- On today's episode of "The Most Expensive Thing
"Isn't Always The Best",
we are gonna take this.
The fastest server money can buy.
It's got 128 processing cores, a terabyte of Ram.
It's got storage that can copy files
at a hundred gigabytes a second,
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We'll begin by meeting the RTX 3090 graphics card
that we will be installing in our server.
And I use the word in kind of loosely here.
This is the Supreme X from MSI, and I actually get it.
That's a funny one, MSI.
It's like Supreme because you can't make enough of them.
And the prices get jacked up on eBay.
This thing has an absolutely massive triple slot cooler
three eight pin power connectors, three fans.
And of course everything else that you would expect
from an RTX 3090 graphics cards.
Got a full metal back plate, PCI express
gen four 60 X connector down here
and enough RGB to choke a horse.
Why anyone wants to choke a horse though?
I've never been here quite figure out.
Here's the thing.
It's not as though a server like this
isn't designed to have GPU's installed in it.
It totally is.
There's a riser right here
so the slot comes out at an angle.
You can actually see where using PCI express 60 next slots.
In fact, they're gen four as well for our storage drives
which are installed here, here, here, and here.
The issue is that server GPU is coming pretty
standardized form factors.
And a lot of the time they don't even have display outputs
or fans on them.
So they're designed to sit here and utilize the airflow.
That's already going through the chassis
for their own cooling.
Dell in their infinite wisdom also requires you
to buy a special GPU adapter kit
that comes with their proprietary cable.
So you can plug in your GPU and a bracket.
So we are gonna have to get a little more
creative than that.
I mean, how ironic is that?
Dell has a proprietary 12 pin connector
so that I can go to dual eight pin
and then back to a 12 pin if I put a Pinterest.
Fortunately, we have a plan.
Since we don't actually need to install this in a rack unit.
Anyway, we can just take a PCI extension,
jam it in there and run the graphics card wherever we play.
I could even put it on top of the monitor
if I really wanted to.
It's not really that crazy if you think about it.
I mean, the traces inside your motherboard
are basically just, you know strands of copper.
So all we're doing with an extension like this is
extending the copper strands some more.
Now we might run into trouble with
PCI express gen four signaling
since getting the timing right on that
is a bit more complicated.
But we already know that running an RTX 3090,
even on a gen three slot
which we can manually change it to if we need to
is only gonna cost us a couple percent performance.
So this seems like a reasonable compromise.
Before we can fire it up though.
There's a little trick here.
We're just gonna put a little wire into
the green and black pins on our ATX 12 pin connector
before turning our power supply on.
Plugging it in Server, here we go.
You can really hear the performance.
Look at this RGB.
It goes perfectly with our server.
It's a good thing we set the fans to the quiet pro file.
- [Man] It's just loud 'cause it has intrusion detection.
So if the top panels off it spins up.
- I don't know what we can do about that.
Where's the intrusion detection?
- At the back, but I think it's electrical too.
So even if you push it down, it needs to also be grounded.
- Hold on, I got this.
- [Man] Oh my God.
Do not unplugged that power supply.
Oh man.
- They call it me the PC surgeon.
That's an open heart surgery right there.
Okay, so what I'm hoping is that
we can trip the chassis intrusion detection thing
so that we don't have to listen to this noise quite so loud.
There might not be any getting around it.
No, I'll just deal with the noise.
It's easier for this to get dragged off the table
if the cables are hanging down.
Okay, I just need to keep those clear the fans.
You need fans for good cooling and make sure you get this
by the time this video comes out
that thing might finally be on lttstore.com.
- [Man] Wait, lttstore.com.
That's where you get this?
- Oh yeah.
- LTT store?
- This game will unlock in approximately less than an hour.
There we go, all right.
So we might actually get to play this.
In the meantime for anyone who didn't catch it
in our first video about this,
that's task manager, double flax.
The reason there's so many drives in this thing is
'cause this machine is actually going to end up
being our main video editing storage servers.
So those are all gonna be put together in some kind
of Linux rate or multitask or something like that.
But we're focused on the GPU RTX 3090 baby.
Also there's a terabyte of Ram in here
which are using 148 gigs.
Do you still have a Ram disk installed?
- [Man] Yeah.
- That makes sense.
We're not gonna end up using that for gaming though.
We had intended to like install all our games in Ram.
But what we realized is that
every Ram just software we tried
and there's like half a dozen of them on here,
was limited by the software itself.
Not by the speed of the memory.
So our honey badgers, even though we've only got
I think two of them like windows rated together
it's actually faster than a Ram disk.
Before we game, we've got some unfinished business though.
Blender wouldn't run
'cause we didn't have a graphics card last time.
So it's time for a blender CPU rendering flex.
Now even auto tile size defaulted to 64 threads.
And I keyed in 256
but I have a feeling that is not going to work
especially because we've got two CPU sockets
and I don't believe blender is pneumo aware.
So it might be limited to just one, but there we go, BMW.
- [Man] Oh no.
- It's utilizing it about 69%.
Not too shabby Lobby 48 seconds.
Classroom is something I expect to be like
a five to 15 minute test.
This is gonna do it in it's tracking about
two minutes and 35 seconds.
Of course because we're not benefiting from multiple CPU's
we'd be better off with a thread ripper.
Now, normally I would be impressed
that we're getting just shy of 200 frames per second,
4K alternate mirror details do maternal
except that when you're got a $60,000 machine
you might expect more bang for your buck.
Now the situation has changed a lot
over the last few years in particular
but video games are still relatively lightly threaded
compared to other applications like 3D animation
or video editing, even videoing coding in particular.
So what happens is if you've got a CPU like this
that is all about width rather than per core performance.
Well, you can pop into your task manager
and see what's happening here.
Our GPU is running it like,
now that's not quite representative of the real situation
but it thinks it's running at like 10% capacity.
Now based on the heat coming off of this
it's definitely working reasonably hard
but the fans are also barely spinning.
That's crazy town.
We're using 40% CPU, downloading a cyberpunk update.
Okay, that's some heavy compression.
This is one good looking freaking game.
Particularly with Ray tracing on.
Is that not unreal?
It's not, get it?
This is at 4K with RTX on we're using DLSS
but we've manually selected the quality setting.
So that's why we're only getting 43 FPS right now.
Of course, the question that we have right now
is how well or poor at best three gigahertz processor
is keeping up with our GPU.
Let's go have a look, shall we?
Wow, we are entirely GPU bound right now.
We're up to 75 degrees and at 97% usage.
Oh yeah, GPU power usage is anywhere
from 94 to 100% absolutely cranked.
So as long as you're playing Cyberpunk at 4K,
absolutely Maxed, your 3090 is gonna be the bottleneck.
For anyone who was wondering that's how
many chorus Cyberpunk can hit.
Assuming it has all the cores in the world to work with.
There were sitting at like 17, 18% usage.
Man, this game has the new crisis.
Like nothing is able to run this.
Absolutely maxed out.
Remember we're using DLSS.
We're only rendering at 1440 P and then it's upscaling to 4K
with that said from my experience with it earlier today
DLSS quality on this looks really good.
That is to say the DLSS quality preset
not the quality of DLSS.
Look at this fire Jake, look at these shadows.
Look at these shadows of the people
walking around on the street.
There's no like stair-stepping, there's no like jutter
'cause they're only refreshing every 10th frame.
Man, remember how good this game looked when it came out?
- [Man] It was hard to run too.
- And it still looks good.
But compared to Cyberpunk just now, it's like, no.
- [Man] It looks 10 years older.
- It really does, like how fake the sunrays look and stuff.
All right, so let's exit to menu.
And then we're gonna see if our load times don't suck.
'Cause we have 128 cores.
I don't know.
We've blown it up once just to make sure it's not
cloud sinking a profile or anything.
But this is what 25 gigabytes, a second in storage
and 128 CPU cores getcha for GTA loading times.
Let's see if it helps at all.
- [Man] Like if you were to do this on a hard drive
it might actually take like two or three minutes.
- No, I know.
I remember I used to benchmark this game on hard drives
back in the day, our test rigs had like 128 gig SSDs.
Like we couldn't have all the games on SSD.
Feel like I'm a grandpa talking to like, you know
the young boys that grew up with solid state, you know?
- [Man] I remember I bought my-
- That was not bad.
- [Man] That's pretty good.
- That's actually not bad.
- [Man] It's not as good as it like could be
like realistically that should have happened a little faster
but it's still pretty good.
- Yeah, not too shabby.
The game, it's like, oh look, you know,
we got rays.
- [Man] Yeah, and pre-rendered shadows.
- Yeah, pre-rendered shadows.
Nice, I mean these soft shadows are,
they're pretty good for back then,
but it's no global elimination.
All right, how hard is our poor GPU working here?
Oh boy, GPU one power is anywhere from a 65% to 92%.
So we are a little CPU bottlenecked in some situations.
Given it's running at a mere 2.9 gigahertz.
That kind of makes sense.
If you wondered how many cores
verifying your game cash takes, the answer is one.
You might think you know, Oh, 200, 290 FPS,
that's pretty good.
That is terrible.
I mean didn't we hit like 500, 600 FPS
on the new Ryzen 5,000 chips?
- [Man] Yeah maybe at 1080 P.
- Okay, that's fair.
That's fair.
- [Man] But still I don't think it scales that.
- No, I mean right now to give you guys some idea
we all turbo, we're now using
anywhere from 45 to 70% of our GPU
'cause we are so CPU bottlenecked.
Only one core was actually due here I think.
So, okay, it's not a gaming machine,
but the good news is that the things that we will do
with this, fast storage, fast networking
actually are heavily dependent
on having lots and lots of CPU cores.
So stay tuned 'cause we're gonna have
some updates coming around that.
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