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so today I'll finally be upgrading my editing / secondary rig to skylake and instead of building a whole new PC I'm just going to be upgrading it and doing sort of like a vlog commentary for you guys which shouldn't take too long ladies and gentlemen welcome back to tech es cities Brian coming back to you guys today with a video sort of detailing the upgrade process so essentially what we have here is the ex 5650 and an x58 motherboard now this is a 6 quart 12 threaded CPU but it is a few years old and I did get sent a review sample of the z170a so I decided with that that I was going to upgrade to skylake and I've got the 4 core i5 6600 K which I'm going to have a lot of fun overclocking because I love trying out new things however this being said we're just going to simply pull out this motherboard pull out the CPU cooler hopefully we can use this CPU cooler with the z170a and we'll find out today and then it should be a breeze because all the cabling is already done the power supplies installed all the drives are installed so it's just a matter of pulling out this graphics card and putting in the new motherboard CPU and all that so let's get on with it alright so we've got the PC all ready to go this is a fractal define r4 case now you will want to backup your files just in case anything goes wrong I always recommend whenever you're doing work where you're unplugging hard drives and stuff like that always back up your crucial files just in case something goes wrong in my case I am reinstalling the OS as well so I've already backed up my files now it's pretty much just the case of upgrading a PC as I'm plugging all the necessary things and just putting them aside and then getting out everything so I mean I'll try and make this as quick as possible so yay okay there is the motherboard all out so that's the first part done so now we're just going to take off this cooler off this big motherboard now when I got this cooler I got it secondhand for like ten dollars so I'm pretty sure it was missing a mounting bracket so I had to kind of mount it in with just the standard just the screw holes coming through the front of the actual case so see they're they're pretty long screw so I figured I could do that and not have any problems but hopefully I'm hoping this fits on the z170a board and if it doesn't then I'm going to have to buy a new cooler that supports our little friend here now if you're reusing the RAM you'll want to if you're reusing the RAM you want to obviously take that out and put it on your new motherboard but I don't really I've got ddr4 memory so it's irrelevant to me that's the next part we're going to now try and put this computer on our z170a motherboard as our artic silver five still nice and moist and to clean this off you just grab yourself an alcohol wipe you should always have alcohol wipes like readily available wherever you are they're so useful for just anything you know like just cleaning anything in general not just computer parts so there's our X 5650 who yet writes the first things first we've got the MSI board here and we're going to put our memory and CPU in usually I like to put the CPU in first because there's no sort of no blocks or anything like that and it's usually the easiest thing to get in so we've got a sixty six hundred K and now we've kind of got to look for that dot the arrow usually it goes this way usually so if I'm wrong then God help me know that that fits in perfectly like that and then we just pretty much with the four cores the main streams it's usually just one clip with your x99 you've usually got two clips there so that's the first part done very easy to do and then we've got our RAM here which is a good thing about I'm not the biggest fan as I've said before I'm not the biggest fan of the Matt look but the memory we've got here is matte black as well so it's going to match this motherboard perfectly so we put that in like that and now the good thing about this board is I like it it's got dem two and four there printed there and it's got first so that's very easy to understand because it's a dual channel supported motherboard you want to put generally you want to have your memory running and jewel config and that's what we got so we've got to 8 gigabytes of ddr4 memory going in there and now we just want to put on our thermal pastes I mean you can do it any way you want it but just for saving time I'm going to use the pea method the p/e okay so you're using some Animax I actually ran out of the UM I ran out of the what you call it the Arctic silver 5 I ran out of that stuff so you're going to put a little blob there and you get the rest of that off because I don't like thermal paste spilling on my motherboard it's not one of my things you just tighten up that head now now there's going to be difficult because as I said before this cooler is not the greatest like I pretty much have to mount it from the top and with that I have to kind of it's just hard because you'll see I'm going to have to mount it from the rear and I don't even know if it'll fit I should have tested this before I put the thermal paste on but yeah alright so this is an LGA 775 CPU cooler now does not fit this bracket anyway does not fit with the LGA 1151 or the MSI board so it does however as you can see here fit diagonally now which this will be fine for sitting up the board horizontally so the cool is just sitting on top of it however I probably will be buying a new CPU cooler that fits this probably is for the long term this is really something I wouldn't recommend but in that being said I'll be able to do my review of this sooner than I expected as I won't have to order a cooler just yet so as ghetto as it is this will work so now there's a closer look as you can see there this and another side are just completely not attached as well so yeah the top looks so much better than the bottom oh yeah let's just put this bad boy back in the case now it's just what it's all about I and put the i/o shield in - can't forget the IO shield you ah I'm the biggest noob I didn't plug in the SATA cables that's clearly labeled there so I'll be able to make won't do this pretty easy okay so we've got the whole computer running and it's working and MSI just asked me to flash the boss before I do anything so I'm just going to do exactly that so got version 1.4 and we're going to install that on top of this so it should be okay because it's got a dedicated flash mode hopefully everything works well I mean typically nowadays when you flash a BIOS it actually loads it into the flash ROM so and then it flashes it so nothing can go wrong generally unless your power just shuts out which is the worst case in our and then you will break your motherboard but this motherboard has two biases it has dual bias so there's no problems it's all good in my hood okay so the bias flash has finished so now we can get on to business and that is yeah just recording okay here we go delete run back yes I want to run by want to run glass yeah okay so we put it up in the boss now everything is running a okay we've got our BIOS which has been flashed to version 1.1 for now interestingly enough when I did load up the BIOS before but my camera just bricked out for some reason I don't know why it does it very rarely but I'm gonna have to probably reinstall the camera gear but I had up there 1.1 6 volt on the vehicle that was on version 1 so I'm guessing the defaults are looking very similar to Haswell and Ivy Bridge on this default that's 1.1 1.1 there on the vehicle I'll just go through with you guys I'm just really plugging my mouse back in so I can hot plug that and show you exactly what I'm talking about the vcore here one point one volt so before that was one point one six on version 1.1 now they've changed that so obviously this is behaving pretty much exactly like has well an Ivy Bridge was so I wouldn't generally I mean with that keeping that in mind I wouldn't be taking this over 1.3 volt but regardless we have this is the first time I've booted it up and I should technically install Windows before I overclock but I don't know I've I mean the CPU like this is the thing I installed this CPU cool light only on the diagonal that's only on the diagonal there so I don't have the two screws in two of the sides of the motherboard now this cooler is so freakin cool at the moment and it's 34 degrees as well which is a very good idle considering this room is what 23 degrees so that's not bad at all so we're just going to try and give it a little I mean just install windows on an overclock I mean stable overclock why not this is a vlog and I'm sure this is why you guys love watching the vlogs so easy I don't want easy mode give me advanced so there we go this is back to the original so I thought it was yet overclocking profiles here but we'll go to settings and just check and to make sure all our stuff is good to go until info block effect I've never seen that before um so yeah there's all these options here I'm going to have to go through them in my own time that okay I mean yeah it should automatically boot from the SSD anyway nowadays with all these overclock Explorer mode ok we're going to get all core here and we're going to bump it up just to 4.2 gigs we'll try it on fixed mode of course the ring ratio we'll try that at yeah I mean 3.9 we'll give that a shot as well I mean that seems to be the go to the ring ratio isn't so important as long as it's a hundred megahertz below your or lower if you make it the same speed as your CPU ratio especially on high as well then it did cause a little bit of problems like it was a little bit worse off than having it lower than your poor clock there and just mumbling to myself and your CPU base clock will leave that off for now the DRAM auto frequency I mean if we've got XMP profiles we'll just lock them in for now no that's pretty cool - they've got if you've got Samsung memory and high Knox memory or micron memory you can just lay that's crucial I think micron is crucial you can just lock those they've got profiles automatically there which is actually really good I like that that was a feature on MSI's x99 board as well so let's try I mean we're going to lock in 4.2 gig I mean we'll just try 1.2 2 volt to begin with I mean probably even just up it just to be safe and I want to see if temps RAM you know if I'm installing Windows I want to go overboard here vitia I've never seen this voltage compensation yeah I probably want to disable that just for now because I mean I don't want my voltage going way too high and I don't know what that setting is allows most of the advanced overclocking tweaking to CPU okay we would want our good old adaptive then we'll just go straight for adaptive mode our adaptive plus offset adaptive plus offsets pretty good actually and we can put that on plus and usually I give it plus point five I don't know just for some reason my overclocks tend to work really good with adaptive plus offset just for 24/7 super you voltage conversation we're going to turn those off for now I mean the SA voltage that stuff we're not overclocking the memory at the moment so we're just going to leave that I also want to do as a CPU and I mean this is the first run and haven't even tried skylake yet so you guys are seeing it as it unfolds I mean let's give this a whirl anyway so me and we've got two as well I've got to insert my boot disk which is going to be a SD card so plugged in through a USB so we've got an SD card plugged in through a USB component here this is going to either suck or it's going to be good so we're going to plug it into the front panel let's see if this works front panel USB port boot for me baby so we're going to try this and see if it boots from the get-go okay so boot priority UFE a hard disk the I'll just try and pull up I just save this anyway save this as noob overclock noob OC there we go save that so that's a four point two and we're just going to go try and boot this bad boy up okay I don't like that I just want to quit man yes save figuration and exit yes save it for me okay so we're going to try and boot now off the USB we're going to see if our this bad boy can walk the walk now so four point two gig straight off the get-go and we are going to try and get into our boot menu I don't know forget I thought it was f 11 on this board when I saw it before hopefully it brings up that yeah f11 to run boot menu cool okay oh man okay UEFI generic SD petition one that looks good we'll just we'll just boot that see if my SD card can boot windows so you might not need a USB after all there's just a spare memory card I had running around and looks like it doesn't work okay let's try this hey please work yes okay that works cool alright so now we are now booting Windows and if it all makes it to the screen then it should be good like if I can get the loading the files and stuff then we're in man I think we're already done like okay Australia baby there we go yeah okay that sounds good to me install now okay this should work I mean hopefully it works okay I got to put my product key in and you guys can't see this so our skylight build looks like the 4.2 gigahertz overclock is working and Windows is installing so that's pretty cool yeah now obviously another thing is I don't know if you can see that I gotta get in there there's that little bit you can see there I don't know what that is I got to check that out that numbers just moving all the time I think that might be your CPU load that would be the most logical thing so that's really cool if that is that's actually telling you you're the load on your CPU in real time like that is a really good feature that is useful for an onboard motherboard feature like that's actually really cool anyway we'll get back to the install so like this is a fastest Windows install I've ever seen so the single core performance on skylake is actually pretty good as if my camera can focus probably as focus hunting there we go logs you guys say you love the vlogs you just want to see more of them you don't care you just want to see more text so this is my first time booting this bad boy up and I'm gonna pretty much I don't know what to do with this I'm going to sell this I think it's the ex 5656 cores 12 threaded CPU beast of a CPU this will go up to four gigs no problems the CPU will put out a lot of heat though I mean this CPU compared to the four-course skylake man did this big sis ninja core this thing was getting pretty warm I mean now touching this thing it's just it's cool man like this for core this is putting out no heat at all so yeah anyway that's done please unplug the following to us yes so I'll get oh did I show you guys that I'll get oh I get oh I just got up the ISO there there's I get out windows boot disk it's not even a USB boot it's like an SD card in the US a card reader and that's it that's all uh that's all our install is so let's get and Stroke the ISO down so there that's working now and I don't know what else have to do unplug that and reinstall my computer and we're good to go I mean I've got to install drivers and do all the boring stuff now which I'm sure you guys don't want to see but there's the upgrade process it's really easy this is only taking me like an hour and a bit to install all the hardware mount a cooler that doesn't even properly fit the motherboard and get windows installed so yeah things are going pretty good I'll do an overclocking tutorial for you guys but let's move over to a conclusion now yeah so I thought I just was about finished and everything was working perfectly but that was not to be the case there is a problem I'm having a little bit at the moment knows what the killer and I see on board this actual motherboard and I'll show you what I mean you can see here the device manager you know nothing's happening but as soon as I plug in the killer and I see you'll notice that it just starts refreshing like literally every late literally five seconds so I just plugged it in then and you notice the device manager just goes crazy now just starts refreshing every few seconds and that's pretty much what's happening is in my internet browser too if I go to a download for instance and then I refresh that it'll fail as well pretty much in sync with the refreshes in the device manager so it's as if something's cutting out and I got to pretty much figure that out so what I'm going to do is only put in an external and I see I've got one lying around and I'm going to see if that fixes the problem and then the you know that just means the onboard killers a bit buggy and I've got to just spend some time diagnosing why that is so C if I unplug the internet like I did just now then it should stop doing those refreshes so yes let's stop doing that now so I don't know what's going on there I've got to figure that out it's pretty crazy but yeah it wouldn't be a computer build if there wasn't a problem and so we've installed the killer I mean sorry we've disabled the killer and I see now I've installed an old Broadcom PCI Express ni C so this is really old I mean the driver supports usually embedded in Windows and it's recognized that the Internet is working so I'm just going to try this download again and see if it fails yeah so it's failed again so now I've got to get back to diagnosing why this is happening so I don't think it's the killer's fault I think something else is wrong with this board and I don't know what it is so I've got to figure it out now so it's not the N I see this is the problem with having problems is that you've got to diagnose what's happening so I mean I can pull up device manager yeah man why me that's I mean generally when I go with these new builds I had problems the last time as well where I had to update the boss yeah you can see there the device manager is flashing again and I'm guessing that's to do with same thing anyway I'm going to keep diagnosing and reporting back all right guys so that's it the problem was fixed by just manually setting the time to the current date and time the time was actually like set back to 2009 and that must have been causing the error with the internet syncing to the Microsoft server or something I don't know I don't know but it's fixed anyway so everything's working perfectly now I just have to benchmark this motherboard and give it a good stress test and overclock my CPU on it because that's sort of part of the motherboard review and that'll be coming to you guys next and we've got the new shirts so I'll even though they're not ready I'll get that link and all that all stuff ready because you know the truth hurts baby but if you guys liked this vlog then please give it a thumbs up if you have any questions about today's video then drop a comment in the comment section below and I will get back to you as soon as I can and this PC here yeah so I have to get a new cooler on it one that actually fits properly so if you want to manually install your LGA 775 coolers on these 1151 motherboards just keep in mind that they're going to be like a diagonal connection only which is kind of ghetto as you can see is facing flat down at the moment just to make sure everything's okay but you know the CPU is running really damn cool like it's a world of a difference compared to the X 5650 which uses up a lot of power so I mean overclocking this for course should be a complete breeze so even though that TDP rating says 91 watts I think it puts out less heat than as well as above so I think that rating is just there to make sure that people don't skimp on coolers that's all anyway guys that's it for me I will catch you in the msi z170a gaming m5 motherboard which i've already tested the audio out on my speakers and the base and the sub-base are good which is indicative of a good day and combo so peace out for now and I'll catch you in the next one bye