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Unboxing Boxes #37: AMD A12-9800 Unboxing + Threadripper Done Right!

2017-09-02
welcome back to another episode of unboxing boxes on deck today we have one two three four and five boxes well four in a package satchel thing yes so without wasting any time let's get into it no silly intros this time we don't have time for that plenty of testing at the moment but I thought we should get into these there's actually a few things and a couple of these boxes I need for some reviews and videos and things next week that's a really large but light box it's a case box for a case we reviewed a while ago on the channel so and I think the case is in there because it is very light probably look at that one last that one's also light okay so this is by far the heaviest package we have where's my knife got it so good you can stop looking so we'll start with what is the heaviest package and we'll see if there's anything good in it you ready thankfully these aren't breakable what they are giant lumps of metal I believe aluminium to be precise these are the new Noctua coolers for the tr4 socket which is thread ripper so we have a 14 millimeter 12 millimeter and looks like they're probably a 90 millimeter cooler so not too it just sent these over I don't believe they're on sale yet so I don't have pricing information I'm not sure when you'll be able to buy them but these are looks like full retail packaging so they can't be too far away let's take a look shall we will start with the biggest one which is the Nhu 14 str 4 - SP 3 we have the standard sort of off brown / brown very sexy color theme from Noctua their stock standard so in this little kit comes with it do you get a very large tube of thermal paste which is awesome looks like a fan limiter couple of rubber mounts and you also get a hex driver for installing the CPU in the socket though it's not a torque driver so you sort of got to be careful with how much or how much you tighten the socket you don't over tighten it anyway so you're like we're thinking well apart from the fact that this is a very big air cooler what makes it a thread Ripper air cooler and again as some of you probably know the thread Ripper CPUs are simply massive they've got a huge heat spreader on the mouth you can see that one there but anyway they're very big and most of the coolers only cover about 50 percent of the surface area on the top of the cooler which they still run at reasonable temperatures but obviously if you can cover the entire heat spreader with a base plate that's the way to go and that's why the base plate on these things is thread river massive because they are so big though you can't install these on other platforms so they will only come with a Tier four mounting kit which as you can see is pre-installed already I've given you guys a little bit of misinformation this isn't for this isn't for installing thread Ripper so forget everything I said about this because you know I don't read manuals and stuff this is quite clearly too small for that I thought that when I said it but of course I just said it anyway this is actually for securing the heatsink to the socket mounts so like a so it goes on these so it's quite tight on the edge of the heatsink there but it looks like you can get to it so anyway you don't try and use that for installing the CPU on the socket because it just won't work I just spin around do nothing so the heatsink does stand a hundred and fifty eight millimeters tall I'm not sure if that includes the fan or not install because it is fan does poke a fair bit above and it is quite tall it's basically 700 grams 695 grams so it's a heavy sucker but yeah basically I'm very keen to cover this thing and that will paste whack it on the thread Ripper CPU and see what kind of temperatures we get at 4 gigahertz on something like these 69 50 X with all cores running at 4 gigahertz all right so we're now getting into the Nhu 12s tier 4 SP 3 so this is the slightly smaller version of what we just looked at if I can get it out of the box so far I can't no wonder the cameras ran out of batteries during these unboxing boxes episodes I'm sure there's an easier way to do that but whatever that was the hard way to do it so you get the same little accessories package you get a nice big thing of thermal paste and you get this little allen key thing which is for installing the cooler to them the mounting so yeah that's what that's for anyway I'm an alpha I just realized and you guys are probably well aware I was reading the specifications for this off the wrong box oh I need to get some sleep okay rewind quickly this cooler is actually 865 grams without the fan and 1030 grams with the fan so is in fact a kilo I thought it felt like it was at least a kilo so it is a smidgen over and it is taller than 150 millimeters like I thought it was it's 165 millimeters so yeah my review on that a second ago was completely wrong 165 millimeters tall and it's a hundred and thirty grams of the fan installed obviously a 140 millimeter fan anyway moving forward this one which I just told you the specifications for 870 grams in total 158 millimeters tall and it's the 120 millimeter version so a bit more compact one two three four looks like we've got five heat pipes on this one I think they're a bit thinner as well mmm no they're much the same I think just one less heat pipe but of course the base plate is the same big nice thread with a base plate so now that I've perfectly executed those first two products I'm absolutely gonna nail this third one okay so this is a you type cooler with a 92 millimeter fan of the u9 this one so it'll have a cute little fan compared to the other ones similar accessories package it looks like there's a few a fan's splitter in there but other than that all the same this looks much more like what you would find in a server again you gets again it's a thread Ripper only works on thread Ripper sockets tr4 socket so you have the huge baseplate that's great to see that should work well Tanna heat pipes one two three four via six in total so it's just old wall of wall of heat pipes under this thing pair of 92 millimeter fans in push-pull so that'll push and pull lots of air through that array of fins should do a good job I'm also keen to see how how loud this is and how much of it how good of a job it does on thread group row say the the sixteen core model with all cores at four gigahertz that would be interesting to see of course I will test all three of them so you will see exactly that okay so there's the new knocked over coolers sorry about the mix ups there and the misinformation wasn't on my a-game I'll admit probably one of my worst happen boxing so they didn't come out too poorly but I have a few more boxes to redeem myself hopefully we can get this show back on the road I'm gonna sit these down there alright time to make a much-needed recovery will go for this big box hopefully it's got something in here that can save me alright I haven't had a look inside this yet let's do it together we'll go for the money shot let's look at alright that's looking pretty good what have we got here Boris graphics card with gtx 980ti thank you very much extreme edition we've already looked at this extreme edition so that's interesting hmm hopefully it's not something else they've just used this box slightly concerned Oh does it not say that on the front hang on I don't to mess this up ah yes okay this is a very important thing to note here there's a little icon logo thing here and it says water force this is the water force version of the extreme edition I don't know why that isn't more obvious on the box it doesn't really say it there either but I did spot a picture on the back here that says it is the all-in-one cooling system water force version so that means it's got a 120 millimeter radiator all in one I'll stop talking about let's get it out and take a look I've been trying to get my hands on a card like this or this particular model for quite some time has not been easy you guys keep saying me Steve can you review some realistic cards we can afford I'd love to but at the moment all I can get is 1080 tea eyes they're actually easier to get to full review right now than an rx 580 or anything pretty much Radeon based so we're stuck with 1080 TOI reviews for now but I'm quite happy with that it's uh let's get this sucker out even gtx 1070 s very hard to come by so yeah hopefully we'll have some board partner vega cards coming soon that'll be exciting all right it is indeed the water force card well that looks a bit special now doesn't it there you have it and all in one liquid-cooled 1080 TI so it's obviously still a dual slot card it's got a quite a large pump and block on top of where the GPU would be looks like a very big copper base plate as well with so there's at least one copper heat pipe there which covers the VRM so it goes from next to the GPU water block to the vrm so it's definitely an all-in-one cooled solution there are actually no fans out along this one so yeah the radiator is cooling everything on the card well this was a nice surprise I was not expecting this card at all I've been asking gigabyte for a while but didn't know it was coming I believe 1500 ozzie dollars is what you can expect to pay for this guy it's about eight hundred and twenty dollars u.s. so the MSRP is seven hundred dollars u.s. so obviously you're paying a premium at this card but it is a liquid-cooled it's going to run extremely cool extremely quiet I'm not sure if that will allow us to overclock at any further you should definitely be able to run the card at two gigahertz with all those CUDA cores and yeah it'll do that while being quiet so that's obviously a big huge bonus they're probably worth paying their premium for especially if you like a high-end bit quiet system so as I mentioned it does have a copper cold plate copper block it is a two slot design it has a 12 plus 2 phase power design I believe I'm quoting that correctly out of the box it will run at a boost frequency while quoted boost frequency of 17 hundred and twenty one megahertz it'll naturally run much higher than I expect at least 1.9 gigahertz and the base frequency is sixteen hundred and seven megahertz so a little factory overclock there that's with the gaming mode now and a really cool thing about this cart that is in the performance specifications is the fact that it comes with a four year warranty so that is very nice indeed you can see here it's got a pair of eight pin dual 8 p.m. hour inputs so that's more than sufficient for a 1080 TI looks like we've got a HDMI output on the rear of the card so you can use that for VR link and stuff like that there's another two HDMI on the IO and DVI port and three DisplayPort so he goes triple display what monitors if you want to it's got a plastic shroud on it isn't the usual sort of aluminium that you find on the extreme cards so a little disappointing but it looks fine anyway and really I'm more interested in how cool and quiet runs decent backplate it's not the extreme back plates you normally see on the extreme edition cars it's more of the sort of I think we saw that on the lowering like the 1016 I rx 580 but with this thing sucking so much of their heat away from the card it's probably not that important probably not much else needs to be said about this for now very excited to have it I don't think I messed any of that up too much well sit that aside for that moment let's have a look at this little white weightless box what we've got found it very good I need this actually this is going to come in very handy when I test all those heat sinks because I'm going to need a truckload of it so I know I've got at least one tube in here so this is thermal Grizzly's thermal paste this was provided by PC case key so big thanks to those guys for sending that over timing could not have been better on that one so I haven't actually used this particular type yet I think it is liquid metal it is indeed liquid metal sort of not that keen on liquid metal at the moment yeah I'll talk about that a bit later but I'm keen to give this stuff a try anyway don't know if I'll use it on those heat sinks they'll probably go for your more traditional thermal paste but anyway I will be doing something with this stuff soon I'll check it out and let you guys know what I think of it and this is kind of an important one don't use with aluminium heat sinks it will eat away at them so although that's a nickel plated copper base I'm not sure how it goes with that stuff the new Clio stuff it's probably okay but anyway I'm not really a fan of liquid metal I prefer I believe the thermal Griezmann will grizzly brand make awesome thermal compound stuff so I'll speak to the guys at PC case Kia and yeah I'll get back to you guys on that anyway we'll move right along we'll go for this one because this is actually another item sent from PC case gear I purchased this through those guys last week so they were pretty quick to fulfill that order so that's nice and this is one that you guys have been recommending or not recommending and this is one that you guys have been requesting I look at for quite some time and I just happen to buy them but they're in stock now and what is it you ask it is the new AP use what's not technically the newest ap use we're still waiting on Zen based ap use in architecture ap use it isn't based on the Zen architecture so it still uses excavator cause excavator architecture but it is able to be installed on an AM 4 motherboard so you can take advantage of the new be 350 chipset for example you can overclock it on that and you can also use ddr4 memory which will no doubt help with the Radeon r7 graphics which is integrated into the chip because it is an APU and it runs at up to 4.2 gigahertz out of the box I believe it has a base frequency of 3.8 that isn't written on the box but I think it's three point eight and they advertise it's an 8 compute unit GPU so I think that's 512 stream processors as you can tell I don't know too much about it yet but I did buy it because you guys are in requesting I review it sold all the appropriate research soon chuck it in a system test it out and see if it is worthy of the asking price I think it's worth about 110 us and about 150 Ozzy so very entry-level affordable for what it offers CPU and sort of GPU solution in one integrated GPU yeah so I'm glad to have that more testing to be done ok well got some pretty good product so far it's all stuff I plan to test on the channel the next week or two I really want to get on to those new thread Ripper heat sinks ASAP very keen to test this out hopefully I'll get to that soon and then obviously this one which has been heavily requested I'll have to go into that as well probably do a build with that as well using low end in a.m. for motherboard and stuff like that alright anyway last box on today's agenda the mystery box what do we have in here okay firm oh I've been waiting for this for a while it's a dusty threadbare package so thread Ripper box and I've been waiting for this for a while I want to use this in my personal rig which will be using the MSI x-ray neuron carbon robot which I've shown on the channel before but that will be going my personal rig so this will be my new editing build new processor for my editing rig so the board I'm speaking of is this guy right here very sleek and sexy looking x3 99 motherboard from MSI it's got a pair of eight pin power inputs it's actually really well priced this board it's one of the cheaper x3 nono boards on the market I think it's 350 us which is obviously still makes it a pricey motherboard but as far as x3 99 boards go it's actually quite affordable especially considering it has a heap of really nice features pretty much everything you need on one of these boards yeah definitely covers everything I'm gonna need so yeah that's the board I'll be using and finally I now have the CPU I'll be using because I can't just throw in the 1950 xcp I already have because I can't really benchmark my editing rig it doesn't really work that way so I need two of these so here is number two um you've already seen me unbox this on the channel so there really isn't much point doing it again though I am keen to have a look inside maybe we'll do a technically correct unboxing because the fun unboxing is that a few guys like myself and J and other youtubers did upset they triggered a few people that didn't like watching us fumble around and try be entertaining so we're gonna do this I'm gonna do this correctly and see if that helps set the record straight so here we go thread ripper box there is a thread ripper cpu inside and we're going to take it out in a sensible and efficient fashion so rather than tear this all we've got this knife handy here so we're just going to run that through there like so beautifully done stayed within the lines you know just going to go out leave that grab the tab and it comes out like that it doesn't get any easier so so far we're doing really well here so now you don't I know it says unlock the power it's so tempting just to go off and lock the power I'm excited I've got a new thread Ripper CPU let's do that first if you do that you're an idiot idiots do that I just want to make that clear don't do that alright what you want to do is once you've taken the exterior cardboard paper ething off you want to lift that's all you want to do just lift like that that's how it's done put that aside somewhere safe out of the way next step because it next step it's quite simple this just lifts out now if you've already undone this as soon as you lift this out its gonna fall out it'll look bloody stupid so you don't that to happen so now look at this look how smoothly this is all going now what you want to do is lay it down flat just carefully now unlock in the direction it tells you so anti-clockwise and voila just comes out like that you don't drop anything and look like a turkey these things now you don't need that and you've got this okay now lay it down flat because you don't want to be holding it and risk dropping the processor out and looking like a buffoon grab the metal tab pull that out and like that that's it easy then you just grab there got to be careful lifting you because this could fall apart right now because we've taken the safety tab off you want to grab these two side tabs press them down and that pops off like that you want to make sure that's laying flat so that doesn't fall out and then this is crucial make sure you do this right you grab this orange tab and you just lift up and then pull and there you go pops out so a little aggressive it's a little crude but it comes out like that and then there you go you've got your thread receiver you can put that aside now and that is unboxing complete start-to-finish nailed that absolutely perfectly now the temptation here is to go wow that's a sexy-looking processor but it's in an orange caddy and that's just gross oh I don't want to do my b-roll with that gross or interesting around let's take it out don't do that I know the temptations there you do that you're going to trigger the whole internet people are going to tell you that you're a moron because you need this orange thing to install it I don't care if you put text on the screen saying be careful with the orange thing don't throw it away because it's important don't just don't take it out there's no need all right just put up with it being there and that's what we're going to do so there is my 1950 ex in the orange plastic caddy thing we're not going to take it out and whatever you do don't touch any of the contact pads on the back that is absolute vital you do that to see if you miles will throw it away so there we go we're going to install that later do some benchmarking and we've done that to perfection now in case you don't know in the bottom here you've got an instruction manual I've already done that so I've learned my lesson torque screw for doing it up no worries and then a bracket if you have an Asus tech all-in-one liquid cooler which we probably won't be using because we've got the Noctua coolers now I'm messing this up there we go got it out starting to sweat alright so there it is bad unboxing thread Ripper thing of the past hope you guys enjoyed this episode of unboxing boxes started off a bit shaky but I think we've kind of got there in the end it's a yeah different kind of episode but I needed a break I've actually been just going my brain is a bit fried because I've been going through entry after entry for upgrade my PC please don't get me wrong I'm super super happy very stoked and pleased that so many of you guys have taken the time to put really good high-quality submissions in we're still trying to push for quite a few guys to provide better photos but some of you are coming through with those but I've just been we've had over well over 500 submissions now and a lot of them are very good so I've been spending hours and hours and hours going through them and narrowing the list down for the first episode and you know we'll use them throughout the season of course you can keep submitting you PC to be included and upgrade my PC please as the season goes on so the submissions won't close you can add them whatever but if you are going to provide a submission really high quality photos go for I mean even if you only have a smartphone or something take the computer case outside use natural light it'll improve it massively we're getting so many high iso photos that are just black basically so take the time wait till the next day if it's at night when you're doing your submission you can add the photos in it anytime we're talking to you guys it's a private thread with just you and the staff so yeah anyway that's pretty much why I'm a bit exhausted because that's harder than benchmarking going through all those submissions but I really appreciate all the guys that have submitted their stuff and yeah it's really good hopefully we can have a successful first episode in a few days time anyway that does it for this episode of unboxing boxes I'm your host Steve I'll see you again soon
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