7 Gamers 1 CPU is back! But does it ACTUALLY work!?
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,790 words · ~8 min read
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the seven gamers one CPU system is back
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from ces 2016 where kingston the proud sponsors of the original video which you
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can check out here had it on display at their booth and of course i have wasted
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no time creating the Linus media group lan center where
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the seven gamers one CPU machine will be
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powering seven high-powered gaming stations for the
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pleasure of the employees here at Linus media group
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so let's see if anyone wants to play some games shall we
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whether you run a small business or a billion dollar enterprise rackspace has
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your dedicated storage environments covered start a conversation with them
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at the link in the video description hey it's johnny the network guy come on
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in let's play some video games oh my god yes let's do it all right
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john crysis 3. let's do it let's do it
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who wants to play video games
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i didn't ask you taryn but okay sure
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uh no it's okay honey you don't have to
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oh luke do you have time to play video games
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oh wow um okay vaughn you're in
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wow yep you're in let's go hey Colton got time to play some games yeah you're
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fired because you should be busy but actually no we're gonna go play games
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now okay
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okay come on what are you guys waiting for let's go i'll show you to your stations
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this is our new and improved board room no one will ever be bored in here again
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okay so guys uh do not jump down the hole yet please so this is it this is
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officially the first time the seven gamers one CPU rig has actually had
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seven gamers sitting at it and i think the most notable thing about it probably
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is the fact that you guys are each looking at an FPS number in the top
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corner something in the neighborhood of 80 to 90 frames per second
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so some quick napkin math would tell us that that is somewhere between 600 to
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700 frames per second running at medium
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settings high details in crisis 3 at
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3440 by 1440 resolution it is actually
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working but of course staring at a wall is not
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the ultimate benchmark so i'd like you guys to all gather around i'm going to show you how
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we benchmark crisis 3 at Linus tech tips and we are all going to try and do the
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benchmark together i already fell down the hole yes that's
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why i told you not to fall down the whole terran
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yes i will help you in fact let's go do it on terran station since he has to go
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back to the starting point anyway i'm jumping really really high is that
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normal yes it's crisis you're wearing them oh for crying out loud Colton
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no no it doesn't okay everyone come watch the benchmark run okay don't stare
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into the hole just look at it then you're going to
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press the apostrophe key boom that'll start the benchmark
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and your FPS numbers will go away drop do not jump down the hole if you jump
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down the hole you will die
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nope nope because you will need bullets for when there are actual enemies
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tearing that is how games work then you hold shift to leap across
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and then you just kind of stand here and like shoot at stuff and it's done
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everyone got that everyone ready to execute it perfectly on the first try
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easy-peasy all right
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okay ready and three two one benchmark
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so left at the first fork there uh i i don't know if i'm at the first quarter
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then you go right i don't see any forks i uh i i couldn't hit it and now i'm
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dead that means you only have to get closer
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open up file explorer we need file explorer you mean explorer
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i mean file explorer go to the c drive
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then perhaps how do you even use the computer then
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benchmarks then open up the crisis 3 min
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max average
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competition john
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you should see your GPU core clock uh what was it running at while we were
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gaming 100 a gigahertz wait a thousand a
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thousand one thousand gigahertz one thousand and it's still running at a
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thousand thousand megahertz so zero throttling and what's your GPU
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temperature while we were running the game 47 44 48 45 minus 45
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48 very nice so our water cooling is holding up just fine with everyone in
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the mid to high 40 degrees on the video card
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very very cool so now let's fire the game back up
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and you guys can just kind of uh mess around in game and we're going
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to have a look at what our power consumption is like running seven
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legitimate high-end games versus just some synthetic benchmarks like we did
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last time oh what a dick where's me i'll kill you it's not a multiplayer game
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we'll find a way can you guys be slightly more on earth
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so power consumption is anywhere from around 1400 watts from the wall to up to
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1600 watts from the wall
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pretty bananas bananas
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so this is interesting with every vm running we're pitting every CPU core
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pretty much it looks like our CPU clock speed settles in around three gigahertz
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which is actually still a fairly significant turbo up from the 2.6
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gigahertz base clock more interesting facts
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another really cool thing if you want to pop over to your graphics card tab here
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is that when we originally ran this we were having some gpus show up as uh very
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low link speeds even gen 1.1 speeds this
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time around every single one is PCIe uh
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gen 3 8x which is definitely more than
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enough we actually reseeded the graphics cards and got some better stability that
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way well how else is anybody up whoa i've got 200 frames per second everyone
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else has steam accounts that's why i said guys log into your steam i don't
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remember my password you're out there
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who goes sniper when it's like three on three come on
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wow can i jump in and point out that at about 200 to 250 FPS each we are
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literally pushing over 1400 frames per second in team
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fortress 2 right now we could all be on uh
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oh somebody hit me with an axe okay actually it was a sword but i mean
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you're dead so it doesn't really make much of a difference
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at that point in time and it turned out to be taryn i got killed by taran oh my
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god that's the ultimate install right here being a medic is easy
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oh you're on fire someone's on fire come on
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okay yeah whatever you were you're you're
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dead you're done already you're done already i didn't want my
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damaged sheep i don't even care i don't even have to be does anybody know how to
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eat on fire right now you lay down crap no
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oh wow weird no i tried to hold them i'm sorry
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guys i wonder what's going on so there you have it we have officially
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laid to rest the most common criticisms
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of the seven gamers one CPU video first
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of all that we didn't actually show
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seven gamers gaming on it which has now been officially done and second that we
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called it seven gamers one CPU which actually i'm going to continue to do in
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spite of the fact that there are indeed two cpus in the system
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so that was pretty fun guys a huge shout
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out again to kingston unraid Intel ASUS
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AMD ek water blocks case Labs oh sure
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primo chill provided some tubing i hope i don't miss anyone
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acer for providing all these monitors for making seven gamers one CPU possible
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i think that's a very strong wow
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