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previously on Jays two cents okay so this is actually take two of this intro so I've already started taking some of the parts off unfortunately I'm a noob and I didn't check the audio levels you can't use air flow fins because you will get any if the Chiellini you scope works is more than just and over-the-top extremely expensive stupidly ridiculously overkill PC it's an accumulation of things that I've collected on this channel as a channels grown I continue to build on and build up skunkworks because it's more like a centerpiece oh but I kind of consider an accomplishment with the channel okay so there's the new pump and Reza's put into place so I can start getting some of the tubing routed the built-in rez and water pump mounting locations improved air flow and massive radiator support make the define s from fractal design the obvious choice for water cooling enthusiasts the S doesn't stand for sexy but it should now to say that skunk works as anything other than complete overkill kind of a physically manifested example of how to waste money would be a complete lie but you know what that's what kind of makes a system like this so much fun now you guys have been asking for this video for a long time wanting to know where all the benchmarks and stuff were one of the reasons why it took so long was I ended up having a Samsung 840 drive failure which was my main drive now I don't keep anything important on this drive other than the operating system and a few documents and things which are backed up anyway but I ended up having to get everything back up and running again redo all my graphics card over clocks and things and so as we made it take a little bit longer than I wanted it to before we get into the benchmarks let's go ahead and fill in those people who may not have seen the previous versions of or the previous video showing the building of this system this is actually the system in technically its fourth iteration but we're calling it v3 kind of kind of going an apple route here we're like the sixth iPhone really was like the seventh generation or something like that it started off as pretty much just a 900 D with a single 780 in it and a 3770k and as the channel grew I continued to put bigger and better parts in it had to 70 80 s and then we went over to a case labs case and then we went over to what we stayed at the 3770k and then we went z97 with a 4790k overclock that and then we put in a third 7080 and then we went to X 99 with 783 780 s then we went to X 99 59 60 X with 3 980 s and now here we are with three Titan X's now some people have asked why I don't put in a fourth card and I think the benchmarks are going to show why I don't put in a fourth card but we'll talk about that a little bit more in the end in terms of monitors I have two vg2 for 8qe 1080p 24-inch panels flanking my 27-inch blue is 27 inch Acer or asus rog swift and then on top of that I have the Acer xB 280 HK which is the 4k IPS one millisecond g-sync panel and the Swift is also g-sync now the monitor setup is kind of a mixed bag of a bunch of different things really the reason why it's set up like this as I'm testing out a lot of different monitors I needed a 4k panel hooked up to this machine so I could do 4k plus I wanted the IPS so that I could start getting better color rendering and better color accuracy when I do these videos so I'm leaving the ACE or up top which is kind of funny it's the biggest monitor and it's up top but what's even funnier is when you think about the resolution layout especially when you look at the desktop you know screen resolution map it's funny where the top panel is like nearly as big as all three on the sides it's it's just really strange configuration on here I definitely wouldn't recommend this especially when you're trying to switch back and forth between 4k panel and 1080p panel or 1440p panel to do your benchmarks I like to use rate of resolution testing for that even though it really doesn't make any difference ultimately you can go down in res without a problem I just like to do native resolution call me weird plenty people do but that's the way that I do it but the current specs of skunkworks can be found down in the description below and then you guys can stop asking you how much it cost or this or that every single piece down to freakin nuts and bolts are down there so you guys can see the total cost and it's always fluctuating with current market pricing so you can always see what the current value of skunkworks is now for peripherals here on my set up I am using the Corsair k70 RGB keyboard and we are using the Coolermaster CM storm reaper mouse by far my favorite mouse to date still it's just weighted perfectly it's got no extra frills no extra buttons just two thumb buttons and everything about it is perfect as far as I'm concerned and then the matte here I could ask about this all the time the gaming Matt is an Oris gaming mat it's a thunder pad I think they call it thunder mat something like that and I just like it cuz it keeps my desk protected and I can clean it literally it gets filthy and then you can just spray on like glass cleaner and wipe it down and it becomes perfectly clean for cooling inside of skunkworks we have the three Titan X's and a parallel config it's amazing how many people tell me this config won't work but it isn't a parallel config and if you guys look at this video right here you guys can actually see the way that the fluid enters the bottom card and then it goes up into the second card before it comes out of the second card is coming back out of the first card then it goes up into the third card comes out of the second card before it comes out of the third card so that just goes to show it is filling up each block independently and all those people who say this won't work because it will just bypass the first card in the second card clearly have absolutely no idea how Thermal physics and thermodynamics work it's always going to look for the path of least resistance and as soon as there is the block filling it's going to go into the next block and then the next block and then it's going to equally divide the flow amongst all three blocks so that you have equal flow in and equal flow out I don't know why that is so hard people to understand but parallel config' it's easier on the pump it's less back pressure and really temperatures are not don't suffer at all but anyway I digress it although off track but the amount of people that say stupid stuff like that for cooling those three Boheme a--the Titan X's we do have three EK full cover water blocks as whoa nickel plated with the acetal cover which is the black cover and then their back plates for those and then we do have two radiators cooling those a GTS nemesis by hardware labs the black ice nemesis 560 red which is for one hundred and forty millimeter fans and add an additional two eighty on the back of the system which is giving us a complete six times 140 millimeter worth of radiators cooling those now they still get a little bit warm up into the 50s and which is still warmer than I'd like them to be but hey I digress considering these graphics cards can get up to 90 degrees Celsius on reference coolers at times depending on the load and putting them under 4k load definitely stresses them out the 59 60 X is being cooled by a single black ice nemesis GTS 480 and it's obviously overkill for that all PE TG croolik tubing by primo chill and then e 2 EK reservoirs with d5 integrated pumps as you can see right there in the top part of the case and we did redo the entire cooling loop for this build but anyway that's enough about that if you guys want know more about the building of this you're going to have to go back and watch part 1 2 & 3 of the build lugs and you guys can you see more about how the system came together anyway guys let's go ahead and take a look at the benchmark and see how it did on gaming you now I've talked about bottlenecks and I've talked about how I don't like the word bottleneck not because it doesn't exist but because people overuse it and then don't really understand what a bottleneck is a bottleneck is a limiting factor in your system it is one component that affects the performance of another because it cannot keep up with the higher performing part for instance in this case clearly 1080p and this system are just absolutely stupid as you can see in many of these benchmarks 1080p was pretty much the same FPS as 1440p it just goes to show even if you're using 1080p 144 hertz panel 3 titan nexus is beyond bottlenecking even for a 59 60 X that's the same reason why if you look at the fire strike normal score 30 it was 30,000 and some change it is pretty much only a thousand points higher than my 3 980 s were the reason for that being is the 3 980 s were pretty damn near bottlenecked by the 59 60 X and the Titan X's are obviously being bottlenecked by the Titan Nexus so my limiting factor in this blue tur not is my 59 60 X which is just absolutely insane now in order to alleviate that bottleneck I would have to overclock the 59 60 X farther unfortunately my chip just will not do anything higher than 4.5 gigahertz and to keep it 100% 24/7 stable I bring that down to 4.4 gigahertz that way doesn't get too too hot 1.3 to 5 volts is what it takes though Aven for me to get 4.4 which is kind of disappointing because so many people out there have achieved 4.4 on like 1.2 7 volts and lowered x' just I don't have a very good overclocking chip so that's why when I tweeted out that I had a fourth tight necks sitting right here yeah guys not just a cooler there's the card I was debating I'm putting it in skunk works just so I could have that extreme completely overkill massive like I've got four Titan X's and my e-peen is huge because my regular peen is well anyway uh yeah this would only further exacerbate notice I said exacerbate hear me clearly folks this would only further my bottleneck and would gain me absolutely nothing even in 1440p I don't like gaming on 4k I like high refresh rate panels 4k is still finicky in some games and some applications I just I don't like the scaling of the UI 4k is not my thing I'm perfectly fine with 1440p especially high refresh rates and gsync so anyway but as you could see even with 4k the three Titan X's were I mean we're just demolishing games in 4k way above the refresh rate of the panel of course some of these games you know I think it was project cars 118 or somewhere there abouts fps the screen was Karen all over the place I mean the screen was it it looked like shutters that just completely pulled apart because the screen could not even come near keeping up with the frame rates of the three tight nexus which the nice thing is once you turn on vsync g-sync or g-sync or any sort of a sync technology then the graphics cards come down from there 100% load and then when ends up happening is you run cooler because the graphics cards aren't running as hard but what I did notice is some of these games even at 1080p the graphics cards were only running in 40 or 50 percent utilization with one of the cards ramping all the way down to back to its stock 1 gigahertz clock and completely ignoring my overclock that's simply because the game could not utilize the cards because of the bottleneck so they had to do something which was just kind of sit there twiddling their thumbs until the CPU is ready to process what they were sending their way it's not the only benchmark we did we do have 32 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 2666 and obviously this system spends more time rendering videos like this one than it does playing games so I went ahead and rendered out my what video was that oh yeah my Sennheiser RS 175 wireless headphone video I went ahead and rendered that one twice and we'll go ahead and see how long it takes to render it is a video that is I forget how long it is let's take a look here at 11 minutes long or tenon yeah it's 11 minutes long there about 10 minutes 53 seconds and I rendered the video at h.264 codec for mp4 at 1080p 16 megabits per second or MB yes and then I rendered it upscale to 4k at 40 megabits per second so we'll go ahead and take a look at the time differences and we'll see how the rendering speed compares to real-time speed now as you saw rendering videos for 1080p I don't even have time to go and take a poop nap when it comes to rendering that I really like to save her the time I spend on the porcelain throne sometimes it's the only peace and quiet I actually get but I was present but I was pleasantly surprised but I was really happy to see that 4k videos which I had never rendered because I don't have a 4k video or a video camera so there's no point in me ever doing 4k videos was actually able to render only about 50% longer than the video is so for instance it was 11 minute video and it took I think approximately about 16 minutes to render that's fantastic for 4k especially 40 megabit and the thing was I have all the maximum settings maximum depth maximum quality just everything completely maxed out in terms of the quality of the render so that was surprising I expected it to take quite a bit longer than that so as you can see the 59 60 X with 16 threads of processing power overclocked to 4.4 gigahertz and water-cooled never got hotter than 65 degrees Celsius and it completely just obliterated 4k and 1080p rendering I already knew about 1080p I've been doing it all along but 4k this is my first time doing it and it did a fantastic job I mean it just completely dominated rendering and considering it's not a Xeon or a dual Xeon or a quad Xeon system this is why I have no interest in upgrading because what am I going to gain I mean a little bit less time it's fine for me I mean Jesus it was doing so much better than I thought it would I have absolutely no complaints so there you go guys this has been the epic conclusion to the skunkworks build blog and you know what I probably shouldn't even call it a conclusion it's pretty obvious that this thing is going to end up evolving in the future that's the whole point of the system as the channel grows this system grows and it's just it's kind of hard to imagine how much more could actually grow but damn it certainly kinda like I said I could put the forth tight necks in but we already know that this is going to be just wasted card it would be 5% of yield and things like synthetic benchmarks which are not all that important to me anyway but it would actually slow down minigames in many aspects because some games don't even have three-way and four-way SLI profiles or they just don't do anything the cards just sit there so - is still your magic number when it comes to graphics cards and SLI configs 3 was is just fun I like three and the fourth cards are just completely wasted I mean they really are wasted that's why they're not going to go in there I'm gonna do other tests and things with this Titan X on the benchmark it's kind of nice to have it just floating around being able to do different things and benchmark it to other cards as they come out eventually this card is going to lose its place as top dog and I'm interested to see what card that's going to be I wonder if it's going to be wearing a red label okay so there you go guys thanks for watching let me know what you guys think don't forget down in the description you can find the PC port picker link to all the parts for this system if you guys are new to this channel feel free to hit that subscribe button it's entirely free and we put out videos usually three times a week as well as a podcast on Thursdays at five pm called Tech Talk that's a lot of fun it's a live podcast video podcast with the barclays nerdgasm good friend of mine and I love making these videos for you guys it's an awful lot of fun complete dream job to be able to build these systems for you guys to look at and don't forget we are going to be doing some more exciting things here in the future we still have to do parvum benchmark I'm so behind on things that's not in the plan so the a and B build to do the part of benchmarks and stuff you would think quitting my day job to do this would have given me more time but can somebody work on making the day's longer for me please all right well with that said it's time to get the heck on out of here and thanks for watching