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absolutely what's up guys welcome back to Pauls Harbor today this video is about the best cpu for gaming and I've done this type of video before and it's very important at the beginning of any video where you talk about the best view for gaming - frame is exactly the terms by which you are defining what you mean what I'm talking about today is what I mean not only just for me but also for any of you guys who are curious what a gtx 980ti SLI configuration needs in order to get the most frames per second out of the amount of GPU horsepower that's available there because let's face it right now within a reason as far as well supported from the drivers side from Nvidia as well as game developers as well as what you can feasibly drop into a system and just start gaming with gtx 980ti and two-way SLI is about as high as you can go yes you can go 3 where 4 wait you're not going to the driver support you're not going to be able to actually get any benefit out of games so there it is and that's what I'm going with this configuration second reason is of course that I am currently in progress of getting all the purse decided upon for my special water-cooling build the resurrection of arctic panther a large pool system that i originally built a couple years ago i'm going to be refreshing it and updating it with two gtx and 1080 is and I wanted to see what else I should put in there to make sure that I get the most bang for buck out of them this is going to be a gaming specific system so I'm not as concerned about doing other stuff although gaming of streaming at the same time might be a consideration and that's definitely something to keep in mind for later on all that said though apart from my two graphics cards - Asus Strix GTX 1080p I 11 gig graphics cards what else is the rest of the hardware that I'm working with today because I actually have three different test beds that I'm going to be testing this out on as well as four different CPUs so our first test bed houses our Intel Core i7 7700 K which most people will tell you is the best CT for gaming right now when it comes to pure gaming and I've wanted to again give all the CPUs are really good to chance at doing the best they can so I have a water clean set up this is just a ch 110 280 millimeter closed loop cooler kept everything nice and chilly and I originally had the CPU I'm able to get the CP 24.9 gigahertz at least during the winter months but since it is a few degrees warmer here in the summer it was giving me a little bit instability at 4.9 so I ended up dialing it back to 4.8 gigahertz on the CPU for memory I'm running 8 gigabyte DIMMs pretty much and everything so this is a 2 by 8 gigabyte configuration Kingston HyperX predator memory and I'm running all the memory at 3200 speed this one is running at Cass latency 15 which is just ever so slightly looser timings than the other memory kits which are SEL 14 so that has one slight difference between the testbeds but as you'll probably see coming up very soon didn't really impact the benchmark numbers from what I could sell for SSDs add all the systems on nvme SSDs this one's on an Intel 600 P series nvme SSD that has the operating system on it and that pretty much rounds things out except for the motherboard which is the gigabyte or Z 270x gaming 7 and then the power supply is a Rozsival 1000 watt 80 + platinum rated unit for our arrived and testbed we have this setup right over here of course horizon 7 1800 X is the CPU eight cores running at 4 gigahertz and being cooled by the corsair h 100 ib2 both loops III floor that's a 240 millimeter all in one units the motherboard of course is the old-school well I don't say old school but the old standby the crosshair 6 here that I've done a lot of testing with rising with the memory is sort of tucked away in there and also one that I've done a decent amount of testing with rather than the G scale flare X kit so this made specifically to play nice with rising higher frequencies again that is a 2 by 8 gig kit and I'm running it at 3200 speed this one's a cast latency 14 for storage there's a Patriot Hellfire for turn 80 gig nvme SSD please ignore the graphics card that's currently on there of course all the testing was done with the two-way na vis and finally just in case you're wondering that is alien a PC t60 testbed and the power supply is a coarser HX one and I and finally over here on the Praxis wet bench we have our final test bed and this one's probably where most of the focuses at least as far as what the game performance is going to be this is an X 299 test bed it is based on the msi gaming m7 a ckx $2.99 motherboard down there sort of holding everything together and also handling the overclock which is doing a pretty good job with so far the 77 40 X that is currently installed there it's been overclocked to five point one gigahertz it's actually running at about five point one zero to five gigahertz to be more specific and it's kept cool by the Fraxel Kelvin 360 that's actually the third 60 millimeter version of their liquid cooler you can only really see the pump part of it right there with the tubing and everything on it but there it is for the memory kit again I have any gig dims when it's in the 77 40 X configuration it's just going to have to a kingdoms that are currently lit up over here on this side again running at 3200 speed cast latency 14 and then when I pop in the the 78 20x then it will give me quad-channel and then I'll have 4 by 8 gig dims and they'll all light up which which will sure be nice as for an SSD this one is running on an OC z rd 400 and via me feather and 12 gig SSD although it is completely covered up by the graphics cards down there at the bottom so you can't really see it right now the test but it's sitting out of course into practice what wet bench and then for a power supply I have the gigabyte extreme gaming 1200 watt 80 + platinum rated given everything the juice it needs to power to games and then my final testing configuration which is the same X 299 test bed but this time instead of a 77 40 X I have swapped into 78 20 X which is the 8 core 16 thread skylight X CPU the reason I chose this one is because it seems to be the most viable option for me to use in my water-cooled system and basically I might have tried the 6 core or of course I got the 10 core as well but I'm trying to find the best suitable candidate for this purpose and I wanted to say good overclock decently and once you get up to the higher forecast it becomes more difficult to overclock but I was able to overclock the 78 to 20x 24.6 gigahertz which I think will give it a decent amount of extra Headroom when it comes to the gaming performance when compared to something like the 70 240 X but I still don't have high hopes because typically with gaming frequency is still king and so I'm guessing that these 77 40 X is going to still come out on top let's get a my actual overclocking and testing configuration though I've already mentioned all the CPUs in the test beds that I'm running on and overclocks to the CPUs the graphics cards I did overclock as well though although not by much since these are already pre overclocked asus strix graphics cards basically set the power limit this is msi afterburner afterburner by the way so the parallel matte 220 percent plus 45 on the core clock plus 350 on the memory clock and I set the fan speed on both GPUs to static 60% just to help kick all of that warm air out just to reiterate all the memory configurations I'm using with all the test beds are olds running at 3200 speed and then they're all cast latency 14 except for that hyper x kit which is amazeen sony testbed that's a castle 8d 15 which hopefully shouldn't affect things too much all the tests I'm running as far as the benchmarks are going to see today I chose specifically because they actually scale decently or pretty well when an SLI to GPU configuration I was just figuring if I chose games that didn't that wouldn't make much sense since i'm testing sli so that's why I show the games I did and if you want to check out some of the reviews that I researched prior to this video I posted some links to those down in the description below all that said at long last here are all of my benchmarks okay guy all those tracks represents a lot of work so I hope you have looked at all of those numbers very carefully I have certainly because I'm trying to make a decision based on then so first off we're going to look at those synthetic benchmarks the 3dmark ones for example they might initially seem to indicate that one of the cpu platforms is doing better than the others however bear in mind that those synthetic benchmarks tend to weigh in stuff like raw CD performance a lot more they have physics based tests that CPUs with higher core temps tend to do very well at so that's where you might see some of that variance if you actually look at the GPU scores on those tests you'll notice there's only about a one to two hundred point difference between each of the four platforms using this same GPU configuration now specifically comparing the cabling CPUs the KB like X 7740 X and the KB like 7700 K the KB like X had about a 300 megahertz frequency advantage since it was ringed at five point one gigahertz versus 7700 K running at four point eight gigahertz now test could have been done over the past month or two that I've been surprised that have shown the 7,700 cake beating 787 40s in a lot of situations and that might actually get a case if you're setting up a very CPU limited circumstance such as testing games at 1080 that this both ways because testing games of today is a very good way to put the burden on the CPU and to get more information about which CPUs are performing better however when it comes to a real-world situation the chances of somebody purchasing two 1080p is and running them in SLI and then playing games at 1080 is pretty slim or at least you're not investing your money in the most effective way you should get one 1080i and then spend other money on a better monitors what you should probably do so that's why do these tests in this way it should be a little bit more real-world and say for what I'm actually going to be using these GPUs for what is going to get the best performance and in the end with that frequency advantage these seventy seven forty X actually seems to outperform the 7700 K at least in these tests that I've tried today so it does seem like it is viable in that regard however I've only tested this because I was thinking if there is going to be some huge disproportionate change with the 77 40 X that I might actually consider using it but it's very minimal and I don't think the sacrifices you have to make with we going with cabling X the additional cost gets spent on the motherboard the lack of the ability to use quad channel memory the lack of the ability to access a lot of the stuff on a high-end X tonight and I'm motherboard just doesn't make it worth the cost now it's for my 1,800 X system back here I was actually quite impressed with its performance we saw some pretty significant debt deficits when testing right and when it initially launched but there have been a lot of updates when it comes to Baro loves you Jesus updates as well as memory compatibility as well as a face to Windows and some of the games that have been patched to improve performance there as well however across the board the 1,800 X systems still did lag behind all the other Intel based systems that I've tested today even if it was minimal I would say that if I was looking to early at a what's the best price to performance option here I pretty much sure that the rise in system would win however since the cost is less of a concern with this particular demonstration and looking more towards what is the best option I have to say I'm probably not going to do a rise in base build for the next version of Arctic pancakes 7700 K did very well today and if I was choosing it all around winter when it comes to both the price and the performance that's probably what I would choose because you'd have to spend a lot of money on the motherboard give really good performance you can overclock as long you're not going to be screaming because the 7700 K does have a performance deficit when it comes to streaming especially when you're comparing at your rice and six score an eight-core options but if all you want to do is play games in the 7700 K is still where it's at but the 78 20 X is actually CPU from all this testing that I'm leaning towards the most for a few different reasons first off that overclock pretty easily hit 4.6 gigahertz granted I couldn't go much beyond that but that's about what I was expecting when it comes to a core CPU offerings from Intel right now second if I am going to be using this in a new liquid-cooled system build and I'm comparing it to the previous version which featured an 8 core 50 59 60 X as well as quad channel memory is an enthusiast platform system build it would seem like a little bit of a downgrade to switch to the mainstream and to lose out on stuff like quad channel memory and that kind of thing I know I'm not speaking from the from a practical standpoint or perspective I'm speaking from the enthusiast perspective where I just want things to be good and fast and everything of course you can critique you there because that is really going for the enthusiast perspective I would just put the 7900 X in there and call it a day but the 7900 X does run very hot and even how do we need attempt to overclock it since it is a 10 chord so I'm thinking the 8 course as sort of an in-between still seems like an upgrade still gets most of the gaming performance it's not that last few percentage points that you might be able to get with 7700 K or 77 40 X I'm thinking that seems like possibly the most reasonable reasonable can be a word when describing the second build solution but I of course I'm very curious to hear what you guys think I was like taking your feedback into consideration so please leave me comments in the comment section down below let me know what you think of these numbers that I have gathered over the past few days and all of my benchmark testing now I can't end this video without at least quickly mentioning thread Ripper because it's only a couple weeks away from launch according to what AMD has told us and there's a ton of people are going to be like ah just just waiting to build a trigger for system first off I'm not expecting gaming specific performance on thread referred to be any better than it is on Verizon it's using the same architecture using the same CPU cores it's going to be viable we're going to be good it's still probably going to be a really excellent price to performance option but I'm not expecting it to suddenly leak Probie until chips to provide better gaming performance also this is theory I'm not going to build a shredder for water-cooled system to them we're all going to do that as well it's just probably not going to be this system that I'm planning to build right now so stay tuned for that it will be coming soon I've got rising 3 coming up got credit for hopefully soon after that and I've course got this build that I'm not ready to move on to the next step wait so thank you guys so much for watching this video that thumbs up button if you enjoyed it of course I'll be back next week with more excellent content as always about the technologies and I might even show my dog self again thanks for watching guys then we'll see you next time