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excellent what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware today's video is going to be all about testing and benchmarking this $3500 PC that I built just a couple weeks ago in my August builds video now every month I do some builds at the beginning of the month and then I build the system and then I test it and although this system came in a little bit late because I was waiting around to get a hold of this corsair air 740 case i have gone through all of the motions to get some benchmarks run some temperature testing some overclocking of course and don't worry if you're looking forward to the slightly less expensive build that I'm doing for September that will be coming in about a week or so have lots of builds going on in September actually but this is the $3,500 over-the-top sli 2-way 1080s it's got a 68 50k processor in there Asus x99 deluxe 2 motherboard 2 EVGA GTX 1080 for the win cards in SLI and then I actually left out the hard drives for this build so if you look at the parts list in the description it adds up to about three thousand three hundred fifty dollars right now if you buy it in the US of course apologies to those of you who are paying higher prices outside of the US but this is for high-end gaming productivity as well you shouldn't do something like this if you're just going to be gaming on it because it's definitely overkill you should go with something more along the lines of the $1200 system that I built last month so check that out - link is in the description let's start off with what I liked about this build and of course what I've been trying to do with these builds that I do every month is make them all off-the-shelf unless I'm doing something that's more specifically for modding everything that you see here came in the boxes with all of the hardware that I installed I also like that the color scheme came together black and white of course is fairly simple but everything blends nicely it's not too gaudy over the top got the LEDs from the fans sort of illuminating everything and then there are GB options of course with the graphics card and motherboard as well I have air-cooled GPUs which is a little bit simpler than going with liquid cooling I do have liquid cooling on the CPU had pretty good overclocking with the system especially in the CPU the GPUs we're decent but again they're air-cooled and there's two of them so there's a lot more heat generated by both of those and then of course there's just the pure raw power of this build with two-way 1080s in the 1668 50 X 668 50k it's pretty beastly when it comes to performance and I'll show you that of course in just a moment and what I didn't like about this build first off was the RGB LED lighting control software situation now granted this is a little bit my fault because I'm dealing with the Corsair software the software for the EVGA graphics cards was controlled through precision XO c and then the asus software which has the AI suite for overclocking and stuff but also the aura suite or the aura software which is specifically for control and RGB LEDs now when I reviewed the Asus x99 deluxe - just about a month ago I did comments on the updated version of the software and how they add integer to introduce some more features however I encountered some stability problems this time around which was a little frustrating getting the software even to load became a problem and in fact I would have to turn the system off and turn the power to the system off and wait for something in the memory to clear out of the capacitors to flush their power just to get the aura software to load again so if you're having that same issue turning your system off and turning the power off can get it to happen or to fix but downside to that is that when you turn the power off you actually lose your RGB profiles that you might have set up so that's kind of a pain in the butt - there are some default LEDs that are on the motherboard that stay on all the time so if you were to for instance set the system up and priests in like a dorm room and you're you know in your room where you sleep and you wanted to have all the LEDs off at night you'd have to turn the power switch off then you lose your profiles and it's just not quite ideal so I think aura software needs a little bit more work a little bit more tweaking and tuning the EVGA precision X software as well gets the job done there's just not a lot of different lighting options that are available and you have to individually select each GPU before you go into the LED software control so you can't sync them and control them both at the same time for that reason even getting the pulsating color-changing stuff with the EVGA cards was a little bit more difficult to get synched up although you could sync it up by timing it or just setting it that way and then restarting the computer and then everything would be kind of synced up after that point being that if you really want that full RGB LED control either a make sure you're not mixing up your brands so maybe go with the Asus GTX 10 the EVGA so you can use the same software for everything or just maybe not be so worried about the RGB LEDs or just give it a little bit more time because obviously there's still a little bit of a work in progress on all sides speaking of software though one of the first things I did was load up the Asus AI Suite software which will allow you to do the 5 way optimization the one-click automatic overclocking fan tuning especially the fans I wanted to get tuned right out of the gates and overclocking I also wanted to check out but had a little bit of a weird situation with the auto overclocking it was shall we say aggressive five foot two though no my fur Byford why not six six point one we're done unite folks shutting her down so the Asus AI Suites tried to overclock my 68 50 K 2 / 6 gigahertz which was a little aggressive even though the corsair h 100 i v2 is a very well performing closed-loop cpu cooler that's just a little bit more than anyone should find reasonable unless you're using liquid nitrogen or something like that so i had to go back into the bios and reload optimized defaults and then i went in and did the old-school manual method did a simple multiply overclock got myself to 4.4 gigahertz was running at one point to nine volts and i find that to be a lot more reasonable than 6.1 gigahertz i will say that the fan expert software did work admirably though and it automatically set up the fan profile a it reaches out to all the fans sees their minimax feed set up some automatic profiles for them and then it gives you a little widget that you can click to do a silence or a standard or a performance fan curve and I was going with silent most of the time which is what you're hearing right now or maybe not hearing it's very quiet although I did jump up to performance when I was doing the full bore GPU testing speaking of though let's move on to that overclocking temperatures of noise which I kind of already teased with my CPU overclock again 4.4 gigahertz 1.2 9 volts overclocked both of the GPUs using the EVGA precision XOC utility I will say that if you're overclocking a graphics card and you then go for a 2-way set up you might notice that you're not going to get quite the same overhead with one or with two cards that you might expect with one so I only was able to tack on a plus 45 GPU offset and a plus 200 memory offset that's offset from the already overclocked specs from the EVGA geforce of course and that got me to 1766 base clock 19:05 boost when I was actually gaming after spiking up to in the mid 2000 Range I was getting about 2025 megahertz and then did throttle back down to about 1995 so right around the 2 gigahertz range for both GPUs which is perfectly acceptable for something like this CPU temperatures while overclocked at idle worth 29 to 32 degrees Celsius about 71 degrees Celsius while gaming on the CPU and 84 degrees Celsius when I actually ran the stress test and of course as overclocked 4.4 gigahertz GPU temperatures at alar 50 degrees Celsius and that was with the fan off mode that's by default with the EVGA cards 86 degrees C was what I hit max on the top GPU that was under a full unit in heaven benchmark gaming load and that was the most I ever saw when I was actually doing most of the games is hovering more around 79 degrees Celsius for the top card so the hottest card while gaming under a more moderate gaming load so definitely some very decent overclocking however the alternative to the higher speeds and frequencies and performance you get with overclocking is more noise right now I have Unigine Heaven running full speed and everything is overclocked and it is not the quietest experience I've ever had with a computer it's not too bad considering we have overclocked hardware and a couple 10 80s in there side panel does block a decent amount of the noise let's move into some testing first off 3dmark fire strike extreme I got 16,000 331 overall and 19,000 852 for the graphics core fire strike ultra score was nine thousand thirty two overall and nine thousand five hundred and ninety two on the graphics and for 3d mark time spy the DirectX 12 test eleven thousand ninety five overall score twelve thousand six hundred and eleven on the graphics and six thousand 601 on the CPU ashes of the singularity is next at 4k and DirectX 12 mode 70 point seven Everage frames per second which are three a new test in my benchmarks also running at 4k 60.1 average frames per second that's with everything running at ultra of course moving on the Metro last site at 4k 90.5 average frames per second gta5 at 4k 100.8 average frames per second then I also threw GTA 5 and running an ultra-wide mode at 34 40 by 1440 got up to 124 average frames per second so a great option for those of you rockin a Predator X 34 X 35 and finally through overwatch in there it's not too difficult to the title to run as you can see at 4k I hit 233 point for average frames per second so in conclusion this is a crazy powerful system to a 1080 seems to be a great option for anyone who's really looking for that actual 60 plus frames per second 4k experience also for anyone who's looking to do 21 by nine-thirty 440 by 1440 especially at a higher frame rate like one hundred hundred and twenty eight hundred and forty-four Hertz this also seems to be a good option for that definitely overkill if you're just going to be gaming if you're not going to be doing anything like content creation or video editing or just some more heavy lifting then don't go for this system go for something more like the 1200 build that $1200 build that I did last month of course the trade-off is that with all the hardware wedged in here you can have higher temperatures and you can have a little bit more fan noise because the fans are going to have to run higher speeds to get all of that warm air out of there perhaps maybe this is kind of the point where you start transitioning over to where like I feel like a custom water cooling loop would be a good solution for something like this because then you can have the power and the the reduced noise and better air flow and all that kind of stuff of course you're probably going to be spending another thousand to fifteen hundred dollars to outfit this system with a water cooling loop if not more than that one last thing I wanted to point out is that if you check out my 1070 SLI video which I'll link via a card up there the numbers I got today we're not that much better than 1070 SLI of course that's a completely other argument to 2-way cards versus a better faster single at card and SLI isn't always going to scale and all that good stuff but we'll save that for another video anyway guys if you enjoyed this one definitely hit the thumbs up button down there and check out the description for links to all the parts for links to voting where you can vote on what builds I'm going to be building next month and also links to my store where you can buy shirts and mugs and PEG glasses and all that good stuff thank you guys so much for watching as always and we'll see you in the next video