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the last week has been hectic around takea city the Sun has gone down I've been benchmarking up in building pcs diagnosing problems then after dawn after dawn it just repeats then as we go into the night I do the same thing it's benchmarking building and then we do the exact same thing and right here we got Darth Jar Jar with the jewels Aeons that is the X 56 90s on the EVGA sr2 motherboard today we're gonna be turning this thing on going into the bias overclocking it and then running some games and also some synthetic benchmarks to see finally how this thing performs welcome back to tech yes city guys right here we have the custom build called Darth Jar Jar and we've fired it up if you guys want to know everything inside this build I'll put the link up here for these showcase of this PC but today we're gonna go into the BIOS and we're gonna be overclocking these two CPUs and seeing how they perform and then also seeing what we can do with this graphics card if this loop doesn't present too much of a problem with those overclocked CPUs first so we're gonna go into the bus right now and see what's up so here we are first time in the EVGA sr2 bios and this is I'm guessing it's gonna be a little bit different because it is an American trip megatrends BIOS but you can see over here they got a frequency and voltage control menu which usually on say for instance gigabyte I think they've got a menu over here with frequency MIT and all that stuff but going into here frequency voltage we can now move down and have a look what's this what this is all about cuz I'm kind of like well what's going on here this signal tweaks like this is like looking like it's a whole new menu I've never seen anything like this in a BIOS menu before actually so we can actually change and looks like we can delay the signal times maybe that's for extreme overclocking again this is pretty crazy so maybe I can mess with this a little bit later if we try to go a little bit higher with the overclocks but going into this voltage control here this is like looking pretty different too so I'm kind of going on blast to the past here and I'm gonna figure things out on the fly so bear with me now but we got here without droop I'm guessing that's load line calibration because we don't want to be droop and we're gonna go boot up via court and eventual Wow so they've got actual different voltages for the boot up via core as opposed to the actual what it will eventuate now I'm guessing hardcore overclockers would like this in competitions because I believe the EVGA sr2 motherboard was made strictly for competition and so what they've done here is they've got now these two settings because when you boot up your computer sometimes you can get what's called voltage spikes that are higher than what it would eventually once your computer is running nowadays the power supplies especially if you're buying a really good power supply and coupling with a motherboard like this you shouldn't have to worry too much and we are using the HX 1200 so we shouldn't have any problems setting this to say 1.4 so oh wow okay we can't actually type the numbers in we probably need a numpad I'm actually using a 10 keyless keyboard here so we're gonna have to quickly bump in all these voltages that are be comfortable with to say a 4.4 gigahertz overclock initially and we'll see if we can get that to boot so now we're back to the main menu here and it's just like any x58 motherboard it looks like they don't have the individual control so you have to set the CPUs at the exact same frequency which makes sense otherwise you'd just have a computer crash instantly after running at different frequencies I believe especially in this era of computing so what we're gonna do is we're gonna change these two this should be our B base clock and so we should be able to go and aim until we get around 4.4 gigahertz so that's 4.4 right there so that's what it's looking like we will turn off our turbo as well if there's a setting for that because turbo can get in the way okay so now we're changing our Qi frequency as well as our ddr3 memory speeds but this is where things get a little bit weird because I'm not entirely sure why these uncle speeds aren't changing with the actual base clock speeds themselves so this is something different about the EVGA SR 2 is the memory frenzies are locked in at 33 1333 megahertz and same with this uncle here they're sort of like been separated from this CPU strap here so we're just gonna give this a try anyway so it's it locked in the basic settings now if you guys are wondering how I know about x58 and why it's like my first going I'm just sort of troubleshooting and guessing here it's cuz that's how I do overclocking I just trial and error and learn everything myself because when I went to start overclocking there was just so many different guides and people saying different things that worked and didn't work for them and I just thought to myself well why not figure this out and then from there I've made my own overclocking to drivers myself so I'm kind of adding to the fray if you guys want to check that out for x58 I'll put a link up here for that of all school age 55 as I love these errors all motherboards and computing I'm gonna say that to profile one and then we're gonna restart and see if we can get a boot ski so we've got our temperatures here before we even start the stress test and our idols are looking like they're quite high 40 degrees I mean it is about 25 degrees in here at the moment but we can hear that start button and see if it can sort of handle an initial stress here on those CPUs and maybe let that run for 10 minutes if it can surpass this test here then I'll be pretty confident in 4.4 gigahertz providing it can survive this for around 10 minutes so we just passed the 10-minute mark with these Zeon's and the max temperatures we've got here 80 degrees on core 1 and core 608 core 1 has also got 81 degrees so this is a 4.4 gigahertz and one point 4 volts so admittedly it does seem like it's a little bit too much for the 4.4 gigahertz off the top of my memory but still I wanted to make sure that both these CPUs work because we now got two CPUs so we kind of got a deal with double the silicon lottery but they are the X 56 90s so I'm not too concerned but one thing we also notice is that the ddr3 memory here is being indeed overclocked by the B clock and I'm guessing the Ankur will go with that too so I do have to be a little bit careful if I want to step it off further especially since these temperatures here and I think that already moved up to 82 now I do have to be careful with these temperatures because that's sort of like my max threshold that I'm happy with at the moment given that we're still gonna add the GPU in the loop in some of these tests so what I'm gonna try and do is go maybe for 4.5 at this same voltage and see if it holds but I will quickly run a Cinebench score just to make sure that it's Cinebench stable at these sort of settings and then we'll go back into the bias quickly change to 4.5 see if we can get those speeds so we actually got a blue screen on the 4.4 gigahertz it was going so good Oh we'll try and just tweak some settings in the BIOS and see if we get 4.4 stable so we've got the Cinebench run finished and we got 1917 CB so I'd love to try and get it's the mm just sort of that'd be just cool so we what we did this time we did drop the memory speeds in the Encore down and up the CPU PLL ever so slightly so we'll try going for four point five now anyway so basically this is just this PC is not having a bar of this it's saying not 4.5 you guys you're just not gonna get it tonight okay so it looks like we're sort of topping out now after a heap of different testing so the four point four two gigahertz and the memories going to 1700 megahertz and I've tried getting into 4.5 gigahertz it just crashes pretty much instantly and same with the memory as well having the memory up to a little bit above 1700 megahertz unfortunately crashes Mbeki are six sticks of memory and as we said before to two CPUs our chances of crashing is gonna be a lot higher than more components we add into the mix so that's pretty much gonna do it for me now I've got that sort of 90% or 95% level of overclock and then I'm gonna start installing games and in the morning we'll come back and I'll overclock the grabs card and then we'll start getting you guys some figures but basically with this motherboard as well it is pretty hard to overclock because it takes so long to boot up so every time you crash you're gonna wait about four or five minutes for you go back into the BIOS to all your overclock then get back into Windows and then see if it crashes again but the fact that we've got four point four two gigahertz on two of these CPUs and our memory at seventeen hundred megahertz it's still really good the Cinebench schools are still really good too I was just hoping for a little bit more but of course I could probably get there but it would take me days and days and just for that extra hundred or two hundred megahertz so let's get some rest and we'll come back and see you guys tomorrow morning and here we are at the next day and Windows is still gonna do a feature update to 1803 and we're still downloading a bit of battlefield 5 as well on this PC but all the other games are installed and while this happens we've wires will start trying to overclock the graphics card or should I say gravis card so it does look like now we've found our sweet spot overclock for this 980ti and we see here we've got about 800 megahertz on the memory 110 on the core clock now of course I do want to stress test this a little bit more in benchmarks and let it roll out but I will need to update to the latest driver and currently Windows Update is blocking that from happening so I'm gonna restart the system now get the latest drivers then run the benchmarks and see if this overclock will hold in long term the temperatures however are looking really good already on this GPU block nothing's really going it's like 42 degrees max so far so this is really actually good news for this 980ti so we just finished up testing synthetics and time spy extreme we got a cpu score of 3168 and also a gravis core of 3137 so not too bad moving over to fire strike we've got a score of nineteen thousand three hundred sixty three on the GPU and twenty thousand eight hundred and forty nine on the CPU and then four you know gene heaven on 1080p high settings we got four thousand eight hundred fifty four the points with one hundred ninety two point five half PS now the reason why this GPU score might be a little bit underpowered compared to say running it with a ninety nine hundred K is because typically dual CPUs in simulated benchmarks like fire strike and time spy will perform a little bit worse than if you had them coupled with a ninety nine hundred K so that's kind of expected but still I'm pretty impressed with these schools it's doing well let's see now how well it performs in games so we just finished with shadow of the Tomb Raider and we're getting 49 average FPS at 1440p high settings this is actually a really good result considering the minimums are very smooth as well so I'm actually pretty impressed with the Jules Eon so far considering they can come into problems with some games but I do think since the Rison introduction of those chips dual CPU gaming has got a lot of better because Windows itself has had a few updates but we'll find out now with the next title Resident Evil 2 so we just finished up at resident evil - 1440p ultra-white and the good news is that the GPU is getting a hundred percent utilized we can even see this while we're all tapped out with benchmark notes up here so we did three runs and it's kind of all over the place in terms of how long I'm running it for because for some reason on this computer and this set up the show own statistics is just cutting off when I hit that so we're still able to get accurate results here we're getting around 72 average FPS and the 1% in point 1% lows are pretty good but in this game in particular I think it's utilizing like 7 threads so it clearly is a console optimized first game but it's great to see that the jewsí ons are still having no hiccups and problems running this title also dx12 in this title pretty much gave us the exact same results except this time around the threads that were being utilized switch from the first CPU to the second CPU but now let's check out a more single thread intensive game like dota 2 so here's the results for dota 2 and this actually did really well I'm surprised they've optimized dota 2 a lot more than they used to it was running so smooth on the jewels eons it was actually using more threads than I thought it would this was on DX 11 I believe dx11 runs the best out of the api's now the top part here is the max settings and the graphics card was like hovering between high 80s and low 90s really good news and then below here was the low settings and we got 1440p ultra white on both we got here near 180 average FPS the 17.1% lows are a mediocre they're still very good considering it's smooth gameplay but other than that I'm really impressed so far let's try however the pinnacle of dual CPUs for a video game and that is Doom on Vulcan so here's the results with doom on Vulcan and this ran extremely well the average FPS is like a hundred and twenty five one percent point one percent lows are incredible now the thing about this on Vulcan is that all the threads and cores are being utilized really well really evenly and that makes the GPU pretty much top out near 100% and has actually stressed the GPU that much that I found that it's actually not a hundred percent stable it was artifacting slightly and it's overclocks but we'll see the other two games can replicate the artifacts the doom is just such a well designed game so battlefield 5 I had it at 1440p ultra wide and I knew straight away high settings gonna be a bit too low so I changed it down to low settings and the CPU usage was still a single threat heavy on one of the threads but it did spread it all across 12 threads by the looks of it after that all the other threads were just not being utilized in this title but regardless the FPS was still pretty good low settings 1440p ultra was getting like 73 FPS 50 average FPS for high settings it's on a 980 TI so if we had a better graphics card I'm sure we could get higher FPS but the Jules Eon sort of weren't the best showing in battlefield 5 if I may say but with that said let's try the grand finale and that is apex Legends and now the last of the benchmarks is finished with Apex legends and this got around 74 FPS the first go the next go got 65 the next go got 72 roughly and the 0.1% 1% lows are really good on the Jules Eon setup even though the game itself uses about 12 threads it is very GPU dependent even at 1440p ultra wide low settings we were getting some numbers that which is maxing out the GPU and this is what we've got here so if you want to play apex legends with high FPS you'll need a really good graphics card and we've already got a 980ti overclock so there's that so there we have it with the dual x58 Zeon's this thing was absolutely incredible to the point where it did a lot better than I expected I thought some games would have come into some problems but miraculously everything played really smoothly so I guess it's a testament to how far the two CPU setup has come in the last few years because years ago when I used the Juno cron set up that was just having so many problems especially for gaming to the point where it frustrated me a lot this is a older motherboard and also CPU architecture than that and it's doing a lot better now all the titles we played here today got really good FPS the GPU is getting max and pretty much 90% over on pretty much all those six titles that we played the synthetic benchmarks were doing very well - not that far behind utilizing the 980ti as opposed to using with a 9900 K for example but ultimately I'm that impressed to the point where I may now take a look at that one and - CPU setup with the Sandy Bridge as Aeons because they do go very cheap because I was just that impressed with this setup I mean it's a lot of fun overclocking it I can extract a little bit more performance but I will do that once I get more time on my hands but so far here today we've got some really good results surprisingly the power consumption was of course a bit high I did test this out in Doom and we got some high figures there but besides that I mean there are some things I can improve on with this build I definitely like to drop the noise so maybe I might get some magnetic levitating fans from Corsair the ML series and also fix up that pump try and reduce the noise and then I could legitimately use this as a dedicated streaming PC but maybe also as a gaming PC itself like it really impressed me that much anyway guys let us know in the comment section below what you think of the Jules Eon setup I mean I was just blown away by it is there any more test that you want to see if so let us know as well and with that said I hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button and if you haven't already be sure to sub with that notification bell turned on because there's so much more juicy content coming this month and also if you want the inside scoop before it even gets it to youtube then be sure to check us out check us city on Instagram and maybe even want to cut yourself some new merch we just got this one in this is the inverse the white on the red and it's looking pretty schmick if I don't say so myself and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peas now for now bye