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so gasps welcome back to the channel today we're taking a closer look at the glorious AMD built this was the november pc of the month and in case you missed part one I'll put a card right over there you can see the full specs as well as a nice little time-lapse build but in this video we're strictly going to be testing it everything from gaming performance we've got a slew of benchmarks lined up as well as acoustics thermals and all that fun stuff we will be discussing today so without further ado why don't we go ahead and move on over to the data screen right here where I've got everything all loaded up nice and fancy alright so starting off with a look at our GPUs now for those of you who aren't too familiar with the RX 480 it doesn't exactly have the most ceiling room when it comes to overclocking in fact when I tried to overclock these cards just 2% in AMD watt man I was crashing every time that was even after opening a power limit and doing all that sort of thing so I pretty much just left them at stock frequencies now I guess I shouldn't say stock completely because these are factory overclocked cards so I basically just left them at their factory OC setting and I basically got us a maximum GPU core clock speed of 1300 and 10 megahertz which isn't too terrible we also had 2000 megahertz on the GPU memory clock temperatures for the top card which was the hotter card of course was 80 degrees Celsius versus 74 T I'm sorry 49 degrees Celsius on the bottom card now I did see both of these temperatures rise a little bit higher when I was doing the the full gamut of benchmarks that this actually got to 81 degrees on the top card and I believe I was seeing the bottom card hit like somewhere in the mid 70s so definitely not this cold these numbers were achieved through I would say about half an hour of Unigine Heaven 4.0 so maybe not the most indicative of real-world gaming performance but like I said 81 degrees and 70-something degrees respectively on those two cards as for our CPU the FX 95 90 right out of the box was already turbo to 5 gigahertz you can see right there in Hardware monitor I did not do any manual over overclocking at all and we're getting 5 little over 5 gigahertz there so I didn't even touch that I actually tried to go 200 megahertz over that I tried to you know just just tweak it a little bit more and just instant instability so I just completely backed off went back to stock frequency so yes this entire system is running stock out of the box right now there's no manual overclocking whatsoever like I said I tried on both the CPU and GPU and it just wasn't working out so I just thought screw it it's not worth it we'll stay a little bit cooler in the long run anyway better for longevity and that sort of thing as far as thermals go don't pay too much attention to that 46 degrees Celsius number there that was unige in heaven 4.04 about half an hour like I said but we were actually seeing closer to 59 degrees Celsius that was the max that I saw during my testing which is phenomenally good compared to you I mean considering how much flak the the FX 95 90 gets for being SuperDuper hot I was I was expecting at least the high 60s at the very least but to see it only get up to 59 degrees Celsius is pretty impressive granted there have been known issues with monitoring AMD CPU temperatures in monitoring software like Hardware monitor so it could be an inaccuracy but assuming all things are nice and correct that's that's a pretty good score in my opinion of course that also is a nice testament to the cooler that we've gotten there which is the corsair h 100 i GTX v2 and before we dive straight into the benchmarks I did want to do a quick little acoustics test but something to bear in mind before you take a listen at that is that the case that we built in the crystal series 570 X from Corsair while it's a very beautiful and solid case with many features to boot either something to bear in mind here look at look at the the tempered glass side panel and look at the the gap opening between it and the rest of the case you can see it's actually got some space between it it's a fairly open design I wouldn't call it an open-air chassis by any means but there's certainly more space for for air as well as noise to get through than a conventional case and this extends all around the case on all sides pretty much on both sides as well and it's just it's just a very open aired case so I want you guys to bear that in mind when we go about doing this acoustics test right after the sound test I'm probably going to jump straight into the benchmarks and then we can go ahead and discuss it really quick and then wrap this video up you you alright y'all so there you guys have it and based on the results that we just saw I can't really say that I'm surprised that we weren't getting skyrocket through the roof frame rates if anything I was more or less expecting us to get mediocre subpar results which is pretty much what we got in most of the games tested I think the reason for that isn't so much the Rx for ATS granted some games don't crossfire as well as others or scale and crossfire as well as others but I think the shortest straw' in the bunch today was definitely the FX 95 90 even though it's an 8 core chip it's got multiple cores on it's got a core fine but it's just too slow and too old of it of the CPU to keep up with the multi-gpu configuration like the RX 4 80s in there so I think we're going to take away anything today is it's don't build this exact computer if you want to go for something similar as far as the graphic solution is concerned definitely upgrade the CPU to something faster like skylake I think a Core i5 and higher would be a much better solution than the FX 95 90 or you can wait for KD lake or even Zen if you want to keep it all on the same AMD platform and speaking of Zen I think since it's just around the corner it's either gonna come later this month or potentially early next year in January I think maybe once that that platform is ready I'll try doing a swap I'll actually take out the aim 3 plus platform that's currently in this system plug in a m4 with the CPU motherboard and ddr4 and stuff and redo these benchmarks because I think at that point we're really going to unlock the full potential of those asus strix cards right there so I think that'll be a fun little test let me know what you guys think about that in the comments but that is gonna do it for this here video hopefully you guys enjoyed it be sure to toss me a look on the video if you did be sure to so subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon and I'll see y'all in the next video bye