Gadgetory

whoa totally different scene right so this is my new studio source while I'm back here in Florida and you'll be seeing this for the next three or so months before I move back to Louisiana and get back situated into that office style format but for now this is what it will be like you may have seen the Marshall cat insects that were behind me in the GT extent any video I've lived a few days ago I have since moved that entire stack over there it's on that side of the room so it's just kind of chilling there sorry I know you guys were into that I I didn't really even think much about it but I actually received more comments about the Marshalls than I did about the 1080 and that was a little strange but for now I'm gonna have the monitor here the computer here and I have a receiver here because I have a 5.1 surround sound system hooked up to the computer and I'll detail that all another video what I want to talk about in this video is the Xenon 1230 v5 this is a skylight base processor so we're talking 40 nanometers transistor design and it's been thrown into the rig behind me the motherboard I have in there is an Asus III programming v5 now this is one of the only motherboards that the CPU is compatible with if look specifically for C 232 motherboards and this is one of them a downside to using this kind of motherboard with a xeon processors the fact that you're limited to 21 33 megahertz ram not like that's it you can't really overclock your ram at all this is giel super loose ddr4 have been here and it's factory clocked to 2400 megahertz but when I went to set it manually and even turn on XMP profile the computer straight up refused to boot this motherboard is also refurbished I saved about 35 bucks going for the refurbished version I'll have the link to this motherboard in particular in the video's description if it's no longer available and you know new a takes it down it's not refurbished anymore let me know in the comments and I'll take the link out but for now if you want to build something like this I do recommend this board I think it's nicest looking of all the boards offered and it's it's relatively cheap if you're looking at the refurbished version of this apart from that I'm calling everything with a Kraken X 60 from NZXT this is my second X 60 that I purchased off of new egg and both of these have been refurbished you pick them up currently for $89.99 US dollars on new egg if they're still available and this cooler appears to be brand new both of them were sealed I know they reseal on themselves but they've done a great job at making these things look brand new and I both have been very reliable so far there also decently discounted when you've taken to a consideration the fact that the x61 is still around 130 hundred 40 bucks you're getting a $40 discount for a cooler that cools almost the same as the X 61 so consider that I did receive one without the mounting gear but if you follow me on Twitter you'll know that NZXT was very cool about hooking me up with that gear sending it to day shipping and it was great so that's why I purchased another one and that's the one that's in this rig and it's working out pretty well so far if you're wondering what kind of graphics card I have in here no it's not a GTX 970 it's a gtx 960 gigabyte windforce g1 gaming edition graphics card yeah a lot of you are probably thinking Greg you threw a fork or a thread Zeon beast essentially an i7 into a computer with a gtx 960 really i mean not even an r9 380 what are you doing i ever actually have two reasons for this the first reason was that I got this thing refurbished for a really good price a hundred and eighty bucks we're talking a four gig gtx 960 these usually go for about 220 $230 I got this one refurbished and it's great I'm a big fan of refurbished products by the way if you can't already tell in most cases you can just return them if they're not functional but usually you'll get a pretty good steal on a product that will work just as fine and look just as good as a brand new product brand new version of the same product so that was my first reason but also I plan on replacing this card entirely with one of the two new Pascal Nvidia cards I'm not sure which one I'm going to pick yet a lot of you have been telling me that you want to see a review of the 1070 and not necessarily 1080 just because a 1070 seems like a better deal so if you're talking around Titan X performance for about 400 bucks maybe that's the one I'll throw in there I want to hear from you guys in the comments which one you would like for me to put into this rig but I do plan on pairing the Xeon fork or a thread processor with one of the one of the other either the 1070 or the 1080 I finally moved on from my 320 gig Western Digital caviar blue drive to a one terabyte Western Digital caviar black drive so we're talking performance we're talking a quiet hard drive and much more storage for these extra games that I've been downloading GTA 5 is 65 or so gigabytes that is such a big game everyone in the house had to turn off all of their Wi-Fi devices I was draining everything that there was such a big bottleneck throughout the house when it came to Wi-Fi because I was sucking down so much juice to download these games but most of them are downloaded and speaking of which that's what I want to do next so we're going to run some benchmarks on this computer here some synthetics and then we'll run some gaming benchmarks see how well the seon does when paired with the gtx 960 and then also a GTX 970 which I have in a box somewhere over there I'm going to throw that in here and then I run the same benchmarks again just to see what kind of Delta we should expect between the tube given that we're not really going to be experiencing much of a CPU bottleneck at all so you're the benchmarks I really love this processor now it's not overclockable it does have turbo boost but it's not overclockable like our 6600 k was so that's why a lot of those benchmarks mimic those from that i-5 but apart from that I mean you're only paying 20 bucks more for a processor that has twice as many threads now you are limited in terms of the motherboard availability but you can you can kind of customize that I painted my heatsink so I will show you that in a future video if it's not in the card above me already but you can certainly make things look a little better than they already do I didn't mention the case for this build but this is another fan text eclipse p400 this is the black version this time I just wanted to reiterate the fact that this is my new favorite mid tower case I'm in love with it it's basically an NZXT s340 without the little shield in front of course but you also get built-in LEDs that can change colors I'm gonna light set on red but you can change them to practically whatever you want to match the colors inside of your PC I'm using a deep cool kit so this is basically a little upgrade from the logis kit that i featured in the video in the cart above me so instead of getting one strip you get two strips and that's why it's making a little L shape here so it's a little brighter inside and I do prefer this deep cool kit over the largest this one so I might do a review on those in particular everything else I think looks really great this is one of my favorite builds if you guys think that I should paint this graphics card white like I did my GTX 970 let me know and maybe I'll throw a video up detailing how to do that specifically these gigabyte graphics cards are very difficult to take apart it's not as easy as just unscrewing the backplate you have to take apart the entire thing before you even get the backplate off to paint so all that kind of culminates into a very difficult process if you have any questions about the rig be sure to leave those in the comments sections love will check all of those out did I not mention anything though oh the power supply 600 Y 80 plus bronze from EVGA is in there that this whole build sips on power the Xeon is a very low TDP instead of the 960 so we're talking maybe a 350 watt total power draw from the wall under full load which is very low considering the power that this PC packs give the video a thumbs up if you liked what you saw if you liked the new setting and you liked the new style of videos that have been going on recently on the channel give the video a thumbs down if you just hate everything about life be sure to click the subscribe button if you haven't already and say for some pretty cool tutorials I think I'm going to show you guys a few things particularly how to paint those heat sinks which I've already filmed up top and then maybe how to paint the graphics card if y'all are into that this is science studio thanks for learning with us you