I Build An EPYC 64-Core Gaming PC, Then Do TERRIBLE Things To It...

**Time to Pace Your Bets: A2000 Waiting Around for Epic CPUs**

It's time to pace your bets; my bet is that even the little A2000 is going to be waiting around for these two epic CPUs, but let's find out. This system is much less of a beast than expected when running Battlefield 5 at 1080p High settings, and as you can see, I was pretty much right – there's not a massive CPU bottleneck going on with the A2000. Remember, an A2000 has roughly similar gaming performance to an RTX 3050, so it's not a beast of a gaming graphics card, but the Epic CPUs are still struggling to keep up.

Wow, Cyberpunk is going worse than I was expecting; there's so much CPU power, but it's just not the correct type of CPU power for what we're doing. If only Cyberpunk could use 64 cores, you know. Although with The Last of Us, it can actually kind of keep up with the A2000 – I'm guessing it's got good enough multi-threaded support maybe, I don't know. But there are games where the A2000 isn't waiting around for those Epic CPUs; that's pretty cool.

**UH, Doing Anything with Ram Takes So So Long on This System**

Oh yeah, this easily has to be the most Savage single Channel configuration ever – uh, now because we have two CPUs in here, I don't think it's gonna work with just that one stick of ram down here. But I'm just testing it just to see maybe maybe maybe it works; otherwise, we'll just drop another stick in the top there, which will still technically make it a single Channel configuration – let's see if this works.

**A Few Moments Later: Yep, It's Not Posting**

So we need to give the second CPU a stick as well, which checks out; that makes complete sense. Oh, that's weird – it's only reading one of the two sticks – let's see what cpu-z has to say about this. Whoa, there's like so much latency – what in the world? Okay, I don't completely understand what's happening here, but it seems like we're about to do some gaming with one stick of ram between two CPUs that each have eight memory channels.

**Okay, It's Picking Up a Little Bit Now**

Oh yeah, there we go! That is what you want to see – okay, it's picking up a little bit now; we got 30-ish frames per second there briefly. Now, that we've been in the match a bit longer, it is starting to wake up a bit, but we're still we're still topping out at like 40 frames per second. It takes the system a shockingly long time for all the game assets to load in, but once they're all loaded, when it comes to a standardized Benchmark, honestly, it's not that bad considering what's going on here – that is a very impressive result.

**Especially the One Percent Lows**

Like what? It's similar story with Cyberpunk; don't get me wrong – the game is borderline unplayable, and there's a lot of input lag. But when it comes to Raw Benchmark figures, the difference is surprisingly small. I will say it feels a lot worse than the numbers suggest.

**But Apparently The Last of Us Doesn't Seem to Care About CPU Memory Bandwidth Very Much**

Although it feels terrible; there's so much input lag. What's interesting is when you stand still – the frame rate's quite stable, but the moment you move that happens. Cinebench is not as lucky – the number is way smaller, but still I'm surprised at how well Epic handles being stabbed in the guts.

**Which Brings Me to the End of the Video**

Thank you very much, Be Quiet for sponsoring the video; there are some links in the description you should go check out. And maybe check out Part One of this video as well. And until the next video – thank you for watching Bye!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin the previous episode of David's Sloan inevitable cruel to insanity  this doesn't seem to be working so none of the ram that I have will work in this motherboardoh it still doesn't work oh no  oh but it still doesn't work how is this piece of crap still not postingnow it's been about two weeks since I posted that video evidence of my torture  my epic system and since then you have posted hundreds of comments with suggestions on how to  get that pain in the ass running so in today's video I'm going to implement those suggestions  and get that bastard running once and for all and because this video is very kindly  sponsored by be quiet to help me recoup all the money I spent on ECC Ram we're then gonna  take that system and build it into a monolithic new be quiet case that's designed to accommodate  any load and then finally we'll test it in the most cursed single Channel configuration the  world has ever seen so buckle your panties because it's gonna be one hell of a ridethank you now the first suggestion we're going to try which was by far the  most popular a whole bunch of you posted it was that I didn't Mount the Epic CPU  with enough pressure apparently when you buy an epic CPU you're supposed to get a  torque wrench included set to the correct pressure but because I bought these two  CPUs used off of eBay I didn't get that wrench included so I had to go and buy oneso on your recommendation I got a torque wrench and this one has an accuracy of plus minus two  percent ooh very fancy I I think I don't know oh it doesn't come with the correct bit  or does it is this this well let's let's try these oh yes it does like a glove very good  okay now I have no idea how this works I guess you just oh there we go we just have to scale  it back to 1.5 newton meters yeah there we go this feels weird but let's let's give it a tryokay that's some positive feedback I feel like that's the exact same  typist like last time I just tightened it until it stopped tightening which is what  happened this time like I don't know let's double check yeah there we go it's fine and  after very professionally double checking bolt tightness it was time for step twonow according to the seller this is golden crusted ECC Ram forged in  Mount Olympus that'll definitely work on this system so let's give it a tryand here's me plugging in those beautiful sleeved be quiet power supply cables okay so this like  super should post so let's oh things are spinning up that's very promising that's like similar to  where we were last time and those two LEDs are doing the manual mandated dance a few moments  later but it's still not posting so despite the correct mounting pressure and the Zeus Ram it  still wouldn't post but then after a whole bunch of fiddling for no particular reason  I decided to move the graphics card from the full sized pcie slot to the top half one   oh oh the thing look a thing happened oh finally got a signal out of the thing I'm almost certain  it's because we're using the awesome be quiet dark Power Pro 13 power supply I mean putting aside  the whole Intel boot agent thing which feels very weird to me but look at that it's it's asking for  media and like it's video has come out so the next step is to drop the second CPU in here with its  own stick of RAM and see if we get a signal out with that configuration oh look at that  that's so exciting it means that we can actually game using the world's worst single Channel setup  I think just one of eight channels actually on that note I do want to test to see if the  ram that I bought off of Amazon works in the systems that I don't have to order a whole  bunch more from the eBay seller because you know I I have this Ram at hand I don't have  to wait a bunch of time for it to come oh it does work so what I'm gonna do next is  test the final configuration that I'm gonna build into the beautiful Majestic dark Bass  Pro 901 but after spending eight years plugging in the 16 sticks of RAM and dropping in the AMD  graphics card I wanted to use with the system I ran into another problem wait pcie vendor  and device ID do not match oh it's not happy with that graphics card and Not only was the  only graphics card I tried that didn't give me that vendor mismatch warnings the GTX 1650i  started with but the motherboard also wouldn't let me into its bios I spent ages feverishly  smacking every key I knew to invoke a bios on every system I've ever used to no avail which  brings me to comment suggestion number two one of the three Lan ports on the motherboard supports  what's called ipmi which is bios over Network as far as I understand it which unfortunately  didn't work because I didn't know what the motherboard's IP address was and the default  one that super micro motherboards use didn't work they changed it to something else and when I  reached out to the vendor on eBay they didn't seem to know what I was talking about the next thing I  tried was to install Windows on the motherboard so that maybe I could do stuff with the system  even if it's just got a GTX 1650 in it but that didn't work either because the motherboard just  boot of the windows USB install I tried various versions of Windows including Windows Server  installs that according to Super Micro should work on the motherboard but despite using both UEFI and  Legacy installs on the USB stick I just couldn't get it to boot off it and because I didn't have  access to the BIOS I couldn't change the boot priorities to make it boot off it so I was kind of  screwed again now to cut a very long and annoying story short do you know how I ended up managing  to get into the BIOS on the motherboard for some reason on the first setup this motherboard  refuses to go into the BIOS unless you use the Mesozoic period port on the motherboard as a video  output and no one tells you that nowhere on the internet does it tell you this motherboard is a  and the only way that you can get into the BIOS on first boot only is by using the Mesozoic period  port on the motherboard the craziest part is I tell the eBay seller that after I figured it out  and they go oh yeah by the way you have to use the Mesozoic period port on the motherboard to  get onto it in the first boot what why didn't you tell me that days ago when I first told  you I couldn't get into the BIOS I know that now I figured that out through massive trial  and error and wasting hours of my life with huge frustration I hate this motherboard so  much but before I rupture an artery in my heart and let's just move on I've managed  to get into the BIOS and all is now well in the world potentially oh that's a different screen  oh my God it's the BIOS it's so beautiful I just needed a VGA Monitor and after spending  a while configuring the bios so that the system behaves normally cross-referencing  all the stuff I didn't understand with the manual I then installed Windows still  using the Mesozoic period board okay we have windows in the house this is there's still a  lot of struggling that needs to happen but Windows is on here oh yeah look at that 240why is it say 15 out of 16 slots used it turns out one of the sticks of Amazon Ram was dead moving on  we also have this madness I then moved the jumper back from Mesozoic mode to external graphics card  mode and finally went through the fun process of finding a graphics card this stupid motherboard  won't turn its nose up at the only one my Lord ended up accepting other than the GTX 1650 was  an RTX A2000 Quadro card I happen to have lying around a worthy sacrifice on the pile of unworthynow the case I'm gonna use is the monolithic hashtag  sponsored by be quiet dark Bass Pro 901 be quiet the sexy choice this case is wild we'll get into  some of the features while we're building in it but it's even got like a hidden Bay  for DVD drives in the front something you never see anymore foreignly this is a monolithic case with huge amounts of flexibility in terms of motherboard orientation  radiator options it can take just a ridiculous amount of hard drives for a modern case but  what I'm the most interested in today is this case's ability to subsume pretty much  any motherboard it's got standoff support all the way to the other end of this cable  hiding bracket thing oh those are nice thumb screws holding the side panel onwhoa that's a heavy panelso it comes with two pre-installed 140 millimeter silent Wing fours in the front  and one in the back so it comes with very high quality fans pre-installed that's awesome to  see on a case like this what's super cool is how the fan mounting works so you undo those  and you pull this out and all the fans are plugged into a hub on the radiator Mount which connects to  the main Hub in the case via contact pins so you don't have to worry about like ripping cables out  and stuff this is a really smart idea now of course we have no choice but to continue using  the be quiet dark Power Pro 13 is the power supply because we can match the awesome thumb screws on  the mounting bracket with this spectacular thumb screws that come with the dark Power Pro 13. oh no  thank you oh I sure am glad this power supply comes with braided cables includedoh yeah that is some thumb screw erotic fan fiction right there okay so now is  the Moment of Truth we get to see if the one monstrosity fits in the other monstrosity it  does just not without modification so oh luckily we just undo a couple of sexy thumb screws  there we go and after moving some of the standoffs into the appropriate position  for the massive motherboard I mounted the board and we were ready to admire the monster  combining high-end consumer stuff with crazy server Hardware always looks wild you've got  this like blacked out case with this insane motherboard in it that is all green it really  emanates this Aura of intimidating power but yeah we're actually getting really close there's not a  whole lot left to do I just need to drop that little Quadro graphics card in here  which is going to look especially ridiculous in this case and then I think we can test itoh that's such a cool looking systemoh it's so heavythat is complete Madness I I didn't think I'd ever see something like this in person look  at that now obviously the first thing we're gonna do with it is watch this monstrosity  tear through cinebench I wonder if we're gonna get the top score here we may actually  hey look at that the little squares are so tiny  hey the second highest score and it's it's not that far behind either that is real exciting  stuff look at that the crazy thing is this isn't even the system's full power remember one of the  sticks of Amazon Ram is dead so we've got an empty channel on one of the CPUs and all of  this ramp is pretty losery 2133 megahertz ECC and the system supports up to 3200 megahertz ECC now  I am gonna buy 16 sticks of 3200 megahertz Ram to see the system's full potential I'll  post a short when that arrives showing the result of that but anyway let's have a look  at the single threaded performance because I think that's gonna be a lot less impressive  yeah Okay so we've got similar single threaded performance to a 200 year old I5 which  is not that bad I was honestly expecting it to be lower than that which means now we get to  see the gaming performance of this system it's time to Pace your bets my bet is that even the  little A2000 is going to be waiting around for these two epic CPUs but let's find out foreignthis system is much less of a beast this is Battlefield 5 at 1080p High settings and as  you can see I was pretty much right there's not a massive CPU bottleneck going on with  the A2000 but there's definitely one happening remember an A2000 has roughly similar gaming  performance to an RTX 3050 so it's not a beast of a gaming graphics card but the Epic CPUs are  still struggling to keep up although I will say I think it's going better than I was expectingwow the cyberpunk is going worse than I was expectingthere's so much CPU power but it's just so not the correct type of CPU  power for what we're doing if only cyberpunk could use 64 cores you knowalthough with The Last of Us it can actually kind of keep up with the A2000 I'm guessing  it's got good enough multi-threaded support maybe I don't know but there are games where  the A2000 isn't waiting around for those epic CPUs that's pretty cool  um let's change that uh doing anything with ram takes so so long on this systemoh yeah that easily has to be the most Savage single Channel configuration ever  uh now because we have two CPUs in here I don't think it's gonna work with just that one stick  of ram down here but I'm just testing it just to see maybe maybe maybe it works otherwise we'll  just drop another stick in the top there which will still technically make it a single Channel  configuration but let's see if this works a few moments later yep it's not posting okay  so we need to give the second CPU a stick as well which checks out that makes complete sense  oh that's weird it's only reading one of the two sticks let's see what cpu-z has to say about this  whoa there's like so much latency what in the world okay I don't completely understand what's  happening here but it seems like we're about to do some gaming with one stick of ram between two  CPUs that each have eight memory channels oh yeah there we go that is what you want to see  okay it's it's picking up a little bit now we got 30-ish frames per second there briefly now  that we've been in the match a bit longer it is starting to wake up a bit but we're still we're  still topping out at like 40 frames per second it takes the system a shockingly long time for all  the game assets to load in but once they're all loaded when it comes to a standardized Benchmark  honestly it's not that bad considering what's going on here that is a very impressive result  especially the one percent lows like what it's a similar story with cyberpunk don't get me wrong  the game is borderline unplayable and there's a lot of input lag but when it comes to Raw  Benchmark figures the difference is surprisingly small but I will say it feels a lot worse than  the numbers suggest but apparently the last of us doesn't seem to care about CPU memory bandwidth  very much although it feels terrible there's so much input lag what's interesting is when  you stand still the frame rate's quite stable but the moment you move that happens cinebench is not  as lucky the number is way smaller but still I'm surprised at how well epic handles being  stabbed in the guts which brings me to the end of the video thank you very much be quiet for  sponsoring the video there are some links in the description you should go check out and maybe  check out part one of this video as well and until the next video thank you for watching byethank you