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excellent what's up everyone welcome back to Pauls hardware today's video is sort of an in-between video for the system that I am putting together it's my epic water-cooled system I'm building it for my wife it's a gaming and working system and it's built in this toy yellow mini ITX case from fractal to define an OS now I already did a live build where I sort of put this whole thing together and I already have pointed out that this is actually sort of a middle step when it comes to the parts that are currently installed I'm going to be swapping out several of the components when it comes to the final build but before I did all that I wanted to run some tests to get myself some sort of baseline numbers to give myself a basis for comparison for after I get everything installed when it comes to the water cooling but before I do all that why don't we take a quick look at these water cooling parts that have arrived because even though I'm not installing any of them today I'm I'm excited that they're actually here here's the pile of water cooling parts that I've arrived courtesy of ek they really helped me out with this build also Nuria is down there so say say hi to her anyway like first off look at this pile and compare that to the size of the the actual system itself and I like it seems crazy to me that I'm actually going to wedge all of this stuff into this computer even with all the stuff that's currently there so starting off on the right side I'm using ek Vardar fans those are the 2200 rpm versions but they are all black so they're not going to be quite as as aggressive as my 3,000 rpm versions that I tried when I did the arctic panther build over there last year next up we have a bunch of fittings so I have I have something like 14 or 15 fittings that I'll be using with this ptg tubing this is a 16 millimeter outer diameter ptg tubing so it is a little bit wider than what I used with arctic Panther also since its ek and they're based in in Europe it's using metric instead of the Imperial standard so sure my EU viewers will appreciate that for the CFU block as the supremacy evo and that is the clear ones so you'll be able to see the you'll be able to see what's going on you know through there you'll be able to see the color of a fluid color the flow it's probably gonna be orange we were going back and forth between orange and green for this build we decided on orange I should hopefully even be able to show you guys a teaser the power supply sleeving that I'm going to be doing that's going to be done by insourced customs so excited about that too anyway um I have GPU block GPU backplate back here a couple 240 millimeter cool screen these are the slim Edition rad so I'm the 240 in the front and 240 on the top and I should hopefully have enough room for those and the fans again I've already kind of done a little bit of test measurement these are the parts I was kind of most excited about because I'm doing a split reservoir and pump so this is my tangelo reservoir 110 millimeter tall EK res so that's going to go kind of an upper part above the power supply on the top right and then i got the d 5 pwm pump this is the standalone version so it's good this will this will be facing the outside so you'll be able to see a little bit of the fluid as it cycles through there and this will be mounted to that pump mount that is on the bottom and then I'll be connecting them up with fittings and tubing and of course so again sorry this is just a really quick look at all of this stuff that's arrived but um thanks to EK for sending it over of course and i need to get this face done with so i can move on to the very exciting next phase which is actually installing all the water cooling parts ok back to testing so after I finished cooling all of my water cooling parts and set them aside with with some regrets that I can't install them quite yet I decided to get the system set up and since it's a brand new system I first updated the BIOS if you're gonna do a BIOS update I feel like doing it before you've done or anything else like Windows installation is a good idea then of course I went on with the windows installation that's Windows 10 I couldn't avoid it in this situation because I'm probably gonna end up doing DirectX 12 with this system at some point so just went straight for that after installing windows did all the windows updates installed drivers got the system pretty much good to go I devised five tests to run here to give myself stability temperature tests as well as a basis for comparison for performance so the first test is just the ida 60 for system stability test that is a CPU centric test at least I only ran the CPU centric portions of that ran that for 15 minutes just to get an idea of it to see if you stable and what kind of temperatures I'm getting with the cooling for the next ability test I use msi combustor this is basically an GPU stress test it takes the GPU way further than you ever would playing a game or something like that but you figure if you can run this then you're pretty much going to be stable around just about anything on your GPU ran that for 15 minutes then I did a combo test running both Ida 64 as well as msi combustor at the same time I did that for about 10 minutes and then got a comparison of what the temperatures are and also just making sure things are stable finally I have a couple actual benchmark tests so Union Heaven 4.0 just running that on the ultra setting at 1080 got the score or frames per second from that and then Cinebench as well which is again more of as CPU test so we got GPU and CPU tests and I just went ahead running everything at stock the ambient temperature out here in the garage has actually been pretty stable at about 78 degrees Fahrenheit or 26 degrees Celsius for the rest of this I'll try to use Celsius as much as possible and for test one basically the CPU is running in the high 40s temperature-wise which is just fine actually pretty good for a hyper 212 and at stock it was running at about 1.2 volts the second test the GPU hit about eighty degrees Celsius which is what it's designed to do being a 980 TI the GPU core clock ran at about 1350 for initially that's the out of the clock over out of the box overclock that's on this gigabyte g1 gaming gtx 980ti hit 13 54 but as the temperature rose it did toddle down to about 1300 a little bit over 1300 which is what it was staying at stable II the CPU actually ran hotter in this test than it did during the CPU stability test due to the extra introduction into the system of warm air from the GPU causing the CPU temperatures to rise that's part of the sort of drawback to using a small case like this is a small case and I was running all these tests with the side panel on so it's just not a lot of places for that hot air to go so the CPU in that test was actually running at about mid 50s which is again hotter than it was when the CPU itself was under full load for test three which was the super uber stress test we had about the same GPU and CPU performance the GPU is still running in a 80 degrees CPU temperatures again went up a little bit more and we were hitting about 60 degrees C average for CPU temperatures finally for the benchmarks in this round again it stocks the system scored 90 point nine frames per second in Unigine heaven and 594 points in Cinebench next up I moved on to overclocking and since overclocking is involve some trial and error and some you know kind of a lot of system locking up or reboots and stuff it took a little bit longer than I was well nothing I was anticipating but definitely then I was hoping the CPU is my main concern when it comes to overclocking mainly because this motherboard is not necessarily designed for high-end overclocking it is a z170 but gigabyte does they push their gaming series more this has a three-phase power delivery and there is no cooling no actual heatsink on the V RMS particularly the MOSFETs and I'll come back to that in just a second this CPU the 6600 K I've already run in my ASUS Maximus 8 formula that was able to achieve about 4.7 gigahertz overclock without any issues so I was hoping for about four point six to four point seven on this board I dialed in a four point seven just right off the bat cuz kind of doing a moonshot like I like to do I was kind of aggressive with the voltage to I did about plus 0.85 I believe or zero at five so it was hitting about one point three five to one point four volts during CPU stress tests I was able to initially pass the Ida 64 stability test without any issues but when I moved on a combustor I started having stability problems blue screens and crashing and that's never a good thing apps crashing like that's not good but not the worst blue screens I just I don't like it all now since time was a factor with all of this testing since I am leaving for lanceton to get this week I've got kind of a short work week I decided to do a few things the first thing was that I was not going to concern myself with hitting maximum overclocks with the system I am going to be swapping out all the cooling so I'll worry about that later for now I just kind of want to get some some baseline numbers that meant that I've gone for a 4.6 year Hertz overclock on the GPU instead of 4.7 and by dialing that back I was able to achieve some more stability for the GPU added a hundred points to the core clock and 150 points to the memory clock and that fortunately worked out and was pretty stable so also I decided to go ahead by power delivery cooling solution as noted in several views on this board the three pays three-phase power delivery on the z170 and Wi-Fi is not helped by the fact that there's no cooling on the MOSFETs so these here are copper MOSFET heat sinks by Enzo Tec I've actually had these for quite some time and since they are unfinished copper I decided to give them a quick matte black paint job so that they would match a little bit better with everything else in the system after that was installation which involves some delicate work with tweezers to get those thermal pads in place but all together it really wasn't too difficult just make sure you've got some room to work with so with all that started out I resumed my testing thankfully my stability issues were solved in test one I kept in the same CPU stress test that I'd already ran at 4.7 gigahertz this is just to show you guys how temps can start to spike when overclocking in a small case with additional CPU voltage and average CPU temps here were about 70 degrees Celsius for test two I went with the more reasonable overclock so the CPUs at four point six GPUs overclocked as already mentioned it hit 83 C on the GPU core temp this times a little bit warmer than before but it still maintains the GPU core overclock at 1442 and didn't throw out settle that down over the course of the testing so that's nice again the CPU temps here we're pretty high even though it's not a CPU test stress test they got up to around the mid-60s the full burn a test for test three had me a little nervous I was biting my nails but fortunately got through it just fine and although the fan noise still did get pretty unbearable with all the fans at full-bore in the system let me just say I'm hopeful that with the liquid cooling solution installed that it's going to be much much quieter anyway with everything working really hard the GPU hit 83 C again but maintained its GPU clock speed again the CPU got all the way up to the low to mid 80s that's Celsius again which is acceptable but it is hotter than I would want my CPU to run for a 24/7 overclock with a full load test going and everything running at stock those MOSFETs were hitting about 150 degrees Fahrenheit that is about 66 or 65 degrees Celsius when I overclocked but the MOSFET heat sinks weren't on there they were climbing up 270 degrees Fahrenheit which is about 77 degrees Celsius and then when I added those heat sinks on there the temperatures dropped by about 10 degrees Fahrenheit down to 160 ish that's about 71 degrees Celsius and then I can't really say for sure if this was the main thing that helped my stability issues or if it was dropping him back the CPU overclock but I am happy to have them on there and I definitely much rat much rather have them there and have things run it a little bit cooler than not have them on there at all finally for those benchmark tests with overclocks in place the Unigine Heaven benchmark score jumped up to 99 point 5 frames per second and the Cinebench score increased sits 741 and that's all for this video guys really hope you've enjoyed it I know it's kind of like the the middle movie in a trilogy or something like that it's kind of in between phase but something that had to be taken care of so I can move on to the next step which I'm really excited about that's getting all my water cooling components installed if you enjoy this video don't forget to 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