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water cooling parts for skunk works for provided by performance pcs for the largest online selection of PC modding and water cooling parts head to performance pcs calm well the system is done I think it's never really done I mean honestly have I ever really been done with this system you so anytime I do any videos or any Instagram photos or anything about skunkworks I always get the inevitable Jew why are you wasting so much money on this the system as I said it's a labor of love and it's a symbol of the channel therefore it's always going to be evolving so get used to the seen this thing get upgraded all the time because that's just the way we do around here the system is always going to be evolving with the channel that's the point of it that was the whole reason I started building this system was to just kind of keep it going sort of like the Winchester mansion up in San Jose only I'm not being haunted if you guys don't know what that means then go check out the Winchester mansion website it's kind of interesting backstory but anyway we are way off topic we're going to do a little rationale real quick when it comes to the system 59 60 X is absolutely monstrous but it's actually becoming the bottleneck now in my system where depending on where my overclocks are on the 59 60 X I'm getting some massive swings on fps when it comes to the benchmarks of the Titan axis in fact going from 4.0 gigahertz to 4.5 gigahertz netted me over 25 frames per second averages when it comes to synthetic benchmarks which we all know are not as demanding as actual games so that was a bit of a mind-blower thinking my 59 60 X is becoming the freaking bottleneck what kind of world do we live in where that happens I don't want to live on this planet anymore I'm not putting up any of the 3-way Titan X benchmarks yet because I still a lot of tweaking and tuning to do and by tweaking obviously I mean settings people I will say this though in this part I found a little bit interesting and I'll do a more in depth video of my findings after this one 980 reference versus one Titan X was a huge difference between the two however in a threeway config it's much more narrow in fact there it's very minimal gains over my 980 s currently when it comes to three-way so when we played around that and seeing exactly what's going on but card for card huge gap but in three-way it's not as big as I thought it would be that's what she said but she loves me anyway so we'll definitely be doing a little bit of research and seeing what the heck is going on there but when it comes to another question I'm constantly asked is am I going to do custom BIOS on these Titan X's I think the answer is yes they're just not going as far as I want on the overclocks yeah I'm getting 1,400 and 80 megahertz out of these in 3-way SLI but I want more power it's always a risk in fact I've blown up a 780 if you guys don't remember I actually killed a 780 by doing a BIOS flash my fault for putting the wrong BIOS on the card but I digress now when it comes to the radiators plenty of people ask me why I went with thinner radiators and added a third radiator in there well first of all when it comes to and I'll do a video on this as well when it comes to the length of the radiator that matters more than the thickness of the radiator way more you could take a radiator that is 45 millimeters or 60 millimeters thick and put it against the same sized radiator that's only thirty millimeters thick and you'll see very minimal differences but you could take a radiator like a 120 in compared to a 240 and see massive differences on TDP and watts cooled and displaced so that is why I did that I went with a thinner 560 for better airflow through the red and added a 280 to the GPU loop to keep things as cool as possible these cards these Titan X's are higher tbp higher wattage then the 980 s and the 980 s we're getting up into the mid-50s on temperatures and I wasn't happy with that yeah fantastic temperatures but I wasn't happy with seeing mid 50s on a 3-way SLI water-cooled graphics cards I mean they were doing so well on air in the 60s and 70s on air 50s was not very impressive but I will say this even though I'm not giving you guys numbers yet on the Titan X three-way benchmarks I will give you some preliminary numbers on temperatures we're at stock speeds I was getting mid-30s at load mid 20s at idle that's already way cooler than my nine 80s we're getting and at load while overclocked I think the max temp I saw so far was 44 degrees so that is a 10 degree drop on a higher wattage card by adding a two eighty and going with thinner heads I think you guys will see the point I'm going to get to with the radiator video where I talk about that especially with the summer temps coming up the other thing I did in this system was I use the exact same g.skill Ram of the ripped off for but I went from 16 gigs to 32 gigs unfortunately when dx12 launches I'm still going to have more GPU memory than I do CPU memory thirty six gigs versus 32 gigs but hey you know first world problems I guess there was a lot of questions too about why I changed up the loop why I moved the pumps and all of that and really it kind of comes down to a few things one getting less components out of the basement and up into the main part of the case one gives me easier access to pump control and speed and two improves air flow down in the basement part of the case the more junk I had down there radiators and tubes and stuff the more restriction there was for air flow to get across the bottom of the basement the bottom of this case is completely segregated from the top so the GPUs have their own air cooling environment and the CPU has its own air cooling environment and the two don't cross contaminate each other well except with a little bit of heat that comes off the back plates of the GPUs but you kind of see where I'm going with that now putting the pumps up on the top makes it one it fills in the space a little bit more and two it just makes it look better as far as I'm concerned I love pump reservoir combo I think it fills up the space nicely and the reorientation of the tubes fills in things really well in that case so it looks less empty but doesn't look cluttered so that was why I did it I wanted to see more tubing I like to see a lot of tubing I like a lot of busy work going on in the cases when it comes to water cooling so having that very minimal barely any tube showing was actually bothering me that bothered me most about the system even more than that stupid kink that showed up in the tube after I had to move to the different motherboard and didn't line up perfectly so hey I like the way it looks now and really that's what's most important about this system is how I feel about it but it is still a community effort so a lot of the things that you guys say about the system I do take into consideration and I think the overall result looks really really good I worked on this thing for a solid week I have worked my fingers absolutely raw with constantly turning fittings and screws and stuff even though I have a power driver for screwdrivers and stuff all the fitting cranking the fingerprint reader on my iPhone won't even recognize any of my fingers anymore so it's going to take a few weeks for these to recover but I do have more custom builds coming I still have to finish the parvum build finally got in the pieces I was waiting for from England it took the United States a month and a half to get it through customs which was absolutely stupid but anyway we're going to finish the part of an build and we are going to do full benchmarks on this thing in a future video not too far in the future I just want to get through some of the tweaking of stuff I need to do on this thing if you guys want to interact and don't want to deal with the comments that take place down below feel free to follow on social media Facebook Instagram and Twitter and as always thanks for watching and making builds like this possible in order to say thank you i teased in a previous video that i'm going to be doing something involving one of my 9 80s in the very near future we will be doing a giveaway where I give away one of my 9 80s but here's the thing you guys get to pick which 980 you want with the exception of the Hall of Fame card that card is staying with me but you guys want one of the water-cooled 980 s and you win you say hey J I want a water-cooled 980 you want my classified take it you want the 980 hybrid take it you get to pick as the winner will be doing more details about that in the future it as always guys for now thanks for watching