 It's been a long time my friends, since we've built a compensator machine. But the reality of it is, there just hasn't been anything that's enough better than last time to justify it. Well, not today. This machine is going to be the hands down, fastest, most craziest, unbelievable rig that you can build using all off the shelf components that just go together like you could do for yourself at home. Assuming that you had the 20 plus thousand dollars or so to purchase all the components that would go in it. And it is brought to you by, SeaSonic. Yes, my friends, they not just sponsor hardware porn like you're about to watch today, they also make fantastic power supplies with up to 80 plus titanium efficiency. And of course, up to a 12 year warranty. You can check them out at the link below. Let's kick things off by unboxing the case. Now this was a limited edition run from Inwin. This is the Z tower, but it is technically an off the shelf part that any consumer with the cashola could have purchased. Like many of our hardware choices, we went with this not for any practical reason, but just to show how big our front mounted swinger is. That is a solid cast aluminum work of computer art, my friends. Holy crap, once this has a system in it, it's not gonna be movable. Oh, I still don't know. There we go. Exactly what the weight is. We are number 93 though. Look at that. Like I actually love how raw it is. Comes with a cleaning cloth, a VIP club membership, and all the mounting screws your heart could desire. I'm actually having a lot of fun. Like it's not that often I work with hardware that's so far beyond reasonable, even I look at it and I go, what? This video has been like months in the making. Inwin probably forgot they ever even sent us this thing. It's been so long. What the hell do you do with this kind of case? Nothing, I don't know. It goes in Indiana Jones's warehouse. This is the ROG Zenith 2 Extreme. The alpha was not available at the time we began planning this video. So you'll have to deal with the $10 price difference. It's got a little RGB fan controller due down. Oh, hey, it comes with five M.2 mounting screws. We're gonna be using all of them. So this is our Dim Dot 2. Asus ran out of space on the motherboard PCB to put enough M.2 mounting points for their liking. So they built an extra card that you can install in your system to add more. And we will be using both of them. This thing is insane, holy crap. Just don't hurt yourself, but like try to lift it. Oh my God. It's a two terabyte drive, but it says the Sabrent one terabyte rocket NVMe PCI-E Gen 4 SSD maximum performance, solid state drive with heat sink. So it actually comes in two boxes, one for the SSD itself. We're gonna have a total of five of them. And one for the crazy pants heat sink that comes with it. Look at this thing. It's got three heat pipes on it. One of the mounts is on the back of the board. Like that's not gonna fit. It might actually fit. Oh, there's holes. Yeah, there's a big hole right here and that's where the thing is. Oh, no way. Oh, that would be awesome. Okay, I'm going for it. I'm going for gold. Let's install one of these puppies. Okay, I have no idea how this works. Place the SSD in the tray on the thermal tape. Okay, there's a little groove here that you gotta line up. Guess I can understand why they don't pre-install it because most people would just use the included coolant on their motherboard. It is so heavy. I love it. All right, here we go. Giant SSD hanging off the back of the motherboard time. This is so ridiculous. How the hell are you supposed to install that? Oh, no. Okay, I found the problem. I put the heat sink on backwards. That's on there for better or for worse. The slots I wanna put my graphics cards in are here and here. And yeah, that's not going in. So I'll have to settle for just the one on the back, assuming that it does line up with that. All right, like this. And that's it. Five M.2s. Shouldn't even call this the red ripper anymore. Just call it thread disintegrator. 64 cores. I love their new packaging for these, like slots into this thing. Sick. And for $3,990, I better feel pretty special. Block time. This is the EK Velocity STR4. So it's got a nice big cooling patch. Oh, please remove. Yes, yes, I got this. And it's got five volt addressable RGB lighting. Now these red ripper chips take up like an entire one of these little wimpy tubes. There we go. With the $4,000 CPU out of the way, now it's time for the $4,000 RAM. Not only is this kit 256 gigs, it's clocked at 3,600 megahertz and CL16. This is zero compromises. Nice wear. High capacity RAM is heavier. I'm gonna figure out how on earth to get it into the case. I mean, what do you think the weight capacity of this table is? Can I hop up here with it? That should be fine. Oh, why not? Okay. Each one of these big old hunks of aluminum seems to have two Torx head screws. It's one of those things where it's like, yeah, it's fine and good that you provide me with this VIP club card, but where's my manual? Oh, it's a QR code to the manual. All right, fine. Labels where all the ports are, specs of the riser cable, how to install the riser cable, package contents, and important notice and warranty. Number one, please follow user manual instructions for installation. That's the end. How do I open it? It seems to me that if I take off this piece, which is one piece right here, that I should be able to get at everything. It's actually kind of rough the way it goes together, eh? This is really not the sort of thing I would buy. Most of the system is really not the sort of thing I would buy. Look at that. That's kind of incredible, isn't it? I don't know what these standoffs are anymore because there are other standoffs in here that look more like motherboard standoffs. I'm not even installing it permanently right now. I'm just trying to make sure I've got the standoffs in the right spot. Nope, I got it wrong. Okay, I'm good. I'm good. I got this. This is it. I think I've got everything lined up. This is where we find out if my giant SSD heat sink's gonna fit. Oh, nice, it does. Yes. Well, actually, that looks good. Of course it looks good. This is a $20,000 computer, Brandon. Have you seen rich people furniture? That's fair. That's fair. The manual mentions the excellent airflow characteristics of the chassis. I mean, it doesn't even have like PCI slot covers. It's just open. It's too angsty for Vader though. It's more like a Kylo Ren. I mean, everything about this machine is overkill, so it shouldn't matter, but this is our overkill 1300 watt power supply. So they've kind of got cable management holes. Man, it is hard to get at some of this stuff though. Yeah, the cable comes really do go a long way, don't they? Not really much you can do to hide the cables on the back. I'm starting to really like this thing. Now let's install the hard drives. Ooh, captive thumb screws. I likey. You might think a build like this, what do you guys even need hard drives for? Well, let me tell you. These are 16 terabyte Iron Wolf Pros. So we could take maybe one of our M.2s, use it as a cache for this RAID 1 of 16 terabytes of game drive storage, and boom, there's your Steam library, your GOG library, whoops, your Uplay library, your Epic game store library, your Origin library. You see the problem with this? There we go, hard drives are installed. You know, for all the challenges getting the bigger things into place, having it open like this is making this build go fairly quickly. It's the Starter Liquid Cooling Kit Extreme 360. So there's no performance compromises compared to a full custom loop. You just don't have to do any of the thinking. Everything you need is ready to go. Ah, there it is. Thick boy radiator and a manual. So I was trying to figure out what all these weirdo random holes were here. That's our radiator mount. Makes total sense now. Easy peasy, tons of room for fans. No idea where we're gonna put the pump at this point or the reservoir. Could possibly go here. What about the pump? With a normal case, I could just grab a drill, throw a couple holes in it, and screw it in from the bottom of the case. Is this just like a thing? Is that an option? They look like hard drive mounts. They taste like hard drive mounts. They've got to have the labeling wrong. It lines up perfectly. All I have to do is widen the holes a little bit and boom, it's on. You ever get that feeling when you're just cutting something up that costs five grand and you're just like, oh, you know, should I be doing this? No, nobody else has this problem. You know, I didn't ruin it that hard, right? Like it looks kind of the same-ish. Yep, that works just fine. I kind of like this multi-purpose plate concept. Theoretically, this should be a good spot for it-ish. Now is the time to make a critical decision. RGB fans on the top of the radiator, visible from the top, or RGB fans on the bottom of the radiator, visible with the internals? Bottom. Bottom, all right. Adding Jake. Why am I here? Because this is taking too long and I need help. You're gonna be in charge of RGB. Oh, oh. Yeah, I know, right? That's the worst. Why you're here though? And the gold is gonna be so tacky. Yeah. I mean, the hard drives are like right there too. You got these like obnoxious cable ties. Hey, lttstore.com. Oh, right. So we're actually using these super cool RGB strips from Silverstone. They've got this diffusion layer on them that makes it so that the transition between the RGB LEDs looks a lot smoother, at least in pictures. We're gonna see how that works out. Like you do like one here and then like one here? Yeah. Well, we've got a lot more than that. We've got like eight of them. Yeah, but like wiring, that's gonna be a nightmare. Well, yeah, but that's your problem, isn't it? So what I'm thinking is I'll use the RPM sense off the pump for the CPU header, and then we'll run these fans off of the RGB controller. I'm normally a fan of just plugging everything into the controller. Cause then you can set like, pump speed like a thousand RPM. And I don't have to turn off the like press F1 CPU fan error, blah, blah, blah. It takes like 10 seconds. Nope, nope, nope. And then you have this ugly wire up here. I know. Just plug, no, come on. It's in there already. It's too late. I'm pulling out. It's too late. I'm pulling out. You can't have it. You can't have it. Ow, it's tapped my finger. Didn't I specifically ask for addressable RGB fans? No, but remember I told you that we don't have any right now. So now what? Well, we can switch to light loops. Oh no, they have a proprietary connector. Yeah, see, that's our problem. Of course they are. Dang it, Dale. Do you have to take that off to take the fans off? Yeah, I have to take this off. That's why it's so inconvenient. Oh, so it turns out this case, they sent us fans and they're addressable. Thanks, Inwin. Whoa, are they mud? Oh, whoa. Oh, cool. Those are those daisy chainable ones. Okay. I'm not expecting the cooling performance of these to be amazing. Well, I think you daisy chain them with the little baby one. Okay, so there, okay. So I'll daisy chain these. This might actually be like really easy to wire. Oh, and this does power too. Yeah. Oh, that's pretty handy. No, this is actually pretty nice. This plugs in, that thing plugs into our DRGB thing. Where is it? There, this, this, no. This, wait, what? There's no instructions. Okay, well, where's our EK thing? Is this gonna fit in here? Oh. Cause that's probably not. No, wait, I think it might. It's not lined up that great. It's in there, fine. No, it's not. Yes, it is. Look at the other one. It's fine, it's fine. I wanna use L1. No, that's L6. There's nothing you can do to stop me. No, why are you doing this? AMD compensator. Day two, part three. What's wrong? Well, nothing's wrong. It's just that I went away for 45 minutes for months. Are you gonna throw me under the bus? And I come back. He's throwing me under the bus. And he has JB welded the mounts to the inside of the case. Nothing would stick. Get a better case. Wait. Get a better case. I chose this one, dang it. In his defense, I actually did sign on for this too. It will be a very good permanent way to hold the one. The RGB bones connected to the RGB bone. Horrible. Which end is which? I don't think it matters on these ones. I also think this is backwards, but I can- Which is backwards? The way you have it in there. What do you mean backwards? You just told me it doesn't matter. You spent a lot- No, no, no, I mean the side of the strip. Oh shoot, I did do it backwards. Yeah, no. I- Ah! Have you ever like gone to poop and forgot to mute your mic? Has he ever? This is so tacky. This is baller though. That is the like eight pound gold chain around the like baseball player's neck. Giant die cast, polished aluminum baseball player. Our Envy Lake Bridge is silver. Yeah, that's actually like horrifying. That is spectacularly bad. Oh crap, it's silver too. That's even tackier. Yeah, this is worse. Should we switch to it? No. I mean, we've gone down this path already. Hold on, just let me see it. Oh no, please. Oh no. Oh no, I love it. What? That's, okay, we're not doing this. No, we're not doing this. This is horrible. We're not doing that. Oh, we're getting so close. Everybody help this thing post. Me too, I kind of wish I had pre-tested it. I'm gonna put it in really fast. I love receiving. Yeah, it's pretty big, huh? Oh yeah. It's obnoxious as all hell, but I love it. Ow. Oh wow. It did not get lighter, that's for sure. How the crap do you plug anything into the back of it? I can't see the res. Can you- Oh wait, we'll then stop. I can sort of see it. See that air bubble? Is that coming? Yeah, it's coming. Good air bubble? A couple. Okay. There's a lot there. Oh yeah, there's a ton of air in the pump. I can see it. There was nothing I could really do. Like ideally I would want the pump lower than the bottom of the res, but I couldn't really do that. Those fans are cray cray. These RGB strips are sick. Yeah, they're pretty cool. This is, I think, the right number of strips though. I think this is pretty good. All the effects are kind of dumb. Oh. Okay, more importantly, why are we stuck on HDD code E6? It's probably a memory thing. Okay, so to get AMD RAID going, not only do you have to install a driver in Windows, you have to install three drivers in a specific order. It's a sh-t show, but either way, Windows is installing, I think. Compensator day three. I discovered something. So Jake and I were sort of both wrong about these RGB strips. So see that? They come out this side, but not out this side. Eh, eh. Now that is sufficiently RGB. Now we finally get to talk performance of the most E-Peen machine money can buy. Yesterday, we were literally installing games across four different launchers at over four gigabit per second on our 10 gig network card. So hey, 10 gig networking overkill for gamers? I think not. Yes, my friends, we are reading and writing in the neighborhood of 10 gigabytes per second on this RAID array. I'm not recommending it. I'm just saying it's real cool. Yes, we know Crystal Disk Mark is not a great indicator of performance, but this machine is about putting up big numbers. Now time for an equally for funsies test, but for the CPU this time, Cinebench R20. Wow, 24,777. Now we're gonna play some games. Ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba. This is Crysis 3 running absolutely maxed the F out at 4K at 120 frames per second. Oh, oh, don't die, don't die Linus. It is amazing how good this game still looks. Here's something we're not gonna see in any of the other games though. Both GPUs while the game was running, sitting up near 100% utilization. The good news for Shadow of the Tomb Raider is that even absolutely cranked at 4K. You're like, man, that is detailed booking. We're still able to crack 120 frames per second. HDR is enabled of course. Oh, the sun. Once again, our CPU barely being touched anywhere from five to 8% utilization. Oh wait, I was completely wrong. Shadow of the Tomb Raider uses alternate frame rendering multi-GPU in DirectX 12. That was great. Now I'm firing up something a little more CPU intensive. Anno 1800, everything once again is maxed. So it is only running at 35 to 45 frames per second, but every horse and cart, every person walking around with their little sun bonnet on, look at the detail. Oh, I don't have enough farmers. As for our CPU usage, we're sitting at a cool 6%. Let's get our doom settings updated. Blah, blah, blah. Wow, we're actually getting pretty decent SLI utilization. Oh yeah bud. And all of that while sitting at a tidy 12% CPU utilization. The good news is, look at that, both of our GPUs were really giving it. Oh, yeah. So that's it ladies and gentlemen, if you've got a cool 21,000 US dollars burning a hole in your pocket and a team of Unix to carry your system around for you whenever you need to transport it, this is the way to go. Now I would make one small change, I'd go with the alpha version of the board because it allows for better overclocking with the 3990X, but other than that, this is as e-peen as it gets. I'm going to try to lift it. I think we lost some rubber grippy pads. Uh oh, they're all just stuck to the table now. Oh, yammy, it's heavier than my wife. 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