[clapping] [Gerald] Alright!
So today, building a computer with my nephew.
This is my nephew, Jimmy. See, I already did it.
I leaned forward and you leaned back.
- Oh, yeah. - A focus problem.
I'm building another one because ASUS wanted me to work
with their new, this is their creator,
ProArt Creator Motherboard. And I was interested in it too.
So a lot of this stuff is provided by ASUS.
I don't think I bought much on this build.
Normally, I'd buy like half the parts.
I think pretty much everything was provided to me,
which is why I felt like I needed to do something.
So the last one that I built, I'm giving to this guy
because he needs a new computer,
because when was the last time you built one?
2011?
So he needs a new computer and I don't need extra computers,
and because I got this stuff gifted to me.
Thank you to ASUS.
So, is this the computer?
I would say Jimmy you're reasonably
well versed in computer stuff.
Not like an expert,
but you know you built your own computer last time.
Built my own computer.
I more or less understand what each component does and,
but there's new stuff since then,
new, new ways to do things.
I don't know anything about the stuff.
So, that's fun.
So the computer we're building today,
the one that I'm maybe giving to Jimmy is a similar one,
just using like slightly older parts.
What do you use your computer for mostly these days?
Basic productivity, like every white, underachieving,
thirty-something, a little bit Ableton Live, little bit
of music, a little bit of gaming,
a dabble in the gaming realm.
Gerald and I used to game quite a bit, so.
I think you're going to be gaming more,
and I think the people watching will be like,
he better be gaming more with,
with the computer build because we work in 3090s around here
because you know what the GPU shortage thing, right?
It's levelling itself off mostly.
But you said you saw the memes on Reddit?
Oh, yeah.
So there actually came a time where when you would
source parts from like ASUS or whatever for the PR units,
it was easier to get the top line 3090 than
it was to get like the medium high-end cards.
So they'd just be like, we don't got those, we got a 3090.
So all the builds I'm doing are on 3090's all the time.
Which is good for video editing and--
Oh, yeah, actually and a little bit of I'm going to be
using it for a little bit of Maya as well.
A little bit of, you know, 3D.
[Gerald] For what?
Just personal projects, learning new skills, you know?
[Gerald] So, this is going to be the feature piece, ProArt
X570-Creator Wi-Fi, so normally,
you know, we go through this whole like anti-static
procedure, but recent videos have shown
It's harder than you'd think.
[screaming in pain]
So do we, we don't have the bracelet?
We don't have the bracelet, I want the bracelet.
We don't have the bracelet.
And you can also what I do sometimes is I hook up
the power supply, this an ROG Strix, 1000W.
Do you know what a strix is?
I don't.
I think it is an owl. I think it is a, some type of bird.
If you play Magic: the Gathering, you'll know that.
Is there like a card that's called a Strix
and it's got an owl on it?
Baleful Strix.
Okay, who are you pointing at?
There's no Magic: the Gathering in there.
There probably is, actually.
So you can ground yourself like that.
You got a touch like a grounded part, like, you know,
I have shoes on that have rubber soles.
Is that going to matter at all?
That's why I say, this is all moot.
Alright, so a little motherboard action there,
I like the aesthetic.
We've got a two 2.5 and a
10 gig Ethernet port built right in.
And there's also you can see extra USB-C ports,
which are Thunderbolt 4 on this motherboard.
And I think these are the first motherboards
that have Thunderbolt 4 and running an AMD processor,
a DisplayPort and an HDMI.
And so you have to take your, like graphics card out.
That's, that's why there's a DisplayPort
in the motherboard box, the cables, so you can go
from your graphics card out and then back
into the motherboard so that you're taking your graphics
card video and then putting it out through Thunderbolt.
So, for people who want to do everything over Thunderbolt.
It'll allow it.
We've got four 10 gig USB ports.
Obviously, the USB-C type. And then there's two more.
I think these are actually just five gig USB ports
and then two more up there.
So for me, that's plenty of connectivity.
You can see it's really, really well built in terms of,
I asked when they said I was like,
because it's like some creator board,
is it going to be, you know, worse for VRMs or for cooling.
So am I going to sacrifice overclocking?
Am I still going to able to game on it the same way?
And they said, yeah,
like these boards are built to the same level
as they're competing, you know, almost like to like the ROG,
you know, gaming boards.
But these just have extra things like 10 Gignic
and Thunderbolt 4.
Let's stick the CPU in there, so ASUS sent along a Ryzen
5950x, the last build there was a 5900X.
Just get a little side grip on it there
and then put the gold triangle at the little boobob there
and just kind of like, line it up,
but no pushing should be required.
It's almost fall into the hole, you know.
When you say it,
all of the pins should fall right into the hole.
The CPU, cause the pins exactly yeah.
There you go.
Alright computer's built, let's plug in a game.
What kind of drives were you using when you built
your last computer?
I had a 750 GB Caviar Blue hard disk drive.
Oh, like spending a spinning disk,
Yeah. Okay.
So, NVMe drives are solid state,
but they're crazy fast and they plug directly
into the motherboard almost like a graphics card.
Oh, I should have mentioned, this by the way,
this one is one of the,
I'm pretty sure it's a fanless design.
So when X570 first came out,
they had to have a fan cooling the chipset,
but then they recently, like this year,
moved to fanless designs.
This is also fanless, so it's passively cooled.
So is this the, this is the way that internal hard drives
are, drives are going. Is this, this connectivity?
Yeah, I would say I don't know what the numbers are,
but I would say most new builds over the last,
like maybe a couple of years.
The NVMe is the, that's your boot drive,
that Windows goes on that that's, you know,
you probably load your best games on there and everything.
And then some people still install spinning disks
that they want a ton of storage.
Got it.
If you want, you know,
we're talking a dozen terabytes or something.
If you only need a couple of terabytes,
I'd probably just do NVMe me all the way through.
These are from Seagate.
These are FireCuda 520's, they're two terabytes.
They're rated for five gigabytes,
5000 megabits per second.
And there's a dragon on the front.
There you go. That's all you need. On this motherboard.
There's like these little swirly things,
maybe this shot you can see,
that they're basically locked them in by themselves.
But once, that's kind of locked in.
And then once we glue and screw this thing down
the other pieces,
Oh, that also goes down, I was like--
Yeah so, the SSD's not going to go anywhere.
But I'm used to screwing them down
and not used to seeing these, like swivel.
What is this four by eight, Oh my gosh, each is, what?
Each kit, yeah, that's each kit.
Each DIMM is 32 gigabytes.
I chose this RAM in the last build
because it was really compatible and I liked it.
It's kind of like a no frills seems to work all the time,
and it's always in the list of like approved RAM.
And I liked it and it's not RGB and it's nothing fancy.
You know, this is DDR4 3600 MHZ, CL 16,
so it's a good balance.
It's kind of like a sweet spot going
where you can go faster RAM.
But then the timings are looser.
But then you also have to overclock the RAM infinity
fabric, the multiplier, hairity, but then dual channel
memory that.
Got it.
So we're going to load them sticks in.
So normally there's a protocol for installing RAM,
like you have to use certain slots.
But in this case, we're going to populate all of them
because usually, does it still skip it like one three,
and then four two four.
Exactly yeah. Two and four, basically,
usually it's the, you start farther away from the CPU,
so you would do these two.
Great.
All right. Same as last time, though,
this is the Fantex P 600S, which I like.
I like building in it. I like the way it looks.
It's another silent case.
I was really happy with my last build, so doing it again.
I've never installed a cooler cooling system.
So let's do it.
I didn't look up to pronounce it correctly, but Ryujin.
Ryujin.
[text to speech] Ryujin, Ryujin.
So this is a literal radiator.
Yes, but it's AIO because the fluid, it's like,
it's like enclosed in itself.
It's a closed loop, hose on the bottom,
versus hose on the top, right.
And so if the CPU is installed here and you put hoses
on the top, then the concern was that you were going
to be pulling air into your the CPU block because assume
that every, assume there's fluid in the whole system,
but not filled to 100% assume it's full of like 98, 99%,
then you're going to have an air bubble somewhere.
So the concern was, well, if air rises,
then the air might rise up into here and then it actually
being pulled in and then goes in and you know,
you don't want air in here. That's the biggest concern.
The other issues is you never want to do some kind of weird
build like this because now the air is definitely going
to be in here, right? And there are some builds where
the radiator goes on the bottom.
And so that's that's the problem.
So you've got air up in here, right?
But so then you can go tubes down.
But there's so many people that got confused,
be like you got your tubes in the wrong spot,
and it's about this.
It's much simpler to explain than that.
All you need to know is that air rises to the top.
Where is the air?
It doesn't matter that this is going up
if the air never entered in the first place.
- Exactly. - It's like a siphon.
So where's the air going to be in this setup? Right?
But where's it going to be pulling the water from
down there? Which means it's going to be sucking water or
not air because water's more dense.
Even if it's going up from here.
Exactly. So this is what you want, or I mean,
you can do different things.
This is what I do, and it works.
Sometimes you have a hose length problem, though,
and then maybe you got to go to the top,
which then it's not going to really change your performance.
It just, maybe you have a
shorter lifespan on your cooler.
There's probably, but there's the design of this
has to have some, has to have that in consideration.
Yes. But you don't want to put the load on it.
Exactly.
In his testing, he found that like they make gurgling sound
sooner or they may be a little bit noisier.
And then this works too, because the air's obviously
going to be like at the very top of the radiator, right?
Got it.
So if I'd like to do a front one,
this is the ideal thing if the hose has reach.
So if we go hoses down, what's our reach like?
Insufficient, that's not going to reach, is it? No.
Okay, so I think we have to go hoses up.
We're going to have to go top mount.
And I think for me, I'd honestly rather just go
hoses up and I don't care, so that'll be my only complaint
so far about the cooler is make longer hoses.
Put all the fans in the wrong side somehow,
oh because we were going to install it on the downward.
So that way we flipped it all the fans.
Wait, does that matter?
Yeah, it's terrible looking.
So we've got to do it all again.
I'm going to call that a coaching error.
That one was on you.
So now we're going to install the power supply and Mainframe,
ASUS, arranged for Mainframe to send over these custom
Gerald Undone purple cables.
So this is the first time I've ever actually worked
with custom power supply cables before.
I always just use the default ones that come
with the power supply.
We're going to connect to the power supply first.
Sure.
So you have mainframe perfectly designed
for this particular computer.
They would have made one more purple,
one of these that eliminates into a four pin.
So we're going to have to feed this in.
[cartoon batman transition sounding]
So here's a funny thing.
I obviously really love building computers.
Are you having fun? -Yeah.
Okay. I just zoned out completely that we were even
filming a video and we just I felt like you did, too.
And we're just like, what do you want to do with that one,
you want to feed it around here.
Yeah, behind like.
And then I don't know how long it's like been like 40 minutes.
And I don't even know if we've even done like a bit
at the camera in the last 40 minutes.
So we installed the power supply, ran,
I think we mentioned that I got custom cables from
Mainframe so we installed those and we were just,
I don't know, just kinda like, went into the tank.
And then we're kind of at the cable management
side of things, but we can definitely plug the GPU in.
So this is the, what is, this is Jimmy?
This is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090,
and it's the ASUS ROG Strix.
The sound here is going to be really weird,
because this is a metal surface directly
below the mic so it's going to go.
[making sounds with mouth]
So we've got it all built and we did the cable management.
We haven't tested it yet.
Turned it on, but it looks pretty good.
What do you think of the purple, think it's nice?
Yeah, I think it works well with the black.
The grey looks good with it too, right?
- Yeah, exactly. - Whatever they call this.
Compared to other motherboards I've seen and worked with,
I didn't find the labeling on the board itself
to be particularly great, even with a flashlight looking
under some of the headers and stuff like you couldn't
really make it out if you like, if that's a little tip.
I think ASUS for this board could use contrast-ier
slightly larger, slightly more obvious labeling
for some of the ports and stuff.
[grunting]
So to see if it posts.
I'm going to test it on this.
This is ASUS sent this over too.
This is the, as you can see, the 32 UCG,
which is their, like 4K 120 HDR.
It's, it's literally everything you can have in a monitor
and I haven't tested yet, so we're going to use it to see
if the computer posts.
Holy. You would not expect that to be that heavy.
It's like a weight. I guess it probably has a weight in it.
It is, yeah.
It also clearly has some kind of coating on it
because the grid is being like diffused,
so that's kind of cool.
[whispering] Do it.
The lights are still blinking in there,
so I think it, sometimes the first boot takes a minute.
We've reached the denial stage of dealing with grief.
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Okay, it's sometime later.
I don't exactly know, but probably a couple of weeks now,
and I figured out what the problem was quite a while ago,
but I just wanted to keep working with it.
So the issue that I was having where it seemed like
I couldn't post had nothing to do with the computer
because it takes this monitor a really long time to like,
I don't know, HDMI handshake initialize, boot up,
just get the monitor launched.
And in that time, the computer already cycled
through its post-screening or, you know, went to some sort
of failure screen and we never got to see anything.
And so to give you an example of that,
I'll show you how long it takes.
What I'll do is actually restart this computer while
you're watching, and it'll give you an idea of how long
it takes the monitor to boot up.
And you can imagine where we were in the post-process.
Trying it through the BiOS.
Now, when the keyboard turns purple,
you'll know that it's posted and then we'll see how
long it takes for the monitor to kick in from there.
So, there now the computer is on.
Let's see how long it takes for the screen to kick in.
Now I spoke to ASUS about this and they said that this
is normal actually for this panel due to the complexity
of the scalar and the number of inputs,
as well as initialization of the backlight,
and that it will be noticeably slower when compared
to simpler monitors that have simpler scalers
and stuff like that.
But as you can see, it takes quite a long time,
and this is what made me think that there was something wrong
with the build because this is all I was seeing. So there.
And then one more that I found to be pretty annoying.
Is this, the cable that they give you for?
It's the upstream cable from your computer,
so you connect the USB-A end to your computer
and then the USB-C on to the monitor,
and this sort of activates your USB outputs on the monitor.
This cable is way too short.
Luckily, it also came with a Thunderbolt 4 cable,
and you can connect the monitor with Thunderbolt 4,
even if you're not using the display.
I'm using HDMI but the Thunderbolt 4
can be used as a upstream as well.
And so now I can, you know, connect my devices that way.
And that Thunderbolt cable is plenty long, which is great.
But this little upstream cable doesn't even reach
from the monitor to my computer down there.
Once you get it up and running and once it's done,
initializing the image quality coming out
of this thing is outstanding.
Not only does it have the lowest Delta E for color
accuracy I've ever scored, I think it got like a 0.3,
which is sort of the, you know, the difference between
perfect and where your color's coming in.
That was incredible.
And it comes with its own,
it's an X-ray calibrator with like ASUS branding on it,
but it comes with a calibrator that I have the original one
of those and it works exactly the same, calibrated perfectly.
It's so good.
The editing experience on this display
has been just fantastic.
I've also played some games on it,
being able to play 4K 120 with a 3090.
You know, the experience is tremendous.
And so all my complaints are like ergonomically,
but the image quality I have no qualms with.
Okay, let's move on to the computer. Alright.
Computer is up and running here on the desk.
Let me just put a little light inside here so we can...
see it okay, first of all, you notice this pretty cool thing
where I've got my little GIF running in loop on the cooler
there, which is cool, and it worked well and I think it's
neat, you know?
You know, I'm not really one for RGB I've said that
multiple times, but if you've got a cooler like that,
it's cool that you can put your branding on it.
However, I do have a complaint about the process for that.
So in order to get this to work,
it installed so many services and things
that start up when Windows started up.
And I even tried disabling them like half of them
or one at a time, and I couldn't even find
which ones I could disable
that wouldn't stop that from working.
It kind of seemed like you needed all 15 of them in order
to get this thing to work. So that's kind of annoying.
You also needed, of course, to set it up,
but it would be nice if you could set it up
and then uninstall the software you didn't want anymore.
Well, the software this ASUS program is kind of cool
that it lets you, you know,
keep your drivers entertained, that kind of thing.
But it's just a bit too much. A few, too many,
like I said, services and start up applications.
I wish they could maybe reel that in a little bit.
As far as the cooler performance,
it's working quite well in that program.
You can also set custom fan curves and that kind of thing.
But even if you don't, just leave it on the default.
It did really well with the overclocking,
managing noise and performance.
So, the cooler is good.
It's just unfortunate to fully take advantage
of the screen if the like I said,
install all that crazy software.
But if you don't care what's on the display,
don't install it.
And I think you'll be happy with the cooler performance
just at stock settings.
Jump back to the GP real quick. It's been fantastic.
It's outperformed both the Founders Edition
and the previous GPU that I put in the gaming,
OC one that I put on my last build, small amounts.
Obviously, they're all 3090s,
but this is the best performing 3090 that I've used.
Maybe let's put the benchmarks on the screen
while I'm talking to you right now,
not gonna make a bunch of graphs
because I don't feel like it?
Basically, I got about a two to two to three percent.
I think it was a two percent on average performance
increase across pretty much all the tests without
an increase in power consumption
or noise or whatever.
So that's great just two percent better performance
using this hardware.
And except for the 5950X in multi-threaded performance,
that's obviously you know, like way faster
than the 5900X because got more cores and everything.
In terms of the overclock I was able to get, it depends.
I'm running it you know, with the PBO too.
So it depends on what you're doing.
In certain multi-threaded tasks,
It'll run anywhere from 4.4 to 4.6 GHz
and then in single threaded anywhere from 4.7 to five GHZ,
depending on the load.
I would say average around 4.5 and 4.8
for multi-threaded and single, respectively.
But yeah, you get a much better score for multi-threaded
Cinebench than you do compared to the 5900X.
So overall, I still think the 5900X is the better value
choice for most tasks and applications,
but I'm really happy I got to try the 5950x.
So thanks to ASUS for sending that over.
And also, thanks for sending over all the ProArt stuff
because I was very interested in that.
And as expected, it's excellent, you know,
from the monitor's quality, motherboard.
And I'm really curious to see where else they take this
line because I'm really liking what they're doing
with this ProArt series.
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