As I sat down to start building my new system, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. With the creators update installed on all of my systems, I was ready to push them to their limits and see what they were capable of. I also made sure to install the latest NVIDIA drivers and the GSA update for my AMD system, as well as any other available updates from the manufacturer's website.

My main goal was to get the most performance out of my 1080 TI card, so I spent a good amount of time tweaking and fine-tuning everything to ensure that it was running at its best. I also made sure to bring out my 4k monitor, which is always a pleasure to use.

Aside from building my system, I did do a few other things around the house. I ran Ethernet cables across my home, as I had wanted to do for some time now. I also swapped out the passive cooler on one of my systems for an EVGA 1080 TI, which has fan stop mode - although only one of the fans is actually stopping right now. This system has been doing a great job with HTPC stuff over the past week or so.

My next step will be to get rid of the mechanical drive, as it does make some noise from time to time. I'm also excited to reveal my plans for covering the upcoming AMD Ryzen 3 CPUs, which should be arriving soon. These systems are expected to be in the low $100 range and offer a great value for those looking to build a ryzen-based system.

I did take a few moments to test out a new SLI Bridge that I had received - it's an NVIDIA hand-held bandwidth SLI Bridge from Rog, which has RGB lights. It's supposed to be a touchpad, but currently defaults to just displaying colors. The lead on the bridge allows for easy connection to a motherboard.

The SLI Bridge is also designed to match up with my upcoming system build, which will be using an Asus motherboard. This means that all of the lighting elements should match up nicely once I'm done building.

As I wrap up this video, I have a lot more benchmarking ahead of me, including testing out the 1080 TI in SLI and running some rounded benchmarks with it. I'll also need to get those ryzen 3 CPUs installed and test them out. It's going to be an exciting few days, and I'm looking forward to seeing how everything turns out.

Working on this system has been a great experience, despite the heat here in California during the summer months. With two air conditioners running, it's essential to conserve power whenever possible. However, working outside also makes for a more pleasant experience than being stuck inside all day. I'm glad that I could share some of my build process with you guys today, and I look forward to seeing your comments in the section below.

I'll be taking your feedback into consideration as I move forward with covering the upcoming AMD Ryzen 3 CPUs. I have a lot of questions about how these systems will perform and what kind of value they'll offer to those building their own PCs. With the latest developments in the CPU market, it's essential that I stay on top of things.

As for now, my next step is to get back to testing with this rig and swap out the CPU that I used earlier for the ryzen 3 CPUs. This will allow me to run some more benchmarks and see how these systems compare to their Intel counterparts.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enexcellent you guys ever have one of those days where it just feels like even though you've been doing stuff you really haven't gotten much done it's kind of like what today's feeling like what do you think Dougs no that was perfect hero but my situation did give me an idea for what to do for a video today and that is to give you guys some advice hopefully good advice whenever I'm feeling like I can't get much done my solution is always to put on some music so I'm going to be working out here in my main living room family room area because uh I don't want to have two air conditioners on and save some electricity and stuff uh I'm going to use the the new htpc setup or the work in progress htpc setup to put on some tunes listen to some music and get down to work and uh I'm I'm going to then set up some stuff out here on the table I have my overhead camera rig set up here behind me and that will be uh doing a little time lapse and I'll get some other footage in there as well and for you guys maybe it'll be some some helpful motivation or maybe just something to sit and watch while you guys procrastinate what you might be planning on doing today but if you do catch any of the details of what I'm working on I actually have two big projects coming up that I'm going to be setting up for today so uh Post in the comments let me know what you think those projects might be and then I'll come back at the end and let you know how things have gone let's check in one more time with the dogs before I get started there is hero taking taking her easy as usual but I think we should let Nori segue into the next part of the video by lying there and looking cute w he and I am back I hope you guys have enjoyed that little bit of time lapse I've actually just been uh editing or putting together that time lapse so I can render it out and I've realized a lot of it was pretty much you know just shots of this table uh getting set up of course with all these test beds and then just me sitting there for a while so um I hope it was at least somewhat entertaining for you guys but for those of you you at the beginning of this video who are at least attempting to figure out what the heck all I'm doing back here uh let me get down to it and explain what exactly I've been setting up but it is Friday now I kicked off this video on Thursday so I have spent uh I want to say 8 to 10 hours on Thursday and Friday working on this whole thing these are test beds I have three of them actually one two and then the third one is over on the chair over there and I'm setting all of these up very specifically and this is for those of you guys who are possibly trying to guess what I was working on so I could test these guys out these are two Asus GTX 1080ti stxs graphics cards and I am going to be using these in my next water cooled build the recreation of the build known as Arctic Panther now because I want to give these the best home I possibly can I needed to test to see which uh platform was going to be the best most suitable home for them right now and it's not really an easy question there's a good amount of testing out there on SLI 1080 TI but I wanted to test for myself so I set up an x299 system right here I also set up an am4 system over here with an 1800x uh and the Crosshair 6 hero so I could test that out and then of course I could not go without testing a 7700k so that's my z270 test bed which is right over here and I've been swapping those 1080 TI all around to get them in the different systems and I'm I'm not quite done yet actually I am most of the way done here let me turn the system on most of the way done um but right now I've been doing tests with the 7740x as you might be able to tell right now because only two of these uh RAM sticks have lit up it's not using this other bank right now um so the 7740x I was able to overclock to 5.1 GHz but all this is going to be covered in my next video where I actually go over all these benchmarks and stuff uh next on my to-do list is to pop in a higher core count option and see what that does for me so I do have the 7820x here so that's going to next and of course I'm overclocking the snot out of everything to give my graphics cards the best possible chance they have at performing now the reason I've made such a mess out here in my dining room and ran cables across the ground and everything is because I wanted to do everything fresh so all of these test beds have kind of been freshly put together I wiped the ssds that were on there and I did clean installs of Windows 10 on all of them I've actually got the creators update installed even so we're going as new as possible and then of course latest NVIDIA drivers and uh drivers available from the manufacturer's website uh latest GSA update for the uh AMD system and all that good stuff just wanted to give these systems the best run they had possible at actually getting the most performance out of the 1080 TI as I possibly could then of course I had to bring my 4k monitor out here too that isn't all I did though aside from running uh ethernet cables all across my home I did get the chance that you might have seen towards the beginning to swap this passive cooler that I did the video on just a few days back actually onto my home theater PC my home theater PC is still just all sitting right here on top of my subwoofer um but this means that it's pretty much all passive now well not pretty much all but mostly also I've got uh a 1080 I ran out of 108 1080 TI first world problems I know so if I put a 1080 uh for the win to from EVGA on here and this this does have the fan stop mode although only one of the fans is actually fan stopping right now but um when it's not doing anything when it's just chilling those will both stop so there'll basic basically be no fans spinning on this at all the system has actually been doing a really good job just doing htpc stuff for us in the past uh week or so though my next thing I need to do really is get rid of that mechanical drive because that does make some noise from time to time then of course I'm I'm going to walm out this um and more on that hopefully very soon and that final bit of tease is going to be these right here which I haven't really done anything with other than taking the boxes and setting them here as a teaser for you guys but ryzen 3 yes I actually have both of them AMD sent these over so I've got the ryzen 3300x and I've got the ryzen 3 1200 and I'm still figuring out exactly how I'm going to handle coverage of these guys because uh expectations are already pretty well in line these are basically going to be um ryzen 5 quad cores with hyperthreading or with simultaneous multi-threading turned off but these are going to allow people to build uh ryzen based systems for a much lower price because these are only supposed to be in the low $100 range so uh as long as I can flip these over there we go all right so uh coming soon ryzen 3 coverage 2 did you guys notice my uh my SLI Bridge here my hand high bandwidth SLI Bridge from Rog I think it's pretty fancy it actually has RGB this is supposed to be a touchpad but I think right now it's just defaulting cuz you're supposed to be able to touch it to change the the colors but uh it also has a lead so you can take it connect it up directly to a motherboard so um uh that will be a nice finisher for the RGB of my build and um yes when I do actually build the system uh I'm not this is this motherboard I just wanted to test out for the overclocking this is the MSI uh x299 gaming M7 a uh but I will be using an Asus uh board for uh this build so everything will match up at least as far as the lighting is concerned and guys that's going to need to do it for today's video because like I said I need to get back to testing with this rig and swap that CPU in and overclock it and finish off my rounded benchmarks with the 1080 TI and SLI and then of course I need to get those ryzen 3 CPUs installed so I can start testing those out as well got a lot of benchmarking still ahead of me but I hope you guys have enjoyed this video although it was just sort of a day or two in my life out here doing test and benchmarking in the dining room again I'm working out here because it's really hot in California it's the summer right now so working in the garage means I have to run two air conditioners and just trying to save a little power and also it's it's a little bit more pleasant out here when it comes to the dead of Summer and how hot it gets but anyway thanks again for watching this video hit the Thumbs Up Button if you did enjoy it and leave me a comment in the comment section let me know what you think is going to happen uh what the outcome will be of my 1080 TI SLI experiment cuz uh I'm I'm curious to find out myself thanks again for watching and and we'll see you guys in the next videoexcellent you guys ever have one of those days where it just feels like even though you've been doing stuff you really haven't gotten much done it's kind of like what today's feeling like what do you think Dougs no that was perfect hero but my situation did give me an idea for what to do for a video today and that is to give you guys some advice hopefully good advice whenever I'm feeling like I can't get much done my solution is always to put on some music so I'm going to be working out here in my main living room family room area because uh I don't want to have two air conditioners on and save some electricity and stuff uh I'm going to use the the new htpc setup or the work in progress htpc setup to put on some tunes listen to some music and get down to work and uh I'm I'm going to then set up some stuff out here on the table I have my overhead camera rig set up here behind me and that will be uh doing a little time lapse and I'll get some other footage in there as well and for you guys maybe it'll be some some helpful motivation or maybe just something to sit and watch while you guys procrastinate what you might be planning on doing today but if you do catch any of the details of what I'm working on I actually have two big projects coming up that I'm going to be setting up for today so uh Post in the comments let me know what you think those projects might be and then I'll come back at the end and let you know how things have gone let's check in one more time with the dogs before I get started there is hero taking taking her easy as usual but I think we should let Nori segue into the next part of the video by lying there and looking cute w he and I am back I hope you guys have enjoyed that little bit of time lapse I've actually just been uh editing or putting together that time lapse so I can render it out and I've realized a lot of it was pretty much you know just shots of this table uh getting set up of course with all these test beds and then just me sitting there for a while so um I hope it was at least somewhat entertaining for you guys but for those of you you at the beginning of this video who are at least attempting to figure out what the heck all I'm doing back here uh let me get down to it and explain what exactly I've been setting up but it is Friday now I kicked off this video on Thursday so I have spent uh I want to say 8 to 10 hours on Thursday and Friday working on this whole thing these are test beds I have three of them actually one two and then the third one is over on the chair over there and I'm setting all of these up very specifically and this is for those of you guys who are possibly trying to guess what I was working on so I could test these guys out these are two Asus GTX 1080ti stxs graphics cards and I am going to be using these in my next water cooled build the recreation of the build known as Arctic Panther now because I want to give these the best home I possibly can I needed to test to see which uh platform was going to be the best most suitable home for them right now and it's not really an easy question there's a good amount of testing out there on SLI 1080 TI but I wanted to test for myself so I set up an x299 system right here I also set up an am4 system over here with an 1800x uh and the Crosshair 6 hero so I could test that out and then of course I could not go without testing a 7700k so that's my z270 test bed which is right over here and I've been swapping those 1080 TI all around to get them in the different systems and I'm I'm not quite done yet actually I am most of the way done here let me turn the system on most of the way done um but right now I've been doing tests with the 7740x as you might be able to tell right now because only two of these uh RAM sticks have lit up it's not using this other bank right now um so the 7740x I was able to overclock to 5.1 GHz but all this is going to be covered in my next video where I actually go over all these benchmarks and stuff uh next on my to-do list is to pop in a higher core count option and see what that does for me so I do have the 7820x here so that's going to next and of course I'm overclocking the snot out of everything to give my graphics cards the best possible chance they have at performing now the reason I've made such a mess out here in my dining room and ran cables across the ground and everything is because I wanted to do everything fresh so all of these test beds have kind of been freshly put together I wiped the ssds that were on there and I did clean installs of Windows 10 on all of them I've actually got the creators update installed even so we're going as new as possible and then of course latest NVIDIA drivers and uh drivers available from the manufacturer's website uh latest GSA update for the uh AMD system and all that good stuff just wanted to give these systems the best run they had possible at actually getting the most performance out of the 1080 TI as I possibly could then of course I had to bring my 4k monitor out here too that isn't all I did though aside from running uh ethernet cables all across my home I did get the chance that you might have seen towards the beginning to swap this passive cooler that I did the video on just a few days back actually onto my home theater PC my home theater PC is still just all sitting right here on top of my subwoofer um but this means that it's pretty much all passive now well not pretty much all but mostly also I've got uh a 1080 I ran out of 108 1080 TI first world problems I know so if I put a 1080 uh for the win to from EVGA on here and this this does have the fan stop mode although only one of the fans is actually fan stopping right now but um when it's not doing anything when it's just chilling those will both stop so there'll basic basically be no fans spinning on this at all the system has actually been doing a really good job just doing htpc stuff for us in the past uh week or so though my next thing I need to do really is get rid of that mechanical drive because that does make some noise from time to time then of course I'm I'm going to walm out this um and more on that hopefully very soon and that final bit of tease is going to be these right here which I haven't really done anything with other than taking the boxes and setting them here as a teaser for you guys but ryzen 3 yes I actually have both of them AMD sent these over so I've got the ryzen 3300x and I've got the ryzen 3 1200 and I'm still figuring out exactly how I'm going to handle coverage of these guys because uh expectations are already pretty well in line these are basically going to be um ryzen 5 quad cores with hyperthreading or with simultaneous multi-threading turned off but these are going to allow people to build uh ryzen based systems for a much lower price because these are only supposed to be in the low $100 range so uh as long as I can flip these over there we go all right so uh coming soon ryzen 3 coverage 2 did you guys notice my uh my SLI Bridge here my hand high bandwidth SLI Bridge from Rog I think it's pretty fancy it actually has RGB this is supposed to be a touchpad but I think right now it's just defaulting cuz you're supposed to be able to touch it to change the the colors but uh it also has a lead so you can take it connect it up directly to a motherboard so um uh that will be a nice finisher for the RGB of my build and um yes when I do actually build the system uh I'm not this is this motherboard I just wanted to test out for the overclocking this is the MSI uh x299 gaming M7 a uh but I will be using an Asus uh board for uh this build so everything will match up at least as far as the lighting is concerned and guys that's going to need to do it for today's video because like I said I need to get back to testing with this rig and swap that CPU in and overclock it and finish off my rounded benchmarks with the 1080 TI and SLI and then of course I need to get those ryzen 3 CPUs installed so I can start testing those out as well got a lot of benchmarking still ahead of me but I hope you guys have enjoyed this video although it was just sort of a day or two in my life out here doing test and benchmarking in the dining room again I'm working out here because it's really hot in California it's the summer right now so working in the garage means I have to run two air conditioners and just trying to save a little power and also it's it's a little bit more pleasant out here when it comes to the dead of Summer and how hot it gets but anyway thanks again for watching this video hit the Thumbs Up Button if you did enjoy it and leave me a comment in the comment section let me know what you think is going to happen uh what the outcome will be of my 1080 TI SLI experiment cuz uh I'm I'm curious to find out myself thanks again for watching and and we'll see you guys in the next video\n"