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okay so when we were building our wall pewter wall computer well pewter get it

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anyway one of the challenges was having the graphics card on the opposite side

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of the frame versus the motherboard i mean this thing was so far away that

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there wasn't a single pci express riser

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cable on the market that was able to reach

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so the solution use more pci express risers we actually

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ended up with a one meter thermaltake

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premium extender chained to a 30 centimeter one and we

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pulled it off with no performance degradation whatsoever the system worked

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perfectly fine which got us thinking

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just how far can you go

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before things go haywire

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stick around while we uh snake our way

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to the conclusion

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okay so to kick off the experiment we rigged up our standard GPU bench machine

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so it's a known good machine our pci express signal integrity should be about

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as good as it can get then we needed an extra piece so we also hooked up a

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separate power supply for our gtx 650 ti

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graphics card this is so that we don't actually run into power cable length

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limitations if the experiment goes completely off the hook

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also having an excuse to call out to ivan like he's far away is a

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is a bonus so uh hit the power switch chekov

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so i did catch that can you repeat

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hit the i'm right here oh engage in auxiliary

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power now thank you roger don't have ignition

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i'll turn on the system so to kick things off

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we're going to be using a single one meter extension

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plus an additional 30 centimeter extension that's a total of

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130 centimeters this is the same as what

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we did for the wall pewter one more lower there you go

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stress test go so it's running perfectly

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as expected which means

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it's time to kick it up a notch baby let's take it to

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160 centimeters would you look at that still no dropped

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frames let's add more look at this

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it's ridiculous yeah

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down down down right there yep

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no 1.9 meters

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our pci express extensions are almost the height of darth vader

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okay so we're adding another 40 centimeters this time

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you can tell those thermaltake guys have a lot of confidence if they send us this

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much PCIe riser i am excited this was the best pci

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express riser technology we had around here so

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these aren't even shielded these you legitimately can't go very far

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with like i tried uh daisy chaining even two of these together and i had trouble

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with it so oh

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do we have failure okay let's try disconnect and reconnect

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just to make sure that we're being fair to it

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come on baby is the 650 ti PCIe gen 3 yet

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okay so maybe our load just isn't demanding

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enough maybe we need to bring out the big guns

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a titan xp okay so let's shut it down and let's try again so

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look at this okay so do you remember back when they

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launched this thing there was a bunch of press around the missing PCIe pins look check

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this out so these are power and then

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this is all data and NVIDIA swore up and

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down makes no difference makes no difference now we don't know

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if this is because it's gen 3 or if it's because it actually has all the pins but

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what we do know is that our 650 ti

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didn't go as far as our titan xp at the

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same resolution i mean arguably this is a bit of an edge

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case but um one can say the scenario is somewhat of

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a stretch i think we're gonna have to go even

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further straight to three meters

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should we do it yolo

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okay this is ridiculous i mean why would anyone need to no we need more table we

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need more table you have to hold the monitor now this is what happens

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in your relationship how many times do i have to say i'm not yelling at you i'm

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yelling with you okay be honest with me though are we expecting this to work no common

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it's on no artifacts or anything

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this is crazy how's it doing though 120 FPS same as

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before we're still getting the same frame rate

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no weird anomalies three meters

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that's like 10 feet for americans

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add 30 or add 60.

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do i really have to scream yolo okay

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monitor over on the other side and then just hold the graphics card here

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this is insane that's the last piece we have yeah 3.6

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okay no one come through this door

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no it's still working

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no way wait

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maybe that's all we got oh oh it's at postcode 40 now

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same as last time eh same as last time okay hold on let's shut it down no let's

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i'll do a quick reconnect of all the things okay hold on also keep in mind

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that these are not powered so perhaps it's not even signal loss it's just

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power loss oh you could be right

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three two one blast off

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no look at this

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look at this 3.6 meters

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you could literally have your graphics card

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in another room okay hold on i gotta run for mark though

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show me the 120 oh oh oh oh oh

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no

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no the FPS is going up though it's at 55 fp

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86 25 14

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30. no

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oh wait no it's so borderline

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oh it just teases me every time

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welcome to my personal life oh okay well i think we've reached the

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limit ultimately we failed when we tried to

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yolo too hard but i still consider this a success

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three meters of pci express extension

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and we managed to get it running at a an equivalent to having it right in the

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socket 120 FPS

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so thanks to thermaltake for providing all these PCIe risers and thanks to

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the uh slav for holding the graphics card how's that 85 degree GPU right

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