The Ultimate Sleeper Build PC
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- This machine was put together quite innocently to be my daily driver - before I'd even heard of the term Sleeper PC. The case was manufactured in 1997 and was probably originally intended for a server. Inside are two 18 core Xeons with 256gb of Ram, a 15k SAS Raid Array and a 3080ti graphics card. The display is a massive 22" CRT with a Diamondtron tube.
This video shows the finished machine and shows some basic benchmarks, then runs through a small selection of games to see how they run.
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we making it out of the retirement house with this one
Naaa, it can stay in there :)
The sound when you boot it up... It's beautiful
ikr 😄I do like the sound of multiple disks spinning up. The best ones were always the massive full-height 5.25 inch drives from the late 80's, what a cool noise they used to make. I think they used to make them loud deliberately 😆
Lovely computer, and it all fits so well together! Very well made setup. I have also ended up accidentally building a sleeper PC myself in the past month (What was suppose to be an vintage build ended up being my now regular desktop, I am currently typing this from Windows 7 Ultimate.)
Thanks so much for watching and commenting! I do love Windows 7, I prefer it to Windows 10 and really prefer it to Windows 11. W7 for me was their last really good OS. W10 started out fine but it became a bloaty sales harvester. :)
The whole setup looks beautiful!
Thanks so much, glad to meet like minded people :) I appreciate you stopping by and dropping a comment :)
Very very cool build and video, thanks!
Thanks so much for watching and commenting Funj0b, glad you like the build :)
I think all the lights dimmed in New York City when you turned it on! What an absolutely "sick" system! And I love the fact you're using a CRT! My "weapon of choice" back in the day was the Zenith Multi-Sync flap panel displays! Well done mate! No "bling!" Just raw computing "horse power" the way it's supposed to be!
What a fantastic system you have there brother. I am properly impressed. Oh man does seeing your 22in CRT make me miss my old 21in flat screen viewsonic Sony I had just a few years ago. Sadly it was taken from us before it's time in a house fire. Sad day that was. Anywho, love the "sleeper" pc. I'm really digging those 8 15k sas raid array. Absolutely worth a sub. Happy New Year!
Hey man, thanks for the sub! Appreciated. Yep I use CRT for everything, they are just gorgeous. I'm fortunate to own a few large models, in fact I'm writing to you now on a Sun Microsystems 22" monitor that has one of Sony's top-end Trinitron tubes in, from just before they ceased manufacture. I have another Sun Microsytems 22" monitor, slightly later, that uses a Mitsubishi Diamondtron tube, also their very best. Both are absolutely superb although the Diamondtron offers a wider range of resolutions and refresh rates.
One day I'd love one of Sony's 24" Trinitron monitors but they go for crazy money now.
Take care and happy new year to you too
Wow it's not every day I see a PC that has something that blows me a way, but I was not expecting that kind of transfer rates from an array of physical drives.
They do really shift for physical drives. I think the limit here has actually been set by the controller as its only a pcie2 8 lane from 2010. The drives are dated 2012, amazing really that even today there are solid state drives coming out that would be left in the dust by these old tickers. It would be an interesting experiment to try it with a pcie4 card and a larger array, I bet they'd really fly.
Thanks for contributing 😀
Cable management: god level
glorious build.
My recommendation will be giving each VRM heatsink a 40mm 12V fan bolted to it, those chinese motherboard, especially the one that youre using, have a pathethic inneficient VRM that put lot of heat, especially on xeons that have more than 100W TDP. Also, if you feeling adventurous, you can unlock the BIOS and feel the sensation of full locked turbo clock for both of xeons while underload!
Hi Pingtime. Yes I think you're right about those VRMs, they do get pretty hot. Fortunately the airflow through that part is pretty good as there are three 30w server fans blowing across it. But yes that does seem to be a feature of those Chinese LGA2011-0 motherboards, I've got other ones (single chip) and the VRM's get crazy hot. I've put little fans on them and that's helped quite a bit. Poor efficiency as you say. I didn't know you could unlock the bios like that, I bet it would go like the clappers but get seriously hot! I'm not sure those 90mm coolers would be able to cope with that, would have to put some big water coolers on it! Thanks for watching and commenting Pingtime, much appreciated :)
An impressive rig!👍👍
Dude, you sound like a British documentary narrator. I mean that in a complimentary way.
Thanks :) Obviously I am British but I've always had a bit of a flat, mumbly voice so for my videos I try to speak quite slowly and as clearly as I can. I keep the microphone quite high as apparently a persons voice is clearer when their head is angled slightly up. Apparently 95% of my audience is from the USA.
96%. I am in Bronx, NYC!@@B00MERTEC
As someone who likes small and quiet PCs I have a lot of respect for your setup which is the complete opposite 😆 I'll subscribe! It'd be fun to play with Proxmox or something with some pass through hardware on this beast!
Thank you so much! No, it's not the most discrete of desktops. I do have other ones that might be more up your street though :) I must admit I'd not come across Proxmox, I had to Google it, yes it would be good for that. I've got a server here that would be even better, it's got four 10 core Xeons and 1TB of ram, not really quite sure what to do with it though. Strangely it won't accept a GPU, it will only use the onboard graphics so it's a bit restricted. Thanks for watching and commenting!
HECK YEAH! I love stuff like this! Sick video!
Thanks so much! I have several other videos in production :)
Tangent but did you ever see the old Maximum PC article about the "Dream Machine 2012", a beige retro-fied Corsair Obsidian 900D? That got me hooked back into beige cases. I suppose they aren't sleeper though since they have a window & look modern but, I'll just never not stop loving the tall imposing tower cases of yesteryear. @@B00MERTEC
this is sick
The first thing I noticed was the massive SAS controller suffocating the 3080 Ti. My god man, that GPU had a family!
That little annoyance aside, that's a fantastic use of that case. Also, I haven't seen Expansion Slot mounted blower fans like that since... gosh, since not long after that case was brand new. Gotta ask though, what's the deal with the 8-way RAID-0? That's some serious risk and power draw for performance like that. Didja pick those up for free/cheap?
Hi Zenith251 :) Yeah it's annoying how close the SAS card has to be to the RTX. No other way to do it that I can see. It seems fine though, I've worked the card pretty hard and it stays within temperature tolerance. I didn't talk much about the fans in this case, at the front are three Nidec 2.7 amp blowers (total 97 watts) that can move silly amounts of air through that case if they need to. Mind you it's very noisy when they are at full speed, sounds like an Asic at that point.
The mechanical drives were cheap yes. Those are only used for scratch space really, and storing Steam games. I just like mechanical SCSI arrays, I grew up with them. Yes a single stick of M.2 would be smaller, faster and store more data, but I had to put something in those 5.25 bays right?
Thanks for watching and commenting Zenith251 ☺
What a monster PC, good Lord o.o
That UAC sticker is awesome!
Thanks :) I have a sheet of them and I always stick one on any new build as a kind of tag I suppose. A guy on eBay makes them.
Excellent
I have a tricked out DELL 7910 with also 2xXeon and a 3080ti hybrid. Very similar to you.
Hats off, subbed!
Ahhhh the Dell 7910, I know it well and I'm actually replying to you on one now. It's got two 10-core Xeons and 128gb ram, and did have that 3080ti in it before I moved it over to the bigger machine. Very solid, stable workstation. Managed to cram 8 SAS SSD's in mine in two arrays. I really appreciate the sub, it'll help me try and get my channel off the ground.
@@B00MERTEC i want to go that route, and have my SAS with 4 12tb or 16 tb hdd, but Im pondering the electrical costs of having them.
it would be alsmost a bottomless sack for my plex. But would also be one more item to maintain.
I was really lucky with this particular pc, altho not the top of the spear, ir rocks 28cores 56threads, and as you could probably imagine, i had to get creative with the hacksaw in order to mount the AIO radiator.
I like these older tech channels, now that I have the money and the know how that i didnt have 25 years ago, and I like to watch others reviving or rebuilding these super computers of my childhood.
@@PedroSilva-te5vl Well, I've got literally tons of other old hardware I'm working my way though, so hopefully there will be many more videos of restorations and such. I don't think having 4 SAS drives in your Dell will cost you much electricity, I just looked at one on my desk and it only pulls about 8 watts. Speaking of hard disks I've got a stupendous SAS array in the warehouse with (I think) about 150 drives in, 2TB each, so, nearly 1/3 pb. Never set it up or used it, not much need for it and no point having that much HDD space spinning for no reason, just a waste of electricity. At some point I'll get it all set up just to try it out and have a play with it, and make a video no doubt.
very nice
its nice. i have a dual xeon setup too in one of my pcs
It's the way forward!
I decked out one of my Dell T7600 from a decade ago. Similar specs, dual Xeons. 256GB of DDR3 was extra cheap. There are SAS and SATA ports, and even though I do have SAS drives, I went for regulars instead. In raid they still deliver readings on par with yours. Only thing I really had to add was a USB-C card. For video, the station had a Quadro 5000 with a secondary Tesla accelerator, but since that combo wasn't designed for gaming, I swapped it out for a gaming GTX alternative that the power supply could handle. The system has a built-in Blueray reader, which in all the years I haven't had to use even once. I'd love to convert the system to liquid cooling to make it more silent, but there's no room left in the enclosure and no spare power overhead. Everything is already maxed out.
I mostly use the system for running multiple VM's in parallel. Having 8 virtual machines running in parallel? No sweat! For gaming and video editing though, I can get better results out of an i7 with 1/3 as many cores sometimes, that's only slightly newer than the Dell. Lack of certain modern CPU instructions hinders performance.
Yeah nothing wrong with using SATA drives on a SAS interface, they are built to do that and the performance is similar. The only benefits of using specific SAS drives are redundancy of the drive electronics (if you're using dual-channel), access to high RPM models (15k is sas/scsi only) and the perception, real or otherwise, of manufacturing standards being higher for enterprise drives (they usually have longer warranties).
My Dell (similar to yours) is pretty quiet, I've set the bios fan control to automatic. When I got it, it was set to manual/high and it was very noisy. Now it's almost silent unless I'm working it hard. Agreed that Xeons, especially older ones are not ideal for modern gaming. They might have the number-crunching ability but they don't have a lot of the new game-centric instructions which does put them at a disadvantage. Ultimately they are heavy lifters intended for server and workstation loads, rather than gaming.
I've got a Dell server here with four 10-core Xeons and 1TB of ram. It's a monster, but utterly rubbish for games. It won't even let you run a GPU card in one of the many PCI-e slots. You have to use the onboard graphics! No sound either. But if you just want raw processing power, well, it's got loads of that.
Thanks for watching and commenting :)
I had a Dell T7500 with dual Xeons in it and the problem I ran into when using SATA SSD's was the 3GBps limit. I added a converter card but the system buss still limited the data throughput to 3GBps. I installed dual GTX 960's in it but the cards sat so close together the temps just got too high on the GPU's. I was in the process of converting to a NAN when something on the motherboard went bad and took out one of the Xeons. I only paid $75 for the whole system so I wasn't too torn up about it.
@@walterlegere1403 Lots of them on the used market. Good value. Plenty of spares. Some Dells, like the T5400 (that I also have) don't even support SLI. That was such a surprise. Apparently they haven't licensed it from Nvidia, and it's only available on some motherboards. All of my old Dells still run fine. Only had to replace the PSU on one. Normally I can fix them myself, but because theirs is slot-mounted, it's impossible to have it hooked up to the workstation and open at the same time, like with a regular off the shelf PSU. Another thing I had to do with my T7600 was to rip the spot-welded support bracket off the case door, as it prevented installation of any GPU taller than the standard slot height. I ended up leaving it with a non-Ti 1080. Anything newer and the PSU may get overloaded.
Regarding the hard drive bandwidth, I don't even get 3GBps. More like 1GBps, but I use slow drives.
@@enilenis The T7500 didn't support SLI either BUT, you could literally connect up to six monitors on that system and configure them in just about anyway you wanted. I ended up with dual Quadro 4000 cards with a dual monitor set up. I had my desktop on one and ran AutoCad on the other. I have heard some of the older Lenovo servers are even better that the older Dell systems and I might check them out.
i'm running 2xe5-2690s and a 5700xt, ecc ram ofc, gotta love these systems
Yes, a lot of bang for the buck. The only thing with duel Xeon motherboards is that they need a PSU that can provide two CPU power cables. The Corsair in this one will do that but most standard ones won't. The 5700xt is a good card :) Thanks for watching and commenting :)
Very cool! What motherboard make and model are you using please? Thanks!
oh this is the motherboard thats supposed to be quad channel ram, from AliExpress X99 Motherboard Huananzhi X99-F8D PLUS v1.2 but seems more like dual channel to me.
Badass.
thats a monster of a pc!!
Thank you, indeed it's not the most delicate and discrete of things. At least there is no ambiguity as to whether it's powered up or not. I appreciate you leaving a comment thank you :)
8 extremely fast hard drives, that get beat by 1 NVME SSD. 2 XEONS, that have communication latency across the bus. I think you could've got better performance just going with a contemporary Epic CPU.
Well, yes, there are other processors/boards that would have fit in this case that would beat this, I've actually got other systems myself that beat this. But it's just supposed to be showing an interesting build, not the best that can possibly be built. Yes I know what you mean about the mechanical hard disks, a good M.2 pci-e is faster. The point I was trying to make was these are extremely fast, for mechanical drives, and actually overlap considerably with low-end solid state ones. But no, they won't beat current high-end solid state tech for raw transfer speed. Thanks for watching Drinkoldcoke, and for your perspective.
That also would have been much more costly. Those Chinese C612 boards are dirt cheap and so are the Processors. These can be had in kits from Alixpress, MB, CPUs, and a Decent amount of Ram for like $200. Even an older lower core count used Epyc is going to cost about that for CPU alone, then Motherboard which a used Supermicro H11 or Asrock EpycD8 is going to cost about the same, then Ram on top of that. This set up is an incredibly cost effective way to get a high core count machine.
@@esotericjahanism5251 Yes, these boards are really good value. For what I do, core count is important and this setup does give me a very attractive core-to-cost ratio. Hard to fault these Chinese Xeon boards for value really. I run a number of them, they've proven quite reliable so far. As someone pointed out though, the VRM's on board do seem to get pretty hot, so some additional cooling is a good idea specifically for that.
Sounds like a bleeding jetfighter!
I love it 😀
heheh and that was with the fans turned off. Really pleased you like it, thanks for watching and commenting :)
i love the pc , it is indeed a sleeper pc but not the best one i have seen
The tower shows the aesthetics of a server already ( big office pc ) so it get expected to have some big cpu in it ( Core 2 duo ? Xeon ? )
on other side , it is now a full server with the spects it has now
The benchmarks are fun, but they do not show the power of the Dual CPU in it , it just shows the limits of the graphic card, for mc you need multiple players on it to stress test it
but by any means , it is still a nice pc for this age and time :)
Thank you PowerChaos, I appreciate you stopping by and contributing :) Agreed - a CPU benchmark would be cool, I've not really done much high load stuff with it except for some Monero mining! It got about 3x the performance of my 11th gen i9 doing that.
>has a 3080ti and freaking 256gb of ram
>uses it only to play minecraft and boomer shooters
+respect, got yourself a sub
Heheh, I like Boomer shooters. I do mostly like Minecraft but it's gone silly since Microsoft bought it. Everything they touch dies. What sort of thing do you play? Thanks for the sub, really appreciated.
@@B00MERTEC is not a critic, i like boomer shooters too, and i agree minecraft was better before, it had charm and thought put into it, it was elegantly simple but now it is just a mess that has suprisingly high requirements.
i mostly play rpg's and first person shooters (some of them boomer :p), recently cyberpunk 2077 got a new dlc and a major update that dratically improved the game, also a top down rpg named underrail got a new dlc too, if you liek fallout you gona like underrail. and lastly i saw myself going back to skyrim, after the failure that was starfield, a heavy modded skyrim can always be entertainig
Amazing little machine. That power-on sound was so satisfying. Curious though, why the big RAID for only 1TB+? Is there a technical limit you ran up against? Just curious.
Oh not at all, the raid array can be as big as you want. I just happened to have these 15k drives to hand, I paid very little for them. The thing is with 15k drives is they are usually very small individually, because the manufacturer knows that performance is priority for the end user so are expecting the array to be lots of small drives. For a given total capacity of the array, be it 1TB or 10TB or whatever, if it is speed you want then it is much faster to have lots of small drives working together. If it is capacity you want then you have fewer, larger drives, but it's very hard to make very large drives spin at 15,000rpm due to the data density causing the signal from the heads to just be too fast to process.
So to try to illustrate the point, if you have two drives with one platter, both same dimensions, both spin at 15k, but one platter holds 10mb of data and the other 1tb, obviously the data is going to read from the head far faster from the 1tb drive, as there is just more passing under it in any given revolution. So they might both be 15k but the data rate would be very different.
So, making a large capacity drive work reliably at a very high RPM is too technically challenging, it's much better to have multiple smaller capacity drives work in parallel.
Back to your original question, I could have as many of these drives as I could fit in the case and supply power to, but I had 8 to hand, and 8 fit neatly in there, with loads of airflow. It's only scratch space really, 1TB is fine for that.
I actually have a 250TB scsi array outside in my tec shed, I could plug that into the same card and it would literally just work. It stands on the floor though and is taller than me!
@@B00MERTECAwesome, thanks for such a detailed reply, I enjoyed it immensely. Will you be doing a video about the SCSI array anytime soon? Sounds awesome.
Oh yes I'd love to. I've got so much stuff to do videos on, hopefully I'll get around to everything. Never seem to quite have the time! But yes, I've got some video ideas for that massive array...
Nice server. I used same xigmatek coolers on mine too. On description you put 256mb instead of gb.
Thank you for watching and commenting natr0n, and for noticing my typo! I've fixed it now :)
What do you use this PC for? Rendering or servers? Or is it just a showcase build
I know cameras don't do CRTs justice but I wish you had done all of the onscreen stuff natively rather than adding it in post :sob: either way, very good video. keep it up!
Thanks for the feedback. Actually my most recent video does have direct crt recording, I managed to get a pretty good result by fiddling with my camera settings. I'm happy to do that on future videos if that's what people want 🙂
@@B00MERTEC Thanks for the reply! My suggestion was more of me whining rather that a criticism. I know CRTs are hard to film in their true glory and you would know _way_ better than I would on what works best for recording a video (: The overlayed image on one works perfectly fine conveys the points you're making.
Cool Spec of a CRT doesnt get much better than that, and is in keeping with the look of the pc, would look out of place with a modern monitor parked next to that biege retro pc.
As long as the cables dont interfere with Air Flow who cares you cant see it with the side panels on.
Oh hell ya the jet engines fireing up
Thats a beast, im curious are you getting quad channel with all that Ram only My Dual Xeon System, i think Huananzhi lied to me about there motherboard cause i can only populate every other slot, meaning i could only run 64gb not 128gb which sucks, yeah hard drives arent dead mate, its the cheapest way to get large storage, i have two hdd server's a main (dual amd epyc 7302 with 120gb (dead channel should be 128gb 8gbx16) ddr4 3200 rtx 3060 12gb)and a backup (dual xeon E5 2690 V4 ddr4 2400 cpu limited speed shouldve been 3200 Radeon RX580 8GB) both have roughly 45TB of storage using NAS and Regular 3.5" HDD's, i mean im also using SSD's and NVME Drives to, but the bulk of the storage comes from Spinning Drives. I also think fast fans are prefferable to quietiness for best performance although that does sound very loud Delta 10,000rpm fans or Noctua at 3000rpm? i know other raid types are safer but i stick with raid 0 for speed.
The case is a Super Micro SC-750A.
Thank you for identifying it!
Get a modern OLED monitor and a dead 16:9 CRT and see if you can stuff the OLED into it. OLED is very different to LCD displays, and will look and respond MUCH better than any CRT. Then do the same with a mouse and a Keyboard. Then just spray paint the shell of a set of sennheiser PC37X's for the Ultimate complete sleeper build.
lol! Great idea, although not many 16:9 CRT shells around. I dunno tho, I quite like 25kv photon beams. I do quite like oLED's too! But I don't have one. I do all my computer work on CRTs, apart from when I'm on my laptop. Fortunately, CRT laptops died out in the 1980's. Thanks for watching :)
Crts also don't have latency
That's correct yes, CRTs are very, very fast from GPU to eyes. Only the very latest and most expensive flat-panels today are getting back close to that level of latency. That responsiveness is more important than frame rate but this CRT can refresh happily at 240fps anyway if you want it to. I run it at 85fps usually, 1600x1200. That's more pixels than a standard 1080p HD monitor.
yes mom, i need this for school.
Too right 👍
The 4:3 aspect ratio of the vid.... 👌🤌
I've always liked the 4:3 format for a PC. The 16:9 format is, I believe, due to TV's going 16:9 in the early 2000's, and the reason why they did that was to show movies better. Movies are shot wide because it uses less film stock per second and it's mechanically much simpler to advance a short frame than a tall one in both camera and projector. These were important considerations in the 1920's and 1930's but it's odd now that modern PC monitors are shaped because of those factors.
However, a wider view (or, more accurately, a shorter view) works fine for gaming, but it's not so good for working on documents, I don't think.
I render out my videos to 1:1 format so they are square, which is unusual on TH-cam, not aware of any other channels that do. This is just intended to be a compromise position between smartphones and PC's (or TV's).
Thanks for watching and contributing :)
Wish I could get my hands on a crt like that, my second hand market is bad around here, not that there isn't pcs and stuff around everyone just sends them to erecycle instead of selling and they get scrapped. when you do find one thats been saved the dude selling it thinks its a gold mine and wants 2 times whats its worth simply because he heard crts are good and doesn't realize he has a garbage packard bell crt from 92 thats fading away.
Yeah it can be a bit of a job these days finding good CRTs at a sensible price. There are loads of chancers on eBay with naff old VGA fishbowls trying to sell them to younger gamers. It's the much later Trinitron/Diamondtron/Flatron monitors that are the ones to go for (the one in this video is a 22" Diamondtron) but they are getting hard to come by. I've got two 22" monitors made by Sun Microsystems (using Sony and Mitsubishi tubes) that are really lovely, I use them daily. I'll do a video on them at some point :)
watching the gameplay on the screen is kinda surreal it almost looks photoshopped. kinda wanna get a crt like this one myself. see how my 5950x with 7800 xt can drive the pixels on it .
I'd recommend borrowing one, but ideally a late high-end one with a 22" Trinitron (Sony) or Diamondtron (Mitsubishi) tube. No point trying a 14" VGA monitor from 1993, you won't like it.
One problem you'll have with those GPUs is that they don't have an analogue output. You'll need a HDMI>VGA adapter, there are loads on eBay and they are very cheap but the DAC circuitry in them don't tend to be particularly high quality. They are unlikely to be able to drive the monitor at its higher resolutions/refresh rates either. Hopefully some manufacturer will make an adapter at some point that's a bit higher spec than the super cheap ones on the market at the moment.
It’s a shame you’re running windows on that beast
great sleeper, BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS?????
Of course! I doubt there are any PC games that it won't run :)
3:23 Wow memory is DDR3, not DDR4. 256 GB of DDR3 is based, lol
edit: how is the board pcie gen 4 if it only supports ddr3 memory, what kind of sorcery is this lol
Yeah in hindsight I think I got that wrong. I think it is DDR3. The board came with the memory and I was building a few different systems at the time!
pretty much the only thing wrong with the setup is the horrible desk
Ikr, I obviously don't use that desk, it's just for the video! Not much room in the corner where I do my filming
This is a fake video. The monitor's Led is off during the whole video. The edges of the picture on the monitor is different for each clips.
It's the same process I use for all my videos. The video output is recorded at the cable and overlaid onto the footage of a blank screen. If I recorded the actual crt output, it would be flickery and rubbish. We have 50hz lighting in the UK, impossible to sync to that unless the monitor is set to either 50 or 100hz. The other alternative is just to play back the footage full frame, without the monitor acting as a frame. But I prefer this look, gives it context.
You've clearly never seen a recording of a CRT screen, it looks like garbage on camera.
@@esotericjahanism5251 Yes it does, unless you get the refresh rate of the screen and the shutter speed of the camera to match exactly (and be 1/2 the recorded frame rate). It's not really practical on a PC, the monitor here was refreshing at 85hz, and my camera, good as it is, does not offer a 1/85 shutter speed nor a 170fps capture rate. Plus then the additional problem of UK lighting of 50hz is completely off that too. Not so bad with incandescent lighting but this was LED lighting and it does strobe on a camera unless you're at 1/50 shutter speed (which this is).
All this is academic though, they are right when they say it's "fake", in that the display is overlaid, but this video isn't a review of the monitor, and it's more of a choice of how to present the recorded content. This is actually a lot more realistic to real life than asking a cmos sensor to interprete a fast moving photon beam in the same way our human eyes and brains do, which, it can't.
Plus the final consideration, the computer outputs in 3:4 format. This video is 1:1, so you need to frame the source content to fit the space. I could just use boring old black bars top and bottom, but framing it around an actual monitor just looks much nicer in my opinion.
Thanks for the video! A lot of us know how hard it is to film a CRT just from watching other retro channels so thank you for showing us your system. And I'll bet that monitor looks amazing in person. Great setup!
i didnt know they made 1440p crt monitors
Yes most larger crt monitors will do 1440p, usually with a 60hz or 75hz refresh rate. I generally use 1200p at 85hz, my eyes like that the best!
IcyDock makes some hotswappable hard drive cages that fit into those Optical bays something like that would make a great addition to this
They really do don't they? and very nice they are too, but, being enterprise-grade equipment they are quite expensive. I cheaped out and just bolted them to the side of the 5.25 bays. They are pretty solid to be honest, but obviously not hot-swappable. Mind you, as this is a RAID 0 array there wouldn't be much to gain from hot-swapping, if one drive dies the whole array is lost and needs rebuilding. It's only scratch space really. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@B00MERTEC there are some cheaper option out there by Rosewill and Athena Powere. There's also a couple nameless Chinese off brand version of them. I miss 5.25" bays there is all sorts of cool accessories you could put in them