World’s Most AMAZING Desk PC – 16K GAMING BUILD LOG (Part 1 of 2)
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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I'm sure all of you have seen the balls to thewall 8K gaming setup that we
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created just a few months ago and I'm also sure that you thought there was no
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way that we could Michael Bay that well
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you you were wrong very very very very
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very very very very very very very very very very very very wrong meet the 16k
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gaming desk that we'll be building over the course of this video 132
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m710 400 pixels of
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pureing
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awesome EK water blocks is all aluminum
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fluid gaming lineup offers great water cooling performance for an affordable
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price learn more at the link in the video description ion so in theory 16k gaming is an insane
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idea but in practice well it's even more
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insane than it is in theory the original
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concept was actually to mount everything
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by straight up buying 16 monitor wall
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arms off the shelf bolting some plywood to the wehouse wall and just raw dogging
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it but I think we all know how that would have ended up conveniently Jake
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has been on a seemingly unending desk PC
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bender and forwarded me some info about
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yet another Enthusiast desk PC that even
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puts the lean Le dk4 to shame the I
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table it's massive modular 3D print
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customizable and not to mention it is stuffed with gamery beauty but with 16
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of Acer's 4K IPS gsync gaming monitors
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in the mail we had to act fast so Jake
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shot an email over to the guys at IC table like yo dog so uh is there a model
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of the IC table that could be used with a 4x4 grid of monitors and they were
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like no that's insane fam we're in and
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after about 80 emails back and forth we were ready to move forward not only did
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the renders of the project look jaw-dropping but the IC table guys being
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familiar with our content offered to personally Drive the massive custom desk
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all the way up from Los Angeles to Vancouver and assemble it for us in our
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studio presumably to keep it from being dropped you can get the $100 silent
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Edition that's all right it's the only one we own now typically the IC table
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comes in a lot more pieces than we received but to save on time the
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Siberian cyber guys did some pre-assembly and saving on time was
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important because as you can imagine mounting and aligning 16 monitors takes
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just a little bit of time but I'll come
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back to that later so we started off with the two large legs of the desk that
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each contain a modular drawer that houses a computer
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cooling storage or really anything you want we went with a computer on the left
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and uh actually not much on the other
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side we just sort of stuffed cables in there moving on the bottom cable routing
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tray got screwed in followed by the upper one then things started to get
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really exciting they whipped out the king of the net or ton as they call it
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for short this is their modular system
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cage kind of like the skeleton of a
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typical case and it can hold up to an eatx board quad dual slot gpus multiple
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ssds the wakes so on our first attempt
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we equipped it with an ASUS maximum 8 extreme assembly with a
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7700k but we actually ended up running into PCI Express Lane limitations so we
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brought out the big guns a rampage 5
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Edition 10 with a 6900k 32 gigs of
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Corsair lpx ddr4 memory an Noctua nhd15
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and the most important part of this build the four Quadro p5000 graphics
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cards graciously provided by NVIDIA coupled with their Quadro sync two card
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this is the secret sauce that will enable us to use all of these monitors
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as a single screen with a technology that in media calls Mosaic powering all
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of this is Corsair's Behemoth
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ax1500i with stock cables for now except
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for a single PCIe power that definitely
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didn't ship separately because Jake screwed up our cable mod order anyway
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with our system built twice it's time to
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focus on the monitors step one affix the
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four cross beams that will each hold
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four far screens the IC table guys
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actually repurposed some flatmount TV
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wall brackets on the back of the desk for structural support and to help us
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route the 32 cables necessary for all of
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the panels but before we can even get to cabling we need to unbox and mount some
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monitors each 27in 4K gaming display
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gets its own Super beefy 3axis vase ARM
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that can also tilt and rotate each of
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them must have weigh about 5 lb but I
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guess I shouldn't be complaining about solid build
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quality this was no doubt the longest
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part of the process but we finally managed to get all of them mounted
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before the end of the day and finished off by sliding the ton into its drawer
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we can mostly ignore the fact that most of the monitors needed to be taken off
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one by one to align the mounts the IC
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table guys I got to give them props they assure me they've never built a desk on
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this scale before but the straight Precision made it seem like they've done
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it a thousand times time to power it on now then
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right uh well it was about that time
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that we realized that several of our displays
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were locked to 1024x 768 resolution a
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far cry from 4K and some of them weren't
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lighting up at all well our generic 25-
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ft DisplayPort cables seem to be the culprit and until new ones arrive we are
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stuck at a dead end so here is where the
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project stands literally stands like 10
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ft tall so stay tuned for our final tour
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of the finished setup after what hopefully won't be a month of
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