The ULTIMATE Powerhouse Sleeper PC

for our last sleeper gaming PC the goal was to build the most powerful compact desktop rig that we could but this time our objective is a little different this video is brought to you by sea sonic and the rig's going to be powered by their prime platinum 1300 watt and it is gonna have everything you see here everything you see here and everything you see back there yeah most of that really didn't work out but sleeper number 3 Margaret well she's a taskmaster she is the biggest baddest hardest sleeper PC that we've ever built and did I mention that she's beautiful [Music] floppy bigger floppy jazz floppy DVD rewriter dvd-rom like what is this is this a zip zip disk or is it just a cooling fan like what the hell is this um hard drive hot swappable card reader Windows 2000 professional ones two CPU this is going to be a lot of work yeah you know makes it a lot harder the chiller the chiller and the carbon fiber tubing that's why are we doing carbon fiber tubing are you nuts the first thing we needed to do was figure out if our water chiller would even fit inside the case we salvaged from our friends at freakin Vancouver like sure the case is massive but there's still plenty of room for error in something like this we disassembled the chiller to find out what was inside and then removed all the PC components in our case to make space this is a situation yeah it turns out that eyeballing things is not quite a substitute for measuring them can all fit we can get it in but we might ruin the condenser oh yeah that's gonna be a super bad time or you could just be like hey Kapow I'm sorry this project won't be as advertised I think that is exactly what we're gonna do we're gonna go over kill water cooling with the carbon fiber tubing is that not cool enough yeah are you not entertained and then we're gonna have to I mean I still want to revisit this yeah I think it's just a matter of finding the right chassis if we find an old server chassis or something there is no reason we couldn't do that I think it the best way is to just start by building a computer in here that's air cooled and then locating everything where we think it'll work are you pumped Oh oh those get sponsored all these for this build we're looking to have not just insane gaming power but also crazy workstation power with that in mind our CPU selection was easy the thread Ripper 2990 X is a 32 core 64 thread beast and it gives up some gaming performance but it uh Turley embarrasses even intel's top-end h EDT chip in multi-threaded workloads for the GPU we're going with NVIDIA GeForce RT X xx atti I'd like to say that there's a good reason for it but it's just the best GPU for gaming will it be enough I I think so I guess that we could have gone for two but I don't know I wasn't really in the mood given what we've been hearing about these it's extra important that we make sure that everything is working before we bought our water cooling it power is being taken care of by C Sonic prime platinum 1300 watt which admittedly is a bit overkill for this system but on the plus side it's going to operate in silent mode basically the entire time and like come on if see Sonic offers you a 1300 watt power supply for the project they're sponsoring you take it so for this build I'm going to be using a dim dot - there's no real reason to use it besides just I've had drives fail when they're down below there before and water cooling built and man at the horrible part with everything installed it was time to make sure that all our components were in working order it was pretty easy doesn't do that yeah hey zero detect memory oh dang [Music] it's just a tiny bit of thermal paste I wonder if that's what was causing our issues okay so the the motherboard that we had before it's just dead so that's why we're having so many issues and it's like it's like a week and a half since I've been working on this because it's bad things were happening but hopefully we're gonna get back here and in the next day or so this will be a fully functioning PC but I guess we'll find out in the future all right good bye alright new Zenith extreme this one does not have any bent pins so with any luck it will work just fine Oh Co Tady detect memory this is very bad Denis our CPU might be dead we're gonna have to go with something else here all right so she's working now I talked to it nicely like I haven't recommended an you just called it an it okay it's not that it's a she Thank You Margaret I'm sorry baby okay so we need to put a water tool and lube in here here's what I think why don't you use a vertical adapter bracket for the card and have the card vertical that will give you space in behind here to put the pump and the tubing to go up with the loop planned out the components were removed and it was time to drill out the rivets to make space for our water cooling and the idea is that this right here will be the new the new power supply holder and also will allow for us to have cable management in the back this if it works will be made out of aluminum on the CNC router but we will see in a couple second that it's gonna be a good time do you have any guesses three out of five a good one now given that this is our first time cutting aluminum on our CNC one hand will be on the emergency stop the whole time our first piece didn't turn out perfectly but it gave us all of the critical dimensions that we needed and let us try out the new vise break we got from princess Otto for like 60 bucks in theory this should bend our aluminum to a nice clean 90 degrees and give Margaret a really solid chassis snug hood is easy as a massive break there just seems to be working well it did market up a bit but given that that thing was like 60 bucks really complained the prototype here is a solid proof of concept now there's just a bit of fine-tuning and then we're good to make a final version really 60 bucks for our break that managed those those bends dang [Music] this is problem hour with Alex so you're about to watch a couple CNC router fails and there are a lot more off camera we tried a bunch of different things going faster going slower new bits and it turns out it was just a double-sided tape that we got it was not up for the task so we're going to be switching to the most accurate tool of all the angle grinder we'll need to make room for the radiator reservoir and cable management this will function just fine but gives up a lot of rigidity compared to the much thicker piece that we were going to see and see next the front of the case got chopped up to give the radiator more airflow and everything was filed down so that no hands would be cut while working in Margaret with some radiator mounting holes added it was time to put the case back together riveting is a very simple way to get two pieces of sheet metal to stay together in a mostly permanent fashion right select the correct sized head for the rivet you're working with insert the rivet from the front line up the pieces you're about to rivet and squeeze your rivet gun until it pops repeat until your case is complete now it's time for some painting then we can finally get on to water cooling alright so the first coat of paint on there and what I'm hoping we will do today is get everything pretty much mounted and water cool then we'll take it all out put a second coat of paint on now that we know that everything's in the right spot and tomorrow we'll be done for the water cooling hardware alpha cool hooked us up with some primo stuff to make sure that Margaret can shred or rip all the threads that we throw at her for our CPU we're using an ice block with a thread Ripper adapter then our r-tx 28 ET I got an acetal water block for that sexy stealthy all bull and chromed look we swapped out the connection point to make vertical mounting easier so far so good but with the CPU and GPU in we realized that things didn't quite line up this is gonna be really friggin difficult starting to look kind of sexy though we turned on my computer's data now the key to getting a hard line water cooling loop to work its best is to have as many things line up perfectly as possible this will make your runs a lot easier to complete with fewer fittings that means fewer points of failure now normally even for hard line bending the tubing is an option not with carbon fiber with that all in mind we created a bracket then to mount our pump with some room for adjustments after the fact there's just lots of mounting so everything is straight yeah no this is great well this isn't straight this isn't straight you think I mean this can probably come yeah yeah cool yeah I think it's gonna look really cool we're not using this power cables are we no that's just a stand-in ours are in the mail cool so for the tubing on this build we're going with carbon fiber it's gonna be a real big pain in the butt so carbon fiber if you like get the little bits that come off of it on you it'll make you all itchy if you get it in your mouth it's a really bad time if it goes into the air also like together than your mouth with your eyes really bad PPE aside carbon fiber tubing is pretty much like any other hard line tubing basically measure measure again cut sand and insert with that completed it was time to leak test I don't have a whole lot of confidence that this will not leak but well well there's our first leak and their second leak and our third leak so we're having a couple of problems there the main one being that there are two o-rings in a fitting we are only getting through the first one the second one the carbon fibers stab it to shark even after being sanded so either just hit it or when it went through it would just slice the o-ring to pieces and it wouldn't seal at all so to combat that we had to replace every single inner ring and lubricate it well for a nice clean insertion with the computer leak free it was time to take everything we've done completely undo it take the whole thing apart and then put everything back in permanently now one of the biggest problems with this design is that there are a lot of things about our build that simply cannot be accessed once it's complete without disassembling the entire water cooling loop so it's important that we not forget anything at this stage like this laser cut acrylic cable hiding panel it's gonna look really nice but once that's in those cables cannot come out other cosmetic things were done at this stage - like the drive bays which were unscrewed then it pops it into the front of the case to complete our vintage look now with everything slapped in and the loop topped off all that's left is the moment of truth 90 to post error so just so I'm clear what you've been doing for the last two days is reseeding the CPU yeah it didn't boo and then everything that's here had to come out oh I had the CPU I just took it out put it back in everything worked and also like we thought that it was other hues at first but hey the CPU is at 22 degrees now yep and it's cabled also why you can really feel that airflow over the vents down here they are they are quite small for all the trials and tribulations that have come along with this I think this may be your finest sleeper yet [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] but Margaret isn't just a pretty face she's a powerhouse that can compute circles around her sleeper siblings in certain workloads with zero tweaking she got a Cinebench score of five thousand and one and under full synthetic load on all 32 cores even with the sub optimal ventilation from the front our CPU reached a maximum temperature of 48 degrees after some tweaking we've got a four point one gigahertz overclock on all 32 cores having us 6,000 points and Cinebench and a blender BMW test time of just one minute 22 seconds to put that in context that is over four and a half times faster than a core i9 MacBook Pro and then even with the overclock in longer tests Margaret still didn't get any higher than 75 degrees on the CPU and as for gaming well Margaret's r-tx 20 atti means that she can absolutely destroy games like you could fully expect to max out any triple a game at 1440p on a 144 Hertz monitor so that's it big thanks to Alex for sticking with this project it was an absolute nightmare because of some of the issues with well how large thread Ripper is and how you can kind of get inconsistent notes in the socket sometimes and the big things to see sonic first sponsoring our efforts here even if you don't need the 13 hundred watt beast of the unit that we put in our system you can be confident if you to see sonic that your power supply will last I tried to think of a bunch of other stuff to say about power supplies but like isn't that the bottom line and they've got a 12 year warranty to back it up so guys if you dislike 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 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Channel: Linus Tech Tips

Views: 3,989,622

Keywords: Sleeper PC, Threadripper, Margaret, Ultimate, Seasonic, Alphacool

Id: WIRDr8qs_Fw

Length: 19min 35sec (1175 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 21 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/WinterCharm]

Drops sponsor’s 1300W platinum PSU.

O_O

[u/TommiHPunkt]

showing the problem of certain Epyc/Threadripper sockets: Proper contact of all pins needs multiple tries (or might not work at all). Der8auer had similar problems with one of his epyc boards.