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we are Panthers running nice I wager that means someone's gonna die the yard must always do so I'm guessing that you guys probably weren't expecting that but I could think of no introduction more fitting for this video the arctic Panthers trial by a fire that's right let me get one more arctic Panther roar for the folks at home for that we're gonna minimize the sound effects for this video's duration so many moons ago I embarked upon a long and arduous journey the making of this meticulously customized gaming computer though my path was fraught with missteps and frustrations and looking at you here power supply sleeving I was fortunate enough to have helped along the way J of Jays two cents I owe particular thanks to for teaching me to mend them tubes he also lent me one of his fury X's and also crucial modding guidance was provided by Lee from PC junkie mods and Bill from M NPC Tech the entire build process is thoroughly documented via videos on my channel though so check out the description below for a link to that playlist as well as links to Jay's Lee's and Bill's channels and websites and links to the parts for this builds and also the like button is down there it works by clicking on it if you liked the video after several months Lee build finally came together powered by an Intel 59 60 X overclocked to 4.5 gigahertz at one point to 2 volts 32 gigabytes of g.skill ripjaws ddr4 memory at 2666 and 2 gigabyte gtx 980 gaming g1 graphics cards now fully outfitted with liquid cooling from ek water blocks my next step after getting windows all installed was to dial in my overclocks and synthesis since the cpu was already handled I turned my attention to the GPUs I will spare you the gritty details here but after some finagling and by adding just a smidge of extra voltage I settled on an OC of 1545 megahertz for both gtx 980 GPU cores and 1804 the gddr5 memory since I'm looking for overclocks I can run all the time I didn't want to push too much higher and I also wanted to make sure that my temperatures hands beads didn't creep up too high here is a listen to the system with the quiet fan profile enabled and bear in mind that speeds for all six of my fractal venturi HP twelve fans are regulated by the CPU temperature since they're all routed through the divine r5s fan hub here is the system at idle and here's a listen under typical gaming load not too shabby at all and definitely whisper quiet when you consider the caliber of hardware inside across all of my testing the hottest any cpu core got was 71 C with average load temps around 60 the GPUs ran even cooler maxing at 59 see with normal temperatures in the 50 to 55 degrees range so as I have been alluding to for quite a while now eventually I had no choice I had to benchmark the arctic panther to determine just how good the gaming performance is but I had a problem that old bitter lesson that I learned so well back when I first built my own computer when the world was still young that is that there's always newer and faster components just on the horizon and indeed while my nine eighties were the fastest GPUs available when I got them back in February both Nvidia and AMD has since eclipsed them with the release of the 980ti and the fury x respectively and so it comes down to this I will not only be showing you the performance of the arctic panther at 1080 1440 and 4k resolutions but also side-by-side performance of its greatest nemesis even nemec's MSE sees the the gtx 980ti and two-way SLI and the AMD r9 fury X into a crossfire let's get it on the 980 TI Zen Theory X's we're benchmarked on my standard haswell-e testbed with an EEG a x99 classified motherboard Intel 59 30 kcq at 4.40 Hertz and 16 gigs of DC I'll rip jaws for ddr4 memory at 26 66 and a HyperX savage 2048 SSD the comparison cards were running out there out of the box feeds from the manufacturer which is eleven hundred megahertz for our fury X's and a maximum of 1265 megahertz for the 980ti s which were synced with this EVGA superclocked card 3dmark should give us an immediate idea of where the cards stand and immediately it's apparent that the Arctic Panther will be fighting an uphill battle there's just no way the higher core clock speed can make up for the additional stream processors and CUDA cores in the other cards so ap claws its way to a respectively close third behind the 980ti s and the fury exits BioShock Infinite reveals more of the same I will point out the low minimum frame rate for the fury X is here though as they did encounter some stuttering team red does pull out an average framerate win at 4k though and the panther binds its time and third place once again waiting for the right time to strike I have to assume Metro last light has always been troublesome in multi-gpu configs and the fury X has continued to turn up some stuttering problems that resulted in very low minimum frame rates I will note this that a single fury X did not have this problem with these tests and I think we're hitting a CPU limitation at nad here which evened up the score for the Nvidia cards Crysis 3 remains one of the most graphically intense games to play especially at 4k and if you're playing at 4k do yourself a favor and turn off msaa I didn't because I'm a sadist or something the 980ti still wins though except for the upset that the fury X is pulled at 1440 resolution battlefield 4 has a 200 frames per second limit just so you know but I want to point out that all of these configurations hit over 70 frames per second with a 45 FPS minimum at 4k which is damn nice and that's with anti-aliasing turned on GTA 5 was pretty finicky with the Prospera configurations so we got some pretty low framerate dips on the fury x's and performance didn't line up with expectations single fury x didn't show those problems so again I think this is a crossfire support issue and yeah the 980ti is one again well that's all the benchmarks guys and I'm gonna do my best to turn lemons into lemonade here since my beautiful custom build got outpaced in pretty much every test what have we learned everyone well I've often said that I don't think it's worth water cooling graphics cards unless they're already the best of the best and I think this supports that claim even with no substantial overclock on my 980 T is and believe me they have a lot of headroom still they're relatively exorbitant amount of money spent on the water cooling loop wasn't enough to help the extremely overclocked 980 s an arctic panther catch up considering that it's about a hundred and fifty dollars more for a 980 TI or fury x over a 980 and that's about the amount you'd spend on an ice water block and back plate from the 980 to say nothing of the rest of the components in the custom loop you're almost never going to be able to push a lesser card to outperform a higher-end card just with cooling and overclocking I also want to mention power draw briefly the fury X's are more efficient than the last generation of AMD GPUs but still pulled the most wattage peaking at about seven hundred and seventy five watts the 980ti configuration pulled about 100 watts left less maxing at 675 for the whole system and my overclocked and fully outfitted arctic panther bill pulled just 5 or 10 watts less than the 980ti s but bear in mind that it has all those fans and extra drives and all that good stuff in there too versus the testbeds which were pretty minimal another lesson i relearned here is one that i mentioned earlier and that's the lesson of the rapid product life cycle in the pc hardware and electronics space there's just no solution for this one but I find that being mentally prepared does help anything you buy will be supplanted by something newer shinier faster and maybe even less expensive and probably in the very near future now that we've accepted this we can move on so what do you guys think of this whole endeavor now that you've actually seen some performance numbers it was all of my time and effort worth it I think yes because thinking the alternative might drive me to the edge of insanity but let me know what you guys think in the comments section down below should I remain calm and restful and happy with my system or should I obsess over upgrading the GPUs ASAP so that I can have the fastest system possible hit the like button too while you're down there if you enjoyed this video check the description for links to my store where you can support my channel by purchasing fantastic shirts mugs and glasses also you'll find my Amazon affiliate code link which I recommend benchmark bookmarking not benchmarking that's all for this video though friends and as always thank you very much for watching