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today we are finally putting that i7 6400 tee engineering sample CPU to good use in a gaming PC that may or may not rock your world and also finally take a look at what went wrong with the Zeus RX course seven Strix welcome back to check yet city and today you will get the lot of build benchmarks explanations and an added bonus witch-hunt to find out the root cause of your Zeus Strix rx 470 so starting off with the CPU this is $100 from aliexpress.com and at that price it is quite a bargain though the one I have here only clocks to three point five five gigahertz and it needs a very specific motherboard and within that a very Pacific buy off I found that the azrog z170 pro 4 worked quite well and that was around 160 Stran dollars or around 124 US dollars I then coupled that with some kingston om 2166 memory that I only took to around 2200 megahertz but at low timings this still makes for a really good choice for a gaming on a budget at 71 USD or 93 Australian dollars so what about the PSU well none other than a trusty Delta server grade power play that I picked up for around 1050 back in the Japan days these things are seriously the best bang for buck sues you will get Bar None and for the cooling I am using the Zalman CMPs 10 speed extreme which I picked up for around 20 USD or about 26 oz e it's big and does a good job especially for the money not to mention it looks pretty men too and for the hard drive I use the one terabyte to ship but which I got for around 65 Australian or 49 USD so of course I would love to pick up use hard drives except around where I live they only ever come up incomplete builds so going you here although not the best value is a great alternative and one which will save a lot of time then we have the case which is the thermal tech versa h20 5 which goes through a round about 56 Australian dollars all can be had for around about 45 USD on Amazon it is a great entry-level case which got the job done and now lastly for graphics I went with the arch for 70 which are featured in February's use part hunt flog and honestly I had some headaches with it though it was only 265 USD when shipping they will talk about that later which leaves the total of the bill to 584 USD or 766 Australian dollars so now it's time to build this thing and then benchmark it for you guys like man I can't wanna feel like man I just feel like this forever I love it when please don't touch the ground you touch the ground that these doesn't say can i disgust you find my head like this just want to feel like this forever I feel like this like that I feel like this don't touch the ground these colors fade kaleidoscopes inside my head like horses welcome their toll is the benchmarks looked pretty good once I had finally figured out what was going on with this build and I seriously spent like a whole day troubleshooting this thing from dusk till dawn and it ultimately had to do with the RX 470 Strix from a Zeus and I tried to HEPA different things I put it in another machine tried different drivers try to even flashing AV bios a few times with different mods and even went as far as to hex out of one bias to match up the checksum value that still didn't work and basically what was happening here from the get-go was very odd but made sense in the end and when the first time I ran 3dmark fire strike the benchmark the Strix are explore 70 would essentially be dropping clocks a good 100 megahertz even on default and even on overclocks which was very odd since I had honestly not seen this behavior on a graphics card for a very long time then my worst fear that this was actually throttling was true and was finally confirmed after I had done all this witch hunting the benchmarks that confirmed it for me was when I was testing overclocked in Metro last light which managed to bring the card to his knees and when overclocked is locked in a gradual rise in temperatures and finally the card tripped out or thermal tripped at around 80 degrees Celsius when the readout was on the screen which suggests a few things firstly the sensor isn't as close as other manufacturers since in the gigabyte g1 bar for example it has a target temperature of 70 degrees versus tricks which had a target temperature of 60 degrees and now as for the g1 will actually have two of them since they were the cheapest rx for 70s in Australia where ironically enough some of the best rx for 70s out there now that I have my friend here called captain hindsight and when testing the gigabyte g1 I found out they will perfectly fine it around thirteen hundred and thirty megahertz with voltage bumped on both these random UniGene heavens for quite some time and only ever reached around 70 degrees C which is perfectly fine considering my ambience that are around 28 degrees C at the time of testing though what about the is do Strix on the other hand well in my opinion I think the Strix cooling is quite simply inadequate on certain rx 470 and now I say this because all graphics cards are different especially on the silicon I probably had a poor example of an ice core 70 that just like to use more power add the stock out-of-the-box settings and this was ultimately just too much for the Strix rx 470 cooling solution to handle in the end and also is the changing the thermal piece in this case I believe it won't help that much since the cooler itself is just getting too hot to handle no pun intended so I will be revisiting this with better thermal paste and an Arctic Exelero to get to the bottom of it all however what it means is in context is that some people will not have this problem at all because the RX 470 sample they get with the rs4 semi Strix cooler won't be bad at all it'll be able to handle those stock clocks and you won't notice this throttling it's just in the case of the sample that I got it was just running too hot or the actual chip was too much for the cool of the handle anyway guys I hope you enjoyed today's witch hunt and I didn't really speak about the other parts but for what it's worth everything except the gravis card performed really well the case was decent the power supply and cooler was smooth and quiet and if you want to know more information about the CPU motherboard combo I used here today then I will drop a link in the description below so ultimately it is ashamed since they do have a GTX 1080 Strix here at the moment and it performs really well and I know a lot of other Strix cards are the same the manufacturers make mistakes here and there and at least this card still works and you guys that's about it for today let me know in the comment section below what you think of today's build and also if you appreciate the witch hunts then don't forget to hit that like button and I'll catch you guys in another tech videos very soon peace out for now bye Oh sometimes it honestly pays to see a random retail review I'll see more on baby