Ultimate PC/MAC Hybrid System 🚀 How it Works! 25Gbe, 84 Threads, 420TB, 192GB

The little air quality meter/clock on the left side of the monitor:

Major PC Components Featured in the Episode:

Major Mac Components:

Potential Upgrades:

Note that the big Noctua fan will fit the large case shown but not most smaller ones. The board is also XL and requires a larger case, so check the dimensions if not using the listed XL case. The cooler will also not clear 8 RAM DIMMS, so I'm using the 128GB kit. If going for 256GB, you'd need a different cooler with this motherboard.

Errata: To bond the two 25Gbe ports they likely need to be on separate Thunderbolt *controllers* so as not to saturate the controller (unless one controller can handle two ports at max speed!)

[rebootretro]

So much overkill, but with such good justification, making it exactly the right amount of overkill. Excellent setup Dave!

[rdsii]

I swear Dave has to be one of the coolest dudes on YouTube!

[nialldaly]

Looks like a fantastic setup, speedy, functional, and very very tidy. Love It

[aazjo]

Glad you mentioned the sound from the air compressor in this video. I commented in an earlier video with the link to a YT video on screaming at your hard drives. Also experienced the same hard drive degradation when a fan at the top of a server rack started making noise. Nearly had our ISP business fail until I found the fan and had it replaced by the CoLo provider.

[rodneysmith]

Fascinating video, always a lot of fun to see just what all money can buy. You quite simply rock Dave, now back to my I3 18-year-old laptop.

[paulhonour]

Ahhh Dave, even if I am not very interested in the subject matter; I always enjoy the presentation! Keep up the good work :)

[themekfrommars]

I absolutely love this combination of unconstrained insight, interest and budget!

[JeremyWorcester]

Thanks for showing off your setup, Dave!

[mistakek]

What an amazing setup Dave. That whole garage is a geeks dream.

[geehaf]

That's a lot of kit and freaking great kit at that. I was half expecting you to have rigged up the Dell screen with 2 computer inputs shown side-by-side and the mouse would move from Mac to PC seamlessly using a network mouse protocol that *magically* would switch audio / usb etc. I so love what you've done overall. Re. LEDs - WOW. I was so happy back in 1986 building a simple flashing red LED (connect to a 9V battery) to put in my Dad's car to pretend there was a "sophisticated car alarm" installed. Ha, I doubt it fooled anybody. How things have changed. Great work dude.

[jeffrub]

All I can say is...holy shit! That's one KILLER setup. My only concern is, I'd hate to troubleshoot it to find one bad cable or a single bad component, (RAM, drive, port.) But still, AWESOME!

[songsan]

Somebody who I would like to emulate in the future. Crazy setup. I have a 10 Gbps network and an 8 port 4K KVM that 3 of them are connected to Windows PCs, 1 to a Win notebook, and 4 to Macs. But my setup is nowhere with what Dave got.

Just to be able to retire, have such a great place to live in, and can do what you want when you want and have hobbies like this. That is amazing.

[skyfox]

Nice setup, I love the attention to detail and cleanness of it.
Video idea, given your extensive knowledge of Windows could you make video on creating a custom ISO and removing the “bloat” or if it’s even worth it. Like one of your drag races with stock windows 11 and a debloated version?

Cheers

[AdrianGonzalez-iijb]

I am not so often jealous of another's set-ups but man, yours is truly unique!

[TrevorReimer]

I use a software called Synergy to use my mouse, keyboard and clipboard from Linux to windows to mac. I have a separate monitor for each computer and the windows machine is a laptop. Works really well for my use case.

[mithrandirthegrey]

I need this in my life. What a fantastic set up.

I'm using parallels to run a Windows VM on my Mac - I rarely need windows for anything so it works nice enough but I just love your bulky set-up. I wonder how much all this cost you?

[jaimeduncan]

That setip is crazy, and I am not talking about the cacophony of lights. Nice work.

[syrusk]

Props on XLR, such a great simple way of cutting noise.

[databang]

I like your IBM tape reel lighting effect, it’s neat-o! You need drum machine!

[iSpike]

G’day Dave. Cool setup. Cheers from Western Australia 🇦🇺👍🏻