2009 Ultimate High End Gaming PC ( Quad Crossfire vs Quad SLI, sort of )

About a year ago, when we published the 2008 High-End Gaming PC, we teased this project. It isn't easy eclipsing the SLI vs Crossfire breakdown we did last year, but we tried nevertheless. What if in each setup we had four instead of two cards, and achieved the ultimate dream machine from back in the day? What we didn't anticipate is that we'll encounter more problems than Intel did in recent years. We welcome you to witness our arduous journey in the 2009 Ultimate Gaming PC Build. Song in the video: Greatest of All Time https://freemusicarchive.org/music/be... Artist: Beat Mekanik https://freemusicarchive.org/music/be... As found on Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/ Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Articles and images used in the video: Tech Power Up: ATI Radeon HD 5970: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs... NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition Review: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nv... Tech ARP - The NVIDIA GTX 295 https://archive.techarp.com/showartic... #benchmark #pcgaming #2009 #ultimate #retrogaming #bestbuild #highend TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:23 2008 High-End Gaming PC 00:33 Motherboard: Asus Rampage II Extreme 01:06 CPU: Core i7-975 Extreme Edition 01:52 CPU Cooler: Endorfy Fera 5 02:00 Memory: 4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz 02:25 Storage: Kingston SSDNow 80GB 02:50 Storage: Gigabyte SSD 480GB 03:05 The Graphics cards 03:29 GPU: 2x nVidia GeForce GTX 295 05:06 GPU: 2x ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB 06:20 GPU Comparison 06:30 Power Supplies 06:38 PSU: LC Power LC1000M 1000W 06:59 PSU: NZXT C1200 1200W 07:13 PSU Disclaimer 07:32 List of Parts 07:40 The Build Highlights 08:37 First Problem: SSD 08:51 Setup and Testing GeForce cards 09:05 Second Problem: GeForce cards 10:55 3-way SLI Possibility 11:10 Testing Radeon cards 11:42 Third Problem: Radeon cards 13:03 Benchmarks 13:16 Benchmark: Crysis 13:53 Benchmark: Mafia II 14:24 Benchmark: Tomb Raider (2013) 14:54 Benchmark: Wolfenstein New Order 15:14 Benchmark: Witcher III The Wild Hunt 15:40 Synthetic benchmarks: 3DMark, Unigine Heaven, CPUZ 16:12 2008 High-End Gaming PC Upgrade results 16:20 Benchmark: Doom (2016) 16:26 Benchmark: Shadow of The Tomb Raider 16:32 Benchmark: Horizon Zero Dawn 16:40 Benchmark: Cyberpunk 2077 16:44 Conclusion 17:39 Teaser