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this video is brought to you by NCI XCOM great technology selection and service hello everyone I'm three tree with hard-working oxen welcome to part three of our skylight editing PC build upgrade video that's the PC right behind me if you haven't checked out part 1 & 2 they'll be linked in the description below but in this episode we'll be replacing some hardware I'll finally get around to doing proper cable management with proper cables and also doing some fan replacement because the whole idea has shifted to going as silent as possible so let's begin now before we move on let me explain or give you a rundown of my reasoning behind using the sky like platform as an editing or dedicated for editing machine and many of you have commented in the past saying and x99 the six core of the a lot more suitable extra rendering power and while yes I agree with that the sky like a platform is still very capable and let me tell you why I sort of ditched my 3930k 6-quart ship for this sky like processor so what I started with was an XLT 9 platform with a 3930k processor 32 gigabytes of RAM followed by five hard drive so I can access our entire archive and this followed by only two SSDs for the operating system and one for the media projects drive that system ran in sli with dual 980ti switch was awesome but all this hardware was putting out a ton of heat especially those hard drives making computer anything but silent so here's where an idea for the SS the only powered system was in the works utilizing an Intel 760 700 K processor with this gigabyte board triple OCZ vector 180 SSDs and the star of the show was the Intel 750 SSD which I wanted to use as a boot drive and how's my video editing software but I couldn't do that with my x79 board because the x79 board does not support nvme SSD as a boot drive i also added the NZXT hue plus for lighting which turned out to be super awesome and finally I had a 2 terabyte hard drive which was added to offload some of the backup before it was moved on to the NAS and this is where the latest upgrade comes into the equation so with the addition of these 12-volt RGB headers on the new Asus motherboards this is the Maximus 8 hero alpha I am able to get rid of the hue plus lighting completely while still being able to route LED strips inside the case and have full control of what color I want to choose and etc I also realized that having SLI for a sort of video editing system is pretty pointless because the Adobe Media encoder does utilized both GPUs when its rendering videos plus the 6700 K only has 16 now PCI Express 3.0 lanes which means with both graphics cards and my PCI Express SSD it was really not optimal to have all these all this hardware and there might be some bottleneck at some point if all this Hardware is being utilized at the same time so one of the graphics cards is out of there but I'm still utilizing all of my OCC SSDs along with the Intel 750 and now a 4 terabyte hard drive again just for archiving and one terabyte tree on 150 SSD which is the new SSD from OCZ for home my games the ketchup and mustard cables are gone replaced with cable on the red and black set just so I can color match to the motherboard theme and so the assembly begins and so here's the final system with the new avexir core Ram that looks pretty awesome with this dynamic illumination but I gotta be honest this lighting behavior is very random and I wish I could just either disable it or either keep it just static but at least the system is now equipped with 32 gigabytes of ddr4 20 400 megahertz Ram and I could already feel the huge benefit of this extra Ram when opening up video projects and etc 16 gigabytes never again now I know the red and black color scheme has been overdone to death but I didn't want to fully sort of derail off the color coordination with the motherboard so I decided to do something a little bit different and add a very unique accented color for this PC and so what I did was add cable mount LED strips which are RGB that connect directly to the motherboard RGB headers and I was able to achieve this very unique purple and red illumination for the interior that to me stands out from million of other red builds so now moving on to the airflow and I decided to replace all fans from the case and also the cooler so for intake I'm using fractal designs venturi 140 member of fans two of them these are the high airflow models and deliver amazing airflow and they're also super quiet and then for the NZXT x61 CPU cooler I'm using two high static pressure venturi fans as well because the stock fans were just way too loud for exhaust the be quiet silent wings to fan which is the quietest fan that I've ever worked with it's amazing moves quite a lot of air and so now on to cable management that is very easy going with modular cables and plenty of open area at the back of the case to clean everything up now thanks to plenty of fan headers on the motherboard itself and pretty good software control of those fans I actually didn't use the fan hub at all that came with the case just to clear up some cables and minimize that cable clutter and now I think I have the quietest editing PC that I've ever built for myself with proper hardware configuration that isn't being bottleneck by anything else in this case the CPU is overclocked at 4.5 gigahertz I'm running about 33 degrees Celsius on idle and about 66 to 67 at 100% load which is pretty awesome but now let me show you exactly how quiet this system is and again just to come back to this idea of you know 6700 K being not your optimal CPU for video editing and while I agree that an X 99 platformer with a 6 core processor and just the same amount same amount of RAM would yield better rendering performance my thinking behind this upgrade was to focus on fast storage first because that grants you immediate improvements because everything just loads so much faster when everything is being accessed just from solid-state drives and eventually when I move on to the X 99 platform all that solid-state drives and solid state storage will migrate with me onto this new system but so far I've been very happy with how this Scylla editing PC has been treating me and behaving around me with power efficiency temperature stability overclock ability and finally speed all of which are on my satisfactory points but it will continue to pump out these pixels that you watch now until my next editing PC upgrade so guys I hope you enjoyed this video upgrade let me know if there was something that you would have done differently if you were sort of in charge of this sort of system I'm Dimitri without recognized thanks so much for watching and we'll see you in the next one