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welcome back to harbor unboxed okay so I'm sure many of you are aware that AMD's rise in 3000 series will be hitting shelves roughly this time next week and we expect intel to finally have some real competition in the performance Department yeah I know the first and second generation processors did a great job of taking the fight to Intel and they certainly did win at the price to performance battle which is while we've been all over rising recently however if its outright performance you're after then Intel still the go-to option and there's none better than the core oh nine ninety nine hundred K at least for general practice stuff like video editing for example and then of course in particular gaming for those of you dropping over one thousand dollars us on an RT X twenty atti graphics card spending another five hundred dollars to ensure you have the best possible CPU for gaming probably isn't a big deal moreover as the best gaming CPU we're currently using the ninety nine ok in our GPU test rig clocked at five gigahertz and it's rather nice the issue we're having with this configuration can be seen when executing heavy CPU workloads they tend to see the 1900 cake cook our two hundred and forty millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler that's installed in our GPU test rig inside the Corsair crystal 570 X in the past we found open-loop systems we have one on our open test bench they do a much better job of cooling the overclocked processor and the one we have has a really thick three hundred and sixty millimeter radiator and it just does a much better job of cooling the overclocked 299 okay during those heavy workloads so because of that I've been toying with the idea of upgrading the cooling in our GPU test system and I thought there's really no better time than right now to upgrade the GPU test system because we do have a few new GPUs from both AMD and NVIDIA that we need to benchmark and before I even get into those GPUs I've got to update all existing GPU results and so basically our GPU test system will be doing a lot of work so to ensure maximum stability and no throttling issues with the 900k that can impact low Lucian testing I thought maybe it was time to look at this cooling upgrade and then what really prompted the upgrade was this thing this is thing right here so this is the most expensive core I $9.99 a processor on the market at sixteen hundred dollars us or two-and-a-half thousand dollars Australian and yeah it's a big box for a CPU and if you hadn't guessed to this 9900 okay comes with its own motherboard and it's not just any old motherboard give me a moment oh wow I'll get it out meet gigabytes Zeb 390 or extreme water force the most extreme zeb 390 board money can buy and I should note just quickly before we get into it that you can buy the board's separately for eight hundred and seventy dollars u.s. or thirteen hundred and fifty Australian I think it is but for those of you who are after both an extreme said 390 motherboard and a core I 9 1992 run at 5.1 gigahertz or core then this combo deal is actually pretty good value that's because you're getting a pre-tested 9900 k processor included that's guaranteed to run at an all-call frequency of 5.1 gigahertz and these hand-picked processors they typically have a hefty price premium associated with them for example silicon Lottery's selling their 5.1 gigahertz boxed 99k processes for nine hundred and thirty dollars us so it seems gigabytes charging 730 dollars for the same service and like I said quite a nice deal here for extreme users as for the motherboard well previously gigabytes most extremes and 390 model was the Auris extreme and it cost five hundred and fifty dollars us I haven't actually tested that particular model but I did look at the four hundred and sixty dollar u.s. or ass master and it was incredibly good offering by far the best varium thermal performance of any Zed 390 motherboard that we tested and this included boards such as the Isuzu rog Maximus 11 hero as rock Zed 390 Taichi ultimate and MSI megsie 390 ace that being the case I upgraded my Jeep you test tricked to use the z3 90 horas master but as I said earlier the real issue for me has been CPU cooling the Zen 390 or s extreme waterfall should help address this with this gigantic monoblock made by bits power that's designed to cool not just the CPU but also the vrm components Zen 390 chip 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller and the 3 M 2 slots well any M 2 SSDs that you happen to put in those slots so this really is an all-in-one monoblock and where we is it heavy tips the scales at 2.1 kilograms ok so let's take a quick look at the board which comes without any cooling installed as this allows you to quickly slot in your CPU and storage before strapping on that epoch monoblock this means we get a good look at that 16 phase V core v RM which is driven by an ir 3 5 2 0 1 8 phase controller each signals then doubled giving us 16 phases then we say the power delivered to the integrated GPU is handled by the IR 3 v 2 0 4 controller driving 2 phases the vehicle portion of the vrm features 16 TD a 2 1 4 6 2 power stages and these are 60 amp parts that aren't particularly cheap and while they are also pretty well overkill for the 99 ok at least when using 16 of them but take one look at the monoblock we're well into the realm of overkill here anyway there's loads of other features but rather than go over all the stuff you can just read off the box let's hook this thing up to my open test bed crank it up to five point one gigahertz and see how hot and everything runs that went together pretty easily but you do obviously have to be very careful with how you hold that forward 2 kilo mole block especially when you're hovering it over the board I don't imagine you'd get away with an accident or slip up that thing would absolutely smash whatever it hit so ya want to be really careful with that it was very awkward filming it and installing it if I'd paid for this myself I would definitely look at getting someone to help me so that way you've got two hands on the block get someone else to put the fiddly cables in in that way you can lower it down nice and safe but apart from that it's extremely easy just slot it in screw the screws in from the backside and you're pretty well ready to go anyway once I got it installed on the test but I obviously took it away and did all the necessary testing so I can tell you how well this particular setup works for reference I stuck the Gigabyte Zed 390 horas master on there with the thermal tech Pacific w1 copper water block and then using the exact same 90 100 kcp you I saw it hit 74 degrees stock it was 88 degrees at 5 gigahertz using 1.3 volts and then 98 degrees at 5.1 gigahertz using 1.35 volts which is very similar to what I saw out of my review sample from Intel and just a quick little disclaimer before we get into the temperature results I often see 9900 K owners jumping into the comments section and then claiming something like I don't know how to overclock or there must be something broken with my setup or I'm not reading the right temperature or something because they're 9900 K clocked at five point one gigahertz only hits a 72 degrees or some ridiculously low temperature that is not possible with the testing where you do they'll then go on to say that they never see it hit the temperatures I'm talking about when they run a single Cinebench pass or something like that or when their gaming so the testing we do places much much more load on the CPU for much more extended periods of time than running a Cinebench pass or playing some games so just to be clear as possible all CPU temperature results quoted in this video have been taken after an hour of running blenders greaseberry workload which uses AVX instructions right so let's get into the results compared to the Pacific w1 block the massive mono block featured on the Auris extreme water force wasn't able to improve temperatures though they were virtually the same but I do take this as quite a good result as we're using the exact same radiator and pump so the same loop but we're no longer asking it to cool just the CPU rather it cools well everything now so the fact that we're seeing just a degree or two increase is very impressive and now moving on to the vrm temperatures they were also very good at idle we were seeing a temperature of around 30 degrees and I suspect we're actually being warmed a little bit here by the other components namely the CPU moving on to the load results using blender for an hour and here we see the horas extreme water force is as cool as a cucumber peaking at just 41 degrees that did make it a bit hotter than the equally crazy MSI z3 90 godlike but remember the 99er okay will be increasing temperatures here due to the use of a monoblock but even so the temperatures were very good overall it's also worth noting that the 3 120 millimeter fans installed only three hundred and sixty millimeter rad were operating in a silent mode so overall the system was extremely quiet wrapping things up I try to manual overclock and I was able to hit five point two gigahertz with this chip but it did require one point four volts and here it did max out at a hundred degrees after an hour still for lot of workloads and in particular gaming it did run reasonably cool at five point two gigahertz still you can't get away with significantly less voltage and consequently heat at five point one gigahertz so this is what I'd recommend for daily use with this setup overall an impressive setup even if it does cost an eye-watering $1600 u.s. or two and a half thousand dollars Australian but I have to say as I watering as that price is it it certainly looks very eye-catching I don't comment on the RGB stuff too much we're not really here for that but I was pretty impressed when I turn this thing on the bling factor is pretty strong with this one gigabyte knows how to do g/b lighting it seems they've done a good job with their VGA cards and past motherboards but yeah this one the lighting effects absolutely they're absolutely fantastic I hope the b-roll I've captured does them justice it probably won't because it is pretty hard to convey just how good it looks but anyway very impressive looking board and by the time I get this video up and you're watching it I will have probably already finished using this system quite extensively to update all my results for about a dozen mid-range to high-end GPUs and then of course we have some upcoming GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA but all that testing will have been done inside the Corsair crystal 570 EXO will have completely overhauled that system done that maybe I'll have some b-roll later on the channel for that but I'll probably save that for when I test these unreleased graphics cards and it'll be interesting to see how long that system stays as is it really depends on how quick the rise in nine I was gonna say rise in seven but rise in nine thirty nine hundred X's because if that rivals the 99 or okay and we're recommending that processor it might make sense to use that test system so obviously we won't know for another week what we're going to do there but for at least a few weeks this was our GPU test or at least the the backbone of our GPU test rig and that is going to do it for this one if you enjoyed the video please feel free to hit the like button for us you can subscribe for more content and if you appreciate the work we do at our own box and consider supporting us on patreon thanks for watching I'm your host Steve and I'll see you again next time