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it is time my friends for personal rig update 2015 where I build a drool-worthy rig touching it Ren and savoring its drives while you guys watch and sometimes press the like button depending on whether you're into the whole multi-part video of which this is definitely one and like whoring thing which is definitely what I'm doing right now Corsair delivers real mech art oh here I have one huh real Necker nothing with their new strafe mechanical keyboard featuring genuine German made Cherry MX key switches click on munch in to learn more I'm going to move my chin now just the three for a loop so let's start with the story so far this is the final version of personal rig update 2012 which as some of you know took until 2014 to finish oh that took a long time so the highlight points here are 49 60 X 6 core processor GTX Titan we've got oh L si 9268 a raid card with eight-course are 120 gig force SSDs running in raid 0 they're actually refurbished drives although they've held up just fine until now so I guess what we need to do aside from just listing components is do a couple pre update benchmarks to find out where we're sitting at and where we need to end up so Cinebench we're looking at 1068 points and then crystal disk mark just a very rudimentary disk benchmark whoa we're looking at about 800 megabytes per second read 321 megabytes per second sequential writes so as you can see that raid array has degraded a lot in the last few years since I've been using it because on most raid controllers trim functionality is not supported in raid so the timing is right for our personal rig update let's have a look at the new components that are going to be taking the place of what's already in here all right so let's do this whole video style and actually not upgrading the graphics card this time around and the reason for that is quite frankly I don't gain that much these days and when I do I'm usually gaming at 720p streaming to my shield portable so is it tighten enough for that yeah I think probably so first up the new platform this is the rampage 5 extreme that some of you will recognize from my blue-painted motherboard guide it used to be red now it's blue and it is going in the personal rig also replacing the 49 60 X is a 59 60 X so I'm adding another two CPU cores and then I'm sticking with 32 gigs of ram but this time a more subdued 32 gigs of ram no flashing lights or anything this is just a kid of Corsair Vengeance lpx 2400 megahertz ddr4 so that's what we got for that next up and this is kind of a funny funny story huh I have another rampage 5 extreme not because that one is broken or anything but as you guys may or may not have noticed I have taken this heatsink and as soos ROG logo off and I have actually misplaced it so I will be frankensteining one off of another board that Luke used for a build guide and then I have a very cool finishing touch because as some of you noticed when I painted the board the one thing left on it that was still red was that freaking glowing logo so I had a buddy of mine rich suros better known amongst the modding community folks as Darth Beavis whip these up for me on his laser cutting machine which we first witnessed at mod 24 so check this out he's actually sent me a variety of different ones to use and I will be replacing the stock ROG logo with either a black one or a blue one depending on how they look I'm going to try those babies out check that out then that looks sick so a huge shout out to Darth Beavis for sending these little custom pieces over to me these look absolutely fantastic and for our next trick yes this is the piece that I'm really excited about this is an Intel 750 series 1.2 terabyte PCI Express nvme SSD it has been a long time since I paid less than a dollar per gig for those refurb drives like way back in 2012 or something like that I want to say it's been a long time since any SSD has actually tickled my fancy and made me want to upgrade to it well this is finally it it's an capacity upgrade it's a speed upgrade and it's a space-saving upgrade I no longer have to have a whack of SSDs bolted to the back of my motherboard tray and the PCI Express card this is just a simple PCIe gen3 4 X card that is going to do everything that my previous bulky setup did and better with trim support so the performance won't degrade over time really excited about this one so I guess that's pretty much it let's get started mostly unobstructed access now some of you might wonder why I went with a rampage board instead of a WS board like I did last time around I'm on the record as being kind of a fan of the whole no-nonsense ws board concept the reason is that a soos opted for whatever reason to put a ps2 port on the ROG board this time around and not on the ws board and when you're troubleshooting something let me tell you a ps2 port can be an absolute lifesaver that and the ROG board comes with a 3 by 3 AC wireless solution that's actually like pretty friggin fast so there you go look at this board oh wait what those LEDs are red I assumed they were white and that it was just a red layer in between I think you can paint LEDs Brandon so I actually have to plug into the top SATA port here because I scratched the finish of the paint on the inside of the connector there I'm going to have to touch that up a little bit but other than that there shouldn't be any other red bits visible with all the components installed and speaking of all the components installed there's actually not that much left to do here is there let's go get the new SSD yeah boy oh just like that so very much performance I shop I wish Intel would clue in and use black PCBs but if they're not going to do that then I guess the heat spreader on the back is the next best thing so there it is friends 1.2 terabyte seven series look at all those flash chips both sides covered in flash chips I think the ideal spot for it would actually be here but the sound card back in its prior location easy now huh so that's in I need new thermal compound where's the backplate Wow come on post come on post time to consult the manual what Thanks manual oh you have got to be kidding me okay well there's no signal detected so it may be broken anyway but I did not have the monitor plugged in as much as I want to go back to the drawing board and paint another motherboard not in the plan I need this one to work then why'd you paint it Linus well I don't have to answer your questions nobody's fooled Linus you were asking yourself the question in a different voice shut up you oh we got stuck there this time that's okay we're just gonna take it slow then one at a time come on computer work with me you gotta at least give me consistent results here well maybe if you hadn't painted me Linus maybe if you just shut up no okay well it's after 6:00 I'll just have to keep working on this so significant progress I figured it out this chip has a weaksauce memory controller there's actually nothing wrong with the CPU but what I didn't realize was that this motherboard having been used as a test bench before was configured with XMP enabled so that chips weak memory controller didn't like it at all so as soon as I put another 59 60 X in there boom all four dims no problem XMP working all that good stuff so I ran and found myself a Windows 10 RTM ISO installed that puppy it looks like they have brought back the simple do this later instead of getting product keys right away and we are launching Windows 10 get some benchmarks hey you were started I actually haven't run Windows 10 yet at all so this is my first kick at the proverbial can you know what the last time I went for gold like on RTM day was Windows Vista not worked out great so I'm just gonna go for it like I'm I'm switching out right there's an even room for more logos on the front look at all the logos LightScribe remember that did anyone ever wants Bernal LightScribe discs yeah as a desk have you have you ever done it does it work presumably they could it could do absolutely nothing and we'd have never known the consumer has been played so I'm fairly sure when batteries bulged that's considered a bad thing danger of explosion alright okay well whatever let's do our let's do our crystal disk benchmark in the mean time so bad let's find out just how fast this drive is whose speed is documented all over the internet already anyway I don't know why the control panel won't want though I just like I just hate that want a brand new fresh install when you like bork it up in the middle of like installing drivers cuz you never know should I go back and do a fresh format will this cause problems later or is it probably fine like is it never gonna rear its ugly head down the road no way of knowing alright looking good so we do have an improvement in CPU performance we did see this coming a score in 1389 but crystal disk mark the SSD that is where the real performance improvement is coming in read speeds in the neighborhood of in excess of one gigabyte per second for both sequential scenarios both read and write and even 4k reads and writes are looking pretty strong above that read look a little bit on the low side with that said there's still got to be some room for a driver optimization on Windows 10 here particularly on the nvidia side where we can't get the control panel open right now but the real test for me the thing that drives me absolutely crazy about this machine is the boot times so let's go ahead and shut her down and find out how long she takes to start up with the new SSD array or system SSD it's just one SSD now it's going to write the number to beat is two minutes here we go here we go here we go here we go been about 45 seconds so thanks to not having to wait for this card to initialize I have reduced my boot time to less than half of what it used to be but that is actually not the end of this project I said this was going to be a multi-part video and then I proceeded to do a quick motherboard swap and it appears to be basically done appears at first glance to the inexperienced viewer some of you may have noticed that this fan is actually broken so clearly I have not performed the final upgrade know I will be taking it to the next level other experienced viewers may have noticed this in the new hardware pile that I didn't mention at all before yes I will be working with proto case to manufacture a custom new rackmount computer case to replace my venerable TJ oh seven I will be moving both mine and my wife's computers to rack-mounted cases in a separate room in order to achieve the ultimate in PC silence I will be running a single Thunderbolt cable to each of those machines to a thunderbolt splitter doc thing in order to have all of my peripherals running at the same time and that will be documented over the next few parts of personal rig upgrade 2015 but for now I at least to enjoy the speed of the new hardware that's going into the machine I may also throw a 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