The 1000 FPS Gaming PC

It's a dream come true, you guys.My 1 ,000 Hz monitor is in the mail right now.But I've got a problem.Getting 1 ,000 FPS in games is still nearly impossible.There's Windows bottlenecks, driver bottlenecks, thermal bottlenecks, game engine bottlenecks, and of course, good old -fashioned hardware bottlenecks.Everything is against us in our quest to get the most out of this god -tier gaming display.

But fortunately, I brought some, uh, secret weapons.On this side, I've got SPLAYED! the top overclocker in the U .S.today, and he's gonna help us tune the crap out of the fastest hardware money can buy.Then on this side, I've got thousands of watts of sub -zero cooling goodness, thanks to another overclocking legend, the one and only Fogger, who hand -built the multi -stage chiller that is gonna take our 9950X3D2 CPU to its absolute limits.Look at all the outlets we needed just to power this thing.

It's just a CPU.And finally, our fifth element, Bruce Chillis is back to pump near zero degree water to our 1000 watt RTX 5090 Astral.All right, let's see how close we're getting.Can I get an FPS counter on the screen there?Wow, 30, that's the fastest I've ever done a segway to our sponsor.

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If you somehow missed his past appearances, don't by the way, they were a lot of fun.Splave is back.He's one of our favorite collaborators, and we especially appreciate you coming all the way out here now.that on top of competing for overclocking records, you also run your own system integrator business.By the way, before you got here, we actually ran some benchmarks of our own just to kind of establish a baseline.Pretty good, right?

Sorry, you're trying to hit a thousand FPS?Yeah.We better start overclocking.I mean, that is what we do, isn't it?That's right.

But before we do that, a quick primer on the concept for those that are new to it.Out of the box, every processor in your entire life has been tuned from the factory for a balance of performance, power consumption, and reliability.But here's the thing, when your goal is to sell millions of chips that run as cool as possible with as few defects as possible, you end up leaving a little bit of performance on the table.Well, that's where overclocking comes in.By turning up the frequency, or the clock, we can get extra performance.Though, not without limits.

See, pushing the frequency too high is gonna cause instability, which we can overcome by turning up the voltage, but... that is in turn going to increase power consumption and heat.And also eventually too much voltage is going to simply fry our chip.So it's all a fine balancing act and cooling is of paramount importance, which is of course where this guy comes in.On the table in front of me is a custom -built, three -phase CPU cooling system that was designed to bring even modern power -hungry chips down to minus 100 degrees Celsius.It takes a lot of power, it makes a fair bit of noise, and it wasn't cheap.But when it comes to keeping a chip at a consistent, very cold temperature, which is ideal for overclocking, this thing is pretty much the GOAT.

But, using it comes with some... minor inconveniences chief among them being Condensation as you probably know water and electronics.They don't mix too good.So one of the things that we need to do isthoroughly insulate all of the cold parts of our cooling system from our motherboard itself.

The PCB is entirely coated with liquid electrical tape.Cool.Or plasti -dip, if you're able to get that.And then we have a heater in the back.

It's freaking hot.Like, how many watts is this thing?

I think it's like 300 watts.

Wow.Okay.And that's from Elmore Labs, right?

Elmore Labs.

And that's just to make sure that if our CPU is at minus 100 degrees, we're not getting frost and liquid buildup on the back of the socket.So you can see, we actually shot the video out of order.We've already used it today.That's why it's covered in frost.But you can really see this way where water might drip down right around the CPU and into the socket, which would be bad.

Thank you.That's why we bring them here.Sometimes we finish each other's sandwiches.Want to throw the evaporator on?

Sure.Do you want to throw the GPU on while I'm at it?Yes, sir.Oh, actually, we should probably explain what we've done with this GPU.So also PlastiDipped, this time in a more fresh and fun color.And then what else have you done with it?

Thermal paste.1000 watt bios.Are you gonna explain it?

Are you gonna explain it's your special thermal paste?

I mean you're on the show promote promote this shit.This is the best thermal paste that we have here.It's mine.It's flame one.But go buy it.

That was his secret devious plan all along was to be so bad at repping his own merchandise that I have to step in and do it.

I need a marketing deal.

And then he can clip that and turn it into the home page of his website without telling me.

This, yes.

Uh -huh.Anyway.It has a thousand watt BIOS loaded on it.And yes, it has Splave's thermal compound.Last thing we need is a drive for our OS and games.You've got all of your usual utilities on here.

Maybe we could get a list to some of the really useful ones.We could throw that in the video description for the folks back home.All right, cool.And so with that out of the way, we plug in power and then we wait.we've got to fire this thing up one phase at a time and the whole process takes about like 20 minutes So see you in a bit.All right, the thousand watt BIOS is loaded on our 5090 Stages one and two of our three stage chiller are running although you wouldn't know it based on the 60 degree CPU temps That's because there's actually a heater under the socket to make sure that we don't kill the thing when we plug in Stage three.

All right, here we go.This should start dropping like a flipping rock.We're expecting to hit about minus a hundred degrees Celsius on our CPU.Now all we got to do is fire her up is what I would say, except we haven't actually turned on Bruce Tillis yet.Nice.And the valves are open this time.

Oh, this is the pressure.Oh Jesus.

Now you seemed pretty confident that we're going to be able to do a thousand FPS gaming.

Yes, sir.

He kind of seems confident about everything though Like it's just kind of the demeanor like I don't know how to deal with that You seem confident that you could like curl me. I probably could.See this is what I'm talking about He's unflappable this man, which is why it's so much fun to make him laugh.I'm gonna confess to you I'm not familiar with the CPU function application.What are we doing with it right now?

Now we're gonna just blast some voltage because we have the cooling and We'll just be conservative 6 .1 gigahertz.

Yeah, right Like how conservative people do so we're just smashing voltage and frequency.We're not doing any other fancy tweaks.

No fancy tweaks I mean raw horsepower from talking to Charles about it.

That's one of the major advantages of his monstrosity is that it has such consistent temperature regulation that you just kind of throw a heat load at it, and it automatically compensates.

And when you're cooling at minus 100?you're not trying to get around any sort of thermal headroom, really.Here's the Dust 2 benchmark.This is with a quick and dirty 6100 all -core.

Yes, sir.

Not far off.

Oh my god, we're close.

Look at how close we are.And this is 1080p.

Right, and we don't even know yet if our 1000Hz monitor is going to be able to do it at 1080p.I think only 720p is confirmed, right, Adam?Yeah, so far we only have 720p monitors.Dude, we could have just downloaded that Asus tool and what, blasted it with voltage as he does.That's right.

973 .5!Our 1 % lows are at...That's crazy.

347.

We could pick it up a notch.

Yeah, I think we should.Temp probe reads minus 103, exactly as our Lord Charles intended it.Oh, did you just crank the GPU a little bit?A little bit.Are you gonna explain it at all?

No.We made the GPU a little faster, but it won't really matter because we're at 1080p and we just need CPU frequency.

What are we thinking?6300?

6200?

6200, I think we should try 6200.

6200?

Start with 6200.I didn't think we would be this close this quickly.As tends to happen in extreme overclocking endeavors, It's the last few percent.That's the hardest part Adam.Yeah, so let's uh, let's find some wood to knock on.Dude, this was too easy.

This setup really does make Sub -Zero freaking easy mode, hey?

This is the one person on earth That would utter those words in that order.

Your finance team agrees?

About this purchase.

So what did you buy?

I mean, you know how much I paid for it, right?

Yeah, you're going to buy another one now, right?

Well, that's a separate thing.Oh, OK.OK, apparently we're teasing that.Charles is going to be coming up again, and I'm going to get to build my own Sub -Zero cooling setup with my childhood idle overclocking legend guy.It's going to be amazing.No offense, you're just too young to be my childhood idle overclock.

None taken.

Big moment.We got 7 FPS on average.Adam, I'm not gonna blame you for this, but roll the clip.I didn't think we would be this close this quickly.What's so special about this Asus tool that you're using?

So this one's lightweight, it's not stealing any resources.There's a lot of features too, like you can change the speed during the run with hotkeys and stuff if you want to get crazy.

Dude, okay, that's pretty cool.I've heard of that before like back in the day.I'm talking like 3d mark 2003 You'd have guys kind of like messing with things for certain tests Mid -run because you've got your GPU intensive ones.You've got your CPU intensive ones.You've got particular moments where crashes are more common so you'd kind of like turn it down a little bit and be like kind of playing with the knobs and dials as you go.So I guess that's still a thing then.

100%.

So realistically you're giving it 750 watts right now.So even though it looks like you've turned it down, it's actually turned way up over stock, which would be 600.

Turned it less up.

Now I noticed that you don't have any dedicated cooling or dedicated monitors for your 12 -volt 2x6.Do you... normally pay attention to whether that thing's cooking or gonna fry anything, or does it concern you?

I honestly think you just need to make sure it's plugged in all the way.I think that's a lot of it.As simple as it sounds.

I think that's a really fair assessment.For me, the frustrating part was just, why?We had a perfectly good pin.

I would love for eight pins.I would be fine with that.

Sure.Yeah.Or just give us a 2x6 that it just uses the bigger pins.

Yeah, there you go.

I'd be fine with that too because it seems like that's the only real problem is where we have this contact point here in the pin.

Hey!

Whoa, we're way.How did we go up that much?Were you serious about the GPU being too faster or maybe being badder?

It seems to be the case.Add 100 megahertz to the CPU.Should we underclock the graphics card more?

Yeah, let's do it.Yeah, I mean...Let's see.An unintuitive thing is you can have a system that is stable enough to run a benchmark or even pass a rudimentary stress test, but the performance can go down because it's making errors.They just aren't manifesting as a software crash.So whether we're adding more power limit or whether we're adding more frequency or in the case of the way that Nvidia Pretty much has a black box that manages all that stuff for you.

It is possible that whatever we were doing before was pushing us beyond some threshold to the point where...It was actually harming performance.

I always thought that maybe there would be like a tool that overclockers had where they didn't have to do this.There it is.

You just put a shortcut on your thing and reboot to UEFI, but he just hasn't done it.

I'm a purist.

He's phoning it in.

Keeps my forearm.

Yeah, that seems like a major concern for you.So if you wanted to really pull an all -nighter and figure out exactly which of your cores on a given die are your best performers, you go kind of, hey, I don't need more than four cores for the workload that I'm going for.You can really get in here and fine -tune the crap out of it.We're not doing that.We're just disabling die one, which, have you found there's a tendency for die zero to be the good one?

Yeah.

Yeah, okay.So we're giving her more voltage now that we don't have both dies.Eight cores, eight logical processors.The rest of them are gone.Okay.

You really want six five?Six four?Six seven?Sorry.

Uh, yeah, let's go six four.What made you more comfortable giving it more voltage when we've got just one CCD going?Because it's not like those two dies are even like physically connected to each other, so it's not like there could be a thermal benefit to having one off.

I just wanted to err on the side of too much.So it had a better chance of passing.

So we could have just as easily done that with all 16 enabled.

Probably, yeah.

But sometimes you can discover weird anomalous behavior where different cooling methods will result in a very different curve, even on the exact same chip.

You see the frames?They're absolutely insane now.

We're going to fricking crack 1 ,100, nevermind 1 ,000.Dude, we're...Holy, we could get close to 1200.That's insane.We've seen a high of 1800 on this run already.And this isn't it.

We can't even have the skybox part.Yeah.We could see a 2000 peak by the time this run is done.Good boy.Good boy.20, we cracked 2000 FPS.

Good call on disabling that.

Hey, that's me professional backseat overclocker.And I stood here.No, you were funny.

Yeah.1266!All right, next up.Next up, 1000 on our 1 % lows, okay?

Could we try another game?Sure.You know the kids would love 1000 FPS Minecraft or Fortnite.Candy Crush.

I think this is all I have.

1000 Hertz Candy Crush.

Okay.

Well, that was easy.

Are we even overclocked?

We just, we just opened the game.Did we overclock this?I don't know if we overclocked it or not.I don't know if it's been applied.Okay.Well, that's two games now.

What's next?

God, remember, remember when this was good?

I know, right?You know what, when you go outside, it's actually still pretty good.

Is it?

Damn, girl.

All right, that's not that bad.

See what I'm talking about?You get a little bit of better, like, water in there, and she's like, it's a pretty good -looking game.Hey!There we go.All right.Kind of painfully close.

800 plus.We have built a 1 ,000 FPS gaming PC.All that remains is to get our 1 ,000 hertz monitor hooked up.it.I'm back and it's here.

Is this the first 1000 Hertz monitor?

Not quite.It's the first one I've seen.

And it is pretty crazy.It's so smooth.

This is like freaking early Tom Cruise with the hair in Mission Impossible 2, but like with the voice of like Barry White.Yeah, this is like Santana featuring Rob Thomas.There is some bad news.Contrary to what we were assured multiple times, it does not do 1080p 1000Hz.It only does 720p.

However, we're not that far away.Especially if you watch some of our Computex content, you know that there's a lot of high refresher displays on the horizon.The good news though, That makes it easier for us to hit a thousand FPS.

Let's just check our FPS counter in the top left.Oh wow, it's like, it's almost too responsive Adam.I'm so busy watching the smoothness of the animations.I can't even focus on the game.

To me, there's just a responsiveness that feels almost like unnatural, like it almost took an adjustment and it's almost like not noticeable, but then like try switching back to 60 right now.You want 60?

No, let's go 240.120.

240.It's already considered good.Ew.It's immediately noticeable.See, he's doing bad now.But it's like coming back down, there is that like clarity loss, right?

It's something that I feel like you only notice once you get exposed to like the next highest thing.Like I remember having a high refresh rate monitor and then my roommates in college having like a 60 hertz monitor and then trying to go, like trying to even just watch him play Overwatch in his room.I like couldn't tell what was going on.

100%.

Right?I got so used to like having that information that even now 240Hz, while still a great gameplay experience, it just doesn't feel the same.

It doesn't feel like an extension of your body like 1000Hz does.Like I know Blurbusters has been on this thousand Hertz holy grail for years at this point, wanting to push everyone from display makers to game developers to like pursue a thousand Hertz.Consider me converted and this is even without Instantaneous pixel response times like we would get from something like that like an OLED.

Yeah, right like this is LCD 1000 Hertz and comparing to the OLED that we were running the benchmark on it's I would say it's pretty tough to tell whether the added frame rates making any impact Compared to the you know clarity and pixel response times of an OLED.Yeah, so too many FPS is just breaks this game Apparently we did find that some games if they have a v -sync setting When you turn V -Sync on, it'll just go, oh, your refresh rate's 1 ,000.I guess I have to render 1 ,000.So that might be a solution here.

Dude, I don't think there's a game that I could not enjoy more at 1 ,000 Hertz than I would at less than 1 ,000 Hertz.Not because you need it to perform your best.I don't think realistically I actually performed any better in Counter -Strike for having a 1 ,000 Hertz monitor.But just because it's just, it's so good.Smooth, it's just so smooth.

Also, we were running all of this stuff at 6 .2 gigahertz all core, 1 .4 volts.That tells me that in terms of the gaming machine that you're gonna need to power these kinds of frame rates, we're a long ways off.

We really are quite a ways off.

They're not that far in like Counter -Strike and eSports games, not that far.True.Alright, you have to go.I have to go.

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If you guys enjoyed this video, why not check out the one where Splave brought in a consumer grade tuned PC that is realistically almost this fast.