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I've got something in this little black box it's guaranteed to make the PCMR EPN just a little bit bigger and before moving forward because I know you guys are already staring at it let's go and talk about the fuzzy patch on my forehead well I grew this lovely lovely beard and my forehead started to feel a little bit left out so I decided that my forehead can go ahead and grow a beard too but he has to promise to maintain the thing I'm taking care of this one right here so yeah can we can we move on now please inside this little black box is something that I said I would actually not get unless Intel sponsored and they were gracious enough to go ahead and sponsor it I didn't think they would but they did anyway it is an Intel 6950 x10 core 20 thread processor this is entirely overkill especially for a gaming PC but skunkworks is not just a gaming PC skunkworks is a centerpiece to this entire channel and it's facing a lot of things I do around here entirely unnecessary and this is one of them but it's fun anyway and I'd do it because I like it I guess it applies to both so I digress currently installed in here right now is my 59 60 X which is an 8 core 16 thread processor so this is effectively giving me 4 extra threads of performance as long as you know an application can actually take advantage of 20 threads so that's why today I'm focusing on gaming at all this is not a gaming chip by any means you can game on it in fact it's single core performance is actually a little bit slower than something like a 6700 K so that would make this not the best choice for a gaming PC but as I said skunkworks is not only the centerpiece of my channel it is also how I make all of my all of my dollars if you oh my dollars and pennies and stuff around this channel and anything I could do that can make my process just a little bit faster especially now that I'm encoding 4k videos for you guys to watch on this glorious fs5 camera anything I can do to make that a little bit faster would be great so as we're gonna do today we're gonna go ahead and run it to test real quick when you Cinebench with this guy here and it is overclocked to 4.4 gigahertz right now we will test testing overclock on this guy as well but both of these are 3.0 gigahertz CPUs with 3.5 turbo clocks I will be overclocking both of these and then doing my test because that's how I run them day to day that's what I care about but anyway we're gonna run so the bench on this and then we're also going to code my dirtfish rally video again we're going to time it and then we're going to install this guy find its overclock we're going to do send a bench again and then we're going to re-encode that same video with all these same exact settings and then compare the differences all right well that was fun um you guys got to kind of see what's involved with doing simple things like changing out of CPU when you have rigid tubing in your system it's not exactly as easy as you would kind of hope but anyway it's still fun and looks cool but I have got the 69 50 X installed right now it's running at 4.4 gigahertz which it can go farther I just did an effortless 4 point 4 gigahertz overclock on it one that I know works with the 59 60 X so it kind of gives us a good apples to apples comparison anyway between both of these tests when I compare them at the same frequency now I'm going to be seeing how far the CPU can go when I have more time to spend with it I would not be able to get this video done in time for when I want to upload it if I was screwing around with the overclocks trying to find its max stable which sometimes can take days or even weeks as some of the CPU starts to settle in if you will for lack of a better term but anyway at least what you're gonna see here is apples to apples 4.4 gigahertz Broadwell II versus the older haswell-e so when Cinebench the 59 60 X scored a 1725 which is actually really good that's a very good score much higher than anything you're going to get on mainstream that's because Cinebench takes advantage of multi-threading heavily and so it's going to optimize very well towards multi-threaded CPUs that have tons of cores and logical threads over ones that have better per core performance so when I installed the 69 50 X actually got a 22 63 so we are talking over 500 points of increase on that that is huge that's that's closer to 30% but what about with what I use every single day which is being the Adobe Creative Suite Creative Cloud Photoshop and all that stuff well we actually why rendering that video I showed you with the rally school the dirtfish rally school it was 16 minutes and 50 seconds from the moment I hit encode on a thirty five mega bit 4k video on the 59 60 X but when I installed the 69 50 X I'm always gonna get those numbers so if I say the wrong in this video I apologize but anyway that 69 50 X at 4.4 gigahertz was only a difference of about a minute and 20 seconds at 15 minutes and 32 seconds from encode to complete and the file is fully rendered so you might be asking yourself now why did Adobe not do as well or show as much of an improvement as Cinebench did well that's because Cinebench is highly optimized for multi-threaded CPUs as I already said now although Adobe is also optimized for using additional threads where available it does not take full advantage of high thread CPUs which is why in some tests people have shown that the 6700 K is actually better at Adobe than these high-end massive extreme CPUs so it's a little bit of trade-off there and the improvement that we actually saw although again the extra cores were being used but not at full utilization not a hundred percent we did also see a little bit of an improvement in the architecture with Broadwell a versus haswell-e which is where that difference really came from now is hoping for more of an improvement we might see more of an improvement as I bump up that core clock again Adobe really likes clock frequency and I think it takes a little bit of a prioritization to that than it does having a ton of threads available to it in this case 20 threads but we'll play around more with that but guys this is why you hadn't seen the skunkworks benchmarks video yet because when I did that build I reached out to Intel and asked that they're interested in sending me a CPU and of course they were willing to do that but there was a lot of events and stuff happening between now and then it took time to get it I've got it it's installed now we can start benchmarking games and stuff and I also have to consider whether or not I'm going to go to Windows 10 on this machine to take advantage of dx12 or do all my tests on dx11 because again I'm still in 8.1 pro over here I'm happy with it it ain't broken I don't really want to fix it then again I could have said the same thing about skunkworks and I upgraded that anyway anyway guys thanks for watching today's video I hope you found something interesting with this I don't want to get something new like this and install it and not share it with you guys so that's really the whole point of this video but moving forward we're going to see some pretty badass content coming up I know it's kind of been lackluster lately and I apologize for that we do the best I can to make things exciting for you to watch again so stick around stick with me and tell me what you want to see do the best I can get that all in there anyway guys thanks for watching it as always I'll see you in the next video