Building a $100,000 PC for Minecraft

Carl Jacobs a Minecraft YouTuber with more money than brains reached out to us because he wanted to beat Minecraft on a 100 000 PC I can't help him beat Minecraft but I can sure his shoot build a hundred thousand dollar PC it took six months and our bill actually ended up exceeding the 100 000 payment we received from Carl but I'm extremely proud of the product our team delivered this desk PC is an Ode to opulence a portrait of prosperity a ballad to the bourgeoisie you guys got the point it looks freaking awesome but beyond the looks every single detail of this build was meticulously thought out and executed let's have a closer look at our sponsor huge shout out flexi spot for sponsoring this video we decided on their E7 desk legs and if you stick around you're going to learn more about the build and see just how much weight these legs can support Carl was very particular that the PC needed to cost one hundred thousand dollars the only problem with that is that gaming computers even fancy ones don't cost a hundred thousand dollars now we could just cheat and build a server with a bunch of 30 terabyte kyoksia ssds or we could build an AI workstation with half a dozen gpus in it and then just as many terabytes of ram but the thing is that none of those things would make it any better for playing Minecraft in fact it would probably be worse now Minecraft does technically support SLI as does nvidia's workstation line of gpus so if we could toss four of those into a computer that would heat up a lot of our budget but when I test out quad SLI on the Camino Grand o RM it was a mixed bag to say the least we tripled our FPS and Rise of the Tomb Raider but the frame times were so bad and inconsistent the experience was actually worse and when I tried to run shadow of the Tomb Raider the system blew screened so hard I needed to completely reinstall Windows so for components then we just picked the fastest gaming stuff that exists a core I9 3900ks RTX 490 64 gigs of ddr5 memory and a premium z790 motherboard from EVGA all of which came to five thousand dollars that's it five thousand dollars how are we gonna spend the rest of the money by building something to put those parts in that is so damn expensive it will blow your mind and what better way to show off top of the line PC like this one then a desk PC and it kind of makes sense right like Furniture is crazy expensive like like look at this thing you can't even put a computer in it what a rip-off so with that solved we had a new set of challenges to overcome we were very concerned about our fancy desk surviving the 5 000 kilometer journey to Carl we didn't want another PewDiePie situation why not I need tech support but what if we could kill two birds with one stone by creating a desk that is both absurdly expensive and also nearly impossible for FedEx to destroy but don't try by Milling it out of a single solid block of aluminum now designing something like that is a lot of work so I assigned it to Alex who also decided that it was too much work and assigned Gary to hire a new employee meet Tim I spent the next two months of my life stirring at SolidWorks and coordinating with her machinist Amish to design a computer desk that feels like you're sitting in a TIE fighter and more importantly it's possible to machine we decided against doing it out of a single block of aluminum because if there are internal stresses in the stock the whole thing could banana when we take it off of the mill and also because if we break it into three pieces Amos should be able to get extra fancy with the Machining using his five axis Mill many many many revisions later we were ready to start the machine foreign [Music] the desk was machined by SS CAD cam in Squamish and over four weeks amish's machines removed a total of 1075.2 pounds of aluminum don't worry it's all getting recycled leaving us with possibly the most beautiful computer case ever made make sure to get subscribed by the way because we're going to have a full build video for this bad boy coming out soon it was just way too much for one video what all are you even doing over here no now when you order from a boutique system builder the computer comes with a checklist where they verified that everything was working as intended for instance this one came with the originally recently made a video on and because we here at Linus Tech tips Thrive for the utmost in professionalism we have created our own checklist that will be filled out by myself the CEO and will be included in the package so that Carl can trust that we have tested everything that is interesting to show in a video starting with the sound system in total 12 000 was spent ensuring that the auditory experience of this PC could blow the doors off of Carl's streaming room with incredibly accurate sound to achieve this we've used two genelec 8341a three-way point source studio monitors now normal speakers look a little something like this this we've got our woofer and we've got our Tweeter here and here but the distance between these two can actually cause minute phase problems well not on the genelex here the Tweeter the mid and the woofer all come from exactly the same spot which in theory improves Imaging but what these can't do is play really low notes which is why we've also included the 7360a subwoofer this should be able to Faithfully recreate 20 Hertz which is widely considered to be the lowest note that humans can hear oh we're getting some harmonics in there weird oh that's Minecraft and pass next up genelect claims that this system should be able to reach 110 decibels without Distortion so to verify [Music] whoa that's really loud we settled on flexi spots E7 as the base of our project for two reasons one obviously we want to stick with the best of the best for this project and two we needed something that was capable of holding up all this weight since these legs can support up to 355 pounds as you can see here within the actual weight limit it has no issues but in this case we underestimated just how much our end product would weigh our PC desk ended up being about 380 pounds so it needs a little bit of help adjusting the height since we're pushing it to its limits but unless you have a 370 pound plus desk at home it shouldn't be an issue it's built with a thicker solid carbon steel frame to make it extra durable and extra sturdy like check this out you guys all right up there which is really important when your desk weighs as much as this one does or actually just really important in general so your monitor doesn't wobble while you're typing the E7 also features a convenient built-in USB charging port that allows you to charge your phone or tablet while you work and uh what else can I say you're welcome Carl since we're here we can verify that the KJ on the wings is still beautiful oh and that the sides make that satisfying ping glass top still Immaculate and if you're wondering why it cost over eleven thousand dollars I need 0.2 only at the etching on the back the chamfered edges to make sure that Carl doesn't cut himself and these fine cutouts for our monitor arms this kind of thing ain't easy but Hopewell Works did a great job and I think Lloyd and Sarah did a fantastic job of the design too since we're back here by the way one thing that I'd recommend Carl is that you ensure you have at least two power circuits for this PC because it consumes a lot of power to deliver all of it there are a total of four power supplies this seasonic SPX 750 handles power to the motherboard and the CPU this second SPX 750 delivers power to your RTX 4090 GPU and the pumps on this side of the desk and then over on the right side of the table we've got the power supply for the standing desk and on the left we have a dedicated power supply for the RGB lighting this is because in addition to all the typical gamer RGB that we've included we've thrown in five Astera Helios tubes and eight hundred dollars a pop these are filming grade lights that deliver both the brightness and color accuracy that you would expect from such a thing no gaming grade RGB could ever hope to come close and what's really cool is that they're controlled through Bluetooth so you can use your phone just make sure that you pair your phone to the three that are inside the desk before you put the glass panel on top all four power supplies working finally for our physical let's just ensure that the power button works like nuclear launch not Minecraft we are mostly in here to talk about how our memory has an XMP profile of 6 000 Mega transfers per second but we ended up having to slightly slow it down to 5600 since then it's been Rock Solid you might lose one or two FPS but given how many you already get I don't think that's going to be an issue let's go ahead and fire up Windows okay latest bios installed now we're gonna have to verify some of the hardware here Carl the password is Roblox oh yeah I can use a mouse pad oh my God please tell me we're sending this to him now that we're in here we just need to verify that the specs are as our customer ordered which basically just means the absolute best yes yes two terabytes of Samsung 980 Pro another two terabytes seems pretty good Nvidia RTX 40 90 courtesy of Asus there's Trix model looking very RGB in there and what you're probably wondering at this point is how on Earth are we cooling all that stuff ah fear not for inside this computer is one of the best and most complicated Loops ever created to make sure that a frame is never dropped in Minecraft we have a total of six radiators six pumps and three fluidically separate loops on the right we have three radiators and two pumps that are dedicated just to cooling the CPU and the same goes for the GPU over here on the left did I mention that the pumps are gold plated now it's pretty rare that you would have a task that would hit both the CPU and the GPU equally playing a game would mostly be on the GPU side while rendering a video out might be all on the CPU so if the water in one side were to get more than five degrees hotter than the other our third Loop would activate in the middle EK custom made this gold-plated heat exchanger that pumps water across the tubes for both the CPU and GPU Loops to equilibrate the temperatures of the CPU and GPU cooling water how effective is it well to find out we grabbed the main gear mg1 um thank you from short circuit that despite having nearly the same components automotive paint and a custom front panel costs 93 900 less than Carl's PC to compare the cooling solutions of each machine we fired up Prime 95 and furmark simultaneously and if you just looked at the CPU temperatures you might come to the wrong conclusion our main gear mg1 topped out at 80 degrees on the CPU while Carl's desk got all the way up to 89. this isn't a problem though because the desk was able to sustain a power bill inflating 310 Watts on the CPU continuously even after 30 minutes of furmark the I wasn't going to drop it oh I dropped that well even after 30 minutes of furmark the RTX 4090 in here only reached 57 degrees that is a massive 28 degrees lower than the main gear and this one the front panel won't even fall off like that solid how unfortunately though performance doesn't scale linearly with power draw so even though our cooling allows Carl's CPU to draw 47 more power than the main gear its cinebench score is only 5.4 percent higher and in 3D Mark the desk was only able to pull off a 3.9 percent higher score so Carl's desk is faster than a high-end pre-built but we are certainly seeing diminishing returns at this point the real test though of course is how good it is at playing Minecraft okay we're doing job Edition no one played maybe we wanted to test RTX I don't know wow that looks freaking awesome God that looks good like Shadow doesn't just look like dark light it looks like shade we are using 13 gigabytes of RAM running Minecraft no I won't no I don't think anything could look better than what I already saw not even my own children do they have path traced Lighting on them I'm sorry did my memory usage just hit 35 gigabytes oh my God this is running on a 40 90. it looks absolutely magnificent though oh my kingdom Zumba everything the light touches can be yours oh no elephant graveyard Minecraft so beautiful it brings a tear to your eye and we would fire up something else but one of the requirements was that no game other than Minecraft can ever have been played on it I might play Forza on it later though but Alex from Minecraft to look this incredible the computer not only has to be good but so does the monitor here for the main screen we've got the Asus strix pg42uq a 4K 135 Hertz 41.5 inch monitor that basically Spanx pretty much everything else in existence our display Guru from the lab did a quick and dirty calibration on it and here are the settings that he found were best and with a measured Delta e of just 1.49 this thing is more than good enough for gaming more than color accurate enough for professional work now normally going with an OLED display means a drop in brightness but thanks to a massive heatsink on the back we actually verified that this thing can sustain 700 nits of brightness on 10 percent of the screen meaning that HDR content is going to look properly hdr on here then I mean these are no pleb tier so side monitors each of these is a pg32 uqr capable of 144 Hertz at 4K resolution now they're not quite as magnificent as the main display but they're color accurate and more than good enough for Discord stream monitoring and completing the ultimate battle station look now we didn't fully calibrate all of the monitors but we did ensure that the white balance and Gamma were matched between the three because that's the most important thing for making sure that your multi-monitor setup looks matched now we've already made sure that the speakers work well but we need to check out the rest of the streaming peripherals for an audio interface we went with the fireface ucx2 which delivers such a clean sound that it'll make nearly any set of half decent headphones sound incredible but when you connect it to the Sennheiser hd800s you get sound so good that the menu music in Minecraft is going to make you emotional now we weren't 100 sure how quiet Carl's streaming space was so hopefully it's not too loud because these headphones are open act so any ambient sounds go straight through them we also included an Electro Voice re20 microphone and a Sony zve E10 camera to act as a webcam how do they compare to one of the best webcam mic combos in a laptop well not not very not very close what won't be included though is the mouse and keyboard and I would like to explain why because that was a call that I made but me I didn't make that call ah too personal that makes sense the last thing then is to have a little chat about warranty and support this desk comes with literally none of that I don't want to say who but there have been creators in the past that we've made PCS for and then people in our office become their personal troubleshooters for a couple of months something we will not be doing again many of the components in here were graciously sent free of charge like the RTX 4090 power supplies CPU even that absolutely amazingly work of art distribution plate from EK water blocks but it also means there's absolutely zero warranty if something breaks so you will just have to go out and buy a new one we'd also recommend getting a good multimeter sold separately since troubleshooting any of the wiring in here is going to be non-trivial if something goes wrong a final bit of laying down the law dear Saudi princes this desk is one of one and we will never build another and in the future any clients are going to have to pay for engineering time since having Tim work on this for two months more than two months um he has other stuff to do with all that said we hope you love it Carl an extraordinary amount of effort was put into making this literally the best over-the-top gaming system to ever exist and I think Tim Amish Alex I did a thing Hopewell Works everyone involved did an utterly phenomenal job have fun beating Minecraft on it overall I'm super happy with the way this collaboration turned out our members have been using the E7 legs for a while now and have been thoroughly impressed with their remarkable stability and I'm sure Carl will be as well it really is astonishing how little shaking there is when you're even when you're typing while standing their unique embedded Junction and solid-built carbon steel dust frame Make It Rock Solid and what's really cool is that even though our creation weighed too much for the E7 flexi spot later released the Odin E7 Q legs that can support up to 440 pounds we weren't able to switch out the legs at the last second since the PC desk chassis was custom made for the e7s but we're going to be keeping the Odin legs in mind for any future heavy builds the E7 comes with a cable management board and cable ties to keep your workspace tidy it's easy to assemble and can be set up in minutes and with its sleek and modern design the E7 is a perfect addition to any home office setting or wildly expensive PC desk don't miss flexispot's brand Day Sale event from May 23rd to May 25th you can get up to 60 off and use code linus50 to get an additional 50 off your purchase of 500 or more plus you can try your luck at winning one of the free orders they're giving away during these days check them out at the link in the video description if you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out the last time we made an over-the-top PC for a rich person the pyramid PC for dbrand

Channel: Linus Tech Tips

Views: 4,204,413

Keywords: Karl Jacobs, Custom PC, PC Desk, Minecraft, Gaming, GPU, RGB, Karl, Jacobs, Gamer, Intel, FlexiSpot, Desk, Expensive, Build, Fortnite, Watercooled

Id: AHR80l7od2Q

Length: 19min 9sec (1149 seconds)

Published: Mon May 22 2023

Reddit Comments

[u/Left4Bread2]

The theoretical endpoint of the spend $X to play Minecraft meme

I wonder what upgrading this thing would look like in a few years time

[u/officialnickbusiness]

Our society really is fucked when people who play video games for a living are spending $100k on a PC while our educators can't even afford rent.

[u/Frizkie]

Well they definitely didn’t fuck around on this one, did they

[u/stirlow]

An interesting call out about “Saudi princes” at the end. Has Linus mentioned being asked by whale buyers to do custom systems/collabs before?

[u/kris33]

Where's the jank? Doesn't feel LTT anymore

[u/your_mind_aches]

I can see them eventually putting in some kind of policy around these builds or just starting to outright reject them. Like he mentioned, their engineering time is important.

[u/lastdarknight]

made it about half way, the energy felt really weird and forced.. along with the whole checklist thing felt like a e-learning from work

[u/Splatmaster42G]

The reddit is stroooong in these comments.

Dude has made a ton of money by being entertaining. He wants to spend money on something cool. That 100k paid a bunch of people skilled at engineering and CnC and general tech assembly to do something freaking awesome, and y'all bitching about "out of touch" and "kids starving in Africa!"?

Let's not send a man to the moon, we could use that money for other stuff. Let's not push the limits of car engineering and speed, we could use that money for other stuff. Let's not develop next Gen games, graphics are good enough now. Stop buying art, that cash should pay my rent. Where does it stop?

There is nothing more out of touch than complaining about how other people spend their money.

This was a super cool build, pushing the limits of what is a "computer", and people are whining about "out of touch" or "not jank enough".

[u/TacticalAcquisition]

...nearly impossible for FedEx to destroy! ^{But don't try!}

That got me good.