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yoyoyo what has happened in people how's it going welcome back to the channel today we're taking a closer look at my new go anywhere do anything PC which I put together last week the build video is already up you can go check it out if you haven't already essentially what this rig is and the objective of this build was to build something that could that I could bring with me on the go to events like land syndicate in Seattle as well as Computex all the way in Taipei so these are really meant for long-distance travel something that I'm going to be taking with me on a plane and a carry-on bag carry-on size was very important to me because I just prefer to have my really expensive computer hardware with me and not put it in the hands of you know the airport or TSA or whatever whatever it is so this fortunately the no 202 case that we're rocking here does fit into carry-on size bag but there were there were some good questions and comments that you guys brought up in the first video which was if you're looking for something portable that you can just you know take with you and go why not just get a laptop and that's a very very good good point because that would be a lot easier granted to just be able to put that into a backpack so for portability I completely agree with you 100% it already comes with you know a monitor you have to bring a monitor or a separate keyboard with a laptop whereas you do have to bring all your various peripherals with a desktop however I'm going to be posting a video probably as we get closer to land syndicate showing you guys exactly which peripherals I'm using and how I'm going to fit everything all those things inside of a single carry-on bag which should be pretty sweet and the fact that I'm that I'm using a carry-on this is meant for a carry-on also gives me a little bit more breathing room and leeway to work with then let's say if I were trying to squeeze everything into a backpack because this no 202 here is certainly a bit too wide to fit in most backpacks out there so um the other reason why I went with the desktop over a laptop is because the the amount of power that's in this thing the amount of sheer horse power would cost a fortune in laptop form that's that's just the nature of notebooks guys I would have to spend easily to $3,000 plus in order to replicate the amount of processing power that's in this system by the way it's a 6700 K as well as an R 9 nano from AMD but but yeah I mean I already have a nice a very nice gaming laptop it's the MS GS 16 goes pro from MSI and it's got a gtx 970m in there very great awesome mobile processor I also did a video on that whole laptop but it honestly just pales in comparison to the sheer amount of power that this thing has so and the last reason why I went with the desktop other than the fact that I really like building pcs is an upgrade path so I really wanted to have the option to slap in a new video card or something like that or new processor or new chipset or whatever it is more memory and that sort of thing the day that any one of those parts gets old or that it just isn't cutting it anymore and with a laptop sure if you're you know strictly memory bound or storage bound you can generally swap out those those components in most notebooks however if you know your CPU or your GPU is just getting really sluggish pretty much the only option you have with a laptop is to buy a new one and I didn't want to run into that issue so overall pretty happy with my choice here I'm sticking with it's going with a full-blown desktop but on that note why don't we go ahead and crack open the crack open what do we go ahead and switch over to the desktop here so you can get an idea of what I'm looking at on this system by the way I'm using this PC to record this video that's why it's all hooked up and stuff so fun fact also you should probably go full screen right now if you're watching this so that you can see all the little little numbers and stuff that we're about to check out so right now I've got sapphire tricks open it's a overclocking software from sapphire of course just like MSI Afterburner or precision decks from EVGA the reason why I chose Strix initially was because it allows you to overclock HBM which the r9 nano has however any time I try to mess with it even if it's like a 5 megahertz you know overclock even with like power limit increase it just crashes every single time and I didn't really have time to troubleshoot anything so if you guys have any idea why I can't overclock HBM right now go ahead and blow up the comments let me know and all check it out later but apart from that this is a great overclocking tool as we're about to see there are some issues when overclocking the r9 Nanna or with let's let's just ignore overclocking for a moment if it's just if you're just running the Nano at stock clock frequencies it does have a tendency to throttle and the reason why is because it only has has a smaller power envelope than say the theory or the theory X it only has 175 watt TDP compared to 275 watt on those other two cards and so because we're dealing with a smaller power WAMP power envelope or we're seeing a lot of throttling and I'll give you an example of that right here with Unigine of unige in heaven 4.0 you can see right now we are at stock we're operating I've got GPU C open here and these aren't the max values these are just the real time values that the card is spitting out right now I hope hopefully this system doesn't crash as I'm making this video but here we go you can see right now we're at around 990 to 980 megahertz but we're not actually hitting that 1,000 megahertz at all in fact you know granted wheat we are getting pretty close and there are a couple instances where you do get that 1 gigahertz that one like right there 1 gigahertz like that that's great however it's not very consistent and we were seeing frequent dips below that at just our regular stock frequency so that's that's no good we want to actually change that and the reason why additionally why via the our 9 nano throttles isn't just because of power but it's thermals as well and so you can see here I've set a pretty aggressive fan curve within tricks to kind of aid in that throttling issue so the first thing we want to do here because this is power bound we're going to increase the power limit and see how that affects our clock speed so as you can see right now we're operating consistently at a thousand megahertz which it is pretty amazing considering all we did was increase the power limit now granted if we had a more in-depth software to take a look at you know real real time statistics we'd probably see a couple dips below a thousand megahertz even with the power limit where it is but that's okay because they're very slight compared to what we what we were just saying and overall your gaming experience is going to be more or less smooth and you're not going to really notice the difference so I'm pretty happy about that now that we're actually hitting the frequency that our stock card is rated for now we can begin to start overclocking the card and I was already dialing in some stuff earlier before recording the video and what I found to be a stable overclock for for my car here was about 1045 megahertz so we're gonna go ahead and try that out I'm going to click apply let's not crash because if I crash if the system crashes by the way I Lou I have to start this video over from scratch because OBS won't actually record the video if it's not if I don't manually stop recording it so fingers crossed everyone and now you can see we're at a thousand forty-four megahertz I don't know why it went from 1045 2044 but whatever we're pretty much at our desired overclock here and we're hitting that consistently and I can even open up the hardware monitor within tricks just to get a second opinion here actually it's probably using gpu-z anyway so they're going to be the same but yeah we're hitting a very consistent clock speed now but the other thing I wanted to address here is system acoustics now because the yarn I nano has an issue with thermal throttling like I said I had to make this fan curve pretty aggressive we're going all the way up to 80 or 80 or so percent on the GPU fan speed just in order to maintain some decent thermals but but that's okay because even though the system does get pretty noisy under load when gaming it doesn't get noisy at all when I'm editing in Premiere Pro for example and that's really important to me because I get super distracted with fan noise when I'm editing however when I'm gaming I'm using a pair of cans anyway and all my my sound is coming through my headphones I can't hear the system at all so even though yes acoustics aren't the greatest here they're not going to be much of an issue for my purposes so on that's no - ladies and gentlemen why don't we go ahead and take a look at our benchmarks here so I ran three different games at 14:40 so we only only doing quad HD results right now the reason why is because I just feel like the r9 nano kind of hits that sweet spot where it's great for 1440 it's a little bit overpowered for 1080 and not quite 4k ready as it's as plus that's the resolution I can see myself gaming at for the most part with this system so we're going to do quad HD results however I am testing both overclock frequencies as well as stock clock so we're going to be able to see the impact that overclocking has on gaming performance with this card which which is pretty revealing and it's it's good I'm going to let you know right now it's good so starting off with Metro last light which is a very demanding title as you can see here all the quality settings that I'm using didn't enable physics or anti-aliasing but overall we got an average frame rate of 66 so very playable frame rates all around you can see the GPU was about 66 degrees Celsius not too shabby however our 6700 K this is where we're also talking about temps well while I go over the benchmarks the the temps really aren't that great we're getting eighty-three degrees Celsius on the hottest core on core number three fortunately this was the hottest the chip ever got geez do you guys hear that there's no sorry I live by a noisy Street just to just ignore them but yeah so this is really not the greatest not too happy about that I actually even had to disable turbo boost in the BIOS because just that extra 200 megahertz that the 6700 K spits out that it can ramp to was just overheating the chip like a like a like a bitch like a bitch like a total bash it was getting to like ninety degrees Celsius which is not OK so bringing that down disabling turbo boost really helped to alleviate some of the thermals there but as you can see it's getting pretty toasty let's go ahead and look at our overclock settings we've got 74 74 frames per second on average so that's a pretty nice boost there from going from 66 to 74 I didn't do the percentage and stuff this time but you can figure it out yourself it's actually a really nice boost from just a forty six or forty five megahertz overclock there without even touching the HBM mind you and as you can see we're still pretty hot here on the on the 6700 K with 81 degrees Celsius it's not super alarming where it's like your system is going to blow up or melt but it's not ideal either and the GPU 406 degrees Celsius man that is that is quite toasty I tell you I know this is actually a bug with gpu-z for whatever reason wasn't reading out correctly you're going to see that happen again later in the benchmarks but on average I was seeing the GPU hit anywhere from 75 to 76 degrees Celsius under load while gaming with my fan curve that I put in which again is pretty it's pretty beefy fan curve getting up to pretty high RPM's there but here's GTA 5 at stock frequencies once again we're seeing a pretty decent performance even at stock ninety six point eight frames per second on average now this was a blend of high and very high settings in GTA 5 so the game looks super crispy very very very nice and the a lot of eye candy is turned on however MSAA is not I figured since we're gaming at quad HD the jaggies aren't quite is noticeable so might as well save some frames there by turning it off now you can see here the 6700 K is doing a lot more reasonable in terms of temperatures we're getting low 70s this time around which is really nice to see considering even the GTA 5 is a pretty CPU intensive game so I was happy to see that 494 degrees Celsius on the GPU whoo-whoo is that is that hotter than last time yes it rose it rose by a whole almost 90 degrees but again just to bug nothing to be alarmed of and then going on to our overclocked 104 frames per second so going from 96 or almost 97 to about 104 it's a it's a modest gain but still definitely will get you a little bit more smooth ease up in there and then we're seeing that the CPU really be put under load a bit more here at 79 degrees Celsius at the max core definitely quite a bit hotter than at stock and then GPU is actually reading out pretty pretty well right now 70 degrees Celsius so that's a bit more reasonable and in line with what the actual operating temperature is not 400 whatever degrees and then moving on to Crysis 3 our most demanding test for today we saw an average of 53 frames per second on average this is pretty this is maxed out this is a completely maxed out with the exception of MSAA in Crysis 3 so that's that's just a nice way to show show off the performance of the r9 nano it's flexing its muscles a little bit here we've also got some decent temps again 71 degrees or 72 at the hottest core and GPU just don't pay attention to that and then overclocking we went to we broke 60 frames per second which is nice so going from 53 to 60 very very sizable gains right there mad gains bro mad gains all around with overclock in the Nano and finally we're taking a look at 3d mark fire strike extreme we got 62 98 at stock again don't look at the GPU temps CPU temps were fairly decent in the low 70s and then going to overclocked we broke 7,000 which is really nice to see again CPU temps looking good and the GPU actually got fairly hot fairly warm that time around but granted that was just with the synthetic benchmark and not real-world gaming so I'm not too concerned about that and I think that's pretty much it kind of sums up this video more or less we kind of blasted through that just now so yeah the other thing that I wanted to say before we head out before I head out is future plans for this guy might include if I can getting my hands on a 6700 a lock skew processor and swapping it out for the 6700 K that's currently in there and using that chip just somewhere else where it can be overclocked and really realize its full potential because it's just kind of a waste of performance in this system like I said in the first video the only reason I used a 6700 K is because I already had one lying around didn't want to spend the extra 3 400 dollars on a new chip but that would be something to look out for for me in the future is if I can find a good deal on on the locks cube process or I might just do that but let me know guys in the comments what you think of these numbers and these performance results that we've seen today and yeah perhaps in the future I'll do another one of these builds but make it like even more portable and just as powerful if not more so that features liquid cooling for the the CPU maybe we can go with a Core 500 from fractal design or even one of those silverstone like the SG 0 v 2.0 versions that support 120 rads and things like that but yeah that's that's for another time thank you guys so much for watching this video oh I know it's really loose kind of format today I'm not even wearing pants actually I never wear pants so that that's irrelevant but yeah sorry for the crappy webcam quality hopefully the mic sounds good because that's a nice mic and it's a mess in my room so there you have it it's one of those just one of those videos guys it's just one of those days ow I didn't really hurt being dramatic now okay thank you guys for watching subscribe to the channel if you haven't already go ahead and toss me a like as well if you enjoyed this video if you thought it was a fun fun fun and and insightful ah and yeah I hope you guys have a good whatever day it is and I'll see you guys very soon take it easy guys thanks