Killing My $3,000 Gaming PC With Minecraft FPS

Earlier this year, I got one of the  most powerful PC’s known to man,   and ever since I’ve been seeing  all these Youtube videos of people   destroying their own PCs with the most  insane graphics Minecraft has to offer,  

And I want in. But instead of killing my computer  with graphics, we’re gonna kill it with speed.  RTX 3080. Ryzen 7 5800X. 32 GB of RAM. An 800W  gold power supply. Air and liquid cooling, and  

A crazy gaming motherboard to tie it all together.  This is one of the best PCs ever created, and it’s   time to put it to the test, pushing every ounce  of its power to the absolute limit for Minecraft. 

But putting this all together was not cheap. It  cost about $2,000 just to get all the parts for   this beast of a computer, and let’s be real,  Youtube isn’t gonna cover that. So for that,   we turn to today’s sponsor for the video, Buff.  Buff is basically free stuff just for gaming,  

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Now, back to destroying my PC, yay. First off, we need the basics. No mods,   no special settings, just me, Minecraft 1.18 and  the F3 screen. And without changing anything,   Minecraft runs at a smooth 200 FPS. With a $2,000  PC, That’s $10 per frame. I record my screen in  

More than that, so yeah, there’s some room for  improvement. And the first thing we can do is say   goodbye to F3. See, in Minecraft, the F3 screen  with all of its text and monitors and meters  

Actually tanks your FPS… by a lot. For me, turning  it off doubled my framerate up to about 600 FPS   standing still and 400 while I was running around,  which certainly isn’t bad. But we can do better.   This is just in vanilla Minecraft, but in 2022,  nobody’s running vanilla. We have Forge, Fabric,  

LiteLoader, Lunar, LabyMod, Badlion, and a billion  other clients and mod loaders at our fingertips,   and it just so happens that for 1.18, where Fabric  reigns supreme, we’ve got a few mods to help us   out. Now of course, the classic, trusty Optifine  is what started it all and it’s had our backs  

Through the years, available on basically every  version of the game and giving us exactly what   we want: those sweet, sweet frames. But on the  newer versions of the game, starting around 1.14,   Forge and Optifine’s time as king and queen has  come to an end, with the rise of Sodium… and also  

These guys. Sodium is essentially Fabric’s answer  to Forge’s Optifine, but better. A lot better. So,   fire up Fabric for 1.18.2, throw Sodium and  the Fabric API in there so it actually works,   and – oops, let me turn off the shaders – boom:  1,000 FPS. 1,136, to be exact. And if we mess  

Around with the settings, leaving render distance  for later so we don’t go blind, we can push our   numbers up another 100 frames per second. And  already, we’ve quadrupled what we started with;   I’m pretty proud of that. But we’re not done  yet, because on 1.18, Sodium is far from the  

Only mod to help us with our FPS problems. If  we take a look at this nifty list on Github,   there’s actually about 40 more of them, and  even though not all of them are going to be   useful here, I picked out a few that should  play nicely. Download them to my computer,  

Shove em all in the mods folder, press play and  hope Minecraft doesn’t crash from 11 unchecked   mods running at once. Fortunately, it didn’t, and  our FPS shoots up by 100 more, now in the 1300s,  

And even running around the map nets us a solid  7 or 800 frames each second. But now, we’ve run   into a wall: as far as Minecraft 1.18 goes,  we’ve reached the end of our journey. There’s  

Only so much one man can do with these tools if we  still want the game to be playable. And trust me,   playable won’t be a word used to describe this  game in a few minutes. But we don’t have to  

Ruin the game just yet… on one condition. We  have to throw Minecraft 1.18 out the window.  See, Minecraft 1.18, it’s as updated  and recent as you can get besides 1.19   which isn’t finished. But this isn’t the only  version of Minecraft people are still playing;  

It’s not even the one that I play. There’s a  ton of players that stick behind 1.7, 1.8, 1.12,   and 1.16 for their modding and PvP communities;  And Minecraft 1.18, even with all of the   performance mods it has, is just too much to run  as well as these older versions. So if we really  

Want to push Minecraft and my PC to their limits,  we’re taking it all the way back to Minecraft 1.8,   the oldest version of Minecraft that people still  play today with good performance. And sure enough,   just switching over to vanilla Minecraft 1.8  already gives us a big boost in performance over  

What we saw in 1.18. Add Optifine into the mix  and with some fixed up settings, we’re running   at a smooth, creamy 2500 FPS… woah. That’s a  little more than I was expecting, but alright,   sure. Except Optifine is just the start of our 1.8  FPS journey, because before we do anything else,  

We’re switching over to Lunar Client. Lunar is  a client filled with custom capes and hundreds   of mods, but to run all that, they added a few  optimizations of their own. So if you just disable   all the mods… you’ve got the most optimized  version of Minecraft you can find. You want  

Proof? Then look at this. 3,000 FPS. Now that is a  pretty big milestone, but it’s also the last piece   of Minecraft we can optimize without ruining the  game. Even still, we’re far from the finish line.   Let’s take it to the desktop, because it’s time  for MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE. Alright, my PC is good,  

But when it’s really working, it gets hot. Really  hot. So I usually run the fans on high and turn   the voltage and processing power down to keep  temperatures cool. But if we want FPS for the  

History books, we need to crank everything up to  max. Is my CPU hot enough to sear a steak? Yes,   but it’s worth it because look. LOOK. 3,500 FPS.  That’s more frames than my net worth! And yet,  

It’s still not enough. See, I built my computer  with specs high enough to run everything I would   ever need. Discord, OBS, NordVPN, 40 Opera GX  tabs, even the script for this very video all   while enjoying some classic ManaCube parkour.  But even with this beast of a computer, having  

All that open at once can take its toll on my FPS.  So if we want the absolute best for our Minecraft,   we have to make sacrifices. Goodbye, memes  channel. Farewell, Youtube Music. Sayonara,   34 research tabs I haven’t looked at in a  week. We need every single byte of the RAM,  

Every megahertz of the CPU, and every CUDA  core of the graphics card for the ultimate   Minecraft experience. And even though doing  this in the past hasn’t done much for my FPS,   here it went up by about 1 or 200, which…  is pretty good. And now, we’ve hit a dead  

End. We’ve used every performance mod, optimized  every setting, overclocked our computer and closed   everything the computer was made for, reserving  every morsel of power for Minecraft. There is   nothing more to do… unless we get a little  goofy. You wanna get goofy? Let’s get goofy. 

Alright first off, render distance, 8 chunks?  Ridiculous, set it to 2. Look at those frames. But   we aren’t done yet. You see these graphics? These  beautiful 16×16 textures? Screw em, we don’t need   em, I play Minecraft enough to know every block  just by the color, so it’s time for a 1 pixel  

Texture pack. Doesn’t that look so much better?  It runs better, too. But we’re still operating   on a crisp 2560×1440 resolution, ultra HD, you  don’t need that for Minecraft. Let’s go down to,   let’s say, 480p. Boxed. Actually, that kinda  reduced my FPS, run it back, let’s go back up  

To 1080p, that seems to be the sweet spot. And if  we really want the best for our game, measuring   my frames on a map like this is ridiculous.  Let’s try something a little more sophisticated:   the perfect, minimalistic emptiness of a  superflat world. No trees, no water, no caves,  

No mobs, nothing but grass and void in every  direction. Oh, and one more thing. Remember how   we closed every single thing on the computer?  Well, we left one of them. OBS. I’m sorry,   my friend. But your time has come. Farewell. Now is the moment of truth. We have done anything  

And everything to achieve the ultimate Minecraft  framerate. But if we really want to break records,   standing here is not the way to do it. As soon  as I jump into this void, my framerate is going  

To skyrocket. And this will truly tell the limits  of Minecraft FPS. Are you ready? 3. 2. 1. Drop.  Boys. We. Actually. Did it! 6,000 FPS  in Minecraft, double the highest I’ve   ever gotten and over a thousand higher than  the previous record on Youtube by Nullzee,  

He’s an absolute legend go check him out.  This… this is an accomplishment. This is   a day to remembered, cherished, celebrated  until the end of time. This is the day we   pushed Minecraft to its limits. This  is the day we- (cuts out, bluescreen)