Building a $100,000 PC for Minecraft

Summary by Krater

Linus Tech Tips builds an extremely expensive, over-the-top desk PC for Minecraft-playing YouTuber Karl Jacobs, using high-end components like an Intel Core i9-13900KS, an Nvidia RTX 4090, and custom water cooling. They test the PC against a Maingear MG-1 prebuilt, concluding that the custom desk PC offers superior cooling and benchmark scores, though performance scaling is modest compared to the price difference.

From the video

Answers: Can you build a $100,000 custom desk PC for Minecraft?

• custom desk PC build
• PC water cooling loops
• gaming PC benchmarking
• Minecraft RTX performance
• standing desk stability test

What it concludes

• The custom desk PC achieved significantly lower temperatures and better sustained power handling than the Maingear MG-1 prebuilt.
• Despite consuming 47% more power, the desk PC only yielded a 5.4% higher Cinebench score and a 3.9% higher 3DMark score compared to the prebuilt.
• The FlexiSpot E7 standing desk legs successfully supported the ~380 lb custom desk PC without stability issues.
• The custom triple-loop water cooling system successfully equalized temperatures between the CPU and GPU loops.