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what's going on guys so I'm sure by now you probably caught wind of the whole overclocking battle that's taking place between Steve from gamers and exes and Jay from Jays two cents and for a while there Paul from Paul's hardware was was also in the mix but I figured I would try my hand at dialing in some over clocks on my twenty ATT eyes that I have set up in SLI behind me and just seeing if I can get anywhere close to the numbers that these guys have been hitting so far hello hey Josh I left my define s and r6 in the same room together last night and now there's a third case like what's going on baby let me guess yeah actually wait hold on how do two computer cases you know make a baby you need to know how humans do it first okay okay I gotta ask you guys do you like touch dust filters or something is Lube even non-conductive is there thermal paste involved and if so you know where does it go now staying silent okay good talk just wrap it up next time we're running out of space the define us to from fractal design features front panel USB see ample water cooling support and a clean interior layout for your next custom build click the link below to learn more the two main reasons for why I'm not expecting to beat any of their scores is one because they've been doing this they've been at this for several days if not a week now just refining their methodologies and testing and tweaking their settings for their overclocks and stuff whereas this is basically day one for me trying to actually overclock competitively so I definitely have a long way to catch up and the second reason is because I only have twenty atti founders Edition cards which are still great cards I mean they are factory overclocked and they do run faster than some of the board partner cards out there which is still kind of weird but I believe JN ste both have access to custom variants of these cards that have custom PCBs and better power delivery which will help them achieve higher overclock perhaps than what these cards will be able to so for those reasons and a couple others I don't think I'll be hitting number one on any leaderboards today but like I said this is just for the walls I'm just gonna have fun jumping into the 4a and I also was kind of curious to see what kind of home-brewed method I could come up with for cooling all the hardware behind me so let's check that out now all right so this is my sort of Frankenstein of a cooling setup it's not quite as elaborate or sizable as Jays but it's all about how you use it all right ladies so here's a blower fan right this is actually pulled from our server room keeps our server cool so hopefully the server's alright right now so I'm gonna be cranking that up to the its highest setting it does get pretty loud so be warned and you can see the end of the fan is kind of piped into this styrofoam cooler that I plan to fill up with water and dry ice that's right we're going dry ice because we don't have an a/c like Jay so we kind of have to make our own in a sense on the other side of the cooler you can see that we've got sort of a bridge here and using duct tape the whole way just make an airtight seal more or less and that bridge leads right into this sort of it's actually the Vega Vega 64 box that AMD sent a while back but you can see I've kind of cut that up and used it as a shroud to go over our 220 ATT is just concentrates all that cool air as you might have guessed I'm using the same CPU as Jay and Steve for this little battle which is the 79 80 XC which I read elated it was originally deleted by Steve himself it's kind of ironic that I'm using it against him now but i deleted it myself a couple days ago and reapplied liquid metal just because the temperatures were kind of funky there will be a dedicated video coming on that pretty soon and you can see I've got an ek waterblock on it right now I actually stole the tubes from my ek predator and it's going to this standalone radiator which is going to be in an ice bath but the ice melted because I put it in a while ago but I will be refilling that that's of course hooked up to a pump pump res and that's that's just a radio that I mounted the the pump to for stability it's not actually active as you can see so there's my cooling setup guys it's pretty shoddy like I said it's nothing fancy I have no idea how it's going to do but I guess that's all part of the fun right so alright I'm ready to drop some ice in here sorry it's a little noisy in here I've got the fan running at full speed but we're just about ready to run fire strike ultra I have overclocked both of the r-tx 28 et eyes I hope it's stable I haven't done a ton of stability testing for the the settings that I just put in here I guess this first run in fire strike ultra will let us know so I'm gonna go ahead and start it now idle temps right off the bat on the GPUs aren't quite as impressive as I was hoping they'd be we're getting like 30 to 35 C on both cards right for a culture underway system just shut down like before the run even started right is the the loading bar finished and it was about to start the system just just killed itself please standby all right here we go red number 2 let's do it I'm feeling lucky this time he crashed it reset again something seriously wrong that overclock should have should have been fine so I initially tried a one hundred and fifty megahertz offset on the core clock didn't even touch the memory power and temp target were completely maxed out and for some reason that did not hold so I dialed it back down to 125 megahertz offset on the core clock and still system shutdown so now I'm gonna go to a hundred megahertz I'm not even gonna touch our memory just to see if our cards are really that sensitive alright let's try this again guess what the system just did again all right well you may have noticed that my test bed looks a little bit different than it just did a moment ago and my cooling solution is also about 10% of what it was that's because for some reason the motherboard I was using which is the x2 99 or prime x2 99 deluxe from asus was just not working properly I'm boiling it down to a motherboard issue because the CPU and the graphics card still seemed to work just fine in our new test bed here which didn't take long at all to set up after that whole ordeal this is the Auris gaming 9 also x2 99 and of course we have our fan here but we've done away with the dry ice solution because it just wasn't working I love I love today and I'm gonna also stick with our ice bucket here even though I need to replenish the ice because it's melted once again I saw you move don't do it don't you dare think about it I should really just get a better stand for that Oh God okay just taking it off for now just just for this clip so another issue I just had I'm on a freaking roll right now is that while I was taking the 79 80 XE out of the old test bed the IHS came loose which makes sense because again I deleted this processor just days ago and I didn't permanently reseal it with like silicone or anything like that so it came undone and I was pretty careful with it too it just happened to pop off and it slid in such a way where some liquid metal got on certain parts of the substrate where it doesn't belong fortunately didn't touch any capacitors or anything like that but I did still have to spend twenty to thirty minutes to make sure all the liquid metal was off of every part of that CPU apart from the die and now ever since then I've been having a really hard time getting back to the clock speed that I was overclocked at on the old test bed with this new one which was I'll just tell you what I was running at because it doesn't even matter anymore it's a total shit show anyway 4.8 gigahertz is what I was running on the last test bench which was at one point three four volts and now I'm having a hard time hitting 4.7 gigahertz with even a little bit more voltage than I was using before so I don't know if it's just some degradation that I'm experiencing similar to J with his chip after just pumping so much voltage into that CPU over and over again or if something else happened what in the process of me putting that IHS back on at any rate things are not going my way today so for the sake of this video I'm gonna push on and dial it whatever settings will actually hold just so I can get one at least one full run of fire strike ultra and whatever score that spits out no matter how terrible it is that'll be my baseline score for day one that's all I can offer you guys right now so let's just get this over with do some angry overclocking alright another awesome update it's actually a lot worse than I thought not only are we unable to hit that 4.8 gigahertz overclock on this new testbed but we can't even do anything in fact right now we're running bone stock on our CPU and like what happens when I try to run Cinebench system shuts down this tells me that there's probably some liquid metal still on the substrate maybe touching one of the capacitors and at any first sign of load it's just protecting itself and shutting down so I'm gonna have to revisit the 79 80 XE again but that will obviously have to come at a later time so for now let's just pop in our backup Study 960 X 16 core pretty much the next best thing obviously not quite an 18 core but I I'm so desperate at this point I don't even care alright we swapped out the stupid processor for one that's hopefully less stupid still running stock I'm gonna see if Cinebench works and it does oh thanks sweet Jesus okay I guess I can start overclocking this guy finally hopefully there will be no issues between now and the time I returned to you oh look the system is no longer wanting to boot from the drive the only connected drive that has windows on it and I can't even freaking the keyboard doesn't work now keyboard not working I already tried all the different USB ports on the rear i/o this is my waking nightmare anyone have any water cyanide maybe okay okay alright so I just I want to rip my hair out and scream right now there's something going on with the hardware I can't even overclock our 79 60 X to 4 point 3 gigahertz that's that's ridiculous and we have plenty of cooling for it too and the way it's crashing is just so bizarre it just shuts down instantly the graphics cards have been acting suspiciously - I mean even with a 100 megahertz offset we've been seeing Jay and Steve and even Paul getting off sets well beyond that and yet it just seems to crash everything that I throw at it for for no apparent reason that I can tell right now I'm gonna do something right now that I haven't even done yet which is basically try to run fire strike ultra one time fully stock both a CPU GPU memory let's just see if we can get through one run I've been at this for way too long - it's been about 10 hours and I have so little to show for all this time that I've invested so it's it's very frustrating okay it looks like our run is actually finishing with a score of 14 thousand three hundred and eighty a graphic score of fourteen thousand five hundred and seven definitely a long way off from Jays top score which is reaching 17,000 something but it's a score it's a starting point and I guess we can only go up from here maybe I think I encountered more technical issues today than I have in the last six months combined I definitely underestimated just what a challenge it is to go up against these wicked scores that Steve and Jay have put up and so kudos to them you know they've been working hard and they deserve to be up there on the top of the leaderboard where I'm still just trying to find my footing here with all this so before I embarrass myself any further I'm gonna get out of here I've got things to do like contemplate my life choices and cry in a corner whilst in a fetal position for the next 10 hours it's been fun no it hasn't there's got to be a part to fall up to this video because there's no way I could let this end in the utter catastrophe it has become so I guess that means you should subscribe to the channel so you don't miss that fast like on this video if you enjoyed it or if you just feel sorry for me that works - that's all for now thanks for watching I'm gonna get out of here and do the thing I do best in times like these