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the Thermaltake view 71 snow edition shows off your build in style with a frosty white paint job and four tempered glass side panels you also get two pre-installed 140 millimeter ring white LED fans a vertical GPU met with bracket and 3-way radiator support for water cooling so click the sponsor link in the description to learn more what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware today's video is going to be disappointing I'm just gonna leave with that mainly because I know there's been a lot of expectations put out there if you guys have been following J's $0.02 gamers Nexus maybe even my friend Kyle bit with a little bit online you may have seen a bit of the competition going on between us youtubers when it comes to overclocking and videos newest graphics cards the RT X 28 et is since most people can't afford these new graphics cards because they're very very expensive we have been trying to still bring you some entertaining content by challenging each other to overclocking duels and I just want to be straightforward from the beginning here I've never really dabbled in the crazy high end overclocking I've done some overclocking but I really pretty inexperienced when it comes to the more advanced stuff but I do have access to all the hardware that very few people actually have access to right now which includes actual r-tx 28 ET eyes I did my initial initial testing an overclocking video that I posted last week with this Asus RTX 2080 Ti and this is there ROG Strix version which has a custom PCB and everything and then of course if you want to improve your performance from a single graphics card the best thing to do is to go to two-way and we do still have SL but it's not via the traditional SLI bridges it's via Z's NV link bridge it's a noose connection standard actually more bandwidth via NV link between the two graphics cards than you get raw natively between a PCI Express slots and your CPU so that's pretty impressive actually got two bridges because I might be testing them with different configurations and different setups but speaking of my setup this is what I have been testing on up till now my little mini ITX system and this is a z3 70 motherboard and there's actually an 8700 K at the center of this 16 gigs of ram so it's been a solid motherboard and actually the 8700 K is what you'd want to go with for a single graphics card if you're going for the best single card performance but when it comes to breaking records you need something that's a little bit more intense than just that set up so for that reason yesterday I set up this test bed that's right here behind me and although it is already looking quite impressive and it's pretty powerful it's not quite where it needs to be yet I'm missing a few key elements which I'll get to in just a minute but real quick let me go over what I have set up right here so this is the Praxis wet bench by primo chill and I've been using this well it's been in my background for quite some time with a testbed setup on it but I had to sort of reconfigure the whole thing and set up a new test bed here I'm but for cooling at the back there's a 360 millimeter radiator okay and I just sort of reconfigure this for my testing right now but at the back here we got a three hundred and sixty millimeter radiator and inside which you can maybe kind of see I've got some maglev fans connected up to that the motherboard is the Asus Rampage six extreme $650 motherboard one of the highest end motherboards 4 X 299 that you can get if you're going with a scale effects processor from memory I currently have a 4 by 8 gig g.skill a trident z RGB kit and that's the 3200 speed kit and here is a place where I'm waiting on an upgrade actually g.skill is gonna be sending me a very fast kit that I can pair up with this because running fast memory speeds actually just about anywhere that you can get a little bit of extra speed or performance is where you want to add extra speed of performance if possible if you're trying to break overclocking records my main storage drive is a samsung 960 pro which is down there on the dim to riser which is one of the things that comes with this motherboard and then the CPU of course is the 79 80 X II and whereas you can get better single GP performance with something like the 8700 K running at 5 gigahertz or faster you're not going to get top scores and CP related tests with that ship because it's a 6-quart well thread chip 79-80 x ii is unlocked for overclocking and that's gonna be one of my issues coming up here is how much can i overclock this and it's a 18 core 36 thread processor so quite a bit more CPU processing horsepower than the 8700 k has now I haven't really done any overclocking with this yet I just turned on Asus multi core enhancements so on a single quartz getting up to about 4.7 gigahertz I'm gonna save the overclocking for the future because another thing that you might see here is the ek supremacy Evo waterblock this is actually mostly an ek water cooling loop but this is also a lot of the original equipment from the original Arctic panther build from a couple years ago this water block is not in the best shape there's some corrosion down there I cleaned it out as best as I could but what I'm expecting soon from ek is a replacement here an X 299 mono block that can cool the CPU as well as all the VRMs and that should give me a much better solution for overclocking the CPU finally the power supply is the thermaltake 1200 watt tough power brand which is 80 plus gold it does have these sort of not that great-looking red to PCI Express plugs on the end here I should hopefully be okay with 1200 Watts but I might be actually pushing that a little bit if I'm going for a high-end overclock on a CPU so I might need to swap the power supply in the next coming days as well and finally the star of the show is going to be the RT X 20 ATT eyes those are doing most of the heavy lifting lifting when it comes to graphics processing this is gigabytes triple fan version of the RT X 20 atti it's called the gaming OC 11g it is not there horas lineup so it does still use the reference PCB which is actually good I kind of needed that because this is my other 2080 Ti and that's the reference Edition or the founders Edition and these have a certain Z height I guess you might say for the actual NV link bridge and as you can maybe it's all here the NV link bridge for the founder's Edition is a little bit lower these are rigid bridges they're not flexible like we used to have a crossfire and SLI connector so I can't combine these two together I would need another one of these Asus cards so that's the hardware I'm working with right now to get some intro numbers and again the things I'm still waiting to update are gonna be CPU block some faster memory and then maybe the power supply we'll see how that goes but I'm kind of excited just for the time being even though I know I'm not gonna get that far today just because I finally get to open up SLI bridges and setup envy link SLI for the first time so let's get build with that actually we need to do a quick fix here before I install the envy link bridge and that is because our gigabyte video card has an updated v bios that was just distributed so i'm using a command prompt here to hopefully locate that and updated DVT Archie X 28 TPI n20 8t go3 this version is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running I was gonna use envy flash which is in videos utility which you can just load up from the operating system big a buddy has their own executable and I'm not a hundred percent sure how it works so I took things a little too seriously I thought I was gonna have to like boot into dos or something like that in order to update the view bios on this but no gigabytes utility you just you just run the executable that updates it straight from windows so this should now have a higher power limit than it did and it originally shipped with I'm not exactly sure what that was because I didn't test it before but what I'm gonna try is seeing if I can take that view Baus and apply it to the founders Edition r-tx 20 atti because that might be kind of convenient let's see if it lets me and it seemed to be successful I'm gonna reboot that should help not just for syncing the cards up because having two cards that are functionally the same is pretty ideal for SLI usually they'll just operate at whatever frequency the slower card is operating at but if I can get a higher power limit on my founders founders Edition card then that should help too now there are some things I can do to improve my graphics scores stuff like what Jay and Steve have been doing of course I could do like what Jay did and get an AC unit and point it directly at everything to keep the ambience down so that turbo boost 3.0 can ramp up the clock speeds as high as possible or I could water cool which is maybe a possibility to in the future I don't know got too far down what I have planned from that perspective but hopefully more on that very soon for now though we did reboot so let me go ahead and finally install our Envy link reduce and if I mentioned what these envy link SLI bridges are like 80 bucks each so it was almost $200 for me to get two of these but at least they have nice packaging I suppose if you're gonna pay that much but here it is powering on SLI Envy link SLI r-tx 2080 eyes for the very first time I feel so powerful so strong oh I should plug in the DisplayPort to I want to take a picture of this setup and tweet it to Steve and just say take a all right so we got newest Nvidia driver loaded version for 11.7 T by the way guys sorry this is a very reflective screen that we're filming the screen of so I know it's not the best look at this but I'm just kind of trying to take you guys along for the ride we did get the notification that we are sli capable oh look it already did it for us maximized 3d performance we have sli enabled we're good to go now we can start earning some benchmarks so here's an initial run just to give us sort of a baseline everything is pretty much at stock again at multi core enhancement on CPU but that's pretty much it that's our frequency up here on the top left we are hitting between around the 1650 range and maybe peaking up in the mid 1700s so it could definitely be improved there maintaining higher clock speed temperatures weren't horrible but peaked at about mid to low 60s in one test and got up into the low 70s and another test for both GPUs overall score of 10,000 184 which doesn't seem too too horrible till actually compare it to current ongoing scores so right now we've got gamers Nexus with a score of 14 491 and J apparently just increased this score to 15,000 J still been working on stuff so I have quite a hill still to climb here I need to increase my score by 5,000 points still which be challenging but we'll see how I can do I think for starters though I'm gonna dial in a modest overclock here's something I think can be stable on both GPUs and then I'm also going to go into the Nvidia control panel to change some of the global settings as well as the settings specifically for firestrike that Steve and Jay have been using that was recommended by kingpin then we'll run it again and see what kind of improvement we get there why does it say I have a 70 900 X is this the wrong processor I think this this is wrong processing how did I do that I don't know 7900 X that's hilarious laughs you're here totally fine okay did that where the hell's my 79 80 XC I just I've just stumbled upon a discovery here which I probably should have realized before now here's my score look I'm on the leader board break in ten thousands it thinks I'm Canadian just like it originally thought J was Canadian although they fixed that for him recently I install the 7900 X what a fricking brain fart that is but like I thought it was the 79 80 XE I need to find my 79 80 XE cuz right now this is 7900 X I can at least still try to break the top 10 I think I might have a chance at that so let's let's go down so just a few changes here guys I did the adjust image settings in preview with the performance slider got that over to max and then under manage 3d settings I increased the texture filtering quality to high performance and then on program settings specifically for 3d mark a preferred maximum performance for the power management mode for some reason now when I load up 3d market tells me I should disable g-sync which is odd because this is not a g-sync monitor so I'm just gonna ignore that and then for our overclock settings I'm using the base functional settings that I had for the founders edition when I first tried overclock it which is 800 plus 800 on the memory plus 1 it was plus 148 on the GPU which brought the boost clock up to 1783 then also max at the voltage slider max at the power slider as long as that takes and then did the same with other GPU to power slider in case you're wondering is going up two hundred and twenty three percent so I'm not sure what that be BIOS up they did for us there oh and then I also increased the fan speeds were at about ninety percent on both cards to give us as much cooling as we can for right now also my air conditioner is on so let's run the test see what happens here oh no some of the distractions people and just want to score oh okay for it come on top ten it didn't crash that's a good thing oh my gosh like I think I'm like 20 points from the top ten or something like that is very very very close 11200 so I'm about 72 points behind this probably hasn't updated my last score of 10000 184 is still down there I'm too close now so I gotta I gotta adjust just one or two things do you think is not on why does it telling me the jisuk is on frequencies are definitely better but they're still bouncing around a lot we're in the eighteen and 1900s now on html5 making 20 etc temperatures are still all within range not a big deal there the memory seems fine so let me try to add a little bit more memory juice and see what we can do there I'm closer closer that could be seen pause starting to go mad North End's there we go that's where that's where that's gonna be profitable more fresh air this is the intake this is the exhaust need to break 11 to 11 come on oh I did 11 to 21 10 points 10 points overdue rules pathetic score 11 of 11 to 11 I now have 11 to 21 and I've broken into the top 10 four times by extreme benchmark results on 3d marcom which i think is a perfectly adequate time to end this video thank you guys so much for watching as I hopefully told you guys from the beginning I don't think I'm ready to go especially since I totally thought I had a different CPU installed in the system than I actually do it's probably kind of a first world problem to get my sky like X CPUs mixed up and install the wrong one but I will be coming back to this again I do have some more hardware arriving so I'll follow up later this week get the 18 core installed maybe get some water blocks on the GPUs see what else I can do to improve that score and give Jay and Steve a bit more competition because they're still battling it out right now Jay just recently broke 15,000 gamers nexus is right behind the gamers Nexus is not water cooling their graphics cards yet so still a lot more to come here guys thank you so much for watching this video if you did enjoy hit the thumbs-up button and leave me a comment in the comment section down below if you have any suggestions any like insider tips on high-end overclocking that might help me out since I'm still kind of just dabbling in this area but thank you all so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time