oh my god this is heavy this is it
ladies and gentlemen this is the first
oh wow that's heavy the first
unironically
top of the line amd gaming system in
what 14 years or something like that
that's right
today i have the pleasure nay the
privilege
of unboxing and gaming on an amd ryzen
5950x a ventum x from digital storm
days before the official release
and i could not be more excited because
it does not get
any better than this
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just to give you guys some idea how
heavy this box is like
i weigh 160 pounds this is what it takes
for me to tip it
did i hear a did i hear something
rattling in there
oh
oh my god the bottom of this box fell
apart like
no mortal box can contain its greatness
ah yes motherboard accessories wonderful
just in case what we had already wasn't
crazy enough we could put another two
m.2s in this expansion card with the
cooling fan on it all right
oh that's a nice touch did they put all
the ltt stickers on it
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oh my god it's oh it's so heavy oh
no no i want to do it i want to do it
i think you're stuck under the computer
i give in take an end
i can't do it okay hold on
wait holy crap
i can do it oh that's why i couldn't do
it
wow
holy banana grandma
if there has ever existed a symbol
of complete and utter pc gaming xs
this is it oh very funny guys they put
an ltt sweatband on the nc link bridge
that's right my friends this contains
not
only an amd ryzen 9
5950x 16 core
32 thread processor but also
dual rtx 39
wait what what the hell are these
shut up oh wait what
wait what are these
what the fudge
where the what the hell are these
they've got their own digital storm
co-branded alpha cool
back plates on them these are sick these
are
so small just to make sure this isn't me
being absolutely crazy
here's a strix 3090 from asus
here it is relative to the card that's
installed in the case
now the pcb ends here
but still so we've got
a quad 140 millimeter radiator on this
side
we've got what appears to be a triple
140 millimeter in the top let's go ahead
and take off the other panel
oh i cannot believe how much it weighs
that's right my friends another
two 140 millimeters over here to go with
our 1600 watt power supply
some extra just like random
ambient cooling airflow over here
remember guys these are all light loop
fans this thing did i mention already
is not cheap and this absolute
masterpiece of a water distribution
block in the back
i haven't even turned it on yet
oh wow they put a mechanical drive in
here
silly digital storm
we gotta compete with the ps5 this must
have
like over 500 dollars worth of fittings
in it look at this
we've got quick disconnects on this side
and this side for the cpu so we could
just
pop a tube off if off too crazy right
quick disconnects over here for the gpus
which are connected as
like one unit just here let me just
re-plug my system
64 gigs of memory msi godlike
motherboard i think it's time to plug
this thing in and try it
look at it next to a 27-inch monitor
baby's first monitor over there oh shhh
i just dropped it again i had just found
the screw that was rattling around there
it is
um you said there were a few screws
loose
three three oh my god
i don't know where they go just put them
there at the side panel screws
all right let's fire it up oh with that
yeah let's do this properly
apparently this g9 is one of the ones
for the pyramid pc client
hopefully he doesn't mind me pre-testing
it this is the one monitor that won't
look stupid next to this computer
i don't know about you guys but i'm
having fun i want to go
fast oh here we go um
yeah yeah this is fine
oh god forgot about the cable management
thing on the stand
my expectation oh i pinched my finger
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yeah that is full damn that is like
holding back all the water damn
curiously i can see the water flow rates
are pretty low
i guess that makes sense there's only a
single pump in this poor thing and
there's all these quick connects and all
that
i'm still expecting it to be fine but
that's something we're going to want to
keep an eye on as we check our temps and
do some gaming here oh my god
there's even an rgb fan right behind the
front panel here
you cannot see it at all this orange and
white color scheme they pre-rigged it
with
is sweet oh my god
there's another three more hidden behind
the front panel
why looks like those loose screws
weren't too much of a problem
this is great it's like almost
proportional
you know the computer still looks big
this isn't actually where i want to be
though digital storm says
that they did a little bit of factory
overclocking for me
so i want to check that out first oc
settings
all right nothing crazy in here we're
running at 4.4 gigahertz with a slight
overvolt on the cpu and
really no other changes just running the
3200 mhz xmp
profile for this memory now amd does
recommend 3600 megahertz for
optimal performance but digital storm
was like
when we were building the machine this
was kind of all we had on hand so
hopefully it's all right one compromise
just throw it all away just put it in
the garbage
ah you're supposed to let me walk out of
frame this
is an unconventional benchmark there it
is
5950x base speed four point so we're at
4.4 gigahertz
rock frickin solid here 64 gigs ram
and that's weird why is only one gpu
showing up
no sli okay let's reseat that puppy
this this is what i wanted to benchmark
okay
check this out cpu
utilization 98
doing what you might ask downloading
a game but hold on but hold on that's
not crazy
that's not stupid what's happening right
now is we're on a 10 gig connection here
at the office
and i am linked right now to the
vancouver steam server
and downloading red dead redemption 2 at
a speed of
500 megabytes per second
500 megabytes not mega bit
that is 5 gigabit at least it was a
second ago
and why i say that this is a
benchmark of sorts is that when you
download a game
typically you're downloading and
decompressing the files
at the same time so you can often end up
in a very
cpu limited scenario so is the ryzen
5950x
the fastest cpu for downloading games if
you have mega fast internet
probably actually let's try grand theft
auto now shall we
oh one hour 14 minutes what
ah four minutes 46 seconds that's more
like it how we doing here
550 600 600
guys this is over the internet this is
not even a cash
server local how's our cpu doing
oh wow cpu usage not even too high
that's interesting
so what you guys need to understand is
that
every game is compressed differently so
with red dead for example we were able
to use
all of our cores but still our speeds
were lower than grand theft auto where
grand theft auto
seems to be limited to a smaller number
of course but still we're getting
greater speed so it depends how much
it's compressed
and how it's compressed i'm going to
download grand theft auto 5 in like two
and a half
freaking minutes oh whoa hey there it
goes
interesting so we got this spike up to
600 plus megabytes a second
and cpu utilization was actually very
low
and so i i confess i don't know a ton
about exactly
how they compress these games but it
looks like we settled into a steady
state here
and we're back up to 100 cpu utilization
fastest game downloading pc in the
universe
it's hard to reach the power button
oh yeah there's like sd card reader and
front usb
3 and type c and everything up there
couldn't even tell literally can't see
over it
okay did we just need a fresh driver
install is that it
just a clean install okay with sli
and g-sync now working the last thing
left
is 240 hertz unfortunately there's forum
threads from this
recently as like 10 days ago with people
saying nvidia and samsung are still
working on display stream compression
compatibility between rtx 3000
and this particular display so i'm not
even gonna try we're just gonna
enjoy it at 120 hertz and play some
freaking
video games here okay ultra nightmare
all that sensitivity though wait a
minute
you got to be kidding me changing the
dpi of my mouse
change the profile of the whole iq
ecosystem and turned off the rgb
lighting in the system
at least this is running amazing so we
are at
half of 5k resolution right now
running at 170 frames per second
and what kind of temps we seeing cpu
sitting around 60 degrees
our gpu that's not doing any work is
sitting around 30 something and
50 i'm the one that is doing any work
let's fire up shadow of the tomb raider
now since that's one of the few games
that actually
supports sli i know steve from gamer's
nexus wouldn't approve of the way that
it's like all
solid panels and you know there's no
actual cooling
but when you have this many fans
seems to kind of work out okay also i
didn't notice this
but it looks like there are intentional
panel gaps
between the glass sides here and where
these fans are so they are actually able
to pull in a little bit of air yeah like
there's a lot moving out of the back
here somehow
all vent all the time no mumble now
let's absolutely
crank shadow of the tomb raiders green
space contact shadows
high ray trace shadow quality ultra
we're still going to turn off motion
blur because it's garbage but
let's open it up this is absolutely
freaking nuts
i have this game completely maxed out
and it's still
running over 100 fps with like
real-time ray tracing set to ultra our
gpus so far have peaked at 61 and 52
degrees respectively
not too shabby cpu though as high as 74
degrees
but that's what happens when you have a
pretty low flow rate and you're
overclocked
here it is which witcher 3 5120 by oh
witcher 3 5120 by 1440 absolutely
ultra everything again over 100 frames
per second
man this is a good looking game still of
course the real test of a gaming system
with a hyper-fast multi-threaded cpu
is an rts this is good old anno 1800
pretty demanding when you max it out
that's
really not bad now at like the medium
zoom level where all of a sudden the
streets are like populated with
all kinds of little ai characters going
about their little stuff
we dropped down to about 30 35 fps
look it's my zoo i have horses
usage of the primary gpu while playing
ano 1800
usage of the secondary gpu
sli come on red dead
it's crashing almost every time i try to
change graphical settings but i managed
to get it to hold the resolution this
time
so see if it fires up here
yeah this is completely broken okay
that's fine everyone knows that
cinebench is
every gamer's favorite game anyway so
let's just close this
and see how our 5950x with its 4.4
gigahertz clock speed
rolls through cinebench r20 can we crack
10 000
oh yeah 10 081 nice
of course we still haven't showed any
scenarios where you'd be able to
actually
run this display at 240 frames per
second with this hardware
until now check that out we're somewhere
in the 210
220 fps range good old cs go ladies and
gentlemen of course that's running with
all the icann dion at full resolution
which no competitive cs go player would
ever do so i would expect fps way in
excess of that and in fact if you guys
want the full skinny
check out our full review of the ryzen
5000 series launch
which went up just a few days ago on the
channel
so conclusion then the digital storm
event max with a ryzen 5950x and dual
rtx 3090s running an sli
is it a great value no of course not
but is it basically the perfect vehicle
for celebrating amd's return to cpu
gaming dominance
yeah i think it might just be
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enjoyed this video
you know what yeah go check out our full
coverage of ryzen 5000. i already kind
of shouted that one out but
definitely go watch that next and i also
want to shout out digitalstorm for
sending over this absolutely
unbelievable system to show off the
5950x