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what's going on guys welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing well it is good to be back here in the studio never spend eight days straight in Las Vegas Nevada you will go insane but all things considered I'm feeling pretty good I want to talk to you guys about the enthu elite bill that I assembled late last year and I think we're ready for testing it in Boots it's all good to go it's up and running and it's very impressive on paper this is about a $12,000 rig more or less and so now I want to actually put it through the wringer to see what it's made of in this video we'll be talking about overclocking our CPU and both of our GPUs that are in our SLI configuration as well as taking a look at gaming performance and even some some benchmarks when it comes to our nvme raid 0 array which is also quite beastly if you guys haven't watched part 1 through 3 the the whole build process from start to finish that's up you can go ahead and check it out if you want you can watch it before after this one at any rates for those of you who have not seen those videos or if you just need a refresher I'll quickly go over the specs we've got a core i 9 79 80 X II which has been it's the gamers Nexus Edition because it was a handle it by Steve aka Tech Jesus himself our motherboard is the rampage 6 Xtreme X 299 and that's gonna be fitted with 128 gigs of G scale treta and z RGB ddr4 at 3200 megahertz we've also got two aces Strix OSI models GTX 1080p is in sli as well as our boot drive which is a 250 gig samsung 960 Evo paired with a pair of 2 terabyte 960 pro m2 nvme SSDs that are in a raid 0 configuration giving us a 4 terabyte nvme raid 0 array the top it all off we have our CPU VRMs and both of our graphics cards being cooled by a dual custom bloop all of this taking place inside of the beautiful fantex and the elite case being powered by a 1200 watt DF series power supply from banner packs so if that's not impressive enough just wait till you see the numbers kids let's talk about some data but actually first hold on rewind let's let's do some overclocking first in fact I've already done all the testing of course so I will share with you what kind of OCS I was able to hit starting with our 79 80 x/e I initially started at 4.0 gigahertz and sort of worked my way up overclocking on this motherboard is extremely easy you pretty much only have to dial in the core multiplier and you can set the vcore the voltage for the CPU to auto and it will automatically just scale up the voltage as needed and basically what I was able to come out with was 4.6 gigahertz as an all core overclock on all 18 cores 4.6 6 gigahertz was where I found ultimate stability with the exception of Adobe Premiere Pro Creative Cloud in fact I ran all of my gaming met every single benchmark I ran first and then I ran Adobe Premiere Pro at the very end not the best idea now I know to run Premiere Pro first because it is the most likely to crash in fact I was only able to successfully render out a file from your pro at 4.1 gigahertz so that was the stable clock speed for rendering but everything else was able to work flawlessly at 4.6 gigahertz and that gave us a vid or B ID of 1.2 to Center I didn't really see a need to overclock our memory 3200 speed is already pretty fast especially for an Intel platform system you don't really need to increase the megahertz that fast with ddr4 in order to pump out more or additional gaming performance that works more closely with Rison and and how the Infinity fabric works there but until not so much so I just aimed for our rated speed of 30 300 megahertz it was very easy I went to the UEFI and selected the 32 hundred megahertz profile and boom voila on the next boot it was operating at that rated speed no problems as far as our GTX 1080p eyes are concerned I maxed out their power and temperature limit sliders and I was able to get away with a 100 megahertz core clock offset on both of them which doesn't seem like a lot but keep in mind that these are already factory overclocked so there isn't a ton of ceiling room once you get it out of the box so 100 megahertz on the core clock was the offset there and then I got a 300 megahertz core memory clock offset on the memory of course this was all achieved without touching the voltage we're using stock voltage here and with that I was able to achieve a maximum core clock frequency of nineteen hundred and eighty-seven megahertz and then I think it was what was it thirteen hundred and eighty-nine megahertz for the memory clock was the Mex we hit there that was for the the top primary GPU the secondary GPU that was slotted in beneath it ran about ten megahertz slower on both the core clock and memory clock frequencies so it makes sense because even in SLI supported games you're not gonna have that second GPU being utilized quite as much as the primary card in all of my testing that's inclusive of 2k and 4k tests I only saw a maximum VRAM usage on either card of about six and a half gigs so plenty of gddr5 X to go around on that front now we can talk about temperatures as far as the CPU goes we were idling anywhere between thirty and forty five degrees Celsius occasionally it would spike up to you know 50 or something like that but for the vast majority of the time we were we were hovering in the 30s and 40s which is fantastic Oh as far as gaming loads we saw a maximum CPU temp again this is at four point six gigahertz with 18 cores and 36 threads guys we saw 69 degrees Celsius was the hottest my CPU got and I would attribute that to to the to the dedicated water cooling loop as well as the delayed process that gamers Nexus was was able to pitch in here so I think that did wonders for our temperature 69 degrees is very favorable in case you were curious that was after about half an hour in battlefield one and then another 15 20 minutes in gta5 back-to-back we did not even hit 70 degrees C on our beastly overclocked ins CPU there so the only time I really felt like I had to keep a close eye on our CPU temps was when we were rendering some 4k footage in Adobe Premiere Pro and media encoder only then did I see the CPU spike well over 70 degrees and actually hit 84 degrees C at its very hottest and that was on the package that was the package temp it was rendering a 10 minute clip so it took about 8 8 to 10 minutes or so for the CPU to get that hot had I've been rendering a much longer video for example perhaps we might have seen the temperatures rise even further as far as our GPU temperatures are concerned we saw very favorable results when idling at just 28 degrees Celsius and then under load either playing battlefield 1 or GTA 5 for about half an hour to an hour we actually saw our primary card only get up to 42 C whereas our secondary card was a little bit cooler than that at 40 degrees Celsius so overall we're hovering in the very low 40s under a heavy load at 4k these games were run at 4k so it definitely taxes the GPUs a bit more there but we're still seeing very very nice results with our dedicated water cooling loop there it is worth noting that all of the thermal testing and all of the the actual gaming tests that were ran today were conducted with the side panels of the case on in their rightful place the top and front panels everything was on it was an enclosed case everything was in its rightful place where it should be there's no open air testing also the the latest driver was used the latest wiffle driver for all of our tests that's three nine zero six six six six six six five and I did run tests at both 2k 2560 by 1440 and 4k 3840 by 2160 I did omit all of the 1080 gaming benchmarks simply because didn't really feel it was super relevant for a balls-to-the-wall system such as this one I just wanted to leave all of the high-end stuff in on that note let's roll tape and check a look and check a look tick tick oh wow and take a look at the performance benchmarks for the one and only and through elite build enjoy pretty impressive stuff I do say so myself so some observations that I'll point out every game that was run at 2560 by 1440 pretty much topped 70 FPS on average in fact the average over all the seven games we tested for frame rates was about 139 fps actually but at the very least every single game was well above 70 FPS when it came to 4k we saw every game except one get over 60 FPS on average that one game being a pub G which makes sense because pub G is terribly optimized for SLI at the moment so I think it got like 55 FPS on average which still isn't bad but when you consider how much money is in a 1080 TI SLI setup it doesn't seem like a huge ROI but nonetheless on average every single game or the total of our games averaged it out to about 97 fps at 4k additionally one percent in point one percent lows were kind of about where they should be I feel like some of the games looked a little bit low especially the point the point one percent lows that could indicate a bit of stuttering because we are running a multi GPU set up where stuttering is a bit more common in that scenario the only real oddball observation that I found was in doom where the frame times were actually worse at to cake than they were at 4k GTA 5 was the only title that indicated a significant CPU bottleneck in the simple fact that there was hardly any performance drop-off when going from 4k to 2k which is kind of a bittersweet thing for me because on one hand I'm really glad that the system isn't showing signs of CPU bottlenecking as much as I thought it would but on the other hand I should have put some tight next little peas in there clearly the CPU could have held a bit more graphical horsepower and now I feel like an idiot for building a crappy system I can't even look at it anymore now while the gaming performance here has no doubt left you aroused in the most peculiar way equally impressive are the numbers we're seeing from our raid 0 array with those 2 2 terabyte 960 pro m2 nvme SSDs so let's go ahead and look at my cheat sheet right here we're getting some crazy reason I used crystal disk mark for the benchmark and getting some sequential reads and writes at queue depth thirty-two of six thousand seven hundred and seventy eight megabytes per second reads and 3917 megabytes per second writes the other results using the four kilobyte transfer size that various queue depths are no doubt less impressive but they are more indicative of real-world day-to-day tasking than the sequential reads and writes so still very very favorable numbers all around I mean I cannot complain now at this point in my lengthy benchmarking session I could have called it a day right there since I had pretty much tested everything that I had sought out to benchmark but I didn't stop there I decided to whip out my own multitasking torture test just to see how the system would behave so what I essentially did was I opened up an instance of battlefield one running at 4k in windowed mode this was on Ultra settings mind you then I began rendering a 10-minute 4k file at 40 megabits per second using Adobe Media encoder on top of that I started streaming with OBS at 3,500 kilobits or megabits per second and that was at 1080p 60 frames per second and as you might expect from a high-end $12,000.00 system built by yours truly it crashed at 4.1 gigahertz the frequency I had deemed stable to run Adobe Premiere Pro and media encoder act so I basically had to knock it down to 4.0 gigahertz at that point everything ran like clockwork no crashes no errors it actually rendered out the video granted it took about three to four times longer than it did when we were only just rendering and the gaming wasn't all that smooth granted we had some really playable framerates but we did encounter some stuttering mainly because the CPU was already at a hundred percent from rendering alone and all of a sudden we were using we're throwing a CPU intensive game at it while streaming which is also very CPU intensive so there was some stuttering but I mean there was playable it is all to say that it's pretty badass system if you're curious at all it was eating up about 30 gigabytes of my D Ram at any given moment which is a shit ton of RAM but you know given the configuration that I had it's only about a little over 20% of my overall memory being used and I just realized something I lied to you earlier in this video I said that 84 degrees Celsius was the hottest I saw CPU get raw during this torture test it spiked up to 91 degrees Celsius which is quite toasting at the same time when you consider everything that it was doing with an all-court overclock at 4 gigahertz on 18 cores early and that being said this is a very rare scenario that I probably won't find myself in too often that is the definition of rare good job Kyle are the GPUs we're actually hitting 32 to 33 degrees Celsius and you're like whoa wait how is that possible the gp's are running cooler when it was gaming and doing all this other stuff as opposed to just gaming when it was like 40 to 42 degrees Celsius that's because the GPU utilization was actually way down low we were seeing anywhere from 25 to 40 percent utilization on both cards and one explanation I have from that is that we were rendering at the time with the mercury playback engine feature enabled in Adobe Premiere Pro CC which utilizes CUDA so technically these cards were already sort of being used by the encoder perhaps that's why they weren't able to deliver as much output for our actual game winding things down here overall this system performs exactly how I would expect it to which is very good at everything I'm pretty much convinced at this point to turn this thing into my daily driver for video editing here at the office that's exactly what I plan to do so guys let me know what you think in the comments below what you thought of all the results that we shared today and also feel free to toss me a like on this video if you 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