Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Pay-To-Win Gaming PC”.
A high refresh rate monitor a carbon fiber gaming mouse, a force, sensitive keyboard money. Everyone knows that these are the things that you need to be a great gamer or that’s. What PC companies want you to think Razer Logitech Nvidia? They all want you to feel like you need to spend big to win big, but do you to find out? We built the most try hard PC setup possible buying into every single claim frame and mind game. The PC Hardware manufacturers pitch and we’re gon na see how much of an edge we really get compared to the average PC, which you know, parts are actually worth splurging on and which are a total waste of money. You know, let’s talk Hardware. Naturally, we got ta start with the best, the beastly Intel Core I9 13900k and the Behemoth Asus Rog strix 4090, because frames win games, we’ve proven it and these two pretty much always get the most frames to manage all that power and heat we’ve gone with the Fractal torrent equipped with a 420 millimeter nice AIO from Corsair 740 millimeter noctua industrial fans and three nff 12s at the bottom of the case for fresh air to our GPU, which we then exhaust through the front mounted radiator, where we’ve removed the dust filters entirely for Better airflow, finally, we swapped out the stock retention bracket for a thermal Grizzly bracket to give us a few more degrees of cooling on the CPU and up in the attic lives our power supply from sea Sonic. Who sponsored this video.
We chose their PX 1300 because it’s 80 plus Platinum, certified and so even at 20 load. This thing will be at worst. Ninety percent efficient and all their new psus in the PX lineup come with a 12 volt high power connector. So you don’t need this stupid. Octopus adapter, when you put in the 4090. for the motherboard, we are using the EVGA z790 dark Kingpin.
Motherboard specifically meant for extreme overclockers notice that the ram has been moved up to the top of the board. This is specifically to reduce the distance from the CPU to improve the timings. We’Ve used, the onboard utility to overclock our CPU to 5.8 gigahertz across all cores for that extra oomph.
You know, and of course we have ample fast storage in the form of 10 terabytes worth of PCI Express Gen 4 and vme ssds. Okay, now for peripherals, our Guiding Light is latency reduction. Latency is the time between input and eventual output and is the enemy of good gaming. Every single piece in this setup is focused on reducing the time between targeting the enemy. Seeing his head, replaced with a thin Red Mist.
Source of latency in your system is likely going to be the display. A typical 144hz gaming display introduces a whopping 6.94 milliseconds of latency, comparing that to the 390 Hertz of the Acer Nitro X, the fastest, monitor on the market. Today, where each frame is displayed for just 2.56 milliseconds, this Nets us a nearly 4.38 millisecond reduction. That is, if you can run your games, that fast in scenarios where performance is CPU limited like we are preventing us from running all of our games at 390 frames per second, you might want to consider the Asus Rog Swift, pg27 aqn, which is 1440p and 360 Hertz, meaning you can trade 30 Hertz for extra image Clarity we have both here but to reduce GPU overhead, we’ll be unplugging our second monitor, while gaming and for peripherals the azound Koenig m2k uh. Okay, this is the m1k, but they were all out of n2ks, and this uses the same sensor and switches.
So for our purposes it works at just 24 grams. You are basically holding nothing. This mouse doesn’t waste time with side buttons or even most of the mouse. What it does have is two clicks and a scroll wheel for well. The m2k has a scroll wheel and 8 000 Hertz polling rate, which means that your inputs will be delayed at most 0.125 milliseconds eight times faster than other piddly Gamers thousand Hertz pulling rates.
And if you simply cannot stand the shape, then maybe recommend the more Normie Razer Viper eight kilohertz. While it does come in at nearly three times the weight of the Zone Konig, it has the same polling rate and sensor and it is a lot easier to buy. We’Re using a glass mouse pad for maximum slideage feels like you’re moving on nothing at all, nothing at all, nothing at all.
Damn sexy Flanders. Our keyboard is the Wu Ting 60. He.
What makes this so special is that each switch is actually an analog input, meaning we can do things like partially push our keys down to walk rather than run, and we can set our actuation point to 0.1 millimeters, a typical key switch actuates at around 1.5 to 2 millimeters into the keystroke, so that takes about five milliseconds more for that key press to register just by the force of the action alone. By setting our actuation point so much higher. Our key presses will register 15 to 20 times faster than the competition just 0.25. Milliseconds, the catch is that our keyboard only has a thousand Hertz polling rate, meaning that the average latency will still be one millisecond.
The only way we could improve this is if the next revision adds 8 000 Hertz pulling. What makes this action the best for gaming is that it’s an optical instead of a mechanical switch, meaning there’s no debounce delay at all. So as soon as you unpress a key, it’s instantly unpressed to ensure that no inputs get lost in the high polling rate Fray. We plug their devices into different USB controllers on our motherboard. You can use your motherboard manual to see which ports are managed by each controller. Oh wait! There is one other input that we forgot to talk about our foot pedals.
We can’t afford to move our fingers away from those Wallace keys, so we got elgato’s stream deck foot pedals to quickly and easily map some of our less time. Critical inputs to things like reloading are taunting. The polling rate on this is not nearly as high as we would hope, but we might be able to overclock the thing for a little bit lower latency, that’s a whole other can of worms. Finally, we have our audio solution for the clearest comes.
We went with an Electro Voice re20 with the dynamite preamp connected to our audient Evo interface. For the front end, we went with the Sennheiser HD 800s for its incredible Sound Stage, which allows us to pinpoint the footsteps of our enemies with ease. Oh yeah and we even got the ultimate gaming router, the Asus Rog Rapture, a quad band gaming router that has tweaks to optimize Network traffic for gaming, oh and uh. Naturally, we have the Herman Miller, embody gaming chair from Maximum ergonomics and comfort. We also made some tweaks, like we disabled background processes like Windows Defender, which is always a good idea. We’Ve disabled Wi-Fi on the motherboard to reduce Emi and CPU interrupts. We’Ve turned on multi-core enhancement, set Windows to GPU, accelerated scheduling and ultimate performance power plan set XMP on and we’ve, given our CPU and GPU a slide overclock to get a little bit of extra performance, we aren’t pushing too hard, as stability is Paramount for the sweaty Tryhard gamer, okay enough Theory crafting, let’s see if all of this is worth it by testing it with real Gamers and by Gamers we mean Linus sub, no wrong. One, oh get out of here we’re going to compare our two setups. This is the most average gaming PC we’ve made one upgrade a 144 Hertz monitor sure we’re going to compare that to the full, try, hard setup. The sweatiest gaming pieces absolutely get your bearings here, enjoy it play a game with the most common peripherals.
The typical kind of experience I a desk mat from lttstore.com is there anyone else on this map am, I is there supposed to be people to fight or wants to get out of here? There’S no Bots. What the hell Jake! Okay, just press Escape go start a bot match or you can play a real match and see how you do. I never used to feel like the g502 was Heavy, it’s kind of heavy by today’s standards. I use a G Pro Wireless at home and it’s a lot later.
Okay, oh shoot, wow uh, okay, that was probably the heavy Mouse uh. It’S probably because of the heavy Mouse nope. Oh shoot no come on, come on, ah shoot. Oh no! Ah, come on hold down tab, that’s where you are on the leaderboard! Well, you know what it’s hard see that he was at the very bottom.
It is hard yeah, it’s hard! What if we could upgrade your game all right, let’s try the upgrade all right! Welcome to the try, hard setup 999 frames per second. This is the mouse. Yes, it weighs, but 23 grams wow, okay, and we have you equipped with the wooting 60 HP whoa. This is like a hair trigger keyboard, because it’s an optical and analog switch. You can set the actuation point as high or as low as you want. I’Ve set it to 0.1 millimeters so that the moment you want to make an action you go, it also has rapid trigger. So the moment you relieve any pressure from the key. It just stops sending a signal you don’t have to wait for it to cross back over the actuation point again pretty cool.
What is this doing here? So that’s your for your comms for your team and also we equipped you with the best headphones you could find for Sound Stage. Okay, I should definitely try without sound first for Apples to Apples here. Is this a 390 Hertz monitor it? Is it’s the fastest monitor? Currently, on the market, okay, okay, got him come on he’s right there. What do you mean? I only hit him three times.
Okay. Here I have a solution: no you’re getting clammy hammed. You need to use gamer goo, which flavor would you like? Oh I’m liking the weight of this mouse. I’M not liking the shape very much, but not gon na lie kind of actually feeling it.
Okay, what’s the gamer goo fine, we got different. Smells orange peppermint uh we’ll put some on your hands, so you can get improve your grip, it’s kind of a shiny Mouse. This is chaos. Also, we’ve brought you some ghost gamer neuotropics. What I don’t know so a nootropic. It’S a brain, enhancing chemicals.
These are all legal. What are you even talking about I’m trying to enhance your performance Linus? Well, it’s not going to do anything instantly. Well, it should have taken it 15 minutes ago, because that’s the amount of time it takes for caffeine to kick in. That’S the important thing to know about all of these. The actual thing that matters is the caffeine, so you can just dry scoop it right now. If you want um sure wow, I’m gon na get him some water, oh God, he’s gon na die.
I’M fine, very unpleasant, not recommended honestly there’s too much Randomness with just people being flipping everywhere in this tip. Okay, let’s go into aimlab um just for steam. It’S right there. No, I won’t! Oh, my God, how do I even oh, my God, I don’t have a mouse wheel. I don’t know how to use a computer without a scroll wheel. How do you actually well? The good news is that the newer version of this mouse does have a scroll wheel, but the company only makes a certain amount every year and they ran out they’re like two guys: they’re working really hard. Okay, all right all right, I’m probably not gon na – do very well, oh yeah. I definitely feel sweatier, I’m a sweatier gamer for sure, okay 68 accuracy, so I am above average barely, which means that you’ll probably be worse when you’re not performance enhanced, but I should have more caffeine in my system with my heavy ass Mouse here.
All right. I got better okay now I want to go back and try this test over here. What what did I get that time? All right? I guess it’s a different test. We had 45 000..
Okay, all right, I’m familiar with the test. Now: okay: let’s try the sweaty setup. 49.
297.. That’S it! That’S an improvement! Yes, barely probably just me doing the test three times would account for that. Much improvement, but uh, Hey 69 kill total nice, oh yeah! Just so you know this computer uh this whole setup.
It’S a it’s eleven thousand dollars. This one is about uh it’s about 600., so that extra ten thousand four hundred dollars probably better invested in some coaching yeah yeah or practice practice. But that’s not that’s not the point pay yourself to practice, but what’d. You think what do you think about some of these parts? Do you think that any of these actually make a huge difference like this is a huge difference maker? For me, that’s a fact: yeah yeah, oh yeah scores and tests aside, which are affected by a human element. What is the actual difference in latency between one system and the other on this system? The average end-to-end latency so from click to when you see something happen on your screen. That’S 12 milliseconds really yeah, which is a lot faster than the average PC, which is 26 milliseconds, and yet I still can’t really feel the difference between them huh.
We are really at a point of diminishing returns here. Aren’T we especially when you consider like human reaction, speeds and stuff like that? Is it like around 180 to 280 millisecond range you’re talking about a less than a tenth of your own human reaction, speed right, but in the event where two people across the planet click at the exact same time, this system is going to win out pretty much. Every time I haven’t gotten all five of them a single time.
Ah, if you like this video, why don’t you watch the one we did on the most average gaming PC since that’s really all you need evidently .