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oh hey Chris come over here check out this Tower of Power damn and the perfect pair to match oh yeah go haven't touched him with you like I can barely put my hands around the room that's the laughs guy said he looked me straight in my eyes as he was feeling him up said you've never seen anything like it I can't believe what I'm hearing right now you guys are disgusting oh you guys talking about the case fans oh sorry continue did she think we were talking about the case the new H 500 P from Coolermaster sports a pair of 200 millimeter RGB fans generous radiator support and phenomenal cable management packed in a unique industrial exterior click the link of the description to learn more what's going on guys welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing well today I'm taking a closer look at September's PC of the month which is the portable AMD gaming system featuring a Rison 5 CPU and RX Vega 56 graphics card now instead of testing the system here in the studio I ended up taking it home because I was running short on time and I did all my benchmarks there but the only moderate that I had at home was the 34 40 by 1440 curve ultra wide IPS display the Acer predator X 34 so I did all of my benchmarks on that display and while I could have dumbed down the resolution to more conventional 1080p and 1440p 16 by 9 resolutions I thought I would switch things up today and just to run 30 for 40 by 1440 all the way so hopefully that's cool with you guys doing something little bit different today but nonetheless we're still going to take a look at overall gaming performance as well as acoustics and thermals which I'm almost more curious about inside of the portal chassis here from Goodell BitFenix because I've never worked with it before and a lot of people were commenting in the comments saying commenting in the comments saying that you know how does this thing get air flow it looks like it's completely closed off are the thermals just complete shite we're gonna be taking a closer look at all that as well later today now diving right in here when wifey sauce initially built this system it was with arisin v 1600 but since then I've had to repurpose that chip for other things it's the only 1,600 I have on hand so I've actually dropped in a 1600 X to take its place which is what I use to conduct all of today's benchmarks hopefully that's cool the main differences that we're talking about here going from a 1600 to a 1600 X is a higher TDP going from 65 to 95 watts so we might be introducing a tad more heat into the equation and then additionally you know it's probably Costin what 25 to 30 dollars more right now MSRP for that XQ and then finally you do get a bit more overclock ability of course silicon Lottery's is a huge factor here but we you might be able to squeeze out a hundred to one hundred and fifty megahertz more out your core frequency with an ex-parte again that's assuming that power and thermal conditions are all good now that being said I did manage an all core overclock on our 1600 X here to three point eight five gigahertz I did the temp to three point nine and the system would crash every time the screen would actually go black in the middle of gameplay until I dialed it back about fifty megahertz and then it seemed perfectly fine so 3.85 is what we got away with that was with stock V core was not touching the voltage whatsoever ambient temperature in my room at home is much warmer than it is here in the studio so please bear that in mind with these temperature results it was about eighty degrees Fahrenheit at home but with that said the CPU temperatures were hovering in the 70s there abouts with a max package temp of 83 degrees Celsius it's definitely not the greatest but it is under t.j.maxx and we were not seeing any sort of signs of throttling or stuttering or anything like that that might be caused from overheating now in part one a lot of you guys seemed curious as to how the CPU and motherboard in this case receive airflow because it seems more or less closed off at the front here but believe it or not there's actually a 120 millimeter fan pre-installed at the front of the case more or less right in the middle that's aimed straight at the CPU and motherboard and we do have ventilation strips at the top and bottom of the case there's tons of ventilation holes when you when you see it at first glance but then you realize there's another layer of plastic underneath this mesh that has very few ventilation slots that kind of limits the amount of air that that single fan can really bring in which is kind of a curious design move I'm not sure why they didn't just leave it as open as it appears if we had a bit more open ventilation to the front I'm pretty sure we'd see the CPU temperatures fall a couple degrees but speculation of course but at the very least this system or this chassis I should say does support 120 millimeter radiators so if you wanted to throw in a IO on top of your CPU you could do that and potentially drop the temps even further but moving on here allow me to refresh your memory as to which Ram kit we're running here that's the Corsair Vengeance lpx 16 gigabyte kits that's two by eight big sticks rated at 3000 megahertz we got them running stable e at 29 33 close enough I say and that was using Rison master funny thing about rising math it kind of sucks it's been super buggy for me throughout my testing it was sort of a bane to work with um the way it works is you apply all your changes within the software while you're in the operating system and then the system reboots in order for those changes to take effect but more often than not every time I would reboot only some of those changes would have actually taken place for example the memory would be running just fine at 2933 but my overclock on the CPU was just not there did not apply for whatever reason or vice-versa it took me about a dozen or so just random restarts just rebooting the system turning it off and on again until finally both changes took effect and I perceived to run all my benchmarks quickly before something bad happened at this point I'm convinced that these are issues with the software and not the hardware that we're using so AMD if you're watching perhaps look into this and see if there's anything you can do to make it run a bit smoother but moving right along with our graphics card we've got the RX Vega 56 but you can see peer in through the top window of our case here the Vega 56 is pretty much AMD's response to the gtx 1070 from nvidia and it does compete fairly closely with that card the one I have here today is the reference design so we're talking in close shroud a blower style fan can get kind of noisy can get a little warm let's see how it did inside of the portal here well actually under load what I noticed at stock settings this thing was ramping up to about 84 degrees Celsius so at that point I did not want to overclock it at all it's a pretty fast card as is on its own out of the box I'm leaving it at stock and that's what I did for the rest of my testing now again remember I was testing this in a fairly warm room so your mileage is going to vary based on a number of different factors including your own ambient temperatures of course that being said there isn't much this case seems to be doing to help the GPU thermal situation I mean the graphics cards mounted in this sort of upper chamber of the case the PCIe riser card which puts it apart from the CPU and motherboard and it seems a bit starved for airflow in this area I mean there's a window right here which is nice you can see through it and see your graphics car but it doesn't do squat for thermals and you've got some ventilation from the front and the back but like I mentioned before there's a lot less ventilation going on to these holes than you might think so overall it seems to be a little pocket of air that with that single blower style fan face up facing the the window it it is quite starved for airflow and this all sort of makes me think that perhaps an open-air style shroud would perform better in this particular case where you have more area around the graphics card for in taking fresh air as opposed to just having that single blower style fan that's facing away from any sort of airflow that's taking place elsewhere in the case now an unfortunate effect of having a hot running graphics card is that the fan tends to spin up a lot faster and make a lot more noise good news is that you can't really hear the graphics card fan like at all the bad news is that the only reason you can't hear it is because the power supply fan is so frigging loud that it drowns out the sound of every other fan in the system including the graphics card fan the case fans the right spire fan this FSP unit that I took a gamble on did not provide any worthy returns other than the fact that it powers the system and it hasn't blown up yet it is so noisy that that little fan whatever is in there is making so much noise whether you're at load or idle it makes the same constant loud ass whirring noise that pretty much ruins the entire experience of the system I could understand if it was just ramping up to that level under load because I could care less I've already got my cans I'm listening to ingame sound I could barely hear it anyway but if it's that loud when I'm just browsing the web or something it's a huge distraction and it really puts a damper on the overall again overall experience that I'm having so far I guess the RX Vega 56 reference design card has finally met its match on an acoustic level but I think we can talk about benchmarks there's really not much to talk about I did run five games just some quick benchmarks to throw at you using the latest crimson driver at the time which was 17 9.1 and these are of course all being run at 34 40 by 1440 21 by nine ultra wide so without further ado ladies and gentlemen here are your gaming benchmarks for the portable AMD game please alright y'all so those are the results overall some pretty nice numbers from our risin 5 & RX Vega 56 pairing 4 of the 5 games we're seeing well over 60 FPS on average which is fantastic and that's also great news for users who are on more common 16 by 9 resolutions 1080p 1440p they're gonna be seeing even more performance at those pixel count which is great pub G was the only game of course that did not top 60fps I think we got 45 FPS on average 34 fps with our 1% lows still very playable no jitter no stud or anything like that however it is noticeably less smooth than our other titles of course this is to be expected as pub G is still in early access it's not a hundred percent optimized at this point however a developer blue hole recently released a patch that optimized the game for CPUs with more than 4 cores so the performance scaling we're actually seeing going from 4 to 6 cores is massive and you guys should check out Nathan's article from legit reviews I'll put it as a link in description below some fantastic findings they're very convincing and compelling makes you really want to upgrade to 6 cores if you haven't yet especially if you're into pub G in our case we're definitely taxed in that 1600 X putting those extra cores and threads to use however I think we just need a little bit more GPU F to take on the game in its current state to sum things up here the system really does pack in some decent performance that allows it to gain comfortably at 34 40 by 1440 where it really falls short is in the GPU thermals Department of course that might be able to be improved upon with a custom board variant for example we're not really gonna know until we have one of those in additionally the noise situation is just god-awful because of that power supply if we were to swap that out for a quieter unit I would imagine that noise emissions would be somewhat reasonable in this particular system but that's all I got for today guys thank you so much for tuning in let me know what you think so far of these findings in the comments below and don't forget to toss me a look on the video if you enjoyed it before you guys go you can subscribe to my channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon and until next time I will see y'all in the net