 Welcome to the Build Log of the Compensator. This will be a computer with no stops pulled. Four Titan Xs, 128GB of GDDR4 RAM, 1.2TB NVMe drive from Intel, and an Intel 5960X. And some benchmarks to crush. If you want to see more Build Logs in the future, wreck the like button. Let's do this. FreshBooks is the super simple invoicing solution that lets you get organized, save time, and get paid faster. Click now to try it for free. This won't be a particularly hard computer to build. It's just going to be kind of particularly epic. These white boxes, if you guys are wondering what the heck these are, these are all the Titan Xs. This is the SLI bridge that I'm going to have to use. Yep. 128GB of RAM. Just insane. Dominator Platinum 2400. 2400. It comes with lighting strips. Hmm, cool. So you could take your USB 3.0 header, plug it in here, and then you'd have a USB 2.0 plug that you could plug into your board down here. Nice. Some cable management stuff. That's pretty cool. Some rings. I'm going to take this cage out back here just so I have better access to cable management stuff. I kind of hoped that these fans were separate. So this is for lights. So there's, I guess, three, yeah, there's three different lighting strips in this bag that comes with the case. You have these three knobs. So you can, I guess, control the brightness. We'll have to see later on. When I put in the motherboard, I like having the case on its side. And this thing on its side is huge. This block is far too large. But my problem with this case is I have to fit it up here and I did it in totally the wrong order. I should have installed this first. All right, we are back to essentially nothing. Wow. That's a problem. These light cables back here are super in the way. That sucks. A fair amount of squish on those little LEDs, but I think they'll be okay. Wow, that's close clearance. So yeah, at this point, I don't know if I would necessarily recommend a triple rat in this case. I've already had to undo a lot of screwing things in and I hate that so much. I've got the board back in and the cooler is being fed through. So I just installed two screws into the motherboard and I'm not gonna do any more for now. I just wanna make sure that I can get this cooler installed. I have to remove this. Obviously I'm not gonna do that quite yet because I just wanna make sure it fits first. So all right, Fractal, good job. Your short cables were like perfect. I think that's how I'm supposed to do it. Why wasn't that screw going in? Oh, these are the ones I'm supposed to be using. The first one I got was this. Done. Installed. That was a nightmare. So we're now back on track. We're gonna finish screwing in the motherboard because I kinda gave up after two screws. People like selfie stuff. This might not make a ton of aesthetic sense right now. Once the graphics cards light up because they're all stock coolers, they'll all have green lights and then it should work. How do I wanna do the fans? Okay, so for the CPU pump, I'm probably not gonna go behind the motherboard actually. And then I'm gonna try to use this splitter, but it might not work. Okay, so now I have a little triple fan thing going through the back. It's kinda cool that it can already reach. I should have installed the power supply first. I knew it. So the reason I just did all of that and wasted a whole bunch of time because I have to do a whole bunch more work is because this cable can go like this. Instead of either coming through this hole or going through one of these holes and coming all the way up and looking super dumb. I'm just gonna go for gold and install everything right now before I install this cooler. It's like you put a graphics card in and it just looks a billion times better. Linus, is it possible for M.2 clearance to like super boom over a graphics card? Well, look. There you go. Yay. There you go. Cooling this is gonna be interesting. All right, so we're just doing some cable management. So we're getting really freaking close to being done. I have to put the glass panels on, but I wanna test to make sure the system works first. And I have to put the cover for the screws for the graphics cards on and then we're pretty much done. I wanted fans in the top because the area of the computer that has the graphics cards in it is going to be very starved for air. The chopsticks win again. Oh my goodness, the SLI bridge. Chopsticks. Okay, are like lights on? I know, but there's no lights on. Oh, dirt. Oh, dirt. So it's not posting. We're gonna swap in a much lower capacity, 16 gigabyte kit of RAM. Just nothing? Yeah, it just wasn't posting most of the time. Oh my God, I don't have time for this. I would actually try CPU first. The chip was dead. It's not posting and we're trying to figure out why. I've never tried a full graphics card before. So it was CPU twice? I don't know. Maybe it just needed a receipt. So what I'm doing now is installing the PCI Express powered motherboard. Are those chips dead? Or at least one of them? I don't think so. I'm voting for dust. Hey Linus. Come check this out. That's like kind of doing it for me. Yeah, so it comes with three RGB lighting strips that you can control manually on the back of the case. I might have found a case I finally like. So our top GPU, GPU 1, is running at 52 degrees idle. Our second GPU is running at 47, 48 degrees idle. Our third GPU is running at about 44, 45 degrees idle. And our last one, our fourth GPU, is running at 37 degrees idle. So that bottom one is doing a lot better than the others. But we'll see how much they heat up once we actually start benchmarking. All right, benchmarking is complete. This rig would have seriously benefited from water cooling the graphics cards as they were all riding on about 83 degrees and probably would have done better with GPU boost if the result wasn't 83 degrees all the time. Our issue with the RAM ended up being solved by ASUS saving the day again. There should probably be a public BIOS of the one that we used fairly soon. So don't worry too much about that if you want to recreate something here. All that being said, issues did remain. There were micro stutters all over the place with the SLI setup that we had. And it rendered certain parts of certain games almost unplayable. Our rig crushed 3DMark and it was cool to get into the top 1% of systems even without overclocking. Although if that leaderboard was based on price for performance, it probably would have been a different story. In conclusion, I'm happy with the results of this experiment. But the true conclusion will come next year when we make the Compensator 2.0. This rig did really well in the games we tested it in, but we don't really have any proper comparative data for that because we never really run our games on that insane of settings all the time. And yet again, the parts we chose were silly. Why were those parts silly? Well, 4-way SLI is kind of nuts. Check out Linus's scaling video here to explore that more. 128GB of RAM is also quite a bit over the top. Check out Linus's video on that exact very kit here. And CPUs, that tier are a little bit unnecessary for gaming or a lot of bit unnecessary for gaming. Check out my video on that tier. I hope you guys enjoyed this exploration of the bleeding edge. Thanks for watching guys. If this video sucked, you know what to do. But if it was awesome, get subscribed, hit that like button, or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop at Amazon, buying a cool t-shirt that doesn't have anything to do with Mozilla, or with a direct monthly contribution through the community forum. 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