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hey everyone i'm steve from gamers nexus dotnet and today we're looking at one of our many systems we use for daily operations here at gamers nexus what we're looking at right here is our render rig this is used to render the video that you're watching right now and all other videos it also serves our network attached storage solution and it's a very high-end gaming machine that we actually don't use for gaming it just as all gaming brand parts and it's used entirely for video rendering and on the rare occasion that it is used for games it is to capture gameplay footage at a very high bit rate so that we can render it out at a high quality for you guys so that's normally a 50 or 30 megabits per second with at least 1080 resolution if not 1440 or 4k so going over the specs for this system this is what Keegan gallic uses he is our in-house video editor and helps a lot with the film as well and this has an asus rampage for motherboard x 79 x 99 and that's board that i purchased out of pocket for use for the site and that board has a huge amount of DRAM timing controls and things like that that we actually use because we have three different kits of ddr3 memory from the kingston hyperx line the beast memory and they're all different cast timings and Layton sees and frequencies which happens because we test all these things so we don't want obviously the same kit over and over from manufacturers if we're testing different models that they output so we've got three different versions of that and that gives us 64 gigabytes of memory it is generally not ideal to mix and match memory but using the rampage for that we bought for the the system it's actually pretty easy to manipulate the timings manually and get them all working together cleanly so right now what you see in there's 32 gigabytes we've got another 32 gigabytes on standby and that is all Kingston memory and it's all quad channel because x79 the CPU is a 49 60 X the i7 extreme version from previous generation so we're not on the 5000 series for this rig and both those cpus the 49 60 x and the 59 30k behind the camera were provided by i buy power from their lab samples so that's we've gotten here and then on top of the cpu in here we're using a liquid cooler because i have a very slight overclock nothing crazy but just enough to increase the render times a bit so we've got an ace attack 550 LC on there which uses the i believe this is the copper cold plate one there's also an aluminum coldplay one that we tested previously so that's the liquid cooler that's on here and it's pretty basic just really enough to get the job done with a slight overclock our editing software is accelerated by cuda and videos architecture their core architecture so we have a gtx 980 in here non TI version it's it's it's an MSI one wasn't sure which one we use so that's an msi gtx 980 that we have from testing that actually came out of a cyber system we reviewed previously and that's enabled for cuda rendering in adobe premiere and then all the other processes get offloaded to memory on the cpu so that's the basics there for storage we have two hyperx savage SSDs which we actually awarded our editors choice award because they were pretty high performing and i was generally impressed by them the savage SSDs are purely striped they are not mirrored because we just didn't see a reason to mirror the OS it really doesn't need redundancy it's pretty easy to rebuild so we just have a raid 0 array with SSD is the 240 gigabytes each that gives us about 400 to 460 or so of usable space for the OS and core applications we want to raid because we wanted to be able to render out videos very quickly because storage in this kind of system is your only bottleneck and then for archival storage for media archiving and for actually all of our test data that is used throughout the two rooms used for the lab it's all network to be a gigabit switch and we've got three raid 5 hard drives the WD Reds at two terabytes in here so that produces four terabytes of usable space and then the third one is used for redundancy basically so these are mirrored and striped that means that they give us about 160 to 200 megabytes per second output when writing to disk but they're also redundant in case of a failure finally for the case and power we've got a be quiet dark power power supply in here it's I don't know it's more than a kilowatt which is really unnecessary for this build but it's just it's something we had lying around and it's a very high power and highly efficient power supply so that gives us room to grow and it also has different over voltage protections surge protections all of which are very important if we're working on media and then there's a power outage or something like that which they are frequently in this area so that helps us out with that and then the case is the mdx th 440 that we previously reviewed maybe a year ago I don't know when it came out a year or two ago whenever it came out we reviewed this and I think it also won an editor's choice award so I chose that for the render rigged so that is the GN render rig I thought I'd just show it off because it's really high on hardware and it's cool and we've really never had a system this powerful before in-house so it's it's our most powerful system we've built to date it's very good at rendering videos it can do a 20-minute video in about 20 minutes of render time which is very fast or if you do color correction it's about 40 minutes not bad at all as always if you like our content check out the patreon page and definitely subscribe to channel check out some of our other videos we did to CPU reviews recently and we've done innumerable GP reviews so that is all for this time I will see you all next time