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so I finally finished my rising workstation it's right here guys that is working perfectly however there were a lot of little hurdles to overcome in order to get this thing working a hundred percent so today I'm going to talk about all the paths I selected all the problems that I had to overcome and also show you guys from 1440p gameplay footage with this rig and how well it performed and also a little bit of the productivity side of things too so let's get on with it welcome back guys and today I'm building my new rising workstation and this is all the parts here a lot of these parts were sent in and other review samples or build samples but I'm going to go through all the parts and what goodness they're going to do for this workstation in the first year being the verizon r7 CPU this one here is just absolutely amazing price performance with productivity and since the productivity on this is going to beat that of my 6800 K it's going to be a pretty good upgrade now underneath that you have the GTX 10a BTI currently the best gaming graphics card out there at the moment is just a beast of a card performing really well on the benchmarks and of course you get a lot of CUDA cores as well which is always great for Adobe Premiere Pro the next up here we've got one of the best x3 70 motherboards out there the asrock tights you actually haven't reviewed this yet but I'm going to be reviewing it pretty soon after of course I do this build and run it through some more paces and then we're moving on to storage and first up here we've got the Corsair ex-cia and neutron this is a 960 GB Drive and it is going to be the main OS drive so there's going to be a lot of storage on there really cool and then for the scratch drive I'm using the MP 500 really fast m dot to mdme Drive going to be great when I'm editing videos really fast file transfers and then I got an interesting configuration going on here for my backup we've got two Seagate barracudas 7200 drives I'm going to give them another chance since a lot of people are telling me the Seagate are really good nowadays so I'm going to be giving them a go on my main workstation here we've got two of these going to put them in raid 0 for the for Tara but since they're both three terabyte drives and then we're going to put one terabyte in raid 1 so that essentially mirrors the drives and so if one of these drives fails you still get your really important files backed up on the other drive and now moving on to memory we've got 64gb a kid here for 16 gig sticks at twenty six hundred and sixty-six megahertz this is a vengeance led stuff and now I need 64 gigabytes for editing in Premiere Pro at 4k some other people need less but I find myself always needing 64 gigabytes nowadays with all the footages I'm taking at 100 megabits per second so this stuff is going to be really good for that and now we're moving on to the cosmedix with this build and it just wouldn't quite be a build without some dank RGB lighting from corsair so i've got the fans the strips and also got some black cables since this will be a predominantly black and white theme build now the good thing about the RGB lighting is that you can put it on a static color that's one thing that I really like about it so if you can take this from the next build to the next build you can always call a coordinate your stuff even though it does have that rainbow effect which I kind of think so that makes RGB a bit more people think it's a bit too much but I love the static color that you can change it to anything you want at any time that's the my favorite thing about RGB and this build is going to essentially be this turned into white and then we've got the black cables for a really cool black and white theme build and then we're moving on to the whole power plant essentially of this build the HX 1000 either Singh has 83.3 amps available on that 12 volt line for bit of a 10-year warranty which is huge and the fans spin down when it's not drawing that much power you can pass on drawing damage pal also it's got ultra-low noise and it's a platinum rated power supply so this thing is really efficient and it's fully modular too so damn and this thing is got it all now under the cool we've got the corsair h 110 i which works with the a m4 platform out of the box it's also got the corsair link software and it's got two 140 millimeter fans so this thing is going to do a pretty good job of cooling and with that said let's move on now to the last component in this build this is the air 740 and now there's part of the air series from corsair which is essentially a case series that split your components into two it's got two different cabinets one which is dedicated to your power supply cable management also your drives and then another cabinet which is dedicated to your main component and it's got a push-pull air configuration so that's your CPU cooler your motherboard and your graphics card just get dedicated cooling and man I absolutely love it this is not just the 740 it's also their air 540 and a 240 series and this is specifically why I requested the air 740 from Corsair for this build because I absolutely love this series of cases but anyway guys let's get on with a build now and just get an epic workstation ready for you guys yeah all right so we're on the last phase here of the build and this is all the cable managers and their feet a lot longer than a usual bilks I had to pull off the front panel which actually has like nine screws and then you have to plug the hard drive trade to get to that so awesome build so far except the cables are just a jungle here at the moment and that's because we've got a three extra controllers Lashley for I think we've got like three things for the LEDs or a fan controller here because we've got a additional amount of fans also a three sided drives and they all require cable so you just see there's an a mammoth amount of cables and you've also got the two USB link controllers therefore the HX 1,000 I so Dan a lot of cables here but we're going to do our best to make this a neat and tidy so let's get off and another thing too there was a shame about the 24 pin here it's actually with the HX 1000 it needs another four cables or something or the premium cable anyway it's got too many cables so it can't plug in unfortunately to the H 1000 I which is a shame so I can't use that keba long enough to contact Corsair to switch something up there and try and get a black extension in maybe and then see what I can do with that so now I booted up my computer before you probably may have noticed that the LED strips didn't turn on at all and also the fans at the front didn't turn on either and I'm actually glad I made these two little mistakes because I got to figure out how it all works from the computer side of things and this is the HD node Pro his essential e the unit hooks into the USB 2 and you can control it via the software and you control all the LED strips and also the fans of the front vine is - and essentially I've plugged in a male to male connector at the start this was only a 2 prong or a 2 pin unit and that's actually this unit here controls the power - for your LED strips you have to make sure you plug in the 3 pin male-to-female I kind of wish they have the male to male LED for more wiring convenience but they didn't but it still works it works really well now and also the front part here I didn't realize that I had actually plugged this into 4 5 6 first when I needed to plug this into 1 2 3 and with that when I started reading up about this you can plug this male-to-male prong you actually get two of them you can plug this into the spare port here on the node Pro and plug that directly into this unit here so you now no longer need with manual unit which you can which I've installed before so I actually just pulled this out and now I can control all my LEDs from the software itself in Windows my front fans and also the LED strips thank you so I'll just set up the PC and now I'm locking in the overclocks to make sure they're stable I'm using i-264 for this which i think is actually a really good stress tester for the rising CPUs I find the temperatures are pretty accurate even though I'll not know what the temperatures it looks like the CPU may be in the socket temperatures as opposed to the package temperatures which may be actually your core temperatures even though a.m. DC these are running about 20 degrees overstated at the moment on the 1800 s and the 1700 X I got to look into this a little bit more I may actually change this over to thermal grizzly to instead of using the stock Corsair paste on the heatsink and also test that with a 77 hundred cases stay tuned for that video in the coming weeks and also here we can see a four point zero to five overclock here completely stable and the memory is looking really stable to inside of those tests the memory - and that's a one point three nine volt on the CPU and one point three bolt I believe on the memory and that's 64 gigabytes at 29 33 megahertz so now this is looking stable I'm going to jump into some games with my overclocked gtx 980ti on the Exelero and see how that performs let's benchmark I'm going to run through now is GTA 5 and I've got here the graphics settings which pretty much on very high across the board here I have turned down MSA a little bit because I am on 1440p ultra wide and let's see how this thing performs on a mission in GTA 5 they'll be driving through heaps of traffic and I'm actually going to have shadow play on - you guys can have a look at the performance and I mean even with shadow play on it's still getting around 100 frames per second which is exactly where I want it with this monitor so that's really cool that it's think and perform how I want it to perform and yeah look at this I mean it's smooth this bottle it's playing fine it's with a 1080 TI by the way so the GPU is getting utilized quite heavy as you can see it's near 100% and wow this is pretty cool like it's good that Verizon can play even the CPU intensive games pretty well not just the graphically intensive game here it is here guys I mean I've been driving through a heap of different crowded areas and stuff like that it's been just going over 100 frames per second the whole time I've been doing this the 1080p I obviously is a great graphics card this is killing it as well but for those people who want to step up to higher resolutions with a high end card like the 1080 TI then don't be scared because this thing can definitely handle a 1080 TI at 1440p ultra wide which i know is going to be a very popular monitor so here I'm just playing this mission and the frames aren't really good so really enjoying it smooth as butter and we'll just move over to another couple of games here and show you guys our performance so one of the last titles are going to look at here is Ghost Recon wildlands this is one of the latest titles out there at the moment in the Tom Clancy series it is very graphically intensive so you know you guys can um you guys can see it's just it's handling the game pretty well I'm playing pretty terrible here but let's reverse this thing off the mountains here we go and you know you're getting near about around about like 100 or 90 frames per second so it is looking pretty good I can't believe this truck just survived a big drop like that I thought it's going to blow up but yeah like the title the AMD CPU is handling this title absolutely find the GPU near 100% usage the whole time and the CPUs just chilling so I think when we compare this to the 7700 K even though I'm going to make a direct video versus the 700 K is of course going to edge it out in a lot of the modern-day titles in FPS but this CPU if you look at the productivity scores it's got so much more max potential in terms of the CPU than 7,700 K so it's kind of like when you're comparing these two CPUs with each other it's only one is sort of more relevant for gaming now but the other is much more well rounded and can do gaming perfectly fine and then when you look at obviously the 6800 K this thing beats the 6800 K in productivity and it does pretty much the same in game so that's really good to see AMD coming out with a just kick-ass price performance CPU and now another thing too is with that is the bulldozer if we look at the bulldozer CPU and compare that like I tried the bulldozer CPU and I just I remember comparing that even delayed the 46 70 K at the time it really wasn't a CPU that I would want to have as my main CPU like bulldozer was just so far behind when it was released and so the four core versus the eight core I would have rather have had a fork or even to this date if you gave me the two seed mutants that I could only have one of those CPUs I'd still pick a 46 night or 46 70 K over an 83 70 or in 83 20 so that's just my opinion there but rise amend I'd rather pick rise in any day of the week over a 7700 K for what I'm doing it's just that good of the CPU and this is its gaming is absolutely fine on this thing too especially when you get to the higher resolution so let's move over now to a conclusion with this whole build so there it is guys my rising rig is finally complete it's been running this benchmark in the background for a good 30 plus minutes and I just can't be more impressed with not only the Rison r7 CPU it's a fantastic CPU for productivity and gaming for someone looking for an all-rounder unbelievable price performance but also all the other parts as well they're just kicking ass you can probably just hear there's no noise creeping in you actually might hear the washing machine which is like often yonder being louder than this thing and even my benchmark rig which is just transferring files on it over at the moment and it's not doing anything in idle is probably louder so there's a quick noise test and this thing is just performing like a complete workhorse I can't recommend it enough to someone who just wants to go out there and build a really balanced system I'll also be having another system coming to the channel where it'll be a really cookie cutter rise and build to stay tuned for that someone who doesn't have the budget to build something like this but also wants to get really good performance and on that note of performance the 1440p gaming is just really damn good I'm loving what this brings to the table and then of course there's the productivity when I'm using this in a dough premiere pro it is just performing extremely well better than my 6800 K did the keep in mind I did have better drives so if you do want to do productivity and you do want to get better performance it's not just the CPU will come down to also your drive configuration so do keep that in mind and of course the memory configuration so I've got the 64 gigabytes of ddr4 memory running on all six of 29 33 megahertz with that one to command rate timing so it's working really well at the moment though as I spoke about before with some of the little problems I had like the LED controller and stuff like that there were some other problems that I did come into and this build the elgato capture card for example would i rana CLE enough not work on any of the PCIe mini slots and those slots go through the chipsets PCIe controller and not the CPU however when I installed it on one of the two PCI Express 16 speed slots are correct or connect directly to the CPU that was when the capture card would start working so I then contacted Elgato they're telling me that they are working on fixing this problem so if you do have a rising system and you want to get your HD 60 Pro working then you will have to use it on one of the two PCI 16 speed slots to connect directly to the CPU so it's kind of unfortunate if you do have two graphics cards that need those slots then you have to probably put one of those grabs cards in the bottom slot that connects through the PCIe chipset controller for the meantime now I also did have a little problem with the air 740 and although the performance is just phenomenal in this case the back component doesn't have cooling directly for your hard drives and since I am running two mechanical drives at 7200 rpm in raid zero I do want a cooling solution or active cooling on those drives so going into my use price performance bin I managed to pick out some random fan and just install it in there to give the drives direct cooling and the performance is really cool now also another little thing that I did spend time on was the Rae configuration setup and it's mainly because I just wasn't used to setting up Rae with an AMD controller I haven't used it for a long time so there is a little bit more hurdle to jump through there you will have to download the latest raid drivers from website load them on a USB stick and then also when you're installing Windows you'll have to load up the driver four times like that's once and then load it up again because another one will pop up you have to do this four times if you want to install windows on a driver in this configuration of raid even if it is a single like hard drive that's not even going into a reconfiguration per se and on that note if you do want to put all your drives in the raid configuration you will have to create an array for every single drive even if they're not being raided in raid 1001 so just a little FYI there hopefully save some of you guys time and also some last-minute things that I wanted to touch on with this build I will be benchmarking it comparing it to the 7700 K again since a lot of you guys want me to retest these benchmarks now that the Rison rig has some BIOS updates flowing through the updates are coming through on Windows things are looking really good and they are performing really well so I believe the updates have flown through right in time for risin five which is what Wendell predicted that the eight core uses will be more like the bench dummies and that's exactly what's happening and on that note I should have some Rison r5 coverage coming to you guys very soon - stay tuned for that and on that note I can recommend the risin r7c be users just all around be CPUs for productivity gaming and whatnot they're incredible price performers I absolutely love what AMD's done with the rise in lineup now that all the fixes have come about and the true performance is starting to be seen anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this video if it did to be sure to hit that like button and let me know what you think of the new workstation what would have you done differently if you would do something differently would love to hear your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye for my hard drives and since I've got two mechanical drives in 72,000 72,000 I'm that's pretty fast