The 1920x1080 MEME PC - WE BUILD & TEST IT
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,205 words · ~6 min read
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when AMD announced the naming and specs of their lineup of ryzen threadripper
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cpus immediately our writing team knew
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exactly what had to be done really guys
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1920x for the step down flagship i mean that's
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just irresponsible so we grabbed NVIDIA's step down flagship GPU and set
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out to build the ultimate 1920 by 1080 gaming pc
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wait what you don't get it come on
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even NVIDIA gets it
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synergy allows you to share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers
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at once check it out now at the link in the video description
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so the basis of this entire build is a post on reddit borrowed from a youtube
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comment somewhere obviously building a
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full hd gaming system out of an 800.12
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core processor a 550
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motherboard and a 500 graphics card is
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stupid for a fair number of reasons but full transparency here guys we love
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stupid and the last time we pandered to reddit we ended up with two and a half
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million views on a gaming pc that barely
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worked at all so this one was a no-brainer now it wouldn't be Linus tech
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tips if the build didn't start with some random ass problems that we couldn't
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have predicted Jake ended up spending three hours just trying to get our ASUS
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zenith extreme motherboard to post because one of the torx mounting screws
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on the socket itself had loosened as if
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by magic so the CPU was being safely and
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securely held down just above the damn contact pins i mean who looks for
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something like that further complicating matters the define r5 that we originally
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planned to build in couldn't contain the sheer birth of this board and thanks to
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our recent mezzanine construction and organization overhaul basically every
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case had been moved into our new and improved long-term storage area that was
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full of poisonous fumes from spraying the walls so the only cases left in the
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warehouse were fractal's core 3500 and
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the mercury s8 from 7 gamers 1 CPU that
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happened to be already set up for wider than average dual socket server
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motherboards so i think you guys can see where i'm going with this case Labs for
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the win for RAM Jake made the only logical decision here and decked out our
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config with the full complement of eight
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times eight gigabytes of trident z RGB
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memory from g-skill i mean come on you think regular RAM was gonna suffice for
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a troll build no installing a 12 core 24 thread processor
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into the tr4 socket is actually a pretty satisfying process and once everything
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was set up Jake was able to use our zenith extreme board to push our
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threadripper 1920x up to four gigahertz
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on all cores at around 83 degrees celsius under load any higher than that
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and it would crash almost instantly this could be a limitation of just zen core
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overclocking in general but hardware info reported a cool
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240 watts of power draw for the CPU so
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the limitation could also be just a matter of the chip not being able to get
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more power even with the dual 8-pin eps connectors this thing is crazy to
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achieve that cooling result we ended up with a Corsair h100i v2 which
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shockingly with its dual 120 millimeter
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fans on a radiator was barely enough to tame this beast then to give us the best
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chance of success we applied an ample amount of icy diamond thermal compound
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we're going to have to ask them for another bit of this stuff because we're
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not crazy this is actually how AMD
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recommends to apply it the Corsair rm1000x is just the right amount of
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overkill for modern systems so you'll probably keep seeing that until Corsair
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comes out with an RGB version or something and while sadly we weren't
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able to get cablemod cables here in time and had to make do with the stock ones
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RGB was not forgotten and thanks to the zenith dual aura RGB headers and
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cablemod wide beam RGB strips the entire system is RGB synced from the RAM to the
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sleek underglow Jake was so astonished
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by the plethora of diseases that he contracted from all the rigb that he
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almost forgot to put in fans so at the last minute he finished up with ek
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vardar fans to match the industrial look of our mercury s8 and huzzah it boots
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almost like it was all tested before assembly so then to answer your guy's
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question how does the ultimate 1920x1080
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build perform well the only responsible thing to do is start our testing at 720p
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maximum details as you can see here
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overspending on the CPU and skimping on the GPU is punishing us already deus ex
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mankind divided only managed 38 frames per second because well maxed out like
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really maxed out that's a very demanding game moving right to the other end of
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the spectrum 4k gaming performance was uh i mean i don't know how do i put this
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a poop parade a feces festival a diarrhea demonstration you get a point
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it was a show so then stepping down to 1440p there's well there's no surprises
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here 4k was terrible 720p was terrible i mean what were you expecting for
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something in between like why are you even still watching this are
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you are you honestly waiting for the 1920x1080 results what do you think
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they're gonna be like why you know what forget it i'm just not even gonna show
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them it's all unplayable anyway when you max out the settings so the only thing
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we learned was a valuable lesson about optimizing your games and bottlenecking
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something that could have been achieved in less time by watching this episode
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and this episode of Techquickie there are a hundred reasons for wanting
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multiple computers at your desk maybe you're a mac person primarily but you
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need a non-virtualized Windows environment for some reason
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synergy solves the problem of having to have two keyboards and two mice for two
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or more separate computers you can share
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one set of peripherals so you'll no longer get confused and the whole thing
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is seamless you just drag the mouse from one screen to another we're talking pc
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mac and even Linux support they offer a
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basic and pro option for synergy with a one-time payment and features include
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advanced stuff like clipboard sharing between computers dragging and dropping
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files between computers the ability to set up hotkeys and more so use our link
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in the video description to get 50 off synergy today
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so thanks for watching guys if you disliked this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit the like
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button get subscribed maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video
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