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what's up guys how's it going welcome to Paul's hardware this is a quick video about a system that I set up for a very specific purpose but if you're watching this video I'm actually not here anymore or least not here at home I have some traveling coming up and I was thinking you know planning the travels and we're gonna stay and the things I'm gonna seem very excited you're actually gonna be in Europe for a little bit but I had this thought occurred to me which is what if I need to benchmark while I'm traveling so I've built an emergency portable benchmarking rig the master case each 500 M by Coolermaster sports dual Tour de millimeter addressable RGB fans a USB 3.1 gen2 type-c port and four tempered glass side panels both sides top and front and the front can swap out for a mesh panel if you want maximum airflow it has a plethora of cable routing covers to keep things tidy too so click the sponsor link in the description to learn more so here's the system it is set up and functional but I wanted to point out that this video is gonna be pretty lightweight I'm just gonna kind of go over the parts and maybe some of the initial testing that I've done because as mentioned I'm about to start traveling in fact in just a couple hours I am headed to the airport so I'm a bit of a time constraint I set the system up yesterday though so let's quickly go over the parts I wanted the system to be very good at benchmarking graphics cards so whereas a lot of the builds I've done recently I have geared towards AMD because I feel they provide you a lot of bang for the buck and a nice balance between CPU performance and gaming performance if you want to get the most out of a graphics card right now you're probably gonna want to go with Intel's mainstream platform so to that end I have a 8700 K CPU and my humble opinion probably the best CPU for testing graphics cards right now if you want to get the most performance out of them perhaps maybe the 8086 would be a good option as well but if you overclock in 8700 K it's basically the same as in 8086 anyway to house this processor though and keep everything portable I wanted Mini ITX om and I wanted Z 370 to enable overclocking and preferably a higher-end board to make sure that you know I have some bells and whistles in there make sure I can maintain higher clock speeds so for that I have the asus rog Strix z 370 - i gaming motherboard I've used this board before it has solid power delivery for some overclocking it's also got MDOT two slots a couple of them do you I know 2.11 AC Wi-Fi which is handy if you need to not have to string an Ethernet cable over to your benchmarking setup for memory I have a G scale flare X kit to buy 18 gigs speed 3200 and Casa latency 14 and it shows this memory not because it's actually designed for Rison systems because it is very compatible verizon systems but I just wanted to maintain the same memory specs speed compatibility and size across all of my testing and 3200 casa latency 14 I have quite a few kids to support that that work in lots of different systems so that's been kind of my standard for memory recently for storage we got to go with an nvme SSD so we got a samsung 960 pro 512 gig em dot 2 nvme SSD in there really fast that quite as fast as the newest 970 but of course it's gonna get the job done probably more than enough speed that we need and I did install this under the little heatsink there to provide a little bit of hopefully extra heat dissipation I'm not expecting this drive to do any traveling but if you got a heatsink you might as well use it now for CPU cooling I wanted to keep this portable of course I didn't really want a whole along and all in one liquid cooler or anything like that although those are very efficient and effective at cooling a CPU and I probably could have run at a higher frequency I went with the Noctua NHL 12s switch neck - I recently sent over somewhat low profile CPU cooler depending on where you put the fan and it does ship with a slim fan but I found that that was conflicting with the memory so I was gonna have to move it to the top anyway so if I'm gonna go ahead and put it on the top then I might as well upgrade it so I swapped in the nffa 12 X 25 PWM which is pretty much the best cooling fan right now especially if it's attached to a radiator or a fin stack I did leave it at the stock rpm settings for the motherboard so well it is nice and quiet it wasn't quite enough to keep the CPU cool at all times but more on that in just a second I guess I can briefly point out that the little brackets little metal brackets that hold the original fan on are actually swappable so you can use the same brackets to hold the thicker full-size hundred 20 millimeter fan in there just something I noticed that I hadn't done before so there it is my entire setup and I think I think I should be able to break this down and actually fit it into the motherboard box for travel but that's not the entire system I need a power supply so for these initial tests I'm using this old-school PC power and cooling silencer mark - 700 is an 80 plus silver rated power supply but it's been in service for quite some time and despite the ketchup and mustard cables it's been doing a fine job but I'm not planning to bring this with me again maintaining portability means all I want to bring is that little mother bird bucks I'm hoping if I'm on the road I will be somewhere where I can purchase PC parts so the things I'm going to need to buy if I need to run benchmarks on the road is gonna be a power supply a monitor which is the main thing I will probably be a bit of an expense and then probably a keyboard because I don't want to lug around full-size keyboard as well so that pretty much runs down the hardware except for the graphics cards and since this is a testbed that's being intended to test graphics cards I thought why not do some initial tests here with the fastest graphics cards that are available from both AMD and NVIDIA so I have the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 T I ran over here and I have the AMD Radeon Vegas 64 right here these are both aftermarkets overclocked versions of the cards made by asus so these are both the Asus Rd Strix versions of these cards and I've had lots of people come at me when I've done tests in the past and say why did you choose this card why didn't you run it at stock why didn't you use the founders Edition why didn't you overclock it as much as it could possibly go and after doing this for quite some time here's my philosophy on that if a graphics card has been out for a while long enough that third party added board manufacturers have been able to design custom cooling solutions for them then those ad and board manufacturers have probably also done a little bit of overclocking on the cards themselves this happens on both Nvidia and AMD sides so my opinion is if you're gonna buy a graphics card you might be buying an overclocked one or you might be buying a stock clock one and overclocking it yourself you should be able with any stock clock graphics card to be able to get a little bit of extra performance by overclocking so I feel like it's not the best thing to do if you're dealing with a card that's one or two years old to test it at the base lowest settings possible so an aftermarket card represents a bit of better cooling it also represents a bit better clock speeds but not necessarily a crazy high overclock that someone who wasn't into overclocking would not be able to achieve so that's kind of my middle-of-the-road argument that and of course you are welcome to your opinions as well so if you disagree different leave me a comment down in the comment section below but the tests went well fortunately I have a pretty decent range of benchmarks that I should ran on these two cards and I'm not going to share them right now because honestly they've been out for a little while and nothing was too different than what I have seen before and my test before or tests that I've seen other people do in the past six months to a year so whether you're talking synthetics DirectX 12 DirectX 11 both of these cards perform pretty well with the Vegas 64 coming in right around the range of a GTX ten eighty maybe a little faster a little slower in certain situations and the 1080 TI of course proving that it is still the fastest card currently available so I guess before I pack things up here the last thing I mentioned is the CPU performance and then I did do a touch of an overclock on the CPU the 8700 K will boost to 4.7 gigahertz by default I put it so it's boosting to 4.8 gigahertz on two cores 4.7 gigahertz on up to four cores and then 4.5 gigahertz if it goes all the way up to 6 cores because it was actually getting a little too warm and it's getting up in the 90s to mid 90s it even led to a little bit of throttling in certain situations and I think that's just because while this is a very good cooler it's not necessarily meant for higher-end overclocks also just turning up the fan speed would probably have helped a little bit more but I was able to get by with those frequencies especially after the Sun went down and things cooled off just a smidge so I'm happy with those results for now but I will say if you are getting an 87 or KNE do it a go for a crazy overclock maybe consider something beefier like the NHD 15 or of course an all-in-one liquid cooler would be a great solution there too today we have it guys this is a pretty slim container for a effectively high-end benchmarking system that I have set up here of course not everything is included I don't have a monitor I don't have a keyboard a mouse hope I'll be bringing along with my laptop but of course a power supply so it's not like I have the entire system here but I have the fundamentals necessary and just by adding that monitor power supply keyboard I can load up all the games because they're all stored on the nvme SSD and I can get up and running and benchmark games well I am traveling in that Alps or wherever the heck I'm and end up going if you want to find out where I'm actually going then you should probably follow me on Twitter because that's where I will be posting pictures and also updates on my ongoing journey so I'll post a link to that in the video's description down below also include links to the parts I've installed in today's emergency portable benchmarking rig and if you guys aren't all excited about the mysterious things that I'm not talking about that I could be talking about that I may be slightly alluding to but not actually mentioning directly then leave a thumbs up on this video and of course subscribe because I have more contents mysterious upcoming new content about new stuff that I can't tell you about yet coming very soon we'll see you guys in the next video and after doing this for quite some time here's my philosophy on that you all right that's my philosophy you go yourself