I Built a $7,221.51 PC (Worth it?)

Yeah, so my last video really broke my PC, it finally happened, it finally happened, yeah, it's over, so 12, you know, how is your PC broken? Listen, after I uploaded that video, my PC kept freezing. I don't know why my beautiful PC 490. no problems, it just froze, I mean, like that, but really, and after trying to fix it, I messed everything up, it got worse, I mean, I wouldn't even get past the BIOS screen, this It's not even Windows, bro, this is it. running a USB bro this computer bricked it damn so something here is really broken and I'm going to take that as a sign from the universe to build the PC of my dreams, now a little hint that I stole the 490.

Starting Of this, we are building a dual 4090 workstation. I'm either a genius or an idiot at this, so I took out a small loan, picked out all the PC parts, ordered it, and 20 days later it was time to build it. thing, yes sir, I'm excited, I've been without a PC for almost 20 days, we don't care, so needless to say I'm feeding off a PC, it's been 20, it's been 20 days without a PC, bro, I have work to do. Alright, here are the specs, we have the AMD ryzen 9 7950 x 16 32 threads $540, then we have two 4TB m.2 SSDs $572, damn, and then this one here is the bad boy that will power the power supply of 2 490s A600 watts.

Seic, it's rated Platinum Platinum and, uh, that's going to cook bro, hopefully, don't let me stop there, boom, and then I bought this NZXT AIO liquid cooler, it's got a little screen, so get a little creative with it. that. I apologize. $282 and then the most expensive motherboard I've ever bought, that bad boy, it was $290 um, looks good, I like this one though. I'm trying to go with a white color scheme like black and white with a little bit of blue and uh this. something looks good, this looks good and then somehow the cheapest thing I bought was this beautiful lean Lee case, we got Corsair ddr5 ram, beautiful 64GB of that bad boy, two devices for 221$, we got some fans and miscellaneous things and last but not least the RTX 490 right here $2,312 and that was one of them and then I think I'm going to throw up H this like you're a broke boy just say it.

I hope it's

worth

it because CU after counting everything, including the old GPU, this bad boy cost $7,221. Hey, can I get a dollar? Just give me one. That's all I need. PR for the bank account. I mean, at this point, the damn PC better edit the videos for me please, but, all joking aside. I'm actually really excited because two RTX 490s is ridiculous. I mean, it's such a weird build that you haven't even heard of it and let's see how much faster two RTX 490s are over one that is already the fastest graphics card out there.

I can get two of them, so I started building this like a kid at Christmas. Now I've

built

maybe five PCs in my life, some for friends and some for myself, but this is by far the most expensive PC I've ever

built

. and it's a little emotional because every time I've had to build a computer I've always had to budget and buy certain things and then upgrade later, so I build the best of the best out of the box with whatever I could. dreaming is incredible. I am very, very grateful. Blessings, but construction was going very well up to this point.

I hadn't had any problems other than the fact that it was incredibly messy. I mean, there were so many cables and that's it. thanks to the damn RGB fans, the fan hubs and the damn RGB controllers, I don't know if I'm done talking about that yet, but then came the Moment of Truth when installing the Dual 490s, starting with the first one and then It's About Time Of the second, you know, I had twice as much. I mean, hopes were high, honestly, I didn't even do much research on this. I had a 16600 watt power supply, 2490, what could go wrong.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, no. no F I have made a serious and continuing error in my judgment that it didn't sound very good, it didn't fit completely in the slot and I was sitting there wondering why it didn't go in completely is because it didn't fit, I mean it had a slot, I mean it these are huge cards, they both take up three slots in the pcie shrouds and compared to the one above you can see I'm missing one, which was just blocking the GPU. Going all the way in I think the worst part is you can see I have three slots but my motherboard has an m.2 in there so it pushed everything down.

It's not even a joke. I was actually devastated and what made it worse is that I was literally sick for 4 days and I had started building this PC like a week ago so the excitement I had at the beginning was waning. I just wanted a PC man, that's all I wanted bro, but Nick A3 always taught me to never back down, ever. He had too much in this, well, he had to see it through, this was the game plan. I can put a hole in the box right here where Mark is or I can just shave the 4090 a little bit.

I'm uh oh. Oh my god, brother, oh hell, let me get off the bus. I've officially lost my way and lost my warranty because I just chopped this into a $2,000 GPU, call me a handyman because this G looks pretty good, not going to lie. That OEM is there baby, but will it fit? Now it worked, yes sir. I was very excited, so that means that after getting sick, having an emotional rollercoaster, buying a $2000 graphics card, and spending almost a week building this, I was ready for its first boot, Sir. Have mercy I'm about to burst, luckily I didn't have any problems running this and other than looking at the back of the PC you would never know what I did to it, the PC looks amazing and the color scheme turned out exactly how I I imagined it and my animated logo is the icing on the cake, but we still have to answer the question of how fast the dual RTX 490s are.

Now obviously we are not talking about games because the second 490 will never be used in games, unfortunately games are not supported. but that's not why I built this PC on my main channel. I do all kinds of game concepts and most of them I do in Blender and Blender uses path tracing so we're not talking about FPS frames per second, it invented a whole new category. fpm frames per minute so let's compare the speed between 1490 versus two okay I don't have anything on this PC yet so I downloaded a Blender scene and for some context I have the Mac sample set to 256 and it's also in 4K resolution and 1490 managed to render this realistic scene in 54 seconds 1490 in 4k 54 seconds, then I enabled two 490 and it took a whopping 33 seconds, we went from 54 seconds, almost 1 minute, to just 33 seconds, literally like half the time, making the Dual 490 48% faster. about just one and to give you some context of how fast this is, you're going to have to buy Buckle because this scene here that you're watching, done by my friend Mr.

Shuda on a 3080 TI, was going to take 6 to 7 minutes to render. , no, no, no, not for everything, just for a single 4K frame, what the hell, and if we do a little math, this clip we're watching would have taken 21 hours and 40 minutes. render and the Dual 490 would have taken that render time from almost a day to just 1 hour and 43 minutes; It's actually crazy to think about, so back to the original question: was this update

worth

it? We've established that it's 48% faster than my last PC, which to some may seem like it's not worth the price and I don't know if I'm talking about the copy, but the time savings really grows over time, see if I'm rendering a 10 second clip.

I'm already saving about 1 hour and 45 minutes over this single 490. Now you do this many more times. Eventually I'll save like hundreds of hours. So it will eventually pay for itself right now, although you know what they say.