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Well I needed a new PC to replace my 4/5 year old Windows 7 machine, so it seemed sensible to do a collaboration video to build something amazing!

I also thought I might need to fill the week while I get the ROS Navigation part of the Really Useful Robot finished, but that is working fine, so I just need to get the video finalised.

This one goes out publicly on Tuesday 3rd Nov

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Building the Ultimate 4K Editing & Gaming PC - RTX Super

Thanks to @GeekaWhat for sorting out this amazing RTX 2070 Super based 4K Editing and Gaming PC. I'll be using it for CAD, Editing, maybe Deep Learning, and also a little bit of VR & gaming. You can support me on Patreon or buy my Merchandise: *************************** Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/xrobots Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/james-bruton *************************** Affiliate links - I will get some money of you use them to sign up or buy something: *************************** Matterhackers 3D printing supplies: http://www.matterhackers.com?aff=7500 Music for your YouTube videos: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xrobots *************************** Other socials: *************************** Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xrobotsuk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xrobotsuk/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/xrobotsuk *************************** CAD and Code for my projects: https://github.com/XRobots Huge thanks to my Patrons, without whom my standard of living would drastically decline. Like, inside out-Farm Foods bag decline. Plus a very special shoutout to Lulzbot, Inc who keep me in LulzBot 3D printers and support me via Patreon. HARDWARE/SOFTWARE Below you can also find a lot of the typical tools, equipment and supplies used in my projects: Lulzbot 3D Printers: http://bit.ly/2Sj6nil Lincoln Electric Welder: https://bit.ly/2Rqhqos CNC Router: https://bit.ly/2QdsNjt Ryobi Tools: http://bit.ly/2RhArcD Axminster Micro Lathe: http://bit.ly/2Sj6eeN 3D Printer Filament: http://bit.ly/2PdcdUu Soldering Iron: http://bit.ly/2DrNWDR Vectric CNC Software: http://bit.ly/2zxpZqv Why not join my community, who are mostly made up of actual geniuses. There’s a Facebook group and everything: https://www.facebook.com/groups/287089964833488/ XROBOTS Former toy designer, current YouTube maker and general robotics, electrical and mechanical engineer, I’m a fan of doing it yourself and innovation by trial and error. My channel is where I share some of my useful and not-so-useful inventions, designs and maker advice. Iron Man is my go-to cosplay, and 3D printing can solve most issues - broken bolts, missing parts, world hunger, you name it. XRobots is the community around my content where you can get in touch, share tips and advice, and more build FAQs, schematics and designs are also available.

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Anonymous

Lol, can't believe you nearly dropped the thing off the bench at the last moment! Looks very nice though. Shame you couldn't get a 30 series RTX though.

XRobots

I think that card will be fine for me! I think the drop went really well with the SSD in the eye!

Simon

The 30th series cards are not worth it anyways. I would wait for nvidia to produce on TSMC and buy the 30th series successor

Anonymous

pretty sure that case is inspired by a Star Wars ship or possibly 2001 space odyssee

Anonymous

You might want to add in a regular mechanical HDD because SSDs fail all the time. I've had about 4 or 5 go bad on me over the years and it's impossible to recover your data once they do go bad. Regular HDDs are still the safest long term storage solution.

XRobots

I do daily backups, although I could just use the SSD for the current edit.

Anonymous

Yes but does it run Among Us smoothly?

Anonymous

Absolutely. Yeah then no problem there. I personally do a backup every month for my game dev studio. Running with both M.2 and a SSD. But I have changed the documents folder to use my mechanical HDD. It's something to consider anyways.

Neil Devonshire

I remember buying and AMD DX4 100 for £250, that was a huge upgrade from the DX2 66, I had an SX33 also and I too kept the turbo switch turned on to say 33. I remember the test for speed being dir/s to see how fast it was 😀

Neil Devonshire

My 2TB SSD stopped on me and I found a way to recover it, apparently they overheat and stop functioning. I had to power it up without the data cable plugged in for 30 mins, switch it off for 1 min, re-power it for 30 mins, then again 1 min switched off. When I connected it back up all was working with no data loss. I found this solution online. Have you still got the drives? You may be able to recover the data. My one now sits in a HDD heatsink caddy

XRobots

I remember buying a co-processor for my 486 SX 25 which was a whole other chip you plugged into the motherboard. It was about £150 in around 1993/4 - biggest waste of money ever!

Neil Devonshire

Maybe they needed LED's on them ;-D, although LED's back in the 90's pulled 20mA and very dim

Anonymous

I still find it amusing that it was a turbo button while you would only use it to "unturbo" when software could not handle the amazing new speeds. Would be a cool project build a turbo button and display for modern systems. Should be feasible as overclocking is done in software nowadays if I understand correctly. No practical reason, just because it is possible. Display would need 4 digits though with current speeds :)

Anonymous

Never really cared for RGB lighting in the PC, but this looks actually cool. I have to keep it in mind for next PC build. Can you control the RGB lights through some API or does it only do predefined patterns? BTW back in the day when I did my internship we had bracelets with cables when assembling PCs to avoid static electricity damaging components. Is that not a thing anymore?

XRobots

Yeah I'm not sure why they called it Turbo since everyone left it in 'turbo' mode most of the time anyway ;-)

Anonymous

Yeah you need that coprocessor to run AutoCAD, that's another expensive piece.