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you with its specifically tuned copper base and maintenance-free plug-and-play operation the EVGA 980ti hybrid offers ultra-fast gaming performance at the lowest temperatures possible click the link in the description for more details hey what's up guys j su cents here and today we're going to build a computer we're going to see how well a fully built AMD system would do when it comes to a new game like battlefront now for the cpu we are using the AMD FX 8350 it bumps up the base clock and the turbo clock a little bit and it does give us four dual core modules in here for eight performance threads now I'm using some RAM here that I have used in several other systems and I'm just a huge fan of and that is the a data X PG v 2 Ram this Ram is 1600 megahertz it's 2 4 gigabyte DIMMs for 8 gigabytes total which is more than enough for any modern modern gaming system now to keep the CPU cool I'm using cooler masters new Gemini 2's 524 version 2 now this is a downdraft blower which is going to help keep the chipset on the AMD motherboard cool because we do know the Northbridge can get kind of hot so we're looking forward to see how this thing does with its five copper heat pipes now the motherboard is a new MSI 990 fxa gaming motherboard basically the chipsets nothing new but MSI has basically taken a lot of new features like the killer e 20 200 network card and USB 3.1 and rolled it into an older motherboard architecture for the AMD so you're getting an AMD chipset and an AMD CPU with some more modern technology built into it now for graphics cards I am using the Radeon r9 380 X AMD graphics cards from XFX this is their double dissipation cards which are going to be factory overclocked we got two of these guys here when we testing out some crossfire performance and battlefront and see how well it does and we're gonna probably overclock these just a little bit maybe something around 11 20 megahertz around there but these things are I chose these cards because they are very cool and very quiet now powering the system here is the Coolermaster v7 50 I chose this power supply because it is a gold rated power supply it's got all black fully ma jeweler cables so that we can take out the cables we don't need doesn't give us any that ugly rainbow colors and it is small and compact and very very quiet not to mention it's going to be more than enough power to power all of the parts in this system and of course we'll be shoving everything into cooler masters new mastercase 5 which I did a review of great case great mid tower case that can fit a lot of hardware and then we're going to be building this thing out with as many of these silent FP 120 basically there's Coolermaster silenzio 3 pin fans 1200 rpm very very quiet so we want to keep this system cool and quiet so those are the parts let's go ahead and do the build and then let's see how things actually perform you well obviously building the system was very very simple it was pretty much plug and play AMD systems are some of the easiest that you can build especially if you're a first-time builder their CPUs are a lot more robust and easy to deal with then something like say an Intel chipset an Intel and an Intel motherboard it can be a little bit scary with all those really delicate pins but the bill turned out really really nice especially with the inclusion of the NZXT hue plus which I put in here which is kind of neat because you can make the system any color that you want now obviously the 83-70 being an older architecture CPU I was really curious to see how well things were going to perform now I did things basically on stock settings and then went into the MSI BIOS and then just did the OC Genie which really didn't do anything other than force the CPU to run at its turbo clock a 4.3 gigahertz at all times and then bumped up the memory from 1333 to 1866 that's really all it did was it pretty much did like an XMPP profile and then overclock the memory just a little bit to 1866 instead of 1600 but other than that it's it's really not much of an overclock at all really it's just the turbo clock 24/7 a temperature stayed in check nicely with the cooler master Gemini 2 and the reason why I chose that cooler is because of the fact that it is a downdraft and AMD chipsets especially the Northbridge can get really hot especially we start to overclock them on 990 FX chipsets so I wanted that downdraft to give a little bit of active cooling as well to the motherboard and the RAM so the big question on everyone's mind is how well did it perform well it performed pretty damn good especially considering we are on CPU architecture that is quite a few years old but still very relevant today especially with budget minded builders now 380 X actually did a fantastic job at running this game by itself on ultra giving us about 70 FPS average I guess at 1080p ultra with freesync on we were able to get about 70 FPS average the nice thing about the Nick seus panel which I'm using back here is unlike some other freesync panels is the 144 Hertz panel that this is it's free sync up to 144 Hertz were some panels for free sync technology can limit around 75 FPS you don't get the full panel refresh technology through three sync which is really nice about this thing here so we did have the nice even frame pacing as you would expect with freesync technology all the way up to the max hundred and forty four Hertz now considering when I turned on to 380 X's because I was like well we can do one 380 X or we could just kind of go for broke put in two and see what happens we really didn't gain much in fact we set around eighty one FPS average with two in crossfire but that's because the current catalyst drivers right now are not really optimized for crossfire right now with battlefront we're still waiting official drivers from AMD I am running the beta drivers right now which were better than the official Crimson drivers that are out right now but we still saw some stuttering and usually in the beginning of the game and then will seem to kind of smooth out as time went on but definitely not the performance I was hoping for with crossfire but that's okay that is a driver and application problem with battlefront not really a hardware problem so I would still right now tell you guys that I would recommend one powerful GPU like a 380 X or even a 390 or 390 x over to lower end GPUs like 380 X's or 370 X's or 370's if you guys were going to be looking at doing possibly two cards instead of one so when it comes to building for games I still recommend one powerful GPU if you can swing it now temperatures on this system are kept super cool in fact I never saw the CPU go over 48 degrees Celsius with the side panel on while even overclocked to 1.45 volts on the v corps which you guys can't compare that to Intel Viva love v core it's different for AMD but 1.45 volts is no chump when it comes to voltage and this gem and I kept things nice and cool even with a room temperature of about 78 degrees Fahrenheit yeah guys is California it's still pretty damn warm even in the wintertime I think one thing that really made the gaming experience kind of nice here is the inclusion of this mixes panel which I've had it for a little bit here and I finally got a chance to get my hands on and I have to say this is the NX v ue 24a now it's a TN panel but then again at that super high refresh I do I don't know what what other kind of panel you would have expected but 144 Hertz 1080p and lots and lots of settings in here where you can control the backlight it's got its own built-in anti blue filter so that you're not straining your eyes when you're looking at documents or webpages and stuff it takes out some of that blue its rid of some of your eye fatigue but the refresh rate is absolutely fantastic 144 Hertz and it didn't skip a beat and with the free sync technology built-in I have to say that gaming on it was absolutely butter smooth and I've gained on gsync systems obviously I have a g-sync system and gaming unfree sync I have to say pick your poison they are both fantastic but this Nick seus panel really surprised me it's not very expensive it's a 24 inch panel but it gave you a super buttery smooth fast response gaming experience I couldn't have asked for more and the point here is that gaming on this thing for several hours now I completely forgot I was on an AMD system I wasn't sitting there thinking in the back of my mind like oh man this is not the latest and greatest of technology it's not my big bad x99 skunkworks system no I got into the games I wasn't sitting here thinking about the stuttering and stuff well until I had disabled crossfire because like I said there is crossfire bugs with current drivers and crimson with battlefront but AMD says they're working on that I know graphics cards and Driver issues who'da thought but ultimately gaming on it was perfectly smooth and fine I had no problems whatsoever in fact I think the only thing I noticed was going back to a hard drive based system rather than SSD based system was probably the most noticeable but even the WD black in this is a very fast mechanical Drive you can hear the thing ticking away but other than that load times are a little bit longer than an SSD but once you're in the game no noticeable issues whatsoever whether it be AMD or Intel was the point was I was gaming and I was having fun and it just wanted to show you guys with a video like this that gaming on AMD is obviously still relevant I'm asked all the time about AMD builds so I said let's build one and let's see how well it does but anyway I really don't have any need to keep this system because I have so many systems in fact as I've been showing you guys on Instagram and stuff the skunkworks build is moving along and here is obviously the orange team as a together with all those chrome fittings and stuff looks fantastic so obviously I don't need this thing now not today but very very soon I am going to be giving away this monitor that tower that you just saw get built and a brand new mechanical quick fire rapid eye keyboard and a brand new gaming mouse so you guys don't ask me now how to enter because you can't enter yet but trust me somebody's going to win this and somebody's going to be enjoying some multi-gpu amazingness and games and all that stuff which is ultimately the point here enjoy some freaking games I stopped worrying about what hardware you're using all right guys time to get out of here thanks for watching today's video I hope you've enjoyed I hope you've learned something I always have fun doing these builds and I really couldn't do this without your guys's support so as we get towards the end of the year I just want to say thanks again guys for an amazing 2015 I'll try and do some sort of a rewind video for you you guys have made this the best year of my life that's why I want to give something back to you guys and hopefully one of you will win and enjoy this system all right guys I'm gonna get out of here following social media if you guys want to interact with me personally otherwise I will just see you in the next video take care