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welcome back to harbor unboxed for today's video we're exploring part three of why it's a bad time to build a PC don't make at the moment Oh Mac hey hey you're not bad what's going on well my computer's died and I need help alright give me a very guys alright way back I've looked at Matt's computer and tried to work out what's going on with it fortunately it looks like he's motherboard has died so reasonably easy component to replace there but we've decided to build a new computer anyway because you're doing some more work now and do lots of video editing so bit more granted be nice yeah what have you got at the moment it's a 46 70k yes I fourth gen has well Core i5 so only 4 cores 4 threads so we thought you know more more grunt is definitely near there and for encoding and work and light sort of stuff so as you guys know it's pretty bad time to be building a new computer and all that very expensive time notice we could pick up z97 motherboard something like for not too much though they are quite expensive what they are it kind of always makes sense you can get be 350 motherboards cheaper and with the rise in 7 1700 being recently discounted it's probably a good time to pick up seems like a good excuse yeah good excuse maybe not a good time for the good yeah so that's what we're gonna do we're gonna build Matt a new computer today we're gonna ditch the old one we'll bring over it motion to view storage and all that sort of stuff and yeah things that we can possibly the graphics card you play a few games day ya know casual gamer hassle gamer so we've got to work out what we're going to do about the graphics card whether we stick with the one you've got which may be a way to go or if there's we might do some benchmarks with a few different options and see what you could do so we're gonna go over all the parts that I've worked out that Matt can have for his new build with the heads and spears yeah there's a couple couple of spare parts so we'll work out that and in we're gonna probably do this in two parts so the first part we're going to work out the parts will actually test them outside of the computer case to get like a best case scenario if your will for temperatures and then I have an interesting case that you'll see in a moment that we're going to be putting all the parts into so let's get to that all right so I've got the case yeah it's quite pretty so sure some of you guys are familiar with this case we'll talk about why we've picked it in a moment and what we want to test and work out the way we'll get to that in a second all right look at the motherboard power supply you'll need that many fans and our GPS ok we've also got the new crucial mx-5 hundred one terabyte SSD so we're gonna give that a whirl in the build we're gonna go to the horizon 7 1700 and we'll definitely be overclocking that they'll be interested in what temperatures and things alike and as you said we've got some RGB lights of course we've got the nine to forty millimeter all in one liquid cooler we have the BitFenix Formula gold rated is 750 watt power supply subtle power everything nicely then with the motherboard a little bit overkill here with the gaming seven and that's a X 370 motherboard so not necessary and it's probably not even a wise investment because we know about the X 470 boards coming out in a few months time with the second-generation Rison CPUs so if you were building right now and you couldn't wait you had to build kind of like the situation Matt finds himself in because he's got to get work done he needs to get it done quickly hence the upgrade so ABI 350 motherboard would be the way to go there anyway this is all I have spare so that's getting a nice upgrade there you as if you haven't lost your edge okay so we've got the core components ready we've got our isin 7 1700 out to install at the moment I'll probably make Matt do all that you remember how to build a computer find out we'll find out so that's going to happen we've got the memory the power supply lat stuff we're gonna grab a monitor I'll grab a test system SSD get it all installed do about an hour's worth of stress testing and record the temperatures we've got an ambient room temperature of 21 degrees so we'll compare that to the final temperatures in the case once built in the BitFenix ends okay so that should be interesting let's get a building or at least roughly setting up now I'll let you you can slot the CPU in I'll get some thermal paste come on you can do it actually I might even have the monitor set to the right input I might even have the one who turned on protip guys turn the monitor on did it we did it I had my doubts but we did it takes so if you want to take that home we're done now all right so we put together our test bed we've got it all set up it is actually working oh there you go look at that working so you did it where yeah we did it yay for us so we're all set up we're about to run some stress tests at the moment there's been no overclocking done we've just loaded the optimized bios of vast defaults basically so we run some temperature tests there and we'll be able to compare the results we get on the test bed here to when it's in at the case so that's the most important things we can measure the difference the casemates there and yes are we gonna do that first with the default settings then we'll overclock it and we'll come back and let you guys know what temperature's we found let's talk about the stock results for the horizon 7 1700 the gigabyte a X 370 gaming k7 motherboard again the ambient air temperature was 21 degrees and a 264 CPU and FPU stress test was used for all the load testing under full load for an hour the CPU temperature picked it just 44 degrees which is really a great result for an 8 core CPU perhaps more impressive though was the fact the pump in the all-in-one liquid cool operated at just 1700 rpm and was virtually silent while the two 120 millimeter fans were basically silent spinning at just 800 rpm the vrm temp that was reasonably good as well reaching just 60 degrees after the hour-long stress test so that'll looks really good time to overclock the Rison 7 1700 is now been overclocked to 4 gigahertz using 1.37 5 volts as soon as the overclock configuration was placed under load we exceed the previous maximum temperature of 44 degrees and quickly climbed above 60 degrees before long the system maxed out at 76 degrees though hardware info did report a spike to 85 degrees Matt 9 monitored the last 20 minutes of stress testing and it held at 76 degrees for the entire time so looking back at the log file we see that the spire 25 degrees only happened for like a second so perhaps that was just a glitch the real concern here for Matt though are those vrm temperatures shockingly the Gigabyte ax 370 gaming K 7 hit 112 degrees unfortunately I decided to touch the vrm heatsink before just looking at the monitor and checking what hardware info was reporting it was a pretty clever choice that as a result I actually burnt my finger slightly and while I was jumping around complaining Matt just laughed at me so we got the IR gun and we aim that at the verum heatsink and that report at a temperature of 98 degrees for the aluminum heatsink so it's fair to say 112 degrees reported by hardware info is accurate although we are using an all-in-one liquid core the 120 millimeter fans were actually directing quite a bit of air flow over the vrm heat sinks given how we'd had situated on the desk and it wasn't really hot air either it was certainly warm air but not hot so this is going to be something we'll need to try and address when putting the motherboard in the BitFenix case anyway that's going to do it for part 1 of building fixing upgrading Matt's computer parts we will of course put it in their case dual or temperature of tests and show you guys the build process that should be pretty cool can you be getting a new computer yeah let's do part 2 alright that's ready to go I'm your host Steve let me host Matt as always go gonna like genuinely act very upset with usually more based applications