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welcome back to hadron box we've got another build video for you today this one is a pretty important one because I'll be updating my test system with the suite of new hardware to use for all sorts of benchmarking in the future it's obviously quite important to keep our test systems up to date with the latest hardware and this build will get me ready for all the action that's to come in 2019 so you might have seen on the channel previously my core i7 8700 K test rig which is my main Intel test system and PC I use for game testing I also have a rising system kitted out with a arisin seven 2700 expert considering the a 700 K is faster for gaming it tends to get the first crack at most major titles anyway this video will serve a number of purposes firstly you get to see a cool build process which is always kind of neat but more importantly it serves as a good reference point so you guys can come back and refresh yourself on what is in my test system whenever we use it for future benchmark videos we're also going to see how this combination of components we have here handles core I nine ninety nine hundred K overclocking because we know the chip is power hungry and runs hot under full load and yes the key component of this build is the core a nine ninety nine hundred K which we'll be replacing the crisis of an eighty seven hundred K in the previous build we still think the eighty seven hundred K is better value for most people after a high-end gaming system in a lot of games it's just as fast as the nine hundred K but costs one hundred and sixty dollars less but there's no denying the 99 hundred K is the overall fastest consumer desktop CPU on the market so I'm upgrading to an in preparation for next year in case you're wondering we don't have retail packaging for the 99 hundred K here because the CPU is sent to us by Intel and with engineering samples or review samples this is how they come packaged in this little sealed black boxes so that's what you're wondering that is that is their ninety nine hundred K right there four eighty seven hundred K test system we used a gigabyte Z 370 motherboard and this time around we've gone with gigabyte once again the companies really stepped up their game with their Zed 390 lineup offering basically the best motherboards in a number of price categories thanks to their high-end vrm designs that are suitable for unleashing the full power of an overclock to cry nine 19900 k the motherboard that we have here and this is quite a heavy box this is the gigabyte z3 90 horas master so this is right up near the top of gigabyte said 390 line up it's a $300 u.s. motherboard of their about sued expected to handle the 9900 k overclocked and it does thanks to a proper 12 phase V core erm Steve's already done a bunch of testing with this motherboard so you can go back and check that out if you want more information on how it performs compared to some of the other high-end said 370 and Zen 390 boards but needless to say it's one of the best said 390 boards on the market and be right at home in our new test system so thanks to gigabyte for providing that one the other key thing for this build is the cool of the 1900 cave runs hot and we need something pretty capable to get the most over CPU so for this but we're gonna try out the new H 115 i Platinum here the new a i/o cooler from Corsair that includes I guess a bunch more RGB lighting I really don't need the RGB lining for the build but it might look cool more importantly I'm interested to see how this new 280 millimeter closed-loop cooler will handle the 9900 k overclock we'll get back to you guys on that after the build is complete the rest of the stuff is pretty standard for our test systems for memory down here actually it's over on this side we have our 16 gigabytes of Corsair Vengeance ddr4 at 3000 CL 16 speeds dual channel kit and over here we also have a course air force le 200 this is a 240 gig capacity model this is just a basic boot drive we have separate drives destroying benchmark apps and all that sort of things so don't anything crazy from those two components for the power supply you've seen it up here the Corsair RM 850 X we've used that in our previous test system and we'll use it again here because it's perfect for this sort of testing we do and of course the modular design makes it easy to work with and then for the case it's not up on the table here but we asked Corsair to provide whatever sort of case they felt like and they sent over a carbide 275 R and don't need anything fancy so we'll see what that case is like the GPU it's probably the least necessary part as that's the thing that's swapped out the most often in our test system and for this build just for the sake of it I've decided to put in the NVIDIA GeForce r-tx 2070 founders Edition this is a card that I have literally never used before it's just been sitting on a shelf ready to be you for something so I figure I should probably make sure it actually works we use it for this build anyway time to put the system together get ready for that awesome builds music from Leakey and I'll see you on the other side you you so everything is now built the system is here beside me and I reckon for a test system it looks pretty good I guess for now that is these sort of things can get pretty messy after a bit of usage and swapping things in and out messing around with SSDs and all that sort of thing the corsair h 115 I plot name is definitely the star of the show the new RGB effects not only with the fans but also the pump block or I can look awesome with the previous Pro models I think you only got one RGB LED on the pump but that's now up to 16 with the Platinum I think that really shows the Auris master also has a few nice RGB effects on it similar to the last board I used from them in my test system however I was a bit surprised the motherboard shipped with gigabytes older BIOS design on it by default gigabyte has done some work to improve their BIOS layout but you'll only get that if you upgrade the BIOS to version F 5 or higher at least with my units that I've got here also a quick word on the case the corsair carbide at 275 r this is one of course there's more mid-range cases in the one corsair sent out is the acrylic side panel version as opposed to the tempered glass version actually prefer the acrylic side panel for this test system because most of the time the side panel will be removed and the glass version is more likely to break however the hex key screws around the edges and I guess corners here they keep the side panel a pretty annoying definitely would have preferred something more like tools thumb screws or something like that I'm also not sure why the acrylic version doesn't come with a top dust filter while the tempered glass version does I wouldn't have thought they would have distinguished between the two models there but certainly they have so I think for most people that are buying this case I'll probably go for the tempered glass version instead of the acrylic version but again I like the acrylic just for my use case here aside from that's a pretty easy case to work with there's plenty of room on the reverse side for cable management all the holes are in the right places getting the 280 mil radiator in the front as well no sweat you can put that up to a 360 ml radiator in there if you want to and I guess I also love the case in white reckon it looks pretty good anyway let's talk a little bit about performance one of the key goals for this build was to overclock the core I nine ninety nine hundred K to the maximum and then see how it would go in terms of voltages and a temperatures on the corsair h 150 ni platinum i wasn't a hundred percent sure whether a two eighty millimeter closed-loop cooler would suffice for an overclocked 8 quart intel space heater but it turns out it's actually pretty decent so here's the basics of what I achieved I pushed the Korra nine ninety nine hundred a five gigahertz all core overclock and set the voltage to one point three one volts V Corps with gigabytes turbo load line calibration setting which does a great job of managing v core droop one point three one volts is a little lower than Steve achieved with his ninety nine hundred K samples so I guess we off to a great start there this overclock was validated in our standard one our blender stress test if it passes that it's good to go for pretty much everything temperatures at the end of the run we're sitting at 89 degrees Celsius from a 24 degrees Celsius ambient so that's a very respectable result from a 280 mill closed loop cooler yeah 89 degrees is still quite hot but of course is smaller H 100 I Pro was basically maxed out on Steve's ninety nine hundred K test system at 5 gigahertz whereas the H 159 Platinum here is actually capable of cooling the nine hundred K with this sort of overclock it's also worth mentioning the Steve only managed to shave off a few degrees from this result with a three sixty millimeter open-loop so overall very happy with this cooler and the performance II the only thing L says the cooler isn't particularly quiet at these temperatures using the bounce mode for the fans it decided to push up to around 1700 rpm under full load which produced moderate noise levels the cooler is much quieter under less intensive loads such as gaming and it's basically silent at idle but you can tell blender on a 5 gue hertz 9900 k is stressing this cool app pretty hard still i'd give it a pass overall and this certainly won't be any need to upgrade to a larger cooler for this test system I'm also quite pleased at the overall size of the builds my last test system in the be quiet dark Bay 700 was a bit of a beast in terms of its size and weight this new build is much more compact which is better for office setup bit of an unexpected bonus there anyway that's it for this build video in the near future if you're wondering what I mean when I say I've used 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