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this is the second and final part of our build for a community member of ours on the patreon discord zbg zeg does 3d modeling placement things like that with a software called Daz 3d works with a couple of other tools as well all he ever does is post on patreon discord complaining about how his system is taking days to render a scene and about CPU thread limitations and about cuda limitations so we've worked with the community on the GN discord to put together a system for zeg and fixes problems before that this is brought to you by the EVGA 240 CLC which is a $120 MSRP closed-loop liquid cooler the EVGA 240 CLC has an RGB illuminated pomp plate uses a thermal probe within the lower pump chamber for liquid temperature monitoring and allows customization through software learn more at the link in the description below this is the result of the build which was in part one we've got a rise in seven 1,700 system the CPU was purchased by the community I got a board from gigabyte it's a gaming 5x 370 board actually encountered some trouble we'll talk about in a moment the community bought a gtx 1070 used and that's a gaming X card they got some RAM I picked up the case the power supply we got some other components in here as well so this is gonna be the benchmark results of the build as a whole how it came together and how it works so the problems we encountered basically I put it together on camera as you all saw and then I gave it to Patrick to do benchmarks we did gaming benchmarks power consumption things like that as normally unfortunately his entire first day was so washed so he spent the whole day at running all the benchmarks on it and then we realized that there were problems with stability and with memory frequency and that the frequency wouldn't hold with the XMP enabled so it would be stuck to whatever stock was 21 33 or something and also we started getting spurious crashes at one point which was really frustrating because of course we're thinking well maybe it's just our image is no good nope what actually happened was after troubleshooting every single thing and memory all this stuff fortunately we have a whole shelf full of components troubleshot all of it and it came down to not the motherboard but the motherboard socket the CPU socket so I've never had this problem before basically the board that was sent out was just I guess a one-off defect or maybe a used review sample or something like that write it off as a normal non-issue because we have three of these boards and all of them have been fine but this one that we got and used in this build the first time it was ever used socket of the CPU and the latch for the amp or latch those of you who have used it will know that it kind of has like a point where you can feel more pressure applied and it locks into place well this one didn't really do that and I kind of noticed it during the build process but I didn't really think much of it I just kind of thought oh well that was an easier one than normally but what actually happened was that socket is on the board loose so it's loose enough that the pads weren't making full contact to the pins on the CPU because there was a little bit of sort of z space between them so without full contact depending on how tight the CPU cooler was basically that dictated the stability of the system system the stability and the performance of the system was not based on component specs it was based on how its height where the screws holding down the CPU for the CPU cooler so yeah that was a problem we had the unbuild it all replace the board it's good now I put one of our review boards in there technically Patrick did it but we put a review board in there and that one's definitely good to go so solve the problem gigabytes gonna take the other one back and replace it no big deal but definitely a weird first time issue for the the socket retention and retested everything twice due to the memory instability issues so that's two full days of tests it's good to go now so let's go through some of the blender results first cuz CDG does basically all rendering that's gonna the most interesting to him and then these will be derived from our recent 1700 benchmarks then we'll have game benchmarks and power benchmark specific to this system so for blender we've previously run several blender rendering workloads on the r7 1700 CPU as shown in some of these charts from our i5 8400 cpu review we have charts for the monkey heads render the splash image and then the GM logo image all these were either made in-house or modified in-house and represent a pretty realistic use case for someone like zdg who does this kind of thing all the time the r7 1700 is the best in terms of performance per dollar and overclocking pushes that further we've actually pre overclocked zdg system to a stable 3.9 gigahertz though you could do 4.00 with some extra voltage but we'll leave that up to him to decide if he wants to do that for 24/7 use he's probably capable of that anyway for renders it doesn't get much better in terms of efficacy at the dollar the gtx 1070 will enable cuda acceleration for his more specialized applications which we didn't test but it's there if it's ever needed for 1080p gaming we found CDG's build ran total war Warhammer at around 115 FPS average with a lows at 70 and 60fps 0.1% the build did ok with project cars measuring an 80 FPS average with lows around the 60s and watchdogs 2 also did just fine marking a 92 FPS average frame rate with lows at 58 and 74 it's not the best frame rate you could get but for someone who's primarily going to use the machine for CPU bound rendered tasks and some CUDA workloads it's doing just fine for the occasional game 1440p reduces FPS a bit as we become clearly more bound by the gtx 1070 than by the 1700 CPU frame rate falls from 115 to 96 FPS average and Total War still perfectly acceptable with lows around where they were previously project cars also drops to 70 FPS so it's falling 10 and watchdog's two drops hard from 92 to 66 FPS average but still remains perfectly playable as for power consumption we're looking at total system power consumption at the wall rather than EPS 12-volt consumption because this is a complete system build so that's what matters the stock non overclocked configuration drive 68 watts idle with the high-performance windows profile enabled and we are at 145 watts and Cinebench multi-threaded workloads 90 watt single threaded 144 and blender which was the most important metric to know we also have 261 watt draw in a gaming scenario with total war at Warhammer overclocking obviously increases those numbers with blender now drawing 190 watts at the wall total war drawing 270 and Cinebench up to 198 so that's the build this is it's pretty good system actually like I said in the beginning I asked for this case from silverstone because i liked this case and i know for someone like ZD g he's gonna like it cuz he's got two needs which are ventilation ZD G's big on functionality not in a silly form and then also dust filtration just because honestly I've seen some of his pictures he's uploaded to discord of older systems and I think it'll help out to have so this case is good for that it's the same one we use in our render machine just black instead of white cooling is no problem at all and then for the CPU cooler we have it on the top it's a 240 EVGA cooler and it's pushing it up and out which seems to be working pretty well and then the the 1070 is not too affected by the power supply shroud in the bottom just because the case is taller so it provides a good maybe 4 to 5 inches of space between the card and the shroud which is enough for it to breathe so everything came together well performance is good clearly a good rendering machine good animation type of machine on a budget because with the gtx 1070 in there you're gonna do fine and most cuda accelerated tasks that are not like pro daily driver professional user type of rendering and then the cpu can handle all of his CPU tasks so that's it for this one if you want to join the patreon discord where all of this was planned and a secret from zdg you go to patreon.com slash gamers nexus or you can just subscribe for more as always and go to store that gamers nexus dotnet for shirts and things like this i'll see you all next time