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The content details an ambitious and challenging custom PC build, driven by the need for significant computational power for AI or similar tasks, and chronicles the extensive troubleshooting and problem-solving involved in achieving this goal.
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A few months ago, I built my very first
gaming PC. Felix,
it started a whole journey of me
installing Linux, writing my very first
line of code, completely deging, running
my own self-host. But there's one truth
that I can't escape. In order to
successfully ascend, I need more
compute. The less I touch grass, the
more I touch the clouds.
That's right. I'm building a new computer.
So, let's talk specs.
I got the Pro VS X90E.
This motherboard is huge. It says
Nihango Questto Gaido.
Gaido.
That means good luck. Gajun. I got the
AMD thread 7975. There it is. Don't ask
how much I spent to power this. I got
130 W. God damn. I actually got two of
them. Two pisu. Fun fact, these two
generate as much as um an average
Japanese household. I am sorry. Storage. [Music]
[Music]
I spent so much on everything. I had to
save money somewhere. God damn. 96 GB of
RAM. And that's only half as much as I
need. You don't understand. I'm going to
space. I'm not playing around now. GPUs.
Has everyone lost their goddamn minds?
What are these prices? I look
everywhere. I cannot find a GPU that
doesn't cost my soul. And I'm not even
asking for that much for it. I recently
traveled to Sweden and Italy and I
thought, "Oh, I could like get a good
deal then. Maybe Japan is the problem."
No, it's everyone. There were so many
variables to consider when sourcing GPUs
that I was going crazy. I I just like
there's what the I even read a bot. I
put in a script that would scan the
market for GPUs and that way I could
maybe then consider what what the best
option is to get least amount of
screwed. And then the bot kept spitting
out these weird lines of URLs. I'm like
what the [ __ ] is this? What is this?
This means nothing. This is gibberish.
And then I realized oh
these are antibbot measurements. I am
the problem that I'm trying to solve.
God damn it. Ultimately, I settled for these
these
Love Lace RTX 4000. These are not
exciting graphics card. But, but if you
get seven of If you get seven of them,
then it gets interesting. They have 20
GB of VRAM. Great. For cooling, I use an
A all-in-one cooler. Looks a bit
suspicious. The the front panel fell
off. Okay. Now, if Marcia asks, "How
much did you spend on all of this? This
seems crazy." I prepared a script, and I
need you to memorize this in case she
double checks you to verify it. This has
to be rock solid. Okay. All right. Here
we go. Well, it is not about how much it
cost, but how much it saves. You see, a
build of this caliber replaces the need
for cloud computation. At current market
rates for, let's say, $2 per GPU,
multiplied by seven GPUs, we run this
for 8 hours a day, 6 months. Bing, bada
boom, this thing is paid for itself.
Well, you see, the math doesn't lie.
Okay, that would be around $20,160.
Poof, evaporated to the cloud. Now, that
would just be irresponsible spending,
wouldn't it? This is way better. All of
this, I get full privacy. I don't get
the risk of getting throttled. And even
the best, no one can ban me for using
too many slurs. Not that I would do that.
that.
So, yeah, if you could say all that to
Marsia, that'd be great. Thank you. And
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all this.
All right. So, the power draw is a
little bit of an issue. I actually have
to contact an electrician. He came by
today. And uh yes, it looks like I'm
screwed. That's why, of course, I'm
planning to go solar. I need more power.
And uh apparently sourcing weapon grade
plutonium isn't legal. So, this machine
is going green. Last but not least, the
case. My last computer drove me insane.
I had it's a mini ITX or whatever. The
thing annoyed me. That's all that
matters. I was building this thing as a
complete noob. Millimeter difference
made that parts just wasn't compatible.
And that to me makes no sense. If you're
building a computer, parts should be
interchangeable. Where's my goddamn
versatility? I recently changed GPU on
it and poof, the case doesn't fit
anymore. Great. I changed it to an open
air case and I'm like that looks damn
good. I don't have to worry about space
and beautiful airflow. I get that uh
collecting dust is a bit of a problem,
but it's breathing the same air I'm
breathing. It's fine. I don't want to
put all this spaceship hardware into a
shoe box. Okay. So, I'm building my own
case this time so I can have full
freedom for do I want. I have never
built my own case before. This might be
a disaster. We're about to find out.
Let's build this goddamn thing. Welcome
to the floor. This is where I will spend
most of today. I'm planning to use these
aluminum extrusions. The size is 3030. I
have never built with these before. The
reason I picked these is cuz they're
strong, they're lightweight, and
relatively cheap. I got it from a local
Japanese company. So, without further
ado, let's channel my IKEA energy and uh
I'm going to try and get the frame
started. First, I uh tested out the
layout, see what was the best way to do
it. I even made a 3D model of the
planks. Uh so, I started putting pieces
together and I made the frame. It all
looked great. Okay, the frame is done.
And you get my toe in this shot as well.
I think this is going to look nice. I
like the black coating. It looks good.
I'm getting positive vibes. Then I
realized I had to make my own holes into
this metal. You can make your own screw
holes by tapping. I never done this
before. So I was terrible at it.
This method, it required so much
precision to fit the motherboard
properly. And I realized I don't have
that kind of precision. So I had to
figure out a different method. You just
have to use this barbecue secret sauce
and it works like butter. Just got to do
this thousand times. No big deal. I laid
out the PSUs the way I was going to do
it. Originally, I was planning to keep
them on the sides, but I figured a more
optimal version. Okay, the PSU mount is
finished. Best part, I can do that.
And I think for like for what it is, it
fits pretty well.
These are actually meant for fans. I
just need something to hold in case
there's an earthquake. I just couldn't
find actual PSU holders that would
didn't take 6 years to arrive to Japan.
So, I had the my guy written. I think
all in all, not bad. I had to figure out
where how to mount the cooler as well.
With this build, I could just put all
the GPUs together like a giant GPU
cheeseburger, but that's a terrible
idea. So, I'm planning to have one down,
one up, one down, one up, one down, one
up, so that they give space to breathe.
The GPU brackets I bought just didn't
fit at all, so I had to figure out a
different way to do it. Luckily, working
with aluminum is quite easy once you get
the hang of it. You can move anything
around, just flap it about. But it meant
I had to make my own GPU bracket, which
is fine. And I will have to tap that one
because I can just move everything
around. I kept rebuilding it. I kept
thinking, "Oh, it's better if this one
goes there and this one goes there." So,
okay. So, I guess you could say this is
version number three. I keep changing it
cuz I keep finding better ways to
optimize it. It's a lot of extra work,
but I I don't mind doing it, and I feel
like a build like this deserves a proper
thought and attention to it. So, it's
going to be good. I just have to redo
everything for the fourth time. All
right, nearly there. Got the layout laid
out. I just got to drill the holes and I
got to cut these and then after that,
yeah, should be pretty good. But
finally, I knew more or less and it was
I was not prepared for how loud that
was. This project took forever because I
kept running into stupid problems like
screws being the wrong size.
I keep messing up the dumbest things. I
finally have all the standoffs all in
place, but the screws are too big. These
are like M4 or M M5. I I guess I need
4.5 or four. It's so annoying. It's so annoying.
annoying.
Oh my god,
I already waited so long for this. Like,
I can't do anything until the
motherboard is in place. So, I'm kind of
stuck now. I guess I can put on some the
RAM and the SD.
Ah, it's okay. It don't matter. I don't care.
care.
The electrical socket not fitting my
plugs. Everything just took another day
because it's like uh uh and I kept
rebuilding it and changing it. But it
was finally time to put the motherboard
in. I finally get to put in the
motherboard properly cuz I I only had
like five of these. I needed five more.
Who cares? It going in this bad boy. Why
is it so uneven? [Music]
There we go. Okay. Me other mounted
pesos mounted. It was worth the extra
effort cuz I think this is going to come
out looking nice. It's good.
It's good. Is good. Everything good.
Anyway, we're going to install the fans.
I got no top. These are the best of the
base. I'm going to put this on the uh
AIO. I bet the screws are wrong for this
ones, too. They actually might be now
I'm worried about I mounted the storage.
Next up, my memory. Sorry, my storage.
Damn. Damn, son.
Which one is slot one then? I have no idea.
idea.
Okay, you do that and then you slide it.
Boom. And then this you don't have to
peel as well, but I'm going to do it
just for fun cuz I like peeling things.
Question is, do I have to peel all of
them? Even if there's nothing there, I
don't think so.
Nailed it. the ram and I was terrified
to click too hard. I don't know why. You
just have to push with both hands,
dummy. Okay, I'm not going to lie. You
kind of have to shove them in there.
There you go. That was good. That was clean.
clean.
Four out of eight. I realized I didn't
peel off the stickers. Are you kidding me?
me?
I really didn't want to remake all the
mistakes I made on my first computer
build, so I was like, "This time I'm
going to read the instructions.
surprise. It didn't do any difference.
I put in the CPU and then I added the
cooler and it was really terrifying
because the CPU is it's really
expensive. This is too much money for an
idiot like me to handle. But here we go.
Oh god, [Music]
[Music]
it's sliding.
It has a slid. I removed the cover. We
put it down. See, that doesn't look like
it even fits.
Okay, there we go.
The CPU is the most expensive part of
this build, so I was terrified of
messing this up. And of course, I mess
it up. The problem wasn't the how I
mounted the CPU. It was how I mounted
the cooler. I thought I shouldn't screw
it too tight because then it might be
like not good and kill it.
>> Obviously, we don't want to overtighten it.
it.
>> So, when it finally came to booting it,
it just didn't boot because it didn't
detect the CPU cooler because I didn't
screw it tight enough. And it took me a
long time to figure that out.
That's worth a little problem solving
for you. Well, I damn. I didn't expect
it to work to be honest.
You're looking at 600,000 cables and any
one of them could be the problem. I
flashed the drive. I was going to use
Iuntu this time around because it has
better driver compatibility and I don't
feel like installing ours for the fifth
time this year. Sue me. Another issue I
ran into was a lot of the GPUs just
didn't work and I didn't understand why.
You see that? That's the first time I
get more than one GPU showing up. What
did I do differently this time? I don't
[ __ ] know. I don't know.
>> I kept thinking it was the motherboard,
but it turns out I didn't click in the
cables properly. It's like the biggest
noob mistake ever. Just like make sure
the cables are in. The amount of
problems I ran into with this build.
Nothing was smooth. Nothing. So then it
was time to check out the drivers. Guess
what? The drivers don't work either.
Well, why don't you eat my But finally,
all the GPUs were detected and the
drivers worked glorious and I could
finally do what I set out to do, which
is run all these six GPUs that I had
parallel as one strong unit. The problem
is I didn't know a [ __ ] all about tensor
parallelism. Okay, you can only run
tensor parallelisms by the power of two.
I had six. It ain't linear. You know how
there's Nintendo 64? Well, they ain't no
Nintendo 72. You can't run six. You
can't run TP6, but you can run TP4. So,
I actually sold two of the GPUs. Yeah, I
could run Llama 3 70B 70 billion
parameters. That's pretty cool. It's a
very strong model. And I can offload
some of the RAM even on my system RAM.
That's pretty cool. It's a lot of RAM.
Felt like the reasonable and smart thing
to do in my situation. Except that's
what not what I did at all. Gamblers's
fallacy. I have gone this far. I'm not
going to stop now. I got two more GPUs.
God damn it. Eight GPUs
to roll them all. Lucky I went with a
double pesu cuz there's no more PCIe on
this one. I need one more. I don't know
how to describe this feeling, but I feel
like I've done something that I was not
supposed to do. I look at this thing and
I get scared. There's boss music playing
in the background when I'm hooking this up.
up.
Six was okay. Eight is just get it's
just getting bonkers. I don't know. It's ridicul.
ridicul.
I don't know if it's going to run. I
don't know if it's going to work. Will
it detect all the jeep get poos? I don't
know. And you may have looked at my rig
and maybe you're like a super detective
and super genius or something, but my
board has seven slots. How are you going
to fit eight on there? Easy. I had
looked this up. Bifurcation. It
basically means you can split one of
your PCIe slots into half and you can
I'm being ironically cringe but by being
that I'm actually cringe. Okay, let's
just cut that. This is perfect. This
solves all my problem. I just plug in
two GPUs and I'm done with it. I get to
eight. Basically, what that means is I
don't have to buy like a server grade
motherboard that costs $5,000 and change
out my entire CPU and all that, you
know, like the price will just get
ridiculous. So, if I can just change the
settings in my BIOS, I can do it. So, I
completed my goal, which has just been a
goal for no reason. Like, I don't even
care, but I have to do this now. But to
my surprise, my motherboard doesn't do
8x8 by fication. Why? I don't know. Why
not? Why? Why aces? Other cards do it
that you used to do it. Just do it. Just
put it the thing. I looked up everywhere
online. You can get cards that actively
do it for you, but they're super
expensive. That that goes against the
whole plan. You can just do it if you
just add it. I thought I was crazy. I
was like, "Okay, surely no one tries to
really maximize their motherboard like
I'm trying to do now." That's why we
have this issue. I find a thread online.
There are other people out there just
like me. They're crazy. They're all
complaining. Why, Asus? Why? [ __ ] This
pisses me off, man. So, I looked up.
There's so many Chinese cards that say,
"Yeah, we split your in Chinese accent,
but that's racist." So, instead, I do
like a little like, "Yeah, we do it."
Maybe they literally say that. You read
I look for hours for the product and I'm
like, "This is it. I found it, Martia."
And then I read the fine print. It's
like, "Oh, but maybe uh yes, this is gen
4 speed. Don't worry, but maybe it will
be gen 3." I'm like, "How the [ __ ] can
you say that? It either is or isn't. I
got computers and binaries. I'm not I'm
not going to risk it." So, okay, there
are cards that can do it. Maybe cost
like 500, 600 bucks. But I live in Japan
and they got to ship on board and it's
going to take me another 2 weeks and I'm
just like, I just want to finish this
[ __ ] thing. So, I found I found a
guy. Okay, I found a guy that has the
BIOS. He says he has the BIOS. There's a
forum thread and he's like, "Guys, I got
the BIOS. I asked ASUS for the bios."
So, I'm asking the guy, "Give me the
bios." I never thought I would be the
kind of person that looks through forums
and asks someone for their what the what
kind of sketchy [ __ ] is this? I got to
ask people for bios now from a random
person on the internet and in a forum
thread that allegedly has it. That's
where I am right now. And I'm not
finishing this until I completed my
goal. I got the message. He wrote me.
The random person on the internet sent
me their bios. Asus didn't respond
whatsoever. But the guy sent me his
bios. I was so excited like a kid on
Christmas. I flashed the BIOS. The light
kept blinking forever. I was stressing
out. Is it going to work? It's the
random guy that sent me the BIOS going
to work. I checked out his profile, by
the way, and he seemed like a good
person. I I really feel like uh this is
not some elaborate way of hacking my
computer. It just seemed like a someone
that genuinely wanted to help, but who
knows? Finally, the BIOS stopped
blinking and they were done. I booted up
and bada bing bada boom.
>> It actually booted. A go to a zero, please.
please.
>> Uh maybe. Yeah. Okay,
it actually booted. Oh my god. It all
comes down. I I forgot the command cuz
I'm so nervous.
Oh, it worked. Oh,
Oh, yes.
yes. Yes.
Yes. [Music]
Hey, finally.
Okay, now we're going to get a whole I'm
going to get all [ __ ] eight of them
to work and they're going to they're
going to sweat. I'm going to make them
pain. You're going to be in pain. I
cannot mount them like this. I literally
just like panic did everything. I can't
believe it. I did it. I did it. I did it.
it.
Eight.
Everything works. They are all working.
They're working together. Together the
No thanks to you, Acus. Well,
technically, but not really. Okay. I've
been running this for a couple days now,
and it is great. I am so happy how this
turned out. It was worth all the effort.
I had three concerns before the build,
which Oh, Bern is here. Hi, Bern. I'm
wrapping up the video. Do you want to go
through the ending? Number one was the
noise. You can barely hear it, right?
Number two was the power consumption. I
vastly overestimated the power
consumption. Idle, these GPUs sit at 150
watts, which is nothing, right, Bern?
He's enamored by this.
>> Okay, go to your mama. It's too
distract. You're too cute. I'm still
glad I got the double pisu, but it
doesn't need it whatsoever. Uh, the last
was uh temperature. I was really worried
it was going to get too hot, but the
open air case works and the whole
staggered method with the GPUs works. It
all works. TP8 works. I have eight
working GPUs without losing speed.
That's the big caveat. And without
spending a billion dollars. That's the
big caveat. Now I can run all of these
computers together as one. What am I
going to do with that? I don't know.
I just set this goal for myself because
I knew it could be done. And by the
kindness of a random stranger online and
a lot of perseverance, [Music]
[Music]
I made it happen cuz I knew it could. I
knew it was possible. And it feels so
goddamn good. Tech stuff is like Dark
Souls. All right. There's this imaginary
difficulty that you set out for
yourself. People ask, "Why do you play
that game? It's just difficult." It's
like, but that's what makes it fun when
you manage to overcome it. Okay, I know
it's not real. It's just a video game.
It's the same thing. I'm calling this
computer Odysius because I was reading
uh the Iliad at the time, which is one
of my favorite books, and the
translation called Odysius, the Always
Thinking, which is what I want this
computer to do. But the name fit even
better because this thing is cursed. I
mean, look at it. And you know, just
like Odysius, it took a long time to get
home in the end, but we got there. No
matter what obstacles were thrown at us,
we got there in the end. This was
supposed to be a simple video. I hope
you guys enjoyed it. That's it. Thank
you guys for watching and I'll look
forward to share the next project with
>> Oh, thank you, man.
Thank you, Baron.
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