so this is the most excited I've been about putting something on a test bench
in quite some time we've got our whole room water cooling setup video series
and well just doing it building five systems that are all running on the same
water cooling Loop and then spitting the heat out of the house sort of project
coming up but of course there's some preparation that needs to be done so I
always preach to people that especially if you're going to be liquid cooling a
rig you should really be building it air cooled outside of a case first to make
sure that everything's working before you go and put a bunch of work into it
so this is the first one that I'll be testing
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helping me with are you going to build that one
yeah okay good job you work on that all right well I show everyone the hardware
that we are going to be putting into these rigs now this one is the one that
I'm uh really excited about cuz it's not quite the same as the others they're all
getting Kingston 240 gig ssds for the
boot drives because most of our storage is going to be uh on the nas they're all
getting Cooler Master V series 750 W power supplies so there are modular
power supplies 30 plus gold all that good stuff we're not overdoing it on the
wattage because there isn't really a benefit to that they are all getting
NVIDIA GTX Titan black edition cards
zoom out a little bit taking all of its glory and they're all running on ASUS
x79 Deluxe motherboards ASUS really does a great job of those high-end boards and
we uh we we really like this particular one quite a lot but while most of them
will be running cor i7s and then 32 gigs
of DDR3 memory this one will be running
ah yes what's that okay it might only say 2.7 GHz on the spreader there but uh
that's a pretty good 2.7 GHz cuz it's to all 12 of its cores and 24 threads this
is going to be a Zeon based workstation as opposed to a core i7 based one and
along with that Zeon we've got 64 gigs
of Kingston DDR3 because instead of 32
gigs like the other workstations this one is getting double the memory because
edzel is a memory hog and needs pretty
much as much RAM as I can throw at him that's also why he's getting the 12 core
Zeon because for certain workloads like
say for example 3D rendering you're going to get more benefit from more
cores than you will from faster cores so
unfortunately uh we can't make use of ECC memory which would allow us to get
higher capacities like 128 gigs on one board um using 16 gig dims but 8 8 gig
dims for a total of 6 4 gigs hopefully will be enough for him for the time
being now one thing I've asked Kingston for is some higher speed memory for that
rig cuz again with the other ones it doesn't matter that much so we'll see if
they come through and send us some 1866 stuff but for now we're going to do the
pre-build and validation and get going
on this so the build process for this rig isn't really anything exceptional I
mean it's motherboard CPU RAM it's all that stuff it's just the hardware that
we're using that's pretty darn cool so as always it starts with the board I did
notice the c CPU was a little bit different is actually um actually wider
than most LGA 2011 CPUs then putting in
all that RAM was one of those chores that you have to kind of enjoy a little
bit there's something satisfying about putting 64 gigs of RAM into a system
stick by stick by stick by stick um after that it's time to put some thermal
compound on the CPU then we're going to get our power supply in place get that
plugged into the motherboard something to note guys I put the power supply in fan side down that would suffocate it
that's bad make sure fan side is up ignore the b-roll I did fix that before
I actually turned the system on um after that we're going to go ahead and get the
water cooling installed so you put in the four posts uh put the block over top
of the thermal compound we already applied we're using a dual radiator liquid cooling system even though when
this is done it'll actually be hooked up to something much cooler and much more
extreme uh we plug in our SSD and then
the uh cherry on top is the GTX Titan
Black Edition so that's it guys it's done uh this is this is part of the
process process we building something outside of the box to make sure that
everything is running okay and this is it Moment of Truth time so let's go
ahead and flip the switch on the power supply
and there we go hopefully everything
works all the actions happening here until the screen illuminates so uh as
long as that okay keep doing things yeah there we go okay so let's see if all
went well we should see something about
12 cores and uh 64 gigs of RAM on the
screen at some point here there we go there we go something something 2700 MHz
okay 65 I guess the round gigs of RAM
CPU fan error all right everything is
detected let's head into the BIOS and uh do some rudimentary tuning so the first
thing that you're always going to want to do is head over to advanced mode cuz
Advanced Mode's for cool kids and then change it so that it boots in into
advanced mode every time and now you
know normally a normal person's reaction to a rig like this might be wow I've
never touched a CPU that's worth $2500 I better be extremely careful with it but
my reaction's a little bit different so we're going to go with can we overclock
it a little bit now xeons are not overclockable the same way that core i7s
are on this platform where you just turn up the multiplier and it's Off to the
Races in fact I'll show you guys if we try to change the multiplier to anything
higher than 27 it just automatically changes to 27
so we're not going to be able to use the multiplier to overclock now on Modern
Intel platforms it's multiplier times base clock equals the overall frequency
and you can overclock base clock but not much on early x79 boards you were lucky
to get maybe 105 MHz so we're going to
see if we can get even 105 MHz because that'll be a 5% overclock on 12 cores so
I'm going to show you guys uh what we're going to try so first of all we change
to manual oopsy daisies change to manual we're going to key in 105 here then for
the ratio we want Auto for the dam
frequency normally we would leave it at 1600 MHz cuz this is 1600 MHz RAM but in
this case I don't really I'm not really a huge fan of overclocking memory if you
don't have to I mean we can play around with it later but first we want to make sure our CPU stable so we're going to
pick something that is going to give us a frequency that is lower than 1600 MHz
so that we know that memory is not holding us back here uh extreme over
voltage we're not going to overvolt the CPU as much as I believe in you know
trying to squeeze a little bit more performance out of a chip like this it's a 12 core chip we're not going to go and
just throw more volts at it the last thing we want is to damage the thing so
we're going to be going for whatever we can get without overvolting it and
potentially reducing the lifespan this is a a work machine not like a gaming
rig so we can't afford any uh any
instability so these are not XMP memory
module so we're going to key in our voltage manually and uh you know what
I'm not going to bore you guys with the tediousness of keying in all that other
stuff manually so let's just go ahead and find the last thing I need where are
you CPU configuration the last thing I
want is to make sure that turbo boost is
on it might be somewhere in
here CPU performance settings here we go yeah so turbo mode needs to be enabled
so now what we've effectively done by leaving the core ratio at Auto and
increasing our base clock is we've made it so that our CPU will continue to
Turbo all the way up to 3.5 GHz plus 5%
in a single threaded application and while it would normally turbo to 3 GHz
with all 12 cores we're going to get 3150 MHz so a 5% Improvement let's see
how it
goes all right so here we are at the desktop it's time to validate that the
settings that we put in actually took because again this is not normal
Hardware so you know who knows
um so well look at that okay we're turboing to 3.5 something GHz just yeah
there you go normally which uh means there it is we are running at 105 MHz
base clock so yes we have overclocked
the CPU so the tools we're going to use to stress test it are ID to 64 and we're
going to just start a stress test and
assuming it doesn't crash pretty much immediately we're going to start creeping up that base clock and see if
we can get a little bit higher cuz I think 105 is going to be pretty easy um
we're not really asking it for much so we're going to we're going to push it and see see how much further we can get
it one thing I do want to know before we proceed though is what are temperatures
like huh very comfortable sitting at around 55° that's without the water
heating up but that won't matter when we're running on a whole room liquid cooling setup now will it so I'm going
to show you guys once we see that it sort of passes for a couple seconds here
how we can avoid rebooting into Windows every time in or or rebooting into the
ufi BIOS every time in order to test new things so we're going to go into the TPU
tab of AI Suite which is not my favorite piece of software but we're just kind of
using it to save some time here boop boop yeah I know AI sweet
you're trying real hard okay and then we can actually change base cloth on the
Fly setting increment by increment then
we just apply it do you want to load it yes so we can change all of this stuff
on the Fly run a new stability test and
keep going until uh it doesn't go anymore so it ended up pushing a lot
further than I expected and I had to bring it into the office to continue
testing I ran out of time cuz I kept expecting at every stage one more be
clock no it passes so uh this is what we
ended up with any further than this and we can't we can't push it any further
it'll just lock up as soon as we try to run a stress test but here it is
113 mahz base clock that gives us
339 GHz with 12 cores running utterly
unfreaking believable so this is going to be one heck of a high performance
workstation and it is 100% Rock Solid at
this setting no problems whatsoever very very exciting um so stay tuned guys
because this is just one of the machines for our five system multi-stem room wide
liquid cooling setup that we're going to be doing soon it is the most exciting
one with 64 gigs of RAM as well as that 12 core CPU but the other ones will be
cool too speaking of all them cores or
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