ever since AMD released their massive manycore threadripper processors
enthusiasts have been chomping at the bit for an itx small form factor
solution where they could pack as many cores as possible into a tiny case like
this one and guess what ladies and gentlemen today we finally got it sort
of technically this motherboard comes from asrock's server division asrock
rack and is compatible with AMD epic cpus but that doesn't change the fact
that we're gonna build a sick freaking
gaming rig with it with an rtx 3090
graphics card 128 gigabytes of memory and 64
processing cores all in this tiny little thing right here it's gonna overheat
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to start with the main advantage of threadripper over epic because they're
both available in up to 64 core configurations is that aside from the
lower price you'll actually tend to get better performance in desktop or
workstation applications because AMD was more willing to go ham on the power
consumption of a desktop slash enthusiast chip compared to well
something that's supposed to be super power efficient for the data center it's
also overclocking capable as for epic's advantages well they are several this
puppy has 128 lanes of pci express gen 4
connectivity up to octo channel instead of just quad channel memory and it's got
support for up to four terabytes of registered ecc memory
none of which we will be taking advantage of today because this board
only has four memory slots so we'll be running quad channel it only has a
single pci express 16x slot so we won't be using all 128 lanes and well you
can't buy one terabyte memory modules yet so or ever you could do 256. you
could do a terabyte total you could do a terabyte total but we're not doing that
of course sometimes your choices are dictated by a lack of better options and
since there are no itx motherboards for threadripper we are going epic today
although it should be noted that this is not strictly speaking quite an itx
motherboard see that it does only have one pci express slot like an itx
motherboard and a standard atx style i o
but it's actually a touch wider so this is a completely non-standard what do
they call it deep its proprietary deep bytes proprietary d5 tx the good news is
that we did manage to find cases that happen to be compatible with it sort of
after some modification even with the extra width though asrock had to make a
lot of stars online in order to make this happen so first one of the main
reasons that threadripper mini itx boards don't exist is that threadripper
requires an external chipset on the motherboard for certain functionality
like say to raid epic by contrast just doesn't support it
at all so there's no need for an outside chipset another compromise they made was
having very little i o so while we do have built-in dual 10 gigabit network
ports and that's freaking awesome because we'd have nowhere to put a
network card on this thing other than that we get vga out we get a i believe
this is a power button we get a management network port and two usb 3
ports we don't even have any additional usb 3 headers on the board
here's another fun one the board uses atx 12 volt power only look at that
there's no 24 pin connector there was no freaking space for it which
isn't to say that it doesn't still have some cool connectivity all of these
slimline ports over here these four are pci express gen 4 8x if we were to plug
them into like say for example u.2 NVMe
drives although we can't use them for anything that requires power from the
board because we've only got this single four pin power input for them and then
these ones up here can actually run either pci express gen 4x8 or SATA if
you want to hook up a bunch of SATA drives this thing is so freaking cool
it's so dense too like even the back of the board is as covered with components
as the front of like a normal gaming board would be i guess another more
indirect advantage of threadripper is that you can get much higher speed
memory for it because you can run unbuffered dimms
these 3200 megahertz cl22 modules are
about as fast as you can really go with epic and cl22 yeah that really ain't
that great for the best performance on zen 2 i
would want to be running more like 3200 cl 15
but it's ecc so of course you have error checking and correction so that's that's
good for reliability that's funny i went to install our eight
terabyte because this video is all about massive numbers
here eight terabyte saver m.2 drive and i realized this motherboard doesn't come
with a screw for it but it does come with some screwy accessories
so you got your standard i o shield and then you got this trippy thing
look at this this is a four pin power connector to
six SATA power so that's that hard drive
uh plug thing that i showed you guys before and then it also has a 24 pin to
four pin adapter for the 12 volt only power that goes into the motherboard
crazy now that that's built up we can turn our attention to our case
this is the sugo 15 from silverstone it
ain't cheap but it's really cool it's
highly configurable so you can either set it up for tons of storage or for
tons of air cooling or for tons of water cooling it all comes down to your
personal preference for us we're going with a mixture we don't really need any
storage but we need both a big air
cooler on our CPU and a water cooling
radiator for our GPU one thing you might have noticed is that
Jake did a little drill out rivet thing here so this used
to be in here as like a support or something and a two and a half inch
drive mount yeah we don't have room for that because we got to put a big old
what is it deep deep itx board in this thing it's really
nice that we're able to put a full sized atx power supply in here because
otherwise i don't know how we would handle the power spikes that come from
well our tx 3090 graphics here we go
um question for you Jake there it goes
there's a thing you have to remove oh yeah i was going to ask about that
there's a screw on the bottom doesn't come out it's a screw on the bottom well how do you get the screw on the box oh
wow there's a there's a removable bottom panel on this case that is so cool just
one screw and then it slides out yeah
there's our GPU support out of the way this thing can handle up to a triple
slot graphics card it's pretty sweet where's the uh mounting hardware for
this ah now for our power supply it's
standard atx in terms of like how it screws into the case but what's special
about it is its depth or rather lack thereof it's a 1200 watt power supply 80
plus platinum efficiency but this thing is like only as deep as a 120 millimeter
fan pretty much so that is what allows
it to fit in here
oh hold on kind of kind of hangs down from
the top you know what i'm saying actually oh you know what
there's pretty easy access to everything i love this punch out on the bottom just
realized that too so you can reach your modular power supply interface you're
kind of worried about it but super easy now we got to make a small configuration
change to our case here this rear 120 millimeter fan would be fine if we were
doing something slightly less power hungry but
we want to turn it around to act as an intake so that our CPU is getting fresh
air rather than the preheated air that's going to come from our radiator for the
graphics card so we're using a slim dual 120mm radiator from
xspc we just grabbed whatever was on the shelf it happened to be
super mondo slim and then because we know that we don't have a ton of surface
area we're going with some pretty ball and fans Noctua industrial ppc 3000 RPM
fans to be clear i'm not expecting to run these at maximum speed all the time
it's just hey they have the potential to ramp up
if we really need to so we want it kind of
kind of right about kind of um just put it on loosely and just right
there man this is a really tight fit wait not
a very well designed bracket i think it's not meant to have the fans on that
side but whatever yeah we're bringing sexy back you know Jake i do wish we had
shorter cables for this yeah
that's all you're getting in fairness to him i think i assigned this project to
him yesterday uh so let's plug in the wonko adapter
now that goes there it feels unnatural to me
that this is it these four wires are motherboard powered it's also kind of
ugly uh Jake hi did you check if the 24
pin fits i'm up against one of those mini pcies okay i'm gonna flex it oh
isn't it it's in doesn't get much closer than that it's
tight it is right against the motherboard it is putting pressure on
the motherboard just don't screw the motherboard in we don't even need it now let the
desert enough space to like bend it though these cables are pretty flexible
i think we're good i mean there's only like two things left to put in so you'll
have to pardon the construction noises they basically told me look do you want
it done fast or do you want it done quiet and i was like fast so that's what
we're dealing with what the heck is going on here no problem this is not the
best cable management that i have ever done now i kind of wish that the GPU was
a bit longer actually no that's where the pump's gonna go
oh yeah that's right oh yeah that's right oh crap how are we going to get
that in there i didn't really want to get the drill out but maybe we could get
the drill out maybe we're just going to kind of RAM it in like this
drill four holes on the bottom and boom
it's attached oh man this like
window thing in the bottom here so you can access the bottom of the power
supply is amazing looks pretty dope next
up we're going to put in one of my favorite coolers this is the nhu12s tr4
sp3 and it's one of the only coolers on the market that was specifically
engineered for threadripper and by extension epic just anything with a lot
of ccx's spread out over an incredibly large area and what's so cool about this
one is it's got this feature that allows you to offset the mount so you can see
we've moved it what is it like six millimeters or something like that
just a little bit now it's intended to help with pci express slot clearance
what we're using it to help with is clearance for our tubing to run over
here to the graphics card so you can see right
like that
that is how our tubes are going to come through now it's time for some epic
thermal paste application here i just do dots all over there we go oh so tidy
good job Linus wait no i don't want this in just yet i want
to run my tubing first yeah yeah oh dang it now i've got thermal goop all
in the way looks like we're going to have just enough clearance to tighten
these collars down that is really close
so this will just chill here that there we go
oh no problem everything is so tight it's a good thing
we're using like uh like a nice robust
tubing because otherwise sharp fins on it over time i wouldn't be too happy
about literally touching the fins once i have this screwed in oh man
i'll throw the GPU in from oh i didn't run power for the GPU this
is a sweet rtx 3090 so it's actually
using not like the founders board but the reference board so it's like
freaking tiny it's water cooled by ek
water blocks this is a product ASUS actually sells like pre-water cooled
with an ek block on it and you only need two standard eight pin power connectors
and it's like single slot at the back which is sick because a lot of the time
even if you get a single slot water block on your graphics card you're still
stuck taking up two slots at the back because the uh the i o is on the other
side so here you got three display ports single HDMI back plate oh
there's thermal paste on the back of it i'll use my shirt to clean it
lttstore.com so this puppy's gonna go
oh man there's a plate in them in my way look at the i o shield i know there's
nothing on it wait that's where the thermal paste is coming
from it's coming from my hand it's on everything ah
okay RGB just get just get there
yeah you remember when i said now i kind of wish that the GPU was a bit longer
yeah not a problem there we go oh
yeah why tubing time so this goes right
there it's going to be a little tough to screw
in but actually not that bad like the loop itself is pretty well thought out
good work Jake ah yeah i can't even get you a view of this sandy this is just
too tight that's what she said oh yeah
did you get it in oh yeah it's in
look at that that is
this fan spin oh yes oh good okay is it fit oh yeah isn't this a
great layout easy easy last run
i mean that's the thing about only water cooling one component in this system is
you're only running like four tubes now what i could have wait
why did you make that tube so i was about to explain why i made this so long
well hold on there's a reason for it Jake it leaves room if we wanted to do
that whole cool idea with the expansion off the slimline things for us to have
lots of room to work to add uh pci express cards and stuff like that but
we're not gonna do that well but now we could so let's fill it holy
crap balls that is freaking
tight den look at this thing this funnel's worked here longer than
you Jake uh well okay the pump works neat wow it doesn't take a lot of water
slim rad put the cap on and do it a tilt
yeah for sure oh the other way it's i don't think it's gonna make a
difference Jake that water's moving look all right should we plug a monitor in
and yeah we should find out if it actually works right did we swamp the
SSD did you swap the ancestors
no putting the bottom panel on here's hoping we haven't accidentally
interfered with any of these little nubbins that need to go into the
oh my god do they still do this what freaking silver stone i've seen this
i've seen 700 cases from them that are like sharpied from the factory
because they like scratched it ew silver stone i mean it's like the inside of the
bottom yeah it doesn't technically matter but like
silver stone should we fire it up with no side panels
first yeah also it might boot vga first so who knows i don't know i've got no
num lock Jake not a good sign
while we were troubleshooting trying to get the system on which turns out it is
fine um i booted up the ipmi and on some
server boards you have these really weird interfaces with like these weird
graphs and crap that even with around with it for 10 minutes i wasn't
really able to understand on this one you can just put it in manual mode and
set the fan duty cycle to like a static to zero to 100
so i figured out which one is our radiator fans
i think maybe we'll try a 50 duty cycle yeah that would probably be hey that's
better still a good amount of air it's really
quiet okay here we go holy bananas that is a
lot of course in hardware info 33.4 degrees
and 50 degrees on the die let's fire up that task manager there it is boom also
memory ran at 3 200 megahertz right out of the gate here we go
cinebench r23 we're sitting at about 92
degrees on the CPU would you put thermal paste on it i did okay 52 000 freaking
points see you later Threadripper 32 core now
we need to know if this thing can actually hold up in terms of thermals so
i have gone ahead and started a 30 minute stress test and we're going to
see where it ends up should i also hit it with fur mark oh i
heard the fans ramp a little bit there after about 15 minutes we've settled in
with GPU temps of about 70 degrees celsius that's with the fans running at
half speed and CPU temps that are 66
degrees and sort of the traditional way of measuring them and 91.6
in the like on die way of measuring them so that is well with intolerance for
both of those it's a lot of heat though like i can feel it from like way out
here it's crazy but it's stable crazy stable so let's go
ahead and shut down our stress tests and uh i mean we went and put a 30 90 in it
we got to play some video games right i'm going for dune maternity so easy to
run stop using doom i don't want to i like it it's so easy to run stop
i better not be in the middle of a stupid like unskippable mission cut scene again this is this is an epic
gamer moment if i've ever had one we're running at 55 60 FPS i actually have no
idea what settings turn that rtx on it's basically
cranked this cranked we got ray tracing on we're
like all high like practically everything ray tracing on ultra turn
motion blur off ew follow the objective dude
oh uh okay are these bad guys they seem bad get in the limo press x press x
press x oh i'm so i'm not supposed to perfect them x to what it heals it heals
to be a sick video editing machine this is a sick anything machine
i mean i don't know what anyone would actually
build or use something like this for but it really does seem like the kind of
thing that somebody would want right maybe with a quadro like someone yeah
yeah you throw a quadro in here this thing's freaking incredible it's so
quiet too and it's only like mostly expensive
it's only got like a 10 000 CPU yeah yeah don't worry about that
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