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this video is brought to you by NCI XCOM great technology selection and service building my first aim the system after five years was refreshing and having first an experience with how the new crimson drivers behave how the FX processor stacks up in 2016 and you know with the aim for socket incoming and then later this year building this type of octet system brings a good point of reference for comparison on AIM these future hardware so in this video we overclock the processor update to the latest 16.1 crimson Edition drivers and see if we can get extra performance squeezed out out of the system for gaming and this promised I wanted to see how this eight core chip would perform for video rendering now I must say there were weird things happening with the system in the beginning first I got really low score and Cinebench r15 at 4.4 gigahertz which was caused by the CPU underclocking itself to 4 gigahertz which is weird but after tinkering with the BIOS to make sure that the CPU was at the constant overclock which I was able to hit to 4.7 deer Hertz so my Cinebench scores had improved by close to 150 points I did or o'clock the 380 cards a little bit as well hitting eleven hundred megahertz on the core and 1600 megahertz on the memory and now with this overclocked machine I went to play battle 2 for battlefront and Crysis 3 from which you can see my overclocking efforts have played out well with more than 10 percent performance increase in all three games compared to my previous stock results and with regards to video rendering this 8 core is really not the best for that rendering out a 5 minute 4k project in just over 12 minutes while my skylake system renders it out in just under 8 minutes and surprisingly my editing notebook with a 4720 HQ at 3.5 gigahertz renders the video faster than this eight core FX 83-70 so the processor is showing signs of aging it is three year old architecture after all so what do we take away from this so in my opinion enjoyable gaming doesn't come through only maxing out your graphics settings because as you saw with our crossfire configuration it is still quite challenging to drive the best graphics settings even at 1080p so in my opinion you could lower some of those settings to very high or just high and get much better framerate results averaging out at 120 fps easily as an overall experience I'm glad that we went with the octave red machine but if I was to do it differently I would choose a single card configuration versus crossfire just because the nature of dual graphics cards whether it be aim the or Nvidia always introduces some guaranteed poor scaling in games and so you can have suffer in performance and while crimson Edition software solves from multiple of issues that users were having in the past with crossfire it's still not perfect there's some still little slight hiccups here and there like I would restart the system just through because I was overclocking the processor and all of a sudden my crossfire would be disabled without me knowing it until I jump into the game and see that my framerate is not where it should be I encountered more crashes with crossfire than when I took on the cards out and also you have to consider the you LPS or ultra low power state for the second GPU which basically turns off the second GPU when it's not in use to save power but I noticed it's not always perfect and it would still be off when jumping into on the games and requires a whole restart cycle for it to work properly and lastly if you take pricing into account our dual three in the XS approach the $500 price point without discounts and with the recent price drops of the r9 nano to $4.99 you would get almost double the performance of the dual three and the XS cards within that similar price range but off a single GPU and so that is it for the octet system thank you for tuning in for part 2 part one is linked in the description if you want more details I'm Dimitri with the HERA Canucks thanks much for watching we'll see you in the next video