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hey everyone today we're doing something a bit different and looking at a test bench this is what we use for testing all of the games when we do game benchmark tests and FPS tests so this is sort of inside the operation it's not necessarily something you can use as a consumer but it's still cool to know how things work and what goes on behind the scenes at our media outlet and add a lot of other ones this is what's known as an HP TX top deck tech station which is very difficult to say and it's a two layer test bench and it's called a top deck tech station because the top layer is the one that houses the components the motherboard and three fans over here 3 120 million fans off the screen that are used optionally to keep things cool if we're doing anything hi overclocking or extremely intensive that requires additional cooling the bottom layer or the bottom deck as it's called is used for the power supply which is loose I don't mount this with screws or anything and then we've got SSDs and if you have them hard drives and that SSDs and hard drives mount on the underside of the top deck in acrylic rails and everything on this bench is non-conductive it's completely ESD safe so there's really very minimal risk of anything getting damaged from electrostatic discharge unless it's coming from a human who did not properly ground themselves because the components and the the build of the tech station are all acrylics and plastics and nylon and this foam is an anti ESD foam so everything is very clean in terms of static electricity which is important because this is open air it's got nothing to protect it from from ESD so in terms of the build here this does not ship built I had to do it myself and it takes a bit of time you start with the two decks and then you move to the motherboard standoffs which are really just rubber non-conductive feet for the motherboard to sit atop and there are two nylon threaded screws that come through the board and then if you want to keep it in place you can screw down a washer to hold that board in place which is also I believe in nylon the rails are acrylic we mount four of those in total to how is all of the SSDs that we need they do not mount with screw use their sort of loosely sitting in the rail system we just lay the power supply loosely on the bottom atop an anti ESD mat and there is a bracket to mount this more permanently if we wanted to but I move things around a lot and this makes our lives a lot easier so that's really why we have this thing and it's not good at representing a real-world cooling scenario if you're doing cpu cooler test or something like that so we don't test CPU coolers on this we strictly test GPUs for the FPS output because cooling is really not going to affect that too much since we're going to keep it very cool whether or not it's in an enclosed case so all that matters here is that we have very easy access to the video cards you can see it supports up to 4-way SLI as long as the motherboard does and we can easily unscrew these nylon screws they're obviously too / / card or 1 / expansion slot and then we take the card out drop the next one in and this is done for something like 10 video card configurations so this can save up to a couple minutes per card because it's eliminating the requirement of opening up a case getting down on the floor and pulling the card out in the dark and all that crap that you all know and have dealt with when it's in it in a desk environment so this makes our lives very easy takes about 30 seconds to swap a card and then we can continue on with our testing and and keep things very controlled in a completely open air environment with enterprise-class fans that will not have bearing degradation anytime soon so we know we can trust these two cool all the cards pretty equally when we are doing cooling tests in the open air environment but most importantly it's all very modular so if I want to pull this board off and put a different test platform on here all I have to do is unscrew the two washers pull it up move it drop the new one on top of it and that's it done there's no system building required you can swap components in their entirety and less than five minutes so this is really making our lives a lot easier we can produce more content please check out links the description below for the channel for all of our other social media opportunities and leave a comment if you have questions and I will see you all next time yes you