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I didn't want to push it with a gtx 1070 my phone's going up subtle kirk i don't know who this is but anyways the point is that i think this is gonna make a fantastic upgrade for the system at hand and again i appreciate just how small it is it's gonna fit right into our sg0 5 from silverstone here now finally for storage I've been booting off of a 256 gig Plextor m5 Pro which is just a standard two and a half inch SATA Drive and that's been paired with a 480 gig crucial M SATA Drive because this board actually the motherboard actually has an M se to slot on it that's been used for all of our games we didn't really need much storage because it was just a livingroom PC but now that we're going full-blown gaming system we're actually gonna take out the Plextor drive and boot off of the crucial instead and then place a one terabyte WD black inside of this thing just for all of our games because we are gonna need a bit more storage now if this is a dedicated gaming rig so that should be super fun hopefully we can boot off of that M stated drive no problem I don't think it'll give us any issues we'll see so that's pretty much it oh and then there's an LG blu-ray reader writer that I never use right here it's a slim optical drive on that note I think I pretty much covered everything for the system and where we're headed with the upgrades I think at this point we can just start taking this apart I'm actually gonna disassemble the entire thing so we can do a proper cleaning because it is dusty as hell once we've done that so we can go ahead and start putting it back together with the existing parts that we're reusing and all of our upgraded hardware so should be pretty cool let's go ahead and get started on that alright guys so here it is honestly I got to say she looks pretty good I spent a lot of time with cable management and just dusting the individual parts this time around so she looks brand-new practically and I think even more impressive than that is the sort of performance gains that we're seeing from swapping out that r9 285 with this gtx 1066 figa byte model we actually ran a unit in heaven 4.0 with the old system we were getting a score of 870 and an average frame rate of 34 FPS with this new graphics card we actually saw an uplift of over 90% so we actually got a score of 16 hundred and seventy and an average frame rate of 66 even crazier though is that we actually dropped temps on our 35 70k by simply cleaning out the CPU cooler and reapplying some thermal interface material we actually went from 73 degrees Celsius max on the package down to 66 C so a seven degree difference simply by reapplying thermal paste and and cleaning the cooler so make sure you guys are doing regular cleans on your systems guys it really does make a difference and then additionally I did run 3d 3d mark firestrike not extreme just regular firestrike and got a point difference from the old system I think we went from 70 100 on the overall score to 10,000 400 the graphics score initially was 8400 and that went soaring to 13,000 and 400 points once we slot it in the GTX 1060 here so overall some really impressive gains I'm super happy with how this turned out if you guys have any ideas on what you'd like me to do with this rig for another content piece down the line let me know in the comments below otherwise toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it and feel free to subscribe to fit which for more tech stuff coming at you really soon also check out bit wit ultra on floatplane that's the thing that I can now say because it's it's it's a thing so if you guys want early access a week early without ads and a bunch of other features coming soon feel free to check out the link in the description below otherwise have a good one guys I love you all so much and I'll see ya in the next video I poked my my arm on the Wi-Fi adapter it's hurt