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so this is the most excited I've been about putting something on a test bench in quite some time we've got our whole room water cooling setup video series and well just doing it building five systems that are all running on the same water cooling loop and then spitting the heat out of the house sort of project coming up but of course there's some preparation that needs to be done so I always preach to people that especially if you're going to be liquid cooling a rig you should really be building it air-cooled outside of a case first to make sure that everything is working before you go and put a bunch of work into it so this is the first one that I'll be testing out with the purchase of a qualifying Intel processor SSD or nook you could instantly win and Intel gaming Jersey and be entered in the draw for the ultimate system click now to learn more so here it is here's the setup that my son is helping me with are you going to build that one okay good job you work on that all right well I show everyone the hardware that we are going to be putting into these rigs now this one is the one that I'm really excited about because it's not quite the same as the others they are all getting kingston 240 gig SSDs for the boot drives because most of our storage is going to be on the nest they're all getting cooler master v-series 750 watt power supplies so they're modular power supplies are you plus gold all that good stuff we're not overdoing it on the wattage because there's really a benefit to that they're all getting NVIDIA GTX Titan Black Edition cards zoom out a little bit taking all of its glory and they're all running on a sous x79 deluxe motherboard this really does a great job of those high-end boards and we we really like this particular one quite a lot but while most of them will be running core i7s and then 32 gigs of ddr3 memory this one will be running high yes what's that okay it might only say 2.7 gigahertz on the spreader there but that's a pretty good 2.7 gigahertz because it's - all 12 of its cores and 24 threads this is going to be a Xeon based workstation as opposed to a core i7 one and along with that Zeon we've got 64 gigs of kingston ddr3 because instead of 32 gigs like the other workstations this one is getting double the memory because Ed's 'el is a memory hog and needs pretty much as much RAM as I can throw at him that's also why he's getting the 12 core Xeon because for certain workloads like say for example 3d rendering you're going to get more benefit from more cores than you will from faster course so unfortunately we can't make use of ECC memory which would allow us to get higher capacities like 128 gigs on one board using 16 gig dims but eight 8 gig dims for a total of 64 gigs hopefully we'll be enough for him for the time being now one thing I've asked Kingston for is some higher speed memory for that rig because again with the other ones it doesn't matter that much so we'll see if they come through and send us some 1866 stuff but for now we're going to do the pre build and validation and get going on this so the build process for this rig isn't really anything exceptional I mean it's motherboard CPU Ram it's all that stuff it's just the hardware that we're using that's pretty darn cool so as always it starts with the board I did notice the CPU was a little bit different it's actually actually wider than most LGA 2011 CPUs then putting in all that Ram was one of those chores that you have to kind of enjoy a little bit there's something satisfying about putting 64 gigs of rennes into a system stick by stick by stick by stick after that it's time to put some thermal compound on the CPU then we're going to get our power supply in place get that plugged into the motherboard something to know guys I put the power supply in fan side down that would suffocate it that's bad make sure fan side is up ignore the b-roll I did fix that before I actually turn the system on after that we're going to go ahead and get the water cooling installed so you put in the four posts put the block over top of the thermal compound we already applied we're using a dual radiator liquid cooling system even though when this is done it'll actually be hooked up to something much cooler and much more extreme I would plug in our SSD and then the cherry on top is the GTX in black edition so that's it guys it's done uh this is this is part of the process building something outside of the box to make sure that everything is running okay and this is it moment of truth times let's go ahead and flip the switch on the power supply and there we go hopefully everything works all the action is happening here until the screen illuminates so as long as that whoa okay keep doing things yeah there we go okay so let's see if all went well we should see something about 12 cores and 64 gigs of RAM on the screen at some point here there we go the real something something twenty-seven hundred megahertz okay sixty-five I guess think round gigs of RAM CPU fatter all right everything is detected let's head into the BIOS and do some rudimentary tuning so the first thing that you're always going to want to do is I head over to advanced mode because advanced modes for cool kids and then change it so that it boots into advanced mode every time and now you know normally a normal person's reaction to a rig like this might be wow I've never touched a CPU that's worth $2,500 I better be extremely careful with it but my reactions so we're going to go with that can we overclock it a little bit now Zeon's are not overclockable the same way that core i7 czar on this platform where you just turn up the multiplier and it's off to the races in fact I'll show you guys if we try to change the multiplier to anything higher than 27 it just automatically changes to 27 so we're not going to be able to use the multiplier to overclock now on modern Intel platforms its multiplier times base clock equals the overall frequency and you can overclock base clock but not much on early x79 boards you were lucky to get maybe one hundred and five megahertz so we're gonna see if we can get even 105 makers because that'll be a five percent overclock on 12 cores so I'm going to show you guys what we're going to try so first of all we change to manual - daisies change to manual we're going to key in 105 here then for the ratio we want Auto for the DRAM frequency normally we would leave it at 1600 megahertz because this is 1600 megahertz Ram but in this case I don't really I'm not really a huge fan of overclocking memory if you don't have to I mean we can play around with it later but first we want to make sure our CPU stable so we're going to pick something that is going to give us a frequency that is lower than 1600 megahertz so that we know that memory is not holding us back here extreme low voltage we're not going to over volt the CPU as much as I believe in you know trying to squeeze a little bit more performance out of a chip like this it's a 12 core chip we're not going to go and just throw more volts at it the last thing we want is to damage the thing so we're going to be going for whatever we can get without over volting it and potentially reducing the lifespan this is a work machine not like a gaming rig so we can't afford any any instability so these are not XMP memory modules so we're going to key in our voltage manually and you know what I'm not going to bore you guys with the tediousness of keying in all that other stuff manually so let's just go ahead and find the last thing I need that are you CPU configuration the last thing I want is to make sure that turbo boost is on it might be somewhere in here then see if you performance settings here we go yeah so turbo mode needs to be enabled so now what we've effectively done by leaving the core ratio at Auto and increasing our base clock is we've made it so that our CPU will continue to turbo all the way up to 3.5 gigahertz plus 5% in a single threaded application and while it would normally turbo to 3 gigahertz with all 12 cores we're going to get 30 150 megahertz so a 5 percent improvement let's see how it goes alright so here we are at the desktop it's time to validate that the settings that we put in actually took because again this is not normal Hardware so you know who knows um so look at that okay we're turbo 23.5 something gigahertz just yet there you go normally which means there it is we are running at a hundred and five megahertz base clock so I guess we have overclocked the CPU so the tools we're going to use two stress tested are i-264 and we're going to just start a stress test and assuming it doesn't crash pretty much immediately we're going to start creeping up that base clock and see if we can get a little bit higher because I think 105 is going to be pretty easy we're not really asking it for much so we're gonna we're going to push it and see how much further we can get it one thing I do want to know before we proceed though is what our temperatures like huh very comfortable sitting at around 55 degrees that's without the water heating up that that won't matter when we're running on a whole room liquid cooling setup now will it so I'm going to show you guys once we see that it sort of passes for a couple seconds here how we can avoid rebooting into Windows every time in order rebooting into the UEFI BIOS every time in order to test new things so we're going to go into the TPU tab of AI suite which is not my favorite piece of software but we're just kind of using it to save some time here boo-boo yeah I know AI sweet you're trying real hard okay and then we can actually change base clock on the fly setting increment by increment then we just apply it do you want to load it yes so we can change all of this stuff on the fly run a new stability test and keep going until it doesn't go anymore so it ended up pushing a lot further than I expected I had to bring it into the office to continue testing I ran out of time because I kept expecting at every stage one more beat clock no it passes so this is what we ended up with any further than this and we can't we can't push it any further it'll just lock up as soon as we try to run a stress test but here it is 113 megahertz base clock that gives us three point three nine gigahertz with 12 cores running actually unfreaking believable so this is going to be one heck of a high-performance workstation and it is a hundred percent rock-solid at this setting no problems whatsoever very very exciting so stay tuned guys because this is just one of the machines for our five system multi system room wide liquid cooling setup that we're going to be doing soon it is the most exciting one with 64 gigs of RAM as well as that 12 core CPU but the other ones will be cool too speaking of all them cores or something the core of your browsing time should be spent on Hulu Plus ah there you go I've made a segue it's a simple reliable video streaming 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