Gadgetory

what's up guys welcome back to the channel today I am undertaking a fairly simple task that is long overdue which is essentially cleaning out my closet shout out to Eminem by the way and replacing some of the crap that's in here with a working testbed station so I have a dedicated space a dedicated place to test hardware and things like that because right now if you look at this table here this is where awesome Hardware happens every other week it's usually the one off to the side that you can't really see on screen but it essentially holds the streaming machine as well as all the peripherals that Paul operates every other week when we do awesome Hardware streams at my house however it's currently doubling as a testbed area as well so anytime I want to test a graphics card for example I have to set up a whole other table so I can put the testbed on top up and then I have to switch out all the peripherals that were connected to the streaming machine and plug those into the testbed itself it's just a really big hassle that takes a lot of unnecessary time to setup and teardown so I'm really looking forward to doing away with that whole method today in place of something a lot more convenient and efficient and there's a little bonus feature for this video I am gonna be swapping out some of the hardware on the testbed itself particularly the motherboard and CPU so we're gonna be swapping out the gaming g1 Wi-Fi for the Strix x99 gaming from Asus a very awesome little board it's got RGB LED functionality all over it with the built-in RGB header it's also got you to m2 and things like that USB 3.1 type C and a we've also got the 69 50 X so this is the new core i7 10 core chip from Intel it's really just making sure that the system is top-of-the-line and that it can really handle anything I throw at it for RAM we're sticking with g.skill however we argument swap out the modules for a kit of tried NZ this is their ddr4 of course at 3200 mega Hertz very fast stuff and I also wanted to optimize my storage configuration so instead of having one 120 gig SSD and a single one terabyte mechanical drive for my games I'm basically doing away with those and replacing them with a single 960 gig crucial MX 200 SSD it's just gonna be really nice to have everything on one single Drive it's also gonna make the test bed a little bit lighter in case I do need to haul it around from time to time and last but not least we are swapping out the power supply here so currently I've been using a G Series 1600 watt from Leppa which has been a great unit honestly it's been super stable and all however it's got this proprietary AC cords that I've just grown to hate over the years anytime I just wanted to use any old standard AC cable so for that we're swapping it out for a gigabyte extreme gaming 1200 watt power supply which is 80 plus platinum it is a modular unit and even though we're sacrificing some wattage here coming from the Leppa I don't think it's gonna be much of an issue because graphics cards themselves are getting a lot more power efficient as well as we're not even seeing as much SLI support with like three-way and four-way from the folks at Nvidia so I don't think it's really gonna be much of an issue 1200 is still plenty for many multi-gpu setups that I may be testing here in the studio and on that notes ladies and gentlemen I'm gonna go ahead and start swapping out parts here on the test bed and then make my way over to the closets where I'll be taking all this stuff out and putting all new stuff in and it's gonna look awesome it's gonna be great let's do it what the hell that was but we're done yay so here's the test setup looks pretty good alright I guess we'll start from the bottom and work our way up so I got the test bed right here just chilling it's a little bit noisy right now because it's a fresh system fresh install of Windows 10 new new motherboard new driving all that haven't really configured or tuned the fans for anything yet especially the the H one hundred-eyed GTX back there but there's plenty of room here there was plenty of room I did stick like I took a wrist rest from this keyboard and I stuck it in I stuck it through through this hole on the other side of the test bed and it's protruding out maybe about six or seven inches right there but that's basically so that the radiator on the H 100 I GTX can just kind of sit and hover in midair without putting too much strain of with the tubing on the water block there so a little bit of a macgyvering but seems to work out at least for now apart from that I could probably stand to tidy up some of the cables what are you doing back there cables why are you looking all in putty I gotta clean up your act camels so I might do some of that a little bit later and then moving up here we've got peripherals at least keyboard and mouse I did want something with a keypad so we went with the k70 non RGB this is just the red LEDs one cherry MX red switches I've had this one for ever probably since it first came out but it's still a really good keyboard still works in a problem and the my onyx Nao's 7000 this is the optical version this is one of the only two products I got during prime day this year along with an SSD but this is a really really comfortable Mouse and it's the sensor super nice as well so hopefully that'll serve me well it's a little bit a little bit limited on space here but I could always move the the keyboard to the left when the trace pulled out if I need more mousing real estate and then finally we get the monitor of course this is the amount of price 4k panel that I've had for quite some time now that was you know used to be on the other table and now you're probably wondering like what am I gonna do when Paul comes over for awesome hardware am I just gonna like keep moving this monitor back and forth from this table to the other one no I actually have another panel ticked out it's not a hundred percent for sure that I'm going to get it it depends on a vendor whether or not they want to give it to me but it should be another 4k panel that's probably better quality than this one I would say it's definitely a little bit more pricey but if I do end up getting that monitor I will be doing a follow-up video maybe doing a quick little tour on some of the main features of that panel in case you guys are interested it's gonna be a professional panel if it works out it won't be a gaming one um however IPS it's gonna look super sexy and all that but for now this is gonna work out like I was saying I think just having my own dedicated space for testing hardware is gonna save me a lot of time in the long run and just speed up my overall workflow so I'm really happy about that overall I would call this a mission success and most importantly I think I'm just happy that all the clutter that was once in my closet is finally cleared out because that was a oh that's gonna do it for now guys be sure to toss me a like on this video if you enjoyed it let me know what you think of my little setup here it's not much but it does the job I suppose and feel free to subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon have a good day everyone I will see you in the next one say bye banana bundling my banana