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hey welcome back to harbor unboxed down the channel we have mixed feelings because unfortunately we are retiring a valued member of the team a member who is put in a serious amount of time and effort into gathering the benchmark results for us or at least with me I am of course talking about our trusty core i7 6700k test machine but on the flip side the good news is we will be introducing a new test machine I built this thing back in 2015 and it's served us very well in that time and technically it could go on serving us but I think it probably deserves a break from being the go-to ring to test GPUs and what not and now with the new core i7 77k out and about I think it's the perfect time to upgrade our main test rig and as it turns out our friends over at Corsair completely agree coincidentally the 6700 K test machine ended up inside the Corsair Carbide 600 C computer case and inside you'll find the original Hydro series h 100 i all-in-one liquid cooler along with 32 gigabytes of vengeance red LED ddr4 3200 memory rounding out the build was cooler masters v1000 power supply Samsung's SSD 850 pro 2 terabyte SSD and as rocks fatalities at 170 game in k-6 Plus motherboard for our new test system Corsair wanted us to use one of their cases again and not just any old case they've sent over the crystal series 570 X mid tower and this thing is just awesome it's wrapped in timber glass but you'll you'll get a good look at that in a moment and not stopping there they've also sent over some of their vengeance LED memory their H 100 I've version 2 cooler we've got the MP 500 SSD there we've also got the Force Ali SSD and the our MX 750 watt power supply about the only thing they couldn't supply us with was the motherboard and of course the CPU but not to worry I do have as rocks very awesome Zed 270 Taichi motherboard on hand for the build so now that I have everything I need let's get to it and put this new test machine together the crystal series five 70 X is a beautiful-looking case and I really don't think there are many that could argue otherwise the thermal performance is also quite good as are the included features as you might expect being that this is a corsair case the build quality is excellent throughout and although it's not a huge case there is plenty of room inside for high-end hardware and extra gear such as radiators for example azrog z2 70 Taichi motherboards slaughtered perfectly into the five 70 X and already we look to have the foundations of a seriously cool-looking build I pre-installed the core i7 77 ok processor and this was done so we could skip this step next I clipped in those for vengeance LED memory modules giving the system a total memory capacity of 32 gigabytes since we are going with a blue white and black themed build here Corsair has sent along their blue LED memory and I can't wait to see how it looks all powered up before I can do that though we need to install a few other components and next up we have the hydro Series H 100 IV 2 having used the original model in our 6700k test system this is probably the way I would have gone anyway even if Corsair didn't send it along priced at 100 u.s. or 150 Yazzie the H 100 IV 2 is very competitively priced for now I'm going to install the 240 millimeter radiator on the top of the 570 X rather than the front and I might have to see of course there can provide a few more of their RGB LED fans to replace the stock H 100 I fans moving on I dropped in the RM 750 X 750 watt power supply since this is a fully modular unit it makes this job about as easy as it gets I like the carbide 600 CE that I'm coming from the 570 ex houses the PSU and the bottom of the case and this is the preferred method by enthusiasts the 570 X features the PSU cover with backlit Corsair branding and this helps neaten things up for those wondering the RM 750 X is an 80 plus gold certified power supply featuring 100% Japanese 105 degrees Celsius capacitors and it costs a hundred u.s. or 120 Aussie now that we have the power supply installed nor hooked up let's drop in the storage the Corsair force MP 500 480 gigabyte SSD slots in a place quickly and easily thanks to its support of the m2 form factor the Zed 270 taiichi offers three slots so take your pick I went with a top slot above the primary PCIe x 16 slot then the remaining SSD which is a 2.5 inch SATA model was loaded into one of the tool free cages on the backside of the motherboard tray the 4 cell a4 80 gigabyte looks pretty cool here behind the tempered glass panel now it's just a matter of installing a graphics card and this is the one component that will be changed on a regular basis in our corsair test system for the maiden voyage that is the trip from the studio here to the upstairs office I will install gigabytes gtx 1080 extreme gaming as much as I love the old test system I think this new version while technically no faster all thanks to kb legs an impressive IPC gains it certainly does look the part i think you guys will agree of course the aesthetics of a test system aren't terribly important because i'll be mostly just pulling hardware out and sticking new hardware in but i think right now at this point in time it does look pretty swanky for now at least i have decided to continue running this system at the same four point 5 gigahertz operating frequency as I did with the 6700k skylake system it is possible to run at 4.8 to 4.9 gigahertz and at those frequencies that did appear quite stable but the issue is temperatures even with that corsair hydro all-in-one liquid cooler in place temps were quickly shooting up above 90 degrees I think for the most part it's at around 92 but did reach 96 degrees at times and in my opinion that's a bit too hot for a test system could compromise stability even though I didn't see any evidence of that just yet but yeah just too hot for a system that's pretty much turned off or it's on being stress tested as in benchmarking and yeah I really just can't afford to risk the system crashing at all stability issues in that with benchmarking it just makes it too much of a pain in the backside so 4.5 gigahertz it is for an hour on that note though I do plan to deal with the 77 or okay processor in the system very soon and when I do that I'll reevaluate the temperatures and then the speeds that I think I can safely run the system at more long-term but for now using the stock settings it did idle just 28 degrees which is good but that's just the idle tab under load run a bit too hot in my opinion at 72 degrees I mean that's certainly safe but hotter than I was expecting for out-of-the-box performance with a really good liquid cooler installed and I don't think that temperature is anyway reflecting poorly on the the cool the Corsair liquid cooler or the case because that's pretty much the best temperature I've seen with this chip using other you know liquid cools and things that sort of hovers around the mid-70s anyway so the 77 okay just appears to be a hot chip so hopefully deal letting it can help there anyway a big THANK YOU to Corsair for supplying all the gear that made this build possible and really appreciate them sending over all that you know hardware the case the cool high storage power supply all that good stuff and I hope they're just as generous when it comes time to build my rise and test systems shortly on that bombshell I'm your host Steve and I hope to catch you on the next one you