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today on the crazy Russians NCIX pc lab i have boxes actually i have a system hiding behind the boxes featuring a number of the components that are here represented by the boxes that the components are no longer inside because they are in the system so we have the crosshair 5 formula which is a Seuss's republic of gamers SLI crossfire already motherboard that has a full support for AMD bulldozer FX so we've got an fx-8150 cpu and here cooled by the corsair h 100 using for fans and push-pull configuration for maximum static pressure and maximum airflow we've also got a Radeon HD 6970 direct see you too from Asus so the direct see YouTube cooler uses dual fans in order to provide better cooling than the reference design card you can actually run not only one but two of those cards in this system just by adding an additional card and upgrading the power supply where the AXA 50 is more than enough for a single card solution just for comfort you might want to go with something a little bit higher end if you go with a dual or even a triple no I don't think yeah this card does not support triple graphics because it uses a triple slot cooler on this particular motherboard but you can still go with dual graphics and then you might want to go with an HX 7 but is HX 1050 these days I think the HX 1000 gone either way let's have a look at the system so the first thing you're going to see here is the AMD FX 8350 in order to the maximum amount of stress on the CPU to make sure it's stable before we start any overclocking because these systems will come pre overclocked this is actually going to be a special edition red painted system as you may or may not be able to tell at this point in time I also want to show you one other cool thing about the bulldozer FX CPU I'm going to stop the small FFT test hopefully that doesn't bother crazy Russians it's not doing anything that matters I don't know so I'm going to set it to one torture test thread to run and you are going to see AMD turbo hold on there we go so cor clocks are up to 3.9 gigahertz so that is using their turbo core technology in order to provide better single-threaded performance when you're running a lightly threaded workload so there you go it works ah what else do we have here yeah let's open it up and have a look at the rest of the system config I actually don't know how much these are going to cost yet I don't know what the final clock speeds of the CPU are going to be yet these are all sort of trivial details what you need to know is that it is a beast machine and it looks great so we've got the ax 850 there there's your triple slot capable of five simultaneous outputs a juice Radeon 69 70 and you can put an additional one in this slot right here actually ooh can you can you okay apparently you can I'm getting the nod from crazy Russians and that's good we've also got a crucial M 4 SATA 3 SSD installed in the top bay and a three terabyte storage drive that's a 128 gig right yep I'm getting the nod we've got 8 gigs of Corsair Vengeance Ram which can be upgraded to 16 gigs should you so desire we've got the H 100 so you can clearly see the 2 stock Corsair fans here and then we've also got 2 Coolermaster red LED fans here which gives you that little bit of LED lighting accent on the top we've got the coarse RH 100 right here which you can actually adjust the fan speed on just by clicking the button so there's your low mid and your high speed settings just you can see the LED illumination around it and the crosshair 5 formula motherboard makes a beautiful backdrop with its black overall look and red accents that go along with every other aspect of this system very very sharp looking system so thank you oh yeah we've got hey check that out we've got a blu-ray of this out a blu-ray burner nope we've got a blu-ray player DVD burner combo unit in the front to go with the a seuss and Corsair overall theme of this build it is an asus blu-ray drive and i think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about this guy I look forward to getting back to you guys with our overclocking results with the bulldozer fx-8150 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos