Gadgetory

welcome back to hardware our box today's video is your classic build video and one I'm particularly excited about because I'm finally upgrading my personal editing rig here and gaming rig to something much faster something that will seriously rip through the encoding of our videos and provide a better gaming experience as well so here is my current rig are used for editing all my videos on hard ROM box and it's showing its age at this point this is largely the same PC I built on the channel when I first joined back at the start of 2017 but with I guess a few changes the big one was I had to replace my a soos crosshair 6 hero motherboard due to a fault with the Dumas lot so I'm currently using a pretty mediocre gigabyte a be 350 gaming 3 motherboard which doesn't handle overclocking my rise in 7 1700 X very well let's just say it has a few vrm problems when overclocking up near the 3.9 gigahertz mark which my previous X through 70 board had no problems with thousand seven 1700 X has been great for me so far but as a professional Video Editor it's time to pull out the big guns so over here we have the AMD thread Ripper 2950 X which will become the core of my upgraded editing rig this thing is a serious beautiful productivity workloads like video encoding and should provide a massive performance improvement over the 1700 X 4 stuff I do basically every day on the channel the 1700 X is also fine for video encoding it still holds up well for most tasks but it's struggling a little bit with the graphics comparison videos we've been putting up on the channel lately when you overlay up to 5 high bitrate 4k 60fps videos and try and preview it the horizon 7 1700 X is on struggle Street but with the thread Ripper 2950 X instead I'll be getting a ton more CPU horsepower and memory bandwidth to speed our previewing and encoding on top of that the 2950 X is also faster than the 1700 X 4 gaming which is I guess a bonus as there's my editing rig for a bit of gaming as well it benefits from 2nd gen reasons improved latency and of course with Cox higher than the 1700 X especially considering I was only topping out at around 3.8 gigahertz on my previous CPU for the motherboard there's really only one choice here and that is the msi Meg x3 99 creation this is a beast of a board it's got a massive vrm on it and that should comfortably handle the 29 50x overclocks but it should also give plenty of headroom for ambe's future through every per cpu should I choose to upgrade down the line I really like the design as well it's got an awesome feature set and really should provide the ultimate platform for thread Ripper while not really necessary for video editing I've decided to swap out my Titan X Pascal that was used in my old rig you can see it in there for the gigabyte r-tx 20 80 TI gaming OC this should give me a handy performance boost in gaming and will make it a bit easier to evaluate things like ray tracing as I go without having to switch to my test system all the time the rest of the components they come from Corsair I'm currently using a cool master case as you can see over here it's not the prettiest thing going around so swapping that out for a Corsair obsidian 500d it's not on the table here but if we will be using that for the bill in just a moment now you might be thinking will the beastly X 399 creation motherboard actually fit inside the 500 d which technically isn't designed to fit extended ATX motherboards well don't worry I checked it it does fit with slightly reduced space for cable management and I'm pretty relieved about that because I love the way the case looks then for the cooling we have the corsair h 150 i pro over here with the TI 4 mounting kit as well that's definitely overkill for the 2950 ex but this should give I guess the most Headroom for precision boost - and even precision boost overdrive order overclocking if I decide to go down that path in any case I was using a pretty basic air cooler with my 1700 X it was pretty loud under load with the H 150 I Pro won't be complaining about noise anymore that's for sure and then finally at the front here we have the Corsair RM 850 X power supply 80 plus gold certified should provide plenty of power for this CPU and GPU combination and that will be replacing a Thermaltake 600 watt unit was used in this thing my existing PSU is fine perhaps a little noisy under load but we needed more power so I had no choice but to upgrade to one of these from Corsair and then there's a whole bunch of components I'll be keeping from this old build we'll take those out in a moment no need to get used for stuff that I already had that's perfectly fine on the memory side in there is 32 gigabytes of course their vengeance ddr4 3000 with white LEDs they provided for a bill a while back also be keeping my entire suite of storage and hoes for my valuable files and all that so my course airforce MP 500 and got to drive crucial MX 300 and then there's to see get eight terabyte drives in there as well all those will be transitioning over and then finally we have my Elgato 4k 60 pro capture card that will be coming across as well I've been using this for all my 4k game captures you've been singing my videos lately and it just works really well no complaints here alright so this is all the new stuff that's going into the build got to take a few things out of here in just a moment I guess it's time to get building all right so here it is my new editing rig one thing I'm already noticing is just how quiet it's running with the Corsair h 150 i pro inside my previous editing room was pretty noisy but I'm certainly very impressed with how this thing is running at the moment I'll soon be figuring out just how fast the thread Ripper 2950 X's I've got to go edit this video so I'm expecting a pretty significant performance improvement over the horizon 7 1700 X and then of course for gaming as well the RT X xx attr will give me a notice will jump in frame rate and that will help me out in some of those competitive shooters and all that sort of thing so yeah really looking forward to using this test system full time from now on I reckon it's going to hit those three key areas I really want to upgrade and improve with this new boot which was getting it to be run run a lot quieter and already doing that much better performance for video editing of course thread Ripper 2950 X and improved gaming performance as well so all across the board there I think I've tackle each of those three things of course big thanks to all the people that helped put this bill together AMD for the 29 50 X guys like MSI to the creation motherboard gigabyte for the 2082 and of course Corsair for all of the components that go into our builds here at hardware arm boxed it's been a long day here so I'm gonna get off this video and get to you know figuring out what this system is like to use so I guess we'll see you guys in the next one of course don't forget to subscribe for more content like this on hardware box check the links in the description below for links to our patreon page where you can get access to our exclusive discord chat and our monthly live streams and I'll catch you in the next one you