finally here the first test fit of the pyramid pc something we had intended to
do literally months ago we meticulously
planned the placement of every part in this case to ensure that no space was
being wasted which was fine until NVIDIA
announced their 3000 series graphics cards and our client demanded that we
switch to the rtx 3090.
now this was rather annoying for several reasons one we had to return about
thousand dollars worth of last gen quadros and also the rtx 3090 is
physically larger than any founders
edition GPU that came before it and literally wouldn't fit into our pyramid
case i mean clearly we figured it out but the
journey to get here has not been an easy one
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well you hopefully just saw an intro with a mostly assembled pyramid pc
although we're very far from it right now as you can probably tell the
workshop's mostly gone so everything
needs to be out of here by monday it's currently thursday and i still have a
lot to do it's going to be awesome like there's going to be construction we're
finally going to be able to use this big guy here and like the
sandblaster but anyway
it's not going to be very easy getting that all done by tuesday so
yeah do you want to look at what we have to do ah yeah
wow that looks awesome though
our terrible customer is going to love this yeah it's uh something else the
biggest thing we have to do are create these side panels here
it's not gonna be super easy i did these super cool fill patterns where it just
automatically generates a bunch of holes for you it's gonna take a while oh and
we're going to do it twice yeah we're going to do that one twice that's fine
because we can just put them on top of each other and go right through both of them right no we're going to do it twice
why is there a gigantic red button oh the gigantic red button
so it's going to say overclock in really big letters across the bottom
but when you actually press it it's just
this thing is going to glow like a beacon did you see what we're using for
RGB in it i did yeah we're using these two estera helios tubes
it's gonna be so awesome okay it's gonna kick off a lot of heat into
the machine they're only like 27 watts each really
checked yeah i was kind of concerned about that okay i guess we just do it now yeah it's
ready to go for better for worse
all right not bad well that looks awesome i know let's see can we just
don't ruin it i'm not gonna ruin it i'm just picking it up yeah i don't know if
there's a cooler like computer side panel out there really it's an outlet
well this needs to get attached to that right somehow so we need to make
five standoffs for every single one of these i've already been doing it a bit but
you get to make one of them oh i have never used our lathe before
i paid a lot of money for it so i guess i should get to use it at least once
right yeah well for a lathe you didn't spend very much money on it but you know
same difference well it felt like a lot of money how much was this thing
it's like four grand four thousand dollars a lot of money
not for a lathe i'll get this thing you can buy a decent car it looks heavy duty
it's very heavy duty and old and very old it's from the 60s or
something the thing that we're making is just this it could not be a simpler
lathe part huh and we can thread them like that and
everything too hey yep can you thread them like that on the lathe or is that
something you do after no you thread it like that on the lathe sweet so for
internal stuff you just tap it like normal but if you wanted to do you can
make literally any thread that you want on here like you can take this right
here is a thread cutting tool and then using all of these numbers on the side
you're able to have it match the speed in the RPM to cut literally any thread
that you want
all right that's about an inch
it's supposed to smoke yeah that's fine okay so the nice thing
about using this for tapping is that you don't really have to worry about
breaking it because this right here is not holding it tight enough like you
don't have enough purchase on it so it's kind of training wheels mode now just turn it on and
thread it in nice and slow
well these are the last scraps of our workshop over here there's no nothing
left it's all gone because construction is going to be happening here tomorrow
all of our machines are just out of commission for the next two months over
here but it's fine because i got everything done that i needed to over
here and built a new workshop
this is what we're working with for the next two months so we've got like welder
laser cutter bench grinder uh i don't know it's actually kind of nice the
sound's probably way better there's just so much crap in here that you don't have
you know all the reverb i actually kind of like it it's nice and homey everything that you need is just right
here and everything for the pyramid pc
is ready to be put on wow this is a lot of
progress the panels look absolutely fantastic my standoff is definitely the
best one oh yeah it's uh
probably one of these yeah oh wow i tried these gpus
you kind of look at where they're placed they're a little high yeah they're a
little bit high angle's not quite right so i'm kind of thinking
we should you know hey in my defense you didn't tell me
there were going to be standoffs here when i positioned it this is on you also
it can't go there because if he decides to go with um 3000 series they're going
to be tall we might have a bigger problem than we thought you're going to be tall
3000 series is tall huh it's not standard height it's not
standard height why is it not standard hey well because it's got over 10 000
cuda cores what do you want from me why can't you just use those gpus that we
bought him well because there's a new one coming
and he's all like yeah my friend told me that there's a
new faster one coming i told you there's a new faster one coming
but anyway now he decided he wants the new one so now what well i'm thinking that we
can kind of move it up here we can notch out the plate that the gpus
are attached to drop them down a tiny bit sure like in order to get at them
you'll have to probably take off this panel it'll be a bit of a pain but
that's fine user friendliness was never a factor in the design for me
yeah same it's been a couple weeks since the NVIDIA rtx 3000 series announcement
and well you know we still have two really
big problems but we have solutions for them right now at least
so this right here is an rtx 3090 it is
friggin massive for context this is the size of the GPU
that we were thinking would be going in this case
and it's just in every single dimension way smaller
who would have ever thought that like a maxwell titan would get dwarfed
so we're going to have to cut out the GPU mount place it back in in a
completely new position and kind of redo the PCIe risers to you
know accommodate these absolute beasts
that's not a huge deal but at the same time these things draw just way too much
power like way more than they deserve to really so when we have two of them an
sli along with threadripper i'm genuinely concerned that the
watt power supply that we have in this won't be enough
the reason that's a huge problem is that 1600 watt power supplies like
this one right here are just way longer so a normal one's 170 millimeters this
one i think is like 200 and change and if you look here doesn't fit
not at all so this would have been absolutely
terrible except silverstone actually just released
1 a short power supply that's only i think 180 millimeters which gives us
well you know the 170 millimeter standard one we have about 10
millimeters of clearance so we have about zero now
but at least it works well now i get to do my absolute
favorite thing in the world redoing work i've already done
oh it's not getting much better than that
before i put the gpus in i need to install the side panels so that i can
you know make sure we're displaying them properly
in order to do that i need like a good reference plane for everything to go off
of so i'm going to install the little casters that go on the bottom
need some nuts that i'm going to you know weld right on here and then we can use
just level as our reference point for all of you
know the side panels to go off of
all right i got the leveling feet on and if you're wondering these three corners
here are all completely flat and this one right here is a tenth of an inch
higher which honestly is way closer to square than i
thought it would be and we've got the side panels on here finally and we can
look at what it's actually going to be like the whole thing's
kind of scary if i'm honest like it's it's a pretty intimidating machine but
anyway finally going to get to attach the side
panels so i have to tack on these little spacers here and just
slowly massage the whole thing so that everything is just nice and square and
perfect it's you know what's gonna really make it look nice and good the
one thing i can see right here is that like this spacer needs to be just
slightly shorter because there's a bit more weld behind it
just tuning everything like that to give it that real like
nice not tesla look i last saw this when we realized we were
gonna have to change over to our tx 3000 series because new graphics cards
launched and they didn't even support four-way configurations because of power
restrictions oh yeah so what i've done since then
this right here is the GPU mount it's going back in but
in a different place fairly soon wow
yep you removed that all right but to make sure that it goes in the
right spot we need to have all of these side panels on there first and this is
kind of like the most crucial it has to look good
part right it's pretty close but not quite perfect at the moment yeah i can
see it's a little bit kind of that way right now
yeah the welds are bigger on this side and this side so i've been having to trim these down just a tiny bit with the
ankle grinder got it good lord that is a lot of GPU yeah are you ready for an
absolute glute workout Linus glute workout well because of all the
butt clenching that's going to happen when we test fit these okay
yeah this is this is three grand worth of graphics card
double that if you want to use uh ebay scalper prices this way right
holy crap this is really tight dude this might be a problem legitimately it
doesn't look good how was it before i'll show you kind of like that
that's not bad it's gonna be really hard to get the
graphics cards in though oh yeah it's gonna be terrible yeah like really hard
well that's why it's on its own little sliding thing like
sliding this piece right here is supposed to just come out as one thing
you can take all the mode at once i don't think we'll be how will we slide
it though there's no sliding like look
well maybe if you go with the other side no it's like it's the same
man these cards are too big
does anyone make a compact 390
well just bring it back here like like right there i think that's fine yeah but
look you can't lift them out of the slots because of the bars
so wait so you mean he'll just once we weld it in place he'll just never be able to
remove the graphics so like we're going to weld the graphics card's interior
weld the graphics cards into the machine because that's what it sounds like
you're suggesting no we can just take the power supply oh wait no we can't no
we can't uh we could shave off some of the mounting plate
yeah put a big old notch in there yeah lower the whole thing down about
half an inch yeah and then it still isn't really gonna fit but it's gonna
fit better than it does right now yeah okay
so i'm your pair of hands then to hold this in place while you do the real work
pretty much yeah i'm okay with that i'm also going to be holding it in while you
look at it and make sure it looks good oh i see i actually think it looks
pretty good right there i actually think it looks pretty good right here too okay
i'll hold it you go over there and then take a look
okay eyeballing the all-seeing eye ain't
bad actually like not bad at all it's pretty close
oh heck yeah this vacuum's the absolute best tool in the shop
it's weird flex but okay
let's do it this is the part where we find out if we can actually build the
rig in here and if it's time to powder coat this mess for primal assembly
man this is a heavy board i haven't actually worked with threadripper in a while because it sort
of doesn't make sense with ryzen 5000
around the corner not my problem yeah
client gets what the client wants 64 cores you know i just realized it's that
an extended atx why when we move the GPU mount it might
it might interfere oh you've got to be kidding me
well
i don't even think it's close man
yeah okay what are our options here
are there any proper atx threadripper boards
i don't know let's go find out
our other option is we can move the GPU mount ah
every single trx40 board we have is
wider like this i mean how much of this post do we
really need like could we cut away half of it so we can get the board in there
well we can just remove the whole thing and like move the post to be right up
here in the corner it's just like
four or five hours of work
we did it thanks that carve out looks phenomenal
yeah i almost feel like we should just leave it but
we shouldn't i'm kind of tempted i've got our 64 core
processor and our 2 terabyte 970 evo plus SSD in here now yes technically we
could have gone with a gen 4 SSD or whatever by the time
we actually freaking built this thing but we already sourced this for it so
it's done well actually we sourced no i'm not making any more changes
i love that we picked the tackiest RAM on earth for this machine wait not that
bad oh i thought this was uh neo oh no never mind this stuff's sick
okay yeah that was friggin expensive too grand
wow it's c16 3200 c16
32 gig modules oh yeah so that's a total
of 256 gigs of RAM yeah oh my god this is
so trippy come here whoa come here
see this piece of foam it's probably not very heavy right okay
just grab it and pick it up just pick it up whoa
isn't that crazy yeah it doesn't seem like it should have such a strong
suction effect i know i just
it's so cool i got this actually uh
this packaging is pretty beautiful but how thick is this right here looks like
about half an inch doesn't it yeah why we need a half inch spacer for the back
of the motherboard oh we could just steal some foam from there
i mean he'll never see it yeah it's pretty nice packaging there we go
you think ca will destroy this should be okay
not sure i don't think it's gonna fit but we're gonna try it's worth a shot
it's kind of priceless this is an ice giant thermosyphon uh prototype and from
our testing it was actually the best performing air cooler possible for
Threadripper oh there's no way it's fitting well hold on
can you speed up slightly more positive here sir
oh god it's heavy okay if those wi-fi
nubbins are the only thing keeping this from going in my anger level alex
so high i think the wi-fi nubbins are keeping it
from going in why
we can water cool it
yeah i really don't want to water cool so i talked to nicholas who did the
video on the editor's rigs and you know what can actually cool them
the u12s here not great
but the u14s is good enough and i believe it's going
to fit just fine in our chassis which is freaking awesome because i was
really scared there for a second because uh
on the bottom panel we have this kind of spacing
for all of the fans i spaced them like this just because i thought it looked
better and used up the space more efficiently
although because i knew from the start i wasn't going to be water cooling it i
didn't do the spacing right so you can add a
rad i thought we were born but we're fine it's fine everything's fine do you think
it's fine brandon okay
i have mild confidence there's certainly a reason that we are
pre-building this entire thing before we send it off to get powder
coated i think the fan needs to go on the other
side oh oh all right
the amount of clearance that we have is frankly kind of incredible it's also
incredibly fortunate that uh our 12 pin power was almost underneath
the gpus and if that had been the case i think we
would have just been boned fitment on these is so tight it's the
kind of thing where i would never recommend fitting something this tight but when
you have like you know a router that's repeatable to a thou it's pretty awesome
to be able to just like friction fit everything i guess it's GPU time this is
kind of like this is the moment brandon yeah like will it just go in oh
that was actually not hard at all okay
looks good yeah does look good
there's the mount the RGB in this costs more than like the
average computer now the final bit
is the power supply all right if this goes in we're good
we're totally good we can have a functioning pc in this case
well uh the power supply fits
it was pretty dirty um so i had to use these slightly longer screws
to pull it in
to position because this cooler is slightly larger
than the cooler that i intended to put on it so they're touching
barely so
it like fits it doesn't fit perfectly could not be
closer but it does fit so we've got this piano hinge in here
that nicely flips up to show you the rear i o
but it's going to be kept in place using
magnets so let's just install those nice and
quick require sticking this off
oh that's not making it on a satisfying appeals list but anyway
here she is the pyramid pc in all of its
i guess glory it might not be amazing to
build in but at the end of the day there's literally nothing like it now you guys
might have seen i've well you've definitely sent me it many times the aza
as a whatever pyramid there's a couple things that you know
this does that that does not for one we've got our freaking gpus we also have
the 51 and a half degree slant to this which is exactly what you need if you
are the illuminati you know the other one it's a bit too tall
the overloads would not be happy but anyway
i think it looks friggin sweet and if
nothing else it looks like well nothing else on the market like
holy crap look at those gpus they're just they're beautiful
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that was an adventure so thanks for watching guys uh if you want
to watch another video um watch the one on the camino rm that
thing was insane and uses these PCIe extenders in a much more logical way
than we did here have a great day see you later