- Today we are going to build the ultimate AMD gaming PC.
So get your popcorn ready, this is going to be a big one.
Now, this video is not sponsored by AMD.
However, AMD, CORSAIR, and Gigabyte
were very kind in providing us all the components to build
what is quite literally the ultimate AMD gaming PC.
'Cause it's not one PC, it's two PC's in one case.
Powering the main PC is AMD's Threadripper 3970X
with a whopping 32 Ryzen cores onboard.
Now if that wasn't enough,
we also have a 16 core Ryzen 9 3950X for the second PC.
And because we are trying to build
the ultimate AMD gaming PC,
each system is going to get its own Radeon 5700 XT,
which is going to be water-cooled.
And who knows?
We might just be able to upgrade somethings down the line.
What are we gonna call this thing?
What should we call the back system?
I keep calling it the second PC, but it's all in one tower.
- [Ken] Big Dipper, Little Dipper.
- All right, this is for Little Dipper.
So this is the CORSAIR 1000D
and it's a big boy.
So the way this case is designed,
our main Threadripper Big Dipper system
is going to go right here,
and our ITX system is going to sit right here.
So essentially, what we'll do
is we'll have our GPU right here
and then we'll have a second GPU right here.
So that we'll actually have that sort of RGB water block.
Thankfully, CORSAIR have a configurator tool
which should theoretically make my life a lot easier.
So this is the CORSAIR Custom Cooling Configurator
So lets design our loop.
Oh, wow, look at that.
So it immediately built us the set-up.
The problem is is it doesn't have our second motherboard.
"Expect quiet operation, even during heavy-duty tasks
"and the ability to push your CPU and GPU to their limits."
So essentially, between all of this,
we'll have some way of connecting all of our fans,
getting all of the RGB to talk to each other,
and essentially, it will all be running off of Big Dipper.
Yeah, we've got a lot of work ahead of us.
So we have made some progress.
So with our TRX40 motherboard,
we have not only our Threadripper 3970X installed,
we also have two of our SSD's installed,
all 64 gigs of RAM, including our fake modules
to make sure that we have the seamless RGB experience.
So as you can see, our table is not big enough
for all the things. (laughs)
Welcome back to day two,
where things are progressing nicely.
So we have the first of our 5700 XT water blocks installed.
We also have our X570 board getting a little bit closer.
We're going to have one loop for Little Dipper.
So it'll basically go through here,
it'll go through the graphics card,
through the CPU, and then up, and it'll be taking advantage
of one of the front 480 millimeter radiators.
And then for Big Dipper, which is our Threadripper system,
we'll be using the other pump and reservoir,
and that will be running again through GPU, through CPU.
And then that will run actually
through the 360-millimeter radiator and the 480.
So we're giving the maximum amount of cooling to Big Dipper
since obviously, that is the more power-hungry system.
So we do have all of our water blocks installed.
And in fact, you can actually see on our TRX board
things are actually looking pretty good.
But the main things that are really holding us back
is that we're missing all of the hardware
that came with the case
and our ITX board doesn't actually quite fit.
So I think we're going to do is we're going to come back
and try to remove as much as this plastic as possible,
just so we have a little bit of extra clearance
to slide it in.
The good thing is that's not really going to be noticeable.
So even if we have to do it in a slightly hacky way,
the system should still be completely fine
because we're gonna have all of the tubing coming out
as well as our GPU to cover up
any questionable decisions we make.
Welcome back, my friends,
to day three of the ultimate build.
So at this point,
we've made some pretty decent progress today.
So I've spent most of the afternoon working on this,
which is our massive
dual 480-millimeter radiator for the system.
So I think it just lines up like here?
I'm just gonna do it by feel.
Okay, so, roughly that's what our
dual 480-millimeter radiators are gonna look like
with the fans all lined up.
Meanwhile, we've made a little bit of progress
with the rest of the build.
So everything is mostly in position right now.
So we have our Big Dipper motherboard.
We have our 5700 XT connected here.
We have two of our Elgato 4K60 capture cards.
- So, I'm actually going to use the pump on the left,
the pump and reservoir on the left,
to run it to Little Dipper down here.
So, theory, we should have a nice, clean,
arching run like this.
For Big Dipper, a almost parallel run
going into the 5700 XT up top as well.
So it is day, something, something, something,
of this PC build. (Austin laughing)
We've waited for some parts to come.
It's been probably two weeks since we've touched this thing.
And now I think we have everything in
to get our water cooling done.
- [Austin] Do you have an idea
of where you're gonna use the 45 and 90-degree adapters?
- [Ken] I've already placed a lot of them in here.
- [Austin] Oh, okay, they're already here. Okay, I see.
- [Ken] Yeah, if you remember what we did last time?
- Dude, that was like three months ago, I don't remember.
Okay, so, after further review,
we've determined that we are idiots
and we've forgotten one very key component,
which is the fact that
when it comes to mounting our top radiator
it is the wrong size.
- I don't wanna do any other fittings
until we have everything in here properly.
- So my friend Ken is trying to say
is that we'll be right back
after this word from our sponsor,
YouTube AdSense.
- So it is a new day,
and with that, maybe some more progress.
Hopefully. - Maybe?
It will be more progress.
- Maybe. - So we went
from a single 360 mill radiator to push-pull 480.
Which means that this is gonna be even more ridiculous
once we get it up here and get the entire set up ready.
Dude, this thing is gonna be a monster.
- And again, thank you to CORSAIR and AMD
for getting this all situated.
I know this wasn't an easy thing to assemble in terms
of parts list and whatnot. - Well, yeah,
'cause every time we make some progress on the build
we're like, "Hey, by the way, what about this thing?"
They're like, "Yes, of course,"
and they send us another package.
And then we ask for more things
and they send another package. (laughs)
- Because we're gonna be doing
push and pull on the top rad, our biggest problem
with putting the second pump above the first one
is not only clearance for the tubes,
but clearance for the pump as a whole.
You gotta imagine that the top rad
is gonna be essentially pretty much up to here.
So what we're gonna do
is we're just gonna put the second pump here.
This might be the first day
I have regretted working for Austin Evans.
- [Austin] This is the first day?
Out of everything, this is the first?
- I will speak the truth, today is the first day.
As you can see, Little Dipper is all plugged in.
We have it going from our pump
to our block on the GPU to our block on the CPU.
It is running out the back, as you saw earlier,
into our back radiator over here,
and then the radiator spits it out
back into the pump and the reservoir.
And then I think now, well, what I'm gonna do now and next,
is I'm gonna run the test run.
- [Austin] For Big Dipper.
- [Ken] For Big Dipper, exactly.
- I have spent almost all day with this.
It is a monstrosity.
So I'm starting to label my cables
based on whether it's Big Dipper
or whether it's Little Dipper.
But essentially, we have all the fan headers, all the RGB.
Something just fell, probably not important.
All the RGB. We have temperature sensors.
All of it needs to be run through these Commander PROs
which are very tightly wrapped right now
'cause I need to re-cable them.
And we also have all these RGB hubs which then go in.
So basically, each fan has a fan header and RGB hub.
Then all our water blocks also have RGB.
That's actually all,
but there's a lot of fans and a lot of hubs here.
It has been many arduous days of building.
However, we have finally hit a very key milestone
in the ultimate AMD project.
Why is that on?
- [Ken] It's the LG Velvet.
- Are you watching another one of your virtual YouTubers?
Anyway, now that we've made a very key milestone
in the ultimate AMD gaming PC build,
we are ready to fill our loop with coolant.
So we have pressure tested the first Little Dipper.
Wait, no we pressure tested Big Dipper.
And now, we've been pressure-testing
Little Dipper for a while,
and the pressure has not changed whatsoever.
So does that mean
that we're immediately going to have a leak
and it's going to spray all over the computer?
Probably, but at least it can hold air.
So it holds air, it's gotta hold liquid, right?
Wait, are we really?
Wait, wait, wait. Hold on, hold on.
We're gonna fill this whole loop up squirting it
one little bit at a time? - Oh, that scared me.
Oh, that's really scared me.
- [Austin] Ooh!
- [Ken] But we're good. Look at that.
- That actually looks really rad.
Ha! Get it?
Radiator joke?
It looks rad.
So at this point, we've already pressure tested both loops.
They held up, no problem.
And theoretically, Little Dipper should be easier
because it's actually less of a loop
since it's only going through one of our front radiators.
Now, the only thing makes me a little nervous...
I'm just gonna bring the light with me.
Just bear with me for a second.
Look, this is intimidating.
This is not the mark of an expert PC builder.
However, all of these are going to be unplugged and rerouted
shortly, once I can actually get into Windows
and figure out which hubs are on which ports
and that's gonna be a lot.
You know, we've been shooting this video so long
that you now have a ponytail.
- I do have a ponytail.
- [Austin] Do you realize that's how long
we've been shooting this video?
- To be fair, to be fair.
This is lazy Ken when he had to run out of the house today.
- [Austin] I'm glad you're much better at pouring than I am.
- [Ken] Look, I'm gonna get a little-
- [Austin] Okay, Okay. Calm down, calm down.
Okay, you know what? That's fine.
That's fine. That's enough.
Yeah!
- [Ken] Keep going.
- Woo! - It's going.
- [Austin] Yeah! Is that enough?
Oh, almost. Almost.
- [Ken] Oh, let's go.
Oh. - Wait, do I have to kill it?
- No, no. - Oh, it's just enough!
It's just enough!
- [Ken] Oh, we got it, we got it, we got it.
Let's keep going, let's keep going.
- [Austin] Dude, this looks so good!
That should be pretty good for now.
It's gonna take a little bit for those bubbles to work out.
- [Ken] I just wanna get everything out of this bottle.
- It has been a long arduous road,
but we are finally ready
with the ultimate AMD gaming PC build.
And by finally ready I mean, well, it's up and running.
We got a little bit of clean up to do.
But we have 32 cores of Threadripper,
two 5700 XTs, a 16 core Ryzen processor,
64 gigs of RAM, plus 32 gigs.
A double custom water loop.
Which, okay, look, yes, a little bit messy right now.
We're gonna clean that up.
But we finally have everything running.
There's so much lighting.
Honestly, what we've had the most trouble
is just sorting out all of the software
and the wiring and everything to get it all to show up.
So if we come over to our 4K capture utility,
this is actually the feed from Little Dipper.
So in fact, I can actually move the mouse over,
if I can find it, and what you'll see
is that essentially we can get the exact same feed
from Little Dipper into Big Dipper.
So you can see right now, I am inside.
There may be a touch of latency.
But now I could be streaming, recording,
whatever the case is, off of our 4K60.
So basically, we're going Little Dipper
into 4K60 into Big Dipper.
I'm incredibly excited.
I am very, very happy to be done with this build.
It has been literal months to get this to this point.
But for now, all we really need to do is tidy up the cables,
which to be fair is gonna be a little bit of a job,
and move everything over and get it all set up.
But beyond that,
we have finally completed the ultimate AMD gaming PC build.
So thank you very much for watching.
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Did I just say the conclusion to the finale?
The conclusion to the trilogy of building
the ultimate next-gen set-up.
You won't wanna miss the last episode.
I'm really excited to see
when it all actually comes together.