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the Corsair void Pro headset features comfortable microfiber mesh fabric and memory foam ear cups custom tune 50 millimeter neodymium drivers with dolby headphone 7.1 surround support and a unidirectional noise cancelling microphone with LED mute indicator available in RGB and Wireless trim too so click the link in the description for more information what's up guys how's it going welcome to Paul's hardware today's video is a follow-up to this build video which I just recently posted so check that out if you didn't see me assemble the system it is a small but powerful gaming and multi-purpose gaming and streaming gaming and workstation mini ITX system that is also portable with the handle on top and can fit in carry-on luggage to be taken on the go I have a very limited amount of time to test this because I'm actually gonna be delivering it to my good friend Rachel there's gonna be taking it away on a fantastic trip overseas maybe she'll you shall blog it or something for you guys but in the meantime I'm gonna make sure you Windows is installed and set up and good to go and also hopefully do some basic tests here to check out the thermals as well as maybe a little bit of performance so my first step was to update the BIOS it shipped with version f3 I updated that to f5 and then I went into the BIOS and set the XMP profile for the memory which is ddr4 3000 it was actually running at 29 33 because that is the divider that's available with Verizon next I attempted a modest overclock I initially aimed for about 3.8 gigahertz because that's pretty reasonable to overclock to on most Rison cpus however it is a small form-factor system which with a pretty small cooler so encountered instability the back to 3.75 yuka hurts and then 3.7 gigahertz 3.7 seemed pretty stable at first but it actually failed under the stress test with a temperature getting up above 83 degrees Celsius and still climbing so from there I switched to stock which is 3.2 gigahertz base frequency and 3.6 gigahertz turbo frequency on the Rison 5 1600 and with xfr defender frequency range if temperatures are okay it can hit 3.7 gigahertz on one or two cores and actually in my testing I was hitting about 3.7 3 gigahertz max on a single core or even a couple tours at the same time so that's pretty nice and no need to actually overclock it there so I feel like with the thermal Slough and I have in this system the stock frequency that the r5 1600 chipset is pretty much where you want to be from there I tested the I 264 stress test temperatures climbed pretty steadily as you can maybe see from the chart and actually peaked at just under 90 degrees Celsius after about 15 minutes of that burn test now bear in mind it was pretty warm in the garage about 84 degrees Fahrenheit or 29 degrees Celsius was the ambience I know it's still warm here in Southern California but it is getting towards fall but I suspect that the culprit actually for those high temperatures when it comes to the CPU is the lack of air flow there's these side panels that have a mesh screen in front of them that's intended to provide a dust filter but it doesn't actually provide much active air flow through them since there's no fan that's up against those dust filters to pull air through so it's blocking air rather than allowing it in and since there's no other active fans on the outside of the case pulling cool air in temperatures just get warmer and warmer and actually peak pretty warm so I actually removed the side panel dust filter and immediately saw the temperatures start to drop it went from 89 degrees or so down to 84 and it was still dropping after a few minutes again I was really limited on testing time so I'm sorry I didn't go much further beyond that but if temperatures are a problem and you're building in this case highly recommended to just remove the dust filters from the side panel it allows a lot more airflow through if I did have this case and I wanted to use a little bit more and possibly test some solutions I might consider something like a 120 millimeter slim fan and actually mounting that somehow directly to the side panel to provide some active airflow being pulled in through that dust filter that could be a way to actually get the use of the dust filters and the temperatures without having to choose one or the other when it comes to temperatures though again the CPU was hitting about 45 degrees Celsius at idle and this is with those dust filters on and then when stress testing again just shy of 90 degrees 89.9 was actually what it hits that's for the levels otech gtx 1070 mini graphics card it was running at 60 degrees Celsius at idle but that is with zero fan mode and in a so when the graphics card isn't doing anything and it's not too hot fans don't spin so that's pretty normal as far as an idle temp this is testing them with the side filters on by the way and then I did a union Jin Valley 15-minute loop and the GPU got up to 83 degrees Celsius max and it was sitting about 82% fan speed which is about 3050 rpms so not the quietest experience but it was able to keep the GPU cool enough and the GPU clock speed wasn't falling off too much it was fluctuating between about 1770 and 1820 megahertz I did notice that when I removed the side panel dust filter from the GPU side that the clock speeds stabilized at just over 1820s so you can get a little bit more performance out of the GPU with a little bit better airflow but the fall-off really wasn't too bad it's only a matter for about 50 megahertz or so during the GPU stress test the CPU hit a max temp of 77 degrees Celsius which is a little warm but it was running at about 2 point I'm sorry 3 point 6 5 gigahertz on two cores which is a pretty nice speed when it comes to CPU gaming frequency I did do one final test because I wanted to simulate gaming and streaming at the same time because that's kind of the argument for going with a 6 core Rison processor for gaming specifically you can get a little bit better performance when it comes to gaming out of your graphics cards of course depending on the situation and the resolution in the game but you can get a little bit more out of your graphics card with a 4 core Intel processor like a 7700 K chest better IPC performance however if you're going to go with the six core Eisen and you're considering gaming and streaming at the same time that has been objectively shown to have better performance smoother experience not just for gaming but also for the stream that is output and gamers Nexus actually did a great test on that just recently so helpless link that in the comments but again this final test was kind of simulated because I was a time crunch but I was running Unigine valley that was my game and then I was using OBS to capture Unigine valley and then write it locally to the disc so rather than doing the encoding and spitting that stream out over the internet I was doing the encoding on the CPU and then spitting that stream out to the disc which is roughly the same and that shouldn't be too much different when it comes to actual performance and in this test I saw sort of an expected combination of the result from the CPU stress test and the gaming test which was that the CPU is running warm but not terribly warm it wasn't throttling it was running at about 3.4 gigahertz the GPU frequency was hitting the same frequency that I did and just the strict gaming tests that was okay as well temperatures were about 82 degrees when it comes to the GPU and then when I pulled off the dust panel on the side they dropped and got down to 77 and even started falling off a little bit more than that on the GPU and then CPU temperatures were right around the 80 degrees mark so we weren't seeing any aggressive throttling from that by hitting say much more towards 90 degrees so overall it's running a little bit warm and I would also say it's a little bit noisy but that's because again there's minimal fans keeping everything cool in here and there's minimal space or side panels or anything like that keeping the noise from reaching your ears so here is a quick sound test now the distances are out and that sound test by the way it was run while I was doing the gaming and streaming test so a pretty heavy load situation but also something that you might be expected to hit rather than just running some simulated tests on there so with those test run and completely out of time I had to hit the road because we had a meeting set up actually it was why he sauces birthday last week so everyone go and say happy birthday to wifey sauce belated birthday and weirdo get together to meet up and celebrate that so I wanted to bring the computer along so I can hand it off as Rachel was going to be there as well so on the shores of the Pacific Ocean we met and it was very dramatic I was able to hand it off to her and she was super happy about it and it's always nice when I build a computer to be able to directly hand it to someone and say here you go go and do the computer things that people do with computers and chips make make wonderful contents or play video games or have fun whatever whatever the case may be but anyway guys that is all for this video I know it's been a little bit shorter and a little bit different when it comes to my follow-up testing videos but I think with this particular build the focus was a little bit more on what the performance was going to be when it comes to temperatures as well as noise output which I tried to cover if you're looking for gaming performance it's pretty much going to perform like a risin 5 1600 with a GTX 970 without too much of an overclock going on but anyway thank you so much again for watching this video if you enjoyed it hit the thumbs up button I have links to all of the parts that I used in this video's description check out the build video of me putting this all together if you missed it I got more videos coming up very soon so don't forget 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