Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Most Powerful PC I’ve Ever Built! $4500 Monster”.
This video is brought to you by gizmo, go start selling your use tech at the best guaranteed prices check out the description for more details, hey what’s up folks, how’s it going. This watch hope you guys are all doing well and today we’re going to be taking a look at my custom pc build for 2020.. This is going to be a high-end pc. I’Ve been working on this project for quite some time. My budget is around 45 to 5 000 and that’s definitely a decent chunk of change to make a excellent productivity machine and very capable for gaming as well. We’Re going to be specifically basing everything around the third generation threadripper cpus from amd, specifically the 3960x. That’S 24 cores with 48 threads.
That’S definitely a monster. We’Re going to be coupling this thing with a zotec rtx 2080 super and we’re also using a gigabyte arrows, trx40 motherboard for tying everything together. Let’S take a look at the component list in more detail and check out the performance results later on in this article, so let’s get right into it now. Firstly, let’s talk about the processor, that’s going to be powering this dream pc, and this is definitely a monster within itself. We’Re gon na be using the amd horizon thread. Ripper 3960x is the third generation.
Threadripper processor came out late 2019. This thing has 24 cores 48 threads about a hundred and twenty eight megabytes of level. Three cash, as well as uh, can turbo up to 4.5 gigahertz with a base clock of 3.8 gigahertz. Now in terms of motherboard, you are gon na need a trx40 board. That’S specially designed for the third generation threadripper cpus, even though the socket looks identical to the second and first generation threadrippers, it’s still running on a completely new architecture. Now, thankfully, gigabyte supplied us with this auros extreme edition, trx 4d board that features quad channel ecc and non-ecc unbuffered ddr4, dimms, now being a premium grade board a design for overclocking and optimal thermal management solutions. You have plenty of power available, 16 plus three phases, as well as a digital vrm solution with 70 amp power stage. The pcb is encased in a reactive, armor design, fin array, heatsink and eight millimeter mega heat pipe, as well as carbon nano base plate at the back of the pcb.
The board contains plenty of connectivity options, including things like dual 10 gigabit ethernet connections, plenty of usb type c and a uh connections, as well as multiple pci express slots for expandable ssd expansion or attaching multiple gpus in the future. Beyond those notions, the board also comes with a dedicated pcie m.2 adapter that has its own heatsink and fan array. So you can actually attach four m.2 pci express gen 4 ssd drives for some sort of raid configuration or expandability options in the future. Now, in terms of the ssd drive itself, i’m going to be using gigabyte’s own auros mvme m.2 drive.
This is the 512 gigabyte capacity. It’S rated for a gen 4 speed, so you’re, looking at around three gigabytes, a second in terms of sequential uh, read speeds and about two gigabytes in terms of right, so it’s gon na be really fast and perhaps even faster. If i get multiple uh versions of these and put them in some sort of raid zero configuration and, of course, being 512 gigabytes, that’s definitely not enough for long-term storage. So i’m gon na be adding two seagate eight terabyte mechanical hard drives for both a long term. High capacity storage, as well as a backup purposes now in terms of graphics card, i’m going to be using a single rtx, 2080 super. This is the amp extreme edition from zotek.
It should definitely suffice for the moment, both in terms of gaming and my video editing needs, but i’m probably going to either upgrade to a secondary uh super 2080 card or in fact go to a newer generation cards. Once the 3000 series cards become available from nvidia, but this is definitely great for the time being now in terms of the cases of i’m gon na, be using something pretty special, the corsair 780 t. This is a case that i’ve had for over four to five years and i’ve actually wrapped it in a carbon fiber wrap. It used to be kind of a white color, and this is an awesome case that i’ve really liked for many many years, and one of the reasons why i still have it is the fact that i want to do a kind of a high-end pc build, but Uh couldn’t find the right components until now, and this is a monster gigantic case if you haven’t seen it in person, but i love the overall design. It’S super easy to build with, and lots of room and plenty of growth potential for the future as well. In terms of psu, we’re going to keep things uh brand, centric and corsair was also kind enough, uh to send their rm850x fully modular 80 plus gold certified psu. Now the 3960x and all the third generation threadripper cpus – are really power. Hungry monsters and 850 watts is actually the bare minimum standard for a build like this. But if i ever want to expand this pc for multiple graphics card options or even uh upgrade the processor itself, i’m probably gon na need something over a thousand watts. But 850 watts should be more than enough for now now to add a little bit more flare to this pc lienly was kind enough to send over their streamer rgb psu lighting, cable kit. This is an rgb lighting solution that effectively extends your 24 pin motherboard connection. As well as your dual, a pen connectors for your gpu power, now the kit comes with an rgb, a lighting controller, which supports five volt power via a three pin at connector. With the actual controller itself, you have access to multiple illumination options, as well as different lighting effects and color options, and if you’re looking to showcase your pc components, this is definitely a nice little addition if you’re into rgb lighting inside your pc case now, the last Few components of this pc that we haven’t talked about yet is a kind of a temporary for the time being, including the ram configuration and cpu cooler. The cpu cooler that we’re using is the deep cool castle 360..
Now this cooler does support the tr-4 socket. So specifically designed for the first and second generation threadripper cpus, now the third generation threadripper cpus use socket str x4, which is exactly the same spacing and hole configuration, but the height of the cpu is just about two to three millimeters lower than the previous generation thread. Ripper sockets and cpus. Now, if you use actually uh some of the screws that comes inside and the kit for this cooler, you can still make it fit and make a good contact point with the 3960x without any major issues, or anything like that.
But uh, probably for long-term use, you probably want to use a cooler or bracket, that’s specifically designed for a socket str, x4. Now the reason i’m using this cooler for the time being is this is the only thing that i really have access to in the office that fits more or less with this socket, i will be getting another cooler in the future coming up pretty soon, but this Should be pretty much fine for running at a stock configuration for the processor itself now, apart from the socket connection, the all-in-one system that we have over here is actually pretty decent. The water block and pump is fairly powerful and has a anti-leak technology inside the 360 millimeter radiator is going to provide plenty of heat to space, and we also have a triple 120 millimeter fan configuration which should be more than adequate for cooling our processor, especially at Stock frequencies now, in terms of ram we’re going to be using corsair vengeance, rgb pro memory, 64 gigabytes in total, via four 16 gigabyte dimms, we at least want 3 200 megahertz in terms of frequency speed for the ram. That’S pretty much the bare minimum essential if you’re running a 3960x processor – and this is definitely economical right now at 230 dollars for 64 gigabytes, but i probably will add another 64 gigabytes in the future to get 128 gigs. But this is good for the time being. Now our grand total, with everything included for this pc, considering the amazon pricing right now for all the products that was around four thousand four hundred and four dollars now before we go on.
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Now, let’s get into the benchmarks of our custom pc over here, we’re going to specifically talk about the cpu performance of our 3960x and we’re also going to compare those performance results to the base model. Mac pro that we had a few months ago, as well as the custom built pc that was based around the 2950x second generation, threadripper cpu, just for a little comparison now on cinebench r20, we’re getting around 13 000 points on the 3960x, which is definitely very impressive. Uh certainly compared to the xeon processor, that’s in the baseline mac pro and the 2950x, which scored around 7 500 points on a geekbench. The multi-core performance is outstanding at 22 000 points. Single core is around 1200 points, definitely way faster than the other two processors. As you can see, at the 2950x got around 13 000 points and a thousand points on the single core performance and our a mac pro got around 8 300 points on the multi-core performance at around a thousand points in terms of the single core performance. Beyond that, in terms of video, editing and export times, i specifically do a export test with a 4k 10 minute project in premiere pro and just measure the time that it takes to fully export that 4k file and on our a new pc that we have over.
Here it only took about nine minutes and five seconds on the pc with the 2950 that contains the exact same 2080 super graphics card. We got about 10 minutes and 33 seconds and on the baseline mac pro configuration, we got around 13 minutes and 11 seconds. So, as you can see over here uh when we compare it to the 2950x that had the exact same graphics card, there is definitely a fairly significant difference in terms of render export times and things like that now. Lastly, if you’re curious about the sequential read and write speeds of the gigabyte, arrows, m.2 ssd drive that we have over here using assd. We got sequential, read and write performance about 2.8 and 2 gigabytes a second respectively, which is definitely super fast.
However, if we want to upgrade later on in the future with a faster m.2 drive, there’s certainly plenty of expandability options over here. So, for the time being, the only thing that i would upgrade is probably either add another rtx, 20 80 super or wait for a better graphics card which is kind of what i’m doing right now. But this is basically the main rig for this year. I certainly don’t think i’ll need anything faster than this for the time being, but we’ll see how things go again. I want to thank all the support from our suppliers that provided some of the parts for this pc build.
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