welcome to the build log of the compensator this will be a computer with
no stops pulled four titan x's 128
gigabytes of gddr4 RAM 1.2 terabyte NVMe
drive from Intel and an Intel 5960x
and some benchmarks to crush if you want to see more build logs in the future
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this won't be a particularly hard computer to build it's just going to be
kind of particularly epic these white boxes if you guys are
wondering what the heck these are these are all the titan x's
this is the sli bridge that i'm going to have to use
yep
128 gigs of RAM just insane
dominator platinum 2400
it comes with lighting strips
cool so you could take your usb 3.0 header
plug it in here and then you'd have a usb 2.0 plug that
you could plug into your board down here
nice some cable management stuff that's pretty cool
some rings
and take this cage out back here just so i have better access to uh cable
management stuff i kind of hoped that these fans were separate so this is for
lights so there's i guess three yeah there's three different lighting strips
in this bag that comes with the case you have these three knobs
so you can i guess control the brightness we'll have to see later on
when i put in the motherboard i like having the case on its side and this thing on its
side is huge
this block is far too large but my problem with
this case is i have to fit it up here and i did it in totally the wrong order
i should have installed this first
all right we are back to essentially nothing
wow that's a problem
these light cables back here are super in the way
a fair amount of squish on those little leds but i think they'll be okay wow
that's close clearance so yeah at this point i don't know if i
would necessarily recommend a triple rat in this case
i've already had to undo a lot of screen things in and i hate that so much i've
got the board back in and the cooler is being fed through so i
just installed two screws into the motherboard and i'm not going to do any more for now i just want
to make sure that i can get this cooler installed i have to remove this
obviously i'm not going to do that quite yet because i just want to make sure it
fits first so right fractal good job
your short cables were like perfect
i think that's how i'm supposed to do it why wasn't that screw going in oh
these are the ones i'm supposed to be using the first one i got was this
done installed
that was a nightmare so we're now back
on track i'm going to finish screwing in the motherboard because i kind of gave up
after two screws people like selfie stuff
this might not make a ton of aesthetic sense right now once the graphics cards
light up because they're all stock coolers they'll all have green lights and then it should work
how do i want to do the fans okay so for the CPU
pump i'm probably not going to go behind the motherboard actually
and i'm going to try to use this splitter but it might not work
okay so now i have a little triple fan thing
going through the back
it's kind of cool that it can already reach
i should have installed the power supply first
god i knew it
so the reason i just did all of that and wasted a whole bunch of time because i
have to do a whole bunch more work is because this cable can go like this
instead of either coming through this hole
or going through one of these holes and coming all the way up and looking super
dumb i'm just gonna go for gold and install everything right now
before i install this cooler
so you put a graphics card in it just looks a billion times better
the line s is it possible for m.2 clearance to like
super bone over a graphics card well look
let me try um what are you
cooling in this is gonna be interesting all right so we're just doing some cable
management
so we're getting really freaking close to being done i have to put the glass panels on but i
want to test to make sure the system works first and i have to put the cover
for the screw so the graphics cards on and then we're pretty much done
i wanted fans in the top because the area of the computer that has the
graphics cards in it is going to be very starved for air
the chopsticks win again
oh my goodness the sli bridge
chopsticks
okay are like lights on i know but there's no lights on
your face oh so
it's not posting so we're gonna swap in a much lower
capacity 16 Gigabyte kit of RAM
just nothing uh yeah i just wasn't posting it most of
the time oh my god i don't have time for this i would actually try CPU first
oh
the chip was dead
it's not posting and we're trying to figure out why i've never tried a
photography oh all right so it was CPU twice i don't
know maybe it just needed a receipt so what i'm doing now
is uh installing the tci express power to the motherboard
are those chips dead or at least one of them
i'm voting for dust
hey Linus
come check this out that's like kind of doing that for me
yeah so it comes with three RGB lighting strips that you can control manually on
the back of the case i might have found a case i finally like
so our top GPU GPU one is running at 52 degrees idle our second GPU is running
at 47 48 degrees idle our third GPU is
running about 44 45 degrees idle and our
last one our fourth GPU is running at 37
degrees idle so that bottom one is doing a lot better than the others but we'll
see how much they heat up once we actually start benchmarking all right
benchmarking is complete this rig would have seriously benefited from water
cooling the graphics cards as they were all riding on about 20 or 83 degrees and
probably would have done better with GPU boost if the result wasn't 83 degrees
all the time our issue with the RAM ended up being solved by ASUS saving the
day again there should be a public BIOS
of the one that we used fairly soon so don't worry too much about that if you
want to recreate something here all that being said issues did remain there were
micro stutters all over the place with the sli setup that we had and it
rendered certain parts of certain games almost unplayable our rig crushed 3d
mark and it was cool to get into the top one percent of systems even without
overclocking although if that leaderboard was based on price for performance it probably would have been
a different story in conclusion i'm happy with the results
of this experiment but the true conclusion will come next year when we
make the compensator 2.0 this rig did
really well in the games we tested it in but we don't really have any proper
comparative data for that because we never really run our games on that
insane of settings all the time and yet again the parts we chose were silly why
were those parts silly well four-way sli is kind of nuts check out Linus's
scaling video here to explore that more
128 gigabytes of RAM is also quite a bit over the top check out Linus's video on
that exact very kit here and cpus uh
that tier are a little bit unnecessary for gaming or a lot of it unnecessary
for gaming check out my video on that here i hope you guys enjoyed this
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