we've built a lot of over-the-top pcs on this channel seven gamers one CPU the
16k gaming station but all of those had
something in common nobody in their right mind would ever
actually buy them so today the goal is a
little bit different we're building the absolute highest end gaming pc that we
would actually recommend so it needs to be blazing fast but also stable it needs
to be well expensive but also something
that we could with a straight face say there's a chance someone is actually
going to buy it so we are talking a pre-binned 9900 ks at 5.1 gigahertz from
silicon lottery we are talking dual rtx 2080 ti's and
air cooling because guys
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to help me in my quest to build the fastest gaming pc money can buy i've enlisted Jake
you got a little something on there just go ahead yeah just rub that in the
challenge though is that due to bc guidelines we actually have to stay at
least two meters apart from each other here's what we're gonna do
uh you're gonna take that end of our very long table and i'm gonna take this
end you're gonna focus on the case i'm gonna put the motherboard and all the
components on there and then at the end we're just gonna
you know really wow it wasn't even me
hard drives cables i need
those are yeah but still let's kick off with our CPU choice now
obviously AMD ryzen 3rd gen processors deliver a ton of value but when it comes
to absolute balls to the wall gaming performance thanks to their slight
single threaded performance edge Intel still comes out ahead in the majority of
games now with that said as games start to
take advantage of more processing threads that could change and something
like a 3900x or a 3950x with four or
eight more cores than this one respectively could beat it maybe we'll
try out some apex legends when we're done building up the machine but for now
the king of the roost really is still the 9900 ks and this one is a little bit
special so we got this pre-binned to 5.1
gigahertz at stock voltage pretty much right i think it's like 1.25 a little
bit boosted from silicon lottery now we would have bought the 5.2 gigahertz one
for what is it like nine hundred dollars it's like eleven hundred eleven but they
were out of those thankfully for my wallet because they did not just provide
this to us which is great
thanks for buying cpus on the company dime Jake love it well
they gave us a discount all right it's only got eight cores and 16 threads
compared to a top end verizon with up to 16 cores and 32 threads especially for
the price we paid but in most games that shouldn't make that
much of a difference we will fire up some apex legends though just to see now
obviously case choice is a little subjective based on you know what style
you're going for or how many fans you want or what radiators you got but for
us we're basically just looking something with the most airflow possible
because we're gonna have a lot of hardware in there that's 220 atis 500
watts and that CPU overclocked is probably 250 maybe
so something like this the pco1 from liam lee with nine fans we're going to
completely load it up with knock to us here we are
should be plenty of airflow for our setup for motherboard we're using the
maximus 11 hero from ASUS we could have
probably gone with the code with its like cooler looking aesthetic and better
rear i o but there's no vrm difference
so given that this is all about performance and most of the motherboard is going to
be covered by well all the money we spent on performance
with these graphics cards there was no purpose to it now their top end board
the formula has like water-cooled drams and all that good stuff but
again no real difference in performance and
more air cooling anyway so as always the process is lift up the ARM align the
little golden triangle with the little uh dot on the motherboard or the little
triangle on the cover insert the CPU put down the hold down
and lower the ARM this will pop off hold on to this in case you need to remove
your motherboard in the future if we were truly trying to be unlimited budget
with no bounds we could have gone with the 1600 watt but we wanted obviously to
be a little bit more sensible so this is the 1000 watt prime titanium unit from sea
sonic they make awesome power supplies totally not sponsored we just love their
stuff because we're not using subzero cooling and extreme overclocking or
anything crazy like that the only way we can squeeze more performance out of our
system is by getting faster components in the first
place so we've gone with some 3600 megahertz cl 14
sticks of trident zeneo from g-skill these are a combination of high speed
and extremely low latency and we've got 32 gigs of it which i'm not expecting to
be a bottleneck for gaming anytime for at least the next couple of years as for
why we went RGB honestly we wouldn't have spent more on it but unlike the old
days when you used to compromise some of your speed to have RGB lighting nowadays
the high-end stuff is just a lot of the time RGB i'll make the rules okay one of
the objectives we set for ourselves when planning this project is that it needed to be stuff that was off the shelf
something you could just pick up and buy or add your shopping cart and build in a
couple days so we went with cable mods pro cable kits in their carbon color
which should match our ASUS board really well that's gonna look awesome one area
we did go a little over the top was our SSD
z we're gonna run two samsung 970 pros
in raid zero but i don't even mind this because compared
to their 970 evo it uses mlc flash so we
should get extra longevity out of it and quite honestly the choice to go with 2
and raid 0 was more just about having 2 terabytes of capacity and less about
trying to get more performance by raid zeroing ssds honestly it makes very
little difference once you go to an SSD as we demonstrated in this video right
here oh now there's a dent in this hard drive now you've got to be kidding me
what is the little one when we're working on a showcase build
more often than not we will use a water cooler even if it's an aio water cooler
just because the amount hey
the amount of extra space they leave around the socket and the aesthetics of
the tubes and the led fans and all that cool stuff looks really great but the
cold hard truth is they don't actually perform any better than a really high
quality air cooler like this Noctua nhd15 and now that Noctua has a black
version of it water coolers don't even look that much
better jaku where's the exhaust on this case
top or back bottom bottom you're going bottom exhaust so you want me to have
the fan blowing down i mean i can't uh
can you no okay well yeah the options are back
and there's a hole here but there's not gonna be a fan okay just just do it
whatever there's gonna be so much airflow in this case anyways it's not gonna matter these are hard drives these
are gonna hold all the stuffs we need that's why we chose them that's why we
chose them you're probably thinking wow 16 terabyte iron wolves those are
overkill and uh you'd be right um we
just had two spaces in the back of this case so we figured let's just use those
extra drives seagate sent us and throw them in the back of the case to fill
those slots man it's kind of crazy to think that this is 32 terabytes of
storage just in this little block right there i know right my first computer
that like i remember our 386 or whatever
it was had a 100 megabyte hard drive
and then we upgraded we got a 600 megabyte one and i would always have to
like move programs off the 100 one
because my dolt family would install everything there and i'd be like no we
have to put everything over here this looks stealth as f
all it needs now is gpus i'm wearing our GPU shirt lttstore.com i can't imagine a
situation where i'd be like the product manager for x motherboard company and
been like you know what we need red SATA cables this is what we're gonna
manufacture in both i just don't understand why things are the colors
that they are by default why aren't they just black in the first place
why was red ever or these
these are worse yeah dude okay you wouldn't remember this you were
probably too young but Gigabyte used to ship powder blue ones oh
yeah it was pretty awful and that was on their high-end stuff back in the x 58
days the best though dfi
uv yellow oh wait wait is this the Gigabyte one you're talking about these
things no that's Intel those are sick those are uv blue those look awesome
with the uv light those things are awesome big pp oh they're big pbs
they're 3000 that is so unnecessary it's amazing here's your fans
oh my god why well i can't hand them to you can i well yeah i guess you're right
they're also like knocked to a fan so like i could probably throw this at a wall multiple times and
it would be fine you could probably throw it at a tv and the tv would break not the fan these are gonna be real
close together is this the right envy link bridge yep ooh yeah they're gonna
be toyed so what i'm gonna do to make my life a
little bit easier is plug the 8-pin connector in now you can't tell but this
is my life being easier that is such an annoying ringtone only because it's the
one that i used to use though that has woken me up at like four in the morning
for a flight so many times in my life oh my god
it doesn't fit that doesn't fit oh my god oh you've got to be kidding me
what are you kidding me
oh no that's so bad let's just switch to
an aio i guess i look pretty good you're not even paying attention so we'll get
the graphics cards plugged in get an os loaded up and we'll try this thing
got a little update for you after we completed the build we found that with
the pci express slot spacing of that motherboard there was no way for us to
install our two triple slot cards in such a way that the top one wasn't going
to absolutely suffocate so we switched to the MSI z390 godlike it's got a bunch
of great features including support for overclocked memory 18 phases of power
fancy onboard audio and most importantly a much better slot layout so that we can
get one extra slot between them for some extra airflow with the new spacing our
cards are clocking up as expected and everything is set up for the showdown as
it turns out our 5.1 gigahertz pre-bin CPU is 750
exactly the price of a ryzen 9 39 50 x
16 cores so Jake
is over on the other side at the studio there because he doesn't have a sore
throat and he has an identically configured AMD system that he's going to
drag race against ours telling us once and for all if we actually picked the
right gaming system because when it comes to other things 16 cores
definitely a lot more than eight so so we're not going to be looking at anything other than gaming here for
shadow of the tomb raider we're running everything cranked at 4k with the only
exceptions being that we're not running rtx dlss and we have turned off motion
blur we're using taa for anti-aliasing and we're ready to go i'm at like 80 FPS
and the opening sort of move around lara
all up around 90. drumroll average FPS 103. average FPS 97. ah i
win by ooh five percent all right here we go boys
three two one all right i'm 500 and
change benchmarks done my average is 381 what's
yours uh 300.8 that doesn't tell the whole story though so we're gonna check
our frame view numbers in notepad plus plus here render minimum
13.5 oof i'm at 25.7
double the frame rate in the smoke 99 of
my frames were over 99.5 uh 99 of mine were over 85.4 okay
so that's actually a significant win that's about a 20
uplift oh my god this is bright the HDR oh my god like so many games it doesn't
have any support at this time for multi GPU so we'll be using just one of our
rtx 2080 ti's uh we're running everything on ultra nightmare with HDR
at 4k uh what difficulty level you want Jake i'm too young to die ha
hey got him all right here we go boys let's
uh rip up some demon daddy oh wow i'm gonna die how are you gonna die
oh oh man oh man i'm looking at about 86.6 on my render average and then
render 99 one two three four 69.3 so
that's a 10 advantage here which surprises me because vulcan tends to
favor multi-threaded processors more with that said the 9900 s is still an
eight core 16 thread processor and there's sort of a limit finally it's
time for apex legends we're running everything at insane slash maxed out
we're running tsaa and uh we have no FPS target desync
disabled pick up a second weapon oh yeah pick up
another weapon i grabbed the spitfire it's the second on the left
then i'm going to switch weapons wow when you really max it out this game's
kind of heavy eh i averaged 96.8 87 and
a half i thought i was gonna win this one ten percent up i mean i guess that's
what a pre-overclocked processor does for you but uh all right well it looks
like we done did okay we wasted a little bit of money on a second graphics card
most of our games didn't really get much benefit from that but other
than that it's looking pretty good it seems like a
pre-binned pre-overclocked CPU from Intel is still able to edge out AMD's
3950x which is their fastest gaming CPU
with that said the situation might change when AMD launches their 4th gen
ryzen processors which are rumored to be built on tsmc's 5 nanometer node really
i didn't hear that actually that's insane yeah it's gonna be interesting
mission accomplished then without spending extra money on things we don't
need like 18 core processors we built
the unlimited budget gaming pc and it really does perform better than
something priced the same but that isn't 100
focused on gaming with that said i'm not recommending that
anyone run out and buy this exact configuration particularly the second
graphics card is going to benefit very few people and only in some games but it
was a lot of fun to say okay we're laser focused on nothing but maximum gaming
performance and just build up something based on that
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