believable not to mention that each one could have over 100 gigs 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 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 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:15.280 a single epic processor now in a perfect world what we'd really 00:05:13.039 --> 00:05:19.440 like to do is install all of our graphics cards directly in the slots put 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 00:05:22.080 --> 00:05:28.000 the whole thing so you get that that density 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 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:36.000 to use these pci express extenders 00:05:33.520 --> 00:05:39.440 here we go to run the cards out of the motherboard 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 00:05:40.960 --> 00:05:46.560 not the prettiest way to do this but 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:50.800 it's functional and uh you know all we need to do is plug into 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 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 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:03.440 ports to our virtual machines in order to have usb 3 ports and unfortunately 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:07.680 this motherboard only has three of them one of which is going to 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 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:15.680 using unraid just because i'm most comfortable with it and also because i 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 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 00:06:21.520 --> 00:06:29.039 bunch of hard drives connected as well oh actually wait i forgot about the 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:31.360 internal usb 3 ports 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 00:06:32.880 --> 00:06:38.560 we've got all this power but we don't really have a solution for 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:44.160 how to pipe it around the house so to speak now 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 00:06:45.919 --> 00:06:53.600 room over along with my wife's but between the reliability issues with the 00:06:50.880 --> 00:06:57.199 Thunderbolt 2 optical cables random weirdness like displays see look at this 00:06:55.680 --> 00:07:02.720 this has been sitting here since we started filming this failing to go to 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:05.440 sleep and the lack of especially server 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:09.520 motherboards with like four or more Thunderbolt ports on them we needed 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:16.319 another solution now display was easy this is a 50 foot 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:20.000 light link DisplayPort connector from sewell direct that they sent over 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:26.880 actually for an unrelated sponsor spot a few months ago hey these are finally 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:29.840 come in handy but usb 3 was shockingly 00:07:26.880 --> 00:07:35.360 difficult until we found this this nondescript brown box is from icron 00:07:33.280 --> 00:07:39.919 technologies who are shockingly headquartered about 30 minutes from my 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:46.720 house that's super cool this is the raven 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:51.120 3124 usb over fiber extension and this 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:53.759 is the only usb 3 extender on the market 00:07:51.120 --> 00:08:01.840 that uses multi-mode fiber with backwards compatibility for both usb 2 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:04.160 and even usb 1. trust me guys we looked 00:08:01.840 --> 00:08:08.639 everywhere they have extremely low latency on the order of microseconds 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:14.400 which is very important for our vr gaming setup and thanks to their 00:08:11.520 --> 00:08:20.720 extreme usb technology funny branding aside they can go up to 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:23.199 200 meters with complete transparency 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:26.560 that means no drivers and no funny business whatsoever 00:08:25.440 --> 00:08:31.520 the problem is that this right here is a connector 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:34.479 that you are unlikely to find in the average house 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:37.599 so uh colin hasn't actually said much up until 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:40.399 now in this video and you're probably wondering why he's here well you're 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:45.120 probably not wondering that because you haven't seen him uh he's gonna be running 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 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:54.800 we have two different ends here strictly because we want to connect them into 00:08:52.800 --> 00:08:59.120 these wall plates oh okay these wall plates the only option was an sc 00:08:56.640 --> 00:09:02.720 connector so we're taking this sc connector 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:05.120 oh i broke that good thing we don't need it anymore not 00:09:04.160 --> 00:09:11.040 anymore and everything with fiber optics has little plugs on it because we want to 00:09:08.560 --> 00:09:15.200 keep these fibers really clean and so we will plug in the sc connector 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 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:24.080 same sc cable and that leaves us with two lc ends and these lcns are what 00:09:21.920 --> 00:09:28.880 interface with our boxes and now it's as simple as that 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 00:09:30.560 --> 00:09:36.560 fragile and expensive and expensive they actually weren't that bad well in the 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:39.440 context of how much this costs they're not that bad 00:09:37.839 --> 00:09:43.360 these are really cool plates where did you get these so these are data pro uh 00:09:41.839 --> 00:09:48.000 they're a company down in the states somewhere might be canada i can't 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:52.000 remember honestly but they do custom wall plates and you can get them laser 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:55.040 etched and you can get whatever you want they have a real cool configurator on 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 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:03.279 the the keystone connectors so we plug in like our fiber optic DisplayPort 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 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:10.240 just throw this Linus and Yvonne's machines we throw that in the wall there 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 00:10:11.760 --> 00:10:16.800 machine and then this is the one for world's most comfortable yeah that is 00:10:15.040 --> 00:10:21.200 sick we're going to start with a vr system run so what challenges are we 00:10:18.959 --> 00:10:26.000 expecting so the hardest part of this whole ordeal is keeping these cables 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 00:10:28.560 --> 00:10:34.959 to gently attach them to this fish cable and we're going to fish it 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 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 00:10:40.880 --> 00:10:46.079 around here it's because our old cats used to pee here so it's p 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:49.200 so in order to get access to the wall here careful careful it's cable managed 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 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:56.800 move the speaker we good we good 00:10:55.360 --> 00:11:00.480 okay so to get access to the 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 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 00:11:05.760 --> 00:11:12.880 gonna use the same wall box from the existing Ethernet run except 00:11:10.560 --> 00:11:18.320 this time we're gonna bring it down with fiber and DisplayPort and then we're 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:20.959 going to use that usb extension which 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:23.920 conveniently also has Ethernet yep pipes the right through 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 00:11:25.680 --> 00:11:32.240 gigs so at some point i'll probably run another one you know just diva thing 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 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:40.959 which is like realistically fine yeah okay let's go do 00:11:38.959 --> 00:11:44.320 that okay uh bye bye colin bye 00:11:43.040 --> 00:11:51.040 also there's definitely something actively in here what yeah there's like wet spots 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:54.720 and i'm like if my roof is leaking no it kind of smells like pee 00:11:52.640 --> 00:12:00.880 i wonder if the cat got in there either the cat or something like there's 00:11:56.480 --> 00:12:02.320 like so many dirt ah sorry it's okay 00:12:00.880 --> 00:12:06.959 i just have to wash my pants wash everything wash all the 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 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 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:19.279 with this pot light and i'm really hoping that the fish tape that i shove 00:12:16.959 --> 00:12:24.480 down that hole into the wall is going to line up with 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:25.279 the uh the plate here i kind of doubt it 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:30.720 it's it's like a foot too far in but worst case scenario i'll 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 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:39.920 the Ethernet that was run outside 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:43.760 so i can't really use it to fish my fiber optics back up the hill 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:48.720 so to speak um all right so i think what we're going to 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:51.760 do is unplug all the graphics cards get this booted up and then start 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 00:12:55.120 --> 00:13:00.720 is because we haven't water cooled it all together and created a custom 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:05.120 chassis there's plenty of time to sort out these kinds of issues the big thing 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:09.760 we're testing today is whether the fiber optic usb and displayport solution is 00:13:08.079 --> 00:13:14.959 actually any good ew dead squirrel 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:19.040 what what there's a dead squirrel in here 00:13:16.079 --> 00:13:24.000 oh my god that's disgusting yep okay how old is it uh 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:28.959 it's not moist anymore if that's what you're wondering 00:13:26.160 --> 00:13:33.120 okay sorry i've shoved the fish tape all the way 00:13:30.560 --> 00:13:35.839 down but there's no saying it so 00:13:35.920 --> 00:13:40.480 and i'm in line with this box i think 00:13:39.760 --> 00:13:46.800 so i'm in the next wall space over so i think i'm going to 00:13:44.560 --> 00:13:48.959 mark out poke a hole and 00:13:47.760 --> 00:13:55.040 pray and we're going to see if we can find the tape in there 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 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 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:07.839 down to be realistic um so i found the 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 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 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 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:24.399 over here that matters so go ahead and start flipping breakers i they're sort 00:14:21.920 --> 00:14:28.000 of labeled oh that helps why did i drill two holes because i 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 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:32.079 the saw in there 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:38.399 hey there it is okay 00:14:36.079 --> 00:14:41.920 so i think i know what the issue is this board is still running the release 00:14:40.800 --> 00:14:47.760 BIOS from four months ago so there's a new one 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:52.240 that apparently fixes blue screen issues with graphics cards 00:14:49.680 --> 00:14:56.320 apparently fixes issues with Intel network cards which is 00:14:54.800 --> 00:15:00.240 exactly the kind of nick that we had plugged in so 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:07.440 um cd fs zero 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:07.440 current directory not specified 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:14.399 what does that mean so we've put a uh a hole in the wall 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:20.000 this guy fits quite nicely if i do say so myself 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:24.320 and uh now i'm going to go up to above this and uh 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 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:33.760 like a fox did you get it yeah nice 00:15:33.839 --> 00:15:38.839 nice uh this sc connector is too big to fit 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 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:47.120 connector which is what actually plugs into the devices 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:51.519 this guy will screw onto the end here i'm probably doing this wrong so any 00:15:49.199 --> 00:15:55.040 electricians or people who pull data lines professionally 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:58.079 don't at me we are going to take 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:02.720 the actual usb fiber not just the display 00:16:01.199 --> 00:16:06.000 port fiber this nice small end 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 00:16:09.040 --> 00:16:15.440 plug in the jacket boom we've got a nice little missile 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 00:16:17.680 --> 00:16:23.199 behaving as it should but i have a couple problems to solve 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 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 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 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 00:16:36.560 --> 00:16:41.920 oh there's a pattern in there where'd you get that 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:46.240 from my chair what the heck 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:53.120 please just need these graphics cards to show 00:16:50.959 --> 00:16:53.120 up 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 00:16:59.839 --> 00:17:06.480 then um oh 00:17:04.959 --> 00:17:13.280 here's something i really didn't think of uh colin yes sir how many display 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:15.679 ports did we run down here just one 00:17:13.280 --> 00:17:19.199 that's all you said to run um thinking 00:17:17.520 --> 00:17:22.720 yeah there's no way to like get another one down here quickly and easily we 00:17:21.120 --> 00:17:28.000 don't have another one thinking okay i have an idea we are 00:17:25.280 --> 00:17:31.520 going to plug the primary display in upstairs we will plug the vr headset in 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:36.720 down here oh why how did i not think of this 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:40.080 let's try it just with the main tv first then 00:17:38.080 --> 00:17:45.440 okay so things we need plugged in this 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:47.120 that's our keyboard mouse dongle doodad 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 00:17:49.679 --> 00:17:54.640 i pulled the plugs off 00:17:52.799 --> 00:18:00.240 we're connected and now we have the correct connector 00:17:57.360 --> 00:18:04.640 to go into the back of the extender pull the little plug 00:18:01.760 --> 00:18:04.640 send it Linus 00:18:05.679 --> 00:18:12.320 oh it said it said HDMI displayport no 00:18:09.919 --> 00:18:16.559 signal should we just test with something that 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 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:26.400 over there the blue one yeah in the back okay oh 00:18:24.320 --> 00:18:30.640 yeah i gotta be that katarsonist again hold on a second what 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:36.000 did you unplug it no it was just sitting there 00:18:32.320 --> 00:18:36.000 oh did you not plug it in 00:18:37.520 --> 00:18:45.600 plug into the 2080 ti then i guess uh 2080 yep 00:18:41.600 --> 00:18:48.559 no signal that's heartbreaking 00:18:45.600 --> 00:18:54.000 okay we're locked in displayport so hopefully at some point it'll just go 00:18:51.360 --> 00:18:58.799 nothing yet but the little light at the bottom is flashing orange wait 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:02.080 what am i plugging in the wrong thing these are directional 00:19:08.080 --> 00:19:14.960 i didn't realize they were directional oh wait wait wait 00:19:13.600 --> 00:19:20.720 got it okay 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:22.400 new plan since we had to rerun it anyway 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 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:31.120 the same time i mean hey 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:35.200 look at that it's up yeah yep 00:19:33.360 --> 00:19:40.400 oh okay honestly i think we got to call it here 00:19:37.840 --> 00:19:45.120 today and pick this up again tomorrow with GPU pass-through working now we can 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:49.039 focus on setting up all of our vms and getting our peripherals working 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 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:56.960 getting this all configured so not really feeling my best anymore but 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 00:19:59.360 --> 00:20:05.120 smoothly right now i'm just extracting a copy of the cinebench benchmark the only 00:20:03.760 --> 00:20:09.360 real way to tell the difference between them is to fire up task manager and look 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 00:20:13.760 --> 00:20:19.679 have smt disabled on the CPU due to a 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:25.200 BIOS irregularity on our motherboard so those are six true cores and these are 00:20:21.760 --> 00:20:28.720 eight true cores as opposed to uh you 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:31.440 know a virtual core and a true core so 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:35.760 eight true cores and finally what's this one got 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:41.200 a true course now remember guys individually these scores might not be 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:47.200 crazy impressive or anything but you gotta remember that this is four 00:20:44.080 --> 00:20:50.480 instances running off of a single chip 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:51.919 so let's go ahead and go run run 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:55.039 run and we are two cores short because i've 00:20:53.840 --> 00:20:58.640 reserved two of them for our virtualization hypervisor 00:20:57.120 --> 00:21:03.440 they are all lit up right now ladies and gentlemen 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:07.440 this thing is working hard now let's just see how they do in terms 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:12.720 of performance here we come in at anywhere between around 2700 and 2000 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:16.480 but that's without having our smt enabled and that's with all of them 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:20.799 running at the same time so what i'm expecting is that even without altering 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:25.200 the core counts i'm gonna run one of these again we would actually get a 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:29.600 higher score if not all machines are going full tilt at the same time which 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:33.760 would be a pretty unlikely scenario and as expected we got 00:21:31.320 --> 00:21:37.679 2900 points without changing any configuration just thanks to our CPU 00:21:35.919 --> 00:21:43.039 being able to boost higher so that's great everything is performing 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 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:51.360 light these monitors up okay 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:56.240 in theory everything's linked up so now it's just a matter of unplugging my 00:21:53.760 --> 00:22:01.360 Thunderbolt dock here and switching over to optical displayport and optical usb 00:21:59.120 --> 00:22:07.760 oh execution error oh crap okay uh one moment please 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:07.760 all right 00:22:09.840 --> 00:22:16.880 peripherals lit up so our usb 2 backwards compatibility is running okay 00:22:14.320 --> 00:22:20.400 so now what we need to do is get evons turned on 00:22:18.320 --> 00:22:24.400 this is great so we had a connectivity issue there our usb 3 was flashing all 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 00:22:26.320 --> 00:22:32.880 go oh 00:22:29.760 --> 00:22:34.400 150 gigs of RAM ladies and gentlemen 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:38.799 so uh this is it colin and i are going to try 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:43.120 and game on both of these machines at the same time over fiber optic 00:22:41.520 --> 00:22:47.090 connections you might say we're gonna game at the 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:48.240 speed of light 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 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 00:22:56.559 --> 00:23:02.320 really small virtual disks and shadow didn't fit 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 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:10.880 stuff so this is what we're doing 00:23:09.120 --> 00:23:13.840 and the craziest thing about this kind of virtualized setup is that even though 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 00:23:17.280 --> 00:23:22.960 i want to do some you know 3d rendering or some crap on my 00:23:21.520 --> 00:23:28.640 CPU colin shouldn't feel it at all in his 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:31.360 game while i crank the eight cores that are assigned to me 00:23:31.520 --> 00:23:37.760 pretty sick hey so for world's most comfortable gaming 00:23:35.840 --> 00:23:43.280 it's about to get uncomfortable because we actually totally forgot i forgot uh 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:48.720 this doesn't have DisplayPort so our wall jack is kind of useless we pulled 00:23:45.679 --> 00:23:53.120 that out and then this was the only 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:55.039 long HDMI cable we had on and it's a 300 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 00:23:56.480 --> 00:24:02.799 worry about it fiber optics are so cool 00:23:59.760 --> 00:24:05.679 like that is a 300 foot HDMI cable and 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:10.400 we are at 4k 60 frames per second right now is that not freaking awesome 00:24:08.159 --> 00:24:16.760 and of course guys just you know proof's in the pudding right 00:24:12.080 --> 00:24:16.760 we are not running off of this pc 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:27.840 now something i haven't tried yet is whether we can actually run 120 hertz 00:24:25.679 --> 00:24:32.720 4k or oh wow that was quick and worked just fine oh that's smooth 00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:38.720 that is freaking awesome 50 feet of 120 hertz 4k oh and our 00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:42.000 control panel's showing up now okay let's play a game 00:24:40.080 --> 00:24:46.000 man i really hope this works so this is the 2080 ti equipped machine so 00:24:44.080 --> 00:24:51.039 theoretically performance should be flipping awesome so far everything just 00:24:49.600 --> 00:24:55.760 works you just plug stuff in and 00:24:53.200 --> 00:25:02.720 usb 2 usb 3 this is 4k 120 hertz over long distance 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 00:25:03.919 --> 00:25:09.600 this thing is freaking cranked guys and 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:13.120 that's my gaming pc right there 00:25:11.679 --> 00:25:16.640 look ma not actually hooked up 00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:21.760 this is cool too so because we're using this usb extender 00:25:19.679 --> 00:25:26.840 box it has lots of power going into it and that re-boosts the signal 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:31.840 we can even plug in peripherals with long cables like an 00:25:29.840 --> 00:25:38.080 xbox controller or something like that boom plug and play the thing about vr 00:25:35.200 --> 00:25:42.720 is between the cameras and the extremely latency sensitive nature of it 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:48.400 any problems with either your display connection or your usb connection are 00:25:45.360 --> 00:25:49.520 going to result in a very very bad 00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:54.000 experience so i think i found a problem generic 00:25:51.760 --> 00:25:58.640 super speed usb hub here is showing up as a yellow exclamation mark 00:25:56.559 --> 00:26:01.600 and it only happens when i plug in the index 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 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 00:26:07.360 --> 00:26:16.720 but i don't have anything else handy which got me thinking 00:26:11.919 --> 00:26:20.320 what do all rtx touring cards have 00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:22.159 a usb type c port for that vr link or 00:26:20.320 --> 00:26:27.360 whatever it's called thing so what if i plugged in a type c hub and 00:26:25.120 --> 00:26:30.159 i plugged into that and passed that through 00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:34.400 let's see what happens well the good news is it works at all i 00:26:32.159 --> 00:26:38.480 wasn't 100 sure because i know that it's a slightly non-standard implementation 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:42.080 of usb type-c but uh the vr headset's still not 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 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:52.240 one of two possibilities either our miracle usb box is not a miracle or 00:26:50.080 --> 00:26:57.039 there's something about virtualizing our usb controller that causes it to have 00:26:55.039 --> 00:27:01.039 virtual hubs in the chain or something that's causing performance issues so to 00:26:59.760 --> 00:27:04.880 diagnose this we're gonna take my vr gaming setup 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 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 00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:18.320 get this far connected via the virtual machine 00:27:16.159 --> 00:27:22.799 but it wouldn't go longer than about 10 or 15 seconds without the tracking going 00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:26.640 all wonky which was making me pretty sick 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 00:27:29.360 --> 00:27:34.640 far i've had no performance and no tracking issues which is really 00:27:33.360 --> 00:27:40.240 impressive when you consider that between the pc and the vr headset 00:27:37.679 --> 00:27:45.760 there's not only my optical links but also the long tether so what all this 00:27:43.120 --> 00:27:49.840 means then is that the concept of having our computers separated physically and 00:27:48.080 --> 00:27:52.960 all in a centralized location and then accessing them over optical fiber in our 00:27:51.840 --> 00:27:58.559 homes is sound it's just a matter of 00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:02.799 the cost becoming controllable and maybe some software or driver issues being 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:06.880 sorted out pretty freaking cool 00:28:05.360 --> 00:28:11.200 thanks lastpass for sponsoring this portion of today's video lastpass makes 00:28:09.520 --> 00:28:16.000 it easy when you're setting up new computers or when you're traveling and 00:28:13.360 --> 00:28:20.240 you want to get access to your passwords with lastpass not only can you store 00:28:18.159 --> 00:28:24.720 passwords and then recall them on desktop with their browser extensions or 00:28:22.799 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