TL;DR

Linus Tech Tips tasked Elijah with building an 8v8 (16-player!) gaming setup from scratch, and after a month of hunting down Mini-ITX motherboards, DDR5 SO-DIMMs, NVMe SSDs, Radeon RX GPUs, server racks and more, he finally unboxed, configured ggRock, wired everything at Whale LAN and battled networking gremlins—only to watch the monstrous rig spring to life. It’s part hardware deep-dive, part LAN party chaos, and 100% geeky fun.

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