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Walter White would you like an upgrade you're goddamn right I'm gonna take that as a yes upgrade we shall first off to GTX ten seventies from EVGA these I paid for out of my own pocket and I did this because I wanted two cards that match now I know I already have one in there that one's the one that's being given away by the way the asus rog Strix gtx 1070 but i I think that I can do a little better with the paint job to be completely honest and EVGA has built in white LEDs and no matter what I try in the configurator for Asus I cannot get those LEDs to turn white so I think this is going to be a better bit a big deal it's going to look better in the long run anyway Walter white version 2.0 will appreciate that so of course two of those and then check this out as Roxanne over there x99 Taichi now I asked specifically for the Taichi because as you'll see here shortly it has a ton of white actions now that the entire PCB isn't white or silvery white like the Asus tough as any 170 motherboard is but it's close enough and I think that it's going to look beautiful in the S 340 and I plan on doing something very soon with the s3 40 cases well stay tuned for that and then to top everything off processor what do we have here this is a xeon e5 26:30 i almost said that wrong 26:30 v4 so this runs at a stock 2.2 gigahertz a single core will turbo up to 3.2 i believe maybe 3.1 now this is essentially by all regards except for the fact that doesn't have an eye GPU and it's not overclockable using the multiplier method it doesn't have an unlike multiplier apart from that it's basically a 69 50 X and that's kind of why I chose it I was actually originally going to purchase the 69 50 X and a lot of you talked me out of that and on Twitter so thank you very much for that but we're going to start assembling everything just going to kind of do it vlog e style like I did in the past I think that that's the easiest way for me to edit and it's kind of a more on a personal experience for all of you as well so let's get to assembling tearing down things in there that we're not going to need and then putting the good stuff the new stuff into walter white version 2.0 don't mind my bed folks this is my office as much as it is my bedroom I sleep right there and I work right there but uh like a giddy little child this morning this is the first time that I've ever moved up to x99 how the heck you get this out of here and I'm pumped because I'm gonna get to run so many new tests with a unique processor that not many people have and won't just see how well the Xeon ends up faring out in the long run installation guide all right don't need that now this is cool built-in Wi-Fi so we have our Wi-Fi and 10a right here in 10a how do you say that antenna antennas maybe it is just a simple plural and then right there there's our SLI bridge I think I was showing you the what is this listen Asylum bridge yeah this is nice leverage I get to finesse Li bridges so if you want 3-way SLI you got this one and then two-way SLI you have this one here so very cool they include both there onto the motherboard itself this is where you'll get to see that whole color coordination thing we've got going on again like I said not a completely white PCB but it's got some pretty darn cool accents including the whole like clock gear mechanical thing going on and now a lot of that will be covered by the two graphics cards but not a problem because they are huge 2011 v3 socket r8 DIMM slots and a lot of good stuff will go over here on the left side as well as the right doctor debug down here all your peripheral support 24 pin power connector our 8 pin is up here on top above the x99 little symbol 2 m dot two slots on the front of the board that's something I'm not going to be using right now maybe in the future but SSDs or what I'll stick with for now I think I'm probably gonna paint this I think so yeah I think I've made up my mind I'm gonna paint that white and I will do so using white engine enamel oh my wow this is a heavy processor and much larger than typical z170 z97 CPUs even larger than some bulldozer piledriver CPUs from AMD this is where things always get tricky because I want to get some sweet tech porn shots and oh yeah yeah that's a good one even though you can't read anything there we go now we're talking look at that first thing we're going to do is paint this heatsink like we talked about all it requires is the removable two screws on the back of the motherboard so one was here and one was here and now you flip the board back over this should just there goes I also want to open the 10 70s it's we need to decide what we're going to paint on each of these I'm pretty sure we're going to paint the backplate that's just typically black might paint some of the accents as well so let's see what we can pull apart here so yep definitely painting the back plate let's flip around pop or open oh stuck on that side look at that beauty and guess what folks there's one more there she is not fairly certain this one was used prior I purchased this brand new so this shouldn't be open but it is it's actually dusting too and it's scratched up a bit what is this my back plate looks okay but the front check this out right here it's kind of hard to tell there we go see those scratches those shouldn't be there this is a brand new card supposedly but I know it's I know it's not just by looking at it this one on the other hand is brand new and if it's not brand new they did a good job covering it up because well that right there okay so as of right now the front shroud of both the gtx 1070 s are pretty much good to go the backsides a little rough you're not going to be seeing that and I was sure to tape off the front LED panel whatever they call this so I'd say it's a job well done for the graphics cards at least the back plates are looking ok a few spots here and there that's just what I get for not using a professional paint studio but I'm willing to live with that and the cool thing is because I'm using too I can choose to put the one that looks better on top so I'm not sure and that one's got a few spots on it that one has a few bubbles on it we'll play with it and then lastly the heat sink on the Tai Chi from asrock that's a little rough I had to completely start over I was actually scraping off paint from that I don't know if it's dry yet either so I'm not going to touch it that's one thing you definitely don't want to do when you're painting PC parts when you're painting anything really don't touch the paint until you are 100% certain that it is dry otherwise you'll leave a fingerprint or they'll smear the paint and it will be just a pain to try to correct later on so I'm gonna let that dry a bit more I'm pretty confident these are finished drying are close enough anyway and so we're going to assemble those back together and take a few more tech horn shots of the new white super clock EVGA gtx 1070 s in case you're wondering this is how I masked off that this front little panel here this is what lights up sits EVGA gtx 1070 I'm pretty sure that's what it says on it but I just took some cheap old tape and covered that up and because I use engine enamel I'm not going to have to worry about the paint kind of stretching out and tearing like you would have with Plasti Dip so you should just be able to pull this off I want to do this live so I want you to see the result I guess in person already did it with the other card but this card here was a bit trickier sorry about this mess it's yeah we're in hardware mode right now folks all this good stuff off of there just want to be careful not to actually pull the thing apart you see that's all still intact no paint anywhere on that and then very gently pull up the tape going around a little rough there but mostly good and there you go that is well the almost finished product I have to put this on the actual card which is sitting back there that's how I yeah that's how I did that you well Walter white is having a few issues but maybe just one big issue it's not posting at all no everything's turning on a go ahead and do that for you right now so we'll see that's a fan scraping against something on that graphics card I'll have to fix that but ignore that that's that's not good for the card but we'll fix that shortly so right everything looks looks like it should be running but if you check down here there's a doctor debug all right right back there and doctor debug is not showing any code whatsoever which leads me to believe that there's some kind of power delivery issue or that the CPU is not seated correctly maybe a bent pin or two well that didn't take long there is your issue folks at least that's what I assume what's causing the posting issues one of these from the cable mod kit just straight-up popped out so I was running essentially a seventh in EPS cable that's not advisable and so we're going to fix that and hopefully receive a proper post this time well folks this is it Walter white version 2.0 featuring the xeon e5 26:30 v4 10 core 20 thread processor 2 EVGA GTX 10 70s and well I've recycled a lot of other things but I also have the asrock x99 Taichi I don't know Taichi but the motherboard sure does it's a beautiful light and well semi black PCB combo cool little you're seeing it right there a mechanical gear looking design and I just think it fits the build very well I'm glad I went with this board and not with something that didn't really match at all so it's nice to have those white accents on there now in terms of benchmarks I will have those ready for you tomorrow so I'm going to be doing CPU synthetic tests I'll be running some gaming benchmarks to see how this thing performs because we all know the Zeon's aren't really ideal for gaming especially when it comes to a hike or account and relatively low frequency so I will see what we can do there and I'm just really tired this bill took me two days to put together two full days longer than ever take me to build a PC before mainly because I had an issue with the CPU seating speaking of that I almost forgot to address that so on Twitter and Instagram if you're following there you know that I was having issues with getting a post so there's a dr. D bug on the very bottom of the motherboard and that's usually supposed to spit out some codes at least in the beginning and when you first turn on your PC and I wasn't getting anything not even a doctor debug notification telling me what was wrong with the PC so the only two or three things I could think of that may have caused that was the power supply maybe I just wasn't getting adequate enough power to the motherboard I don't know why that would be the case though because the power supply was working perfectly in walter white version 1.0 or there was some kind of cable disconnection which there ended up being I don't know if that was what was causing the issue though I honestly I fixed that and it was still having problems so it probably wasn't causing the issue and definitely could have caused issues in the long run depending on which of those eight pins was disconnected but then on top of that I guess there was some kind of CPU seating issue I put it incorrectly I look this is my first rodeo I kind of know what I'm doing right for some reason once I removed the CPU and reinserted it the exact same way I'm telling you the exact same way I inserted it the first time secured it all back together I mean I was literally just right here I just pulled off the the water block and just reinserted it that was really it and if once I did that I started getting post and I got readings from dr. debug telling me everything was a-ok so in terms of well just the science behind why that happened I have no explanation I don't know maybe I mean maybe just there just wasn't one pin contacting the CPU and maybe that was just the improper seating on my part I have no idea but whatever I did reinserting the CPU so that's all I did fix the issue so I'm just glad it's working and I can't wait to start running some benchmarks I haven't actually done that yet I did run Cinebench I got a score of like 1280 we're gonna see if we can base clock overclock a bit and bring that score up I'm not sure if I want to be able to do that at all with this BIOS just given the fact that it's a Xeon and it doesn't come with an unlocked multiplier so we'll be stuck to just the base clock frequency and on top of that it's not drawing a ton of power it's only got an 85 watt TDP versus the 650 X is 140 watt TDP I think is what it is so that one's clearly ready for overclocking this one's not which tells me that it's going to be pretty stubborn but we'll see how far we can get all including that as well and maybe not the benchmarking video I might try that later on just because I don't want any system instability in the meantime it's getting pretty dark outside and that's my that's my LED panel most of the time so I'm gonna call this one quits thanks for watching me build this for two I know doesn't seem like two days to you but it was two days for me it's almost the end of the second day I'm just glad it's working I think it looks beautiful let me know what you think in the comments below give this video a thumbs up if you thought it was cool give a thumbs down if you do feel the beat opposites okay you won't hurt my feelings maybe just just a little bit and then subscribe if you haven't already stay tuned for more stuff like this including the benchmarks 2.0 Walter White if you want to know how the Xeon fares 10 cores a lot of cores but it's relatively low frequency across the board but we do have two gtx 1070 s to pick up the slack I don't know I'm expecting it to perform around walter white version 1.0 that's just because the 6700 K in there is pretty much the best gaming CPU available thanks to its very strong single core performance I think the Xeon here is going to definitely hurt us but the second gtx 1070 should remedy the issue if not pick up the frame large frame rates frame rates a bit more this is science studio thanks for learning with us you you