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rummaging through my collection of computer stuff and found an unused 24 pin sleeved extension cable from silverstone befittingly enough which was immediately then used to redeem the computers striking aesthetic the other problem I ran into during the build was that my initial decision to use the shadow rock LP had been squandered due to the RAM clearance issues with my g.skill sniper modules forcing me to use the noisy stock cooler instead rather than buying a new cooler or a new memory kit with shorter heat spreaders I swapped out the sniper dims with the Crucial Ballistix kit from my HTPC they're super low-profile allowed me to install the shadow rock without a hitch thus granting me a bit more overclocking Headroom on the Athlon chip which I was then able to take to a stable 40 500 megahertz while the system has already seen its fair share of complications I'm glad that everything seemed to come together in the long run and I'm incredibly happy with the end result but now that the build is optimally functional and is right where I want it to be in the looks department what's there to say about performance and doesn't measure up to the spec of modern-day consoles well clearly the r9 280 destroys the integrated graphics found on current gen console ap use so my only hint of concern here was the $75 860 K potential holding us back in certain cpu driven titles but if the cpu can hold its own we're talking about a far superior gaming experience that's achievable for around the same price as a console if you're still skeptical about the pricing statement you clearly haven't seen part one yet and you should feel bad on that note with the question of console killer looming over our heads let's put this debate to rest once and for all with some benchmarks starting off with Metro last light we saw an average of 46 frames per second on high settings at 1920 by 1080 though the game's PC exclusivity makes it tough to compare these results to those of a console the fact that this is one of the more graphically demanding games of its time already queues us into the system's potential at 1080 we were able to crank the settings all the way up to ultra and BioShock Infinite and still get a solid 79 frames per second interestingly enough the third installment of the IP never launched on current gen consoles making its debut only on the ps3 and xbox 360 both platforms ran the game natively at 720 at 30 frames per second well it certainly be unfair to compare the performance of a modern-day PC to that of a ten-year-old console it's also relevant to note that even the slightly faster ps4 is still running triple-a titles at 1080 60 frames per second at medium to low quality GTA 5 is the first game in our tests that's been released on all three major platforms running at 1080 and 30 frames per second on the ps4 we were able to hit 46 frames per second on average at the same resolution with a nice blend of quality settings since these results were much lower than I anticipated I decided to pop the r9 280 into my x99 system fire up GTA 5 with the same settings and marveled at the performance gain 274 frames per second indicating a sizeable CPU bottleneck for our app on CPU there was an unexpected silver lining however since the console over killer wasn't maxing out the cards potential I was able to turn the resolution up to 2560 by 1440 with no performance loss the higher resolution made the game look super crispy while compensating for the lack of any anti-aliasing overall a bittersweet discovery in my testing to say the least since competitive first person shooters generally favor higher frame rates the ps4 sacrifices some pixels to meet that sick the FPS standard however the console over killer blows us out of the water scoring 82 frames per second on high settings seeing is how we land in way beyond the 60 FPS mark I was curious to see how he'd fare in 1440 and much to our delight the testing demonstrated a smooth gaming experience at 57 fps and finally the last game I ran was evolved where we saw huge gains over the ps4 at 51 frames per second at high settings textures in the environment are pretty to look at and character models still retain plenty of detail offering a fluid gameplay all the while so there you guys have it all in all this is a solid little AMD system that if you're willing to put the initial time investment into can really be a great solution if you're looking for a console alternative but let me know in the comments what you think about this build the benchmarks and whether or not you feel the same way and also before I sign off I think there's one more thing from part one that I haven't addressed yet ah yes the wall mounting yeah you didn't think I forgot did you well here's a good look at it and all of its glory hovering above my second desk area now all I got to do is find some nice wireless gaming peripherals and I'll be good to go but perhaps I'll save that for another video in closing I want to 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