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hey what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and guess what the owner of red mist finally got his hands on a couple of GTX 1080 so that means that we can continue with the red mist build log here very very soon as soon as those are in my possession but what does that mean well to me it means the sooner I'm done with red mist the sooner I can get started with the skunk works update which I am really excited about but I get a lot of questions about what I'm planning on doing moving forward so I thought I would go ahead and just kind of have a chat with you guys about my plans with skunk works and why I'm going to do the things I'm going to do if you're a keyboard enthusiast and you will definitely want to check out the red scarf too plus currently available at mass drop this build-it-yourself kit featuring a unique 78 key layout consists of a PCB clear acrylic bottom and CNC aluminum case plate and feet and even allows for customization of the RGB under glow lighting if you want a keyboard that is truly built to your design in your specs then head to master up using the link down in the description now skunkworks has always been one of those builds as the channel grows I've always had the system growing right alongside it it started off as a pretty modest FX 8120 system when I first started YouTube with a single GTX 680 in it which I had actually installed just before I started the channel paradise at a 580 but yeah it was a pretty pretty modest system considering it will even though I had a big water cooling loop in it it was still pretty modest but as the channel grew I kind of wanted to build this big over-the-top system that just kept growing alongside it and as you can see it literally became a massive behemoth of a machine today that now houses three gtx titan x's that are fully water-cooled dual loops dual d5 pumps as you I mean as you can see it's just like way over the top and it's more computer than anybody ever needs but the whole point of the system was to continue to have it be kind of a centerpiece and a showpiece that is a physical representation of the growth of the channel now the graphics power evolution of this system like I said with 580 then a 680 then I had a 780 then I had to 1780s and then it had three seven 80s and I had three nine 80s and now three Titan and what I have noticed obviously over those years is that the practicality factor is not there but at the same time the heat continues to grow and with how powerful graphics cards are today I thought that maybe it's time for a little bit of a change I have three gtx 1080s nvidia sponsored the graphics cards but I'm thinking now 310 ATS with all of the constant changes that they're making to SLI the fact that they're not going to be supporting SLI in games any longer out of the box the enthusiasts key thing was announced and then dropped and then they'd just because of the constant Fiasco with that I sat down with a couple of my 10 80s over there my founders boards the ones that were sent to me for skunk works and I went how does it really compare how does two GTX 1080s overclocked compared to on air by the way founders coolers how do those compare to say three GTX Titan X's on water and also overclocked these guys are overclocked to 1400 and 60 megahertz all three of them all the time they're at 1400 and 60 megahertz anytime I opened up the any game that's what they go to well here's how it looked with fire strike now I only tested fire strike because I was curious in that score and the reason why I only use fire strike now again I'm not doing this like to as a review to show you guys should you do to retighten exes or should you do to 1080s this is just for my own curiosity because fire strike was one of the things I built the system for there was a while there this system was actually in the top 25 in the world when it came to the fire strike 1080 score amongst any configuration four-way three-way two-way doesn't matter so it was in the top 25 for a while that was fun and that's what's fun to me but the amount of heat that this system actually puts out into the room the amount of power draw this thing actually takes from the wall even even with the power reduction of Maxwell over Kepler and the Kepler 780 s were really really hungry for power the three tight necks is when I start benchmarking it even in this newer house will dim the lighting that's how much power it draws from the wall so like I really want got to get that under control so that's why I'm thinking to 1080s is probably going to be a better solution for me now obviously you look at the benchmark I put up and it's one of those things where you can argue well J the three tight nexus is still edging out the 210 80s but think about it I might lose a little bit of fire strike score none of the games I play even really support three-way I mean yeah the three graphics cards will do something but once you had a third graphics card you can actually add and introduce more latency be in your gaming but it's one of those things where believe it or not in most games I went into the control panel and disabled one of the cards anyway or would set it to physics or something like that so it got to the point to where I wasn't even using 380s all the time or three 383 tight nexus what are three 80s oh yeah that's AMD card so what I gain in place of what I lose when it comes to pure raw FPS performance is I actually gain more power efficiency and it's gonna be a lot less heat in this room so what I plan on doing what skunk works here is I've always loved green so I'm actually going to be doing a green build finally I did a blue build with the Nano s I did the yellow build obviously first I played around with orange now so now I'm going to go ahead and do green I've always been a fan of the way the green looks now the fluid that's in here a lot of people obviously you're like what the heck is going on but you have problems with pastel fluid this is test fluid this was this has specifically been running in the system now since duh about a month and a half now almost two months specifically to let it change color and I'm going to send the fluid in for testing and let those guys do what they do in their laboratories I'm I'm no chemist I'm I don't I don't cook the myths so I don't I don't know any of that stuff so I'm gonna let them decide but I'm going to be going with the green pastel that they're newer formula they've come out with because it turns out that the fluids at least what they found in their testing too is the fluids that are based on red like red yellow orange those are the ones that tend to change color the worst blue and green and stuff like that tend to be a little bit more resilient when it comes to color change we're going to try that but I think it's going to look really good especially with the fact that I have clear blocks also going on the 1080 just like these guys here I think it looks me when you can see the fluid through there and I still don't install the back plate on this guy I haven't touched it the back plates came in but I haven't since I did the how to install this video I haven't actually done anything with it so one of the things I'm also going to be doing here is changing out the motherboard the gigabyte SOC champion and going with the msi god-like carbon which is a really ridiculously expensive motherboard but I like some of the features that are on there and the other thing that I also like to do with my system is as a daily user experience different motherboards and things like that which as you guys know I've had some rocky experiences with this gigabyte motherboard although ironically the BIOS update preparing for Broadwell II actually fixed all the problems I was having with my has welly my 59 60 X none of the has well BIOS for this motherboard actually fixed my problem where I was getting boot loops or failed BIOS posts and it was even failing to post at stock speeds and video optimized defaults but then finally when I updated the BIOS to prepare for Broadwell II which I'm not even going to put in here by the way I all my problems went away so that's kind of good but by far the most stable overclocking motherboard I have used to date is my x99 classified and that's what's going to be going in my test bench that way I can get you know I can continue to use that motherboard which I absolutely love but I gained you know obviously the stability on the test bench as well which is going to be kind of nice but I think one of the important reasons why I'm making this video today is to kind of answer the GPU question because so many people have asked me why are you doing three 1080s when you can't even use three-way and gaming well I think obviously the history of this launch has shown that I feel like I'd be taking more of a risk going 3-way than I did initially when I was meeting with them in Austin I mean I like the idea of the enthusiast key to unlock 3-way and it's like okay you've you know what you're getting yourself into you it's not really supported it's not optimized have at it all and that was I was ok with that but then now that that's been dropped and it's no longer ok you can you can you know sign this disclaimer basically by installing the the enthusiast key and then take the experiences for what they've they will they completely tore out the experience of three-way gaming and put it in the hands of the developers and the problem is I don't see the developers optimizing for dx12 and 3-way anytime soon if at all because what happens is I think as a developer you look at it and go when the manufacturer is dropping support why do you want to support it when you're not going to get the support of the manufacturer if you need help so I that's why I made the decision to finally just go with - now I also thought about putting the third card in there and again not having it be part of SLI because obviously we do the HP Bridge it's only going to be two-way SLI what's the point of having a 1080 sitting in their third 1080 doing nothing but handling physics which is only supported in certain games and having it sit there and do pretty much nothing that's a waste and I can find other things to do with that card then just have it sitting in there between two of them going hey guys can i play too one other thing I'm also going to be doing what skunk works is I'm going to be putting in some new EK radiators both 560 and 480 and actually wanted to put a 360 on the front the problem the problem with that is unfortunately with how thick the radiators are that I'm putting in I can't fit a 360 in the front without it interfering the fans and the radiator on the top because this is a 30 mil red in here right now with hardware labs and I'm going to be putting in 45 millimeter radiators which is going to push it down 15 mil and there's going to be a conflict but that other radiator I was gonna be putting in the front was going to be to also help handle some of the tight Nick's heat which is now going to be negated by the fact that I'm only going to be putting in 210 80s so that's not even going to be a big deal so having a 5 60 and a 2 80 in the bottom like I have now is obviously more than enough cooling 4 to 10 80s like such overkill it's not even funny but the tight necks is on water believe it or not do get all the way up to about 55 C and depending on the benchmark and how hard it stresses it I've seen it get almost 60 C that's way too hot on water as far as I'm concerned so it's time for a change it's one of the reasons why I'm also not a fan of this orange is the red dye in it seems to react to the white LEDs which is why you get this sort of a pinkish reddish look where when the LEDs are turned off then it looks obviously very orange it's it's very orange with the LEDs off but once a system turns on in the LEDs turn on no matter how much I adjust the LED inside a hue because this is the hue plus lighting system and I try and warm up that lighting it still looks very pinkish red it's almost like it's almost like it's UV orange but it's not and the lights aren't even UV so I don't know what that's all about but it it just glows like a really pinky color and I don't like that at all obviously to get all the green stuff looking good though that means I'm going to need more cables customs leaf cables so that means Joe with modders Inc is obviously gonna have his work cut out for him again huge shout out and thank you to him he's like really slammed with work constantly has stuff going on and he always seems to fit me and get my cables done so right now he's not taking any new orders but definitely keep him in mind Joe with moderate ink he's done all the sleeving from any custom sleeves you seen on this channel or any custom sleeves you've seen in skunk works he's the one who's done personally so definitely worth keeping him in mind if you are looking to get custom cables done when he's ready to take new orders again but yeah so he's working out a color theme on cables where we getting those done he's also the guy who did the cables for red mist you'll see those when the build is done but I think it's going to look good here's here's kind of what it's going to look like just using Photoshop to kind of you know obviously change the hue on the color to give you an idea of what it's going to look like I'm pretty excited I think it's going to look really cool anyway guys thanks for watching today's video let me know if you have any ideas of what you think would look really good in skunk works I mean I'm always curious as to what you guys would do because I do get a lot of my inspiration from your builds as well as you guys getting your inspiration from mine so with that said sound off in the comments or hit me up on Twitter let me know what you would do and we'll go from there so I'll see you guys in next video and hopefully it's gonna be about the HP bridge until then guys have a good weekend and I'll see you in the next one