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what's up guys welcome to Paul's hardware I am not exactly sure how to introduce this video because on the one hand it's a normal video it's part of my regular monthly build series but on the other hand it's a different video than normal because this is actually my third video on the January build which I don't normally go this far but I was really waiting until the software solution was set up right since this is an RGB featured build and the software is not working in fact all of my led is not synchronized so this video is going to be an actual test the full-on tests of the RGB skills of the system I'm also going to do just a little bit of additional benchmarking and also want some feedback from you guys because I'm going to be actually doing a little comparison in this video between my system that I built here and Kyle system that he built which was originally a white RGB system and then he added the G field strategy memory to it and he did a video a couple weeks ago asking for feedback and everything on different RGB lighting configuration so I'm going to be actually using some of his lighting configurations in my builds here and seeing if I can recreate them myself I also have a couple straw polls that are linked down in the description below because I I asked before I did this build what color system I should build in and you guys answered black and that's why it's a primarily black build with RGB lights but I want to ask that one more time does do you think a white build would look better now that you can also cross compare this to Kyle's build so answer answer in that straw poll if you want to and then I also have a question about the RGB LED cake bands because I think that's another one of the big differences is Kyle had the NZXT air case fans that are RGB as well in his whereas I don't have those and that wasn't necessarily conscious choice of my parts actually the empty air fans were around at the time when I was originally partying out the system but let me know via responses to those questions and hopefully hopefully we will find an answer a final answer that lasts until the end of time all right one other quick thing I want to mention in some of the benchmarks because I usually do benchmarks and my monthly builds and show you guys some comparisons I did a lot of that and the part two video for this feel free to check out that also this video is kind of rush because I'm actually like back here behind me I'm benchmarking Rison right you can't see it there my rise and sets bed is back there and I'm trying to get this video out before that one goes out too so that's why I'm a little bit rushed but all that being said there are going to be additional benchmarks of this system in my rising comparison video which should be up very soon so check that out if you want to see some additional stuff I did have to cut this down a little bit to make them comparable so I had to pull a couple the memory sticks out and actually under clocked the the graphics cards the GTX 980 from Asus under there so it would line up more with that anyway more on that in that actual video and since I hadn't done it earlier I also wanted to do a quick benchmark on the SSDs it's installed here so it was a pretty significant portion of the cost of this system it's seven hundred bucks right now for the Rd 400 from OC OC OC z Toshiba but it's really fast so here's my benchmark results for that I ran a crisp Lotus mark and a doe just really quick bear in mind that the system is running off of that SSD right now Windows is loaded on to it so this is not how I would normally test an SSD these are results despite it also running the OS at the same time so 1.6 gigabytes per second reads 1.2 gigabytes per second writes for sequential numbers for 4k those numbers are also pretty impressive faster 4k numbers here than you get from a typical SATA SSD and like looking at the right raid like you'd have to take like 3 SATA SSDs and rate them in raid 0 to get anything close to this so that's pretty impressive from a single drive I option down here we're about 160,000 and 120,000 for reason rice respectively also pretty impressive and then I ran through a dough which does a bunch of different test sizes and what that has a larger the test size the better the drive is going to be able to perform but here again with writes we got up in the 1.2 to 1.4 gigabytes per second right and then for reads about 1.6 1.5 right in there so very impressive still both ways now beyond the SSD for overall performance again a little bit more on that in my previous video and a little bit more coming on that in my rising comparison video but overall really happy with the system the CPU was a overclocked to 4.9 gigahertz that's pretty nice not quite five would like to hit five but you know 4.9 can't really complain about that at sunset 7700 K the memory was running at 3200 I did dial it back to about 3000 again for the risin comparison test but then the the graphics card when overclock was hitting about 2050 to 2000 seventy-five megahertz on the GPU clock all really impressive numbers and of course those lead to good performance and benchmarks as well but this video is going to be light on benchmarks and more about the lighting demonstration actually one other thing I wanted to point out about this build I am I didn't grow up or didn't get into building pcs for aesthetics it took me a while to come around to being like okay maybe we can make them look pretty too and the fact that I do videos definitely is no small impact on that so a big part of my goal with this I don't really feel like I've stated this as directly as I could have was making a build that has our DV lighting but also has the ability to turn it all off if you want to or has the ability to do subtle changes to make it so it's not necessarily like a rainbow vomit going on all the time you could make it a single color or that kind of thing anyway all that being said let's actually test out some of this functionality that we have so we're controlling all the lights on this build with two pieces of software the Asus aura software is controlling the motherboard lights the graphics cards lights as well as the case lights because the case lights are all wired into the motherboard and the case lights of course is what I was having some problems with in part 2 of this video and that fortunately has been fixed man techs actually has a pretty cool looking little controller function board up there on the top front of their case that's where the power button goes and actually that wires up to the RGB lighting control which is also on the front panel of the case and all you have to do once you've wired this up properly to the motherboard is you actually need to hold in the button on that RGB control panel in order to turn off that the board little PCB up there it's trying to control the lights as well that's why I was getting strange lighting configurations once you do that everything should sync up properly as you see right now with the Asus or a software something you have control that all right else have the NZXT cams we're in that it's a hundred percent only controlling the NZXT Creek and crackin X 62 which is right there there's two LED lights on that the NZXT logo across the middle and the ring light goes around the outside and I can turn those both off or on so like right now I just turn them back on and they are working yay and I can control those both independently for now I'm going to turn those off just so you guys can only look at the aura aura stuff or a controlled stuff and then in the software we can see that we have the motherboard the graphics card in the RAM and that's the other reason why I made it part three of this video was the RAM was not showing up in the software at all and the memory and that is of course the big improvement to this software is that you can get the memory lighting control as well and I think that's a slightly bigger deal because the memory it's I don't know they I feel like do you feel did a good job with that it stands out a lot and it definitely adds to everything so you can actually individually control the individual elements here LED strips - PCH to the back i/o the graphics cards of memory actually can individually control each memory stick if you want to that's what the static or breathing functions or you can press this button here which well I'm sorry this one button will do motherboard only this button will apply it to all all devices so you definitely want to pay attention to that as you're going back and forth if you're just choosing a single color single colors are fun and it's probably an easy way to synchronize with the NZXT stuff on there but I don't mind I don't mind the color cycle again no user interaction here that will just give you your cycling rainbow effects I don't know why is that there's a separate rainbow on here probably gives you a little bit more direct control I do like that you can sequence these individually so you have mainboard the memory and the VGA and you can tell it which color to go to first or after that this actually does a rainbow effect with all the different devices so the devices will be different colors at different times so that is the difference between color cycle and the rainbow effect you can also reverse that or you can do a gradient if you want to do a gradient because that do and there we go a gradient as opposed to what it was before comment is an interesting one looks at that up and see how that goes basically comment it's going to flash through all of the different LEDs on the port which is going to do the LEDs in the case and then it'll do well all the other ones that you connect you guys actually have a better view of it right now it also cycles down through all the ones and the memory LEDs as well which looks kind of cool and you can actually change up the sequence again here as well to tell which you want to flash to first if you don't like the order that it's going in and then you've got flash and dash which I actually think looks a little bit better flash in - keeps the lights on the dims and then it will flash each one is it cycles through flash and dash is also apparently doing a gradient right now which lets go back to plane let's do that to all devices okay there now flash and dash is doing a single color flashing up each each individual one and cycling surance which doesn't look too bad they had like an RGB lightning storm at CES but that's not here anymore or maybe it was just flash and - and that's what I thought it was you can of course do strobing which I think has limited limited value in my personal opinion just flashes on and on you know can change the speed if you want to and then of course you have some reactive stuff so you can tell it to base it on the Sun system temperature so if CPUs will 40 degrees it will get green as you see right now perhaps that one's a little bit more functional and then music and I'm going to come back to the music because I think music is actually going to be the best bet for synchronizing this with the cam software since you can tell them both to synchronize music and we'll see if they both do at the same time all that being said let's go and attempt to recreate some of the ones that Kyle did in his video since I am offensively trying to do a little comparison here the first shot what he did was Miami so we can do with Miami Miami and we think like maybe turquoise and and pink I think are probably the primary colors that you're going to want to go with all right there's there's my best shot of a Miami theme what do you guys think thank you turquoise that's Miami here is my attempt at vomits I have gradients of green yellow and sort of a brownish orange going on most of the case and then got a similar rotating sort of disorienting vomity color gone with the MDX tee there as well looks look lovely here's my shot at seizure as requested by gamers Nexus originally on Kyle's video I've attempted to do as many colors as possible flashing and changing as quickly as possible the effect is quite mesmerizing here is my attempt at portal and add just stuck with blue and orange for this one here I will completely agree with you guys that some see being able to set individual fan LEDs to blue or orange would have been perfect for this one but here I just want some orange trim around the outside blue for most of everything on the motherboard and then of course use the NZXT circular LED for the foreign orange foil right down the middle and finally here since I don't have quite the same amount of experience Cal goes with the illicit drug use apparently here is a Christmas theme I just made this one up so I skipped over the acid and the rave and just with Christmas you know nice and wholesome red and green looks looks ok I don't know it's nice to have a theme for your computer and be able to just engage that whenever the appropriate holiday comes around and besides all that when was the last time you're able to do a candy cane theme with your memory this is the first for me lots of firsts today actually and there you have it guys a demonstration of the lighting capabilities of my classy RGB tools that I have right here and I think it's pretty cool actually the things I'm missing are going to be actually a couple of the effects that the g.skill had in their software which again is really similar to the Asus or a software but the g.skill software only controls the g.skill memory then a couple more effects in there so of course I'm imagining the software is going to continue to be enhanced and developed as time goes by and it does seem like they have the ability to throw some additional effects in their tube said what I have shown off today so I think I've done just about everything I wanted to do except one last thing for you guys out there who are purists and aren't into our GB look looking off button that's an off button there and then these are ass buttons here and look my class the RGB build is classy again because there's no more RGB LEDs thanks for watching this video guys hope you enjoyed it it's dumb but sometimes lemon on your way out if you did links to this build all the parts and everything are down in the description as well as my previous videos we're actually put this thing together stay tuned for Rison videos coming out really really soon I can't tell you exactly when but trust me if soon you guys will be excited and yeah thanks again for watching we'll see you next time and you