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Hey how's it going Dave 2d here so this is the second AMD rig I've ever built in my life the first one was in like the year 2000 it was an AMD Athlon Thunderbird or something like this 15 16 years later you know 17 years later I have this the AMD rise in seven so running arise in seven 1700 X and a liquid-cooled Vega 64 and I put it all into this ITX case because I'm all about smaller cases and the liquid-cooled Vega 64 actually fit inside this thing the case is a shift from fantex it has a volume of around 20 litres so it's not like the smallest ITX case ever but i think it looks really nice and it wanted something that looked stealth but could cool an 8 core cpu with a powerful GPU in terms of the other components it's running 32 gigs of ram from Corsair it's running out of stock 21:33 and a 600 watt power supply a samsung 950 pro nvme and i'll drop links for all this stuff down below but none of this stuff is overclocked it's all running at stock right now and I'm still tweaking things so don't laugh my award-winning cable management but yeah I built a fully AMD rig I just want to share some thoughts with you so first let's start with the GPU the water-cooled Vegas 64 it's a silver casing red accents AMD sent the thing out for me to take a look at earlier so I'm still running beta drivers but the performance is good it's a stronger performer than a reference GTX 1080 so right out of the box without any kind of overclocking it benchmarks better and it performs better in most games it's a very powerful GPU I had mine connected to a 1440p 144 Hertz freeze link panel and the gaming experience is phenomenal super buttery visuals with graphics quality cranked up and did have hiccups in a couple of games but I'm just going to chop it up too immature drivers that will get resolved I ran some benchmarks for crypto mining and I don't know these numbers felt really low it could be a driver issue or maybe it's just a mining client issue I'm not sure but these are some numbers in case you're curious I want to talk about power consumption for a bit the liquid-cooled Vegas 64 uses a lot of juice more than a 1080 more than even a 1080 TI you can reduce the power consumption through the catalyst software and there's even a physical switch on the card for low-power mode but performance is reduced if you do that it's about a 20% drop in performance to go to power saver mode and it's only a little bit of an increase in performance to go up the turbo mode but it uses quite a bit more energy so balanced one is probably the sweet spot now the liquid cooled Vegas 64 is clocked a bit faster and the rad fits perfectly into this IPX case so I gave it a shot now I tried all three of these cards with the GTX 1080 at 1080 Ti and the liquid cooled the Vegas 64 the 1080 Ti is a little bit of a tight squeeze but all three of them fit in terms of performance the liquid cooled Vegas 64 sits right in the middle the tanne Ti is quite a bit faster now this rig was built for video editing and looking at premiere the lead that Vegas 64 normally has over the reference 1080 it disappears it might be something with the drivers or maybe Adobe needs to optimize premiere to work with Vega but the 1080 is slightly faster and as usual the 1080p is an elite the Vegas 64 is nice and a halt but really the heart of this rig is the Reisman 7 1700 X so this thing is awesome after years of building pricier Intel systems having access to an 8 core CPU at this price point is so weird the performance is really good for the money the fan noise of the liquid-cooled Vegas 64 never gets super loud or anything even when you're playing games and the temperatures stay comfortable as well they do a really good job with thermal management and pricing for the liquid Vegas 64 starts at 599 the air-cooled version goes for $4.99 and at this pricing the dollar to performance ratio is not bad I mean it's not a door crashing deal it's fair but if crypto miners want these cards again it's going to screw with the pricing and I think these cards will not be appropriately priced for gamers to purchase if crypto miners get their hands on these things overall I think it's a solid card it has the same GPU tachometer as the fury X performance is strong and as long as Amy continues to improve on their software I think Vega is a good option for a lot of people as for me personally for this particular build I feel like the Vega GPU is a little bit too hot and a little bit too high power consumption for this particular case size 300 watts is pushing this case size and the power supply 600 watt power supply a lot of that is taken by the video card and I just think that I should go for a lower TDP for this system ok hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs be liked it subsequent