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how's it going guys welcome to part 1 of my haswell-e build series now this is a three part video series the first one being an overview of all the parts I'll be using for this rig and the second video you'll enjoy a sexy time-lapse of me putting it all together and we'll finish with part 3 where I'll show you some benchmarks of this system and how it stacks up against my current Sandy Bridge z97 rig if you're watching this video right now it means Intel's latest enthusiast grade cpufamily haswell-e is already available to the public and since I'm now just starting to feel the sluggish render times with my trusty desktop that I built back in 2011 I thought this would be a great opportunity to build a haswell-e system as my new editing rig at home now as most of you know haswell-e marks the start of a whole new platform that brings some major hardware improvements like Intel's x99 chipset and the long-awaited ddr4 memory form factor and while these are all very exciting changes being brought to the table at the same time nonetheless chances are there's already an abundance of information on the interwebs about these different technologies so I'm gonna keep this video focused on the computer build itself if you want to binge on some detailed specs about haswell-e x99 or ddr4 you can check out paul's channel so he can open your mind and fill it with wisdom alright enough of me talking let's check out the parts for this build while I talk some more first off we have Intel's flagship 8 core destroyer the core i7 59 60 X which retails for just over a cool grand now I'll tell you right now I didn't drop $1,000 on a CPU this is actually a hardware sample I'm borrowing until I pull the trigger on the more affordable 59 30k which only supports six cores but will still do wonders for my day-to-day workload it would have been nice to have all the parts I actually plan on using regularly but I suppose the upside to this is that I'll have more CPU benchmarks to show you guys in the future my motherboard of choice is the gigabyte x99 gaming g1 Wi-Fi it has a ton of features like built-in Wi-Fi obviously an m2 slot for PCIe slots switchable op amps voltage read points an LED rear i/o panel the list just goes on and of course we're getting quad channel memory support and 10 6 gigabit per second set of 3 ports courtesy of the x99 chipset I do want to quickly mention that all the new x99 boards that are currently available use an LGA 2011 - 3 socket which is not compatible with former CPUs like Ivy bridge-e for example so far these specs and build quality of this board look very promising and I can't wait to take advantage of all the robust features it offers for memory I've chosen a four by four quad channel kits from g.skill this is the rip John's four series clocked at twenty six sixty six megahertz now while ddr4 is eventually expected to reach speeds up to four thousand megahertz these higher speed modules get exponentially more expensive so keeping my budget in mind this is a kid I can realistically afford if I want to upgrade to 32 gigs in the future and let's not downplay the fact that 2666 is still sufficiently fast for my needs by the way bonus points the G skill for designing some sweet looking heat spreaders just look at those things oh yeah the video card for this build is the only other component on this list that's temporarily on loan with Maxwell just around the corner I didn't really want to buy a 700 series card but since I am planning on buying either a gtx 8 70 or 80 when it arrives I figured I'd use this asus rog matrix gtx 780 Ti as a placeholder till then no big deal since there will probably be a lot of heat traps near the CPU between those memory modules I decided to go with a liquid cooling solution as a water block seems to be the most effective way of immediately removing that heat from the CPU and dissipating it through a radiator for this task I've elected Corsairs H 100 I now I do have some drives lying around that I like to keep on hand as coasters so I thought I'd put them to better use in this system for a boot drive I'll be using a 256 gig Plextor m5 Pro and I'll also be setting up to 2 terabyte hard drives and raid 1 for all of my awesomesauce network archives one is a WD black and the other is a Toshiba drive that used to be in an external enclosure until I tore it to pieces these are the drives I'll be capturing too after finishing up each video shoot once I'm done capturing and ready to start editing a new project I'll be copying the RAW files to these two 240 gig hyper X's which I'll be setting up in raid 1 you heard that right raid 1 on my current system I've been using 2 SSDs and raid 0 as my working raw drive and while the performance boost is nice the thought of losing all my work from one Drive dying has taunted me for far too long so I'm playing it safe this time around and opting for redundancy once I'm finished editing a project I'll wipe the HyperX drives clean and keep them open for the next project for all my games and other programs I ruined yet another external hard drive and acquire this one terabyte dkv oh my storage setup might seem a bit confusing to some but there you have it and I was just kidding about using the drives as coasters they make better doorsteps as I mentioned earlier the bulk of this systems workload will be video editing but I'll also be using it as a testbed from time to time and since the 59 30 K I'll eventually be using supports up to 40 PCIe lanes I can go buckwild and do some substantial multi-gpu testing to do so I'll either need a monstrous power supply or a bolt of lightning I couldn't find any lightning bolts so I sought out this G Series 1600 watt power supply from Leppa this beast sports an 80 plus gold rating and has a peak power wattage of 1700 watts so I can stack up those video cards without a hiccup plus this unit has over voltage protection which I don't think the lightning bolt does and last but certainly not least I'll be using the define R for blackout from fractal design which is still arguably one of the best workstation chasse EES currently available for the price as an editor I certainly appreciate the ample drive support and stealthy acoustics making this a great choice for my needs and those ladies and gentlemen are all the parts for this insanely powerful haswell-e x99 ddr4 driven computer let me know what you guys think of these components and if you would have opted for something different also please like and favorite the video if you're enjoying the series so far it helps me a lot speaking of which it's time for part two where I do a time-lapse build of this thing so go check that out now and I'll see you there you have to click the annotation otherwise I can't filled it any Daniel oh hi Paul are you still on tinder