**Undervolting a High-Performance GPU**

GPU power draw is drawing quite a bit of power, approximately 225 watts, which is a significant amount of power. To mitigate this issue, we can adjust our voltage and frequency settings to reduce the power draw. By reducing the power draw, we also reduce the heat generated by the GPU, resulting in lower temperatures.

**Adjusting Voltage and Frequency Settings**

To achieve these new parameters, we click "Apply" on our voltage and frequency settings. This reduces our vcore to 0.95 volts from over 1 volt, significantly lowering the GPU power draw to around 100 watts. This reduction in power draw results in lower temperatures, with a 5-degree drop in temperature compared to before.

**Optimizing Settings**

We randomly selected a voltage of 950 millivolts as our starting point for underbolting, but further testing can reveal even more optimal settings. With this new setting, we run a 3D Mark FireStrike test to assess the performance of our GPU.

**Results from 3D Mark FireStrike Test**

Before underbolting, our 3D Mark FireStrike score was 23,604 overall and 27,703 for graphics. After underbolting, our scores dropped to 21,398 overall and 26,313 for graphics, representing a 10% performance bump without significant degradation in frame rate.

**Comparing Performance**

When comparing our new system to the original system with the same GPU but different settings, we find that our upgraded rig is outperforming it by approximately 25% in 3D Mark FireStrike and 38% when running at stock settings. This demonstrates the effectiveness of underbolting in enhancing system performance.

**Temperature Comparison**

To assess the temperature benefits of underbolting, we compare our temperatures to those generated by the original system. After underbolting, our GPU temperature dropped from around 82°C to 75°C, shaving off up to 7 degrees Celsius compared to before. This reduction in temperature is a significant advantage, especially considering the quieter operation of our fans.

**Sound Test**

To demonstrate the improved performance and reduced noise of our upgraded system, we perform a sound test by running some audio content. Our new HTPC handles everything thrown at it with ease, maintaining its cool temperatures while keeping its fans quiet.

**Conclusion**

Our experience with undervolting a high-performance GPU has been highly successful, resulting in significant reductions in power draw and temperature increases. By optimizing our voltage and frequency settings, we've enhanced the performance of our system without sacrificing cooling or noise levels. We hope this tutorial has inspired you to try out underbolting for yourself and explore the benefits it can bring to your own high-performance GPU setup.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso some of you may recall that a while back I posted a video on our home theater PC our htpc and basically was talking about how the pump inside of the AIO had died which was why we were seeing really high temperatures so I swapped it out for a low profile cooler and everything was good I even said that I would maybe upgrade it to a proper AIO again down the line but things have changed it's come to my attention that wifey sauce is not happy with our current HTPC situation and whatever wifey saw says goes and she actually likes the case the evolved shift that it's inside of she thinks is really nice-looking but unfortunately even though it's compact it's not small enough to fit inside of one of our entertainment center shelves which is why it's positioned adjacent to the entertainment center on the floor and she's not happy about that and the way it looks and I totally agree with her so today I'm gonna be replacing that home theater PC with the system that we've already built very recently in fact this is the the Xbox Series X naught console killer because that was sort of open for debate but an alternative console PC that was a compact small form-factor build features an AMD Rison v 1600 AF processor with six cores and twelve threads along with the zotac RT x 2070 super mini and while that's a really nice pairing of hardware capable of 1440p gaming and such I'm gonna be doing a bit more than just gaming with my home theater PC so I'm gonna be upgrading the system today in order to get it where it needs to be for my specific needs besides gaming I need it to stream as well primarily for VR because right now the living room is the only room in the house that's really capable or ready for VR because it's got enough room there's a lot of empty space so whatever pcs connected to the TV and that room needs to be capable of streaming some VR games in fact I was just streaming half-life Alex the other day and I actually had to bring in a separate PC to stream that because our existing HTPC only has four cores and eight threads which for its time was perfectly adequate for streaming but multi-threaded performance has come a long way since then and higher core and thread count chips are much more accessible and much more affordable on mainstream desktop CPUs now than ever before now don't get me wrong here the Rison v 1600 AF is really solid budget CPU for streaming and gaming for $85 it's an incredible value but this is not going to be a casual streaming PC this is gonna be used to stream to our YouTube channel which you know potentially thousands of people will be viewing at a time so I want something with a little bit more oomph a little bit more power something that I can really dig into and crank up the the quality settings without you know sacrificing much performance so for that we are gonna be upgrading the CPU today to the AMD risin 730 700 X 8 cores 16 threads that glorious 7 nanometer architecture on Zen 2 and it's it's awesome it's an awesome chip you can still get it for roughly 300 bucks at the time of filming which i think is a tremendous value for for 16 threads of course this little guy gets a bit warmer than our 1600 AF in here so we're gonna have to bump up our cooling solution as well which is why we're gonna be installing this corsair h 8e IV - this is a 120 millimeter liquid AO if you guys remember the cooler that's already in here is the Noctua n HL 9 a great little low-profile cooler but certainly not enough to handle something like the 3,700 X unless you're doing some serious under volting which is going to compromise on some performance which we're trying not to do here hence the beefier liquid a IO Corsair does include a pair of their 120 millimeter fans but these are a little bit loud under load from my experience and for an HTTP C they do want it to be a little quieter especially if you're watching a movie with like a really quiet senior something like that you don't want to hear a bunch of fans in the background so we're gonna be swapping those out for these guys these are the Noctua NH f 12s these are super quiet absolutely fan-freakin'-tastic fans the industrial PPC 2,000 rpm units they also move a ton of air there's a reason not to it has set the bar when it comes to PC cooling in the industry and I also love the fact these are completely blacked out no RGB whatsoever in an HTTP C I don't want there to be lights no bling no bling it's a distraction this is gonna be centered right below the TV really glad we don't have to deal with that it also means we don't have to deal with the whole mess of cables we have a single 4 pin PWM cable coming off of each of these fans not a bunch of extra wiring for RGB that we have to deal with and this already compact chassis so I really do think that these are some of the best fit fans for the job last but certainly not least we are upgrading the GPU and this is probably the most unnecessary upgrade that we're gonna be doing today but I will tell you sort of why why I'm doing it my rationale behind it so like I said we have the already fantastic ZOTAC r-tx 20 70 super mini the cooler and PCBs only about eight point three inches long as opposed to the usual ten and a half to 11 inches on these GPUs which is great gives you a bit of extra breathing room some more room to work with but this is going to be an HT PC which means it's going to be connected to our LG OLED see 9 TV that's a 4k TV so the system's gonna have to be able to handle 4k gaming to some degree and yes the 2070 super certainly can in a lot of titles especially if you cranked the settings down but by cranking it up a notch we can probably squeeze a bit more performance and quality out of this system on the big screen so we're gonna be upgrading the GPU to an RT X 2080 super founders Edition and I'm not really concerned about the extra size or length of this card in fact this is actually one of the more compact cards for an RT X 2080 Super when you compare it to a lot of the Adhan board partner cards out there but one concern that I do have is cooling or heat because these tend to get a little bit warmer these founders edition cards especially when you get to the higher end GPUs they tend to max out at around 83 degrees Celsius and then the fans ramped up and it gets a bit noisier which is obviously not great for an HTTP C so we're gonna try our hand at some under volting today we're just gonna try a really easy method later and see how it goes but I think overall this card's just gonna give us that extra bit of confidence we need for 4k gaming so that's pretty much what we're doing today partially gutting the system making some hardware upgrades and getting this thing ready to be our full-time home theater PC should be pretty fun I also want to take a look at before and after numbers so we'll look at performance acoustics and temperatures before and after the upgrades to see if it was all worth it ah we got a lot to do let's get started this video was brought to you by the e BGA r-tx twenty sixty KO the card features six gigs of GD d are six memory a quiet dual fan design and full metal backplate for added bridget e fast get affordable the r-tx twenty sixty KO is built on nvidia stirring architecture allowing users to experience RTX on for next level realism and games click on the link below to learn more and voila the upgrades are complete we're looking really good and it's super quiet it's idling right now it just finished a 3d market test so it might not be as quiet as it could possibly be because it's probably still cooling down the components but just just listen you can you can barely hear it super quiet very happy about that will do a proper sound test in just a bit though I also want to mention that as you probably saw in a little caption that I put in the video that I was unable to get both of the Noctua fans on that radiator that just wasn't enough clearance we were running into the motherboard at that point and I just really didn't have a choice but to only use one fan fortunately temperatures are still looking good we'll take a closer look at those in just a moment as well I want to also point out that fan this is actually the same fan that comes along with their l9a or l9 I coolers the low-profile ones that I was mentioning earlier fortunately two of the ventilation holes of the case happened to line up perfectly with the opposite corners of the fan here these ones did not line up however so I only have two screws that I was able to thread through and put nuts on the other side to hold it in place but it's fine there's no rattling or vibration or anything and the fan seems pretty secure to that side of the chassis you can see i mounted it as an exhaust so it actually carries heat away from the graphics card as we have in take fresh intake coming in through the front of the case it's going to get warmed up a little bit as it passes through the radiator I'm on the CPUs under load and I just didn't want to have a little hot spot around our GPU so it's gonna be ejected out right here which is which is lovely temperatures are definitely showing that it is effective the way that it's all set up because after half an hour of gaming of 3700 X didn't go past 70 degrees Celsius which is pretty awesome considering that we were getting close to a DC with the 1600 AF and that low profile knocked to a cooler so the AO is definitely doing its job I'm very happy that despite adding two cores and four threads to the system we're staying roughly 10 degrees cooler overall which is awesome the GPU is actually a little warm as I suspected 82 degrees Celsius is the hottest got after that same half-an-hour run so that brings us to under voltage so to under bolt our GPU we're gonna use MSI Afterburner and what you want to do first is click on this little graph icon or you can hit control F that brings up your voltage and frequency plot chart so this is our graphics cards curve more or less this is what we're operating at and we want to click OC scanner from here in the corner which looks like it opens up a window underneath it so move that to the side and we're gonna hit scan and what OC scanner does is it basically gives you the highest possible overclock that is still stable it's gonna take anywhere from five to ten minutes depending so we're gonna let it do its thing and we'll take it from there okay OC scanner is finished so we can go ahead and close this window bring this back to the center and we want to put a load on our GPU now so I'm gonna open up image in heaven alright so we've got all the relevant information up here now and if you take a look at our curve after we've done the OC scanner it's kind of hard to see but you'll see this dotted line going across and vertically which kind of pinpoints a point on your graph and if you click it it'll tell you the exact value so it's 1031 millivolts and nineteen hundred and thirty five megahertz these are the values that our GPU is running at at stock and serves as more or less a jumping-off point as we go about under bolting under volting the whole process can be a bit tedious so I'm just gonna take a shot in the dark here to save time I'm gonna try nine hundred and fifty millivolts let's see how that goes 950 millivolts and as I click that you can see that really running at eighteen hundred and sixty megahertz at that voltage so what I'm gonna do now is basically click and drag this little cube or point up to nineteen hundred and thirty five which again was where our stock frequency was that will do 1932 it's not letting me go straight to thirty-five so now our points at nine hundred and fifty millivolts and 1932 megahertz I'm gonna hit l2 lock it in now before I hit apply in msi afterburner i want you guys to take a look at some of the values here or GPU is hovering around ADC okay it's pretty warm again v core is at 1.031 volts and our GPU power draw is drawing quite a bit of power 225 watts there abouts alright so kind of keep these numbers in mind and that will click apply and you can see right off the bat you can see our curve has flattened out our plateau has been lowered and we're now running at these new parameters that we've just set for our voltage and frequency you look over here now our vcore is 0.95 zero volts whereas before it was over 1 volt and our GPU power draw has come down significantly from around 225 to around 100 and it's it's in the 180s but that's that's pretty significant which also leads us to much cooler temperatures we've dropped 5 degrees just like that and remember this was just sort of a shot in the dark I kind of just randomly picked 950 millivolts with more time in testing I can probably get this down even further which would improve these numbers over here even more so you can really play around with this and and figure out the optimal settings for your particular graphics card I'm just going to call it right here at 925 and try to run a 3d mark firestrike test see if we can get through that see if this is a stable enough voltage and if it is will compare the score there with with our previous score before we started under bolting alright the results are in so this is my original firestrike score before we started under volting anything I got a score of 23,000 604 overall and a graphics score of 27,000 703 after under volting we got a score of 21,000 398 and a graphics score of 26,000 313 if you do the math we saw roughly a 10 percent performance bump without under volting which is not a significant amount I mean in a real world scenario you're hardly gonna notice that and bear in mind that these settings were dialed in for my undervolt they were pretty much random I took a shot in the dark with the settings and this is what came out so imagine if I had actually spent the time and gone through the proper process to dial in a more serious undervolt this number would probably look even better it's also worth noting that compared to the original system with the horizon 1600 AF and r-tx 2070 super our new upgraded rig is actually outperforming it by roughly 25% in 3dmark fire strike and that's while under vaulted without under bolting just stock the new system is outperforming it by 38% so the system is definitely a lot more powerful than it used to be but why don't we take a look at our temperatures you can see that I actually have an instance of Star Wars Jedi fallen order running in the background it's been going for a little longer than I would have liked it to I think it's running for like 40 minutes now it's supposed to be a thirty minute test this is the same test that I used on the GPU before we started under whole thing and remember it was getting up to 82 C at its hottest and now we're hovering around 7576 see and again this has been running ten minutes longer than the previous test so we're actually giving the stock GPU an unfair advantage here we can see we still shaved off up to 7 degrees Celsius just from under holding which is fantastic considering our frame rate really hasn't dropped much from before hand and everything is looking really good especially when you consider that the system is running a bit quieter now because the fans don't need to ramp up as much because the GPU is not getting is hot it's a nice chain reaction where we get to see more than just the temperatures improve and it definitely showcases all the various benefits of under whole things so on that note why don't we go ahead and do a little sound test before we wrap things up all right we're pretty much ready to take this guy into the living room put him in this new home honey it's done HCPCS done okay that's fine but they ship he's he's done why why not even build this she doesn't even care all right sorry buddy your time's up your days finally common dilemma sorry Xbox we don't need you anymore actually we never really need to do I don't know I all right the new HTPC is Poorna long like a champ it's pretty much handling everything I throw at it and it's still staying pretty cool despite being in its little cubby space in our entertainment center but I couldn't be happier with how this turned out so you guys let me know what you think of the system down below and feel free to toss a like on this video if you enjoyed it to get subscribe for more tech content on the way and i'll see you guys in the next videoso some of you may recall that a while back I posted a video on our home theater PC our htpc and basically was talking about how the pump inside of the AIO had died which was why we were seeing really high temperatures so I swapped it out for a low profile cooler and everything was good I even said that I would maybe upgrade it to a proper AIO again down the line but things have changed it's come to my attention that wifey sauce is not happy with our current HTPC situation and whatever wifey saw says goes and she actually likes the case the evolved shift that it's inside of she thinks is really nice-looking but unfortunately even though it's compact it's not small enough to fit inside of one of our entertainment center shelves which is why it's positioned adjacent to the entertainment center on the floor and she's not happy about that and the way it looks and I totally agree with her so today I'm gonna be replacing that home theater PC with the system that we've already built very recently in fact this is the the Xbox Series X naught console killer because that was sort of open for debate but an alternative console PC that was a compact small form-factor build features an AMD Rison v 1600 AF processor with six cores and twelve threads along with the zotac RT x 2070 super mini and while that's a really nice pairing of hardware capable of 1440p gaming and such I'm gonna be doing a bit more than just gaming with my home theater PC so I'm gonna be upgrading the system today in order to get it where it needs to be for my specific needs besides gaming I need it to stream as well primarily for VR because right now the living room is the only room in the house that's really capable or ready for VR because it's got enough room there's a lot of empty space so whatever pcs connected to the TV and that room needs to be capable of streaming some VR games in fact I was just streaming half-life Alex the other day and I actually had to bring in a separate PC to stream that because our existing HTPC only has four cores and eight threads which for its time was perfectly adequate for streaming but multi-threaded performance has come a long way since then and higher core and thread count chips are much more accessible and much more affordable on mainstream desktop CPUs now than ever before now don't get me wrong here the Rison v 1600 AF is really solid budget CPU for streaming and gaming for $85 it's an incredible value but this is not going to be a casual streaming PC this is gonna be used to stream to our YouTube channel which you know potentially thousands of people will be viewing at a time so I want something with a little bit more oomph a little bit more power something that I can really dig into and crank up the the quality settings without you know sacrificing much performance so for that we are gonna be upgrading the CPU today to the AMD risin 730 700 X 8 cores 16 threads that glorious 7 nanometer architecture on Zen 2 and it's it's awesome it's an awesome chip you can still get it for roughly 300 bucks at the time of filming which i think is a tremendous value for for 16 threads of course this little guy gets a bit warmer than our 1600 AF in here so we're gonna have to bump up our cooling solution as well which is why we're gonna be installing this corsair h 8e IV - this is a 120 millimeter liquid AO if you guys remember the cooler that's already in here is the Noctua n HL 9 a great little low-profile cooler but certainly not enough to handle something like the 3,700 X unless you're doing some serious under volting which is going to compromise on some performance which we're trying not to do here hence the beefier liquid a IO Corsair does include a pair of their 120 millimeter fans but these are a little bit loud under load from my experience and for an HTTP C they do want it to be a little quieter especially if you're watching a movie with like a really quiet senior something like that you don't want to hear a bunch of fans in the background so we're gonna be swapping those out for these guys these are the Noctua NH f 12s these are super quiet absolutely fan-freakin'-tastic fans the industrial PPC 2,000 rpm units they also move a ton of air there's a reason not to it has set the bar when it comes to PC cooling in the industry and I also love the fact these are completely blacked out no RGB whatsoever in an HTTP C I don't want there to be lights no bling no bling it's a distraction this is gonna be centered right below the TV really glad we don't have to deal with that it also means we don't have to deal with the whole mess of cables we have a single 4 pin PWM cable coming off of each of these fans not a bunch of extra wiring for RGB that we have to deal with and this already compact chassis so I really do think that these are some of the best fit fans for the job last but certainly not least we are upgrading the GPU and this is probably the most unnecessary upgrade that we're gonna be doing today but I will tell you sort of why why I'm doing it my rationale behind it so like I said we have the already fantastic ZOTAC r-tx 20 70 super mini the cooler and PCBs only about eight point three inches long as opposed to the usual ten and a half to 11 inches on these GPUs which is great gives you a bit of extra breathing room some more room to work with but this is going to be an HT PC which means it's going to be connected to our LG OLED see 9 TV that's a 4k TV so the system's gonna have to be able to handle 4k gaming to some degree and yes the 2070 super certainly can in a lot of titles especially if you cranked the settings down but by cranking it up a notch we can probably squeeze a bit more performance and quality out of this system on the big screen so we're gonna be upgrading the GPU to an RT X 2080 super founders Edition and I'm not really concerned about the extra size or length of this card in fact this is actually one of the more compact cards for an RT X 2080 Super when you compare it to a lot of the Adhan board partner cards out there but one concern that I do have is cooling or heat because these tend to get a little bit warmer these founders edition cards especially when you get to the higher end GPUs they tend to max out at around 83 degrees Celsius and then the fans ramped up and it gets a bit noisier which is obviously not great for an HTTP C so we're gonna try our hand at some under volting today we're just gonna try a really easy method later and see how it goes but I think overall this card's just gonna give us that extra bit of confidence we need for 4k gaming so that's pretty much what we're doing today partially gutting the system making some hardware upgrades and getting this thing ready to be our full-time home theater PC should be pretty fun I also want to take a look at before and after numbers so we'll look at performance acoustics and temperatures before and after the upgrades to see if it was all worth it ah we got a lot to do let's get started this video was brought to you by the e BGA r-tx twenty sixty KO the card features six gigs of GD d are six memory a quiet dual fan design and full metal backplate for added bridget e fast get affordable the r-tx twenty sixty KO is built on nvidia stirring architecture allowing users to experience RTX on for next level realism and games click on the link below to learn more and voila the upgrades are complete we're looking really good and it's super quiet it's idling right now it just finished a 3d market test so it might not be as quiet as it could possibly be because it's probably still cooling down the components but just just listen you can you can barely hear it super quiet very happy about that will do a proper sound test in just a bit though I also want to mention that as you probably saw in a little caption that I put in the video that I was unable to get both of the Noctua fans on that radiator that just wasn't enough clearance we were running into the motherboard at that point and I just really didn't have a choice but to only use one fan fortunately temperatures are still looking good we'll take a closer look at those in just a moment as well I want to also point out that fan this is actually the same fan that comes along with their l9a or l9 I coolers the low-profile ones that I was mentioning earlier fortunately two of the ventilation holes of the case happened to line up perfectly with the opposite corners of the fan here these ones did not line up however so I only have two screws that I was able to thread through and put nuts on the other side to hold it in place but it's fine there's no rattling or vibration or anything and the fan seems pretty secure to that side of the chassis you can see i mounted it as an exhaust so it actually carries heat away from the graphics card as we have in take fresh intake coming in through the front of the case it's going to get warmed up a little bit as it passes through the radiator I'm on the CPUs under load and I just didn't want to have a little hot spot around our GPU so it's gonna be ejected out right here which is which is lovely temperatures are definitely showing that it is effective the way that it's all set up because after half an hour of gaming of 3700 X didn't go past 70 degrees Celsius which is pretty awesome considering that we were getting close to a DC with the 1600 AF and that low profile knocked to a cooler so the AO is definitely doing its job I'm very happy that despite adding two cores and four threads to the system we're staying roughly 10 degrees cooler overall which is awesome the GPU is actually a little warm as I suspected 82 degrees Celsius is the hottest got after that same half-an-hour run so that brings us to under voltage so to under bolt our GPU we're gonna use MSI Afterburner and what you want to do first is click on this little graph icon or you can hit control F that brings up your voltage and frequency plot chart so this is our graphics cards curve more or less this is what we're operating at and we want to click OC scanner from here in the corner which looks like it opens up a window underneath it so move that to the side and we're gonna hit scan and what OC scanner does is it basically gives you the highest possible overclock that is still stable it's gonna take anywhere from five to ten minutes depending so we're gonna let it do its thing and we'll take it from there okay OC scanner is finished so we can go ahead and close this window bring this back to the center and we want to put a load on our GPU now so I'm gonna open up image in heaven alright so we've got all the relevant information up here now and if you take a look at our curve after we've done the OC scanner it's kind of hard to see but you'll see this dotted line going across and vertically which kind of pinpoints a point on your graph and if you click it it'll tell you the exact value so it's 1031 millivolts and nineteen hundred and thirty five megahertz these are the values that our GPU is running at at stock and serves as more or less a jumping-off point as we go about under bolting under volting the whole process can be a bit tedious so I'm just gonna take a shot in the dark here to save time I'm gonna try nine hundred and fifty millivolts let's see how that goes 950 millivolts and as I click that you can see that really running at eighteen hundred and sixty megahertz at that voltage so what I'm gonna do now is basically click and drag this little cube or point up to nineteen hundred and thirty five which again was where our stock frequency was that will do 1932 it's not letting me go straight to thirty-five so now our points at nine hundred and fifty millivolts and 1932 megahertz I'm gonna hit l2 lock it in now before I hit apply in msi afterburner i want you guys to take a look at some of the values here or GPU is hovering around ADC okay it's pretty warm again v core is at 1.031 volts and our GPU power draw is drawing quite a bit of power 225 watts there abouts alright so kind of keep these numbers in mind and that will click apply and you can see right off the bat you can see our curve has flattened out our plateau has been lowered and we're now running at these new parameters that we've just set for our voltage and frequency you look over here now our vcore is 0.95 zero volts whereas before it was over 1 volt and our GPU power draw has come down significantly from around 225 to around 100 and it's it's in the 180s but that's that's pretty significant which also leads us to much cooler temperatures we've dropped 5 degrees just like that and remember this was just sort of a shot in the dark I kind of just randomly picked 950 millivolts with more time in testing I can probably get this down even further which would improve these numbers over here even more so you can really play around with this and and figure out the optimal settings for your particular graphics card I'm just going to call it right here at 925 and try to run a 3d mark firestrike test see if we can get through that see if this is a stable enough voltage and if it is will compare the score there with with our previous score before we started under bolting alright the results are in so this is my original firestrike score before we started under volting anything I got a score of 23,000 604 overall and a graphics score of 27,000 703 after under volting we got a score of 21,000 398 and a graphics score of 26,000 313 if you do the math we saw roughly a 10 percent performance bump without under volting which is not a significant amount I mean in a real world scenario you're hardly gonna notice that and bear in mind that these settings were dialed in for my undervolt they were pretty much random I took a shot in the dark with the settings and this is what came out so imagine if I had actually spent the time and gone through the proper process to dial in a more serious undervolt this number would probably look even better it's also worth noting that compared to the original system with the horizon 1600 AF and r-tx 2070 super our new upgraded rig is actually outperforming it by roughly 25% in 3dmark fire strike and that's while under vaulted without under bolting just stock the new system is outperforming it by 38% so the system is definitely a lot more powerful than it used to be but why don't we take a look at our temperatures you can see that I actually have an instance of Star Wars Jedi fallen order running in the background it's been going for a little longer than I would have liked it to I think it's running for like 40 minutes now it's supposed to be a thirty minute test this is the same test that I used on the GPU before we started under whole thing and remember it was getting up to 82 C at its hottest and now we're hovering around 7576 see and again this has been running ten minutes longer than the previous test so we're actually giving the stock GPU an unfair advantage here we can see we still shaved off up to 7 degrees Celsius just from under holding which is fantastic considering our frame rate really hasn't dropped much from before hand and everything is looking really good especially when you consider that the system is running a bit quieter now because the fans don't need to ramp up as much because the GPU is not getting is hot it's a nice chain reaction where we get to see more than just the temperatures improve and it definitely showcases all the various benefits of under whole things so on that note why don't we go ahead and do a little sound test before we wrap things up all right we're pretty much ready to take this guy into the living room put him in this new home honey it's done HCPCS done okay that's fine but they ship he's he's done why why not even build this she doesn't even care all right sorry buddy your time's up your days finally common dilemma sorry Xbox we don't need you anymore actually we never really need to do I don't know I all right the new HTPC is Poorna long like a champ it's pretty much handling everything I throw at it and it's still staying pretty cool despite being in its little cubby space in our entertainment center but I couldn't be happier with how this turned out so you guys let me know what you think of the system down below and feel free to toss a like on this video if you enjoyed it to get subscribe for more tech content on the way and i'll see you guys in the next video\n"