 The building permit for my new house is finally in, which means they're plumbing the in floor heating, they're ripping down the walls, they're wiring up the networking, and it's time to show you guys our genius plan for stashing the gaming computers here in the rack in the basement while being able to use them one floor above with zero additional latency, zero performance hit, and zero compromises. And sponsored by Seasonic, I get to finally one long year after the release of the RTX 30 series, go from an RTX 20 series to a 3090 graphics card. I know it's gonna run so well. Hey, shut up. It's a cool game for cool people. And of course, it's gonna be running on this Prime TX 1080 plus titanium power supply from Seasonic with a fully modular interface, 12 year warranty, and of course, that legendary Seasonic quiet and quality. The room we're in right now is the office, and the idea is that Yvonne's desk is going to go over here with her own hole down to the mechanical room, and then I'm probably going to be either here or here, depending on whatever looks nicer as a backdrop for streaming realistically. And because we're directly above the mechanical room, theoretically, all we have to do is grab a drill, go down through the floor, then we run optical thunderbolt, HDMI, DisplayPort, USB, whatever we want. So right there is fine. Perfect. Just go for it. You go for it. Oh my God, I have a brand new set of bibs. Oh, did I get all the way through? Yeah, but you're on the wrong side of a truss. You have to move like to the right a few feet if you can. A few feet? You're through. Hello. How you doing, buddy? Hey. Here's some sawdust. Oh, okay. Why don't we upgrade the computer now? Yeah. Turning our attention to the gaming rig, AMD still hasn't released their 5000 series Threadrippers, so I'm going to be sticking with my 3960x24 core. If I wanted the absolute best in terms of gaming performance, I could go Alder Lake, but I'd be giving up a lot of CPU cores and actually a lot of PCI Express connectivity, which as you can see, I am using. I've got this crazy quadruple M.2, 8TB SSD down here, I've also got 10 gig networking, as well as this right here is really important. This is my Thunderbolt card, and that's what I'm able to use to carry DisplayPort signals, as well as USB for all of my peripherals and all that good stuff up through the floor with an optical cable from Corning, which hopefully. Ah, yes. There we go. Oh, wow. We brought one of the big Kahuna 50 meters. I brought two. Just to make sure it'll reach, right? Yeah. Nice. First, we got to get this water out of the way, so we're going to go ahead and crack open the reservoir and hope that it all squirts out in approximately the right direction. Is that how you usually drain it? Nope. Into a Tim Hortons cup? No, no, not at all. I just, I found it here. Oh. This is the Canadian way to drain them, to drain a water cooling loop. We're not, not sponsored. Ah, there it goes. See, that's better, right? How to drain your water cooling loop tips with Linus Sebastian. Okay, we're just going to put both of those in there. Hey, how about that? You want to support it with your head? Oh yeah, I got it. Okay. So I can just let go now? Now that's using the old noggin. You know what I'm saying? You got to get as much microbes in there as possible, right? Oh, it's overflowing. It's overflowing. Oh no. The socks and sandals, they failed him. Do you want to see your new graphics card? You'll never guess where I got this from. I'm guessing it's you, Suze. No, no, no. Really? No, I stole it from something. You stole it from something. But I mean, I replaced it with a 3090, but I got this specific one from something. You got a baller one. You got the one with the back plate and everything? Yeah, it's from the lounge PC. So we have a Strix one that's water blocked, but it's like this tall. And I wasn't sure how that would work with this. Yeah, probably. So I got the standard height. This is an EVGA XC3 card with the EK water block and the active back plate. So pretty sick setup actually. Dang, this is about as good as it gets. So what do you want to do? I brought the optical Thunderbolt cable. We could just do that. Okay. And I also have the iKron docks with like some regular fiber. These are super cool. They're from iKron. They're USB three fiber optic converters. You could kind of think of them as, and their big claim to fame is that they can do USB one, USB two, and USB three over a single fiber optic cable over pretty much any practical distance you would ever want within a home. And the reason that I added these to our setups was that Thunderbolt was being kind of flaky for me before. But long story short, Thunderbolt's actually been flawless for me for quite an extended period of time now. So I'm not sure if it matters. The one problem we had recently was my son accidentally unplugging Yvonne's Thunderbolt dock. And me spending like four hours diagnosing it, you know, reinstalling drivers and swapping out cables and doing all this stuff. Cause I thought it was unfathomable that it was just on plus. It's always interesting looking at the kind of condition your water blocks are in when they come out. You can really see some of the erosion of the nickel plating here. That's pretty normal. This is where the water is going to be highest velocity going through the block through these little micro channels here. And then you can see a little bit more of it kind of around the edges of the main channels. The big thing with these blocks, these are of course, there's first generation XC, what are they seven or something like that? XG something. Anyway, the point is there was a bit of a controversy around the way that this top piece was attached with these two screws and it causing leaks. I didn't have any, I definitely noticed, you know, when you're installing it, there's a little more wiggle wobble than I would have liked, but I clearly didn't have any leakage issues with it whatsoever. So take that for what it is. Oh, we really need to get that power supply out of there. Sponsored by Seasonic, right? Okay. Jake. The cables the same? I think these cables might be identical. They're not. Are you sure? Yep. Oh, all right. Guess you're going back to black cables, right? Black cables are all right. What? I said black cables are all right. No, but they're not. Oh, they're not. I was lying. I found a cable mud makes a, oh, Jesus, this is really kind of anti-climactic. Oh, my God. How many layers are there? Look at that. A little black. Oh, okay. That's like basically exactly what I had. Yeah. Oh, nice. All right. Yeah. Only three of these screw holes fit. Long story, we had a small oversight in the design of this custom chassis. I've been asked a lot of times to release the CAD files for this. And the reason we haven't done it is not because we're trying to hoard it or anything like that. It's just not acceptable. Like I couldn't release something in good conscience knowing that you are going to have to figure out how to attach these tubes like I did. I would never even consider re-plumbing those rads again. Jake. What? We've got a bit of a problem here. What? Remember how I said I'm never taking these rads out? Where does that cable go? It's for the fans. They need to run. Oh, geez. Wait, where did what? I think. Oh, oh, oh, we can totally get at that. Maybe. We can totally get at it. Maybe. Can we check if these ones are the same? How are we going to do that? Well, we just have to look up the pin out. So far left to that one. Yes. Next one. They're not the same. OK. SATA confirmed. Not the same. Oh, I really hope these molexes are the same. And they are not the same, Jake. Can we re-pin it? Different. Maybe. Oh, we totally can't. To be clear, ladies and gentlemen, I would never recommend doing this unless you absolutely know what you're doing, because if you hook the wrong modular cable up to your power supply, you can destroy the hardware on the other end of that cable. Here's how this little guy works. You want to pop the cable as far this way as you possibly can. OK. Then this guy goes in on either side of the internal, like, pin thing. There. Now it's in the right spot. Oh, no. This is a custom length cable. It's not even going to reach the power supply, which is much shorter. I don't think there's any getting around this. It's got to come out. Come on. I just need to apply a bit more pressure. You done yet? Repinning didn't work. What? Because the stock cables aren't long enough because the new power supplies way shorter. Oh, no. No, we're good. You got the front one in. Yeah, I got the front one in. Can we do a high five? I feel like that's a high five worthy. Thank you. There you go. Uh, I need the other Molex. Oh, from the other cable. I don't know if there's one in this kit. Now it's time to figure out what's going to happen when we plug in this GPU here. So we're going to try and do one bend here and get straight to here. Oh, my goodness. This is going to be hard. This is not going to be easy. That's for sure. I think you need more angle than that. This is definitely the dirty way to do this. This is not recommended right now. Bob and Rod are rolling over and they're not grades. I know, right? Just don't cut it too short. Whatever you do. Holy crap. This might work. Did you account for how much it goes into the fitting? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That's actually like freaking bang on Jake. Like it's parallel coming out of the CPU block, which is way more than I expected. Dang. In summary, here's what's going on. We got this perfect bend and unfortunately the way that this terminal is going to be in the way that it is in the box. So unfortunately, the way that this terminal is configured out of the box, it assumes that your inlet is going to be at the top, but our inlet is not at the top. We need to go out of the graphics card into the inlet of the CPU. So that means we need to flip the terminal around. At least that's what we think looking at pictures of the plexi version of this block online. This one, because it's the Delrin version. I'm pretty sure it's right. Okay. Everything is awesome. If you drop this, I quit. Oh, it's gross. It's terrible. It's the worst. Oh my God. It's the worst. That might not actually work. It'll work. It'll be ugly. Oh, it's the worst. Oh no. No, this is why I wanted to bend at the other end because at least then we can take another crack at it. No, we've got another crack. We've got another crack at this. Okay. We're trying again. Can I turn up this heat gun or something? Don't worry. It's not going to happen again. Except when it happens again. No, it's not going to happen. Can you use the jig this time, please? I don't need the jig. It's not going to be worse than what you just did. The angle is not the problem. It's the radius. It's the problem. Okay. I'll use the jig. Bring me the jig. Oh, did you get scared all of a sudden? Yeah, I'm scared. Is that beautiful? Did it work? Did the jig do its job? The jig might have done it. It's just hot. The heat gun is hot. Did you know? That's not bad. Not bad, actually. That's way better than the first one. Oh yeah, anything's better than what we just did before this. And we're sharing the credit. We? We're sharing the credit. What do you mean we? Sharing the credit. That was all you. No, we're sharing. We agreed at the start you were taking 100% of everything. No, no, no. What's the credit share? I do not accept that. 70-30? I'll take 80. 80? Okay, well I want 20% of a 30-90 then. 20% of a 30-90. Hey, that's actually a thing. So we got a video coming up showing you guys how you can actually share a GPU with your friends online. That's right. You can pool together by one GPU and split it. And it works for 30 series now. It does. Yeah. Oh wow. Not bad. I think it's actually bang on. Bang on for mediocre. I didn't say, well, perfect. Okay, it kind of implies that it's perfect, but it's good enough. Well, I'm getting close up. Oh, don't get close up, Sandy. Look, it doesn't look worse. Yeah. And I mean, that's not saying a lot, but it doesn't look worse. This build was fine. That power supply looks way better though. Yeah. Check out Csonic. Yeah, Csonic. Thanks for sponsoring the video, guys. Here we go. RTX 3090, boys. This is going to be awesome. You can get so much Anno in there. Beautiful. Oh yeah. Oh, that looks sexy in there. Hold on. You got the technique? I got the technique. Hold on. Look at how good this technique is guys. So close. There we go. Sorry. Let me try this technique. Here. You ready? Look. You better not ruin it. Stop. Don't ruin it. This cable is so tangled. So I'm just going to have to pull the reel like over here. It's going to have to sit on the desk. Oh, it works. Linus. What? It works. Oh, geez. It sounded like you were going to say it didn't. It works. Now the way this setup is supposed to work, basically there's a 40 gigabit Thunderbolt connection between our computer and that dock. Now that's going to provide our display connections, going to provide USB. I think you can get like SD, audio, ethernet, lots of stuff all through that one connection. And then it gets broken out at the dock and we can plug all our devices in. In the long run, like we mentioned before, we're probably going to switch this out to an optical display port and optical USB. But for some people, this can be a pretty sleek and easy solution, especially if you have like a laptop or something. All right. Display settings. It looks like 4K and it looks like 60. Yeah, it definitely does. Man, this is going to be awesome. Going to have my stream camera here. Going to have my lights. Might like wall mount the lights. Yeah, you totally should. Pretty sick. You can even get some better lights. Well, you should keep the settings where they're at right now, just so you have your own reference. Yeah, I'm going to be honest with you. This game is just not that well optimized. Like it runs great on integrated graphics, but then there's no matter how high you go, there's a hard peak. There's a ceiling. There's a ceiling. There's only so much you can get out of it. So you got your grain farming over here and you got your industrial zone over here with your window makers and your sewing machine factory and you got to import your... Content engineer. You got to import your coffee from the new world here. Okay. So you make a coffee island. It's super detailed, especially when you have high end hardware. Does it feel like it's running better? Oh, it's definitely running better. Absolutely. Yeah. Because like, especially when you're on high end hardware and you set it so there's like the streets are all populated, all these people are actually going somewhere. Like if you follow them, they will actually legitimately go somewhere. I played a lot of Tropico. Right. Yeah. Okay. This seems like it's a pretty similar game. Yep. And like your industrial stuff, like little carts will actually carry cotton from your cotton fields to your little cotton mills and stuff. Yeah. Wow. They'll go do their little things. So this guy's unloading stuff. That's like crazy detailed. Maybe I'll have to get a 3090. Yeah. Can we just talk about the fact that this computer is downstairs? I know, right? Right. So there, it'll be completely silent. It'll kick no heat into this room. So it'll be super easy for the AC to control the climate in this room. Freaking awesome. This is going to be so sick. This is way sicker than what you have right now. Oh yeah. A hundred percent. Like being on a completely separate floor, just totally isolated. I love it. What we're going to do now is say thanks to Seasonic for sponsoring this video. Their prime titanium power supplies are obviously 80 plus titanium efficient and have tons of other great features like modular interfaces, super quiet fans, the ability to turn off the fan when it's not under heavy load. In fact, that fan is not even running. In spite of the fact that we leave the game on upstairs. I think so. That's pretty freaking impressive. So you guys can check them out at the link in the video description. If you guys are looking for another video to watch, maybe check out the one where we installed the rack, installed the rack. Yeah. The pink rack. There were shenanigans for sure.