The $100,000 PC LIVES! #Helpful Post

 

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um six editors one cpu part the fourth

we fired 69 part four okay section four

okay try to be less annoying you had a

lot of comments how I saw them here so

here's what went down six workstations

one CPU was a project that I invested

many many many hours of my time into

trying to figure out what it was was it

software was it hardware was it firmware

was it drivers what was causing the

crashes whenever we tried to load up

certain virtual machines in our latest

crazy virtualization project and the

answer it was the hardware I love a soos

loved them very dearly but what I don't

love is this slot and this slot because

they are dirty little slots basically

either they just outright don't work or

they're bifurcation which means taking

sixteen PCI Express lanes and splitting

them out into to 8x lanes so you can

have two separate devices running at 8x

doesn't work but that's okay thank you

Jake you can pack that backup for me

because we have this so back when I

started the project this board didn't

exist this is a dual LGA 3647 socket

motherboard from Ty an it also has

support for 12 memory sticks so we can

put the same 384 gigs of ram on it it

also has 10 gig networking onboard and a

bunch of it's got you dot two connectors

and this one oh look at this is that is

that is it is that 1111 PCI Express

slots so this is gonna be fun because

today we are gonna get it working for

real hopefully

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link in the video description so to be

clear asu's is actually still working on

a fix for their board by the way massive

shout out to Wendell for helping us

figure out the the bifurcation issue but

in the mean time we did want to try

something else because we want this

project done and tie an claimed when we

contacted them that it would be no

problem in fact they actually had a

couple of words that could work this one

that I showed you which was kind of a

lie because we're not going to use this

one because it doesn't fit in any case

and the one that's actually on the test

bench right behind me here so this is a

standard SSI EE B form factor board just

like that one with the main differences

being that it's only got seven PCI

Express slots just like the Asus port

that we were using it's got three of

these u dot two looking connectors over

there more on that in a moment it's got

its two m dot twos and I mean yeah it

just doesn't have 11 slots like it's

still got six slots for memory and all

of that good stuff so we're basically

ready to rock and I want to walk you

guys through what I have set up here for

those of you who haven't seen this

madness before so in our top slot here

we've got an external PCI Express like

sort of riser card with an extender

cable that runs over to this daughter

board here the reason we want this is

that we want each one of our VMs to have

its own dedicated USB 3 controller so

that if we had to do say for example a

high speed ingest of footage for editing

or whatever else everyone could do that

without running into a system bottleneck

so right now all of these cards if we

were to pin them all at the same time it

might be a little borderline because

this is a PCIe ATX link right here but

if we went 16x which we may be able to

do in the finished one I don't imagine

that would actually be a problem

the last thing over here is a 10 gigabit

networking card but we'd like to go 100

gigabit for the final project so we're

running the same Thermaltake PCI Express

extensions that we were using before

except Jake actually had the ingenious

idea of instead of just stacking the

cards next to the

bench on the table grabbing this old DIY

mining rig that he had lying around and

putting all of our Titan v's on that so

at least something good came out of that

whole mining craze for the rest of the

hardware we've got to ax 1500 i power

supplies just because of the way that

this whole thing hooks up we'll come up

with a better way to do that later and

then we've got the octane 905 PS that we

were planning to use as our boot drives

with these adapters from Utah to to PCI

Express 4x now one small problem and

that is that these while they are

physically the same connector as nvme

you got to it's actually called

sssomething crazy it's a mini SAS HD

yeah that's me SAS HD so this is meant

to be used as a breakout into just for

like SATA connections or a bunch of so

there's no actual PCI Express backing

for this so that's where these MDOT 2

drives come in and maybe we'll do use

adapters to go to these to go to the

other whatever but cross that bridge

when we get to it

the last change is that we're running

Zeon gold cpus because I actually

dropped one of our 8180 Platinum's and

it's got a dead memory channel and so

just for troubleshooting purposes we

wanted stuff that definitely works cool

but there's good news check this out

so here's workstation 1 we're gonna grab

our top Titan v it's a companying sound

card we had to apply the same fixes for

PCI stubbing so that we can get all

these USB cards showing up here as well

as ACS override downstream multifunction

so all that's done just like last time

we're gonna go ahead and fire this up

now this should work and it should show

up over here mind you we had a single V

I'm working just fine on the other one

also we need to make sure that our

daughter board which is some weird weird

friggin hardware is working correctly as

well so it was one of the Renaissance it

must be this one it's this one of this

one

our mouth should light up there's a

50/50 chance that our mouths will light

up it did not but that's okay because

there is still a 50/50 chance just

kidding it should be a hundred percent

actually it's probably less than a

hundred percent it's just a chance it

won't work but it's setting up a device

is it oh I couldn't see that cute device

is ready The Sentinel 3 is ready to go

come on baby anytime mr. Sentinel or

miss Sentinel okay hold on no no we

thought there was a chance this might

happen well it's working

Oh working ha oh hell yeah I was like

less than fifty fifty that this was

gonna work well that's great so then now

we just proceed right anymore

yeah should we just like fire up like a

game or something so here's what we're

gonna do for each one we're gonna name

it we're gonna go ahead and I think

that'll do giving it each one of them a

three core CPU because we don't have a

lot of CPU cores right no I need to

either buy a new one or beg and plead

with Intel to send me a new one which I

strongly suspect they are not going to

want to do because that team and I are

not on the best of terms right now so I

saw in there the CPU mode isn't hosts

pass-through mode so we're using that to

hide the virtualization from the Nvidia

drivers that's yes so they don't give

you that weird error and that's right

because they want you to buy Quadros

yeah so they specifically bacon a

specific error just as a nephew it's not

like we cheaped out you know gb 100's

they're only like 10 grand right you

think they'd send us six of those no

touch me what wait what is that

Oh what the hell was that another VM

well which one is that what's going on

here which one did you just turn up

turn on yeah you just turned one on wait

what does Windows 10 what is this one

I don't know so this is great it's

actually Wendell to the rest region or

at least his community over on level one

Tech's forum so what it is is that we

had assigned the USB device to one of

the VMS then booted that up shut that

down tried to assign it to another one

and then boot that up and some devices

have an issue where they'd like they

don't get fully let go of we had this

problem with the Radeon r9 nanos or

whatever those things were called from

the original seven gamers one CPU where

if we had a crash in one of the VMS we

would actually have to completely reset

the entire host in order to reboot the

VM because of just the way that AMD's I

believe it was a firmware issue in that

particular card was implemented so we're

just gonna go one at a time we're gonna

take it slow baby slow hands snow chance

okay there's one got my pointing finger

ready wait there it is I had my boss

that didn't have my pointing finger

ready anymore okay

two three

there comes number four oh I want to

back up I don't want to get in the way

of that too much horsepower as you can

see the graphics drivers are loaded like

that was our problem we were able to

light up lots of VMs before but now like

but they're not crashing and the

graphics drivers are loaded like they're

running at the right resolution it's

working device manager uh display

adapters yeah okay

all right all right it's got a table oh

wow that's my toe okay so this is not a

great table it's like three quarters of

a desk that's a budget cuts you know

it's January

you know how the YouTube ad revenue

that's everything gets slashed in all

seriousness though

we're just using these like hobby board

pieces we're making our own tabletops we

think this is gonna be for the upcoming

land center so this is like the first

prototype we've got these raising desk

sheep what well relatively look at the

Lord I mean they were inexpensive yeah

that's a that's a yeah bad use of words

isn't this crazy why would you ever need

a desk this tall maybe if you're like

seven feet tall

yeah yeah okay okay I'm putting it

because we're gonna cover this in

keyboards and mice where all the

keyboards and mice for this project also

how are we gonna plug into USB it's way

over there so I'm saying we unplug all

the power things because we could just

leave that power supply there and just

move our board over there yeah hell yeah

stop all kill everything with fire shut

her down

use your pointy finger how do you do

that so well there you go that was a

little better getting the hang of it

it's not as easy as it looks okay are

they all doing it I mean presumably

they're all running on the same image

this board is so trippy like it takes a

24 pin 5 and then 5 8 pins are they all

EPS yeah who the hell has five EPS

connect like what servers see that's the

thing though what server has a modular

power supply and know what server has

five EPS connectors on I don't know but

I think have to be purposeful the Tesla

V 100's have EPS connectors they don't

have PCH I know they do it's a single 8

pin and then you can adapt to PCIe 8

pins into one EPS a pin that's madness

yeah ok there you go so you need all

your power connectors in there and it's

like very professionally mounted

top-quality I know how much you love

these fans that are just literally in

here as spacers and not even plugged in

yeah man

got to use noctua for everything I can't

wait to order the cable mod kit for this

build

ha ha Thomas is gonna be like what do

you need $1,200 of cables for ok ah hit

it with my best shot I love it this

these tie on boards they have onboard

power buttons for like bench operation

so 250 times 6 is 1500 Wow I think these

aren't these more than 250 you don't

sound very certain about any of this at

this man so I'm not really listening

anywhere I'm googling here let's ask

Google why don't we go get the keyboards

in nice that mean how many watts is a

Titan V we have 110 teraflops of watts

how many key parts do we need o 4 5 5

where did all the keyboards bill you

can't even hear him it doesn't matter if

they're racks

this is just for testing karat all right

I'm coming what is this you said grab

random ones oh I can't type on this

chair okay this doesn't work oh why is

it still a thing that's like I don't

know it's sentimental

there was me grabbing actual keyboards

no Jake you don't need to grab actually

reversal on these are broken Oh doesn't

matter it doesn't matter

looks like the budget cuts are really

hurting us here we're short on space so

I I don't know which is which right now

so what I look kind of thinking are they

actually plugged in properly no hello

Dennis

wild Venice appears so I don't know how

but we somehow made this more jank than

your setup I think so hold on a second

which ones one okay so one is the top

let's go one two three four five six

oh god let's just group them all

together just screw it or just let's

make sure we have two on each oash I

plug in the 10k babe

hell yeah let's do it oh yeah somebody's

walking past the basketball hoop a

little confused what what's that for it

okay is this in like some kind of a mode

where for whatever reason H is volume

down do you not have enough disk space

oh god how big are these disks uh uh oh

no not huge try just uninstall premier

you can do whatever you want it's a free

country

yeah wait what no don't run the stuff

from you as a pain in the ass so

theoretically all we have to do is pop

open Disk Management now and extend

volume boom boom boom and bippity

Boppity we're steam big volume it's open

it's beautiful so what are we using

Cisco cache right so this is why the

steam catch it's pretty great right so

we've got that one going at 40 that one

going at 40 there's some other ones

presumably that's the only one pulling

off the steam cash but how do you know

well cuz that's the only one I

configured to pull up the steam cash why

do you need to configure it I thought

our DNS settings are just I don't think

we did in the rotor I thought you did

yes I wasn't me it wasn't me

hey there we go see it was using the

cache 40 40 40 40 nice

oh my back is back this one's at 70 50

that's looking hot if you're into that

sort of thing

so when we do put the land center over

there we'll be able to all download

games that like Cisco hell yeah hell

yeah so now we have like updates all

these people does Windows Update - right

you play origin or you know I don't I

don't know people got to have a bad time

okay guys come on over I have a primo

primo gaming experience for you guys six

workstations one CPU is officially

working we haven't quite worked out the

logistics of the keyboards and mice

these are all bought matches so everyone

feel free to find a keyboard and mouse

and figure out what the crap screen

you're running on oh and that one

you said it's premium we're we're

actually marketing people so if we don't

know yeah we're primo this is primo

we're gonna kill ya and the audio is a

little bit messed up because we don't

know which source this monitor in

particular is pulling audio from we can

actually have a look at our CPU usage

here so you can see the course that I

have assigned I left a core one alone so

cores 2 to 18 or a sign and you can see

we're sucking up anywhere from 70 50 to

as high as 90% usage on these cores

playing cs:go so this is good enough but

there would be games that would be more

demanding where we'd run into trouble so

it's working this is crazy exciting but

the next stage is productivity so we

need higher-end networking we need

faster boot drives we're gonna move to

op teen and we're gonna try to edit 8k

video on all six of these workstations

at once but this is a good start master

ops sennheiser HD 6 xx headphones are

some of their best selling of all time

with over 60,000 units sold and I can

see why because they have an unchanged

driver and sound structure compared to

the HD 650 s meaning that you get a nice

balanced mid-range and natural sounding

bass they've added a detachable 6 foot

cable instead of a 10 foot cable based

on community feedback and they come with

an 8 inch plug that's versatile for

everyday use and a quarter inch adapter

you also get long-term support from

Sennheiser so check out the link today

to join the drop now so thanks to Jake

forgetting this working tie-in for

having a motherboard that works properly

and you guys for watching and we dislike

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