 I'm probably not the only one who's noticed at this point that ASUS ROG makes so many different Gaming PC components that you could pretty much build an entire system with nothing but ROG stuff So when ASUS reached out to sponsor a video for Intel's Gamer Days Which is gonna have giveaways deals on components desktops and laptops starting August 30th. We figured Why don't we try to finally do it? So in front of me is all the components of what Anthony and I hope is going to be the ultimate test ROG gaming system that we have ever built and of course Pretty much everything in front of us has that one important feature that everyone everyone needs So as always our build starts with safety first Rolling out the gamers Nexus mod mat so we can get started on our machine. So at the core Oh is of course gonna be our ROG Maximus 11 code motherboard So this is the one that we've been using on our Intel test bench basically ever since Intel launched the 9900 K I guess yeah ever since Z390. It's honestly been a solid board I haven't had any complaints at all and this has been through Plenty of both CPU and GPU testing not this one in particular this one this one's new But this model of motherboard, that's that's the main point, right? All right, let's pull out all these It's okay. It's just plastic. So to install on our board. We've gone with the core i9 9900 K so do you want to walk us through why we chose this particular model? Because it gives us that extra bit of flexibility with Intel quick sync So say you're a content creator it actually integrates pretty well with the Adobe suite right now That is a point in Intel's favor as far as CPUs go Also, it is still a little bit faster for gaming. It's not you know the major leap that it used to be but That plus a relatively mature platform. I think it's a pretty solid platform to build from so next up We've got our memory and we're actually doing a pretty craptastic job of using ROG components here Aren't we because this is only We're only one for three so far. They don't actually make ROG memory yet But this memory is or a sync compatible, which is very important since it is RGB memory So this is G skills tried and Z RGB 3200 C14 kit it's actually Intel XMP ready and these are 16 gig dims which is going to give us a total of 64 gigs of RGB goodness in our finished system delicious overkill that is so far over the top that it's not even funny I think we even have a video planned in the next little bit sort of Demonstrating that this much memory is completely unnecessary for gaming Wow. We're making excellent progress here So do you want to get the case fired up while I try to figure out this cooler? I've never actually This is the part where we can parallelize things a little bit This has been kind of a single threaded task up until now Yeah Nerd humor it's funny cuz hyper threading and Actually, there is something I need to do while you're working on that get these NVMe drives installed. So once again Not actually an ROG component. So we got a couple of 970 Pro 1 terabyte drives We're gonna be running these in raid 0 for that maximum performance. So this is interesting With just one screw you can actually install both of these SSDs Oh, yeah, that's a neat feature In fact, it appears as though you don't actually need it at all You can just chuck this thing on top of it and it'll just hold it into place I don't really want to do that though. So I'm gonna see if I can find that mounting screw in the box. Oh Wow, I Actually have not seen As soon as ROG chassis before yes, it has what they call super comfortable handles and they're actually not bad Yeah, I was gonna say they're they they're okay, I wouldn't call them super comfortable I think the handle is on the other end Okay, that's something you might justify calling super comfortable made of fabric instead of sharp metal I was wondering what that was Let's see. They got these little buttons here Actually, I vastly prefer the latch system for these kinds of things because I'm always super terrified of tempered glass shattering When screwing in like a screw into it Yeah, everything in here actually feels pretty good So this is a SUSE's Hilarious cooler that not only has RGB built in but it also has a display Because that is what everyone needs It's funny. It's not even the only component in here that has a display. Oh That's right. Isn't there power supply have an OLED display on the side? Yeah, and I think the motherboard might also Okay, check this thing out. So you've got your copper base at the bottom and then you've got your standard Asetek mounting ring system You've got your pump up here but then ASUS has gone and built like a Like a multi-level parking structure on top of it. So you've got a cooling fan down here And then you've got this PCB up here that there you go handles both the RGB lighting and The built-in display like most cases usually have their drive bays in behind the motherboard tray here And yet in this case you have all the drive trays arranged in such a way that you can have all the cables running parallel With the rest of the cables in the system, so it's a lot cleaner back here What okay, this is the ROG Aura terminal. It's just an RGB hub But what has got me stammering right now is that it comes with a wall plug. What? Please tell me it can be powered internally. Okay, so the wall plug is for external case lighting and the 4-pin yeah, well, no, no, it's actually got a 4-pin mic molex to DC adapter perfect. So So while Anthony is working his way through the RGB stuff I'm trying to figure out how to hold all three of these fans in place while I position the radiator under them and Get my hand out So I can mount the rad up in the top Now I could ask Anthony for help, but he's really busy working on important things while I'm just you know doing cooling stuff You don't need cooling if you have RGB. Not if you've got aesthetic. Who do I sound like looks and feels Who do I sound like looks and form factor is all that matters don't need cooling Steve Jobs No, he cared Did he? Steve Wozniak cared at times Okay, I guess he did why he did make sure this computers at least worked were those the fans that came with it Yeah, it comes with industrial PVC fans. I didn't know that. Yeah, it's freaking awesome So Asus is the one company that's just like you know what Noctua makes the best fans Why are we why are we not just using them in our AIO? I was getting ready to put like sticky pads on this But it's actually exactly the right size for a drive bay. Oh It's two and a half inch. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. It actually has the best. It has the holes, too Oh, that's cool Those of you who have watched any of our build guides before probably noticed that I ran all of these power leads for the fans Towards the back of the case that when we connect them, they're all at the back where we won't notice them Now we've got the world's longest USB 2 cable this is coming off the CPU cooler That gives me a lot of options for routing. Oh, that's that's potentially a problem How many USB 2 headers do we have? Two. Oh good. That is not a problem then. Oh, it's sort of a problem Okay, we'll figure that out later though Okay, this was one oversight There's no convenient spot to route the front panel audio and front USB 2 cables There's no convenient spot to route the front panel audio and front USB here I just have to go in from over here Yeah, that was my favorite spot You can take that shroud out. So now that I've got my cable under the shroud I can go ahead and bring this up and plug into My front panel USB 2 connector there These have to be the thickest wires that I have ever seen on an AIO CPU cooler How the f much current are they planning to draw through this thing? All of it Bastard get on there. I don't think I have ever seen a USB plug that has that block on it Like all the all the housings have that cutout for the block, but I've never seen anyone actually use it Yeah come to think of it So where do we want these RGB strips? Everywhere oh Yeah, but oh, yeah. Oh, yeah for sure for sure there bud. Okay, so here's the USB problem We've got our front USB 3.1, which is here We've got our front USB 3.0, which is here and we have two front USB 2.0 which are here The problem is that this case in a SUSE's attempt to go as fully featured as possible Has four USB 3.0's and that 3.1 powered type C there so they include an adapter So you can use a 2.0 plug off the motherboard For these 3.0 ports, but we don't have any left because of all of our RGB stuff Now for extra credit what we could do is we could take these two connectors and combine them to fit onto a single header Should we do that? Is it worth the extra credit? We have to go all the way. I'll go get a pushpin So these are really simple to work with all you got to do is pop up this little plastic tab here at the back of the pin and then swoop pull the pin out I Wish the ATX connector was this easy to work with so now what we do is check this out So in the pin block here from the RGB controller, so we're taking the ones from the cooler and putting them in there You can see there's empty ones because no one bothers to actually some do but very few people Bother to put just the four wires in like a single width block so all we got to do is Just put them in in the same order Neat huh so now those two devices only take up a single USB 2.0 header Ow ah damn That hurt What did you hit it when you drive a pin under your fingernail? Oh? Mm-hmm yep. Oh crap What everything I just did was totally unnecessary There's a right angle USB 3.0 port here So there was enough for the front panel stuff and for those both to be there Well now we have one more I'm bleeding. Oh hell it stabbed me right under there. Yeah, I Don't know where the RGB headers are supposed to be Okay, so here is your RGB synchronization header nice then check this out We've got a couple of SATA power, so there's a lot of power for this case That's kind of hilarious and then for the two USB 3.0 They've got one that's right angle and one that's straight to account for that Asus's motherboards often have one straight and one right angle sick Oh wow that's amazing the system works okay, so between the AIO cooler this friggin thing our RGB controller and whatever this last thing is We have a total of three SATA connectors and one molex connector before we have actually plugged in any drives or peripherals Why do they need to make it molex? I don't know so this is kind of cool actually they've got this like cable management hider thingamajig here and It can actually slide depending on how wide your motherboard is so that allows us to hide things like this USB 3.1 cable behind this little cool little shroud here, so here's our USB 3.0 connector here Which on a normal system is one of the kind of eyesores because it's so bulky But you can't even see the cabling at all you just see the connector going in at the back So this one too just goes nice and snug at the bottom just like that wow that actually really is really clean Yeah, I like it power supply for Anthony so we're throwing in our four 1200 watt platinum which appears to be the entire reason that there's a window built into the bottom of the case Because this power supply has a display on it now I don't always keep the most glamorous parts of a build for myself, but when I do It's dual 2080 Ti's and SLI This is gonna be the ultimate Minecraft computer Like that moment when you feel like your graphics card needs to have an RGB controller and a fan controller on it So this case does have that feature that allows you to put one of your graphics cards and kind of this like show-off position over here, but I will not be taking advantage of it because with hard SLI bridges being what they are It's not possible to set up SLI with one of the graphics cards in the show-off position and one of them installed behind it You sure? We're just gonna pop this out Yes, are you sure? I mean maybe someone made like a thing oh You've got to be kidding me Okay never mind Did you find that in the manual? How did you know that? I just saw it and I was like hmm that looks like a vertical bracket. I wonder where that goes That's actually pretty smart I come bearing an assortment of PCI Express riser cables and a one and Two and This is gonna go This is gonna go Yeah Yeah, what? Yeah All right, so I'm putting in my second graphics card here now. I have a bit of a problem this Extension is not the right angle kind so it's Gonna be hard to get it down low enough and it might not work anymore once we do that. So we're hoping for the best There we go Nice Okay. Now I wouldn't ship the system like this No, but I also wouldn't ship a system with heavy GPUs like this installed in it anyway, so All right, cool speaking of which these both have Two 8-pins. Yeah. Yeah, good. Okay. All right. So power me up Scotty. That is a power. Yeah, so sorry Yeah, so sorry right or left left your left. Oh, okay. That's gonna be harder Yeah to be clear. This probably would have been easier if we had taken this route off, but We always like a challenge around here. Sure. Let's go with that Kind of feel like I'm artificially inseminating a horse. Oh Wait, I can see it. I can see it through the window. That's easy There done boom. Okay. Nice. Ow, I can't get my arm out. Oh Are we there? We're almost there. Wow. These are not That easy to plug in Wish I had done them beforehand Like I always advise people to do in my build guides and then forget about every time I'm actually building a computer Mm-hmm. Sweet That is so clean Hey, that's not bad actually. Yeah, it's not the best I've ever done, but it's decent. It's all in one place. I Need you to plug this in what is that? That's the RGB control for the power supply All right horse doctor time I Don't see it at all Okay, let's let's just let's look at the manual. Let's calm down No shroud taking the shroud office for the week. Oh Oh, hold on. No, I don't think I was over far enough. Oh, okay. Whoa. All right, we're getting close Laying out our peripherals There we go. All right. Can I scoot past you here scooch away? Oh We need a monitor we do dang it Hey, Suce is thoughtfully providing one for us though. This is my second favorite monitor from a Suce right now. It's their 144 Hertz 4k G sync display. I'm more of an ultra wide guy though. So I actually like the 200 Hertz ultra wide My finger can you tilt the screen down towards the bottom of the base? Thank you. Oh I think I'm good. I love pivot monitors got that RGB life Now that is cool being able to see a real-time readout of how much power your power supplies drawing. Yep I was expecting more rainbow bar Okay, wish me luck everybody There it is, we're up All right, it's prompting us for if we want to enhance the system performance with the XMP settings Oh, yeah, sure on multi-core enhancement turn everything on. This is an ROG machine. What the hey, let's good luck everybody And it's running at 60 FPS. You know, it goes really nicely with this build my stealth water bottle lttstore.com subtle Stealthy. Okay, I want to fire up GPU Z. Yeah, see what GPU Z has to say about this Okay, so one card is at 8x. That's what we expect. Yeah the other card also 8x nice. Okay. Yeah, so everything's fine We can close up the panels and now all we got to do is get our async running. Is there a peel on here? There is a peel I believe two peels two peels It must be somebody's birthday Dang it I suck boo. Boo me boo hiss Oh, this is even worse Even worse I suck. Wow Okay So this is it the all ROG PC is done Let's go ahead and do just a quick Cinebench r15 run. See how things are going. How's our overclock doing? Well, we didn't really overclock it. Well, no just the XMP All-core turbo blah blah blah. Yeah, that's true and we can see our wattage 265 ish and we're sitting at around 4.7 gigahertz just shy of that. Yeah, that's respectable Not bad Cinebench score of just just shy of 2,000 That's actually pretty good, isn't it? Yeah 1996 Decent year. It's a good year All right, this is one of my favorite things to do on An HDR enabled monitor shadow of the Tomb Raider and HDR looks so good Can you do HDR and 120 Hertz at the same time? I believe so. Yes looks like it's Completely locked at 120 at 4k. I know right? There's not a lot of systems that can do shadow of the Tomb Raider at 4k Ultra DSLR Tomb Raider at 4k ultra details except I turned motion blur off and Just not even begin to break a sweat What's the power supply showing? 712 watts. All right. I was worried we weren't gonna be able to do the quake 2 RTX demo, but it turns out It's a 25 second download. So We're back in business ladies and gentlemen. That's what a gigabit connection will do for you. Yeah Oh, hi, hi, baby It is amazing how even with these low-res textures and stuff better lighting Changes how the game looks in such a big way You know what's kind of funny about this is like turning RTX on in a game like this is kind of like built-in nostalgia glasses The lag time between like shooting and especially the fact that there's a projectile is really disorienting in today's world It was disorienting back then too. So we're at 4k HDR With RTX on and we're running it like 60 FPS Yeah with DLSS on too. So if we had DLSS off it would actually be even worse That's freaking crazy How many of these guys do you have to take out? All of them I guess that's presumably the objective of war so there you have it guys Everything is running flawlessly. This is it You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like But you probably like it because this thing looks freaking sick I think as Zeus has done an excellent job of tying together certain components in particular like the motherboard and the case especially and making them go together in a way that I Don't know if I've actually Seen before like especially those USB headers really cool stuff. What else is really cool is of course Intel gamer days So if you check out the link in the video description, you'll find deals on PC components Laptops and desktops as well as some really cool giveaways, which we will also have linked in the video description So thanks for watching guys subscribe and all that good stuff. See you next time. You're just playing games now, aren't you? I'm getting paid.