The ULTIMATE Powerhouse Sleeper PC #Helpful Post

or our last sleeper gaming PC the goal

was to build the most powerful compact

desktop rig that we could but this time

our objective is a little different this

video is brought to you by sea sonic and

the rig's going to be powered by their

prime platinum 1300 watt and it is gonna

have everything you see here everything

you see here and everything you see back

there yeah most of that really didn't

work out but sleeper number 3 Margaret

well she's a taskmaster she is the

biggest baddest hardest sleeper PC that

we've ever built and did I mention that

she's beautiful

floppy bigger floppy jazz floppy DVD

rewriter dvd-rom like what is this is

this a zip zip disk or is it just a

cooling fan like what the hell is this

um hard drive hot swappable card reader

Windows 2000 professional ones two CPU

this is going to be a lot of work yeah

you know makes it a lot harder the

chiller the chiller and the carbon fiber

tubing that's why are we doing carbon

fiber tubing are you nuts

the first thing we needed to do was

figure out if our water chiller would

even fit inside the case we salvaged

from our friends at freakin Vancouver

like sure the case is massive but

there's still plenty of room for error

in something like this we disassembled

the chiller to find out what was inside

and then removed all the PC components

in our case to make space this is a

situation yeah it turns out that

eyeballing things is not quite a

substitute for measuring them can all

fit we can get it in but we might ruin

the condenser oh yeah that's gonna be a

super bad time

or you could just be like hey Kapow I'm

sorry this project won't be as

advertised I think that is exactly what

we're gonna do we're gonna go over kill

water cooling with the carbon fiber

tubing is that not cool enough yeah are

you not entertained and then we're gonna

have to I mean I still want to revisit

this yeah I think it's just a matter of

finding the right chassis if we find an

old server chassis or something

there is no reason we couldn't do that I

think it the best way is to just start

by building a computer in here that's

air cooled and then locating everything

where we think it'll work are you pumped

Oh

oh those get sponsored all these for

this build we're looking to have not

just insane gaming power but also crazy

workstation power with that in mind our

CPU selection was easy the thread Ripper

2990 X is a 32 core 64 thread beast and

it gives up some gaming performance but

it uh Turley embarrasses even intel's

top-end h EDT chip in multi-threaded

workloads for the GPU we're going with

NVIDIA GeForce RT X xx atti

I'd like to say that there's a good

reason for it but it's just the best GPU

for gaming will it be enough I I think

so I guess that we could have gone for

two but I don't know I wasn't really in

the mood

given what we've been hearing about

these it's extra important that we make

sure that everything is working before

we bought our water cooling it power is

being taken care of by C Sonic prime

platinum 1300 watt which admittedly is a

bit overkill for this system but on the

plus side it's going to operate in

silent mode basically the entire time

and like come on

if see Sonic offers you a 1300 watt

power supply for the project they're

sponsoring you take it so for this build

I'm going to be using a dim dot -

there's no real reason to use it besides

just I've had drives fail when they're

down below there before and water

cooling built and man at the horrible

part with everything installed it was

time to make sure that all our

components were in working order it was

pretty easy doesn't do that yeah hey

zero detect memory oh dang

it's just a tiny bit of thermal paste I

wonder if that's what was causing our

issues okay so the the motherboard that

we had before it's just dead so that's

why we're having so many issues and it's

like it's like a week and a half since

I've been working on this because it's

bad things were happening but hopefully

we're gonna get back here and in the

next day or so this will be a fully

functioning PC but I guess we'll find

out in the future

all right good bye

alright new Zenith extreme this one does

not have any bent pins so with any luck

it will work just fine Oh Co Tady detect

memory this is very bad Denis our CPU

might be dead we're gonna have to go

with something else here all right so

she's working now I talked to it nicely

like I haven't recommended an you just

called it an it okay it's not that it's

a she Thank You Margaret I'm sorry baby

okay so we need to put a water tool and

lube in here here's what I think why

don't you use a vertical adapter bracket

for the card and have the card vertical

that will give you space in behind here

to put the pump and the tubing to go up

with the loop planned out the components

were removed and it was time to drill

out the rivets to make space for our

water cooling

and the idea is that this right here

will be the new the new power supply

holder and also will allow for us to

have cable management in the back this

if it works will be made out of aluminum

on the CNC router but we will see in a

couple second that it's gonna be a good

time do you have any guesses three out

of five a good one now given that this

is our first time cutting aluminum on

our CNC one hand will be on the

emergency stop the whole time our first

piece didn't turn out perfectly but it

gave us all of the critical dimensions

that we needed and let us try out the

new vise break we got from princess Otto

for like 60 bucks

in theory this should bend our aluminum

to a nice clean 90 degrees and give

Margaret a really solid chassis snug

hood is easy as a massive break there

just seems to be working

well it did market up a bit but given

that that thing was like 60 bucks really

complained the prototype here is a solid

proof of concept now there's just a bit

of fine-tuning and then we're good to

make a final version really 60 bucks for

our break that managed those those bends

dang

this is problem hour with Alex so you're

about to watch a couple CNC router fails

and there are a lot more off camera we

tried a bunch of different things going

faster going slower new bits and it

turns out it was just a double-sided

tape that we got it was not up for the

task so we're going to be switching to

the most accurate tool of all the angle

grinder we'll need to make room for the

radiator reservoir and cable management

this will function just fine but gives

up a lot of rigidity compared to the

much thicker piece that we were going to

see and see next the front of the case

got chopped up to give the radiator more

airflow and everything was filed down so

that no hands would be cut while working

in Margaret with some radiator mounting

holes added it was time to put the case

back together riveting is a very simple

way to get two pieces of sheet metal to

stay together in a mostly permanent

fashion right select the correct sized

head for the rivet you're working with

insert the rivet from the front line up

the pieces you're about to rivet and

squeeze your rivet gun until it pops

repeat until your case is complete now

it's time for some painting then we can

finally get on to water cooling alright

so the first coat of paint on there and

what I'm hoping we will do today is get

everything pretty much mounted and water

cool then we'll take it all out put a

second coat of paint on now that we know

that everything's in the right spot and

tomorrow we'll be done for the water

cooling hardware alpha cool hooked us up

with some primo stuff to make sure that

Margaret can shred or rip all the

threads that we throw at her for our CPU

we're using an ice block with a thread

Ripper adapter then our r-tx 28 ET I got

an acetal water block for that sexy

stealthy all bull

and chromed look we swapped out the

connection point to make vertical

mounting easier so far so good but with

the CPU and GPU in we realized that

things didn't quite line up this is

gonna be really friggin difficult

starting to look kind of sexy though

we turned on my computer's data now the

key to getting a hard line water cooling

loop to work its best is to have as many

things line up perfectly as possible

this will make your runs a lot easier to

complete with fewer fittings that means

fewer points of failure now normally

even for hard line bending the tubing is

an option not with carbon fiber with

that all in mind we created a bracket

then to mount our pump with some room

for adjustments after the fact there's

just lots of mounting so everything is

straight yeah no this is great well this

isn't straight this isn't straight you

think I mean this can probably come yeah

yeah cool yeah I think it's gonna look

really cool we're not using this power

cables are we no that's just a stand-in

ours are in the mail cool so for the

tubing on this build we're going with

carbon fiber it's gonna be a real big

pain in the butt so carbon fiber if you

like get the little bits that come off

of it on you it'll make you all itchy if

you get it in your mouth it's a really

bad time if it goes into the air also

like together than your mouth with your

eyes really bad PPE aside carbon fiber

tubing is pretty much like any other

hard line tubing basically measure

measure again cut sand and insert with

that completed it was time to leak test

I don't have a whole lot of confidence

that this will not leak but

well well there's our first leak and

their second leak and our third leak so

we're having a couple of problems there

the main one being that there are two

o-rings in a fitting we are only getting

through the first one the second one the

carbon fibers stab it to shark even

after being sanded so either just hit it

or when it went through it would just

slice the o-ring to pieces and it

wouldn't seal at all so to combat that

we had to replace every single inner

ring and lubricate it well for a nice

clean insertion with the computer leak

free it was time to take everything

we've done completely undo it take the

whole thing apart and then put

everything back in permanently now one

of the biggest problems with this design

is that there are a lot of things about

our build that simply cannot be accessed

once it's complete without disassembling

the entire water cooling loop so it's

important that we not forget anything at

this stage like this laser cut acrylic

cable hiding panel it's gonna look

really nice but once that's in those

cables cannot come out other cosmetic

things were done at this stage - like

the drive bays which were unscrewed then

it pops it into the front of the case to

complete our vintage look now with

everything slapped in and the loop

topped off all that's left is the moment

of truth 90 to post error so just so I'm

clear what you've been doing for the

last two days is reseeding the CPU yeah

it didn't boo and then everything that's

here had to come out oh I had the CPU I

just took it out put it back in

everything worked and also like we

thought that it was other hues at first

but hey the CPU is at 22 degrees now yep

and it's cabled also why you can really

feel that airflow over the vents down

here they are they are quite small for

all the trials and tribulations that

have come along with this I think this

may be your finest sleeper ye

but Margaret isn't just a pretty face

she's a powerhouse that can compute

circles around her sleeper siblings in

certain workloads with zero tweaking she

got a Cinebench score of five thousand

and one and under full synthetic load on

all 32 cores even with the sub optimal

ventilation from the front our CPU

reached a maximum temperature of 48

degrees after some tweaking we've got a

four point one gigahertz overclock on

all 32 cores having us 6,000 points and

Cinebench and a blender BMW test time of

just one minute 22 seconds to put that

in context that is over four and a half

times faster than a core i9 MacBook Pro

and then even with the overclock in

longer tests Margaret still didn't get

any higher than 75 degrees on the CPU

and as for gaming well

Margaret's r-tx 20 atti means that she

can absolutely destroy games like you

could fully expect to max out any triple

a game at 1440p on a 144 Hertz monitor

so that's it

big thanks to Alex for sticking with

this project it was an absolute

nightmare because of some of the issues

with well how large thread Ripper is and

how you can kind of get inconsistent

notes in the socket sometimes and the

big things to see sonic first sponsoring

our efforts here even if you don't need

the 13 hundred watt beast of the unit

that we put in our system you can be

confident if you to see sonic that your

power supply will last I tried to think

of a bunch of other stuff to say about

power supplies but like isn't that the

bottom line and they've got a 12 year

warranty to back it up

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