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hey what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and you know I've always lived by it's better to be late than never and considering every other tech youtubers already done their sky like video I figure it's time to go ahead and do mine Mastrov is excited to announce three new communities RC cars photography and Corvettes be the first snow in these communities officially hit the site by subscribing using the links below okay so I'm gonna have a small series coming up here about sky Lake where I'm going to be doing the build here which is going to be kind of a build overview I'm showing you the parts telling you the parts I've chosen for this sky like build and then I'm going to tell you what I have planned in the future for giving you as much sky light content as I can to be relevant to your builds I'm getting a lot of questions about should I go with sky lake or should I go with 4790k is it worth going to dr4 will kind of do some comparisons here now here are the parts that we have chosen for sky Lake now obviously I've gone with the core i7 6700 K because that's what Intel sent now what's interesting about this box I want you guys to realize that this is a retail sample not one of those handwritten classified samples which always leave us wondering a little bit you know whether or not Intel kind of hand-picked that and sent it over this is actually off a retail shelf and it's in retail packaging and it's probably a little bit closer to being more realistic as to what you guys would get if you wanted to say Fry's or Micro Center bought one from Newegg so I prefer to do retail samples when it comes to CPUs which I've always done in the past rather than doing the you know classified hand-picked is style CPU which is sent over by engineering anyway for the motherboard I went with the EVGA z170 for the win and you guys know why I chose this motherboard if you're following on Twitter and if you're not following on Twitter you should be because you would already know the answer to why I'm using this motherboard and it's not just because I'm a little bit of a horror for when it comes to EVGA with that being one of my favorite brands honestly it comes down to the fact that it's pretty much all black there's a little bit of accent color in there but I am personally sick and tired of all the flashy gaudy ugly colors that a lot of the brands are doing out there I'm not a fan believe it or not of yellow and black motherboards or white motherboards or just it's almost like Asus asrock gig by MSI they're all in this race for who can make the biggest ugliest flashiest motherboard and that's not what I like so the EVGA Z for the z170 for the win really fit the bill in terms of features and the fact that it's a standard ATX board because we are using the s340 NZXT razor Edition case now for cooling I'm using the corsair h 100 i honestly because it's just available and I have it I've got some other needs for my predator and then because I'm going to be orienting it on the front and not on the top of the case because this case only has 120 millimeter single fan exhaust on the top that's why I'm not using the h2 20x or anything like that because I don't want to orient that all sideways so this can be front mounted on the front of this case for graphics cards here I'm using my GTX 970 s these are EVGA SSC edition to get a little bit of blue accenting right here but when they're in the case like this there's silver right here on the front so the Blues not going to show I went with two of them simply because I have two of them so why not but some of my future plans once this system is all together is to kind of swap out the graphics cards with things like the Titan X or some massively overclocked cards and start to see if we can get any bottlenecking when it comes to the 6700 K I highly doubt it when it comes to gaming but it's something we'll check for in the future for RAM I'm running 16 gigabytes for 4 gigabyte sticks of HyperX predator now it's not ideal to be using 4 sticks or gonna be doing overclocking I'd prefer two sticks 8 gigabyte but I don't have to six of eight gigabytes I have 4 4 gigabytes so that's what we'll be doing there and then when it comes to storage I've just got my 4 terabyte Western Digital black and then for main drive I'll be using 500 gigabyte SSD Evo other than that we're going to go and put it all together and then we'll come back and we'll just take a look kind of a tour of the system and it will run down what we doing in the future with some future videos regarding skylake transition all right obviously it's the next day because I spent a lot of time working on this build yesterday came across a few snags and I want to talk about right now I just realized I look awfully preppy don't die like I think it's a nice shirt it's in it it's a nice shade of blue okay so building in the NZXT s340 I mean that's really what this is it's got a few razer logos on there and some under glow under the case and a glowing logo on the front but in all intents and purposes it is in NZXT s340 now building in this case was actually not that bad considering it - mid tower it it's a it fits a full ATX board in there or micro ATX if you want a little bit more room you can fit a 240 radiator on the front as we did here with the H 100 I and I'll be honest the only real reason I went with the H 100 is because I can change the pump LED to green I mean I really kind of wanted this to be a very green themed build especially since I'm gonna be moving skunkworks over to a green build I thought well it's kind of get a dry run here of how green would look and I really like it obviously we changed out the graphics card and I didn't put my tight necks in there simply because I wanted to put in a tight necks it turns out that the two 970 s on this motherboard gave me a little bit of an issue and here's as to why the EVGA z170 for the wind does not have any plx chip on there whatsoever which means we are limited to only the native PCI Express Lanes now the problem with that is I went ahead and added into this mix-up here I didn't I didn't feel like reinstalling all of the OS and starting all over so what I did was I took the m2 SSD out of my simulator build my computer I built simply for my racing sim and it already had the OS and everything installed on it so I just took that out put it on this motherboard as you can see down there underneath the graphics card and the problem is MDOT - also utilizes PCI Express Lanes now there's more than enough lanes to be able to use the SSD on there are the m2 SSD and still go with SLI the problem is EVGA has it set up so that you have to use the top two PC Express slots for SLI and not one and three so one in two puts the graphics card sandwiched together now considering the grab the nine 70s that I have are not blower style cards they are recirculating cards means that the top card was going to be completely starved of air not only that it looked terrible the other issue I came across when doing this build is the fact that for whatever reason don't ask me why but for whatever reason EVGA decided to omit every single USB 2.0 header on the motherboard there are no USB 2.0 headers now the reason why that bothers me and that's a big deal is one using corsair link with the h 100 i uses a USB 2.0 header we plug the header on to the motherboard and then you control the pump that's not that huge of a deal with the h 100 i considering you can plug in a standard USB you know mini USB plug plug it into the you know back of the motherboard into one of those USB ports and everything will work fine you could set it up and then unplug it not worry about it again the other problem was i wanted to try out NZXT new hue plus lighting system which they sent over and i thought that this would be the perfect build where i could balance out the lighting and play around with the RGB effects unfortunately that also uses a USB 2.0 header now yes i put that out on twitter and everyone's like just get a USB 3.0 adapter a 2.0 3.0 adapter then i can't use the USB 3.0 plug for the front of the case which means that the USB plugs on the ports on the front of the case or technically at the top what have been rendered useless now what I'm getting at here was my need of an all-black motherboard led to some compromises that I'm not too happy about especially getting rid of the USB 2.0 headers in my opinion it would make more sense to ditch the front side audio than it would be to ditch the USB 2.0 because there's lots of cases that still have USB 2.0 headers on the front of the case fractal design being one of them they've typically will put two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 on there I feel like there's a lot of compromises on this motherboard that don't make sense and had I known all that going into it I might have just gotten a different motherboard and then it to be black that's why the tight necks is in there although it does match aesthetically now I still could technically do my 9 70s in SLI and not you have to worry about BM - if I was to simply clone the m2 partition on to my samsung SSD then I would be able to take the m-dot - off the motherboard free up those lanes and then be able to use the proper separation for the nine 70s like I would need to do SLI but then once again I'm making a compromise of going with a slower drive as we all know m2 on the motherboard is way faster than going through like you know SATA 6 gigabits per second port and an SSD I would much rather use the m2 as my operating system partition and drive because it's just natively so much faster than SATA 6 gigabits so far dealing with skylake is been pretty simple I don't know if I got a really good overclocking chip I started playing around some of the overclocking we'll do another video about skylake overclocking because right now I just did a down-and-dirty overclock on this thing I just bumped up the multiplier I put the RAM at XMP profile 1 so the ram is running at 20 800 megahertz right now and my CPU is actually running at 4.9 gigahertz right now and I didn't even try and tune the thing it probably is pumping more voltage into it then it really needs although the temperatures have been sitting under load right around the mid-80s and then at idle it tends to sit somewhere closer around to the low 30s and then at stock speeds is like mid 20s so the H 100 I is doing a fantastic job in here but anyway I don't even have a name for this build I honestly don't even know if this build is going to stay together but I had to put something together to test out skylight for you guys and I thought well NZXT sent this case over a while ago I might as well at least try it out see how it looks I'm happy with the s340 it's a very well-thought-out case for the size I mean I love the fact that you've got separation of the power supply unit so none of that heat is making its way into the main compartment of the case I like where the SSDs mount because SSDs look really cool these days and so a lot of people definitely like to show off their SSDs especially if they match in some way but oh no I'm pretty impressed with the NZXT s340 it's got a lot of thought put into this mid-tower case you can fit a 240 rad on the front a 30 millimeter rad including the you know thickness of the fans so you've got about 55 millimeters of clearance there You've if you remove the bracket that you can install the pump on if you don't need that then you could go with a thicker radiator no problem all the way up to like a 60 millimeter not have any problems in their full ATX size motherboard no top mounted radiators though those aren't going to fit in there not enough clearance between the fan and the motherboard but you could also technically go with a rear mounted radiator on there if you wanted for like a single 120 AIO separation the power supplies you're not getting any contamination of heat into the main compartment you can show off your SSDs and that even includes a bracket to mount your reservoir to which is usually the more difficult part when it comes to new water coolers because they don't want to drill into their case so they've already got a spot there for you I am using the BitFenix a alchemy lighting in there which is actually a magnetic lighting strip so that's what's giving me the green right there as you can see here I actually can't get off there we go if things just magnetic on there so that makes it nice and easy if you're not using an aluminum case then it will stick to it no problems but anyway we've got a few videos coming up that I'm going to do we're gonna do a skylight overclocking tutorial and guide we are going to also use this case because I saw an awful lot of comments of people who claim to be in the know saying oh my god you can't put a front mounted radiator on that case you're gonna heat up your components and everything gonna explode in the world's gonna completely be destroyed as far as we know it that's not you actually will support that with some numbers where temperatures can be affected a little bit but trust me they're not gonna be affected nearly as much as you think they're going to me anyway we're gonna get out of here help me think of a name for this project give head on over to twitter at JS two cents and tell me what you think i should call it or if you don't use twitter then just put it down in the comments and whatever name we choose if i choose your name though maybe I'll give you a shout out but anyway guys thanks for looking at this little build here all in all I'm actually pretty happy with the way it turned out I even went with my k70 RGB and made it greens that we can be all like metrosexual and match and stuff anyway time to get out of here guys as always thanks for watching and I will see you in the next one