1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,160 Okay, so the goals for today's video are simple. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:09,080 Goal number one, build the gaming PC for the 1%, 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:14,020 the fastest off-the-shelf gaming rig that money can buy. 4 00:00:14,020 --> 00:00:19,050 Goal number two, don't completely F it up like last time. 5 00:00:21,870 --> 00:00:32,040 That's the intro. 6 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:33,920 So let's start with what's gonna be the same 7 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,080 as our last attempt that you guys will never see 8 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:38,080 because it was awful. 9 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,520 First, a handful of you were probably thinking to yourselves 10 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,380 while Ivan and I criticized every system integrator 11 00:00:44,380 --> 00:00:46,840 on the planet, well, could you guys even do it better? 12 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,040 So we are actually going to be trying 13 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:50,080 to build a system better. 14 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:51,520 So we're gonna be doing it together today. 15 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:56,240 And we are sticking with the Core i9-9900K 16 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:57,600 eight-core processor. 17 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,480 We are sticking with dual GTX 2080 Ti ROG Strix cards 18 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:03,780 from ASUS, these are the overclocked versions. 19 00:01:03,780 --> 00:01:07,580 And we are sticking with 32 gigs of our DDR4 20 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,180 3200 memory. 21 00:01:10,180 --> 00:01:13,500 We know that's not quite the fastest memory, but okay. 22 00:01:13,500 --> 00:01:15,640 That's the one thing that's not fasted. 23 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:16,540 Give us a break. 24 00:01:16,540 --> 00:01:19,180 So this is the DarkBase Pro 900. 25 00:01:19,180 --> 00:01:21,460 We have upgraded our power supply 26 00:01:21,460 --> 00:01:24,540 to a 1000 watt DarkPro 11. 27 00:01:24,540 --> 00:01:27,240 And perhaps most importantly, 28 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,260 because this was our biggest problem, 29 00:01:29,260 --> 00:01:32,480 we have changed our motherboard. 30 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:37,100 Instead of trying to get away with three slots of spacing 31 00:01:37,100 --> 00:01:38,180 between our 28-bit CPU, we have changed our motherboard. 32 00:01:38,180 --> 00:01:38,280 Instead of trying to get away with three slots of spacing between our 28-bit CPU, 33 00:01:38,300 --> 00:01:40,100 we have changed our motherboard. 34 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:42,680 By the way, pro tip for you guys, 35 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,140 those things run fricking hot. 36 00:01:46,140 --> 00:01:47,760 We have gone with a motherboard 37 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,920 that will allow us to have quad spacing. 38 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,360 And this was actually what necessitated the case change, 39 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:58,280 because this is one massive Z390 board. 40 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,840 It's actually larger than standard ATX, 41 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:02,440 but not quite EATX. 42 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,000 It's kind of in that in-between land. 43 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,580 What the hell is going on here? 44 00:02:07,580 --> 00:02:08,180 Is this like an old-school ATX? 45 00:02:08,180 --> 00:02:10,050 Is this an OC dial? 46 00:02:10,050 --> 00:02:12,650 Yeah, it lets you turn up your gaming to 11. 47 00:02:12,650 --> 00:02:14,210 It's madness. 48 00:02:14,210 --> 00:02:15,630 How much is this thing? 49 00:02:15,630 --> 00:02:16,750 Look at it. 50 00:02:16,750 --> 00:02:18,850 It has two regular USB 3s, 51 00:02:18,850 --> 00:02:20,970 two of the new Type-C ones, 52 00:02:20,970 --> 00:02:23,710 U.2, three M.2s. 53 00:02:23,710 --> 00:02:25,190 That's not all of them. 54 00:02:25,190 --> 00:02:28,250 There is an expansion card for, I believe, two more inside. 55 00:02:28,250 --> 00:02:29,670 I mean, I think that's their flagship. 56 00:02:29,670 --> 00:02:32,540 I mean, it says Godlike right on it. 57 00:02:32,540 --> 00:02:34,860 It has a quarter-inch headphone jack. 58 00:02:34,860 --> 00:02:37,380 It even has an infinity mirror up on this. 59 00:02:37,380 --> 00:02:38,380 That's what it is. 60 00:02:38,380 --> 00:02:39,220 Oh, my God. 61 00:02:39,220 --> 00:02:40,300 Okay, anyway. 62 00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:42,100 Let's build a rig, shall we? 63 00:02:42,100 --> 00:02:43,190 Jeez. 64 00:02:43,190 --> 00:02:46,090 So as usual, we're gonna start with our CPU. 65 00:02:46,090 --> 00:02:48,890 So we've got a Core i9-9900K. 66 00:02:48,890 --> 00:02:50,910 Is it the best value for gaming? 67 00:02:50,910 --> 00:02:52,130 No. 68 00:02:52,130 --> 00:02:54,690 Is it the fastest for gaming? 69 00:02:54,690 --> 00:02:55,530 Yes. 70 00:02:55,530 --> 00:02:56,510 There is a small asterisk. 71 00:02:56,510 --> 00:02:59,310 We did run into some weird issues with minimum FPS 72 00:02:59,310 --> 00:03:00,510 with hyper-threading enabled. 73 00:03:00,510 --> 00:03:02,390 Seems to be like a Windows scheduler thing. 74 00:03:02,390 --> 00:03:03,230 Now RAM. 75 00:03:03,230 --> 00:03:04,890 These are pretty memory slots. 76 00:03:04,890 --> 00:03:06,570 I actually haven't used an MSI board 77 00:03:06,570 --> 00:03:07,850 for a build in quite some time. 78 00:03:07,850 --> 00:03:09,370 I think we have orange RAM. 79 00:03:09,370 --> 00:03:10,770 This is being covered by the heatsink 80 00:03:10,770 --> 00:03:11,690 pretty much entirely. 81 00:03:11,690 --> 00:03:12,530 You can even see it. 82 00:03:12,530 --> 00:03:14,210 However, we do have the orange kit. 83 00:03:14,210 --> 00:03:15,050 Oh, really? 84 00:03:15,050 --> 00:03:15,890 Yeah, check over here. 85 00:03:15,890 --> 00:03:16,730 I'll check upstairs, okay? 86 00:03:16,730 --> 00:03:17,570 Okay. 87 00:03:17,570 --> 00:03:20,580 We could just put in like some Trident Z Royal for lulz. 88 00:03:20,580 --> 00:03:21,420 Oh, yeah. 89 00:03:21,420 --> 00:03:23,260 This is 4,000. 90 00:03:23,260 --> 00:03:24,460 I found it. 91 00:03:24,460 --> 00:03:25,300 It's okay. 92 00:03:25,300 --> 00:03:27,360 We're gonna go Trident Z Royal anyway. 93 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,280 This is so far over the top. 94 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:31,640 Oh, man. 95 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:32,880 Look at this. 96 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,080 Oh, I mean, come on. 97 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,180 There's a certain point. 98 00:03:38,420 --> 00:03:42,060 Where once you go tackier, 99 00:03:42,060 --> 00:03:45,640 it gets pretty, you know? 100 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:47,080 Having so much fun right now. 101 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,020 I've never had this much fun installing RAM. 102 00:03:50,020 --> 00:03:51,860 Look at this. 103 00:03:51,860 --> 00:03:54,040 CPU cooler next then? 104 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:54,880 All right. 105 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:55,970 All right, let's do it. 106 00:03:55,970 --> 00:03:58,540 I think I lost the English manual, 107 00:03:58,540 --> 00:04:01,480 but I got the German and the Russian. 108 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:02,320 Which one do you want to go by? 109 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:03,160 All right, well, it looks like 110 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,160 you're doing the heatsink then. 111 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:07,360 Okay, German it is, fine. 112 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:08,200 What? 113 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:09,040 No. 114 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:09,980 You don't read German, do you? 115 00:04:09,980 --> 00:04:10,820 No, you don't. 116 00:04:10,820 --> 00:04:11,660 I know you don't. 117 00:04:11,780 --> 00:04:12,620 Take the Russian one. 118 00:04:12,620 --> 00:04:13,860 Take the Russian one. 119 00:04:13,860 --> 00:04:15,000 They can see the cooler, man. 120 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,020 That brookie middick have done cooler. 121 00:04:17,020 --> 00:04:20,760 So here goes our first M.2 device. 122 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,160 It's a 960 Pro. 123 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:24,540 I know. 124 00:04:24,540 --> 00:04:26,660 We actually have a 970 Pro over there, 125 00:04:26,660 --> 00:04:29,560 but like this already has an OS on it 126 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:31,820 and it really doesn't make that much of a difference. 127 00:04:31,820 --> 00:04:33,280 Gaming. 128 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:35,440 Our second M.2 device 129 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:40,170 is going to be a 32 gig Optane memory module 130 00:04:40,170 --> 00:04:42,390 to accelerate our 12 terabyte hard drive. 131 00:04:42,390 --> 00:04:47,620 That way we can have a great big library of games. 132 00:04:48,870 --> 00:04:51,190 Well, one can say if your M.2 gets shorted, 133 00:04:51,190 --> 00:04:53,290 then you are screwed. 134 00:04:53,290 --> 00:04:54,130 What? 135 00:04:54,130 --> 00:04:55,490 No, no, no one is saying that. 136 00:04:55,490 --> 00:04:57,710 It was your idea to have me in the video, so. 137 00:04:57,710 --> 00:05:00,610 Now I know how all the ROG Rig Reboot kids felt. 138 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,140 Just these jokes and these references. 139 00:05:04,140 --> 00:05:07,140 I can't take it anymore. 140 00:05:07,140 --> 00:05:10,540 So our power supply here is 80 plus platinum certified, 141 00:05:10,540 --> 00:05:12,900 comes with a mostly modular interface. 142 00:05:12,900 --> 00:05:14,820 So the one cable they have pre-attached 143 00:05:14,820 --> 00:05:16,440 is the 24 pin ATX connector. 144 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:17,860 You'll probably need one of those. 145 00:05:17,860 --> 00:05:22,240 And it uses one of be quiet!'s very quiet fans. 146 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,400 Which one do they use on this one actually? 147 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:25,720 I believe it's Silent Wings 3. 148 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:27,760 This is a Silent Wings 3? 149 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:29,380 Oh, that's pretty nice. 150 00:05:29,380 --> 00:05:30,840 We are German. 151 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:33,180 It is exactly 135 millimeters. 152 00:05:33,180 --> 00:05:35,180 We don't care that everyone else calls it 140. 153 00:05:35,180 --> 00:05:39,060 So we need for this motherboard, two eight pin connectors. 154 00:05:39,060 --> 00:05:40,300 For our video cards, 155 00:05:40,300 --> 00:05:43,840 we need two dual eight pin PCI Express connectors. 156 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:45,460 And then for our hard drive, 157 00:05:45,460 --> 00:05:47,980 need a couple of SATA connectors for that. 158 00:05:47,980 --> 00:05:49,160 So I'll grab one of these. 159 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,620 In case you're stuck, there's a manufacturer's opinion, 160 00:05:51,620 --> 00:05:53,300 AKA the manual over here. 161 00:05:53,300 --> 00:05:55,960 Oh, no, I was about to actually acknowledge that. 162 00:05:55,960 --> 00:06:00,080 Man, full marks for like being built like a tank, 163 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:01,700 but the armor is preventing me 164 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:04,660 from inserting the power supply. 165 00:06:04,660 --> 00:06:08,640 I am going to figure this out without the manual. 166 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:10,450 Yes! 167 00:06:10,450 --> 00:06:12,290 All right, so power supply goes in here. 168 00:06:12,290 --> 00:06:14,510 We got our nice filtered air intake for it. 169 00:06:14,510 --> 00:06:18,340 Bippity boppity, done. 170 00:06:18,340 --> 00:06:22,230 Check out the thumb screws this power supply comes with. 171 00:06:22,230 --> 00:06:24,810 And I shipped five just in case one is bad, I guess. 172 00:06:24,810 --> 00:06:27,770 That RAM is really tight. 173 00:06:27,770 --> 00:06:29,950 So I'm running the dual eight pins 174 00:06:29,950 --> 00:06:32,330 that we're gonna need for the top 175 00:06:32,330 --> 00:06:34,090 of our motherboard right now. 176 00:06:34,090 --> 00:06:39,930 So I can run them straight up the back here. 177 00:06:39,930 --> 00:06:41,110 That's not bad. 178 00:06:41,110 --> 00:06:44,710 So I'm just pre-measuring the distance between the card. 179 00:06:44,710 --> 00:06:45,390 Whoa! 180 00:06:45,390 --> 00:06:47,670 What? 181 00:06:47,670 --> 00:06:49,830 Wow, that is really tight. 182 00:06:49,830 --> 00:06:52,450 But what's nice is check this out. 183 00:06:52,450 --> 00:06:54,770 So I'm gonna bring the other one over real quick here. 184 00:06:54,770 --> 00:06:58,230 Unlike our last kick at the can, 185 00:06:58,230 --> 00:07:01,270 we can put our second card right there, 186 00:07:01,270 --> 00:07:05,220 giving both of them ample room to breathe. 187 00:07:05,220 --> 00:07:08,040 I really would not wanna be a PCIe 1X card 188 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:09,800 installed in between these. 189 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,060 We're just finishing up a little bit of cable management here. 190 00:07:12,060 --> 00:07:13,460 So we've got both of our fans 191 00:07:13,460 --> 00:07:15,920 running off of the CPU fan one connector here. 192 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:17,660 We're just kind of trying to tuck this 193 00:07:17,660 --> 00:07:18,660 into the back of the case. 194 00:07:18,660 --> 00:07:19,900 And you can see that it's really tight. 195 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:21,200 I've already tried jamming it in. 196 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,480 So if I couldn't fit, you obviously wouldn't either. 197 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,540 Aw, that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. 198 00:07:26,540 --> 00:07:28,790 I think I can be happy with that. 199 00:07:28,790 --> 00:07:29,630 The fan can still spin. 200 00:07:29,630 --> 00:07:33,000 No, it can still spin. 201 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,340 All right, so the motherboard's going in. 202 00:07:35,340 --> 00:07:36,480 Someone needs to hold the case. 203 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:37,820 How about you put it in and hold it 204 00:07:37,820 --> 00:07:39,480 so it doesn't tip over? 205 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:40,880 It's just really heavy. 206 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:41,720 Get it? 207 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:43,920 Linus Tech tips. 208 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:45,140 Hey, this is my life, okay? 209 00:07:45,140 --> 00:07:46,560 Don't judge. 210 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,380 Man, this is looking good though. 211 00:07:49,380 --> 00:07:50,260 Here's the thing. 212 00:07:50,260 --> 00:07:52,380 You should actually install the upper card first 213 00:07:52,380 --> 00:07:54,260 because see how tight the clearance is? 214 00:07:54,260 --> 00:07:56,260 The right one, I think, is not fully in. 215 00:07:56,260 --> 00:07:57,100 There's a gap. 216 00:07:57,100 --> 00:07:57,920 Oh, they're right. 217 00:07:57,920 --> 00:07:58,850 They disconnected. 218 00:07:58,850 --> 00:07:59,670 Damn it. 219 00:07:59,670 --> 00:08:00,860 All right, it's in now. 220 00:08:00,860 --> 00:08:01,700 Is it? 221 00:08:01,700 --> 00:08:02,540 Oh. 222 00:08:02,540 --> 00:08:03,380 Yeah, yeah, it's in now. 223 00:08:03,380 --> 00:08:04,220 Because I couldn't tell. 224 00:08:04,220 --> 00:08:05,060 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 225 00:08:05,060 --> 00:08:07,060 Okay, want to grab one of the cards? 226 00:08:07,060 --> 00:08:07,900 Look at this thing. 227 00:08:07,900 --> 00:08:11,360 It's like thicker than my accent. 228 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:12,900 Yay. 229 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:17,900 All right, so that's in like fricking barely. 230 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,140 This whole system is nuts. 231 00:08:20,140 --> 00:08:21,440 So we're almost done 232 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:22,740 with most of the standard wiring, 233 00:08:22,740 --> 00:08:27,520 just connecting a USB 3 header here. 234 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:29,140 But there's some interesting stuff 235 00:08:29,140 --> 00:08:33,840 about the case at the back. 236 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,600 So we've got, we can have performance or silent 237 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,400 configured along these four or these four ports. 238 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:41,640 We're gonna go straight to performance 239 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:43,420 based on our experience last time. 240 00:08:43,420 --> 00:08:48,480 Then we've also got the ability to plug in RGB 241 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:53,240 for our included LED strips right here. 242 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:56,080 You can connect the fan controller to PWM 243 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,240 and then you can use the included fan controller. 244 00:08:58,240 --> 00:08:59,660 So if you move it all the way over to the left, 245 00:08:59,660 --> 00:09:01,320 it just lets the motherboard control it. 246 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:02,840 And then if you move it over, 247 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,340 then you've got completely infinite control. 248 00:09:05,340 --> 00:09:08,200 So no steps, completely stepless control from either, 249 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,340 what is it, 400 to 1100 or something? 250 00:09:11,340 --> 00:09:15,260 Yes, and then the performance mode is like 600 to 1400. 251 00:09:15,260 --> 00:09:16,160 Sweet. 252 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:17,300 All right, so let's do it. 253 00:09:17,300 --> 00:09:19,620 I'm gonna plug the RGB connector in. 254 00:09:19,620 --> 00:09:22,140 Single most important connector in this entire build. 255 00:09:22,140 --> 00:09:23,240 And we're getting close here. 256 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:24,080 Aren't we? 257 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,380 So one thing that's still left for us to install 258 00:09:26,380 --> 00:09:29,580 aside from our second graphics card is our hard drive. 259 00:09:29,580 --> 00:09:33,780 Now we can actually install hard drive cages 260 00:09:33,780 --> 00:09:35,220 in all of these guys up here 261 00:09:35,220 --> 00:09:37,000 and they're all included with the case. 262 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,140 But frankly, these two that sit under the shroud 263 00:09:41,140 --> 00:09:44,900 are enough for, I would think most people anyway. 264 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,200 I mean, who installs like seven hard drives 265 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:49,300 in their systems anymore? 266 00:09:49,300 --> 00:09:52,940 And I'd just rather have the cooling from these fans 267 00:09:53,340 --> 00:09:55,040 than a bunch of hard drives here, 268 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,140 especially with these graphics cards. 269 00:09:57,140 --> 00:10:03,300 Never a dull moment if you're into PCs being built. 270 00:10:03,300 --> 00:10:05,060 Okay, what the hell? 271 00:10:05,060 --> 00:10:05,900 What? 272 00:10:05,900 --> 00:10:10,020 Just, I can't get this back together. 273 00:10:10,020 --> 00:10:11,900 Oh, okay. 274 00:10:11,900 --> 00:10:16,640 Well, that went back together. 275 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,040 Are you doing cable management right now? 276 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:18,880 Aye. 277 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:19,720 Okay. 278 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:20,560 All right. 279 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:23,680 We are getting really frigging close here. 280 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:26,180 This is exciting. 281 00:10:26,180 --> 00:10:27,740 If this is where I start singing, 282 00:10:27,740 --> 00:10:30,700 come a little bit closer, baby. 283 00:10:30,860 --> 00:10:32,780 All right. 284 00:10:32,780 --> 00:10:33,620 Here we go. 285 00:10:33,620 --> 00:10:34,460 So this is it. 286 00:10:34,460 --> 00:10:39,420 This is the PC building money shot, really. 287 00:10:39,420 --> 00:10:43,540 When you insert the second graphics card. 288 00:10:43,540 --> 00:10:45,720 Did you take off the protector? 289 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:47,200 Yeah, I did. 290 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:49,560 You think I'm new? 291 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:50,400 You know, in Japan, 292 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:51,240 they have this expression 293 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:53,500 that even dogs run into telephone posts. 294 00:10:53,500 --> 00:10:54,800 Where is the RTX bridge? 295 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:56,480 Because you should not fasten it all the way 296 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:57,320 because remember, 297 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:59,020 we might have to move the cards around a little bit. 298 00:10:59,020 --> 00:10:59,860 You're right. 299 00:10:59,860 --> 00:11:00,900 And remember in the old studio 300 00:11:00,900 --> 00:11:03,320 when you had like power wiring to the servers 301 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:04,100 running under a faucet? 302 00:11:04,100 --> 00:11:05,660 And it wasn't even disconnected? 303 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:08,460 Yes. 304 00:11:08,460 --> 00:11:09,700 Look, I'm not proud of it. 305 00:11:10,730 --> 00:11:14,130 See, this one looks a little bit like a starfighter, yeah? 306 00:11:14,130 --> 00:11:16,450 Like a three slot one would be fighting, 307 00:11:16,450 --> 00:11:18,170 a dog fighting a quad slot one. 308 00:11:18,170 --> 00:11:19,610 Which one would win? 309 00:11:19,610 --> 00:11:22,010 NVIDIA, because it's just competing with itself. 310 00:11:23,950 --> 00:11:24,950 Okay, that's not bad. 311 00:11:28,100 --> 00:11:32,270 There. 312 00:11:32,270 --> 00:11:33,530 Okay, no, seriously. 313 00:11:33,530 --> 00:11:34,450 Give me a hand operator. 314 00:11:34,450 --> 00:11:36,260 Okay. 315 00:11:36,260 --> 00:11:38,780 Like, I'm gonna have a heart attack. 316 00:11:38,780 --> 00:11:39,800 Like, see, you gotta respect 317 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:40,640 the hardware. 318 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:41,460 Like, and he's like, 319 00:11:41,460 --> 00:11:42,300 trims it in there. 320 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:43,140 I mean. 321 00:11:43,140 --> 00:11:46,380 It's on, it's on. 322 00:11:46,380 --> 00:11:47,200 Dang. 323 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:48,040 Oh, it's beautiful. 324 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,750 Look at this thing. 325 00:11:50,750 --> 00:11:52,610 I mean, if you're gonna be the fastest system, 326 00:11:52,610 --> 00:11:55,790 you might as well do it in style, right? 327 00:11:55,790 --> 00:11:57,670 Oh wow, I can't reach the peel. 328 00:11:57,670 --> 00:11:59,510 Yeah, the tab for the peel came off, 329 00:11:59,510 --> 00:12:01,870 but not the peel. 330 00:12:01,870 --> 00:12:06,740 Oh man, zero out of 10, worst peel. 331 00:12:06,740 --> 00:12:08,160 Oh, come on. 332 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:11,130 Look, he's bitching me out about this. 333 00:12:11,130 --> 00:12:12,730 Yes, because like, you know, 334 00:12:12,730 --> 00:12:15,510 you need to adhere to proper building practices. 335 00:12:15,510 --> 00:12:18,540 Thank you. 336 00:12:18,540 --> 00:12:20,620 There, mother. 337 00:12:20,620 --> 00:12:21,900 It's like I'm the town barber, right? 338 00:12:21,900 --> 00:12:23,180 I'll make it pretty. 339 00:12:23,180 --> 00:12:24,520 Say no more, fam. 340 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,080 Who else do you know who carries a 24 pinner 341 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:27,980 in his freaking pocket at all times? 342 00:12:27,980 --> 00:12:32,030 All right, so this is it. 343 00:12:32,030 --> 00:12:35,820 We are basically there. 344 00:12:35,820 --> 00:12:38,620 Back of the system is cable managed enough, 345 00:12:38,620 --> 00:12:41,960 and the front looks absolutely fantastic. 346 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:43,460 So I'm gonna clear the desk. 347 00:12:43,460 --> 00:12:47,280 Ivan's gonna grab our one percenter gaming peripherals, 348 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:51,400 and we are pretty much ready to go. 349 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:52,240 Okay. 350 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:54,080 The keyboard isn't quite one percenter, 351 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:58,220 but I think this G703, sure, we'll call that. 352 00:12:58,220 --> 00:12:59,540 It's pretty. 353 00:12:59,540 --> 00:13:01,260 All right, just making sure it looks good 354 00:13:01,260 --> 00:13:02,940 for the moment of truth. 355 00:13:02,940 --> 00:13:04,940 Do you wanna hit the power button at the back? 356 00:13:04,940 --> 00:13:09,010 It's on. 357 00:13:09,010 --> 00:13:13,130 Look at that memory. 358 00:13:13,130 --> 00:13:14,510 Oh God. 359 00:13:14,510 --> 00:13:17,660 This is like full swagger. 360 00:13:17,660 --> 00:13:20,640 And we got a post on first attempt. 361 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:23,840 One can say that you've got mail. 362 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:25,390 Get post. 363 00:13:25,390 --> 00:13:26,270 Nope. 364 00:13:26,270 --> 00:13:28,610 Are there ninjas fighting on that screen, 365 00:13:28,610 --> 00:13:29,450 on the motherboard? 366 00:13:29,450 --> 00:13:32,350 And that is the favorite part of this build. 367 00:13:32,350 --> 00:13:37,030 Look, the dragon defeats the ninjas while freaking dabbing. 368 00:13:37,030 --> 00:13:38,370 All right, so I kept the same drivers. 369 00:13:38,370 --> 00:13:39,290 What do we wanna start with? 370 00:13:39,290 --> 00:13:40,590 We gotta close up the side panel, 371 00:13:40,590 --> 00:13:41,930 because if we're gonna believe 372 00:13:41,930 --> 00:13:43,590 that this thing doesn't thermal throttle, 373 00:13:43,590 --> 00:13:46,960 we have to actually push it. 374 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:48,800 Can you please stop calling this machine an it? 375 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,230 Okay, it's a she. 376 00:13:51,230 --> 00:13:52,840 It's a she? 377 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:54,640 All right, stress test. 378 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:56,960 This is 4K 144. 379 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:57,800 Oh my God. 380 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:58,640 Yeah. 381 00:13:58,640 --> 00:13:59,420 So we're back at default, 382 00:13:59,420 --> 00:14:00,780 and there's just a couple things we need to do. 383 00:14:00,780 --> 00:14:04,000 We need to change the SATA mode to RAID slash Optane mode, 384 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:08,880 and we are going to enable our XMP profile 385 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:10,460 to see what happens. 386 00:14:10,460 --> 00:14:12,160 Hopefully that'll work. 387 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,600 I thought friends don't let friends enable XMP profile. 388 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,060 Generally they don't, but come on. 389 00:14:16,060 --> 00:14:18,000 We put 4,000 megahertz RAM in here. 390 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:22,240 Let's see if it can do it. 391 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,270 And it crashed. 392 00:14:25,270 --> 00:14:28,030 Is this where I get the told you so about XMP? 393 00:14:28,030 --> 00:14:29,850 I remember having the craziest conversation 394 00:14:29,850 --> 00:14:31,150 with someone from ASUS when I was like, 395 00:14:31,150 --> 00:14:32,030 yeah, I hate XMP. 396 00:14:32,030 --> 00:14:35,360 And they're like, 397 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,150 I was like, what do you mean why? 398 00:14:38,150 --> 00:14:39,690 Cause it doesn't work. 399 00:14:39,690 --> 00:14:42,210 Most of the time, overwhelming majority of the time. 400 00:14:42,210 --> 00:14:45,560 It's also possible that was just a random glitch 401 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,000 because this didn't have any hiccups so far. 402 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,040 You know, there was no such thing as random, right? 403 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,440 Even random number generator is not quite random. 404 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:54,170 Here you go. 405 00:14:54,170 --> 00:14:55,330 In Soviet Russia, right? 406 00:14:55,330 --> 00:14:57,740 It's just like you take over by. 407 00:14:57,740 --> 00:14:58,580 Okay, all right. 408 00:14:58,580 --> 00:14:59,400 Just cut. 409 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:00,240 Maybe he'll stop. 410 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:01,640 This is kind of incredible, man. 411 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:05,720 Like I think I've seen one or two dips below 60 FPS. 412 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,840 Never seen this benchmark run this smoothly. 413 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:11,840 So we're gonna get the score any moment now. 414 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:17,360 And the goal is that this is the PC for the 1%. 415 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:19,060 It's over 10K. 416 00:15:19,060 --> 00:15:20,200 Over 10K. 417 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,500 Well over 10K. 418 00:15:22,500 --> 00:15:29,900 Ooh. 419 00:15:29,900 --> 00:15:31,880 Oh, Occupy is alive. 420 00:15:34,140 --> 00:15:36,560 92%. 421 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,040 There's probably a little more we can do here. 422 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:42,660 Let's go increase our power limit to 125. 423 00:15:42,660 --> 00:15:45,480 I think this core is good for about plus 100 or so. 424 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:46,380 What's it? 425 00:15:46,380 --> 00:15:47,480 We had a profile. 426 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:48,580 Oh, before profile? 427 00:15:48,580 --> 00:15:49,640 Oh yeah, there's our profile. 428 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:50,480 Let's try again. 429 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:52,420 Let's try again. 430 00:15:52,420 --> 00:15:54,280 2%. 431 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:55,820 You know that one graphics card in there 432 00:15:55,820 --> 00:15:57,960 is worth more than my entire PC setup? 433 00:15:57,960 --> 00:15:59,520 Did you know that one graphics card in there 434 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,000 is worth more than my entire PC setup? 435 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,700 This is looking higher and no crash yet. 436 00:16:04,700 --> 00:16:08,420 And we just broke 11,000. 437 00:16:08,420 --> 00:16:12,560 Time to compare online. 438 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,120 Show me that 1%, baby. 439 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:15,740 98%.! 440 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:17,920 Come on! 441 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,240 Okay, what if you boosted the CPU clocks a little bit? 442 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:21,080 Fine, yeah. 443 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:22,820 It does make a difference in the simulation test. 444 00:16:22,820 --> 00:16:24,140 All right, all right, all right, all right. 445 00:16:24,140 --> 00:16:25,680 Let's do it. 446 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:29,320 Okay, so we're going to 4.8 gigahertz. 447 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:33,010 We're gonna try and keep our memory at 3,600. 448 00:16:33,010 --> 00:16:35,570 And that's a lot of things to change in one go. 449 00:16:39,460 --> 00:16:42,380 All settings were reset to default values. 450 00:16:42,380 --> 00:16:45,230 Goodbye, extreme memory profile. 451 00:16:45,230 --> 00:16:46,070 Hello. 452 00:16:46,070 --> 00:16:47,720 Maybe gonna boot. 453 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:52,620 We are now running at 4.8 gigahertz locked. 454 00:16:52,620 --> 00:16:53,560 Across all cores. 455 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:57,700 Across all cores. 456 00:16:57,700 --> 00:17:05,260 Let's fire up the CPU-Z. 457 00:17:05,260 --> 00:17:06,820 All right, here we go. 458 00:17:06,820 --> 00:17:07,740 Results time. 459 00:17:07,740 --> 00:17:09,440 Temps still very comfortable. 460 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:10,940 So it was like 11.2. 461 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,760 Oh, come on! 462 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,100 Well, I'm not expecting this to be any better 463 00:17:17,100 --> 00:17:18,100 because why would you? 464 00:17:18,100 --> 00:17:20,740 But whatever, there it is, 98%. 465 00:17:20,740 --> 00:17:23,780 Okay, fine, we'll push your last 15 megahertz here 466 00:17:23,780 --> 00:17:26,000 and see if that makes the difference. 467 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,160 If this doesn't do it, 468 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:29,480 we don't have a lot left in the tank. 469 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:31,840 What, 30 more points or something? 470 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:35,160 I doubt that's gonna be the difference here. 471 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,340 And it isn't. 472 00:17:37,340 --> 00:17:40,480 Now let's try some actual games, shall we? 473 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:41,360 So what do you think? 474 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:45,520 Shadow of the Tomb Raider, graphics, ultra, 475 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:50,830 with motion blur off, 4K, 120 hertz, SMAA. 476 00:17:50,830 --> 00:17:53,660 Let's see where we end up here. 477 00:17:53,660 --> 00:17:55,540 Before that though, I'd like to share a computer joke. 478 00:17:55,540 --> 00:17:57,100 A computer joke with you. 479 00:17:57,100 --> 00:18:00,700 What happened to the PC enthusiast 480 00:18:00,700 --> 00:18:03,530 whose side panel got all scratched up? 481 00:18:03,530 --> 00:18:06,250 He lost his temper. 482 00:18:06,250 --> 00:18:07,780 I don't get it. 483 00:18:07,780 --> 00:18:09,000 For glass. 484 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:09,960 Damn, that's smooth. 485 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:11,500 We might just have to run the benchmark though, 486 00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:13,580 but like, holy crap. 487 00:18:13,580 --> 00:18:16,840 No, display, options, displaying graphics, hit arrow. 488 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:18,100 Go ahead and cut. 489 00:18:18,100 --> 00:18:19,960 What the hell? 490 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:20,800 Luke. 491 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:21,700 Hello. 492 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:23,040 Whoa, okay, nevermind. 493 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:24,740 Yeah, you can roll on this. 494 00:18:24,740 --> 00:18:25,580 What? 495 00:18:25,580 --> 00:18:26,670 4K! 496 00:18:27,550 --> 00:18:30,010 And this is fully maxed out with- 497 00:18:30,010 --> 00:18:32,010 Except no motion blur because motion blur is garbage. 498 00:18:32,010 --> 00:18:33,450 Yeah, motion blur is bad, yes. 499 00:18:33,450 --> 00:18:37,820 I don't think I've ever seen a counter break two digits. 500 00:18:37,820 --> 00:18:39,520 I'm here until now. 501 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:40,340 Holy ballsacks. 502 00:18:40,340 --> 00:18:42,520 That is unreal. 503 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:44,040 No, this is a Tomb Raider. 504 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,620 What? 505 00:18:50,620 --> 00:18:51,460 Do you see that? 506 00:18:51,460 --> 00:18:54,000 We cracked 200, not for long, 507 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,920 but we cracked 200 FPS for a sec there. 508 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:00,880 I've never been so enraptured by this benchmark run. 509 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:03,330 Enraptured? 510 00:19:03,330 --> 00:19:04,310 Yeah. 511 00:19:04,310 --> 00:19:05,310 It's a word? 512 00:19:05,310 --> 00:19:06,130 Yes, I made a joke. 513 00:19:06,130 --> 00:19:08,110 Oh, well, no, that's not, no, no, that wasn't my, 514 00:19:08,110 --> 00:19:09,810 okay, I wasn't making jokes. 515 00:19:09,810 --> 00:19:11,650 I was just serious business. 516 00:19:11,650 --> 00:19:12,570 This is unreal. 517 00:19:13,890 --> 00:19:18,890 128 FPS at 4K. 518 00:19:19,050 --> 00:19:21,850 I mean, this makes me feel a little better about, you know, 519 00:19:21,850 --> 00:19:25,360 not being in the 1% 3D Mark. 520 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:29,100 And what's really cool about this 521 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:32,520 is that we actually did experience reasonable, 522 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:33,880 like not amazing, 523 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:38,400 but reasonable SLI scaling across a variety of titles. 524 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,580 So once you're cranking it up, 4K, Ultra, 525 00:19:42,580 --> 00:19:46,760 you've got your NVLink bridge, dual RTX 2080 TIs. 526 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,560 Yeah, it's a gaming experience unlike any other. 527 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:53,940 It was still a lot of fun to build something that, 528 00:19:53,940 --> 00:20:00,540 wow, slab engineering. 529 00:20:00,540 --> 00:20:02,180 Oh, man. 530 00:20:02,180 --> 00:20:04,400 In our defense though, we knew that wasn't gonna stay there. 531 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:05,240 We didn't even take the sticky table. 532 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:06,080 Well, no, no, because I only used half, 533 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:07,020 so we can reuse it. Yes, okay. 534 00:20:07,020 --> 00:20:08,860 Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. 535 00:20:08,860 --> 00:20:10,780 Let's just try that again. 536 00:20:12,180 --> 00:20:14,120 Okay, so we didn't achieve our goal, 537 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:16,900 top 1% 3D Mark TimeSpy Extreme, 538 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:20,920 but it was still a lot of fun just being hands-on with, 539 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:25,920 just experiencing the best of the best of what exists today. 540 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,820 This is an absolutely phenomenal machine, 541 00:20:28,820 --> 00:20:31,800 even if it's only in the top 2% of TimeSpy Extreme. 542 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:33,440 And something to bear in mind 543 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,100 is that the top 2% of TimeSpy Extreme is well within the top, 544 00:20:37,300 --> 00:20:38,600 1% worldwide anyway. 545 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:39,980 So that's what I'm gonna tell myself 546 00:20:39,980 --> 00:20:41,460 to make myself feel better. 547 00:20:41,460 --> 00:20:44,400 So a big thank you to be quiet! for sponsoring this endeavor. 548 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,180 We learned a lot, like that you definitely need 549 00:20:47,180 --> 00:20:50,420 the additional spacing between RTX 2080Ti's. 550 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:52,460 So that was fun. 551 00:20:52,460 --> 00:20:54,000 And thanks to you guys for watching. 552 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,420 If you guys disliked this video, you can hit that button, 553 00:20:57,420 --> 00:20:59,780 but you know I'm gonna know your jelly, right? 554 00:20:59,780 --> 00:21:01,520 And if you liked it, hit like, get subscribed, 555 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:03,160 or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff 556 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,280 we featured at the link in the video description. 557 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:07,280 Also down there is our merch store. 558 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:08,880 Which has cool shirts like this one. 559 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:10,100 These are more affordable. 560 00:21:10,100 --> 00:21:13,160 And our community forum, which you guys should totally join.