Gadgetory

so I used to go out on a fairly regular basis and game at LAN parties with my friends on the weekends but now that I'm self-employed and I have three kids I have neither weekends nor friends so the solution a land gaming center that I don't have to travel to one that has participants that I'm already paying to hang out with me here in our office and thanks to our sponsorship from Intel today that dream begins to become a reality though clearly we do have some all right so our not at all wild idea is to convert this corner of our warehouse the one that we had wired up and cooled up for crypto mining now you can see how well that worked out into a full-on gaming Center something truly useful so what we're gonna need is proper power proper cooling proper networking and most importantly some solid gaming rigs so that nobody has lag as an excuse now the purpose of this part 1 video is twofold we're gonna lay out the plan such as it is at this point and we're gonna get your feedback about it so that we can make any necessary changes before going all out and before even cleaning up apparently so there's our transformer box there's our electrical panel so then right about here is where we've got outlets times 16 yeah can we run 10g over I don't see why we wouldn't is it too long it's expensive so is each system gonna be 10k because we have the capability or no I don't know I mean those cards are only like a hundred bucks that was sick yeah like our caching server would not be able to keep up but it would be sick so basically power is gonna kind of depend on where we want the tables we could have Brian move the outlets if we wanted depending on how we wanted to do okay so here's one thing this wall is really ugly both the technically that wall doesn't have to be there right they just supporting it is supporting the electrical panel now we could even have like a TV there or something like a countertop here a countertop that would be nice just like seeing put stuff there like as part of our initial planning we need to design and build up a prototype of the actual systems that we're gonna be rolling out because you want to make sure everything about them is perfect before you run out and build 16 boxes oh yeah our plan is 16 seats anyway we want to not only be able to game on this set up for a long time but we'd also love to have it available for Linus Media Group and floatplane Media staff to stream off hours or maybe we could start doing some Let's Plays over on channel super-fun resurrect that like I don't know so with that in mind our builds were designed to be good enough for high refresh rate 1080p or normal refresh rate like 60 Hertz 1440p gaming we haven't actually chosen our monitors yet so we're definitely open to your feedback on that what do you guys think we should go with anyway thanks to Intel sponsoring this video our prototype will be using their excellent 8700 K processor which from our recent testing is untouchable when it comes to gaming performance the only thing faster than this is Intel's own limited edition a 286 K but well cannot has 16 of those now for our boot drives we're gonna be using Intel 760 series nvme SSDs these are 512 gigs with read speeds of up to 3200 and 30 megabytes per second and then about half of out on writes then we're gonna be using an octane module accelerated 12 terabyte barracuda Pro in each of our systems to give our game drive so our entire Steam libraries will have SSD like performance you can actually check out our recent video about that up here we need to figure out how like let's say let's say everyone comes down at the end of the day or whatever and wants to play the same game and we don't have it we need a way for everyone to be able to download the game really quickly fashion server but if you already have one I think we should make a second book a second one I don't think our VM oh come on just no way really not like what's your performance goal but gigabit each that's not even that unreasonable is it yeah so we need to ten days but there's not like a compression overhead on the caching server is there so we just need lots of network lots of network ram would be good what if it could be on a dedicated server okay so now that makes sense and then we just have dedicated servers running all the time and then it can also act as a cache yeah I want it to be quiet that's fine so yeah we'll have to like waters away or something hell yeah the rest of our machine is a solid balance of mostly - but with a touch of flash so we chose the asus rog Strix xiii 70g and ATX board in part thanks to its compact size and deulim got two slots and we went with a matching Strix gtx 1070 not wanting to overdo our prototype just in case nvidia dropped a new GPU on us and we ended up wanting to go with something else each station we're gonna have a limited amount of actual floor space to allocate to each one but obviously it's better to have the system up on top from a dust management perspective so one way or another not on the floor though remember what the way into a pc look like after a year Dreamhack the PCs about where did you come from so here's where we're at towers either behind the side or on top and not ghetto but not down here since the systems are gonna be highly visible we hit up our buds over at Corsair to send us over there new to ATX micro ATX chassis it's compact it's got tempered glass and it's compatible with their new IQ RGB lighting control software for that matter so as the Vengeance Pro RGB ran that they sent over and in white to match this gorgeous color scheme so right now we have a very poorly designed fresh air cooling system one that brings fresh air in but has no exhaust roughly 5,000 watts they don't have 350 per and then like what at 500 watt server yeah okay you know what whatever 5,000 the final components of the system are the power supply so for this we went with an RM 650 X it doesn't have any kind of flashy RGB or anything like that but it's got it where it counts providing enough power for any config that we could put in here and it's got a modular interface so go ahead and get that installed and for CPU cooling we've gone with the H 100 I Pro but with a twist we took off the Maglev fans that are included sacrificing a little bit of performance and swapped on light loops this cooler zero rpm mode which can be configured in coarse our software means that we can actually have the system's when they're idle be completely silent so if there's only a couple of people gaming there won't be any noise pollution so what I'm proposing is we turn this area into like console gaming zone honestly what I would like ideally is to kind of have two couches and I'd like to have a big old CRT that we could have on like a rolling cart with some old consoles or an emulation box and then you could have like because realistically if you're playing more modern games they're not that sensitive to input like anyway so you play those on the projector first and then you could have a big CRT for anything else play first-person shooter over here yeah so here's our finished prototype rig it's not over the top or anything but I still think it looks really good and because of Ike you will have functionality like having the whole thing turn red when someone dies or whatever and then in terms of the layout of the room basically this is the wall where we want to put the projector Jake will have to move his paint booth here's where I want kind of like couches for console gaming or CRT gaming here is where we're gonna put the I don't think we're gonna get three rows in here so I think it's gonna end up being probably two rows of gaming machines with the chairs in the middle back-to-back or something along those lines I don't know I think three feet per person we're gonna kind of have to make it work you know we we really want to get a bunch of ideas from you guys do you guys have any ideas for monitors peripherals is there any feature that you think we're missing from like a networking or power or cooling perspective we are wanting to do this like crazy awesome so don't be afraid to give us your wacky ideas in the comments below so huge thanks to Intel for sponsoring part one of this project as part of their gamer Days initiative gamer days 2018 which runs from September 1st until September 16th is more than just a great time to shop for gaming gear like you saw in this video it will also include prizes giveaways and other amazing experiences so make sure you click the link in the video description to check it out so thanks for watching guys if you disliked 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's our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should definitely join