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um six editors one cpu part the fourth we fired 69 part four okay section four okay try to be less annoying you had a lot of comments how I saw them here so here's what went down six workstations one CPU was a project that I invested many many many hours of my time into trying to figure out what it was was it software was it hardware was it firmware was it drivers what was causing the crashes whenever we tried to load up certain virtual machines in our latest crazy virtualization project and the answer it was the hardware I love a soos loved them very dearly but what I don't love is this slot and this slot because they are dirty little slots basically either they just outright don't work or they're bifurcation which means taking sixteen PCI Express lanes and splitting them out into to 8x lanes so you can have two separate devices running at 8x doesn't work but that's okay thank you Jake you can pack that backup for me because we have this so back when I started the project this board didn't exist this is a dual LGA 3647 socket motherboard from Ty an it also has support for 12 memory sticks so we can put the same 384 gigs of ram on it it also has 10 gig networking onboard and a bunch of it's got you dot two connectors and this one oh look at this is that is that is it is that 1111 PCI Express slots so this is gonna be fun because today we are gonna get it working for real hopefully thermal takes a 500 has a modern minimalistic design brushed aluminum panels and dual hinge wing tempered glass doors check it out today at the link in the video description so to be clear asu's is actually still working on a fix for their board by the way massive shout out to Wendell for helping us figure out the the bifurcation issue but in the mean time we did want to try something else because we want this project done and tie an claimed when we contacted them that it would be no problem in fact they actually had a couple of words that could work this one that I showed you which was kind of a lie because we're not going to use this one because it doesn't fit in any case and the one that's actually on the test bench right behind me here so this is a standard SSI EE B form factor board just like that one with the main differences being that it's only got seven PCI Express slots just like the Asus port that we were using it's got three of these u dot two looking connectors over there more on that in a moment it's got its two m dot twos and I mean yeah it just doesn't have 11 slots like it's still got six slots for memory and all of that good stuff so we're basically ready to rock and I want to walk you guys through what I have set up here for those of you who haven't seen this madness before so in our top slot here we've got an external PCI Express like sort of riser card with an extender cable that runs over to this daughter board here the reason we want this is that we want each one of our VMs to have its own dedicated USB 3 controller so that if we had to do say for example a high speed ingest of footage for editing or whatever else everyone could do that without running into a system bottleneck so right now all of these cards if we were to pin them all at the same time it might be a little borderline because this is a PCIe ATX link right here but if we went 16x which we may be able to do in the finished one I don't imagine that would actually be a problem the last thing over here is a 10 gigabit networking card but we'd like to go 100 gigabit for the final project so we're running the same Thermaltake PCI Express extensions that we were using before except Jake actually had the ingenious idea of instead of just stacking the cards next to the bench on the table grabbing this old DIY mining rig that he had lying around and putting all of our Titan v's on that so at least something good came out of that whole mining craze for the rest of the hardware we've got to ax 1500 i power supplies just because of the way that this whole thing hooks up we'll come up with a better way to do that later and then we've got the octane 905 PS that we were planning to use as our boot drives with these adapters from Utah to to PCI Express 4x now one small problem and that is that these while they are physically the same connector as nvme you got to it's actually called sssomething crazy it's a mini SAS HD yeah that's me SAS HD so this is meant to be used as a breakout into just for like SATA connections or a bunch of so there's no actual PCI Express backing for this so that's where these MDOT 2 drives come in and maybe we'll do use adapters to go to these to go to the other whatever but cross that bridge when we get to it the last change is that we're running Zeon gold cpus because I actually dropped one of our 8180 Platinum's and it's got a dead memory channel and so just for troubleshooting purposes we wanted stuff that definitely works cool but there's good news check this out so here's workstation 1 we're gonna grab our top Titan v it's a companying sound card we had to apply the same fixes for PCI stubbing so that we can get all these USB cards showing up here as well as ACS override downstream multifunction so all that's done just like last time we're gonna go ahead and fire this up now this should work and it should show up over here mind you we had a single V I'm working just fine on the other one also we need to make sure that our daughter board which is some weird weird friggin hardware is working correctly as well so it was one of the Renaissance it must be this one it's this one of this one our mouth should light up there's a 50/50 chance that our mouths will light up it did not but that's okay because there is still a 50/50 chance just kidding it should be a hundred percent actually it's probably less than a hundred percent it's just a chance it won't work but it's setting up a device is it oh I couldn't see that cute device is ready The Sentinel 3 is ready to go come on baby anytime mr. Sentinel or miss Sentinel okay hold on no no we thought there was a chance this might happen well it's working Oh working ha oh hell yeah I was like less than fifty fifty that this was gonna work well that's great so then now we just proceed right anymore yeah should we just like fire up like a game or something so here's what we're gonna do for each one we're gonna name it we're gonna go ahead and I think that'll do giving it each one of them a three core CPU because we don't have a lot of CPU cores right no I need to either buy a new one or beg and plead with Intel to send me a new one which I strongly suspect they are not going to want to do because that team and I are not on the best of terms right now so I saw in there the CPU mode isn't hosts pass-through mode so we're using that to hide the virtualization from the Nvidia drivers that's yes so they don't give you that weird error and that's right because they want you to buy Quadros yeah so they specifically bacon a specific error just as a nephew it's not like we cheaped out you know gb 100's they're only like 10 grand right you think they'd send us six of those no touch me what wait what is that Oh what the hell was that another VM well which one is that what's going on here which one did you just turn up turn on yeah you just turned one on wait what does Windows 10 what is this one I don't know so this is great it's actually Wendell to the rest region or at least his community over on level one Tech's forum so what it is is that we had assigned the USB device to one of the VMS then booted that up shut that down tried to assign it to another one and then boot that up and some devices have an issue where they'd like they don't get fully let go of we had this problem with the Radeon r9 nanos or whatever those things were called from the original seven gamers one CPU where if we had a crash in one of the VMS we would actually have to completely reset the entire host in order to reboot the VM because of just the way that AMD's I believe it was a firmware issue in that particular card was implemented so we're just gonna go one at a time we're gonna take it slow baby slow hands snow chance okay there's one got my pointing finger ready wait there it is I had my boss that didn't have my pointing finger ready anymore okay two three there comes number four oh I want to back up I don't want to get in the way of that too much horsepower as you can see the graphics drivers are loaded like that was our problem we were able to light up lots of VMs before but now like but they're not crashing and the graphics drivers are loaded like they're running at the right resolution it's working device manager uh display adapters yeah okay all right all right it's got a table oh wow that's my toe okay so this is not a great table it's like three quarters of a desk that's a budget cuts you know it's January you know how the YouTube ad revenue that's everything gets slashed in all seriousness though we're just using these like hobby board pieces we're making our own tabletops we think this is gonna be for the upcoming land center so this is like the first prototype we've got these raising desk sheep what well relatively look at the Lord I mean they were inexpensive yeah that's a that's a yeah bad use of words isn't this crazy why would you ever need a desk this tall maybe if you're like seven feet tall yeah yeah okay okay I'm putting it because we're gonna cover this in keyboards and mice where all the keyboards and mice for this project also how are we gonna plug into USB it's way over there so I'm saying we unplug all the power things because we could just leave that power supply there and just move our board over there yeah hell yeah stop all kill everything with fire shut her down use your pointy finger how do you do that so well there you go that was a little better getting the hang of it it's not as easy as it looks okay are they all doing it I mean presumably they're all running on the same image this board is so trippy like it takes a 24 pin 5 and then 5 8 pins are they all EPS yeah who the hell has five EPS connect like what servers see that's the thing though what server has a modular power supply and know what server has five EPS connectors on I don't know but I think have to be purposeful the Tesla V 100's have EPS connectors they don't have PCH I know they do it's a single 8 pin and then you can adapt to PCIe 8 pins into one EPS a pin that's madness yeah ok there you go so you need all your power connectors in there and it's like very professionally mounted top-quality I know how much you love these fans that are just literally in here as spacers and not even plugged in yeah man got to use noctua for everything I can't wait to order the cable mod kit for this build ha ha Thomas is gonna be like what do you need $1,200 of cables for ok ah hit it with my best shot I love it this these tie on boards they have onboard power buttons for like bench operation so 250 times 6 is 1500 Wow I think these aren't these more than 250 you don't sound very certain about any of this at this man so I'm not really listening anywhere I'm googling here let's ask Google why don't we go get the keyboards in nice that mean how many watts is a Titan V we have 110 teraflops of watts how many key parts do we need o 4 5 5 where did all the keyboards bill you can't even hear him it doesn't matter if they're racks this is just for testing karat all right I'm coming what is this you said grab random ones oh I can't type on this chair okay this doesn't work oh why is it still a thing that's like I don't know it's sentimental there was me grabbing actual keyboards no Jake you don't need to grab actually reversal on these are broken Oh doesn't matter it doesn't matter looks like the budget cuts are really hurting us here we're short on space so I I don't know which is which right now so what I look kind of thinking are they actually plugged in properly no hello Dennis wild Venice appears so I don't know how but we somehow made this more jank than your setup I think so hold on a second which ones one okay so one is the top let's go one two three four five six oh god let's just group them all together just screw it or just let's make sure we have two on each oash I plug in the 10k babe hell yeah let's do it oh yeah somebody's walking past the basketball hoop a little confused what what's that for it okay is this in like some kind of a mode where for whatever reason H is volume down do you not have enough disk space oh god how big are these disks uh uh oh no not huge try just uninstall premier you can do whatever you want it's a free country yeah wait what no don't run the stuff from you as a pain in the ass so theoretically all we have to do is pop open Disk Management now and extend volume boom boom boom and bippity Boppity we're steam big volume it's open it's beautiful so what are we using Cisco cache right so this is why the steam catch it's pretty great right so we've got that one going at 40 that one going at 40 there's some other ones presumably that's the only one pulling off the steam cash but how do you know well cuz that's the only one I configured to pull up the steam cash why do you need to configure it I thought our DNS settings are just I don't think we did in the rotor I thought you did yes I wasn't me it wasn't me hey there we go see it was using the cache 40 40 40 40 nice oh my back is back this one's at 70 50 that's looking hot if you're into that sort of thing so when we do put the land center over there we'll be able to all download games that like Cisco hell yeah hell yeah so now we have like updates all these people does Windows Update - right you play origin or you know I don't I don't know people got to have a bad time okay guys come on over I have a primo primo gaming experience for you guys six workstations one CPU is officially working we haven't quite worked out the logistics of the keyboards and mice these are all bought matches so everyone feel free to find a keyboard and mouse and figure out what the crap screen you're running on oh and that one you said it's premium we're we're actually marketing people so if we don't know yeah we're primo this is primo we're gonna kill ya and the audio is a little bit messed up because we don't know which source this monitor in particular is pulling audio from we can actually have a look at our CPU usage here so you can see the course that I have assigned I left a core one alone so cores 2 to 18 or a sign and you can see we're sucking up anywhere from 70 50 to as high as 90% usage on these cores playing cs:go so this is good enough but there would be games that would be more demanding where we'd run into trouble so it's working this is crazy exciting but the next stage is productivity so we need higher-end networking we need faster boot drives we're gonna move to op teen and we're gonna try to edit 8k video on all six of these workstations at once but this is a good start master ops sennheiser HD 6 xx headphones are some of their best selling of all time with over 60,000 units sold and I can see why because they have an unchanged driver and sound structure compared to the HD 650 s meaning that you get a nice balanced mid-range and natural sounding bass they've added a detachable 6 foot cable instead of a 10 foot cable based on community feedback and they come with an 8 inch plug that's versatile for everyday use and a quarter inch adapter you also get long-term support from Sennheiser so check out the link today to join the drop now so thanks to Jake forgetting this working tie-in for having a motherboard that works properly and you guys for watching and we dislike this video oh and Wendell hey if you guys dislike this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description also down there is our merch 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