on today's episode of the most expensive thing isn't always the best we are gonna
take this the fastest server money can buy it's
got 128 processing cores a terabyte of RAM
it's got storage that can copy files at a hundred gigabytes a second and we're
going to put a graphics card in it and play video games come along for a grand
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we'll begin by meeting the rtx 3090
graphics card that we will be installing in our server and i use the word in kind
of loosely here this is the supreme
x from MSI and i actually get it that's
a funny one MSI it's like supreme because you can't make enough of them
and the prices get jacked up on ebay this thing has an absolutely massive
triple slot cooler three eight pin power
connectors three fans and of course everything else that you would expect
from an rtx 3090 graphics card it's got a full metal back plate pci express gen
4 16x connector down here and enough RGB
to choke a horse why anyone wants to choke a horse though
i've never been able to quite figure out here's the thing it's not as though a
server like this isn't designed to have gpus installed in it it totally is
there's a riser right here so the slot comes out at an angle you can actually
see we're using pci express 16x slots in
fact they're gen 4 as well for our storage drives which are installed here
here here and here the issue is that server gpus come in
pretty standardized form factors and a lot of the time they don't even have
display outputs and or fans on them so they're designed to sit here and utilize
the airflow that's already going through the chassis for their own cooling
dell in their infinite wisdom also requires you to buy a special GPU
adapter kit that comes with their proprietary cable so you can plug in
your GPU and a bracket so
we are going to have to get a little more
creative than that i mean how ironic is that dell has a proprietary 12-pin
connector so that i can go to dual eight pin and then back to a 12-pin if i put a
filter fortunately
we have a plan since we don't actually
need to install this in a rack unit anyway we can just take a pci express
extension jam it in there
and run the graphics card wherever we
please i could even put it on top of the monitor if i really wanted to it's not
really that crazy if you think about it i mean the traces inside your
motherboard are basically just you know strands of copper so all we're
doing with an extension like this is extending the copper strands some more
now we might run into trouble with pci express gen 4 signaling since getting
the timing right on that is a bit more complicated but we already know that
running an rtx 3090 even on a gen 3 slot
which we can manually change it to if we need to is only going to cost us a
couple percent performance so this seems like a reasonable compromise before we
can fire it up though there's a little trick here we're just gonna put a little
wire into the green and black pins on our atx 12-pin connector before turning
our power supply on plugging in the server here we go
you can really hear the performance look at this RGB
it goes perfectly with our server
all right arnold it's a good thing we set the fans to the quiet profile it's
just loud because it has intrusion detection so if the top panel's off
it spins up i don't know what we can do about that
where's the intrusion detection at the back but i think it's electrical too
so even if you push it down it needs to also be grounded hold on i got this
oh my god do not unplug that power supply
oh man they call me the pc surgeon
that's some open heart surgery right there okay so what i'm hoping
is that we can trip the chassis intrusion detection thing
so that we don't have to listen to this noise quite so loud yeah there might not
be any getting around it no i'll just deal with the noise it's easier for this
to get dragged off the table if the cables are
hanging up okay i just need to keep those clear of the fans you need fans
for good cooling hey andy make sure you get this by the time this video comes
out that thing might finally be on lttstore.com wait lttstore.com that's
where you get this oh yeah ltd store this game will unlock in approximately
less than an hour there we go all right so we might actually get to play this in
the meantime for anyone who didn't catch it in our first video about this
that's task manager
double flex the reason there's so many drives in this thing is because this
machine is actually going to end up being our main video editing storage
server so those are all going to be put together in some kind of Linux raid or
multi-disc or something like that but we're focused on the GPU rtx 3090 baby
also there's a terabyte of RAM in here which
are using 148 gigs do you still have a RAM disc installed
yeah that makes sense um we're not gonna end up using that for gaming though we
had intended to like install all our games in RAM but what we realized is
that every RAM disk software we tried and there's like half a dozen of them on
here was limited by the software itself
not by the speed of the memory so our honey badgers even though we've only got
i think two of them like Windows rated together it's actually faster than a RAM
disk before we game we've got some unfinished
business though blender wouldn't run because we didn't have a graphics card
last time so it's time for a blender CPU rendering flex now even auto tile size
defaulted to 64 threads and i keyed in
256 but i have a feeling that is not going to
work especially because we've got two CPU sockets and i don't believe blender
is numa aware so it might be limited to just one but here we go bmw
no it's utilizing it about 69
not too shabba labby 48 seconds classroom is something i expect to be
like a 5 to 15 minute test this is gonna do it in
it's tracking about two minutes and 35 seconds of course because we're not
benefiting from multiple cpus we'd be better off with a Threadripper now
normally i would be impressed that we're getting just shy of 200 frames per
second 4k ultra nightmare details do maternal except that
when you're got a 60 000 machine you
might expect more bang for your buck now the situation has changed a lot over the
last few years in particular but video games are still relatively lightly
threaded compared to other applications like 3d animation or
video editing even video encoding in particular
so what happens is if you've got a CPU like this that is all about
width rather than per core performance
well you can pop into your task manager and see what's happening here our GPU is
running at like now that's not quite representative of the real situation but
it thinks it's running at like 10 percent capacity now based on the heat
coming off of this it's definitely working reasonably hard
but the fans are also barely spinning that's
crazy town we're using 24 40 CPU
downloading a cyberpunk update okay
that's some that's some heavy compression this
is one good looking freaking game
particularly with ray tracing on is that not unreal
it's not get it this is at 4k with rtx on we're
using dlss but we've manually selected
the quality setting so that's why we're only getting
43 FPS right now of course the question that we have
right now is how well our poor
at best three gigahertz processor is keeping up with our GPU
let's go have a look shall we wow we are entirely GPU bound right now
we are up to 75 degrees and at 96 97
usage oh yeah GPU power usage is anywhere from 94 to 100 percent
absolutely cranked so as long as you're playing cyberpunk at 4k absolutely maxed
your 30 90 is gonna be the bottleneck for anyone who was wondering that's how
many cores cyberpunk can hit assuming it has all the cores in the
world to work with so we're sitting at like 17 18 usage
man this game is the new crisis
like nothing is able to run this absolutely
maxed out remember we're using dlss we're only rendering at 1440p and then
it's upscaling to 4k with that said from my experience with
it earlier today dlss quality on this
looks really good that is to say the dlss quality preset not the quality of
dlss look at this fire Jake look at these shadows look at these shadows of
the people walking around on the street there's no like stair stepping there's
no like judder because they're only refreshing every tenth frame
man remember how good this game looked when it came out it was hard to run too
and it still looks good but compared to cyberpunk just now it's like ah no it
looks 10 years older it really does like how fake the sun rays look and
stuff
all right so let's exit to menu and then we're gonna see if
our load times don't suck because we have 128 cores i don't know we've loaded
it up once just to make sure it's not cloud syncing a profile or anything but
this is what 25 gigabytes a second in
storage and 128 CPU cores gets you for
gta loading times let's see if it helps at all like if you were to do this on a
hard drive it might actually take like two or three minutes no i know i
remember i used to benchmark this game on hard drives back in the day our test
rigs had like 128 gig ssds like
we couldn't have all the games on SSD feel like i'm a grandpa talking to like
you know the young boys that grew up with solid state you know i remember i
bought my that was not bad that's pretty good that's actually not bad it's not as
good as it like could be like realistically that should have
happened a little faster but it's still pretty good yeah not too shabby
the game it's like oh look you know we got
fake god rays and pre-rendered shadows yeah pre-rendered shadows oh nice
i mean these soft shadows are they're pretty good for
back then but it's no global illumination all right how hard is our
poor GPU work in here
oh boy GPU one power is
anywhere from uh 65
to 92 so we are a little CPU bottlenecked in
some situations given it's running at a mere 2.9
gigahertz that kind of makes sense if you wondered how many cores verifying
your game cache takes uh the answer is one you might think you know oh 200 290
FPS that's pretty good that is terrible i mean didn't we hit
like 500 600 FPS on the new ryzen 5000
chips yeah maybe at 1080p okay that's fair that's fair but still i
don't think it scales that difference no i mean right now to give you guys some
idea we all tab out we are now using um
anywhere from 45 to 70 percent of our GPU because we are so CPU bottleneck
only one core was actually doing anything so okay
it's not a gaming machine but the good news is that the things that we will do
with this fast storage fast networking actually
are heavily dependent on having lots and lots of CPU cores so stay tuned because
we're gonna have some updates coming around that just like i've got an update
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