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today I have another sister from crazy Russians crazy lab this is the best of 5350 OC and this is going to be a pre overclocked system now we will be using the stock default intel cpu cooler which has about three quarters of an inch of aluminum finish going on to cool them to know we're not going to do that we're going to be using the kulit eco liquid cooling system so this is a 120-millimeter radiator with a copper heat exchanger as well as a built-in pump that is what we will be using we will be installing it in the fractal design define r3 and this is the system configuration we will be using we have this over here for validation purposes only the system will not come on a high-speed pc tech station so what do we have in terms of spec well this is the 5350 so somewhere in between the 5300 and the 5400 it is also the OC so we will be pre overclocking the cpu although we have not yet validated the overclock that we'll be using so that's going to be to come in a video down the line this will ship in its default configuration with eight gigs of ram a gtx 560ti a 2500 k unlock cpu remember for overclocking on the 1155 platform you do have to have a case series unlock cpu or you're not going to be going very far and what we also have here is down on the bottom we have an SSD so that's a 40 gig SSD now I've always been of the mind that 40 gigs on an SSD is not nearly enough for a boot partition but what we're actually using and this is the gigabyte z68 xud 3hb three right here is a z68 board so we're taking that 40 gig SSD and we're using it as a cash using intel SRT technology which is featured on this board for the western digital caviar Oh welcome hold on sorry guys crazy Russian was going like this to me not thought he meant like you know one moment please or your number one or something along those lines but no that's not what he meant at all but he actually meant was this is WD caviar blue one terabyte that we're using for the boot drive so we're using smart response technology to accelerate our boot drive without having to buy a larger capacity more expensive SSD to boot off that exclusively since we're down here actually we also have a seasonic m12 to 6 20 watt power supply that is with 80 plus bronze efficiency and let's move up to the motherboard itself so this is a z68 xud 3 h b3 and if that's a tongue twister then well you need to work on you know not being puzzled by easy tongue twisters I guess but but what it is is it's a z68 board so that's what gives us support for Intel Smart Response technology well we also have support for and you're going to have to come around and look at the back of the board for this is onboard video with hdmi displayport VGA and DVI as well as right there you see that little sticker that says lucid virtu so we can use intel quickpath technology I think that's what it's called right quick path I don't know what I don't know what is called but it's the one that makes your video transcoding go really really fast maybe it says on here virtue virtualization for the onboard GPU yes ok yeah see they don't they don't say you do either way it doesn't really matter what you get is better efficiency at idle because you're able to use the onboard GPU whenever you're idling or doing anything to D you can use the onboard GPU yeah so there's the idle power consumption of the system 56 wat I know right it's like almost nothing considering this as a full-blown gaming machine you can use the onboard GPU for video transcoding which it just kicks by that it's way faster than using the cpu it's way faster than even using a high-end dedicated GPU and then when you're gaming you can actually use the power of your dedicated GPU you can still output actually I think the optimized mode is to help put through the dedicated GPU and then virtualize this one either way you can use this for gaming this for what is good at and you win you get better power consumption great gaming performance and great video transcoding performance now with the 68 chipset not yeah that's pretty that's those are the main features you get we also have support on this particular board which is an awesome value that's why we went with this one for nvidia sli technology as well as AMD crossfire X so we can run up to two cards in sli or crossfire you can configure your system either way you want and that will be running in 8 X 8 X mode which as we've tested in the past on my show does not give you any sort of a performance disadvantage versus running in 16 x + 16 X mode the board also has dual BIOS which is nice that's a great overclocking friendly feature because it means that even if you screw something up when you're overclocking it on your own remember your NCIX PC warranty is not invalidated by overclocking so I mean this is going to come pre overclocked you can see if you can push a little bit further if you want that's also good you can recover to the main BIOS if you screw something up which is great you've also got a solid power delivery system especially for our board in this kind of a price bracket that's a 6 + 1 phase power design with lower RDS MOSFETs and ferrite core chokes also solid capacitors and I think that pretty much covers everything to say about this little guy oh absolutely one more thing check this up so the front USB right here so your two front USB ports will be hooked up to the one with the red background and what that means is that it can deliver up to forty percent more amperage on your front USB that means you can actually charge your iPad or even a tablet if you have the utility installed on your PC and you can charge it right off a USB port without using a power adapter from the wall so thank you for checking out my little introductory video of the best of 5350 OC and hopefully you guys will stick around and check out the video once we've got the overclock validated once we've got it all built up and once we have this thing priced up because I don't even have a price yet we're just making sure that it's going to be awesome first