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over the past last year I've gone from a 6,800 K which is a six core Broadwell e Intel to a four core Intel which is the 7700 K and then to a Verizon 1800 X which is an 8 core 16 thread and beast and now I use these in my main rig and I talked about this in a video I did where I'd used Rison after three months and between all those three rigs I couldn't notice a huge difference in terms of slowing down or speeding on my workflow but today I'm gonna be changing over in this PC here my main rig yet again and this time I'm changing over to coffee lake with the 8700 K though quick recap for you guys the biggest annoyance I had with this system was the elgato capture card not properly working sometimes with the X 370 motherboard so today I'm going to switch that over to the 8700 K and see if that problem persists in the next few months also another problem has come up with the fall creator's update and that is sometimes after I leave my computer afk for a very long time it'll just completely freeze and I'll have to hard reset it again so with that aside let's start this process of changing things around so currently with this build I've changed the GPU around a lot and I'm actually really happy with the galaxy x OC snipe at 1080 TI it's a white themed gravis card and it goes really well with this build actually like the white LED vengeance memory and of course that X 370 tied she looks so smacking this build however the problem is we're putting in the Z 370 fatality and this time around it doesn't have any white on it at all and so I've gone and bought some trusty spray-paint over there which is white and we're gonna quickly undo this side plastic guard thing and also take off the heat sinks and the bottom heat sink and spray them up white just to bring a bit of white back into this build as if I put this in like that it's going to not be really a black and white theme to build anymore in my opinion and yes I know that cable there looks very off that's just a temporary fix or successor see probably looking at this CPU and this cooler and thinking what did you do here Brian what I did was when I first installed Rison I decided to do an experiment where I was testing mx4 versus liquid metal on the CPU to the actual cooler and they shouldn't do this you shouldn't have aluminium and liquid metal and so what I did was I did the test and they would like no differences in temperatures between using mx4 and using liquid metal on the actual heat spreader now of course there is a big difference when you use it on the die and that's because their heats more concentrated but on the IHS where there's much more surface area it's not such a big difference and so I completely forgot about it and now I'm paying the price well not really a me knows it is is just a little bit of surface corrosion get that off slap some mx4 on and it's gonna be good to go so the switch is all complete we've now got the z2 70 heat sinks on the Z 370 motherboard so I don't know what we would call this maybe a z3 3/5 kind of something like those Toyota Motors back in the day when people would put a 1 J head on a 2 J block I think it wasn't they'd call it a a 1 J point 1.5 or something like that so we kind of done that here so we've got a z3 35 motherboard and what I'm doing this is because like again I wanted that white and black aesthetic and the problem was this time around as rock don't offer any white and black theme to my other boards I don't think with the Z 370 lineup and it's kind of weird because I loved the look of the Z 270 white and black I also loved the look of the X 370 tight Ian now and of course I know the white and black themes not for everyone but I'd like to see at least one motherboard in their lineup that kind of features this look it really is good really hits home for me and also Corsair over here have provided their 960 gigabyte have sent out another one of these to the channel so big thanks to Corsair 960 gigabyte Neutron xti so I'll now have two of these to raid 0 4 2 terabytes of SSD storage so that's going to be not only lightning fast but is gonna be great for video editing they've also sent out some of the RGB memory this is ddr4 memory 64gb I kid now this stuff is literally like gold at the moment because of the price of ddr4 memory so this stuff is so expensive but it's really gonna help me do some awesome video editing and especially if I want to put something in a benchmark rig as well this is gonna help out a lot but with that said let's get this z33 5 motherboard in so we've finished the build and it's going really well I mean the whole build went really smooth everything's working except do it now come into two problems and one of them is not really a problem it's just something that I've got to make sure works before I do anything further and that's just make sure that my crypto wallet can transfer over okay so this is in the process of doing that now but the second thing that we've got going on here that is a bit of a problem and a real problem is the drive configuration in the RAID controller on the AMD chipset isn't being read at all by the Intel chipsets so this is like really tedious even the RAID one drives aren't showing up at all so we're gonna have to pull these drives out and then put them back on the AMD chipset and I can copy all my daughter over to a spare drive and then I can make the raid arrays again on the Intel chipsets so maybe that's a reason why I don't know in the server industry I don't know if that's one of the reasons why people just don't want to change hardware at all so here's what we got now to fix this problem with the raid I've got a two terabyte hard drive over there and that's just a drive that's running off the main chipset so it's running off a different side of control law so that's just going to be a standard drive installed normally like any drive on a HDI or IDE and then we're going to get all this data off these drives and copy it to that drive just the stuff that I need and then I'm gonna reset the raid array and hopefully it'll be happy days you can probably tell by the look at my face that have come into more problems and I mean yesterday we had the GT 1030 on that HP machine and that was the biggest nightmare was a huge failure but this time around we kind of got like a semi fail so at least it's better now with the raid array basically I've put them in raid 0 and raid 1 I like to get extra performance out of the raid 0 array especially on the mechanical drives and then the raid 1 of course it's the double backup it's the mirror but this time around year you got drives disappearing and on top of that I've installed the raid drivers when I'm installing windows and then it gets to 0% and it just locks up and then if I really start the computer the even the drives in the raid array of disappear so I'm waiting on aged BIOS update to fix that up also even possibly a driver update itself from Intel but at the moment if you guys are getting on coffee Lake just be careful if you want to use a raid setup I mean it's pretty ironic that Intel's calling this in the BIOS Intel premium raid I mean yeah that's premium alright just drives disappearing out of thin air and then causing problems but anyway I was gonna say the difference is so far the first difference I do notice between the Intel rig and the AMD rig is somers the Intel rig boots up a lot faster even with the raid option enabled so it quickly initializes the rate control is fast so I find the Intel systems do boot up a lot faster than Rison of course this is both on asrock boards so maybe it's just the asrock boards but also with the risin thing I'm actually impressed with how a stable Rison got and how quickly stability was introduced on their lineup of CPUs and motherboards that was really good I mean even when it was first released even though there were some problems it still didn't stop you like I didn't get anything like this so the aim DeRay control is really good the Intel coffee leak rate control I mean please fix that as soon as possible like it's a real headache guys I'm just surprised that it would come out on the Z 370 motherboard because they're pretty kind of when they have experience already with z2 7170 which is very similar so in a few months time I'll report back probably with another big video like I did with the three months on Rison tell you guys the update on what it's like to be on the 8700 K versus the rising system but it asides that the rig is running okay now I do have to reinstall windows on the SSD the the nvme drive that is a problem in itself because it's got the old AMD install on there I just don't have time to reinstall the moment so I gotta go to Bangkok for the Galaxy OC event very soon and with that it's it's just all a nightmare I picked the worst time to upgrade my machine I didn't expect to get into these this many problems before I left but I guess that's just how it is a lot of the times anytime you're in a crunch it's just like if things can go wrong they do go wrong when you're time strapped but anyway guys if you've got any problems like mine at the end of the day I would be more upset I would be more angry if it wasn't for this I mean look at this this is the gold mic now with a mic flag on it so when I go to the gal acts OC event I'm gonna be using this and we're gonna see people's reactions they I think they won't be able to handle this thing but also besides that if you've got relationship problems or you've got computer problems a gold mic with the mic Flags gonna fix it well but if you've got car problems the mic ain't gonna fix that I'm sorry venting that rage is the only thing that'll fix that but also before I get on outta here I wanted to talk to you about the main system and the settings I use so usually when I tune my main system it's very similar to the overclocked tutorials I do like this system here is gonna be running at 5 gigahertz probably 4.9 just for super stability like if I'm in the middle of a rendering a video I just can't have a crash whatsoever that's a lot of time lost if that happens but also besides that the main difference between the tutorials and everything that you see on the channel usually is the fan profiles that's something that I don't really talk about a whole lot but it does make a difference right now I've reset the BIOS so in the background the fans are actually at their default profile but what I usually do is I go through and have them all at 20% up until at least 55 degrees and then after that I'll just max them out so basically when the CPU starts getting stressed it starts getting hot those fans ramped up and that's pretty much only when you're intense a game that uses the CPU intensely or you're rendering the final project basically times when I'm not recording or I don't really need to concentrate that's when I have the fans spin down so that's the main difference with my tuning my main rig versus what you see on overclocking tutorials which is just to get the overclocks set in and also the ddr4 memory I do overclock that manually a lot of the times just depends on how much of an extra overclock I can get over the XMP profiles I'm actually still tuning this ddr4 memory here so I'll let you guys know in the comments how that goes but also if you guys enjoyed this video then be sure to hit that like button also let me know in the comments section below what drive configuration are you guys running at the moment love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye