Hey, what's up it's Jerad with State of Tech and I'm back with another PC build.
This will be my second PC build and if you've watched the previous one you know that I'm
building a PC mainly as an editing machine, a creative device.
I don't really do a lot of gaming, and this build wouldn't really make sense for somebody
who games anyways.
Nonetheless, I'm going with an AMD build this time.
I've been watching what AMD is doing.
Back when I build my first PC, I think in 1998 or 1999, it was a dual AMD CPU build,
so I've been using AMD for a long time I just haven't been building a lot of PCs lately.
So we're going with the Ryzen Threadripper 1950 series, this is a 16 core, 32 thread.
I'm excited about this because I know that Premiere Pro isn't going to be able to utilize
all those cores but what it's going to allow me to do is multitask while I'm rendering
out.
It's going to give me that extra CPU performance to do more from within my PC while my PC is
actually doing work.
I'm excited about that.
We've got the ROG Zenith Extreme motherboard here, which is definitely the most expensive
motherboard I've ever purchased but it comes packed with a lot of good features.
We've got the ability to throw three NVMe SSD's on there, which I'm just going to start
with one.
We've got the Samsung 960 Pro.
I may come back and reconfigure this later in maybe a RAID format with a couple more
of those.
I don't know, we're just going to start out here for now.
This is the X399 platform that works with the Ryzen Threadripper chipset.
We have 64GB of Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM.
I went with that just because there are big beefy heatsinks on top and it comes with fans
but I don't need all of the LED stuff that also works with that but nonetheless, it was
really good performing RAM for me last time in my previous build so I'm going with it
again.
Over on this side, we've got a 1000W power supply.
That should be enough for this build.
I was originally thinking about going with 1300W but I think that might have been a little
bit overkill, so we're going to go with a 1000W which I think should be plenty for what
we're doing here.
The Kraken X62 cooler, I previously in my last build had a Corsair cooler and I didn't
like the way that the pipes exit to return back to the intercooler.
I didn't like the way that that worked, it just kind of looked funky.
I like the way that the Kraken exits and in my research, I found that the Kraken actually
outperforms the competitors so I'm going to go ahead and give that a try.
And then, of course, we have out GTX 1080 Ti from EVGA.
There are a lot of variations of this, I believe this is the SC2 model and I'm excited to see
what kind of performance gains we might get out of comparing the 1080 to the 1080 Ti.
We may in another video even do a test between the two different GPU's so make sure you subscribe
to our channel here because we will come back with some more videos besides what we're just
doing here.
So we're going to get started on that build, all of this is going into a Corsair 400Q series
case.
It's kind of a no-frills case but I like it that way.
It's sound deadened and that's what was important to me is just a nice running quiet PC.
So we're going to go ahead and start on that build and then at the end we'll come back
and see what we ended up with.
I'm back, I have that PC built, I got it built yesterday
as you saw in the timelapse.
I wanted to get it booted up and start to get it configured but I ran into an initial
problem.
When I would power it up it would basically get through the RAM check and then at the
end of the RAM check it would restart.
It would actually shut down and start up again.
So it was kind of going through this pre-boot loop and it got stuck in that.
So what we did we removed the RAM, tried booting with one stick of RAM in there but we weren't
having any luck with the RAM that I had.
We decided let's try RAM from another machine, we tried RAM from James' machine and was actually
able to get it to boot.
We realized that the RAM was an issue.
So before actually going and deciding to return the RAM and order new RAM, we decided to update
the BIOS on the motherboard.
After updating the BIOS on the motherboard by downloading the BIOS update from another
system and then USB installing it, we were actually able to get that RAM to work.
So that BIOS update must have provided, even though it didn't list it in the changelog,
the ability for us to run that RAM.
Now I'm running that RAM at default clock speed.
I haven't messed with overclocking anything, the RAM or the CPU or even the GPU.
We're just running it as configured.
We got Windows installed on there, we actually installed that from a Windows USB stick that
James had, it was an older version so I had to run lots of software updates, which was
a little odd and then, of course, getting all of the drivers installed.
By the end of the day the PC was running and I was able to start using it as intended which
is fantastic.
Today I spent a little bit of time on that PC just getting some of the software installed
and configured the way that I use it.
I still haven't gone through and done anything as far as trying to customize any of the hardware
or make any changes there, I'm just really wanting to get that to a point where I can
start to produce from it.
Then we'll probably come back in a little while where we actually look at its performance
in comparison to some other stuff that we have available to us.
Overall I'm really impressed, I feel like this build went a lot better than my last
build.
There were a couple moments of frustration there of course.
As you saw in the time lapse there were some times where all of us had our hands in that
PC kind of looking and trying to get things figured out.
Nonetheless, the build went really well and the PC is running and everything is great.
Overall I'm pretty impressed with the process and everything.
There are some things that I definitely did learn through this process, and actually the
last time I build a PC, so I'm putting together a video that are the five things I learned
from building a PC and I think that they are important for somebody to watch that is thinking
about building their first PC.
Obviously, there's a lot of good resources out there around that topic but if you wanted
to check out what I have to say about it make sure to take a look at that too.
We have some stuff that we're going to throw up in this video just for you to see but we're
going to come back with maybe more of a comprehensive review of this PC build with the Threadripper
platform just after we have some time to edit some projects, render out, and spend some
time actually using the PC.
Then we can actually come back with something a little bit more useful or more real world
than just basic benchmarks.
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We hope to see you back here soon.