Building a New LGR Editing PC! Threadripper 3970X

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Bro, how is the inside of the old build so freakin clean?

I dig mine out and clean it once per year, and it's never that spotless! Especially the CPU cooler fan. I don't think it's even that clean after I am done cleaning it!

šŸ‘ļøŽ︎ 12 šŸ‘¤ļøŽ︎ u/Klaitu šŸ“…ļøŽ︎ May 15 2020 šŸ—«︎ replies

TIL, LGR has a 128 terabyte disk rig for storage and backups.

šŸ‘ļøŽ︎ 5 šŸ‘¤ļøŽ︎ u/SupremoZanne šŸ“…ļøŽ︎ May 15 2020 šŸ—«︎ replies

This video really reminds me how little I know about current hardware compared to how much I know about 90's/2000's hardware. I guess growing up in the 90's, and 10 years of watching LGR will do that to a person.

šŸ‘ļøŽ︎ 5 šŸ‘¤ļøŽ︎ u/daoceanphantom šŸ“…ļøŽ︎ May 15 2020 šŸ—«︎ replies

Even though Iā€™m not building one now, this was still informative. So much has changed since building computers 20 years ago. Used to hate getting cuts all over my hands. But this is beautiful.

šŸ‘ļøŽ︎ 4 šŸ‘¤ļøŽ︎ u/Sleestak_Cha-ka šŸ“…ļøŽ︎ May 16 2020 šŸ—«︎ replies

Daaaaaaaamn that's some serious hardware

šŸ‘ļøŽ︎ 3 šŸ‘¤ļøŽ︎ u/Blue2501 šŸ“…ļøŽ︎ May 15 2020 šŸ—«︎ replies

Wow a threadripper cpu they are insanely expensive.

šŸ‘ļøŽ︎ 3 šŸ‘¤ļøŽ︎ u/Metal-fan77 šŸ“…ļøŽ︎ May 15 2020 šŸ—«︎ replies
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[rippin' jazz tunes] [boxes plopping down] Greetings and welcome to an LGR computer thing thatā€™s a smidge more modern than usual. Cuz yeah, today we are putting together a brand new workstation / editing rig using all these lovely parts here, among other things. Ahh this is always exciting, weā€™re gonna be going over the parts I chose, dismantling my old build, putting together this brand new one, setting everything up with Windows, and then putting it through its paces with a few select programs. Yeah, upgrading my work PC is something I do every four or five years or so, with my last build being back in early 2016. I didnā€™t do a video on that, but it was this machine right here, what I called my mini-fridge monolith. Iā€™m actually gonna be using this exact same case for todayā€™s build and just swapping out all the internals, cuz I dunno, Iā€™m still quite fond of it. Itā€™s a Fractal Design Define XL R2, one I chose not only for its brushed steel industrial kitchen aesthetic, but because I was actively seeking something with a ton of space thatā€™s super quiet. Itā€™s got these giant, slow-moving fans on the front, the back, the bottom, a huge BeQuiet CPU cooler installed, and tons of room for everything I wanted for parts and cable management. And what Iā€™ve had in here since 2016 was an Intel i7-6700 CPU, 64 gigs of DDR4-3000 RAM, a couple of M.2 drives, a couple SSDs, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. Oh and an old Avermedia capture card, which Iā€™ve been meaning to upgrade for years but it does the job so whatever. And yeah, I mean, all this stuff works fine still. But only just fine, because my workflow has changed quite a bit since 2016. Iā€™ve used Adobe Premiere since forever, so thatā€™s nothing new. But Iā€™ve also started using After Effects more for things like my intro and text graphics, as well as a bunch of filters and plugins that really bog things down. Not to mention Iā€™ve upgraded cameras three times since then, with my current one being a Lumix GH5S recording at 4K 60fps and 150 megabits per second. And ah, yeah, all that combined has slowed things down a lot while editing, even with proxies, and render times have gone through the roof. So thatā€™s why I decided to go all out this time and grab a buncha stuff thatā€™s admittedly unjustifiable if it werenā€™t for my job. The centerpiece being this insane processor here, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. Iā€™ve been setting aside cash for it ever since I saw what it could do when it launched in late 2019, and then when I got my tax refund this year I just decided to take the plunge. [chuckles] This thing alone cost two thirds of what my entire previous PC cost, and again, if it wasnā€™t a business expense I would not be able to justify it. 32 cores, 64 threads, 144 megs combined cache. Yeah just complete nonsense thatā€™s really all about getting me a smoother time editing and rendering, this is not a gaming build or anything like that. Not to say it canā€™t game, Iā€™m sure itā€™d do just fine in that regard. But if I was building a new gaming PC Iā€™d go with an i9-9900KS or something with fewer cores. In fact, Iā€™ve got an Intel-based PC in my living room that I use exclusively for playing games, thatā€™s a whole ā€˜nother rig that doesnā€™t do any work and is just built for gaming. This is all about the work, and to that effect, Iā€™ve also chosen a motherboard that seems like itā€™ll do what I need: an MSI Creator TRX40. Iā€™ve gone with Gigabyte boards for the longest time, but Iā€™ve been impressed with the MSI board I have in my gaming PC and figured Iā€™d give one of their sTRX4 models a try. Itā€™s got a crapload of ports and overclocking features and things Iā€™ll never use. The sound chip for instance, I donā€™t use on-board sound at all, itā€™s all external solutions for me and work these days. Currently a Mackie Big Knob Studio for both recording and playback, it works well for my mics that needs XLR phantom power and uh. I like the big knob. Anyway yeah, moving onto the memory situation, and Iā€™m going with my longtime preference Corsair, this time 128 gigabytes of their Vengeance LPX DDR4-3600 CL18 RAM. Should be a tad faster than what I had before, and of course itā€™s twice the amount. Believe it or not I do push 45, 50 gigabytes of memory used in certain projects, sometimes even more with really big videos like the E3 one I did a while back, so the extra headroom will be nice. Speaking of which, I also really wanted to boost my storage speed, so I went with three of these Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 NVMe sticks, which should be stupidly fast. Even more so than the 950 Pros I had in my last build, and those were already quite quick, just far lower in capacity. These are two, one, and one terabyte, so Iā€™ll be using the two for my main video assets, one for proxies and screen captures, and the other one for the operating system and application files. Iā€™ve got another 4 terabyte SSD already that Iā€™ll keep as well, but itā€™s a lot slower so itā€™ll likely be for overflow of things that havenā€™t been moved onto my network storage. Yeah thatā€™s other stuff, thereā€™s about 128 terabytes both here and off-site that I used for storage and backups. Continuing with these parts though and my search for silence. I went with another BeQuiet CPU cooler since I was so happy with the last one I had, this one being the Dark Rock Pro TR4. I donā€™t wanna do liquid cooling or have any audible pumps or motors or loud fans, so these huge coolers of theirs are fantastic. Just a couple of enormous, slow-moving fans and a monstrous heatsink thatā€™s about as big as your head. In terms of power, Iā€™m going with -- well this is actually my old power supply but itā€™s still awesome so Iā€™m keeping it. Itā€™s an EVGA Supernova thousand watt power supply, one of their 80 plus platinum ones for whatever thatā€™s worth. Itā€™s served me well for years now, never left me hanging on power needs, and itā€™s got all modular connections and itā€™s super quiet, so yeah, it makes the cut. Lastly thereā€™s the video card, this EVGA RTX 2080 Super FTW3 whatever the heck. Not the best card in existence for gaming, but again, itā€™s not a gaming build so itā€™ll do the job with its 8 gigs of video memory and such. Less than the 11 gigs I had before, but itā€™s still faster overall, supports RTX, and I didnā€™t see the need to shell out for a Ti or a Titan on this rig. Iā€™m holding out for the 3080 before going whole hog on a new GPU, and even then thatā€™ll be dropping into my living room PC and not this one, so the 2080 Super works fine. Oh and uh, yeah 64-bit Windows 10 Pro, I guess thereā€™s that too. Nothing exciting there but there it is. Right! So thatā€™s it for the parts, I am more than ready to put this thing together. But first, letā€™s take the old one apart real quick, and start assembling all this Threadripper goodness! [music softly fades out] Alrighty so, first order of business is getting my 2016 build disassembled, at least most of the way. As discussed, Iā€™m gonna be keeping the power supply and one of the 2.5ā€ SSDs installed in the new machine, and the video capture card will be sticking around as well for the time being. Same goes for all the 120 and 140 millimeter case fans, along with the blu-ray burner I have in there. Which uh, heh, come to think of it Iā€™ve never once used for burning or even reading blu-rays. But I like having it on-hand for all the older optical media that Iā€™m constantly reading and writing for other LGR projects. Hereā€™s one part that wonā€™t be sticking around though, this older Sandisk Ultra 3D SSD. I think this oneā€™s only 250 gigs and itā€™s quite a bit slower than the others, so yeah, itā€™s better suited to an old laptop or something. Then thereā€™s the 4 terabyte SSD that I will be keeping installed. Even though its read/write speeds are slower than the M.2 sticks, itā€™s still nice to have the additional local storage for lesser-used files. I really dig Fractal Designā€™s removable drive trays by the way, just one of the many things I love in this case. That and the fact that itā€™s so wide open inside, making it super easy to reach all the screws on the motherboard, something I canā€™t say for most of my previous ATX cases. Seems like thereā€™s always some weird metal doohickey in the way of one little screw or another, or large CPU coolers would bump up against the sides but nope, not here! Anyway thatā€™s that. The motherboard is outta there, along with all the rest, so letā€™s move onto the new stuff! Starting with the MSI motherboard and its ridiculous number of quirks and features. THIS! Is one appealing design, I gotta say. Those eight RAM slots bring to mind heftier server boards, I quite like it. And itā€™s not too far off the deep end of ā€œtry-hard gamer boiā€ aesthetic either, thankfully. Though it does have some RGB nonsense happening on the I/O panel, a crystal-looking thing they call ā€œThe Mystic Light.ā€ Eh itā€™s fine, I can turn it off if itā€™s bothersome. I just prefer minimal or no RGB lighting and purposely avoid things like glowing memory modules and LED fans. I swear, half the builds I see online these days are lit up like the Vegas Strip on acid, I donā€™t get it. Ah well, enough old man being old, letā€™s see what else is in here. We got a bag full of drive cables and things, nothing I need since I already have everything in there from the last rig. Thereā€™s also this impressive-looking wi-fi antenna, again not needed since cā€™mon now, 10 gig ethernet is where itā€™s at. And then thereā€™s this PCI Express card, one of the more intriguing inclusions with this board. MSI calls this the M.2 Xpander Aero Gen4, an unappealing mouthful of a name, but a highly useful card that takes the mainboardā€™s M.2 slots from 3 to 7. Yeah, this whole top part of the card comes off letting you insert 4 more M.2 SSDs. Awesome for any future expansion! But seeing as I only have 3 of them right now, letā€™s set the card aside and go ahead and get these installed on the motherboard itself. The way this works on the TRX40 is that you have two metal heatsink bars screwed on there. Removing them provides access to the M.2 slots, complete with thermal pads covered in blue protective film. Pretty dang fancy compared to what Iā€™ve had before, Iā€™ve only ever had a couple slots out in the open with no built-in heat dissipation at all. So yeah, just gonna remove the blue film on the thermal pads, slot each of the three modules into place, and screw those heatsink plates on top of them to keep everything down. Nice. Should keep things a bit cooler, and it also just looks snazzy as crap all tucked away like that. With that outta the way itā€™s time to whip out the Threadripper, and man, this is some [chuckles] excessive packaging, to say the least. Honestly it looks more like a plasma rifle power cell or some sci-fi macguffin than it does a CPU holder. What are you even supposed to do with it afterwards, set it on a shelf, just empty? Extraneous packaging aside though, this is truly a gorgeous bit of hardware. Kinda reminds me of the Pentium Pro in terms of how oversized the processor is, what a mesmerizing piece of high tech art. It also came with a big olā€™ watercooling mount, as well as this Threadripper-branded screwdriver. The latter is used to unlock this metal socket covering, so you can remove the plastic pin shields and get to the uh, sliding insertion thingy. Heh, yeah this is new to me man, check this out. The whole CPU, orange plastic and everything, slides right down into this little cradle and clicks down into place over the pins. Then you screw it all back in there so it connects, and it is now good to go! Sure have come a long way from ZIF sockets. Next up is the RAM since it goes underneath the CPU cooler, and since Iā€™ve got four identical modules, theyā€™ll go in these four slots spaced apart from one another in order for optimal quad-channel support. Then weā€™re ready for the Dark Rock Pro cooler in all its comically-sized copper aluminum glory. Pretty sure Iā€™ve seen smaller children actually. And hey neat, it came with its own screwdriver. A pretty nice one too from the feel of it. First step here is to screw in these metal brackets and plastic standoffs around the socket itself, which is where the heatsink will screw into here soon. And it actually came with some generic thermal paste in the box, but Iā€™m gonna use some of my trusty olā€™ Arctic MX-4 instead. How much do I use? Enough, thatā€™s how much. Got that slathered on the Threadripper, and now we can just plop down the whole cooler on top, place the metal bracket in between, and screw that down through two holes in the top of the heatsink. Sure glad it came with that screwdriver, otherwise I donā€™t know if I had any that were long and skinny enough to get down in there. Lastly, thereā€™s a 135mm fan that goes in the middle of the heatsink assembly. That clips right into place with these little metal brackets and gets plugged into the CPU fan header on the motherboard right alongside the other fan so theyā€™re both able to be controlled at once. Alrighty, things are moving quickly at this point! Just gonna get everything weā€™ve done so far dropped into the case and screwed into the existing standoffs, conveniently theyā€™re all the same as last time. And Iā€™ll start connecting some of the power cables for the motherboard, CPU power, and the case fans. As well as the SATA drive cables, USB ports, and all the different front panel connections. At this point the expansion cards are about all thatā€™s left, with the graphics first on the agenda since itā€™s so large. And yeah, these RTX cards are monstrous, taking up three PCI brackets around back. It still seems crazy to me when cards take up two slots, three is just hilarious. Now, normally Iā€™d install the GPU into the first PCI Express slot, but ah. Yeah, doing that would completely cover up the chipset fan on the motherboard, something Iā€™d rather avoid if I can. So Iā€™m gonna install it a couple slots down so it sits below the fan. Not exactly ideal I suppose, but itā€™ll work since each slot is PCIe 4.0 x16 anyway, and I only have one more card to install. That being the old Avermedia Game Broadcaster HD, which I use to capture old PC footage below 1080p. Itā€™s just a tiny little thing, slots in there no problem. And yeah, thatā€™s about it! Other than spending a while tidying things up and generally taking care of cable management, the only thing left to do will be installing Windows and setting up all my software. Check it out! The new LGR Threadripper workstation is lookinā€™ mighty fine indeed. Iā€™m gonna assume I didnā€™t miss anything stupid and get the side panels put back on there. Then hook everything back up, power it on, and see what happens! [music fades] [computer powers on in near silence] Ahh, the sweet sound of nothing! It can be hard to tell if itā€™s turned on at all audibly, just the way I like it since I record so much in this room. And yeah, once itā€™s tested out all the components and memory and stuff, we reach the MSI BIOS. Success! Everything seems to be plugged in and working as intended, so thatā€™s a good sign. And dang there sure is an extravagant amount of junk to look at and tweak in here, which is one reason I wanted another MSI board. I particularly like the Board Explorer screen, where you can mouseover and see each and every component, cable, add-on card, and peripheral thatā€™s currently active on the PC. I mean, I guess you could just look down and see for yourself, but whatever, this amuses me and I enjoy its existence. After this, itā€™s Windows setup time! And yeah yeah, Windows 10 setup, blah blah it is what is. After a few minutes itā€™s all done. The only thing that needed to be manually set up was my capture card, but otherwise itā€™s back to business as usual. So letā€™s test some crap out! I mean, just look at all those threads [laughs] 64 threads across 32 cores, resulting in about 128 times my previous level of arousal, mmm. Naturally the first thing I had to try was SkiFree for Windows 3.1. Oh yeah, smooth as silk even in ultrawide. Itā€™s barely even taxing the CPU at all, what a beast! Yeah okay, enough joking around. So the actual first thing I tried was Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition from 1996. Amazingly, it runs flawlessly in DOSBox, with hardly a skipped frame or a hint of slowdown! The Ryzen Threadripper is truly the future. All right for real now though, letā€™s go for Premiere Pro. One of the biggest reasons I wanted the upgrade was to improve rendering times, and hereā€™s some footage of the previous 6700K machine encoding a typical 12 minute LGR video with all the settings and stuff I normally use. On there it took over an hour to finish rendering that particular video. And that was one of the better scenarios, some of my longer videos took three or four hours. Now letā€™s try it out on the new PC, same exact file, settings, all that. We know itā€™ll be faster, but by how much? A lot! [chuckle of disbelief] Yeah it only took 25 minutes to finish rendering the project, using identical plugins and export settings as before. Ahh, fantastic, thatā€™s seriously like a weight lifted off my shoulders right there. And yeah, thatā€™s about it for the new work PC! Even knowing what kinda numbers Iā€™d be getting beforehand, having looked at endless tests and benchmarks online, itā€™s still somewhat mind-boggling to see for myself what this setup can do with my own video projects. Including this very video youā€™re watching, this entire thing was edited and rendered in record time using the new rig, and it was a buttery smooth experience the whole way through. As youā€™d hope for how much it cost, jeez, imagine if it sucked. Thankfully it doesnā€™t though, and Iā€™ve used some of the extra time to enjoy a few maps of Doom Eternal, and appreciate how well it makes use of all those processor threads. What a bonkers thing. I know some games will require disabling a number of cores or they wonā€™t run, something the included MSI software makes pretty simple, thankfully. But so far, all the games Iā€™ve tried have worked great without having to disable or tweak anything, itā€™s all been rock solid. Yeah, even though itā€™s a work PC itā€™s still been undeniably fun messing around with games just to see what it can do. And hey, if itā€™s in this video, that means itā€™s technically work right? Oh yeah for sure, this is definitely work. Doom, Wreckfest, Red Dead Redemption 2, Minecraft RTX, I say theyā€™re all sortakinda work at this particular moment in time. Doing YouTube as a job is bizarre. Speaking of which, I hope you enjoyed this video! I know itā€™s not my usual fare but I tried making it enjoyable regardless. Do check out some more LGR if ya like this kinda thing. Especially if youā€™re into retro computing, I post new videos each week. And as always, thank you very much for watching!
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Keywords: Threadripper, 3970X, windows 10, building a PC, workstation, computer, lgr, lazy game reviews, AMD, Ryzen, nVidia, RTX, 2080 Super, pci express, games, PC, Windows, best, expensive, howto, tutorial, walkthrough, gameplay, testing, footage, troubleshooting, build, case, rebuild, step by step, assembly, pieces, parts, benchmark, upgrade, 2020, 32 core, CPU, video card, editor, Adobe Premiere, gaming, work, editing, rendering, encoding, unboxing, overclock, BIOS, MSI, Corsair, Samsung, cooling, review, motherboard, socket, sTRX4, SSDs
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Length: 19min 54sec (1194 seconds)
Published: Fri May 15 2020
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