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I have a confession to make guys I told you months ago that when I built a crazy over-the-top $10,000 plus computer that I would actually use it and well I haven't not used it but I'm not completely using it either this video is going to be about actually making use of Riptide the Corsair one is a gaming PC for people who want maximum performance with a minimal footprint don't let the size fool you though there's a core I $9.99 hundred K CPU and an RT X xx atti in the Corsair 1i 160 kept chilly with convection assisted cooling and separate closed loops for the CPU and GPU there's also a corsair 1i 140 with an i7 9700 K and an RT X 2080 so click the sponsor link in the video description to learn more so I'm in the computer room today and hero was chilling down there below me so if you hear him snoring just it's okay he's peaceful and nice down there but it's Riptide I built a stand for it I did a multi-part video series on it last summer from the inception to the construction to the water cooling to the upgrades in the future a ton of work got into setting up to the RGB lighting on this system and I'm really happy with how everything turned out and I was pretty much ready to start using it except I wanted to make this video about using it so there were certain setup stuff that I didn't do with it completely like setting up the raid because I was waiting to make this video at the same time though I make lots of videos and I have this other computer behind me that I had previously set up to render all my videos and do editing and stuff like that and I kept relying and reverting back to that just to get work done instead of completely switching over to Riptide so today I have three demos that I'm going to share with you guys the first is gonna be a setup demo for that raid storage configuration I have a bunch of SSDs it's actually all SSD storage on the upper system in this build since there's two actual systems and they're including a FreeNAS so I need to figure out how exactly all those are going to be configured set up the raid configuration maybe do some quick testing on that too to see how fast the drives actually are second is going to be a more practical demonstration of rendering a video on this system Riptide vs. the old system back here which by the way has a 78 20x and 32 gigs of DDR 4 memory and then the third one as always in these types of videos I want to play some video games and since this system has 210 t is in water-cooled configuration and SLI I'm going to play some games on those two at the end and 4k at well 60 Hertz because they've got 4k 60 Hertz monitors here behind me before any of that though if you guys don't want to go back and watch the OL grip type videos here's a quick recap on the hardware that is actually installed there so system was mostly built around the case which is the corsair obsidian 1000 d which is the largest and most elaborate case that corsair has ever put together for mass production it has tempered glass everywhere and it fits two systems one in the top part and one down in the bottom part that can be a mini ITX system so the mini ITX system at the bottom I configured as an S it is actually running FreeNAS and it's based on an AMD Rison 520 400 G processor that has a Vega 11 GPU integrated the cooler is a Noctua NH L 12 s low profile cooler and the motherboard is an asus rog Strix x4 70 di gaming for memory it has to 16 gig sticks for 32 gigs total of corsair dominator platinum ddr4 I am potentially going to be switching this out for ECC memory at some point in the future but I haven't gotten to that project yet for hard drives for the NASS we have 4 8 terabyte WD red spinning mechanical hard drives and those are down in the lower Bay this case can actually only fit for standard 3.5 inch mechanical drives when its default configuration so I maxed out that space with all four drives for thirty two terabytes total in the Ness FreeNAS is then running on an Intel obtain 32 gig SSD that's installed in an m dot 2 slot and then I have a Corsair force MP 500 hundred and 20 gig nvme SSD and that is running as a cache drive for the FreeNAS set up and there's a separate video on the FreeNAS setup if you want to check that out lastly the power supply for that system is a corsair SF 600 s FX power supply power supply for the big system is a corsair a x 1600 eye 1600 watt 80 plus titanium rated power supply going on the rest of the specs for the upper system we have an asus zenith extreme x 399 motherboard a AMD risin thread ripper 29 70 X that's the 24 Core 48 thread threader per CPU it's not the 32 core version but 24 cores and 48 threads are still plenty enough for me there's about $500 worth of fans in the system all Corsair LL series hundred and 20 and 40 millimeter fans you can see across the front as well as the back and the top radiator for memory there's an absolutely insane 128 gig kit of Corsair Vengeance RGB that's a ddr4 3200 rated although I have been having some trouble running it at that rated speed the graphics cards are dual issues RG Strix GTX 10 ATT eyes everything that is water-cooled is pretty much water-cooled by alpha cool the GPU blocks the pumps the rads the reservoirs only thing that's not is the monoblock that's on the motherboard that is from EK the specially designed mono block for the asus seen its extreme and lastly there is the storage in a separate drive and this is where there's a lot and there's several things that have been added over time for the main operating system drive I'm running off the Corsair Neutron nx500 which is a 400 gig PCIe nvme SSD which is kind of tucked in there between the graphics cards for additional fast storage I have two samsung 970 Evo one terabyte nvme SSDs and those are on the little riser card that issues provides called dim - there's a couple - terabyte SanDisk Ultra SATA SSDs there is a couple 480 gigabyte Corsair force el aceite SSDs and then there is a Corsair force MP 500 960 gig m dot - nvme SSD that's installed as well down in the actual m dot 2 slot on the motherboard so altogether I've got about seven-and-a-half terabytes of SSD storage in this system some SATA some nvme a lot of it is very very fast some of it I'm going to be configuring in raid 0 configurations and some of it I'm just gonna leave as is for long-term storage I'm going to be transferring everything over the network to the freenas and then I still will probably be using long long-term storage by copying stuff to external mechanical drives like I have right here I've been doing that for way too long though I need a better solution set up some read most of the raid setups I've done are on Intel systems this is an AMD system there are some slight differences fortunately I've pulled up a quick set-up guide over here so I'm gonna be hopefully diving through that's to figure out what the heck is going on first thing we're gonna need to go is go to our SATA configurations this is what I'm already aware of and switch from a HDI to rate that should allow us to set up raid for all of our SATA connected drives the for SSDs - 500 gig ones to terabyte ones next up over here in the advanced tab we want to head down to AMD PBS and we're going to switch nvme raid mode to enabled and that will help us to the instructions also have some information in the AMD CBS tab but that's not there anymore and it does seem like our serda controller is enabled so the funny thing about this guide is it's made for the standard UEFI BIOS settings but Asus has gone in and you know moved some things around and changed stuff to their preferences so I basically found everything from this guide that I could and changed it and then I just went through all the other Advanced Options that I looked for anything related to SATA or CSM and I changed everything that I think should have been changed oh wait look there's CSM is some support should be enabled all right let's get UEFI and legacy that's good too so these settings look good to me I'm going to save changes and reset and then there should be a pre boot environment that I can get into by pushing a shortcut key that's usually how this works all right well as I sort of feared the raid setup was a bit more confusing than anticipated fortunately I have made my way through it with some help some outside help I want to give a shout out to go step film pro who posted in the asus rog forums a walkthrough of a situation very similar to my own that was really helpful and also eibar anthony from hardware connects he did a video back in 2017 where he went through the raid setup process I think he got some help from Wendell from level one text as well so thanks to all you guys by referencing those materials I was able to figure out pretty much what was going wrong after going through the UEFI and trying as hard as I could to find all the raid and SATA and nvme configurations things that I could I didn't find them all I was able to set raid mode for the nvme drives as well as for SATA but for some reason the utility that you're supposed to be able to access from the UEFI just was never there I'm running the latest version of the asus zenith extreme bios and everything so not sure what the deal was there but managed to get it figured out from within Windows 10 and mostly by using device manager when it comes to your drivers for the devices you're gonna have drivers for the disk drives themselves and you're also going to have drivers for the storage controllers I basically had to download AMD SATA raid drivers software and then I had to go through in device manager and either re-record NIH's or update the drivers for all of the storage controllers to make them am deer a bottom devices because you know who doesn't want to be a bottom and then also the disk drives themselves not for the SATA drives but for the nvme SSDs after doing all that going through a system restarts I was then able to install the actual utility which is called raid expert - that wasn't initially installing because it was telling giving me an error saying I put it off an nvme Drive so running that software would break it then I wouldn't be able to boot anymore fortunately going through the other stuff first loved me to do this once I did that it went through the installation after hanging for a little bit and then I was able to launch up this web interface and this gives us fortunately a layout of all the drives so we can see our course airforce le drives we can see our sand s 2 terabyte drives and see the force MP 500 and the neutron and X 500 as well as the two samsung 970 so all of our drives are here that's really good we can see the drives I'm already using the force MP 500 discs v has already been assigned drive letter e and then drive letter C has been assigned to the neutron and X 500 could be 400 version of that because that's what I installed Windows on to so we have three reads to set up and I think I'm just gonna go raid zero with everything max speed I'll have all my data backed up elsewhere so I can just let's just see how fast these gonna be all right so first thing I'm gonna do is initialize all the drives that are not currently initialized that is mice and disks my Corsairs Samsung's let's go ahead and initialize yeah next let's create a raid array I want to do raid 0 I want to select which - I gotta select the disks up here just name this one - by force L e raid 0 and then we'll just repeat that process for the other drives as well these are the SATA drives arse and disks so this is gonna be a 4 terabyte same disc and 0 and one more with our envy me drives Samsung 1970s this will be a 2 terabyte I'm some 70 that it's gorgeous alright so my arrays are created but we're not gonna be able to view them in Windows quite yet and we can still only see those first two drives we need to go over to disk management's and then we should be able to there we go we can initialize those three new discs which have been created their virtual disks created by the raid arrays will go ahead and let it do that for all of them and then we'll just create partitions on those three drives - so my storages should now be configured and there they all are one terabyte force le that's - 480 gig drives 9 that's just the 960 gig the 4 terabytes and disk great 0 to 2 terabyte drives and the two terabyte 970 Evo nvme raid 0 look at all that space so much room for activities let's see how fast these are so here's some quick test results with crystal disk mark going and testing my three raid arrays so starting on the top left is the D Drive which is the - of course air force le 480 gig SSDs we're getting about eleven hundred megabytes per second reads and just a little bit less than that when it comes to sequential writes so good performance that's what you would expect from two good SATA SSDs put together in raid I apps are over here on the right as well if you guys want to check those out next up is the F Drive here which is the two same disc two terabyte SSDs that are in raid 0 these are still SATA SSDs so we're seeing real similar performance close to eleven hundred megabytes per second reads just shy of 1,000 megabytes per second right so the right speed here is a little bit slower although it was a little bit faster and some of the 4k tests which are down here below again I ops are here on the right side overall got a little bit higher score than the two 480 gig drives but finally we have the big jump up from the two samsung 970 Evos so 5855 megabytes per second reads just over 5,000 megabytes per second rates real good performance is over here on the right this is a little bit less than you'd see with the utility like Iometer which you can sort of use to find the perfect range to get maximum IAP performance but also since we're looking at a raid configuration that's gonna be a little bit of overhead as there as well so that will hurt overall ABS performance too so what I'm not a hundred percent sure of right now is whether this is gonna do me a lot of good these massive sequential read and write numbers here given that the 4k numbers aren't all that much better than a single SSD I might just go with those two individual rather than combine together but we'll see how that goes in the future finally I did a test on the standalone nvme drive that's the Corsair force MP 500 so this is a just m dot two nvme SSD by itself just shy of two thousand five hundred megabytes per second read speed and just over fifteen hundred megabytes per second sequential writes I have performances down here as well we can see wasn't too far off of our dual samsung 970 Evo configuration so my next s is actually the most important one as far as actually using this system because it's rendering rendering with Adobe Premiere which is a software that I use to render most of my videos by the way there is gardening going on right outside the window I apologize but I have to do this because there's actually a test going on right now my test is side by side rendering on both systems to see how much faster Riptide is than the old system I'm using before which again uses a 78 20 X so it's got eight cores and 16 threads we're dealing with three times the amount of cords and threads on Riptide 24 cores and 48 threads so maybe that means it'll be three times as fast long story short yes pretty much let me quickly talk about the tests as setup because it's actually still going on the system on the left here it has finished on Riptide with a time of 9 minutes and 23 seconds what I am actually doing is encoding a 4k video 3840 by 2160 at 29.97 fps progressive-scan h.264 encoding with a target bit rate of 42 megabits per second and we're still rendering on system on the left so I'll have to tell you what this ends up being but it's already been going for over 20 minutes and again this one on the right finished in 9 minutes and 23 seconds while that's still going though I want to talk about the UEFI settings on Riptide because that's one of the things that kind of took me the most time to get figured out specifically memory we have 128 gigs eight dims of memory and with Rison it can be challenging to get your memory to run and if faster speed the memory is rated for 3200 speed I ended up deciding to dial it back to 29 33 which is still a good speed for risin let's take a quick look at what I did in order to get those settings actually before I close this let's talk about the actual performance while was rendering across all cores it was running at 3.5 gigahertz a little bit higher than 3.5 gigahertz it's actually going up to 4.1 4.1 and a half gigahertz on a single core at a time so it's getting nice single core performance in there as well but 24 cores at 3.5 gigahertz and that's just with the stock frequency that was super nice and then when it comes to temperatures it was running in the high 40s maybe hitting the low 50s from time to time it peaked at fifty five point eight degrees Celsius on the dies so that's very good temperatures there again with so many cores and threads going in the same system so that was pretty cool I remember your usage peaked at about 38 gigabytes so still plenty of headroom available there now let's dive into the thigh settings though yes my old system is still working on that render but here's a quick look at my UEFI settings in extreme tweak room and leaving most stuff at Auto because I didn't want to mess with the CPU overclock too much I was originally trying to hit that higher ddr4 frequency of 3200 and then I'm dialing it back to 29 33 I might still push for 3000 but 29 33 really isn't that far off from there beyond that I went with manual settings for the SOC voltage as well as the deer and voltage and then in the DRAM tiny timings I did loosen them up so we're at casa latency 17 right now well guys the old system finally finished rendering that project out with a total time of 27 minutes and 37 seconds which is right about three times as long as Riptide took so I guess that's a result right there more cores and more threads you get faster rendering with software that takes advantage of all the cores and threads of course now in case you're wondering the right panel here is for one @cn panel it's not as nice of a panel as a panel on the left I actually have both of these setups so I can sort of compare and contrast one to the other when I'm looking at my work I have a nicer high color depth IPS monitor on the left I can also bring it over to this not quite as good of contrast monitor on the right to see what it might look like for people who don't have monitors that cost more money but it's also running at 1080p and that is because I am passing it through my notebook down here in order to capture the stuff I've been showing you on screen with the UEFI BIOS tests have been running now the last part of this video is gonna be gaming and I'm just going to play some games show some stats on screen and share a few clips of those with you guys cuz I just want to play some games on this system but before I get to that I wanted to talk about pros and cons now that I've had this system set up and been using it for a little while pros are of course all of the awesome stuff that you guys have seen the system itself it looks awesome it's quite pretty I think with the LEDs the custom sleeve cables I really like this sort of stands that Joe and I built for it which turned out really nice I think as well it kind of keeps it up off the ground but at a level where I can still get an a view at it especially those pumps the fact that I can see the water flowing in the pumps as I'm using it it's just nice peace of mind for me because I've had pumps die on water-cooled systems before and that's something I want to keep an eye out for I'd say the cons to the system are going to be flexibility when it comes to upgrades and swapping stink things out in the future this is a very flexible system when it comes to water-cooled systems in general that's why I used so many quick disconnects and tried to make it somewhat easy to get in there to modulate their modify things if I need to but at the same time that nass system that's done in the bottom has really wedged in there if I wanted to do any work on that it would be a lot of effort to get it out of there and then I think functionally there have been two main areas of concern one was getting it stable in the first place and that was mainly to do with running the memory at higher frequencies I wanted to do that but with so many dims in there it's challenging to get it stable I think I'm okay for right now I might still tweak and tune it a little bit more in the future but for the time being as a system that I'm going to be doing most of my work on I think it's okay the second thing is some instability I think that has to do with the Corsair IQ software that's still been being developed and they actually just did a new version of it right before I shot this video but I've noticed for one that if the system goes to sleep the IQ software just completely stops functioning the colors change the fans will spin at the high speed I have to shut the system down and start it back up again hopefully that's something that can be fixed in the future I've also noticed that it likes to sync up everything you have connected so I've got my Corsair Mouse right here my m65 which is a mess I really like it keeps resetting it back to some default setting with really high DPI so the mouse moves really slow so I keep having to switch it back from that that's kind of an annoyance but I'll probably be able to mess with the software a little bit and figure that out on the plus side it has synched up the LEDs on the mouse which I never did myself with the color scheme that I have on there so the IQ software I have to give it credit for being as flexible as it is to do all this stuff but still working out some kinks in the background guys let me know what you think of this video and this entire series by the way it's been a long time coming to get this system integrated into my workflow but I do feel like I have done that now so I'm gonna quickly jump to some games let's take a look at those the game actually played his apex legends because it's pretty fun game right now and I was actually loading up OBS at the same time to see if I could do 4k 60fps gaming and capturing at the same time unfortunately apex doesn't seem to take advantage of SLI very much at this time at least not with this configuration so unfortunately the framerate wasn't all that great at 4k I was struggling to hit at 60fps in a few situations so I turn the settings down to medium beyond that it was just messing with different OBS settings training x264 in order to capture 4k 60fps at the same time unfortunate I doesn't get like a perfect solution for that I think I'm getting closer to something good I did get one a set of captures that were pretty nice not too terribly choppy I think there's something I might revisit in the future just looking for the perfect settings for 4k 60 frames per second capturing while you're gaming and playing something that has a lot of movement involved unfortunately the game I did the best in because I was being carried by two other guys is the game that did not capture very well I was trying a new envy encoder setting and it's very new and it ended up being just freeze frames for most of it but we were a second-to-last eliminated there and that was pretty fun hey that was fun I should game more often actually have been gaming more often it's been great for mental health and everything but moving back to this there's one last thing that I wanted to do before I close this video it has to do with the computer tucked over here on the left it's connected to the monitors the cords are too short for me to do sit stand on this desk anymore with it plugged in that way so all I have to do is unplug this theoretically there we go and now I can do this I should've double-checked plugs should double-check plugs everything's fine oh good everything's fine look now I can stand my framing is messed up now okay that is gonna wrap it up for this video though guys thank you so much for watching and check out the Riptide playlist if you want to see the full series of me assembling this thing putting it together getting the LEDs set up and all that good stuff thank you so much for watching this video hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed it and we'll see you guys in the next one