Compensator 2.0

[GodAtum]

I'm sorry to say to everyone you where duped, its not a ABSOLUTELY No Compromises build. the motherboard is not the best money can buy, that would be the ASRock X99 WS-E/10G at £700.

[MographMark]

So I watched the video, and signed up just to make this post. 

 

We already knew the outcome was going to be less than great for gaming when we saw the 4 NVIDIA cards. I don't think rigs like this should only be tested with games, and LTT is missing out on a huge opportunity to put these machines through the fires of something far more demanding than videogames, being creative software.  
Where are the Adobe AE benchmarks?  What about Octane render in Cinema 4D?

 

 You don't understand how flaccid I get as a 3D motion graphics guy to see these machines being built with batshit crazy amounts of CUDA tech, only to see it be tested in Witcher 3 or Tomb Raider, only to run like garbage, only to see the video end, and know how much potential there WAS inside of that batshit crazy machine.

 

Can Linus start doing content geared towards creatives?  An AE benchmark?  Or a GPU rendering benchmark?  Something that will really put these machines through their paces?

 I know that LTT is looking for video content ideas.. There you have it. You'd be attracting creatives to the channel with new content, expanding your audience.  We'd REALLY be able to see what these machines can do.  It's a Win Win Win for everyone and everything.

[yuyoyou]

The world needs more Luke builds.

[maxtch]

I wonder how good Compensators work under LINPACK Supercomputing Benchmarks. LINPACK in single-precision mode can exercise all the hardware onboard I think.

[Helly]

Since the 4 cards dont work in SLI and is actively blocked by Nvidia why even put them in there? If you want 4 cards that can actually work in games why not try an AMD GPU setup for once? I would have loved to see 4 RX 480's in there... or even 4 Fury(x)'s. At least you have a chance then to use them all in games.

 

I also agree with the above mentioned AE benchmarks and other rendering stuff. Would love to see the difference between Nvidia and AMD there to.

 

Please dont respond with the numbers to what you think will come out of it or a link to some other channel doing this.... Not the point, i want LTT to do this as well...

[porina]

1 hour ago, Helly said:

Since the 4 cards dont work in SLI and is actively blocked by Nvidia why even put them in there?

Because they can?

 

To my understanding 4 way SLI is enabled for some benchmarks, just not for regular gaming. In theory all the cards would still be available for non-SLI multi-GPU usage.

[Nardella]

Where has the new intro music featured in this video gone? I liked it!

[alizaidi2000]

Definitely, compensates for something... 

[runvnc]

Things I Liked About This Video

• Showed many details of build including simple mistakes that could trip other people up
• Explained thought process in detail
• Showed details of issues that came up with the configuration

Things I Did Not Like About This Video

• Did not publish any benchmark scores online, only showed one screen in the video
• Foregone conclusion -- knew the GPUs would throttle, did not try to cool

If you are going to spend that amount of time and that much money worth of components, fine if you want to demonstrate the issues, but I think it is wrong not to even try to make the graphics work right.  So add a cooling solution for the GPUs, maybe take one or two out if it can't work, even change the case if necessary.  Also publish the benchmarks for the SSDs and what RAID config.

 

Maybe the specs and benchmarks were linked to somewhere, I did not see them, just saw the one 3d benchmark screen in the video.  Even if your point is that this is a way to waste money, without seeing the details of specs it is hard to know what you _should not_ buy.  I see the product links but would be nice to just have a list of specs also.

 

Overall, thanks for making this video, expensive builds are interesting for me.