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hotspot Shield service makes your internet browsing safer more secure and fully private click now to learn more so our main video editor is actually getting a new editing machine so where it's more of a Frankenstein together of some existing things and you know get some new things and we're kind of we're going to end up with what's a very strange rig so for people who are sitting there thinking oh well this will be the optimal video editing works didn't no no no this is not necessarily what we're going for here his machine is built for a very specific usage model which is what he exactly does and that's that's pretty much it so I'm going to run through a quick parts list here starting off with an Intel Core i7 39 60 X this is where the whole this isn't necessarily stuff I would recommend thing comes into play because normally for a video editing workstation I'd probably recommend a 3930k as opposed to a 39 60 X because extreme additions don't really offer a great price to performance ratio we're going to have 32 gigs of kingston valueram ddr3 1600 absolutely nothing special just because it happens to be validated for the board that's some more important to us than necessarily squeezing an extra to 3% of performance out of whatever it is we're doing I'm going to be using an Asus Rampage 4 gene motherboard ok it's not a workstation board however it should be noted that even a Seuss's gaming or channel boards go through very a significant amount of validation in terms of sort of weird obscure card operation and stuff like that and he'll be running a 10 gigabit nic also it should be noted that ROG boards have very high-end PRM solutions we're going to be building this inside a small enclosure that's not going to have a whole lot of space so we're going to need something that runs as coolly and as efficiently as possible and in addition to that basically it's just as sweet as it gets in terms of micro ATX LGA 2011 motherboards because we want more cores we're running six cores in this machine 6 cores 12 threads because we need wicked CPU performance with that said we also need wicked GPU performance we need lots of PCI Express slots so we're have two graphics cards in this system one of them is going to be I'm just going to reach over here one of them is going to be a quadrille 4000 and we used to use this for all the CUDA acceleration as well as getting 10 bit color depth capabilities however we are going to be changing that up a little bit because this is based on a GTX 470 it's based on an ancient GPU at this point so it's kind of got a go which means that we still want it for the better color depth output but we need something a little bit beefier when it comes to CUDA acceleration and that's why we're adding a secondary graphics card to the system so we're going to be throwing in the geforce gtx 780 win force from gigabyte this should be able to stay cool data quitly because of its massive cooler even though it's in a very small m ATX case and should give us lots of CUDA acceleration performance for applications like DaVinci Resolve or outputting using the built-in h.264 encoding feature in Kepler diesel found a what was it it's a plugin yeah a plug-in that is allows it to use that to be much much faster than relying just on the CPU but of course we still need a beefy CPU because there are lots of things we're going to be doing that will be CPU bound as well for the power supply I don't know how borderline this is going to be but I've got a dark Power Pro 550 watt we're going to find out if that ends up sort of reaching the max or not once we finish the build so if it does then I'll swap it out for something else but I went with a dark power power supply because they're very very quiet and one of the things that happens a lot of the time with particularly diesels rig because he's got it running balls to the walls and maxed out all the time is that it runs really really loud so I'm hoping this will help a little bit although the CPU cooler is going to be a big part of that equation as well now I needed something low profile and this is again part of the get onus of this rig in spite of how awesome it's going to be is that this was the only low-profile CPU cooler I had lying around so this is a fan text pH TC 90 LS which is extremely low profile like honestly this could probably like a 1 you almost now probably like a to you but it's got this little tiny fan it claims to be LGA 2011 compatible and capable of dissipating a massive amount of heat that these chips output however I don't think we'll be doing any overclocking with a heatsink this size so there you go I guess we'll we'll find out what happens we might end up swapping this out as well but if their marketing claims are accurate then we may end up using it anyway I think that's most of the components oh yeah we're using a crucial M for SSD just because they're reliable we trust them it's not the best performing SSD on the market by any stretch but we're not really doing anything performance sensitive with it we've got a Velociraptor 1 terabyte that's going to go in there that just acts as a random scratch disk or sort of temporary storage but mostly we're going to be storing things off of the machine itself on our 10 gigabit capable Nazz server so that's why we need that 10 gigabit NIC card so that means we've got a single slot quadrille a 10 gigabit single slot NIC as well as a dual slot GTX 780 all in this machine now i ended up with a silverstone SGO one I was actually going to use what is that thing I was going to use an SG o9 but what I realized is that it doesn't have a five and a quarter inch bay and I wanted a built-in card reader because as you can imagine doing video production reading off of memory cards comes up a fair bit it also has built-in fan control and he's one of the few people I've ever met who actually tunes his fans according to what he's doing so I'll set that up for him as well and I think that pretty much wraps it up so here we go so the first step for me is usually CPU installation it should be noted that LGA 2011 CPUs never come with a stock heatsink I believe you can actually buy and Intel om heatsink although the cost of it and the performance of it makes like basically don't buy it please yeah it makes no sense whatsoever just get a nice aftermarket one or any aftermarket one and you'll be better off with that so you can see the LGA 2011 chip is quite large but installs in much the same way that you would have come to expect if you've are installed and Intel CPU before in LGA socket so there's a little golden triangle on that corner of the CPU right there and then there's a corresponding triangle on the socket itself now it is a little bit different in that it has to retention arms so you lift up the one that okay basically you can't take out the wrong one because if you pull on it it's it's stuck so you take out the one with the with the hook then you take out the one with the kink in the middle of it then once that's done you can lift out the entire hold down plate position the CPU inside the socket okay make sure it's in there then put this down put them back down in the order that they were originally removed in and remove the cover I only recommend removing the cover once you are done doing the things that you're doing all right so we've got some included thermal compound and I do put a little bit more on LGA 2011 CPU simply because they're larger and the dies under the heat spreader are larger than the LGA LGA 1155 1156 or 1150 CPUs now here goes this cooler so you can see we've got a nice shiny surface on the bottom it's all brand new it still never a bad idea to clean things off with alcohol but we're not going to worry too much about that in this case for mounting hardware at least this this cooler has an extremely straightforward mounting system this is what one of the things I like about LGA 2011 it's it's got a backplate built in which means that many coolers are just a matter of aligning the LGA 2011 screw with the built-in backplate and screwing them in you can see the springs on there are going to make sure that the tension is correct so you should be able to go all the way to the end of the stopper tightening in a cross pattern not tightening any of the screws fully until you are until you have all of them mostly tight so here we go okay we're back so diesel has seen fit to actually help me with this since it's his machine that I'm building right now so all we got to do is go ahead and put these under the little hold on do I do that right oh boy okay this is this is pretty finicky after careful consultation of the manual we realized we had the fan upside down so we flipped it around installed everything completely the opposite way and now it makes an awful lot more sense we should also you know since the whole point of this is we don't want it to be super loud you install the little rubber strips that are included so those should keep some of the vibrations from the fans from being passed to the heatsink itself so there we go by fans I mean fan there's only one singular grammar is important even though the world today doesn't seem to think so I really am getting old let's go ahead and hook those on so it should be noted that many heat sinks have this whole feature where there's a groove here that you can hook the wire clip into however most of them have some leeway and flexibility in terms of where you can hook them on to not this heat sink so these ones are straight these ones are grooved the wire only goes where the wire goes and that is it so I usually tie the CPU fan cable into a bit of a little knot so that it doesn't get in the way of anything before plugging it into the fan header so here's Diesel's x79 shuttle pc which was actually really hot at the back here because he was just editing on it so the CPU sockets right under there quite toasty this was serving us perfectly well except that limited expansion so there's that Quadro there's that 10 gigabit nic how do we add something that augments the CUDA capabilities of the system well we can't because it only has the two expansion slots so that's really the only reason why we're changing this out for something else so here's the here's the guts I'm actually pulling the RAM right now more than anything else and slick took my screwdriver so I can only take out thumb screws at the moment you almost done almost all right so there we'll do a tour of this to stall for time so there's that single slot quadrille 4000 that gives us up to ten bit 10 bit output right yeah mind you we only have any bit Pam at best we have a PA to 4/6 here it's ten bit I thought was a bit oh okay well there you go apparently we have a 10 bit panel so that's where diesel does all of his all of his color work and go ahead and pull these out there's that 10 gigabit NIC that gives him pretty much unbought all necked access to our raid array oh man this thing's hot holy cow ow it says right on it it's hot don't touch it so now we know all right so here's our RAM guys please do note that even though it might not seem like it I am grounding myself before I touch sensitive components so you'll usually ground yourself on chassis or power supply or some some large piece of metal is usually adequate if you were going to do things properly you'd want to use an anti-static wrist strap whether you put it around your wrist or your ankle is totally up to you so here's our quad-channel kingston valueram memory I really don't on our internal machines here we can install this in the rampage I really don't believe in spending a ton of money on fancy memory because I have not observed a huge performance difference however there are environments where you will see better performance from better memory ECC would probably be a recommended upgrade for this machine or well for a rendering workstation I don't know that the round page board supports ECC memory but ECC memory wouldn't be a bad idea for long renders where you don't want any errors you know causing it to stop working you know if you're running a lot of virtualized if you're doing a lot of virtualization faster memory can definitely benefit you but I mean for most of these workloads more memory is still kind of King more than anything else so here are the drives I just had dummy ones before that I was using as placeholder so these are going to come out and this machine is actually going to be inherited by b-roll so we're going to find some lesser RAM and lesser graphics card to put in there and then b-roll can make do with the on-board networking ha ha b-roll eyes got his headphones on he can't hear me so this case is really very Frankenstein it's been used a lot of times for a lot of different builds and I don't have half of the screws so it's just like random screws that are just jammed into places but I always end up back with this case because it's extremely versatile it fits long graphics cards they're reasonably long graphics cards I hope all the graphics cards fit oh man this would be a good time to find that out as opposed to later on down the line so we'll pull out the wind force card I don't know that I would have necessarily chosen a wind force card for this particular rig if if given a choice but I mean I'm not going to I'm not going to discard the wind force card and then like go buy another one separately oh wow yeah that isn't even close so we're going to have to pull out the drive cages I guess in order to have that card fit what I would I normally probably would have rather done well there's an takes on the side but I would have rather gone with a blower style cooler that exhausts everything out of the case but you know you make do with what you have I guess you know if we have to use that gtx 780 then we can but usually i recommend when forth cards for more of an open case design where there's a lot more space I don't need the front firewire cable still so I had disconnected that during a previous build and for that matter I don't need the front audio either because the five and a quarter inch Bay here this is what often urged me about these things is they're like yeah we want you to have all the i/o in the front of your case like why would I need a nut what case doesn't have front audio and what motherboard has you know two hookups for it so why are you giving me this I don't need this I want a card reader USB 3 II Sadow's fine but stuff words like a hundred percent going to replicate something that your case already had just kind of kind of irks me so anyway we don't need the front audio there so we're just going to use the hook up the front USB 2 and the front sort of power reset all that good stuff so the next stage now that we've stripped everything out of the case is probably to install the i/o shield so I'm just get all four sides just like that all the standoffs are already in this case so I don't really have to worry about moving them around or anything like that micro ATX is quite a bit more well more standard than ATX in terms of where the standoffs go some ATX boards particularly a few years ago had you know standoffs missing or standoffs added compared to other ones so you had to be a little bit careful to make sure that you don't short out your board by accidentally having a standoff installed somewhere where you don't need one it's actually a lot less important to have all the standoffs installed versus not having any extras installed extras are really really terrible so once the i/o shields in what we got to do is grab that their motherboard so this you guys are going to see why I needed to have a low-profile CPU cooler there is not going to be a lot of space once we install our power supply which I have misplaced there it is there's not going to be a lot of space once we have our power supply installed under there so even the even that stock LGA 2011 cooler I don't think is going to fit in this config so now we screw in the motherboard I don't remember which which type of screws it uses so the trick that I usually use is start with a small one so those are the ones that are threaded for optical drives often motherboard standoffs and then if those ones don't stay in then switch to a coarser thread one which are the ones that are threaded for hard drives for example so we'll go with this guy and you can see that that is indeed holding so it looks like this motherboard uses the smaller threads or this case uses smaller threads so I'm trying to figure out how to get the drives in here because I have to take out the drive mounting cage I'm stuck with one of a few different options so I can either just like bolt the bolt I mean the SSD I'm not worried about that one could just kind of hang out inside the case as long as it's like velcro to something but hard drives I tend to prefer a more stable mount so I was thinking what I could do is I could grab some silicone Isolators that I'd salvaged from another case and maybe just mounted in the bottom here by drilling some holes through the bottom of the case or another option would be to mount it in the five and a quarter inch Bay in a similar fashion in fact I think that might actually work best because then I could just take the SSD and this one chuck them in there and hopefully I would actually still even be it yeah I think so I think I can even still fit my five and a quarter inch card reader thing I run all these through here man give me a lot of cables in here it's a good thing we're using a modular power supply what is that Oh apparently i/o diesel like five hundred dollars because my camera broke his lenses or something so he's quietly sneaking that onto my desk before he goes it's like awesome alright so there we go yep it looks like I'm going to be able to fit all that stuff in there without too much trouble I really don't like how little room there is for airflow around that velociraptor though so I still might opt to put it down here this is kind of ridiculous I've I've never seen anything like this before but this multi multifunction front panel thing actually comes with its own self-tapping like plastic screws that go into some special holes that are just plastic and are not threaded at all it apparently uses a little tiny Phillips head bit so I'm going to have to grab a different bit unbelievable sometimes you just encounter like the weirdest stuff that just has no right to exist and you just kind of go okay well whatever when I'm building machines for my own my own personal use or for internal use here at Linus Media Group it's very rare that you'll catch me putting all the screws in especially for things like you know a front panel card reader two screws is fine you know you don't have to you don't have to attach every you don't have to weld everything to the case unless it's something where there's like you know a safety reason or a reliability reason that it needs to be attached incredibly well so I'll just put in on the corners although it could be argued that I should probably put in all four of these because they're like these weird special custom screws that I'll probably never encounter ever again so if I were to lose them then I would never be able to do a proper installation of this thing with all four screws so there you go I'll at least put them in a little bit so that they'll stay there and not come out I do have some new ideas for how to mount the hard drive well not really new ideas but I've went I've gone and obtained the hardware so I grabbed some awesome screws so these are hard drive screws that have a non threaded portion in the middle so I don't know even know if you guys can see that at all but whatever anyway and some silicone or rubber Isolators so I'm going to put some holes in the bottom of the case and I am going to mount that hard drive down here in the bottom I'm going to end up with a ridiculous amount of front panel IO stuff connected so HD audio goes into the AAFP over here that's one of the things I also like about this board it has a great onboard audio solution so when he's working on audio stuff which evidently he does apparently some point in time you know the the quality of it isn't going to be just so horrible that it's unusable I mean a lot of the time the issue with onboard audio solutions is less to do with even that the quality is terrible which it usually is but often more to do with that the drivers are terrible and I would have higher expectations than that from something like an rog supreme fx3 audio solution so there you go that's one of the reasons to justify a high end board if you really need to do that for yourself I mean really the reason for us going with the high end board for this is more to do with just we want the utmost in terms of reliability I could kind of considered overclocking it and so that was that was one of the reasons why we've gone with an rog board i mean particularly on a higher end socket like LGA 2011 you're going to expect to get better overclocking Headroom out of out of a better board with the consumer-grade platforms it's less less of a actor from what I've seen in the last couple Jen's um yeah I don't know not much else to say at the moment so I'm just plugging in all the front panel stuff so that was my front panel connectors they're labeled on the board I mean those little things high-end boards those convenient creature and comfort features that you don't really get on the low-end stuff where normally you'd have to go look in the manual or something like that because of the unique configuration with our five and a quarter inch Bay device and the fact that this board has four or this case has four front panel USB 2 ports we're going to end up with a total of six front USB ports which is great because he really uses a lot of them so we're go ahead and plug those in down here and I've got a phone call so I'm going to go ahead and take that oh how disappointing i miscounted the number of front USB plug in devices that I had versus headers so actually two of the ports on the front will be dead so that the card reader can get the USB connection that it needs that's a shame and it comes on its own full block here even though actually only for the pins are populated so it could have in theory supported at least one more port but oh well cable management here is going to be a bit of a bit of a trick just because all those cards have to be installed somehow I usually cut these off these days these this is the old AC 97 onboard audio pins or wires or whatever you want to call them so if you're not going to use them which you're not unless you're going to install like unlike a Pentium 3 computer or something and just you can just cut them off because otherwise they can be in the way of things just make sure you don't cut them off in such a way that they're going to short out on each other or anything like that so this gives us a lot less room for that brilliant harddrive mounting strategy that I'd come up with which could make things a little bit challenging maybe what we can do is we can take all these wires and we can actually manage them up here off of off of sort of ground level so that we don't get in the way of everything so if we just kind of tuck everything over here we should still have space for the long card which I've decided is going to go in the third PCI Express slot so that's a full 16 X slot so full bandwidth yeah yeah and there we go so we should have room for that and the Quadro should fit just fine where there's a little bit less room so that one will go right there like that yep should be just dandy okay so here I'm a bawling approximately where on the bottom I want to drill the holes for the hard drive I don't know off the top of my head what the spacing is so what I did is I marked approximately where I want one of them to go with sort of landmarks of junk that goes through and just making sure that things like this that are poking through are going to be interfering with anything so apparently we'll sit about there but I'll do is I'll measure this out and drill holes so wish me luck with that I don't recommend drilling holes in a system with components already installed in it but there are things you can do to prevent it from being as much of a problem so you can put masking tape over it so that the shavings don't go flying all over the place oriented so that they fall away from the components and all that but really please don't do that in general alright so hopefully these are approximately right I hope yeah I still have audio oh here we go Oh went to the moment no I'm just kidding all right next hole okay number two and I was only able to put in three because one of them ended up under this foot so we'll just see how this goes okay no idea if these are going to align or not but the only way to find out for certain is to measure before you do I mean just try things all right here we go where are the holes where do they go there's one sort of it's hard to see here wait wait for it yeah that's not a hole hmm that's interesting ah yes I see the problem now right I moved it further down because I didn't want to interfere with the SATA ports other than that there's nothing hanging off the right-hand edge of the board that would interfere with plugging things into the hard driver that the hard drive would prevent from operating correctly all right so there's one of them so one of them definitely lined up with something all right so the idea being that ah that's a shame that's the biggest drill bit in slicks kit so that's not big enough to put these through without the threading unfortunately which means that I might have to go back to the back to my own house to get my own kit to do that okay well we'll continue this when we're ready oh not that one almost lines up so that should be good enough for our purposes here so I did without and remove the motherboard so yeah the mess of all the filings around here is less of an issue I was able to find another wider bit so I did end up being able to drill the holes that I need so my brilliant plan is screws through here okay I've only got three still just because that foot was in the way then I'm going to put the rubber Isolators on the other side then I'm going to attempt to screw in the drive so this is going to be a bit of a balancing act here I've gone ahead and put the board back in off camera now so that's done oh wow yeah because all of these have to go on I hope you guys can see this yeah all of these have to go on and they all have to kind of stay in place at the same time which isn't going to be easy it's okay these are the challenges that make PC building fun as opposed to you know just buying things that all work together in the first place yeah that's for noobs something no actually this just makes it more stressful but whatever alright so we're going to go ahead and put that drive on there now Wow worked okay I don't need to mush the crap out of those Isolators just got to make sure that it's reasonably firmly mounted and there we have it the hard drive is now mounted actually pretty darn securely I don't have as much clearance over on this side if I as I had hoped for the connectors but that's okay I'll just go find a left angle connector for the SATA port and then we'll figure out power can't be that complicated and there you have it alright so I did manage to get just regular straight SATA connectors in there although it's extremely tight so we'll add this to the long list of things I wouldn't recommend doing about this build I got my industrial-strength velcro so I'm going to go ahead and attach the SSD I decided rather than using up a five and a quarter inch bay I mean the whole the whole you know notion of drives must go where the manufacturer says they should go to me that really that really that really bothers me drive should go wherever is most convenient and awesome so I'm going to go ahead and put some velcro on the back of this drive so that will give me the option to add an optical drive later should I should I choose to by doing this this way so I'm adding sticking the velcro side to here and then I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to put this SSD kind of here ish kind of here-ish know I'm going to put it here there we go so the SSD will go there that separates it enough from that velociraptor that I don't have to worry about heat or anything like that because I had thought about just sticking it straight to the top of the Velociraptor but then I changed my mind about that don't want the SSD to have its lifespan affected by its neighbor like I do can you guys believe I have to sit like right across from diesel my desk here at work right across from him I mean the music he listens to he listens to Bieber so for all those of you who think he's cool now I guess that is pretty cool oh wait so all of our front panel connectors are all attached I'm starting I've wired up the drives now it's pretty much time to get the expansion cards in here no see now you've got that song stuck in my head wow this side this case is a knot it has seen better days let's just say that the spacing of like the PCI bracket isn't even right anymore that's the thing about aluminum cases is they often they often Bend in pretty spectacular ways so oh this is a PCI okay well here's a good tip for you guys PCIe 8 X cards can be installed in PCIe 4x slots you might get slightly less overall bandwidth available to the card I don't remember on these 10 gigabit cards whether they actually needed all of the available bandwidth I think each PCIe ah 2x Lane our pcie 2.0 Lane is around 250 megabytes per second so we should be pretty close to all that it can can actually but there you go I ideally I would put it in another slot but in order to get all my cards in here I'm talking to work so this case has kind of a unique fan arrangement here which I actually had turned around before so I had this as exhaust and this is intake but I'm going to put those back in the default configuration so I can bring nice fresh air down to particularly these ones there's vents in the side the wind force can take advantage of but particularly these ones I want this fan to get nice fresh air and I want this heatsink to get some incidental cooling as well so last but not least the wind force gtx 780 for cuda I can see diesel droolin over there about the fast output times you're not drooling are you it's okay because I can't see you either so everything I said was a lie everything I said was a lie except the part about installing this graphics card there we go so one screw I actually only had three screws in there so I'm just going to find another random one there we go and put that in there alright so that my friends is one monkey jam packed card configuration love it alright so I turn the fans around you can see right here is where the power supply sits on the other side so this piece of steel this piece is aluminum since it doesn't really do anything other than hold a couple of fans there's no actual structural integrity of the case that's being taken care of I'm pretty sure this isn't how you're supposed to put it in but yeah I'm pretty sure a lot of the stuff we've done with this build isn't how you're supposed to put it in now this bracket uses those weird countersunk screws that only silver stone and like at some other sort of weird manufacturers seem to use and I only have like two of them so I'm going to put this in as best as I can without having to use too many of them if you don't use the countersunk ones though then the the case cover doesn't sit right so you just kind of have to you kind of have to use them maybe this one will work we'll try this one so that's pretty low profile so there we go now we have our cooling fans in place I just got to find somewhere to tuck these this is a this is a working machine not a show machine so cable management is a bit of a secondary concern as long as it's out of the way of airflow I don't get too uptight about it and stuff like this so there we go yeah we've got nice unrestricted air flow from our intakes to our graphics cards and it's pretty much time to get the power supply in here now with these smaller form factor systems I often find it's easier to install the modular cables first and then actually install the power supply so I'm going to start with I really wish these would stay under that USB cable that is supposed to be kind of anchoring them I mean I could cable tie them down which would be a better way to do this but trying to get this done so that diesel can get back to work because it is now the next day Wow the 780 takes to eight pins today I'll do that I can't even remember all right so I'm going to run this through over here then over here because once we bought the power supply in this case it's going to be a total nightmare to get my hands in anywhere so just get it all done now make life easy for ourselves I mean as easy as it can be when you're just making your own drive mounts as you go and sort of playing by no one's rules except your own not even your own alright I think there's that yeah so this part this is one of the things I like about be quiet power supplies is they tend to come with sort of a bunch of different options in terms of the modular cables so it comes with a dual PCIe and a single PCIe on a 550 watt power supply I think the manufacturers expectation is that you're using one of those two options but we're going to go ahead and use both I mean they give you the modular connections on the power supply for it so you know they asked for it I guess my expectation for a dark power power supply is also that it's going to be able to handle pretty much near its peak output at any given time so I'm not worried about blowing it up or anything like that next up we've got our wow that's a long cable this is where those short cable kits that guys like silverstone sell come in handy because this is an awfully long cable and the only real way to cable management is going to be to check it back here or something or or potentially actually we could throw it over here with all these other cables near the hard drive that'll probably work but it did if we were relying on any airflow from the front of the case which this case doesn't have then this isn't really something that I would want to do too much so there's that one and finally the 24 pin connector is pre attached to the power supply so we're pretty much ready to put the power supply in and find out if this system works at all it comes with its own special screws I'll find those and right at exactly the moment where I had found some other thumb screws that also had nice long threads on them Diezel found the be quiet thumb screws that have even longer threads so that you can really you know put them on there and get that power supply installed I like the noise isolating strip I wish that it didn't reduce compatibility with other screws but you know sometimes that's the sacrifice you have to make so there you go so those are installed which brings us back to the inside wow this is starting to get heavy with those graphics cards in there so that brings us to the inside so we're going to tuck our 24 pin actually no we're going to plug in the modular cables that we have here first so try and get you guys a decent view of that so PCI Express we have four different PCI Express plug options here again the thing with the whole like options on the be quiet power supply is that I ask that I quite like next we've got one four drives alright oh actually let's do oh cool it has fan plugs too so we could actually using manual fan control in the front of the case but if we weren't using that then we can have the power supply control our fans which is kind of neat actually all right so the CPU connector goes over here most modular power supplies these days use the same plugs for the p4 connector or p8 connector whatever you want to call it and PCI Express but this one doesn't it has a specific spot for it I wonder if it has to do with the way that the rails are distributed because it is not a single rail power supply it is a Multi rail power supply so we've got that we can tuck our 24 pin up here in the five and a quarter inch Bay at least until we wanted to install a five and a quarter inch drive maybe at some point in the future and then what I'm going to do this is something that I often do with builds is I use cables to cable manage so I'm going to use the 24 pin to hold all that other stuff out of the way of the CPU fan so that there's nothing interfering with it so if I can just get in there a little bit better I should have plugged this in just like I did with all the other cables first before I actually installed the power supply fully because the cave was so long I could have gotten away with that even though it's pre attached this is one of the reasons why full modular can be nice even if it's not a necessity because it does allow you to fully wire up your system before you actually have to put the power supply in it or if you're RMA in your system or your power supply for example it can be a great way to not have to actually rewire anything when the new one arrives back which is neat as well I'm having a little bit of difficulty here yep having some difficulty a little trick guys if you plug the four pin in first then the 20 pin will often sit on top of it and lock it into place depending on how the cable is designed and that is how this one is designed so that's in there now and then the last thing we need is it would be just like be quiet to include something like this but I need like a single molex oh they got a single SATA alright so I was close and a single molex look at that I love it I don't need any more than that so I'm just going to plug in my dual SATA connector for the drives down there oh trying to get you guys a view of this but it's not working too well so that's going to go into drives number five and then my other my molex connector is going to go into drives number four and I'll be using that to power my front panel five and a quarter inch Bay device which is going to power my fans and my built-in card reader and evidently all the other things one thing I didn't show you guys is I did plug in the SATA connector for the eSATA and the front panel so all the i/o options will be had with this particular machine very cool there we go not the greatest cable management I've ever done but lots of clearance around the CPU cooler which hopefully works otherwise we're gonna have to pull the power supply out and swap that out for something a little bit taller perhaps and hopefully ample cooling for those graphics cards and hopefully enough power so there's a lot of things to test once we fire this bad boy up so it's moment of truth time we're going to find out if she boots up I really hope we get into the OS because we don't have time to reformat before packs so yeah if there's any kind of hardware conflicts or anything like that oh we've got an ROG logo that's a good sign there's our 10 gigabit NIC so that's detected fan control seems to be working alright so we've got that going here new CPU installed press f1 to run set up 32 gigs of ram both of our hard drives are detected this is all looking pretty pretty solid so far I've wonder around seven let's make sure we don't have any sort of completely weird this is something I really recommend doing right oh that CPU is at that 57 degrees already that is a big that is a big problem at idle we should be not sitting at 57 degrees hmm that I'm not happy about I wonder if there's anything we could do fan wise to be a bit more aggressive although often a very high idle temperature actually indicates a bad mount so we may want to take it right off and then put it back on and see if I see if that alleviates the problem well let's find out if she'll boot either way I mean sixty degrees is hot but it's not it's not it'll brick immediately if we go into an OS hot so that's a shame let's find out reboots I guess you guys can come along for the ride if you want we're pretty much done here I was just thinking uh because diesel and I were having a conversation about the irony of Amy Winehouse making a hit song this is actually his observation not mine I can't take credit for this I would blame or whichever making a hit song about not going to rehab and then dying of drug related complications and I was actually thinking so this is my contribution to the to the discussion that the the name irony should actually be different because irony has iron in it which rusts and deteriorates over time but irony I believe will be just as delicious a thousand years from now as it was a thousand years ago when dinosaurs and their hubris okay I think for dunya so rendering oh okay we got away well either way we're into the OS so I'm not too worried about it at this point so that's great the upgrade worked we just got a diagnose our CPU oh yeah we got to find out about power consumption as well so we're sitting at 160 watts idle right now so we'll be back so this is a bit of a public service announcement on why ps2 keyboards are still important and ps2 ports are still important because they don't require any drivers so we boot it up again and we're still not getting our keyboard and mouse drivers loaded now ps2 doesn't support hot hot swap on many are hot plugging or whatever you would call it on many motherboards so we're going to reboot this and then we should be able to use the ps2 keyboard to at least navigate into the OS where the drivers are more likely to be picked up and installed all right so I'm pretty sure at this point that it's not a bad mount just because it doesn't really seem to be behaving like one but there's only one way to know for sure what I did determine is that there is enough room in here for the stock cooler that we happen to have one of so we're going to go ahead and install that but once we pull it off we'll be able to tell for sure if it was a bad mount or if it's just not quite up to the task of an extreme edition on LGA 2011 here now I think I have some bad news I think I can get this one out but I don't think I'm going to be able to get that stock cooler in without removing this brace here so I really really hope that that doesn't end up being the case but we got to work with what you got yeah see that that's a perfectly fine thermal paste application there so I really don't think that was the issue it's not too much not too little just right as Papa Bear would say or Goldilocks or whoever it was that it was Goldilocks apparently okay well whatever man so I'm gonna you know speaking of perfect thermal paste applications I'm going to commit a sin here and I'm going to just kind of plunk this on top of the old thermal paste once I can find something to wipe it off with do you have any TP really I stole it I call rubbish on that okay that does sound like e all right time to put a beefier cooler in here so I've at least cleaned off the base so we're going to go ahead and then I guess we'll install it first I really hope this fits our above a screwdriver fits and I'm able to get in there and screw it in come on come on come on Gil oh I think we got this nice oh except that wire that's under the heat sink that'll be a problem at some point in the future here in like four minutes okay same thing across pattern this side first remember going in at an angle is okay as long as you're careful and gentle as long as you don't cross thread the screw what did you guys think I was talking about okay one two three and four there we go so we have a slightly better cooler in there now it's still a stock cooler still nothing special about it but at least it should work at stock speeds without sort of running too hot or anything like that so we're going to fire this bad boy up back up once I've closed it up again and take a baseline reading of the temperatures and the BIOS again to make sure that it's running all right okay so our CPUs still running a little bit on the toasty side but the funny thing is it was showing up as lower in real temp than it is in the BIOS here so maybe it's some weird rog feature I've never heard of either way I'm going to just kind of go for gold here and we're going to go your CPU level up which is a soos is super simple overclocking utility thing we're going to go for 4.25 gigahertz just to see what happens so wish us luck with that and as long as as long as she's stable and doesn't exceed the maximum power we can draw from the wall which is going to be around 600 watts because we're looking at about 90% efficiency on this power supply then we should be okay let's see if it even like boots now fans ramping up we set it to turbo mode for the automatic fan speed control see you at the LS all right so we're finally done the rig upgrade overclocking was a complete no-go so we're trying to figure out how to liquid cool this thing at some point here that's dock cooler just know it's know we might be able to turn clock speed up a little bit but we're not able to use any of Isis's CPU level up stuff so now to make sure that it can handle fully loading all the components inside we're running prime95 in place whatever it is the one that does a lot of CPU and some memory so we're sitting at around 320 watts at the wall now we're going to run the Ariane bench 64 to load up both of our graphics cards with a CUDA benchmark here to find out what our absolute max power consumption is going to be with this system so there you have it guys I knew it was going to be borderline this isn't the first time we've run this so that five hundred and four Watts we're seeing right now is not quite the peak the highest I saw was around five hundred and sixty watts which means when you factor in that the power supply is probably only around 83 to 88 percent efficient at this kind of a load means that we are actually nowhere near the maximum load of the power supply with that said you should allow for a power supply to age a little bit and become less efficient and less capable over time but particularly with very high quality units it's a much less of an issue so a dark power Pro should be just fine for that so we're calling it good on the power supply side we got to figure out better CPU cooling at some point but other than that the new workstation is ready to rock so don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it I know this was a bit of a departure from our usual style and leave a comment and let us know what you thought of this build guide sort of