i'm probably not the only one who's noticed at this point that ASUS rog
makes so many different gaming pc
components that you could pretty much build an entire system with nothing but
rog stuff so when ASUS reached out to sponsor a video
for Intel's gamer days which is going to have giveaways deals on components
desktops and laptops starting august 30th we figured
why don't we try to finally do it so in
front of me is all the components of what Anthony and i hope is going to be
the ultimateest rog gaming system that we have ever
built and of course pretty much everything in front of us
has that one important feature that everyone everyone needs
RGB RGB
so as always our build starts with safety first
rolling out the gamers nexus modmat so we can get started on our machine so at
the core oh is of course going to be our rog maximus 11 code motherboard so this
is the one that we've been using on our Intel test bench basically ever since
Intel launched the 9900k i guess yeah
ever since z390 it's honestly been a solid board i
haven't had any complaints at all and this has been through plenty of both
CPU and GPU testing not this one in particular this one
this one's new but but this model of motherboard that's
that's the main point right all right let's pull out all these
it's okay it's just plastic so to install on our board we've gone with the
core i9 9900k so do you want to walk us through why we chose this particular
model because it gives us that extra bit of flexibility with Intel quick sync
so say you're a content creator it actually integrates pretty well with the
adobe suite right now that is a point in Intel's favor as far
as cpus go also it is still a little bit faster for
gaming it's not you know the major leap that it used to be
but uh that plus a relatively mature platform
i think gives us a pretty solid platform to build from so next up we've got our
memory and we're actually doing a pretty craptastic job of using rog components
here aren't we because this is only we're only one for three so far
they don't actually make rog memory yet
but this memory is aurasync compatible which
is very important since it is RGB memory so this is g skills trident z RGB 3200
c14 kit it's actually Intel xmp ready
and these are 16 gig dimms which is going to give us a total of 64 gigs of
RGB goodness in our finished system delicious overkill that is so far over
the top that it's not even funny i think we even have a video planned in the next
little bit sort of demonstrating that this much memory is completely
unnecessary for gaming wow we're making excellent progress here so do you want
to get the case fired up while i try to figure out this cooler i've never
actually this is the part where we can parallelize things a little bit this has
been kind of a single threaded task up until now yeah hey
nerd hammer it's funny because hyper threading and
actually there is something i need to do while you're working on that uh get
these NVMe drives installed so uh once again
not actually an rog component so we got a couple of 970 pro one terabyte drives
we're gonna be running these in raid 0 for that maximum performance
so this is interesting with just one screw you can actually
install both of these ssds
oh yeah that's a neat feature in fact it appears as though you don't actually
need it at all you can just chuck this thing on top of it and it'll just hold
it into place i don't really want to do that though so i'm going to see if i can
find that mounting screw in the box
oh wow i actually have not seen
ASUS's rog chassis before yes it has
what they call super comfortable handles and they're actually not bad
uh it's upside down
yeah i was gonna say they're they they're okay i wouldn't call them super
comfortable i think the handle is on the other end
okay that's something you might justify calling super comfortable
made of fabric instead of a sharp metal i was wondering what that was
let's see they got these little buttons here
actually i vastly prefer the latch system for these kinds of things because
i'm always super terrified of tempered glass shattering
when screwing them like a screw into it yeah everything in here actually feels
pretty good so this is ASUS hilarious
cooler that not only has RGB built in but it also has a display
because that is what everyone needs
it's funny it's not even the only component in here that has a display
oh that's right doesn't their power supply have an OLED display on the side
yeah and i think the motherboard might also
okay check this thing out so you've got your copper base at the bottom and then
you've got your standard acetac mounting ring system you've got your pump up here
but then ASUS has gone and built like a like a multi-level parking structure on
top of it so you've got a cooling fan down here and then you've got this pcb
up here that there you go handles both the RGB lighting and the
built-in display like most cases usually have their drive bays in behind the
motherboard tray here and yet in this case you have all the drive trays
arranged in such a way that you can have all the cables running parallel with the rest of the cables in the system so it's
a lot cleaner back here what okay
this is the rog aura terminal it's just an RGB hub
but what has got me stammering right now
is that it comes with a wall plug what please tell me it can be powered
internally okay so
the wall plug is for external case lighting
and the uh four pin yeah well no no it's actually
got a four pin molex to dc adapter perfect so
so while Anthony's working his way through the RGB stuff i'm trying to
figure out how to hold all three of these fans in place
while i position the radiator under them
and get my hand out
so i can mount the rat up in the top
now i could ask Anthony for help but he's really busy working on important
things while i'm just you know doing cooling stuff
you don't need cooling if you have RGB not if you've got aesthetic who do i
sound like looks and form factor is all that matters don't need cooling
steve jobs no he cared
did he steve wozniak cared at times
okay i guess he did want he did make sure that his computers at least worked
were those the fans that came with it yeah it comes with industrial pvc fans i
didn't know that yeah it's freaking awesome so ASUS is the one company that's just
like you know what knoxville makes the best fans why are we why are we not just
using them in our aio i was getting ready to put like sticky
pads on this but it's actually exactly the right size for a drive bay
oh it's two and a half inch yeah oh that's cool it actually has it has the
holes too oh that's cool those of you who have watched any of our build guides
before probably noticed that i ran all of these power leads for the fans
towards the back of the case so that when we connect them they're all at the back where we won't notice them
now we've got the world's longest usb 2 cable this is coming off the CPU cooler
that gives me a lot of options for routing oh that's that's potentially a
problem how many usb 2 headers we have two oh good that is not a problem then ah
it's sort of a problem uh okay we'll figure that out later though
okay this was one oversight um there's no convenient spot to route
the front panel audio and front usb
here so you just have to go in from over here
yeah that was my favorite spot and you can take that shroud out so now that
i've got my cable under the shroud i can go ahead and bring this up and plug into
my front panel usb 2 connector there these have to be the thickest wires that
i have ever seen on an aio CPU cooler
how the f much current are they planning to draw through this thing
all of it you bastard
get on there i don't think i have ever seen a usb
plug that has that block on it
like all the all the housings have that cutout for the block but i've never seen
anyone actually use it yeah come to think of it
so where do we want these RGB strips um
everywhere oh yeah bud oh yeah oh yeah for sure for
sure there bud okay so here's the usb problem we've got our front usb 3.1
which is here we've got our front usb 3.0 which is here and we have two front
usb 2.0s which are here the problem is
that this case in ASUS attempt to go as fully featured
as possible has four usb 3.0 and that 3.1 powered
type c there so they include an adapter so you can use a 2.0 plug off the
motherboard for these 3.0 ports
but we don't have any left because of all of our RGB stuff
now for extra credit what we could do
is we could take these two connectors and combine them to fit onto a single
header should we do that is it worth the extra
credit we had to go all the way i'll go get a
push pin so these are really simple to work with
all you got to do is pop up this little plastic tab here at the back of the pin
and then swoop pull the pin out i wish the atx connector was this easy
to work with so now what we do is check this out so in the pin block here from
the RGB controller so we're taking the ones from the cooler and putting them in
there you can see there's empty ones because no one bothers to well actually
some do but very few people bother to put just the four wires in like a single
width block so all we got to do is
just put them in in the same order neat huh
so now those two devices only take up a
single usb 2 header
ow ah damn that hurt
what don't you hate it when you drive a pin under your fingernail oh
yep oh crap what everything i just did was totally
unnecessary uh there's a right angle usb
3.0 port here
so there was enough for the front panel stuff and for those both to be there
well now we have one more i'm bleeding bloody hell
it stabbed me right under there see that i don't know where the RGB headers are
supposed to be okay so here is your
RGB synchronization header nice
then check this out we've got a couple of SATA power so
there's a lot of power for this case that's kind of hilarious and then for
the two usb 3.0 they've got one that's right angle and one that's straight to
account for that ASUS motherboards often have one straight and one right angle
sick oh wow that's amazing the system works
okay so between the aio cooler this friggin thing our RGB controller and
whatever this last thing is we have a total of three SATA connectors
and one molex connector before we have actually plugged in any drives or
peripherals why do they need to make it molex
i don't know so this is kind of cool actually they've got this um
like cable management hider thingamajig in here
and it can actually slide depending on how wide your motherboard is so that
allows us to hide things like this usb uh 3.1 cable behind this uh this little
cool little shroud here so here's our usb 3.0 connector here which on a normal
system is one of the kind of eye sores because it's so bulky
but you can't even see the cabling at all you just see the connector going in
at the back so this one too just goes nice and snug at the bottom just like
that wow that actually really is really clean yeah i like it power supply for Anthony
so we're throwing in our thor 1200 watt
platinum which appears to be the entire reason that there's a window built into
the bottom of the case because this power supply has a display on it now i
don't always keep the most glamorous parts of a build for myself
but when i do it's dual 2080 tis an sli
oh yes this is going to be the ultimate
minecraft computer like that moment when you feel like your
graphics card needs to have an RGB controller and a fan controller on it so
this case does have that feature that allows you to put one of your graphics
cards in kind of this like show-off position over here
but i will not be taking advantage of it because
with hard sli bridges being what they are
it's not possible to set up sli with one of the graphics cards in the show off
position and one of them installed behind it you're gonna pop this out
uh yes are you sure i mean maybe someone
made like a a thing oh you've got to be kidding me
okay never mind did you find that in the manual how did
you know that i just saw it and i was like that looks
like a vertical bracket i wonder where that goes that's actually pretty smart
i come bearing an assortment
of pci express riser cables
and a one and
two and uh
this has got to go through
um hey
yeah yeah what yeah
all right so i'm putting in my second graphics card here now i have a bit of a
problem this extension is not the right angle kind
so it's gonna be hard to get it down low enough
and it might not work anymore once we do that so we're hoping for the best
there we go nice okay now i wouldn't ship the system
like this uh no but i also wouldn't ship
a system with heavy gpus like this installed in it anyway so
all right cool speaking of which these both have uh two eight pins yeah yeah good okay all
right so power me up scotty that is a power yeah so sorry uh right or left uh left
your left oh okay that's gonna be harder yeah to be clear this probably would
have been easier if we had taken the shroud off but
we always like a challenge around here sure let's go with that
i kind of feel like i'm artificially inseminating a horse
oh wait i can see it i can see it through the window that's
easy there done boom
okay nice ow i can't get my ARM out oh
are we there we're almost there wow these are not
that easy to plug in wish i had done them beforehand
like i always advise people to do in my build guides and then forget about every
time i'm actually building a computer
sweet that is so clean
hey that's not bad actually yeah it's not the best i've ever done but it's
decent it's all in one place
i need you to plug this in what is that that's the RGB control for the power
supply all right horse doctor time
i don't see it at all uh okay let's let's just let's look at the manual
let's calm down no shroud taking the shroud office for
the week oh hold on
no i don't think i was over far enough ow okay whoa
all right we're getting close laying out our peripherals
there we go all right can i scooch past you here scooch away
oh we need a monitor we do dang it
ASUS has thoughtfully provided one for us though this is my second favorite
monitor from ASUS right now it's their 144 hertz 4k
g-sync display i'm more of an ultra wide guy though so i actually like the 200
hertz ultra wide
ah my finger can you tilt the screen down towards the bottom of the base
thank you oh my finger's caught in there yeah i'm
good i love pivot monitors got that RGB life now that is cool being
able to see a real-time readout of how much power your power supply is drawing
yep i was expecting more rainbow barf
okay wish me luck everybody hey there it is we're up
here all right it's prompting us for if we
want to uh enhance the system performance with the xmp settings oh
yeah turn on multi-core enhancement turn everything on this is an rog machine
what the hey let's uh good luck everybody and it's running at 60fps you
know it goes really nicely with this build my stealth water bottle lttstore.com subtle
stealthy okay i want to fire up gpuz yeah see what GPU-c has to say about
this okay so one card is at 8x that's what we expect yeah the other card
also 8x nice okay so yeah everything's fine we can close up the panels and now
all we got to do is get our async running is there a peel on here
there is a peel i believe two peels
two peels
it must be somebody's birthday ah dang it
i suck boo boomy
boo hiss oh this is even worse
even worse i suck wow okay
so this is it the all rog pc is done let's go ahead and do just a quick
cinebench r15 run see how things are going how's our overclock doing
well we didn't really overclock it well no just the xmp all-core turbo blah blah
blah yeah that's true and we can see our wattage
265-ish and we're sitting at around 4.7 gigahertz just shy of that yeah that's
respectable not bad it's in a bench score of just
just shy of 2 000.
that's actually pretty good isn't it yeah 1996
decent year it was good year all right this is one
of my favorite things to do on an HDR enabled monitor shadow of the
tomb raider in HDR looks so good can you
do HDR and 120 hertz at the same time i
believe so yes looks like it's completely locked at 120 at 4k i know
right there's not a lot of systems that can do
shadow of the tomb raider at 4k
ultra details except i turned motion blur off
and just not even begin to break a sweat
what's the power supply showing 712 watts
all right i was worried we weren't going to be able to do the quake 2 rtx demo but it turns out it's a 25 second
download so uh we're back in business ladies and gentlemen
that's what a gigabit connection will do for you yeah
global illumination hi hi baby
it is amazing how even with these low
res textures and stuff better lighting
changes how the game looks in such a big way
you know what's kind of funny about this is like turning rtx on in a game like
this is kind of like built-in nostalgia glasses
the lag time between like shooting and especially the fact that there's a
projectile is really disorienting in
today's world i think it was disorienting back then
too so we're at 4k HDR
with our tx on and we're running at like 60 FPS
yeah with dlss on too so if we had dlss off it would actually be even worse
that's freaking crazy how many of these guys do you have to
take out uh
all of them i guess that's like presumably the objective of war
so there you have it guys everything is running flawlessly this is
it you may not like it but this is what
peak performance looks like but you probably like it because this
thing looks freaking sick i think ASUS has done an excellent job of tying
together certain components in particular like the motherboard and the
case especially and making them go together in a way that i
don't know if i've actually seen before like especially those usb
headers really cool stuff what else is really cool is of course Intel gamer day
so if you check out the link in the video description you'll find deals on
pc components laptops and desktops as
well as some really cool giveaways which we will also have linked in the video
description so thanks for watching guys subscribe and all that good stuff see
you next time you're just playing games now aren't you i'm getting paid