Upgrading my rack-mounted Gaming PC so it can actually play games
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ย. 2024
- Welcome to the most chaotic, opinionated, and musical PC upgrade video you've ever seen...
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Everything used in this build:
CASE: iStarUSA D-400 -4U
CPU: Intel i7-12700K
Motherboard: MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk DDR4 WiFi
Power Supply: Corsair RM850X
AiO Cooler: BeQuiet! Pure Loop 280mm
DDR4 Modules: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2x16GB kit @3200 MT/s
SSD: Samsung 1TB 980 Pro AND Crucial MX500 2.5in SATA SSD
GPU: ASUS Dual OC 8GB GDDR6 RTX 3060ti
Case Fans: 2x 120mm Foxconn 12V, 0.9A Fans AND 2x Noctua Redux 80mm fans.
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NOW, the dreaded, the infamous, the social media contacts:
Instagram: / thomas_computes
Twitter: / thomas_computes (I'm not thomascomputes, the underscore is very important in this case HAHA)
Discord: / discord
Patreon: / thomascomputes (please only sign up after you are sure you can take care of yourself and your family, I really do mean that)
Even TikTok! / thomascomputer
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AND, as I mentioned in the video:
Linus Tech Tips: / linustechtips
Foxconn hatred: borgenproject....
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Music provided via TH-cam Studio Audio Library:
Disco Knights - Quincas Moreira
Festival de Cuba - Doug Maxwell & Jimmy Fontanez
Horror House - Aaron Kenny
Jazz con Cajón - Jimmy Fontanez & Doug Maxwell
Bed Bugs - Coyote Hearing - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Rack mount over tower? totally BASED
Someone had to say it
Got away from desktop form factor myself - rack systems are clean and I'd rather put money in to what is inside
Im getting a rackmount case for my pc and a small server rack for my room soon. Hopetully i ordered the right rails
6:37 nothing to see here, just a satisfied Foxconn™️ fan finding felicity in our fortuitously fear-free factory fun! Move along citizen.
I'm absolutely awestruck by your artfully arranged alliteration
Fan of the new video. A simple trick if you want to get rid of the fan noise and background noise is once the video is done run its audio through Nvidia Broadcast. Keep up the tech stuff!
Oh god yeah that’s a work in progress for sure! It’s not always the best thing to host a data center in the same room where I sleep, but great feedback nonetheless!
@@ThomasComputes Been there, I literally just moved into a place with a basement for it(though it being bellow water pipes isn't my favorite XD.
@@alexandernava9275 It's nightmare fuel for sure
Wonderful video! As someone looking to upgrade to very similar parts soon (12700k, 980 pro, etc) and hoping to someday move away from towers to a fully rack mounted system, it was a lot of fun to see you overcome case shortcomings through modifications. It really sells your wish to not waste what still works and has worth
Best of luck! Gotta love rack-mount equipment, although it can definitely make things more expensive rather quickly. Cases were always meant to be drilled into!
Another thing you could consider is external radiators such as MORA420.
7:40 "my final message, goodbye" Thomas' long-suffering GTX 680, probably
I feel your pain. I went from a AMD fx8350 and 660ti SLI to a 5600x and 3080ti around the same time you did.....such a mega upgrade. I really want to build in a 4u w/ a 42u enclosure. Put all the internet stuff, media PC, and storage of all the extra bits. Lol
Gotta say my first game was Day of Defeat Source running over 9000 fps I think lol
Amazing video, thanks!
Nice Video, well Cut, made me Laugh!
Isn’t the noise of the rack loud? I’m going to rack mount my two desktops and I’m concerned about that
You need to check that audio my guy... please
Having pcie cards vertical how they are meant to be is far better
Exactly! It make me so sad when I see huge GPUs sag in a vertical case
1:02 inb4 the clarinet solo at 500 subs
9:41 didn't even have to sell an organ, impressed
Nice video!
I would really like to win this years giveaway, because my gpu is uhmmm,
A GT 730 (Passively Cooled may I add)
and a Core 2 Duo E4500
with 8GB of 400 MHz DDR2
and a Seagate HDD with transfer speeds of less than a Megabyte a second.
I am so interested in newer titles now too, PCVR like Half Life: Alyx and Pavlov VR, Some flatscreen gaming such as Rust, GTA, Warzone, Apex Legends, Destiny 2, and more. But as you expect *NONE* of that can be played on the system specs listed above. It can't even play *ROBLOX* at 30 FPS.
Oh my, that’s quite old! You’ve gotta enter the competition!
@@ThomasComputes Oh trust me, I AM.
Hey Thomas, love the upgrade, I think we almost have the same upgrade I went 12700k and a 3070ti, after shelling out for a glamorized pc I realized I really didn't need the RGB I shelled out for and eventually want to move
my main PC
my threadripper virtualization server
and a future nas
all to a rack located near my desk
I had a quick question, linus obviously keeps his rack way farther away in his new house in his basement and in turn uses a mix of fiber usb-c thunderbolt and optical display cable, since your PC is obviously way closer what was your solution to plugging all your stuff in?
Great question and great setup! That's essentially what I've done, although my virtualization server stays off most of the time for noise, which is really the only concern I have with a rack so close to my desk. But, I live in a studio so I don't really have a choice. Maybe someday they get their own room!
I don't have any issues with normal cabling because the routes are so close. Power is fed from two separate circuits (so load is spread out and not just one one 15 amp breaker), which is why I have an extension cord coming from my kitchen. As far as display cabling is concerned, as long as you have a high-quality HDMI/DP cable, it'll be able to travel something like 15 feet no problem. The only bottleneck here is the cable quality, so that's one area you'd want to shell out cash for. Other than that, having the rack next to my desk keeps cabling a bunch of systems together really simple. Power cables all go to my UPS, network all connects to my rackmount switch, and I have male to female USB 3 extensions for my mouse and keyboard. I also have an A/V receiver that I use as my studio's sound system!
Good luck with your project, it sounds dope!
Doesn't it seem your setup airflow is backward? Congrats on your new build!
Thank you! How so? It's all going front to back.
@@ThomasComputes you're right! Now that I watch it again, it is correct with the airflow going from the front to the back.
where’s the clarinet though? 😂
Ah man you got me there, I'll bring it back someday