recently we showed off the 100 000 desk PC that we built for Carl
Jacobs a Minecraft YouTuber with copious Capital but we only showed you the
destination not the journey so here it is how to build a hundred thousand
dollar desk PC and how to thank our
sponsor see Sonic we're here in beautiful Squamish British Columbia to
check out SS CAD cam these are the same guys that did the Machining for our play
button PC and the machines they have in here are freaking incredible come on
come on Andy this massive hunk of aluminum isn't even
one of the largest that's going in our desk this will make one of the Wings and
it alone is 315 pounds and just this
part was nearly 2 000 Canadian dollars to machine the wings of our desk we're
using this DMG Mori dmu65 this thing it
absolutely smokes our tormach like not even in the same league this thing has
60 Tools in it and they swap just so
fast it has a 46 horsepower spindle that
goes up to 20 000 RPM the ability of this thing to shred through aluminum is
absolutely incredible the wings of our desk are at the absolute limits of the
size of this machine even just getting this thing on here is a huge pain in the
ass like you can't just Chuck this in a vise like a normal thing so instead it's
held in using one of these orange clamps so down on the bottom of our big block
of aluminum we have these studs that are threaded in then it goes in like that
and you're able to tighten it right down there's three of these in the bottom
here the whole thing is a complete custom fixture just for us all right can
we run it press Start oh heck yeah I did
a thing
this isn't even the largest hunk of aluminum that we need to machine though
this is the Canada arm3 and it's what Amish normally uses to load material
into his Mill only problem the load limit is 400 pounds and our hunk of
aluminum is 550. that's 3 500 worth of aluminum he
had to use a forklift to get this in there this old Hoss might have been made
when Carl was only one year old but it's still got it where it counts biggest
thing well it's big this thing's able to take seven feet of stock in the X
direction of course to fit a piece of aluminum this big onto it we needed to
make completely Custom Jigs once again so down here we have a big custom piece
of aluminum where you're bolting down straight through it when all said and
done this 550 pounds of aluminum is going to be turned into just 65 which
means we're going to have a lot a lot of chips this huge bin is where all of our
aluminum chips are going to end up and we expect to fill it
12 times fortunately all of those chips are going to go to a recycler down the
road so it'll be turned into well like pop cans another desk no we're not
making another desk enough of me talking though let's get to Machining Tim Hit It
oh
I couldn't help noticing that it's in a lot of pieces yeah this right here
actually arrived in the back of a car this is what we have to do today if this
video is any less than three and a half hours long you can rest assured that
it's been cut aggressively and there's going to be a lot of extras over on
Floatplane.com wings onto frame let's go I mean there's three of us and it's all
been test fitted so theoretically it shouldn't be that bad should we have gloves to make our lives easier in terms
of cleaning it later first things first we're going to take these parts and
we're going to install them and then we're gonna Slide the wings in okay so
yes these are indexed to each side this is a left side front that is the right
side front and I got washers here right uh on the on the bolt side just put all
the bolts and two nuts on we're gonna Loctite everything okay so I've got all
the bolts and uh hold on it's a little tall
okay do you want to speed run the desk or not
all in now that the project has been fully designed Tim figures he spent over
a month of dedicated time just looking
at SolidWorks and that's nothing compared to the time that this thing
took to machine the details on this are incredible so this KJ a ball End Mill
went across and did all of this so there's this nice little texture here
this is not some cast part or something like that is machined what we're gonna
do is we're going to make sure that these are flat or at least as close to
parallel as we can we're going to be fitting neoprene on top so it's not going to be a super big issue sure but
we do want them to seat nicely when we put the wings in these puzzle piece
slots so we're gonna put lock cutter in each of them flatten them tighten them
up so just apply loctates yep just inside
and it never came apart again we're good yeah all right that one's done moving in
for this remember is there okay do not have ratchets oh we do but we don't have
a half inch doesn't matter I have a sneaking suspicion I can do a better job
than they are right now by just laser eyeballing it Tim you're with me right
physically oh my God our side's so much better Alex
that's so far off hey watch this hey be nice be nice to it
my number one goal with this shoot is to make sure that Linus doesn't drop the
desk sorry uncomfortable question how much did we
spend on aluminum was it over ten thousand dollars yes Carl you better
beat Minecraft like hard Jesus Christ that's backwards put it down backwards
how long before the first Saudi Prince asks us for one of these like first in
line for the throne or no no it's not backwards it's upside down Wait no
that's not right is it oh yeah okay that's even worse are you messing with
me no I'm not no you're messing I'm worried you're gonna drop it I don't even believe you no I don't I'm not
trusting you anymore don't let go why would I let go it's not screwed in I
love how industrial this thing looks there's just a certain Beauty to Raw
machined metal Carl has no idea at this
point what he's getting like look at this how could you not sit at this
because it's backwards but I know like guys I'm trying to make sure Carl's not
like because we don't technically have the money from them yet you guys know that
right I'm not an accounting uh let's install radiators what that's not the
next step you won't be able to install the legs if you do that oh then let's
install the legs good job Linus good idea if only there's a step-by-step list
so that it all goes together properly this computer is going to weigh like a
thousand pounds 350. 350 pounds how the
hell is anybody gonna move it it's getting built into a crate
you want it extravagant buddy it occurs to me that not every motorized
standing desk is built equal can this actually handle the full 300 pound girth
of what's sitting on top of it it's 350 pounds and that can hold 375 plus all
the water plus the components plus all the uh this is very borderline 10 bucks
says I can solo lift the desk let's go hold on
don't Tim you're saying next we can level the legs and then take it off the
saw horses no we have to show off the cardboard thing the cardboard do you
remember a couple months ago when you were running for an Uber and I was attempting to show you the ergonomic
design study that I'd done to say that the desk would actually feel good to fit
in oh yeah oh yeah this this is actually critical because an early revision of
the desk PC design suffered from the same fatal flaw as my original desk PC
it was thick all the way across the front so Carl would undoubtedly be
celebrating beating Minecraft and whack his knees on it which sucks so I asked
him hey would you mind doing a casual complete redesign of the entire face of
the desk and angle this so we can maintain the
depth we need in the back for the hardware but have a nice place for knees
to go um did it end up working like has anyone
actually sat at this yet as soon as I tightened that side we can check out
what's the point of a height adjustable desk if you can't adjust the height so
what we're doing right now is we're just homing the legs to make sure that they
are both at exactly the same height so the whole thing doesn't sit off kilter like this then we can take the saw
horses out and work on it as they're not on the ground but they're struggling not
yet not yet you're good good yeah
oh it's very short okay
height adjust press and hold the down button until it reaches its lowest
height then wait until it rebounds to the lowest height which signals the
reset process is complete
hmm I can't get it to do anything
okay now you locked it yes way to go Alex
damn it down I wonder if the desk is too
heavy it's expecting to just have a certain amount on it I think it's a
safety mechanism well it's adjusted a little bit at a time say look no problem
the point was never for it to be a standing desk but that it would be a height adjustable set of legs because
all the other ones on the market just do set screws okay worst case scenario we
asked Plexi spot for another controller or something and we replace it easy yeah
because we have other desks from them they don't do this
do you want to lower it back down and try to sit at it oh knee clearance is
more than adequate yes
cardboard prototyping for the win
okay what's next aux power supplies you've probably noticed that this is not
a normal PC power supply that's because there are many things going into this PC
that are not a PC like for example the
RGB lighting tubes we could use LED strips but instead we
used well there's still LED strips in there but really powerful ones you are
going to take this beautiful lovely well machined three axis CNC milled piece of
desk and you're gonna put a couple holes in it ah no not there right there right
there no are you gonna put the Titan tube on there well I just assumed that
we'd make a hole with this lightsaber
hi Linus running late on that video
here take these Heavenly organs from EK
water cooling heaven it's beautiful EK did up these
reservoirs for this project that are a completely custom check that out and B
gold-plated to just really sell the
opulence of this setup man I love it and
there's not one but two of them mad respect for not just the equipment but
the expertise that it took to design and build all of these parts like
these are works of art these are not computer Reservoir pump combos Ah that's
metal on metal I do not like oh wow that
is extremely tight thank you no I mean was there a total of six pumps six six
pumps oh my God this is gonna take forever
maybe a little bit faster
all right now stop and pull it up I never do that and that's why I have
three kids are you just countersinking by eye yep
you're stressing me out Tim that's okay did I mention there are going to be a
whopping three of these in the system five I thought what shot really five I
mean we weren't constrained by budget what all are you even doing over here
you're still countersinking it yeah by eyeballs yeah why because
do you need help many many ways Linus okay do we have benefits yeah there we
go that's gone there's radiators on here and everything she fits nice
two mil yeah there's not a lot of space but that's a good thing apparently it's
called tolerancing news we're gonna install all the gold fittings on these
radiators after we install the cables to
the fans those have to come first so then the other way of providing those
instructions would have been we need to put in the cables for all the fans then
put in the gold fittings okay so you're right but the thing is for the rest of
this video Let's watch Tim and see if he can say you're right without also saying
butt Dan and I actually uh we're here till 9 30 uh last night building these
fan cables he was an absolute Saint and
uh and helped us out with a lot of the soldering work that needed to happen and because this desk is not a normal
computer we had to make custom length cables for everything even this what is
that this is for the standing desk legs and if it doesn't work properly I blame
Dan no no he doesn't deserve blame are you just are you just trying to make the
workplace less hostile and toxic is that I just try to instill goodness in the
people that I work with man you know you got a deluxe computer when you're
getting and lubed O-rings on every fitting we do not want this thing to
leak can I can I help you with this you
doing it what I have two hands here they're here but as we have established
the knee is perfectly fine for this job it's gonna be a really tight fit but the
tolerance does work now we got this I believe easy mode these are not the
same length at all but okay sure
this is where it goes from big sheet of aluminum to big sheet of aluminum with
two gigantic pump reservoir combos on it and these things look incredible
stage you're probably wondering what purpose do these serve ah let me explain
there are three coolant Loops in this
system now I didn't call them cooling Loops because one of them doesn't
actually cool anything the first coolant Loop is on this side it gets three
radiators two pumps and cools the CPU the second cooling Loop is over here
three radiators two pumps cools the GPU
the third coolant Loop this is great
actually just occupies the space between
these tubes so that there's just fluid
moving around between this giant Reservoir pump distribution plate thing
so there's no purpose at all other than to look amazing it equilibrates oh my
God that's unnecessary if say Carl was
playing Minecraft and really stressing that GPU with RTX on and the GPU Loop
were to get hotter these gold tubes would get hotter than these gold tubes
so the coolant flowing all around them would actually take that X excess heat
from this Loop and dissipate it through these radiators what we're marveling at
right now is how little Flex there is in
the middle of the table so you can see that there it's basically a completely
flat surface we were expecting that the cable management tray that's going to
sit under here and act as kind of a brace would be needed to keep it from
bowing but as it turns out um a big slab of aluminum is like and
it's worth noting that it's not fully weighted yet we have it out of the water we haven't added a lot of the components
like the 4090 and the motherboard but it's it's doing remarkably well and I'm
I'm quite pleased to see at how well it was machined thanks Amos PCI plates
mobile plates are you cross threading that no
if I could do that with my fingers you'd be impressed though these are ugly we
actually had to use a different type of aluminum for those than the desk itself
because we needed this one to bend cleanly 6061 aluminum does not Bend
nearly as nicely as 50 50. right but it's pretty it's prettier which is why
we used it and it's it's more structurally sound for an application
like this but this with PCIe plates and just for the the motherboard backplate
works great what you're going to be doing is taking this and sliding it in
from this side which doesn't similar so much matter for this guy but for the
other one it does and then you're going to be putting the screws on the bottom
first and then that way and then on the top we're almost at a Loctite in here
which makes it really hard to accurately like squeeze it out but I have a
strategy no don't use the floor I wouldn't use it as lubricant though
it's stuck
does this hold up the graphics card it does are you kidding me this is a 100
000 computer and we have a little aluminum cube with double-sided tape on
it Tim are you kidding me well we'll need this all right
okay Okay
this may be the sloppiest sleeving job I have ever seen but how well a you were
lazy and used split Loom yeah B this heat shrink is the wrong size and you
barely even bothered to shrink it and see you didn't even bother to heat
shrink the other side do I go lever not this right here when it's in location
looks fantastic it's like they get they get split like that and it has to be on
an angle it looks fantastic when it's actually in there all of my criticisms
were entirely valid it's very easy to just put some heat shrink on there if
you want but I want to make it I know which is why you should have done it no
we need to make sure that's all the correct length and stuff we haven't done all of the wiring yet for that linuses
about criticisms and I have made these criticisms known already I'm sorry what
are you happy about because it can't be that we're still working on this project so this entire thing has never been on
legs we are going further than I have ever gone before Mr Frodo and this was
something that I had prepped uh prior to installing but the scaffolding was in
front of it so I could never actually test fit it all right so this
if you can just barely see is now what it looks like see how it just runs
underneath those USB cables z790 dark
it's a very specific reason that we got this motherboard because it's Kingpin
Edition there's that bottle because we love EVGA also though because the color
scheme is amazing also because the RAM is at the top which makes our tubing run
so much easier with the layout I'm going to go ahead and install the very fastest
gaming CPU on the planet the 3900 KS
from Intel is it power efficient no this is a great value
but is it the right choice for Carl Jacobs 100 000 PC absolutely it's a 980
Pro 2 terabyte the real reason we chose the 980 is because we chose it a while
ago but we're going to say it's because 990 is a rumored to be dying yes that's
it speaking of which I have a similar justification for our use of 6000 Mega
transfer per second low latency memory it actually doesn't really help
performance pass that as you would know if you watched our recent video looking
at high speed memory performance scaling on Intel 13th gen processors
but actually it's because you know well I already told you okay can I help you
guys um with something else I have installed CPU oh I can install CPU block
who moved the damn seat oh I did hey is
that not thermal compound probably you know there's definitely enough of though
gold
that looks amazing now I'm sure you thought of this but you know that
there's a specific Inlet and Outlet on there right uh yeah we'll just run the
pumps backwards did we account for it yes are you sure I
have absolutely no idea these tubes go flat from out of the block into the
distribution block and so there's no way for us to cross them they're hard-line
tubes we couldn't have this one come out to this side and then have this one
magically teleport through it that wouldn't work when Jake and I built the
VR Gaming PC in the lounge we discovered that the difference between installing
these the correct way around and the not correct way around can be 30 to 40
degrees holy crap it would be a disaster I have to say to your credit though Tim
this is about as smoothly as I have ever
seen a project like this go my new favorite feature of this computer
the four RGB headers on this motherboard
overclocking board performance first but damn it that doesn't mean you don't need
RGB are we ready for the cable tray yeah I think so you could kill a man with
this dribble whoa hi how you doing hey guess who did that oh I it was you yep
yeah 100 it's so that right there is strain relief
that is very important I don't know I'm feeling pretty strained oh now it's time
to talk about what might be the most important component of this build this
right here is a 750 watt power supply
and not just any 750 watt power supply it has a modular interface and manages
80 plus Platinum efficiency we will have
not one but two of these for a total of
1500 watts of low profile compact power
and did I mention it comes with a 10 year warranty that's right when csonic
says trust me bro they got you the batteries are dead for our cordless heat
gun so I'm using our other cordless heat gun oh my God Alex something we haven't
talked about yet is the monitors he's going going for a dual vertical I don't
know if he knows this yet but he's going for a dual vertical monitor single
horizontal in the middle monitor design that's going to be perfect for
monitoring your chat having your stream preview up and all that kind of stuff
and then of course gaming down the middle Tim you were saying that this is
another like first off the line This monitor but this is the same one I have
wait this one's overclocked did Carl get a better monitor than me
by the way I had a major concern about the vrms on the motherboard because
those of you who've been paying close attention will have realized that there
is no real airflow going across the
board but Tim pointed out that they thought of this and that's actually one
of the reasons that they chose this board it has fans back here that are
going to take fresh air from the outside and blow it across the board so our RAM
and our vrms are going to be totally taken care of look at this mangled
o-ring I found in one of the fittings it's a good thing we didn't try to put
that in well this is a really big loop like normally this goes up pretty fast
this is going to be a whole lot of this
it is going up though yeah yep if this is like spiff's PC I will be so mad what
happened with spiffs PC I just fill it with water and then it leaked water all
over the GPU and then yeah let's go this is gonna take a lot of
water whoa what the crap who didn't put this pudding back on Jake
let's go let's go
speed filling careful that is open oh this one's open
too I didn't put it in over here either damn it Alex
what the Jake let's go let's let's two three go let's go
come on come on come on there we go let's just let it do its thing for a
little bit let me just see it's gonna do the exact same thing well we're just
gonna let it do its exact same thing just for a little bit uh should we just
press the CMOS clear button and see what happens yeah that's a good idea okay I
feel good oh
hey hey let's go yay you want an energy
setup I would strongly suggest that we just down clock the ramp a little bit
and it probably will be happy no we're gonna down clock the RAM are you kidding
me I would strongly suggest taking yeah
you know what guess what Get Wrecked Alex because here we go
it's trying something we also don't hold
on hold on just lightning yeah 6 000 megahertz let's go no we're
not doing cinebench we're playing Minecraft Jake God it only does one
thing wait 100 degrees oh I loosened the block
and it's locked up I wonder if the loosening of it is what actually
fixed oh no oh yeah I kind of think we
have to play Minecraft today
no I'm feeling really good about this
craft Minecraft Minecraft
350 she's fine don't worry about 100 degrees what the crap yeah you're
running prime95 yeah it's Prime 95 and it's doing what like four and a half
gigahertz okay so what did you say it was classic.minecraft.com
oh wow I mean this is with prime95 this is prime 95 in the background gotta chop
the tree gotta karate chop the tree from the underside that's what you get and
you guys get the end of this video hey thanks see Sonic for sponsoring it uh
your power supply was obviously not the problem which is great because there was
something bound to go wrong and it wasn't you
it's been a really long day
if you guys enjoyed this video maybe go check out the first video we uploaded
about this where we show off the completely finished one the glass is in
place like yeah after you spend the next two or three days cable managing
everything