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when AMD announced the naming in specs of their lineup of risin thread Ripper CPUs immediately our writing team knew exactly what had to be done really guys 1920 x4 the step-down flagship I mean that's just irresponsible so we grabbed invidious step-down flagship GPU and set out to build the ultimate 1920 by 1080 gaming PC wait what you don't get it come on even NVIDIA gets it synergy allows you to share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers at once check it out now at the link in the video description so the basis of this entire build is a post on reddit borrowed from a youtube comment somewhere obviously building a full HD gaming system out of an $800 12 core processor a five hundred and fifty dollar motherboard and a $500 graphics card is stupid for a fair number of reasons but full transparency here guys we love stupid and the last time we pandered to Reddit we ended up with two and a half million views on a gaming PC that barely worked at all so this one was a no-brainer now it wouldn't be Linus tech tips if the bill didn't start with some random ass problems that we couldn't have predicted Jake ended up spending three hours just trying to get our Asus zenith extreme motherboard to post because one of the torques mounting screws on the socket itself had loosened as if by magic so the CPU was being safely and securely held down just above the damn contact pins I mean who looks for something like that further complicating matters that define our v that we originally planned to build in couldn't contain the sheer girth of this board and thanks to our recent mezzanine construction and organization overhaul basically every case had been moved into our new and improved long-term storage area that was full of poisonous fumes from spraying the walls so the only cases left in the warehouse were fractals core 3500 and the mercury s8 from seven gamers one CPU that happened to be already set up for wider than average dual socket server motherboards so I think you guys can see where I'm going with this case labs for the win for RAM Jake made the only logical decision here and decked out our config with the full complement of eight times eight gigabytes of Trident z RGB memory from G skilled I mean come on you think regular Ram was going to suffice for a troll build installing a 12 core 24 thread processor into the tr4 socket is actually a pretty satisfying process and once everything was set up Jake was able to use our Zenith Xtreme board to push our thread Ripper 1920 X up to 4 gigahertz on all cores at around 83 degrees Celsius under load any higher than that and it would crash almost instantly this could be a limitation of just Zen core overclocking in general but hardware info reported a cool 240 watts of power draw for the CPU so the limitation could also be just a matter of the chip not being able to get more power even with the dual 8 pin EPS connectors this thing is crazy to achieve that cooling result we ended up with a course our H 100 Ivy 2 which shockingly with its dual 120 millimeter fans on a radiator was barely enough to tame this beast then to give us the best chance of success we applied an ample amount of icy diamond thermal compound we are going to have to ask them for another bin of this stuff because we're not crazy this is actually how AMD recommends to apply it the corsair RM 1000 x is just the right amount of overkill for modern systems so you'll probably keep seeing that until Corsair comes out with an RGB version or something and while sadly we weren't able to get cable on cables here in time and had to make do with the stock ones RGB was not forgotten and thanks to the zenith dual ARRA RGB headers and cable mod wide beam RGB strips the entire system is RGB synced from the RAM to the sleek underglow Jake was so astonished by the plethora of diseases that he contracted from all the RGB that he almost forgot to put in fans so at the last minute he finished up with ek Vardar fans to match the industrial look of our mercury s8 and huzzah it boots almost like it was all tested before assembly so then to answer your guys question how does the ultimate 1920 by 1080 build perform well the only responsible thing to do is start our testing at 720p maximum details as you can see here overspending on the CPU and skimping on the GPU is punishing us already Deus Ex mankind divided only managed 38 frames per second because well maxed out like really maxed out that's a very demanding game moving right to the other end of the spectrum 4k gaming performance was I mean I don't know how do I put this a poop parade feces festival a diarrhea demonstration you get in point it was this show so then stepping down to 1440p there's well there's no surprises here 4k was terrible 720p was terrible I mean what were you expecting for something in between like why are you even still watching this are you are you honestly waiting for the 1920 by 1080 results what do you think they're gonna be like y-you know what forget it I'm just not even gonna show them it's all unplayable anyway when you max out the settings so the only thing we learned was a valuable lesson about optimizing your games and bottlenecking something that could have been achieved in less time by watching this episode and this episode of tech quickie there are a hundred reasons for wanting multiple computers at your desk maybe you're a Mac person primarily but you need a non virtualized Windows environment for some reason synergy solves the problem of having to have two keyboards and two mice for two or more separate computers you can share one set of peripheral so you'll no longer get confused and the whole thing is seamless you just drag the mouse from one screen to another we're talking PC Mac and even Linux support they offer a basic and perl option for synergy with a one-time payment and features include advanced stuff like clipboard sharing between computers dragging and dropping files between computers the 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