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so it was from the observation that when you tighten an LG a retention bracket you'll have to look closely to see it though there's actually a lot of pressure on the CPU and it moves significantly as you lower the retention arms so I figured you know we're probably just not applying enough pressure if we'd found a way to tighten the heatsink down enough I think we could have pulled it off and but we didn't do that so now we need a new way to mount our coolers Kingston kc3 ten series SSDs feature firmware based power loss protection massive capacities up to 960 gigs and not to mention they perform well enough that we're using them in our 24 SSD server with that massive raid array so click right here to learn more Hey there we go alright we're back in business business of breakage it's really great that Intel provisions you know these emergency mounting mechanisms into their socket designs they think of everything I think we're on here that hey there you go she's posting with two CPUs installed let's get that other cooler on okay so we're booted into Windows it looks like all the hardware is working we haven't put in the second Titan X yet but there's time there's time for that I think we have to close out this video though so we'll finish up with just a validation that everything's in here so we can see the maximum speed of our CPUs how many sockets how many cores and threads we have stay tuned guys we're going to benchmark this thing want to check out power consumption want to see if we can crush some leaderboards so stay tuned for that in the meantime like this video now for you guys it won't really seem like we've made a ton of progress since last week it has been a full week since I've even been able to touch this but actually I've aside from cleaning up the desk area here I have been hard at work on trying to get this thing working now you can see it's working now but the issue is that this motherboard is really designed for server use not workstation use and in spite of mine and super micros and best efforts to dink around with a bazillion different BIOS settings and all of that stuff we got one card going but we couldn't get to and I really wanted to tighten X's in here not for SLI or gaming or anything but for more cute performance more of debt cuda so I have been waiting for two things to arrive number one is a Seuss's whatever this thing is Zed 10 PE - D 16 this is an a soos dual socket board as well as the dual 10 gigabit NIC that I'm going to need since that board doesn't have - 10 Gigabit LAN ports on board the other thing I thought I needed is these not too narrow mounting brackets but I don't think that board actually uses the narrow ilm so I may not actually need these anymore my zip ties were a great solution anyway I am so excited actually Supermicro has sent an additional board as well they sent one of their workstation ones so we're still not locked into using this one especially because their workstation one does have the LAN ports we need which means I can reuse that card somewhere else but you know JJ was all up in my business on Twitter being like yo Linus you should really be using a soos for everything so I figured I might as well at least give them a chance so here it is my friends the unboxing experience so many CDs and that my friends is the board itself so as I suspected it does not use the narrow ilm so that was all for nothing potentially and there we go still got 16 memory slots still got to LGA 2011 three sockets still uses 24 pin eight pin eight pin and whoa what's that we've got an additional four pin power down here so that is three CPU power connectors pretty fantastic we've got 6 SATA ports another four down here we've got whatever the devil all this stuff is USB 3 on a front panel header we've got an MDOT 2 socket which is pretty interesting so let's go ahead and get this baby I get this baby rigged up maybe with proper mounting hardware this time yeah I know right well people keep complaining that I'm not doing it properly so this time I'm going to do it properly they're going to end up with a boring video and no one's going to be happy that may be a Seuss to not see their hardware being the street okay now here's something you know many of you haters probably aren't noticing but go back and look for it me grounding myself out while I'm working I actually do do it I kill surprisingly little hardware I almost kill a lot of hardware eight okay it just counts down it hurts here it just counts down the entire range of postcodes that it can display this is not fairly why okay hey um well gee man I have had I have had better I went through hell with that Super Micro board and I was just hoping Asus quality man I'm gonna plug everything in and it's gonna be like rockin out and I am I'm in a super sad state right now do you need sort of the full update uh yeah I'm not aware of any of this I mean I guess it's something you're working on with with Roger yeah if you can at least let me know what but for now I can see what's inside I can give you and then hopefully we can kind of help help get things moving forward okay in consumer-based voice because there's a higher likelihood the consumers are utilizing higher end cards and newer cards that have GOP initialization policies support we have an auto routine built in that should an exercise that detect it allowed to become a payment okay so we actually got it to post and we didn't get that error with the network card in the bottom PCI Express 16x lot but we ran into a new thing where we couldn't see any of our boot devices so we pulled that out and we're trying again now so one way or another I'm not getting this video out on Sunday am I uh it still might be a possibility might be a possibility defense I can I might be able to actually get a hold of them today just a pencil and if I can get ahold of rpm teacher to get them to get Mira Corsa so unfortunately a Seuss's bios team was not available to work on a custom bios for me on the weekend so we're gonna have to settle for one Titan X but I don't want to leave you guys hanging any longer so we are going to run some rudimentary benchmarks with our two 2699 VIII's so our thirty-six cores are 128 gigs of ram and a single Titan X graphics card so we're going to kick the and one of the things that I want to look at well a number of things I want to look at is power consumption temps now that we have proper coolers on them I want to see what kind of turbo an we get out of something like a gaming workload and of course I want to see that Cinebench number check this out idle power consumption is under a hundred watts from the wall closer to 90 watts this is with an 80 plus Platinum efficiency power supply but still that means it's actually only consuming somewhere in the neighborhood of 85 watts at idle of course the story is going to change somewhat under load so let's go ahead and see how much we can actually draw here so what idle the CPU was sitting at about 1.2 gigahertz now it's turbo up to 2.6 when we're hitting it with a full load so you can see we've started a stability test here in I 264 and our CPU usage is sitting in the neighborhood of 98 to probably a hundred by the time it refreshes again percent and check that out that is with just the CPUs working that's the kind of power consumption we'd expect to see from a gaming rig including graphics cards but these are not CPUs for the faint of heart I think I saw that touch 500 Watts just hitting the CPUs so let's go ahead and let's add system memory does it let me change the stress test mid-flight whoo it really doesn't like that Denton uh let's see okay so memory usage is closing in at a hundred percent now and you can see that thanks to the efficiency of the ddr4 modules from Kingston that we're using we're still hovering around that 500 watt mark but now we're consistently or much more frequently around that 500 watt mark now we're going to throw GPU into the mix and see what happens so now that the GPU running we're actually seeing sustained loads in the high 600's and I've even seen peaks at around 700 watts but what's cool is we're still running at our max turbo frequency CPU temps are still very much under control in the low 60s to high 50s range in spite of the fact that the air is noticeably warmer in a sphere around this open testbench computer so this is good news it means everything's stable and we can proceed with the rest of our benchmarks next up is everyone's favorite multi-core CPU benchmarks in a bench ar-15 let's go ahead and run that bad boy so that is what it looks like to see 72 threads ripping through Cinebench I have never seen anything quite like it Wow so that's a score of 39 81 in Cinebench r15 so for perspective that's what a 12 core Xeon at 2.6 6 gigahertz is capable of and we completely left that in the dust by more than 3x reading mark I wasn't expecting to get like powerhouse amazing results thanks to the low clock speed of the CPU and the fact that we're only running one GPU so it's not exactly optimized for it but I was expecting a little bit better on the physics core that's actually significantly lower than you can do on a 4770k showing that while it is a multi-threaded test it can't handle 72 threads not so much so for our last trick we're gonna try and top the reel bench so that's a soos is our og benchmark scoreboard without an ROG motherboard I mean it's still an ASUS motherboard I'm sure they won't be too upset about it but oh I want to be able to have a look at how our multi-threaded CPU is helping us during this benchmark so let's get that baby open it looks like we're using like one of our threads maybe two two two two threads I have no idea if that image editing score is any good but the encoding benchmark is running and we're finally getting some CPU utilization only 50% Mac's so far oh oh oh here we go here we go okay so our final test is heavy multitasking and once again I am NOT getting necessarily the results I was hoping for we have not yet we have not yet broken our second see oh yeah there it is yes so our score was not that great system score 91,000 dish which puts us actually pretty far down the leaderboard something about the dual socket Ness is not appreciated by a lot of the benchmarks that we've been playing around with here but this is something that we kind of expected and I think ties pretty well into the conclusion for this video so I'm actually going to go I'm going to extend next to it here this kind of a system is not for desktop use we know this and it's I had a lot of people criticizing me on social media about the fact that we're even running Windows on it because this is the kind of thing that if you're doing some kind of serious number crunching that for whatever reason doesn't benefit from GPU you really need CPU for it for some reason that's what this is for and it's becoming more and more of a niche use case scenario in a lot of cases something like Linux might be better for those particular workloads but what people don't know is what we're actually doing with this system and what we'll be doing with it is not going to be general usage where we've demonstrated that you probably shouldn't have 36 cores and 72 threads what we'll be doing with it is we'll be running a specialized piece of software right now the front-runner is Sorenson squeeze server to significantly reduce the output times of our videos so that we can turn them around much more quickly as well as actually transcode footage upon ingesting off of our cameras so that it's easier for our pcs to work with while we're editing the videos creating something called a proxy so that is what the system is for and for that it will be excellent so you guys are going to want to stay tuned where we'll show well it hooked up to the 10 gigabit network we're going to show its performance rendering videos over the network once we've actually got the software we're using finalized and that is going to be a sight to behold even if running desktop grade benchmarks with GPUs that are running it well not bad high clock speeds wasn't that impressive today so thanks for watching guys like the video if you liked it dislike it if you thought it sucked leave a comment preferably at the link to our forum in the video description if you want to discuss it also linked in the video description you can buy a cool t-shirt like this one although this particular one is over on T spring so you're going to want to go ahead and check out the special link in order to get one of our first campaign Linus tech tip shirts also linked in the video description you can change your amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate code I think that pretty much wraps it up thanks again for watching and as always don't forget to subscribe wait that's a like I don't know what I'm doing anymore it's Saturday shouldn't even be working I'm not even supposed to be at work today three 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