Back in October, YouTube tech reviewer LinusTechTips created a single PC that was powerful enough to run two separate, high-end gaming machines, each with their own monitor, keyboard, and mouse. But it seems that wasn’t enough for the PC fan, as he’s upped the ante and created a single, massive tower that can run seven gaming setups at once.

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Linus Tech Tips is a popular tech-focused YouTube channel. They built a custom gaming PC modelled after Minecraft's popular baddie, the creeper. It's a fully-featured powerhouse, with some serious. The video, one of a series of Mac Pro-themed videos where Linus Tech Tips attempts to take on Apple's workstation with a custom hackintosh, opens to the admittance a previous attempt using. $30,000 gaming PC defies logic, lets seven people game at once YouTube channel LinusTechTips has created a single computer that can accomodate seven gamers. Imad Khan — 2016-01-05 01:34 pm.

The seven systems are far from what would be considered mid-range (virtual) machines. Each one is connected to a 34-inch Predator X34 monitor running at a 3440 X 1440 resolution, and Linus showed how he can play Crysis 3 at 60 to 100 FPS while the six other setups ran Unigine Heaven.

Building a single PC that is capable of doing this does, of course, take an immense amount of hardware – near $30,000 worth, to be exact. Linus started with an Asus Z10PE-D8 WS ($564) motherboard as it’s one of the only standard form factor Mobos that can fit in a gaming case and is able to hold all the components.

Next was the dual CPUs - two Xeon E5-2697 hyperthreaded 14-core processors ($5312) that could provide the equivalent of a quad-core CPU for each setup. There was also 256GB of DDR4 RAM (8 sticks of 32GB, costing about $2454 in total), and eight 1 TB SSDs (roughly $3267).

Linus used seven Radeon R9 Nanos ($4543) – chosen for their size and efficiency – to provide those 1440p images on the seven X34s ($10,003). The hardware gets its power from an EVGA T2 1600W ($429) PSU, and the whole thing sits in a CaseLabs Mercury S8 ($399.95) case, which Linus used as it can accommodate both the E-ATX mobo and a water cooling setup.

What’s more amazing than constructing this machine is the fact that Linus managed to get all the various components and peripherals working together. Kingston – who sponsored the build and provided the SSDs and memory – is showing off the PC at their CES 2016 booth. It may not be very practical (or cheap), but it’s still an incredible piece of work.

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What you need to know

• Linus Tech Tips is a popular tech-focused YouTube channel.
• They built a custom gaming PC modelled after Minecraft's popular baddie, the creeper.
• It's a fully-featured powerhouse, with some serious specs to back it up.
• It even has a head that pops up and bounces back and forth on a spring!

Linus Tech Tips is an extremely popular YouTube tech channel that is known for doing all kinds of things from reviews, advice, and everything in between. They just took the wraps off a project that they just finished putting together, and it's pretty stunning. A specced out gaming monster that's inspired by one of gaming's most infamous monsters: Minecraft's explosive killer, creepers. The gaming PC is technically impressive, and is housed inside a completely custom case complete with a button that causes the head to pop up and bounce back and forth like a bobble-head.

The PC was built for none other than PewdiePie, who currently holds the record (by a considerable margin) as the YouTube with the most number of subscribers. PewdiePie has recently started playing Minecraft again, a game that has always enjoyed the attention of millions of monthly players, but fell out of public view for a while when Fortnite took off. In recent months, Minecraft has spiked back up on platforms like Twitch, Mixer, and YouTube, showing that the game just doesn't know when to quit.

The PC itself is fairly impressive, with a powerful NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and an Intel Core i9-9900KF—which is fancy tech-speak for 'This computer will play Minecraft really good.' Linus Tech Tips' YouTube video goes into detail about all the hardware onboard, complete with a walkthrough of them piecing it together on camera. If you're a gaming PC nut and a fan of Minecraft, it's definitely worth a watch.

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