The video is about a unique piece of computing history, the Intel Xtreme series D 5400 XS-A motherboard. The speaker acquired it for $650 and it required two 1500 CPUs and special memory. The motherboard was part of a system that could cost up to $5,000 to $7,000, making it one of the most expensive systems at the time. It was designed to create an eight-core platform several years before AMD and Intel released their own consumer eight-core CPUs.
The motherboard uses the LGA 771 socket, which supports Xeons, and two Intel 3.2 GHz Yorkfield Extreme Edition CPUs connected over a 1600 MHz front-side bus to a 5000 series chipset. The memory used is special commodity DDR2 DRAM chips, fully buffered DIMMs (FB-DIMMs), which are not intercompatible with DDR2. The motherboard also features four PCI Express 16x slots, which were unique at the time.
The speaker also discusses the challenges they faced in getting the system up and running, including finding compatible coolers for the old socket and dealing with the performance penalties of dual-socket systems. Despite these challenges, the system was able to run modern Windows 10 and handle tasks like 4K YouTube playback and Adobe Photoshop. However, it struggled with more demanding tasks like 8K footage and the game ANO 1800 at 4K resolution.
The speaker also mentions their plan to outfit the system with $2500 worth of modern gaming horsepower, including two RTX 2080 Ti GPUs in SLI. However, they acknowledge the need for overclocking and increasing the system's RAM, which is currently limited to eight gigs. The speaker asks for suggestions in the video comments for what viewers want to see in the next part of the video.
n00:16:30.16: kills me about windows\n00:16:31.84: they can't code an actual no end the\n00:16:35.12: task but if you sign out oh yeah you\n00:16:37.48: can't even get task manager up\n00:16:39.04: so i'm going to sign out and then\n00:16:41.28: sign back in\n00:16:43.44: oh yeah i can get task manager up\n00:16:45.40: and i can see that we're only using 200\n00:16:48.64: megabytes of memory\n00:16:50.68: 200 megabytes of memory\n00:16:52.32: so i'm going to close task manager and\n00:16:54.88: close photoshop and close premiere and\n00:16:57.52: then i'm going to restart the computer\n00:17:01.36: and then i'm going to sign back in\n00:17:04.48: now i'm going to try and run ano 1800\n00:17:07.84: at 4k resolution again\n00:17:10.32: it's just not gonna work\n00:17:12.56: i can see the cpu is going up to 100\n00:17:15.60: and then it's just like this\n00:17:17.52: game crash\n00:17:19.44: wow\n00:17:21.68: that's not even a game crash\n00:17:23.60: it's just like a system crash\n00:17:25.84: i mean we're not even getting\n00:17:28.48: a blue screen of death\n00:17:31.04: we're just getting a black screen of\n00:17:33.12: death\n00:17:35.48: oh\n00:17:37.20: and then we're back\n00:17:39.12: oh\n00:17:40.72: so i guess this is just a little\n00:17:43.04: bit of a misdirection here\n00:17:45.76: because i can see that the cpu is only\n00:17:48.40: going up to 100\n00:17:50.88: and we're getting a black screen of\n00:17:53.80: death\n00:17:56.24: i mean it's not even a game crash\n00:17:58.80: it's just like a system crash\n00:18:01.44: i mean we're not even getting\n00:18:03.80: a blue screen of death\n00:18:06.56: we're just getting a black screen of\n00:18:09.12: death\n00:18:11.20: so let's try and run ano 1800\n00:18:13.76: at 4k resolution again\n00:18:16.00: oh yeah\n00:18:18.32: it's just not gonna work\n00:18:20.64: i can see the cpu is going up to 100\n00:18:23.60: and then it's just like this\n00:18:25.84: game crash\n00:18:28.08: wow\n00:18:30.00: that's not even a game crash\n00:18:32.56: it's just like a system crash\n00:18:35.48: i mean we're not even getting\n00:18:37.84: a blue screen of death\n00:18:40.16: we're just getting a black screen of\n00:18:42.88: death\n00:18:45.32: so i guess this is just a little\n00:18:48.48: bit of a misdirection here\n00:18:51.16: because i can see that the cpu is only\n00:18:54.24: going up to 100\n00:18:56.68: and we're getting a black screen of\n00:18:59.52: death\n00:19:02.24: i mean it's not even a game crash\n00:19:05.08: it's just like a system crash\n00:19:07.84: i mean we're not even getting\n00:19:10.00: a blue screen of death\n00:19:12.40: we're just getting a black screen of\n00:19:15.12: death\n00:19:17.48: so i guess this is just a little\n00:19:20.32: bit of a misdirection here\n00:19:23.16: because i can see that the cpu is only\n00:19:26.24: going up to 100\n00:19:28.80: and we're getting a black screen of