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the vast 35 inch curved gaming monitor from mass drop sports a 34 40 by 1440 ultra wide resolution 2 millisecond response time and a 100 Hertz refresh rate with freesync technology for an unbelievably low price click the link in the description to learn more before the deal ends what's going on people welcome back so today we're taking a closer look at December's PC of the month which I assembled back in December as you guys might remember I didn't actually get the system to boot or even turn on at all because the power supply that England had sent me actually shipped with a improper cable so I was unable to show you guys the finished build all lit up or you know semi lit up and and with fans running and so forth so today I ended up swapping that power supply out for a 500 watt EVGA 80 plus bronze unit which is adequate for now as a temporary solution believe it or not all my other power supplies are wrapped up in other builds at the moment so I wouldn't recommend it for this particular system because we have some high-end components in here that we are gonna be overclocking so for long term use I would suggest a different power supply but for the purpose of this video it's probably fine but that being said here it is it boots look it works I'm gonna take the tempered glass side panel off since it's tinted it's kind of hard to see the beautiful innards but hey there you go a lot of people on Instagram I'm making fun of the fact that I only have a single fan in the middle up there and it looks funny I think it looks cool so ha joke's on you now before we dive into what the system is actually capable of I wanted to quickly go over revisit the specs to give you guys a refresher since it has been a while since I built this we've got an 1800 x resin 7 CPU 8 cores 16 threads along with the gtx 1070 TI 1070 TI from gigabyte the motherboard is a be 350 tomahawk from msi paired with 16 gigs of g.skill ripjaws 5 ddr4 at 29 33 megahertz inside of the beautiful in win 303 C case unfortunately as you guys saw in part 1 I was unable to take advantage of that front panel USB C port because the motherboard that I picked does not have a header for that also RGB there's no RGB here because there's no RGB header on the motherboard either I made a lot of mistakes in part one the case however is getting plenty of airflow thanks to the help of our five fractals silent series our two fans we've set three as intake at the bottom of the case which is the only place where the in wind 303 gets its intake from the front panels completely closed off there's not even any fan mounts up there we have one rear fan at the exhaust or one one exhaust fan at the rear and then one more at the top of course and then I almost forgot to mention our cryo rig h5 cooler with a slim fan here beautiful sort of off-white plating at the front just makes it look really nice and cohesive with the rest of the build along with these sleeved extensions from waz mods he did an excellent job once again overall a very very very nice system I haven't configured the RGB lighting on the card yet so it's kind of mismatched there but other than that that's sort of a refresher on December's PC of the month let's go ahead and talk about some overclocking starting with our 1800 X I was actually able to push that all the way to 4 gigahertz on all 8 cores very easily within MSI's UEFI all I did was change the multiplier and didn't have to touch the voltage or the B CLK or anything like that it was a very very simple procedure we've also got our memory running at 29 33 just fine didn't do any overclocking there I just wanted to hit the rated speed which was also super simple with an msi UEFI simply enabled an XMP profile set the 29 33 megahertz profile and we were good to go didn't even have to fool around with cast latency timings or or even input the the voltage manually anything like that it was it was really straightforward to be honest which also goes to show that motherboard manufacturers are rolling out more and more updated BIOS ease that are improving the support the memory compatibility there's less that the end user has to do in order to hit a memory kits rated speed which is also fantastic news I was very impressed with the clock speeds we were able to hit on our gtx 1070 TI from gigabyte if you guys recall the EVGA 1080i that i took a look at earlier i think we got a 140 megahertz offset on that and i thought that was pretty good took us around to the very low 2000 megahertz range but this guy was able to pull off 170 megahertz of a core clock offset which actually took us all the way up to 2000 and 88 megahertz I tweaked around with it a little bit and was able to hit 2.1 gigahertz at one point but you know that was proved unstable once we got around to fire strike extreme so again a 170 megahertz core clock offset with a 300 megahertz memory clock offset means that we're hitting some really nice clock speeds here overall that was giving us a round of 4 to 5% or I'd say 3 to 5 percent increase in gaming performance strictly from overclocking the GPU we'll take a look at performance of course in just a bit that leads us right into thermals so starting with our 1800 X we were seeing very favorable numbers in the 50 range so 50 degrees Celsius there abouts minee we're putting a heavy load on it's in GTA 5 battlefield one at 2560 by 1440 for about half an hour in each game very nice numbers I think the hottest week we saw the the CPU get was about 68 degrees Celsius and that was of course just a random spike up to that number and then it dropped back down to the 50s so overall the cryo rig h5 is doing a fantastic job of cooling this overclocked 8 core monster of a CPU our GPU is staying just as cool I mean quite literally it's hitting 68 degrees Celsius at its hottest that's just like a random spike every now and then but it's mainly staying around 65 66 degrees celcius is where we're seeing it just for fun just from the walls I actually turned the case on its front side so with the front panel facing on the surface of the desk and just to see if thermals would change it all from opening up this this dust filter at the bottom here and we actually saw a drop of around 2 to 3 degrees which isn't phenomenal I mean if we were if it was like a 10 degree Delta or something like that then you know then then we're talking about a serious design flaw in the case and win' has to go back to the drawing board but just just sort of a fun little experiment there I mean if you're a freak about thermals I guess that's one way to run your system but probably inconvenient for most people having the front IO on the bottom of your case moving on to acoustics let's talk about noise I mean right now the system is idling side panels off microphone is probably around eight or nine inches away from the system and you probably can't hear it much it's very quiet these silent series fans are doing a great job especially the fan on the h5 there and we have zero rpm fans on our graphics card there are they are they no they're not running that that's good so it is a very quiet system for day-to-day use however if you throw a heavy load on it like rendering or gaming those fans are gonna spin up they're gonna speed up and all of a sudden the system becomes much more audible the main source of noise is coming from the GPU it's got a triple fan design and but it's not as loud as it could be to be honest because it's keeping the GPU so cool relatively cool the fans don't need to work as hard to to maintain those temperatures additionally while it doesn't go unnoticed when under load if you happen to be listening to a game or movies or whatever with a pair of cans or through a set of speakers that are at medium or higher volume this certainly doesn't pose too much of an issue it's not going to distract you or bring you out of those experiences so I think that takes us to benchmarking pretty much for use in wickel driver 3 1977 and I ran a couple of synthetics and six different games at 1920 by 1080 and 2560 by 1440 I didn't do any 4k benchmarks here usually I cut that off at anything below a GTX 1080 simply because if you're buying a 10-7 TTI right now well if you're buying a 10-7 TTI right now it means you're loaded for one and additionally you're probably gonna be gaining at 1080p 1440p you know ultra wide resolutions for example so with that said ladies and gentleman let's take it away to some benchmarks accompanied of course by the face-melting sounds of brutally hardcore metal music alright y'all so there you guys have the results let's quickly talk about some of this data here before we close out for starters this system was able to pull off well over 60 FPS on average at both resolutions in every game except for ashes of the singularity which wasn't even too far behind hovering in the 50s even 1% lows for that matter we're over 60 fps in all but ashes and GTA 5 with the exception of pub G at 1440p which scored around 47 fps but that's frickin pub G who cares but still really really good numbers here ashes of the singularity and GTA 5 were the only two titles where we actually saw some serious CPU bottlenecking where there was next to no performance improvement going from 1440p to 1080p so perhaps the 1800 X could use maybe in maybe an upgrade to rise in second generation chip once those come out that'd be an interesting test actually rounding things out here combining the frame rates of all the games we tested we actually saw an average of 117 FPS at 1080p and 90 fps on average at 1440p very very respectable scores there so altogether I would be happy to call this a daily driver it's quiet it's cool and it's it's pretty damn fast it's the only problem with it is that it's gonna cost an arm and a leg given the the DRAM prices right now and especially our graphic solution there but overall guys that's December's PC of the month part 2 fully tested you guys let me know what you 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