Hi. I'm Andrew with NVIDIA
and you're watching GeForce Garage.
For today's episode we have two amazing guests
that are combining forces to produce a ferocious build.
Hi. I'm Larry from UltimateMods.net
Hi. I'm Whilce Portacio.
Together we will combine both artforms
in the ultimate fusion of powerful hardware and stunning graphics.
We'll create a Monster Build that'll be a beast- both inside and out.
To house this beast of a machine
we'll start of with the Corsair 780T case.
The foundation of our PC starts with the ASUS Rampage V Extreme motherboard
built on the X99 platform,
powered by an Intel i7 5960X Haswell-E CPU,
accompanied by 64 GB of DDR4 Corsair Dominator RAM clocked at 2666 Mhz
And of course, powered by Maxwell GeForce GTX 980 GPUs
But not just one, we have three of them in SLI configuration.
So let's see what happens when we put all this awesome hardware in a room with two powerful nerds.
Everything's unpacked and I start with the motherboard.
Sometimes people put the motherboard in first,
but I find it much easier to work on the motherboard
with the smaller components first on the outside and then mount it in the case afterwards.
Just makes it easier.
I like to work on the outline of everything
and take a little time in just making sure it's the way I want it.
that means anatomy and everything
I don't like to plan everything to every detail.
I like to just let the drawing tell me what to do.
The thrill I get as an artist is the seeming chaos of "Is it going to work?"
That is almost like a high for me
to be able work my way through "Oh no." Teetering here and there...
and then ending hopefully -
With my career so far of 30 years,
more times than not - it works out.
So now that I this set up, I'm ready to install the motherboard inside the case.
The CPU and the RAM have been installed on the motherboard.
So now I have to put in the I/O shield.
This here is the power supply, so I'm going to put that in here.
These are copics and this specifically is what's called a broad brush.
It's got a really broad tip. They dry fairly good.
It seems to adhere to the surface pretty well
but we still have to then coat it and protect it later on.
So I'm going to try to use as much permanent ink as possible.
So now I'm ready to install the hard drives.
They go in these slots here.
Here are the SSDs
Now I'm ready to install the motherboard in the case.
So now I'm ready to remove the top part to install the fans.
So now I'm going install the power supply cables.
I put in the graphics cards last because I don't want to bend or break these cables.
So now I'm installing the SATA cables for the hard drives and the solids state drives.
I'm going to now use the brushes.
Unfortunately I forget my nice Japanese ceramic plate.
So now it becomes the scary part.
I came in here with the plan of doing everything with the brush.
Now I'm finding I can actually take the Sharpie and use it like a pencil
and get some effects I couldn't get on a brush.
So that's the fun things about art, getting into a hole
and then finding a way out
and it can turn out to better than I had anticipated.
I used to love playing console games like Halo with my friends, my roommates.
We use to have so much fun,
but after college everybody moved out.
When Halo 2 came out and it was an online game,
I realized there was a lot of communication issues
becuase it required using a headset and how was I going to do that being deaf.
So then some friends said, "Why don't you use a PC?"
This was back in 2007.
So I got into gaming on the PC and "Oh my God!" I love it.
It's so deaf-friendly, if you will.
We can communicate easily. We can play the games.
We can be chatting by typing at the same time.
You can even attach a web cam if you want so you can video communication while you're playing.
It's a huge improvement
The headsets on an XBOX and other consoles are so limiting
because you don't have that access for a separate video cam
but with PCs you can.
You can chat online over video
You can have two screens going on if you want.
Two or three or four screens, if you want.
Right now I have a three screen system.
A lot of deaf friends really love it, so this is how I got into building PCs in the first place.
It's really nice.
My first computer in 1986 was an Amiga 2000
because I wanted Sculpt 3D because I wanted to do ray tracing.
Ray tracing which is basically high end 3D full rendering and full shading, full shadows and stuff.
Back in the day, each monitor had like 300 scan lines
and so when you start to render to crunch a scene.
I sat there watching every line forming
for two hours per frame because it was so new and so cool.
That sparked me into the digital media and wanting to do art on a computer.
Back then in the day, it was DPaint, a pixel by pixel art program.
so every little pixel was just a big block and you had to figure out how to make shapes with those blocks.
And so that then led me into the pocket PCs, the tablet PCs, the Newton, everything...
on my quest for the best, user friendly portable digital tablet art tool.
so anywhere I go - convention, on a plane, hotel, airport, on the beach - I can draw, I can work.
Hi, I'm Whilce Portacio and I've been drawing super hero comics for 30 years now.
Hi, I'm Larry and I love building high end PCs.
and together we make awesome rigs.
Performance and Aesthetics.
Power and Beauty.
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