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welcome to the build log of the compensator - it's been a little bit over a year since the original compensator video was released and there have been improvements across the board in terms of CPU cores graphics card performance memory speed tons of different stuff and we have it all here the idea of the compensator is that there are no compromises in terms of any of our components as long as you can just buy them on a shelf and throw them in your computer this video isn't as crazy as it used to be because now it's fairly commonplace for us to have like 30 or 70 or even more thousand dollar computers but compensated - let's go thanks the g.skill for helping make compensator to possible check out their gaming mouse and keyboard down in the video description I do need like gloves of some sort do we have close that moment when you need gloves because even your ram has brushed aluminum on that moment when they also don't fit 128 gigs of g.skill trident and said or z whatever you want to call it 3200 measures so on our last builds we had the Lian Li PC o8 this is the lis only PC o 9 so s we'll see how different it is well the PC o 8 says that it's compatible with triple rads it's only like kinda and I have the same cooler again so hopefully it coats better this time oh look at those feet it smells new seriously Fran smell what ah there's no air intakes on this side of the case so the Kelvin will go up here I guess or right here this looks pretty cool so just like last time they have some included LED strips for the dials on the back first I'm going to remove these fans so I can try to line up the cooler at all and then we'll go from there I want to thank fractal Josh I guess real quick sorta didn't realize the fact that we didn't have the Kelvin s 36 yesterday so contacted Josh and was like hey man I need one of those literally tomorrow and I mean he came through it's here now I don't know if this is going to work and run this back this way now Brandon is Ella cool with fan without fan next up I'm going to remove this big drive cage which I don't really need at least yet and then I'm going to try to figure out how you're supposed to pipe this water block I kind of line down from that no one would ever know I was thinking of cutting a line right here so that I could bring this up feed the tubes up through the line so they can get up in here hold this up vertically and then install the motherboard cuz you know what it looks like is that there like there's no way anyone's gonna use an AI Oh in this case yeah but then I did it through that immediately yeah okay so we're going to solve our little radiator problem by cutting through our extremely expensive brand new case so my nerves are through the roof come along with it not too bad actually with some minor filing work I can maybe make that look pretty okay okay that actually looks pretty good not to like toot my horn too much or anything watch the tubes not fit through it didn't really think about that part yeah okay we're actually good so this will fit up here and then look something like that just in Reverse cuz it's me on the other side of the case and that'll work maybe sorta a little bit now I'm just installing the fans because I really want to make sure that this all actually does fit really well before I keep on going with the build I was going to install the power supply next but I think I'm going to install the motherboard next just because I really want to get that water block mounted and see how I'm gonna have to deal with that thing that I cut out this is ps2 okay that's cool even though it's like a really high end any sous bored still got ps2 on it I actually love that now please tell me this reaches oh no oh no oh that's pretty taut isn't it this would be the worst if that doesn't fit I will be so upset because then I would have cut that hole for no reason I knew it was close but I thought made it that socket is so whoa oh no I don't think it makes it have a plan not necessarily completely ideal but the logo will now be vertical I thought I had to do it the other way the logo on g-scale Strix and the logo on supreme effects are all also vertical so this is just a vertical logo built it was just totally the plan from the beginning right guys that's looking all right what do you think next up we have to install the ax 1500 i and all of our custom cable mod caves or always is on that are really close it's also going to be like a gap there what that doesn't look very good but I actually can't even install it the other way around we're also this big extra large socket interferes with things on the case so this is just how it has to go I screwed up so this is the rampage 5 edition 10 it's a motherboard that can support for graphics cards this is the x99 Strix Edition the one that's supposed to go in my personal rig update that we're filming later not the one that's supposed to go in compensator I thought it was like a funny coincidence after all of that I should like all the RAM off I have to take that CPU cooler off after that crazy installation but to take the CPU out throw it all on here throw it back in and then we're good yeah it's kind of a fun I oh she'll the good-looking part of the IO shield is actually on the board already so it just kind of slots there and this board is slightly extended that means that I have to install the power supply first about these green and black cables from cable mod they I believe completely match the original cables that we had for the very first compensator this will be the bottom graphics card so one nice thing about custom cables like this is I can really easily splice off the extra wires so I only need the 6 and the 6 plus 2 I don't have to use the extra plus 2 that runs all the long with it now I'm going to try to have some foresight here and install this cable to I'm also gonna try to pre run all the SATA cables check all this stuff away okay so motherboard install attempt number three two three somewhere around there I don't know losing track oh please tell me this is gonna work we're fine right yeah yeah yeah yeah okay we're good we're good it's tight it's very tight but it's fine nobody's freaking out the problem was getting the actual like header block through that was an issue whoa from here we got to install some graphics cards and a couple other things and we're good to go I can't install that here I'm going to unplug the fans all right now you go in there I really hate these openings I think they look terrible one nice thing well the graphics card right coming right in here they'll cover up this cable mess down at the bottom okay so let's put in our first Titan it looks so weird just one car hit the bottom compensator what's up this looks great right so you go to add another one you know all right okay I'm going to plug this in I'm gonna plug in the little extension cable and then everything looks terrible I hate it I hate it so much don't order the stupid ones that have the loop-d-loop on them if you don't have to just run another one look look at how nice so much better no say no to loopy dude cables so I'm just going to install the glass panels just before I do the SSDs and the fans if it really needs lighting I want to figure out where those go before I start finalizing the cable management and add a ton of cables by doing the SSDs before I do this we should see if the computer turns on at all okay let's get our ginormous cable did you see whoa what I didn't know it did that and like I knew okay I knew the board lit up I didn't know like before it was even turned on that it did some cool stuff that's pretty sweet okay so especially with the tinted tempered glass on it looks pretty dark so I'm probably going to try to add some ambient lighting if I can hahahaha title there okay can ignore my arm how does that look can you see these does it look cool so I'm just removing some of the Leon Leaf fans putting in some of my Noctua fans does it matter not really so Leonie has a two and a half inch spot down here and up here and then six three and a half inch spots in the middle of the cage that do not naturally convert to two and a half if you have trays for your SSDs you could convert them but someone's like thrown ours away or something so I don't actually have proper places for the SSDs to go so I'm just going to end up like dumping them in here this can power my nzv drive I'm going to try to make it stay right about here if I can but for the SSDs I think I'm just going to end up going with like a stack and too many power cables is another one okay all the SSDs have been fed power but I need to get the data installed so there's our SSD spread all plugged in data and power it doesn't look that great does it maybe these go down here I don't know if I can pull that off but I can try the tower of data okay that's pretty alright cool spin okay so the power is in the lights are all configured I only have one more panel to put on what okay hold up hold up hold up I can solve this did someone unplug me no oh okay this power supply the power symbol is off and the one is on I it's not huh alright it is the next day and it is benchmarking time everything's up and running the system is wicked fast due to the raid array and the nvme drives and whatnot we got a bunch of benchmarks installed and we're going to redo some from last time and do some new ones okay so we got 17 408 yes better than 99% of all results framerate not great did it did it do one hundred thirty point three those cards get so loud how hot are they getting eighty-eight degrees on GPU one so this is my attempt to load far cry 4 which just isn't working at all control delete fail Altaf or fail to tab nothing we're gonna try loading this game computer just doesn't like four cards go horsey go horsey go this is running so bad doom is not that hard to run okay so benchmarking complete at idle all of our cards ran up around 50 degrees give or take a few depending on which one it was in the order so just like with compensator one we could have obviously benefitted from water cooling the GPU stacking four isn't really a great idea without water cooling because they can't breathe and ran at about eighty eight degrees all the time when under load resulting in some pretty serious throttling just like last time we crushed in 3dmark fire strike and again got in the top 1% of systems which luckily is not based off of price per performance although we did have some pretty serious troubles with it but was able to fight through it or some configuration stuff last time with the four original tight next cards all the games worked but they just chopped and glitched around and had some tearing and all that kind of stuff this time wasn't like that at all performance was pretty terrible really considering the cost and a couple games just refused to work at all what I expected to happen was that the system would just completely ignore the third and fourth cards and we just get some thermal throttled two-way SLI performance metrics that I could laugh at but in reality the usage of the second card often sat at around 20% resulting in less than desirable results the moral of the story with compensator has always been the same you don't need a rig this insane and when you do set up something like this there are often more drawbacks than you'd expect yeah sure they'll perform pretty well in 3dmark and if you water cool and overclock them you'll do pretty well on the leaderboards but that's about it I hope you had fun watching this build personally just like last time I think it's beautiful I love how it looks but it's just a little misguided I chose the four Titans knowing it would be a problem but I did so because you can still force four-way to work in some games and it is still benchmark able with synthetics we'll see what next year has to offer I'll see you there with compensator 3 so as you may have noticed we were using cable mod cables for this build just like we did with compensator 1 and now you can use their customizer to get your own cable mod cables that are specifically for you you just choose your sleeve type your power supply brand and model you select your size and length then the color that you want and bam you're done that's it that's all the only remaining steps are waiting for them to show up and installing them in your system nice and easy you guys liked this video like it if you just like this video dislike it get subscribed all that fun stuff check the link in the description down below to see our sponsors and to buy stuff on Amazon so you can build your your own compensator if you wanted to do that for some reason also there's links to our shirts and stuff and the forum where you can discuss how my build was so terribly misguided when that was the point of the video anyways check out this video which was compensator one and I'll see you next time