My DREAM Setup using AMD?? - #Helpful Post

so here we are a long painful seven

months after we first teased the concept

of building the first ever Linus Media

Group gaming lounge and ironically

pretty much everything else about this

space is done so we've got our side

people here this just arrived it's still

got all the protective stuff on it we've

got our board games table here this is

actually a bit of a placeholder but

whatever we could play board games we've

got the media lounge that is like it's

freaking awesome and the one part we

haven't actually started on yet is the

actual land gaming center

fortunately oh my god so it's time for

us to finally build the first real

system except that we had a small

problem we were having trouble getting

the core i7 processors that we had

intended to use from our prototype

system way back when so we figured you

know what well we're only running our TX

27 TS anyway would AMD really be that

much of a performance compromise here

well there's only one way for us to find

out the mas grande backpack is the

perfect companion for laptops of up to

17 inches since the bag is

water-resistant and padded for

protection also it has an orange

interior check it out at the link below

so before we get into building our

actual final spec rig I guess a bit of a

haul video is kind of an order here

isn't it man this is a lot of hardware

every system is getting a G 903 no it's

it's actually worse a little we went

even further over the top those are

extras every system is getting one of

Logitech's Pro wireless gaming mice okay

as if half the people that are gonna be

using it or even skilled enough to know

the difference everyone's getting a g5

13 carbon with their Romer G linear

switches everyone's getting a g9 35

headset and thanks to Logitech's recent

acquisition of Blue Microphones a Yeti

nano mic because you know the built-in

headset mic I mean we've got it it's not

like it's not a super high-end headset

but if we're gonna use an off board like

you know whatever then moving into the

systems themselves

we're running rise in 2700 X processors

so yes we lose a little bit of

single-threaded performance compared to

the 8700 k's we initially expect but we

can probably overclock them a little and

quite frankly in the eSports titles that

we'll be running for the most part I

don't expect it to make a difference

although we will be testing that out

today and then cooling them we're gonna

be using H 100 i RGB platinum water

coolers from corsair we're gonna be

pairing them with 16 gigs each of ddr4

26 66 megahertz RGB ram from also

corsair every system gets an MP 300 480

gig boot drive do we have hard drive

strings yes and often

oh nice everyone's getting a Brio 4k pro

webcam so everything's gonna be stream

ready all the optin oh wow okay so

that's pretty cool that means our 480

gig SSD is gonna handle OS duties and

any critical applications and then our

hard drives are actually gonna have

accelerated caching so that the games

that are played most frequently even if

they are on magnetic storage are still

gonna load faster than if they were just

on a hard

also pulling cooling duty course are

sent over a hold on to their light loop

120 fans first let's talk about what

they're gonna be driving so a soos sent

over 12 of their VG to 79 gaming

monitors so these are 1080p IPS with 3

millisecond response times and they run

at a hundred and forty four Hertz

so these are basically your kind of no

frills but still looks really great

gaming monitor they don't have D sync

but now that Nvidia has enabled g-sync

on free sync displays we're not

expecting that to be a problem for our

GeForce r-tx

2070 graphics cards the whole thing's

gonna be hooked into a Seuss's top

Series B 450 m+ gaming motherboard and

installed in a crystal serious - ATX

case from Corsair for power we've gone

way over the top see sonic sent over

their prime titanium 1,000 watt modular

power supply I told them like 750 Plus

this is literally three times the power

we actually need but cool thanks hi guys

actually a couple things I forgot minor

details AK want you sent over there 10

gig NICs so guys we don't expect this to

make a difference to the actual gaming

experience but while installing games

off our steam caching server which you

can check out the video about up here

this will definitely make a difference

while we're pulling down from all these

machines at once so that's gonna be sick

and these chairs from Max anomic so we

haven't actually reviewed one of their

chairs in quite some time but this is

still my daily driver in my office

actually not quite this one but a

similar model and I'm super excited that

when we're here for hours after work

we're gonna be sitting on something as

comfortable as their classic office

chair we've got the black one right Jake

yeah and it's embroidered oh that looks

awesome

as the kids would say I'm not a kid

anymore I'm not saying it I just want to

hear you sit it's late it's late yeah

yeah yeah thank you thank you you're

gonna say damn it I said it okay so

while deke puts together a couple of the

chairs which we're gonna need for our

head-to-head mano a mano gaming session

I'm gonna put together one of our final

AMD based rigs so we can find out when

we put it head-to-head against our

original Intel based prototype over here

how much if any performance we're

leaving on the table with our 2,700 X's

you know what I think I'm gonna mix

things up for this build I'm gonna start

by getting everything ready in the case

then I'm gonna put together my core

platform on my motherboard here I

haven't even gotten as far as putting

the fans into the case and we've already

found a problem because we changed from

an Intel board to an AMD board sort of

midway through this project we might

have overlooked a small compatibility

issue now it's nothing sort of game

ending here we still have room for our

triple slot graphics card and our 10

gigabit NIC but what we are losing is

the ability to put in our obtained

module because this board only has a

single m2 slot and yeah there's no

additional one on the back or anything

like that

yeah that's a little disappointing

actually hey so Jake how are we

arranging the fans on these things

because we can either design it for

optimal airflow and have to in two out

or we can have our light loop rings all

visible externally and it can look

badass and then it'll be like highly

positive pressurized but but they're all

filtered - into out - into out yeah you

got a

better than the system's overheating

he's not gonna do it I just wanted to

check something real quick with you

though however I build this first one

that's how we'll have to build all of

them right well I could always just fix

it alright I guess this one is done now

hey not bad pretty good man I mean it's

just I have this exact same chair at my

desk

oh yeah a MIMO sent over there so they

don't actually sell a complete desk big

yourself do they yeah that's not what we

got we needed a big one that's not the

one that I bought the other week you

know yeah they sell just like a standing

sitting like leg assembly so that's what

we're gonna be putting these custom

dbrand skinned MDF tabletops on top of

I'm actually super stoked for how good

that's gonna look those things are

really happy please be careful so this

is a pretty cool little piece of kit

this is a Corsair commander Pro and it

plugs in using SATA for power and then

USB for data and then it's got all your

LED ports here you've got up to 6 fans

that you can plug in directly

it's got temp sensors right here and

then 2 USB internal headers in case you

have a motherboard that only has one and

then you're taking it up with this thing

well this way you can plug your front

panel USB 2 into this or any other

accessories like say for example one of

course there's own CPU coolers which we

are probably going to need to do in this

case so we're gonna replace our existing

fan hub with this guy yeah cable

management pan I tell you the adhesive

that they used to hold the original LED

and fan controllers in is ridiculous

just barely get that thing off sounds

like something a beta male would say

what are you gonna cry - you know what

you take it off show me how it's done

alpha guy oh man that's pretty on there

oh it was really loosened a lot

uh-huh why did they put that much

adhesive on look I love you guys of

course sorry great

great people sent us a lot of hardware

for this project okay yeah we're going

full RGB ring this here it's taking me

as long to do the RGB wiring as it would

to build a normal computer of course

it'll be all worth it but like we've got

the - we've got the commander Pro we've

got the RGB hub we've got the the leads

for all the strips and all the fans -

power leads for the whole thing I think

we're finally ready to put a motherboard

in it look at the chairs though but the

chairs are done you know the funny thing

is I've always just kind of used

whatever like brand loyalty is not a

thing for me but because the community's

perception of me as some kind of fanboy

one way or the other is so strong it

feels a little bit naughty building an

AMD system see check this out this is

what I love about this case this side

like look at that it's that look clean

or what and then this side in typical

Linus fashion I'm like getting pretty

close here actually I just got a pop the

power supply in wire that up and then I

need my graphics card network card and

then I'm good to go I don't know who

would use this as a standing desk but

maybe if you're like an NBA player or

something well I wasn't sure if I could

do it but after giving it my best effort

I think I've succeeded in making the

contrast between my cable manage side

and mine on cable manage side even more

stark good job Linus it's a real shame

about that video card sag äj-- that's

actually not that bad it's not great I

was expecting it to be a lot worse than

that I'm okay I'm also a little upset

about the one yellow accent can you just

get the T out of there finish the T off

so it's just off gaming gaming for

gamers you have to do this like like

this yeah I guess otherwise it's not you

don't get the white out look otherwise

it's just how beta his his writing game

is here

look at its gorgeous thanks to Aki for

sending these mousepad XL mouse pads

very nice with the braided edge this is

the moment we've all been waiting for

hey nice okay so my nick is showing up

my 16 gigs of ram is all showing up my

hard drive is not showing up oh it might

be a SAS Drive I just grabbed something

off the shelf because our drives didn't

actually arrive ok I will figure that

out later but we still have a couple

things to do here so I'm going to set

our do CP so that's AMD's XMP equivalent

which should configure our ram to its

optimized settings and then install

windows so this is it this finished AMD

system versus not the old concept Intel

system on a test bench I mean really the

point of all of this is to find out how

much we compromised by going AMD so I

think we're 2 and 2 right now aren't we

Jake is that does that sound right

also I'm pretty sure that while I was

pretty far behind before you're dead

again and my kill count is pretty close

oh oh would you look at that am I out

ahead now ha cuz I remember you talking

some smack about how you're like a young

hip gamer or something oh nice

performance-wise oh it's it's not making

a difference what are you at in terms of

fps Oh like around 300 250 250 it really

depends on where you are in the map yep

I'm anywhere from like 150 to 250 ok

we're here this means it's me it's me ok

so let's just look down look down the

thing I just want to know what the FPS

is difference is like okay

mine's higher what yeah yours is quite a

bit higher actually thing in the

background no I mean remember csgo is a

notoriously intel favoring game so yes

there's a difference but like

I didn't feel for a second like I was

affected by the difference and you know

when we're talking a hundred and fifty

versus yeah it made one hundred and

forty FPS I'm alright with it

okay I wanna try a different game DG you

can't all time out of this game yeah I

won okay man I haven't played on 1080p

in a hot minute it's a little different

than 1440 PL Troy yeah like it's it's

like a 10 FPS difference well remember

csgo was behind so I was thinking about

it was that good but like csgo was

behind in the context of like a hundred

and sixty versus 240 FPS like it's not I

don't know it wasn't that much I feel

like it was like thirty oh there's two

crap okay well sorry no the frame rates

are good I mean yeah dang it you did

more damage alright alright so you're

better at the game that only you play

but I don't play so okay that's good

that's good so then that's our takeaway

Jake isn't actually that great at video

games in spite of being one of the young

kids actually depending on you know what

game you're playing you might even get a

better gaming experience with the 2700 X

which did surprise me an apex legends

anyway that's like 100 bucks cheaper no

regrets then now we just have to build

eleven more that's my regret I only

regret is doing it eleven time to having

this idea all right so I guess all

that's left now other than preparing

ourselves to do this 11 more times is to

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