- Building $10,000 gaming rigs
is nothing unusual around here.
What is unusual is what our client intends to do with it.
That's right!
We don't do many commissioned builds,
but when TeraBrite reached out,
telling me that they needed an absolute,
zero-compromises, top-of-the-line machine,
for Roblox,
I was intrigued.
What could... (Jake laughs)
Really? - Yeah.
- Roblox? - Well, amongst other things.
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Jokes aside, while this machine
will almost certainly be used
for playing Roblox at some point or another,
it is for stuff other than that as well.
The team over at TeraBrite is going to be using it
for video editing, After Effects work...
Basically, this is gonna be
their primary bonkers workstation,
and they want it to be able to do anything,
spare no expense.
And we certainly didn't, starting with the motherboard.
The ROG Zenith II Extreme Alpha
is as top-of-the-line as it gets.
Full support for, I think it's up to, what is it?
Like five M.2 SSDs or something ridiculous like that?
Eight sticks of memory, so up to 256 gigs of RAM.
And, of course, our 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 3990X.
Guys, this is a CPU that is so far over the top
that even around here,
where we build up and tear down crazy machines
for your entertainment all the freakin' time,
we basically did our review of this thing,
Jake put it in his test bench,
and then it was never touched again.
Why?
Because nobody ever asked him for it back,
because it just kinda doesn't make any sense.
- [Brandon] How much is that motherboard?
- [Linus] This is 900 U.S. dollars.
- [Brandon] What?
- Well, remember, if you've got a $4,000 CPU,
is it really that crazy?
- How much do you think the RAM costs?
- [Brandon] Don't know. Two grand.
- Actually, no, but it's a grand total,
because we've got 128 gigs
of 3600MHz CL18 memory.
Now, CL18, that don't sound very impressive at all,
but you gotta remember, guys, these are high-capacity DIMMs.
Dang!
And, of course, they're Trident Z Neo,
so they got that RGB.
The funny thing about this is it's not like I don't work
with crazy top-tier hardware like this all the time.
It's just that, under normal circumstances,
I would be putting it together into a rig,
and then as soon as the video's over,
carefully taking it apart again
so that we can use it for another project,
because this stuff doesn't grow on trees.
Someone is actually going to daily drive this thing.
You know? I love it.
It's fun. We should do more commissioned builds.
Any oil princes out there want me to build them a computer?
Okay, Brandon, how much...
Actually, you know what, I'm not gonna harp on it.
We already showed the prices at the beginning
and it's kind of a recurring theme.
Between the two of them, these Samsung 980 PRO 2TB drives
are gonna run ya around 800 U.S. dollars.
Now, these aren't top-capacity drives.
You can get Sabrent Rocket Qs that are up to 8TB per M.2.
But when it comes to performance,
these are the big-donger top dog,
with a full Gen 4x4 PCI Express link
and capability of reading and writing at something stupid,
like up to 7GB a second or whatever.
Well, well beyond what anyone could need
out of a single drive for almost anything,
and, you know, we got a casual two of them.
Now, we won't be setting them up
in RAID or anything like that,
because even just one of them is, like I said,
as fast as you could possibly need.
But they wanted more capacity, and now they have it.
And they could put up to another three of them in there.
Look at this. The board has an M.2 on the back.
They couldn't cram enough of them on the front.
Because Ryzen Threadripper has so many PCI Express lanes,
there's no real benefit or drawback
to any of the different M.2 slots,
other than that I wanted to install the drives in these ones
because once a graphics card and capture card
and anything else are installed in these slots,
these are gonna be the most difficult ones to get at.
So if the TeraBrite team
wants to add more storage down the line,
leaving the DIMM.2 slots,
which are nice and easy to get at...
Wait, well, the one on the back of the board
isn't gonna be easy to get at.
Well, whatever. They're in here now.
They can install two additional ones then.
(laughs) Did not think that through.
Now wait a minute, the case is different,
but did they base this machine on our editing rigs?
- [Jake] I just wanted to embarrass you
and make theirs better.
- Oh, I'm okay with theirs being better.
I can't afford $4,000 processors for all of our editors.
We went with 24-core, not 64-core.
Oh, also we're using a different case,
although if this case had been out
when we standardized our builds,
I think we might've gone with this one.
The 5000X from Corsair is just so freakin' easy to build in.
It looks great. It's a reasonable price.
I can't say enough good things about this case.
It also has really solid thermal characteristics,
even though it has glass panels on the front and top.
You can see Corsair built in
extremely large spaces for airflow,
so that's really key.
And then, (clears throat) if I'm being honest,
the big feature for me is this cables-no-more door,
so I don't really have to do the most amazing job
of cable managing it.
(Linus cackles)
Oh yeah, and there's included RGB for fans and stuff.
RGB lighting aside, choosing a cooler for Threadripper
is a little bit more complicated
than choosing a cooler for some other CPU
because of the size of the chip.
The size of the copper cold plate
on the bottom of this cooler
isn't even as big as the Threadripper CPU.
Of course, you don't actually need
to cover the entire heat spreader here
with a cooling element,
as long as you've got contact
with the part of the heat spreader
that has the dies underneath it.
And Corsair does list this particular unit as compatible.
So if we fire this thing up and the temps suck,
then I guess they're going to get a nasty phone call.
When it comes to radiator mounting,
there are two major considerations.
Number one is longevity.
So you don't want to put your pump in a position
where it has to pull water up
and can potentially get air bubbles stuck in it.
Number two is cleaning,
and this is a big one for me.
The fastest, easiest way for me to mount this
would be to go like so and put it in there like that.
But unfortunately,
even though there's a filtered air intake over here,
we are gonna end up with an absolute nightmare
of dust and cat hair buildup over here,
and the only way to clean it off
is gonna be to completely pull this off,
pull all the fans off,
get it all (huffs and puffs) blown out,
and then completely reinstall the thing.
That sucks.
So what we're going to do instead
is we're gonna pull all these off,
put them on the back, and suck air through this way.
That way it's just a matter of going like this,
and it's clean. - Put it on the top.
- You want me to put it on the top?
Okay. Putting it on the top is another option.
We could just go like that.
- [Jake] 'Cause otherwise you don't have the RGB
on the front of the case. - Fine! You already won.
You won the battle.
But the war
is not over yet.
Okay, here we go.
I got all the fans held in place.
The trick is to get everything
to stay where it's supposed to be
and then start screwing it in.
(Linus grunts)
Oh, crap.
Oh, crap. Um...
No, no, I got this.
Why does anyone commission builds with us?
Okay. I think it's in enough.
There we go, not bad. Now we just gotta...
(clears throat) Hope that this reaches...
Yeah, that should reach the CPU. Should be fine.
Motherboard goes in then.
And a one, and a two, and a hooah!
Nah, we'll go slow.
This is one of those sort-of EATX, but not actually EATX,
wider-than-standard motherboards,
so hopefully we're not gonna...
Yeah, we gotta pull out the cable management doodad.
Aw, bummer.
(case clunks) Oi!
Well, I found one screw.
Okay, we got the...
We got it out!
- [Jake] It only got bent a little bit.
- [Linus] It's a little bent.
- [Jake] But I can fix that.
- [Linus] Thanks, Jake. Good work.
The radiator was interfering with taking it out.
There's an extra standoff preinstalled in this case,
because one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight mounting holes.
The ninth is actually covered up
by the chonktastic 16-phase VRM on this motherboard,
so we gotta go ahead and remove this standoff
before it shorts out the back of the board.
There we go. Let's try this again, shall we?
Man, this is gonna be a si-ack lookin' machine.
I've never mounted a Corsair AIO on Threadripper before,
but it's actually super easy.
You just take the two-sided standoffs
and then change out the bracket
and throw your thumb nuts on, boom.
It's a hard mount.
Okay.
There we go. Not bad.
Strictly speaking, we don't need a 1,300W power supply
with 80 PLUS Platinum efficiency.
Oh, I'm sorry. Did you think I was gonna say something else?
- [Jake] This guy thinks he's funny or something.
- I am funny.
At least three people on the internet think I'm funny.
Sound off in the comments.
And go buy something at LTTStore.com.
Corsair includes both a fan hub
and an RGB hub with this case,
but this cooler uses this connector that goes into...
♪ Do do do do do do ♪
This Commander RGB and fan hub.
So we're gonna have dual fan and RGB hubs, I guess.
One of the keys when you're using
any kind of software fan or RGB control
is making sure that everything
is wired up in the right order.
So we're going one, two, three, four, five, six.
That way if we set up any lighting effects
or anything that are supposed to go from fan to fan,
they'll all run correctly.
And then the actually cable management of it
is sort of a secondary concern,
because we got the cable hider.
That is a nice little touch.
Corsair includes a second plate for the CPU block
that I think looks way better with our RAM.
Leading us, finally, to GPU time.
Oh yeah, we (clears throat)
chucked in the extra fans that we had.
They have kind of a different RGB layout,
so I don't know how good it's gonna look,
but I figured more RGB is more better.
For our GPU, it's an ROG Strix RTX 3090.
It's got a triple-slot frickin' cooler. 24 gigs of RAM.
This is the fastest GPU money can buy.
These things go for, what, like 3,500 U.S. dollars?
Do not pay that much for one,
even if it's a money-printing machine
'cause you mine crypto or whatever, please, no.
Do we have any LTT cables ties that we can give them?
- I think David does. - David is on the job.
Until we got to the graphics card,
it was easy to kind of forget
that this is a Roblox computer.
But here we are. This is it.
The Robloxinator.
- Dang. - Yeah, it looks awesome.
Come on, it was totally worth
putting those extra fans in back there.
Jake didn't wanna bother.
'Cause we don't have the cable-management-hider thing.
I think it was necessary.
Otherwise you just got this blank space.
Especially 'cause the cable management is so tight
you can barely even see any of the cables.
Oh, wow. Booted right up to Windows, look at that.
Now we can put our panels on.
I gotta just upgrade my cable management.
And A-plus.
I love it! It's so little work.
Just like that.
Fantastic. Totally worth it.
Totally worth it.
I think we're gonna keep this filter off.
Because these are exhaust fans anyway,
so you don't really need a filter
because they're constantly blowing away any dust
that would potentially settle on the case.
And once you put this piece of glass on here,
I think I'd rather just see the fans directly.
(film rips)
Oh, excuse me.
(film rips)
You guys know you want one. Just 10 grand.
I'll build you one.
Sorry, opened it back up.
Forgot to talk about the capture card.
This is an AVerMedia Live Gamer 4K.
It can do up to 1080P at 240 FPS,
or it can do 4K at 60 FPS.
And they weren't actually sure if they need a capture card
or if they'll need one in the future,
but figured given the cost of the rig,
300 bucks, throw it in there, I guess.
Now, of course,
we can't just send them the computer without testing it.
So we're gonna need to do some benchmarks, starting with...
Jake, I'm gonna need your help with this
because, as you know, I'm not exactly a small child.
Maybe you could tell me about Roblox.
- You know me, the small child.
- [Linus] Yep. Yep.
- To be fair, I have not played Roblox since 2015, so...
- [Linus] It's "Minecraft," but, like,
for even smaller children, I think.
- [Jake] No. Well, sort of.
Roblox can be a lot more complicated
if you actually make your own games and (beep).
But if you're just playing games,
it can be for small children, yes.
- [Linus] Okay, cool.
- [Jake] So here, why don't you pick a game?
- [Linus] Sure! Oh, I'm super-
- [Jake] Okay, when I played this game,
the top game on the list would have like 3,000 people in it,
and now there's like 500,000.
- [Linus] That is utterly incredible.
I wanna play my "Waterpark Tycoon." That is a toilet.
- [Jake] Hold on, hold on, hold on.
- [Linus] Well, then you pick something for me.
- [Jake] Well, you could play a first-person shooter.
- [Linus] Why would I play a first-person shooter
in Roblox, though? - Because they're pretty good.
- Okay, fine. Sure.
Is Roblox just locked to 60 FPS?
- [Jake] I think so, but I've heard there's a program
you can get that'll fix it.
- It's totally a thing. "Roblox FPS Unlocker."
FPS cap, not, okay.
We're running at over 200 FPS right now.
Yeah, look at these GPU frame times. 2.85 milliseconds.
- [Jake] Jeez.
- Okay, I'm going Team Blue. We're going Team Blue.
What is happening?
- [Jake] Wow, it runs really good.
- Well, yeah.
- [Jake] Look on the roof, on the roof, on the roof!
Oh! Oh!
- What happened to my other thing?
Maybe you take whatever gun of the person you kill.
- Oh! - Yes, you do. Okay.
- [Jake] Oh, this might be Gun Game.
- Okay.
What the fudge is happening right now? I don't even...
I don't even understand! What was that?
Okay, yeah, I could see kids having fun
because they can totally just play
whatever violent-ass game they want and it's like,
"Oh yeah, Mom, I'm gonna play some Roblox or whatever."
I think it's a 10.
It's a 10, yeah. They should go IPO.
I love it. I'm having a blast.
- [Jake] Do you wanna try a different game?
- Yeah, sure. Let's try some...
Pff. I'm gonna get Roblox for my kids tomorrow.
"Bitcoin Miner Beta." You can mine Bitcoin.
"Upgrade new cards, buy new mining devices,
and many others." - What?
- Are you kidding me right now?
Okay, so inventory. I just need to build...
So this is a budget graphic card.
Wow, this is kinda crazy.
Premium coins?
- [Jake] And this is how the game maker makes money.
- This game, man. So wait, hold on.
You buy...
You take your real money,
you convert it to Roblox money,
you use that Roblox money,
Robux, excuse me,
to mine crypto money...
Which you then-
- [Jake] And you can't get Robux back.
- You're just dumb. You shoulda spent your money on-
- [Jake] You can buy items and stuff.
- Some other investment.
- Yeah. - Wow.
- [Jake] But then, the guy who makes this game,
if you buy stuff in the game,
he makes that money after there's some taxes,
and then he can then exchange that Robux back to real money.
So there's big companies that make games for this game.
- Wow.
All right.
Well, guys, it seems to be working.
Enjoy your Roblox-crushinating machine/video workstation,
and hey, thanks for shopping at LTTGamingPCs.com.
- [Jake] I'm gonna go buy that domain right now.
- Yeah, you probably should. - LTTGamingPCs.com?
- That would be best. Just redirect it to LTTStore.
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