This is not a CPU for running a game. This is a CPU for running 20 instances of the same game

10:55 It's so weird that, despite their great quality stuff, beQuiet still hasn't figured a way to allow access to the front filter that doesn't require physically violating the front panel.

Ripping the graphics card out of the slot while the fans still spinning is such a gigachad move.

dawid's videos are slowly becoming the ramblings of a crazy man, but it's great content, keep it up!

This video is an exremely accurate insight of what goes through my mind when I'm 4 hours deep into diagnosing a PC that won't collaborate

Here's the hindsight post I probably should have made for you when you started this. Server (and often Workstation) boards have a tiny computer on-board your computer, so you can both remotely manage and poweroff/on the computer. This is the IPMI system, and it provides a full (albeit incredibly basic) GPU for the system. They often also have remote keyboard video and mouse, so you can manage the server console remotely too (This is the iKVM). The on-board GPU is also exposed to the operating system underneath, so you can boot a barebones server without a discrete GPU installed, especially useful in blade or 1U server systems. This has been a standard part of servers and server motherboards since at least 2010, probably much before that. When you plug in the computer, the IPMI system will boot, using it's on-board graphics (connected to the VGA port) and USB connectors and start initializing on-board and PCIe devices, checking CPU and memory, detecting connected hard-drives and RAID arrays and the like. This is what the LED dance is, incidentally, it's the IPMI running it's (very slow, as it's not got a fast CPU yet) boot process and POSTing. You can also watch the IPMI boot process and interact with it while it happens, using PS/2 (if available) or USB and the VGA port. You can't actually start the system 'til the IPMI is booted and ready, so first poweron boots are very slow, but servers are meant to be powered on 24/7, so this initial slow first boot is accepted. Once the IPMI is done checking everything, and everything's passed checks, it starts waiting for connections on the network, or for a signal from the front panel connectors to start up the computer proper. The system isn't booted at this point, it's still powered off, so the PCIe card isn't initialized yet, hence no signal (and seemingly no POST). Chances are the IPMI had detected an issue on startup, and was trying to tell you about it on the VGA port, but you weren't watching there. :D The error message you were getting with certain (AMD?) GPUs was that the IPMI couldn't access the framebuffer of the GPU, so it can't initialize the display for the remote control system. If you disable the iKVM in the IPMI BIOS, that message will go away, though you do lose the capability to remote control the system (not that you're using it anyway) and you should then be able to use any card you like.

With the slots, it's possible that the one you had the GPU in to start was wired up to the second CPU that you didn't have installed at the time. It's common for things that use PCIe lanes to be split between the two CPUs, as far as I understand.

Dawid: “Buckle your panties” Me: *Firmly secures chastity belt in preparation*

This is absolutely calling for a Level 1 Tech x Dawid colab

The EPYC socket screws HAVE NUMBERS FOR A REASON! And its not the engineers numbering them from most to least favorite.

It would be cool to see you try and run beam NG drive with like 50 traffic cars. Just about the only gaming scenario I could imagine actually using all those cores.

Try updating both BIOS and IPMI. Might help with the graphics cards. Also, IPMI is a pretty neat feature.

not gonna lie i screamed when he hot swapped that gpu

You really filled the bingo list of the struggles with repurposing used server hardware. Heres some things I've learned while doing so that might help others: 1. Always use the mesozoic period port for basic setup, then add all the extra hardware like pcie devices later. 2. You can use any GPU you want if you keep the onboard video enabled. Only downside is that will only get an output once windows is loaded, so you'll have to connect to the VGA port to get post information and change bios setting but that usually isnt an issue once everything is setup. Hope this helps someone with their struggles.

You should try running Crysis entirely on the CPU using its cores as a GPU, and benchmark it against a GT710.

Kudos for getting a precision torque driver ☺☺ ... And yeah, trying to get old server configurations going can be a real pain, since a lot expect for trained technicians to install ...

Dude you are by far one of the best tech reviewers on KZfaq lmao

The interesting saga continues! Let's have a Part 3 shall we - updated BIOS, a more gaming suited GPU than the A2000, better RAM that is not faulty (and all 256GB of it as well) and see what happens!

Dual socket CPU setup has always been crappy for gaming. When you have so many CPU core count, disable SMT, and enable all 8 memory channels , of course 1 populated CPU socket. 14:10 Your CPU cannot take 3200Mhz RAM, only 2666Mhz max because you are running on Zen 1 Epyc.

I have never seen Dawid actually pissed, this was hilarious! 🤣

this feels like a flashback to early pc building...when nothing worked together, there were barely any "standards", and it was generally way more of a hassle to even just get stuff running. Now you just slap some random crap in a case and it all just plays nice

Imagine Dawid's misadventures with Epyc being written as an actual epic poem, with Dawid in his full Dawidness reciting it.

Im so glad you got it to work and looking forward to more content on this

But i DID told you that in the comment on the first video. I even called it as such - a mesozoic video output on the motherboard! And you can use any PCIe port for video - the problem it did not work first time is that you were booting with one CPU and the slot you installed your graphics card is connected to the second CPU which was - you know - missing!

I don't know why, but seeing him frustrated makes my day a little better.

Dawid never fail to amaze me with his crazy tech ideas. Don’t get me wrong all of his videos are genuinely funny at the same time I’m learning.

Im glad for this new video, the “to be continued “ came true.

this has been an entertaining set of videos watching the struggle unfold before my delighted eyes and not being the one that wants to jump out a window because of it has given me a great sense of enjoyment! Thanks Dawid!

You can use any GPU you want if you keep the onboard video enabled. The downside is that you will only get an output once windows is loaded(and the driver is installed), so you'll have to connect to the mesozoic period port to get post information and change bios settings but that usually isnt much of an issue once everything is setup. Hope this helps. I would love to see some benchmarks with a 7900XTX or RTX 4090.

YAY - the follow up video- I was bitting my nails off for this episode!!!

That case looks so nice. The versatility and cable management of the fan bracket in the front makes it pretty tempting.

Absolutely love thay theres a continuation of a already great video

It causes me physical pain to see that venerable monster used for gaming. That said this was entertaining so I'll forgive it. Might want to check for bios updates to see if they updated the graphics configuration and maybe flash the IPMI to the most recent as well. You might want to check the motherboard manual also, the slot you weren't getting video with might have been tied to the CPU you didn't have installed. You were also gimping the CPU's hard by only using 1 stick of ram because of how the CPU > memory worked with gen 1 Epyc.

@DawidDoesTechStuff Before you run out and buy a lot of 3200 MHz memory for this system i will recommend you to read the manual again. First to be able to support 3200 MHz it have to be a revision 2.x motherboard and still then it will not run at 3200 MHz as that need Epyc 7002 cpu's and you got the Epyc 7001 model so max for this setup will be 2666 MHz. Page 31 and 32 of the manual explains this. You can also try to swap the position of jumpers JI2C1/JI2C2 so if they are enabled then try to disable then and if disabled then enable them and try the other GPU's in the system again. The jumpers there are the PCI SMB (System Management Bus) jumpers and the manual talk about improve system management for the PCI slots if they are enabled. You can find them in the jumperrow down by the sdcard. Page 44 in the Manual takls about this.

"I hate this motherboard so much" welcome to professional level AMD.

Dawid, you always remind me of an exasperated but powerful wizard locked in a tower of his own creation, making things explode and gesticulating wildy out of the tower windows...and we love you for it

i know this is a shot in the dark, but you miss 100% of the shots you dont take. i am willing to offer you 5 dollars for this incredible pc. im making an animated show and this would allow me to start the actual animation process.

Why the wrech have C U M buttons 😭😭

Awesome content. Love that you take me along with you on the crazy train. Need a lil escape from my own house of crazy. Lol

Finally! Been a week. Glad to see you finished the video. I was curious about this

i love the buttons on that wrench

To get to the ipmi function you could have just plugged in to your router then used another computer on the same network and as long as its on the same subnet you should be able to use a tool like angry IP scanner to detect it. From there you could have configured it.

Are you having fun David. Well I am sure having fun watching all your videos. Great job on all the PC stuff, always interesting waching you, keep up the great w0rk!

You make such great content. I love watching your videos, maybe it's because of your charisma that makes it so interesting.

I refuse to believe there is no way to put an awesome GPU with that. Life, uh, finds a way. Also, it would be interesting to see how you manage so much hardware in your apartment, I'm curious how many you have actually built and how many are into pieces.

I am so glad I always start with the minimum when building a system. I had one of these but of course on 1st boot I just had a CPU, RAM and VGA.. So I was oblivious to the fact that you HAD to actually use the VGA to begin with.... Luck favors the un-brave?

Dawid, I love how you combine comedy and tech. You never fail to make me laugh. Keep making great content!

You can find your device IP is on your network router/switch just a heads up if you are unable to get into a system to see on a OS unless the NIC isn't communicating just for future reference. I am glad you got into the bios through the VGA port I had a system I worked on that was the same way and I had no idea like you did until I randomly found a random forum post about this being a thing and I have no idea why. As for the video card, I'm not sure how your board work but it may be a bios settings you can change or you might need a bios update to try but also some vendors are known to put a white list of device id's they allow to work on their board and may even require a modified bios to even accept something else. Either way I'm happy to see you were able to post and work with it at least it was fun seeing the follow up to this.

Is it just me who goes mad when seeing Dawid tighten does screws? I mean, after 5 million tries, he has still not seen that there is an order to tighten them labeled, 1, 2 and 3.

I miss green PCBs for PC parts. Green PCBs just look right to me.

Aah, useful bit of info Dawid about booting and the VGA port, Thank You.

Among my favourite projects/videos from Dawid yet. The struggle to get the hardware running was both hilarious and fascinating.

The intel boot message is for booting over the network (PXE) :) If you’re using a network router you can always find the IP that way

I have to love this video. Dawids comments through the video make it so worthwhile. Keep up the great content.

16:30 You have 1/16 chance to leave not working stick of RAM in slot. Murphy Law: Yes.

I think BeQuiet got their money worth:)

This setup is way slower than 1 Threadripper with 64 or 96 cores .... Makes no sense.

Dude your videos are hilarous always looking forward to seeing them. keep up the good work 👍👍👍👍👍

Dawid realising that enterprise hardware might be a little different to consumer hardware.

Finally I can use 32 Bit Windows optimally

i have been waiting for this dawid your vids all ways make my day

Been watching for a while, and this has got to be one of Dawid's better rage rants. I love it

So about a torque wrench: it is actually not required. It is provided though to protect not the cpu from excess pressure, but those tiny screws from stripping. The way you screw in the socket for an epyc cpu (the way we do, at our company, we build lots of epyc and xeon servers) is to tighten them to a full stop (as they are designed to) in written order, and that's all

You’re the only tech guy I trust. Unlike the psychopath with the security blanket…

I’m in love with this video ❤it reminds me of when I finished building my personal rig last year. I have the the amd Ryzen R9 5950x and added that to my dark rock pro 4 cpu cooler and dark power pro 12 1k watt. I’m missing the silent base 802 case to bring it to a final close. One you go beQuiet everything else is noisey(outside Noctua)!

On behalf of all gamers, I say; WHY DIDNT DAWID BENCHMARK MINECRAFT?!?!

5:50 man using servers to game seems like a great idea but it totally is not, u need all sort of manuals and propietary software for this to work like a regular pc and 9 times out of 10 nobody knows whats going on except the 10 people that designed the thing lol, this guy is a god tier tech boy to make this work

I don't think I have ever seen Dawid this mad before 🤣

I have this case, about to buy a second for my SR3 Dark build. Best case hands down!

love this series of vids, used server hardware is cheap until you discover how much time it takes to get things working

I think I like this side of Dawid, the slow decent into madness and rage lol

“All da ram” 😂 I can’t, this was awesome.

"Yes mom, I need this to complete my online homework." - Tsun Zu

4:16 It is actually a PXE ROM for network card installed in the system - which is likely to be an Intel one. PXE is used to boot operating systems from the network. It is actually really cool and it might be a fun video!

I can feel how you feel and the frustration it can cause. A lot of information on the net is so incomplete or outright wrong.

LOVE UR COMPUTER CONTENT TEACHES ME SO MUCH ABOUT PC

the comedy is beautiful and a nice touch to this channel

Loved this... David is the most underrated texh KZfaqr out there

Dawid, we just love your content. Yourself and your channel are what we aspire to. Keep up the awesome content.

50 Shades of Dawid!! Love it!

Reminds me of the crazy things we used to do to get junk computer parts to fit together to form a usable system back in the late 90's with my friends.

Gratz on your success, Cheers.

The sight of Dawid actually losing his shit around 7:40 is pricesless. Thanks again for showing us that you're actually human.

I enjoy how you handle sponsorships, Dawid. There's no question either visually or through audio that it's a sponsorship bit.

Pro tip: Dual cpu workstation/server motherboards are always super picky about where certain PCIecards are installed due to how the PCIe lanes are divided between each CPU. On the Asus Z9PE-D8 the 7x (full size 16x) PCIe are divided between each CPU but not like how you'd imagine. Be sure to always look at the block diagram of the system to figure out how the PCIe lanes are allocated to each CPU.

Please do more Dawid Struggles With Enterprise Hardware videos, they are very funny.

I always thought the noob behavior was just an act but now I know its for real! Awesome!

I wish i was watching this 4 months ago. Ive never yelled at my screen until this day when i saw the first video and was screaming "VGA PORT USE THE DAMN VGA"

You make laugh mate... So funny genuinely

omg dawid showing his lack of homelabbing skills with this one, great video!

I remember way back in the day, before multicore CPUS, having a dual CPU machine was always a dream. That sexy dual Athlon MP finally made it a reality. Still something awesome about seeing the multiple CPUs in a system.

"Dawid does Tech Stuff" more like "Dawid Does Stuff - and sometimes it works" 🤣 I love you man, a plesant change to the dry and nerdy tech channels making up most of my watched content.

You have more patience than me Dude, I would have done my version of Riverdance on that board then thrown it out of the window, kudos to you for sticking with it.

I love BeQuiet! So the amount of shilling is so fun to me XD. Thanks as always for the awesome videos, Dawid!

good job keep up the great content

Dawid is slowly becoming Obi-Wan Kenobi before our very eyes.

It's incredible how different PC and Server guys are.

Thank you for suffering for our entertainment. It makes me feel so powerful.

This is the funniest video ever 😂 That motherboard got destroyed.

His passion toward the mobo is painfully relatable