hey what's up it's Jerad with state of tech and we have one of our first episodes of
the will at fortnight we have a mining rig and this is straight out of my small
little mining rig setup that I had I turned off some of my mining rigs
because it's just getting too expensive electricity wise to keep these things
cool and run in the weather that we have here in central California with it being
100-plus degrees all the time and the difficulty of mining and everything I
just decided to only run a couple of my rigs and to turn some of them off so I
thought let's try and see if we could actually play fortnight on this that we
have the rig here you can see I did remove most of the GPUs we just have a
gtx 1060 this is an EVGA we've got the asus motherboard we've got a Celeron
processor it's basically just two cores two threads so it's I don't even know if
this is gonna work I left the heat I let the GPU connected
to the riser which I wouldn't even think that that would work but we're gonna see
what happens we've got the 1300 watt PSU here which of course is way overkill for
this but it's what I needed to run six GPUs on this mining rig we also have
four gigabytes of RAM which probably isn't gonna be enough let me just show
you here the system settings or the system information we've got the seller
on G thirty nine thirty the 2.9 gigahertz actually I guess that is ain't
gigs of RAM I thought we had four gigs of RAM in there but that is an eight gig
stick apparently or at least it's being recognized as an eight gig stick and so
we're running Windows 10 of course I did have to go into task manager and just
shut some stuff off CPU was running at like 75 percent just with the base stuff
required to idle which I had to go and shut a couple of things down I think it
had to do with maybe some asus related drivers that were installed when I went
and just installed all of them I probably didn't need them so right now
I've got a little bit of my resources back I don't
how this is gonna go so let's go ahead and open up the epic games launcher this
is gonna be really interesting to see whether or not it worked now the first
time and I already launched this once just to get it installed and run the
updates you know fortnight will run its its test to see what kind of settings it
should apply for your your settings in the game and it went and actually set
them all to epic level 60 fps and sitting in like the lobby not having yet
joined a game or connected for a match it was actually showing me pinged out 60
frames per second which was a little weird a little confusing to me and then
of course once I went and and tried to kind of you know do anything I was
having problems so it'll be interesting to see how quickly things load here now
that I've kind of went and tried to least optimize the system a little bit
so that we could at least give it a fair chance I mean we're underpowered on the
CPU for sure the GPU is fine a gtx 1060 should do us really well but the the lag
here the bottleneck is gonna be of course the cpu eight gigabytes of ram is
okay but you know you might want 16 to get better performance where we also do
have an SSD and here 100 and I think 120 gig SSD so we're all right as far as the
hard drive goes so this will be interesting I don't know if we're gonna
be able to get much performance out of the GPU being connected to a technically
like a gen one riser for mining that's my concern I may actually have to take
the GPU off and put it on the motherboard but it wouldn't be a true
test of will it for tonight if we took that off and put it into a Gen 3 slot so
let's see what happens here looks like my FPS just is kind of hovering around
30 to 40 we've got the gosh 26 milliseconds that's quite that's quite a
delay so it'll be interesting let's go into battle royale and I'm gonna I'm
gonna make some adjustments to display settings this is a oh boy I'm
starting to see some numbers that I'm concerned with so we're gonna invite
boom Jim here to play with us I'm gonna go into my settings real quick 60 frames
per second I think I'm gonna set it to 30 just to see I'm gonna set view
distance I'm gonna put everything on high just I think that that's probably
fair now we're pinged out at 30 but they
obviously the delay is pretty crazy should I go 60 let's just leave it at 60
and see what happens I don't know it's not gonna happen we're gonna leave it at
30 I just don't want it to crash guys that's basically my main concern I do
want to see if we could actually game at Full HD I don't know if we're gonna be
able to do that so I'm gonna put on my headphones we're going to start a duo
match and see what happens at least this time I'm actually hearing sound and I
think I could probably hear boom Jim boom Jim or either oh yeah so we've got
everything working the way that it should be so I'm going to go ahead and
start our game and let's see what happens hopefully I can get through this
without too much lag and of course boom Jim will be able to carry me
because he's way more of an experienced Fortnight player than me and so this
will be interesting right now we're hovering at about thirty
that delay is pretty crazy though and I've seen some weird number dips and so
it'll be interesting just to see where things go as we play so definitely
you'll want to pay attention - boom Jim he's pretty decent his that's his handle
on fortnight and then of course - dad bought I oh it's just a handle that I
use when I play on games online with my kids so oh this is pretty laggy guys we
are are we're staying around 30 frames per second but I mean you can give me 30
frames per second that that's that lag that lag we were experiencing are you
gonna drop a pin boom so far I mean though it's there's some
lag there it's not too terrible it's still a little laggy it's like I'm
playing with a headache that's kind of how I feel right yeah oh that's
definitely a different experience for me I've been not that I play a whole lot of
fortnight but I mean this this is I'm not used to this kind of lag this isn't
too bad like I'm not you know I'm not hating
this but I mean if I got caught in a firefight
I would be done just because of the lag like right now it's not horrible
actually pretty impressed with this so far considering the specs it's
definitely got to be that 10 60 that's carrying this system but I'm really
surprised being that it's connected to that that gen one riser I mean I'm
impressed so that wasn't half bad I mean I seriously thought in the middle of
this video I was gonna have to power the system down and move that GPU down to an
actual gen 3 slot to get the kind of performance we were looking at and for
all I know maybe that would give us a little bit better performance but it
does play fortnight I mean that is the question here is with this system play
fortnight now a couple things I had to do it of course make this work better
the BIOS settings that had to be configured for mining I had to wipe
those and kind of go back to more default settings I did make sure that
Windows 10 was a little more up to date I hadn't updated it in a while but as
you can see I mean this system does fortnight so actually pretty cool I'll
put a specs list down in the description for you so you can see everything there
and the estimate cost of building a system like this it does fortnight and
this would be pretty inexpensive system if you didn't have such a high end PSU
and of course you know a reasonable case things actually wouldn't be too
expensive so with that let me know what you think down in the comments section
below what's something that you would like to see us try in fortnight let us
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