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what's up guys welcome back to the channel today we're doing part two the follow up video to part one of January's PC of the month which is the beautiful system that I have right next to me it's already booted up you can see the BIOS behind me on the screen everything's working properly and today we're going to be putting it through the wringer so if you didn't catch part one where I assemble the rig you can check that out but this is where we actually put it to the test and test everything from thermals acoustics gaming performance and overclocking the whole shebang so to speak so should be interesting to find out exactly what this machine is capable of cuz we've got some pretty robust Hardware in here including a core i7 7700 K and a GTX 1080 from EVGA their hybrid variant featuring an a IO liquid cooler on there and really quick and want to point out that it's been 2 or 3 weeks since I put the system together and just from an aesthetic standpoint I couldn't be happier with how it turned out I think it looks great I appreciate the fact that it's not lined with RGB LEDs for once and it has this really subdued appearance yet still comes off super aggressive so I really like it and I think overall there's probably not a single thing that I would change about this system from a cosmetic standpoint I mean apart from the the fractal venturi fan not really matching the Corsair band that's like it that's like a little thing I mean you guys don't care I don't care you know and the venturi the venturi is are great fans they cool well they're quiet they look nice and cares if there's a glaring break in visual continuity ok I did you know it looks hideous I can't I can't do this oh so much better okay we can continue now and also you might have noticed that I did change the LED on the motherboard from orange to white through the issues or software now we're looking super cohesive everything's looking good and we may now move forward so the first thing I want to talk about since we just swapped a fan out let's talk about fans and what I did with those so we have seven fans in total four of which are on the X 62 radiator so these two right here DML pros should have been detected in the cam software because they're directly connected to the a i/o water block however I did not see them in cann this could be a bug so these are just kind of left in the hands of NZXT whatever default configuration are profiles of these fans run out run in out of the box that's what we're running today the other two fans which are underneath the front panel of the m2 Pro M here that you can't see those as well as these two and the radiator fan on our GT X 1080 a IO those are all configured with custom fan curves that I've set myself with in thermal radar - which is a part of AI suite 3 the very lovely app from Asus so those are all configured and I kind of tailored them for a nice balance between performance and acoustics I didn't want to sway one way or the other too far so I kept it very balanced and neutral so with the fans all handled I decided to jump into the BIOS and start overclocking our 7700 K I put a multiplier of 50 which gave us of course 5 gigahertz and we were able to hit that stable e at one point three seven five volts which falls in line with a lot of the other review websites out there I also overclocked our GPU of course the GTX 1080 was able to head 2063 megahertz I believe at its max core clock frequency once I dialed in a 110 megahertz offset on the core clock and a 300 megahertz offset on the memory clock and after I put an expensive load on it for a lengthier period of time we did see the core clock frequency drop down to 2,000 50 megahertz but it was still very stable that entire time there were no dips whatsoever so that was all nice and dandy as far as thermals are concerned the way I tested that was in my room of 26 degrees Celsius ambient and that was constant throughout the test and we ran gta5 initially I was going to do huge in heaven 4.0 but I just figured that was a bit too GPU intensive and it didn't really tax the CPU quite enough and I didn't feel like it was going to give us a really good representation of what a real-world result would be for the average gamer so I jumped into GTA 5 at 4k for about say about half an hour I did about half an hour run not the pre run benchmark I just started playing the game so after half an hour run we actually saw the CPU hit 76 degrees Celsius as the max on the package which is honestly fine by me if we're in the mid 70s after overclocking a 77 100k to 5 gigahertz in a very CPU demanding game like GTA 5 then I'm that rest well with me as for our GP we had a max temperature of 65 degrees Celsius which is again very reasonable all things considered when you're talking about an overclocked $600 graphics card pushing this many pixels is is very impressive and I've had some experience with liquid cooled AIO GPUs in the past which have been sort of lackluster to be honest so I wasn't really sure what to expect with the EVGA hybrid here but I can definitely tell you it is very effective if you spend the time to create a custom fan curve for the one fan that's on there you can get really great results so as most of you guys know GTA 5 can be a total memory hog when it comes to 4k gaming especially if you have all the settings cranked up and filters turned on and things like that and sure enough we saw over 6 Diggs of VRAM being eaten up but what's even crazier is that throughout my entire benchmark runs not just GTA 5 but all the benchmarks that I run for these tests we saw nearly all eight gigs of gddr5 X being used on this card which is absolutely insane the most VRAM usage that I've ever seen personally in this office of mine and I'm not exactly sure which test did that obviously was something running at 4k and not at a lower resolution in order to be pushing that much but I wasn't going to go ahead and like run all seven benchmarks again just to see which one it was but I think that's pretty crazy hopefully we'll see some in gigabyte cards in the near future with the next generation of GPUs from Nvidia and AMD because it looks like we need it if we're going to be gaming at these resolutions and and with all those filters turned on now before we dive into the gaming benchmarks I want to quickly touch on acoustics here because they are solid very solid acoustics honestly this system has a nice trifecta of raw gaming performance cooling performance and noise levels I think there's a nice balance where none of those elements seems to fall too short of the others which is really nice to see and I think it's also a testament to the mlpro fans that we have in here from course they're doing a great job keeping things cool but also quiet so on that note I'll go ahead and let you guys hear for yourself with a quick sound test all right now the moment you've all been waiting for gaming benchmarks of course tested on Windows 10 64 bits as well as the latest wickel driver from a new video which is 3:07 no.37 8.6 6 in total i ran seven different applications five of which were triple-a games and those were run at 1440p as well as 4k I threw out 1080p altogether because honestly if you have a system like this you should not be gaming in 1920 by 1080 I'm sorry that's just a slap in the face and you shouldn't do it it's bad some of that said ladies and gentlemen here are the benchmarks for January's PC of them alright y'all so there you have the results very impressive numbers all around and to be honest the GTX nad here doesn't really handle 4k all that well when you're dealing with triple-a titles that are fully maxed out with msaa enabled we didn't quite hit the 60fps average threshold that we would have liked to in many of the games only doom and overwatch we're able to achieve that overwatch being a less demanding title to begin with however once we dial down to 1440p this thing absolutely kicks ass with very favorable frame rates doing well above 60 in many cases so if you have something like a G sync monitor that's 1440p and that J sync range is anywhere from 60 to 75 Hertz 100 Hertz you're going to get a very very nice gameplay experience with a system like this for sure we did see a bit of CPU bottlenecking however in overwatch actually there was only a few frames difference in our average frame rates going from 1440p to 4k which meant the game is just so non intensive of the GPUs able to render frames quicker than the CPU can actually write instructions for them so that was a pretty much expected overwatch does tend to see some CPU bottlenecking because it is so well optimized for the graphics card that sometimes the CPU just can't keep up but overall just outstanding results and you guys can let me know what you think about them in the comments below that's going to wrap it up for this video guys be sure to toss me a like on it if you enjoyed it and if you want to catch videos like 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