- Today, we are building the ultimate gaming PC.
Liquid-cooled RTX 4090, AMD Ryzen 9 7950X.
The only thing we're missing is a dial-up modem.
So I'm here today at Micro Center
for the launch of that brand-new RTX 4090.
And oh boy, are there are a lot of people in line.
Like a lot considering this is a $1,600 graphics card
and up, depending on which one you actually pick.
So wait, what time did you guys
actually get here this morning?
- Yesterday at like, around 8:00 PM.
- [Austin] 8:00 PM, so you've been here all night long.
- Yeah - At 8:00 PM the day before.
- Yeah, he's been here two days.
- [Austin] Oh, you got here two days ago!
- Yeah. - Can I ask a question?
You guys know this a $1,600 graphics card, right? (laughs)
- But yeah, dedication, man. - It's cheap!
- [Austin] It's cheap. Wait, who said it's cheap?
Sorry, where, where, where?
- [Person In Black] I did my first build
off your video nine years ago. - [Austin] Oh, bro!
- Did it all for 660. Look at me now.
- [Austin] Let's go! - Upgraded.
- [Austin] Nine years later
you got a slightly better graphics card.
- Yeah. - [Austin] Just slightly.
- You were there for the RTX 3070 as well.
- [Austin] You were here for RTX 3070 too!
- [Person In Yellow Cap] Yeah, yeah.
- [Austin] Wait, so you're buying the 4090,
and you're just here to support?
- Yeah. - Yeah!
- [Austin] Oh my God! - Really nice.
- [Austin] What a great friend.
This is all for a $1,600 graphics card.
You can always get it at Micro Center.
Okay, so we got a few cards here
and by a few I mean... (laughs)
Hopefully I think everyone in line
is gonna be able to get what they're looking for.
Can I find a graphics card to start out with?
- [Store Bystander] Thanks, always a pleasure.
- [Staff Member] Yes.
- [Austin] Okay! So this is the MSI...
Is it SUPRIM or SUPRIM? Supreme, SUPRIM?
Of course every 4090 is incredibly high-end,
right, when you look at the performance.
But this is liquid-cooled,
which means that I'm gonna have a fun time
trying to fit this in the case. (laughs)
So let's start with this, then.
This is like, bigger than like an Xbox box.
How do I even? - Xbox box?
- No one help me, okay? I can do this.
(energetic electronic music)
Ta-da, easily the largest graphics card
I have ever touched with human hands.
So the real challenge with this build is going to be
in properly taking advantage of this 4090.
By default, the 4090 without even touching it
is gonna give us a ton of performance,
but it won't give us the maximum performance
if we don't pair it with essentially as much CPU horsepower
as we can throw at it.
I mean, I don't think there's gonna be much debate here.
I think we gotta go straight for a Ryzen 9.
- Thank you, good sir. - So this is a good start.
For board, I feel like let's go with the X670E ACE.
- [Staff Member] The one in the-
- The one in the case that we definitely just planted
five seconds ago for the video.
No, I mean, I'm sorry. Sorry.
One of the things to consider
when you're building with these cards,
especially with something like a 4090,
is not only the power but also the case.
A lot of the traditional cases that I would use
simply will not fit a 4090.
- [Jared] I like the look of that.
- [Austin] Actually, a LANCOOL III would work, wouldn't it?
We also need space for both the power
and the actual liquid cooling to come out the side
because the whole card is gonna come out.
Oh did you just get the? (laughs)
- [Staff Member] It was here.
- (laughs) I appreciate the support, my friend.
We're almost there.
The last major thing we're going to need for this build-
- [Daniel] Hey, it's Austin! - Is going to be...
Yo, what's good, man? - I'm Daniel.
I see your videos all the time.
- [Austin] Oh!
- I think you hang out here all the time, yeah.
- That's awesome. Well, you're in one right now.
- Oh, hey! (laughs) (Austin laughs)
So this build might not seem as polished as normal,
but the thing is, this is launch day for the RTX 4090.
There are a lot of things that we have never experienced.
We've never built with this card before.
Even Ryzen 7000 is pretty new. - It's still, yeah.
- There's a lot of things to consider.
So this is actually like a legitimate learning process
for us and hopefully we get it right 'cause...
- If we don't, we're screwed.
- So this is gonna be fun.
Not only are we building the most powerful gaming computer
I've ever built, this is gonna be one
of the most powerful computers that money could buy
because with this 4090 with a Ryzen 9 7950X,
I don't know how you can get more performance
out of a gaming computer.
Like, I really don't.
Let's go ahead and take a look inside this 4090
I mean, the fact that you can run games at 4K
120 frames per second with ray tracing is gnarly.
But then this takes it to a whole other level
because it's liquid-cooled.
Look at this box. It comes with a mouse pad?
- [Crew Member] What?
- [Austin] It's an actual dual slot card.
- [Crew Member] Oh my God!
- A normal, quote unquote "normal" 4090
is entirely air-cooled,
which means that the card is going to be huge.
But this is a true dual slot card because, well,
it has some help when it comes to the radiator.
So you might wanna get used to looking at this connector
because this is the new standard.
However, not everyone's power supply
is up to the PCI 5.0 spec,
which is where this adapter comes in.
So on one side you can see that it is 16 pins.
On the other side you might wanna plug in an eight pin
or two eight pins or three eight pins
or four eight pins into one connector!
- Next year we're just gonna have to hook our PCs
up to a nuclear reactor, just power it directly
- [Austin] Flux capacitor maybe.
- Flux capacitor.
- Straight on the back of the system.
I would recommend to look
for a power supply which is ATX 3.0.
Let's take look at some of our other components.
Wow, that's a heavy board, man. Whoa!
- [Crew Member] Oh my, oh my God!
(laughs) Why?
- We've done one video on a Ryzen 7000 so far
where we used a Ryzen 7 7700X, which was very powerful.
But this is basically double.
So this, my friends is the Ryzen 9 7950X.
16 cores and a boost clock,
I think 5.7 gigahertz right out the box.
- [Crew Member] Oh my god. What are we doing here?
- We're gamers. We don't compromise, we just...
- [Crew Member] Live in excess.
- Yeah, this is like the Metallica of gaming PCs.
- I still don't know. I don't know who that is.
- Give me one title of a Metallica song.
Nope, nope! Get your hands off the keyboard!
Hands off the keyboard! (crew laughing)
The other thing is, if you haven't built a PC
with the brand-new Ryzen 7000 Series processors
is that yes, you will need to get an AM5 motherboard,
but one of the nice things is,
is that we have completely changed the type of socket.
So now we've got pins on the actual socket
instead of the CPU.
You can see it's got that nice little line
so it's very easy to kinda line them up.
While it's still a new socket,
it maintains compatibility with AM4 coolers.
So anything like our Galahad should just bolt straight on
to your brand new AM5 chip.
Let's load up some RAM.
Look, I'm gonna be real.
I'm enjoying this part of the build
'cause this is the easy part and not the part
where I have to actually figure out
how this is all gonna get stuffed into the case
'cause this is gonna be tight.
Let's throw in our SSD, in fact.
That's funny, even though it's been out for,
oh man, it's probably almost two years now,
I still think the Samsung 980 PRO is my favorite SSD still.
The performance, the reliability.
Ooh!
That's a beefy heat sink.
So the actual mounting mechanism here,
not only do you have the little plastic retention,
which is nice so you can just kind of slide it right around,
but on top of that you've got this little ball
so essentially it kind of pops into place here.
So literally completely toolless installation
between popping the SSD in as well as pulling the cover on.
It all just pops together.
(device clicks in) Oh, wow. Look at that.
This is actually my first time
working with the LIAN LI LANCOOL III.
A lot of our components are black, silver, and white.
What are you doing?
I heard tape and I immediately grabbed the camera
'cause I knew something bad was going on.
- Look, you mismatched the color scheme on our-
- [Austin] I mismatched what?
- So this is a black radiator. We're making it white.
- [Austin] I hate that this is actually
not like a horrible idea and it's just a bad idea.
- You know, I have done this way too many times
to the point where you have not even noticed.
- [Austin] Okay, well speaking of spilled...
- [Kenneth] Spilled?
- [Austin] Speaking of being a skilled crafts...
- [Kenneth] (snickers) Yeah? (crew laughing)
- Speaking of being a skilled craftsman,
we have ripped out a whole lot of stuff from the case.
So we've pretty much removed every like two-and-a-half-inch
and three-and-a-half-inch sort of drive Bay.
Anything we can do to not only sort of free ourselves up
with some extra cooling
but also to give ourselves some extra room
for some cable management.
I've flipped that rear fan.
We've got the three fans all set up as intake.
We've got the power supply on the bottom, but importantly
the power supply is actually facing downward
so it is entirely focused on pushing that hot air
out of the power supply.
Well, my friends, that actually went,
I will say, pretty smoothly all considering.
What did this take us?
An hour and a half, maybe two hours total?
So why don't we just see if this actually posts, shall we?
Plug it in, make sure the power supply is on.
Do we have any RGB action?
- [Crew Member] Nope.
- Okay, well, here goes nothing.
- [Austin And Crew Members] Whoa!
- That's a lotta RGB!
RAM's coming up. Graphics card's coming up.
Hey! - Hey!
♪ Hey, oh, hey, oh ♪
♪ It's time to make a video about this PC ♪
- I don't wanna brag, but I think this worked first try.
So you've probably seen the wealth of AI-generated art
that has flooded the internet this year
thanks to various different services such as DALL-E.
You've got Stable Diffusion, you've got Midjourney.
Sorry, DALL-E 2. I apologize.
Typically what you have to do with these things
is pay for tokens online or subscription
or right through Discord.
But using something called Stable Diffusion,
we can actually do our own AI art generation
on a computer, and let me tell you what that loves to have.
The maximum amount of bandwidth
and GPU horsepower you can possibly throw at it.
- So I'm gonna do just the,
this is like the basic default prompt they have.
A photograph of an astronaut riding a horse.
- [Austin] Okay.
- So this is gonna be my baseline.
If this is as powerful as I think it is,
this should be like 20 seconds tops.
- [Austin] Oh wow, that's fast.
Oh my God, look how fast that is.
- Bam! - Whoa!
- 16.611 seconds for that. - Again, on a 3070 Ti laptop,
that image by itself was 45 seconds, maybe.
- So this is another one I've tried,
but we're also gonna crank this up.
Four of these at the same time,
double the resolution, make image.
- Now power draw wise, we are at 456 watts
so this thing is pulling some power.
Dude, the detail on this, like the resolution is massive.
I'm not sure why he has a hole on the side of his head.
- [Matt] But we'll fix that in a second.
- [Austin] I think the second one looks to me a lot better.
Oh yeah, as it's cleaning up and getting the detail.
- [Staff Member] This one's just like,
I'm tired of this. (censored) (crew member laughing)
- [Crew Member] So why is his tail off?
(crew members laughing)
- [Austin] All right, so what I wanna try
is RTX 4090 graphics card.
Oh, okay, hey, hey, that's a graphics card.
- Yeah. - Graphics card.
Graphics card. Look, it's working!
I mean, that's not RTX.
That's definitely a little AMD look.
- I will refine the selection.
Green graphics card, computer, metal.
- [Austin] My dude, that's quite the prompt.
- [Kenneth] This looks like an NVIDIA commercial.
- [Crew Member] Oh this is kind of sick.
- [Matt] It does like to do that weird thing
where it like, it just, instead of rendering
out an entire image, it'll just crop like to the side.
- It's artsy, right? - Yeah.
- [Crew Member] It's artsy.
- So after spending time with Stable Diffusion
and kind of seeing the power of this 4090,
I think it's worth taking a look at some other demos.
This is the classroom demo in Blender,
which is rendering a 1536 by 8640 pixel image.
Now, I will say that I don't typically do a lot of stuff
in Blender, but looking at the level of detail
with this system, I mean, look at this.
Look at how in-depth. Like, that's crazy.
All rendered in 13 minutes on the 4090.
So we are running "Cyberpunk 2077" at 4K ultra settings,
no DLSS, and we've got the ray tracing set to psycho.
Oh, wow. - Whoa. (laughs)
- [Austin] We figured it out! - Man!
- 4K psycho, that's the only thing
that can bring this thing down!
Why don't we actually try to turn it from psycho to ultra.
Turn a little DLSS on and see.
There we go, 68 FPS.
This is actually like a weird problem to have.
Before, if you're building a gaming PC,
you can always push it higher,
especially as soon as ray tracing was invented.
But now we've got the capability,
if you've got a very large amount of money,
to build a system which can crush
almost every single thing you could throw at it,
which almost begs the question, is this excess excessive?
I think it is. You don't need this much performance.
If you want it, our kind sponsors at Micro Center
would be happy to sell you all the high-end PC components
that you could ever want.
But I think for mere mortals, we don't need this power.