**Building the Ultimate AMD PC: A Benchmarking Guide**

In this article, we'll delve into the world of high-performance computing and explore the capabilities of our latest AMD-built PC. With the powerful ASRock 7900 XTX GPU at its core, we're pushing the limits of what's possible with this system.

**Benchmarking Performance**

The first benchmark we ran was Times Spy, which yielded an impressive 2,960. This is a clear indication that this build is one of the most powerful all-AMD PCs we've had the pleasure of testing and building. To further test its capabilities, we ran Starfield at 4K Ultra with FSR set to balance mode. While we didn't need to enable FSR in this case, it's worth noting that it can make a significant difference in performance.

As expected, our PC performed exceptionally well in city-based scenes and planet exploration, which are notoriously challenging for most GPUs. However, as soon as we entered the game's urban environments, the frame rate did take a hit. Despite this, we're still seeing an average of 77 FPS, which is more than playable. It's worth noting that we were able to achieve these results without resorting to extreme settings or resolutions scaling.

To put our PC's performance into perspective, we also ran the built-in Benchmark for Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 4K very high settings with no resolution scaling or FSR enabled. Our average frame rate was a respectable 129 FPS, although we were expecting slightly higher results from this benchmark.

**Forspoken Performance**

Next up, we tested our PC's performance in Forspoken, another demanding game that pushes the limits of even the most powerful GPUs. We ran the game at 4K extreme settings and were pleased to see an average frame rate of 152 FPS. While we did enable some additional features, such as Ultra Extreme settings, which allowed us to squeeze a few more frames out of the system.

**Fighting Game Performance**

To further test our PC's capabilities, we ran Mortal Kombat 1 at maxed-out settings and 4K resolution with no resolution scaling or FSR enabled. As expected, our CPU was able to handle the demands of this game while keeping power consumption relatively low, with an average draw of around 855-86 watts. Our GPU, on the other hand, struggled to keep up, with a maximum draw of only 170 Watts.

**Form Factor and Power Supply**

One of the standout features of our build is its compact form factor. Despite packing a powerful 850W power supply into such a small case, we were able to fit an ASRock 7900 XTX GPU in without any issues. This is largely thanks to the excellent cable management options available within the case.

In terms of cooling, our PC's pre-installed all-in-one cooling system proved to be more than capable of handling the demands of our high-performance build. With temperatures staying well under 73°C while gaming, we can confidently say that this system will remain cool and composed even during the most intense gaming sessions.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, our latest AMD-built PC is an absolute beast of a machine that's capable of handling even the most demanding games at 4K resolutions. While FSR did prove to be a useful tool in boosting performance, it's worth noting that we didn't need it in all cases. With its impressive form factor and efficient cooling system, this build is sure to please even the most discerning PC enthusiasts.

If you're considering building something similar, we recommend using a more modest GPU like an RTX 47 or a lower-end Radeon model. While these options won't quite match the performance of our top-of-the-line build, they'll still provide excellent gaming experiences without breaking the bank.

**Additional Resources**

For those interested in learning more about this build, we've included links to all the components used throughout this article. Additionally, if you'd like to learn more about Steam OS and how it can be installed on a PC like this, stay tuned for future content from our channel.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay so yeah loving the form factor here this thing is putting out amazing performance I've been able to run everything at 4K and I know some people might not be into this style of case but I do think it looks really good hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be putting together a really interesting very powerful miniitx gaming PC using The allnew Cooler Master Encore 100 Max case I've been really excited about doing a build with this case and I've actually had it in my possession for about 2 months but uh the release was kind of pushed back so I had to wait a little while but I think it's going to be well worth it because the new incore 100 Max is one of those miniitx Tower cases so it's not a huge case it's actually pretty small form factor once it's all put together but it does include up to a 1,000 wat power supply and an aiio cooling system again for this build we're going to go all AMD and as we put it together I will go over the parts used but just keep in mind I mean we've got a powerful 16 core 32 thread CPU and the most powerful Radeon GPU on the market the RX 7900 XTX believe it or not the new Encore 100 Max will support up to a 336 mm GPU and you can actually go up to 140 mm in height with that GPU so you could theoretically put an RTX 490 in here if you want to and the version of the case that I have actually comes included with an 850 wat sfx gold rated power supply it is fully modular and the way they set this case up is actually really interesting we don't need any tools to get in here we can pull this side panel right off and taking a look internally you can see that our GPU is going to sit over on this side so they did need to include a riser and since this comes with that pre-installed aiio and power supply all of the cables are basically routed for us it's actually super clean right out of the box now moving over to this side we can see this is where our motherboard is going to sit and it only supports a mini ITX board but from what I've seen online so far everything should fit in here really nicely a lot of the cases we see on the market nowadays don't come with a pre-installed power supply and an AIO system this one is a bit different because we've got a 120 mm radiator up top and it's 38 mm thick now they do claim that you can do up to an Intel I9 or a ryzen R9 CPU and since I'm going with an R9 with 16 cores and 32 threads I am a bit skeptical about this 120 mm aiio but the radiator here is thicker than a typical 120 mm radiator coming in at 38 mm th and right underneath this there's a custom pwm fan with a pressure blade design which is specifically designed for these radiators so it's going to blow air up through and it will spin up a bit faster than others this will go up to 2400 RPM allowing it to get that air through that thicker radiator and uh yeah I mean from what I'm seeing so far it definitely looks a little smaller for the CPU I'm opting to use here but we're going to give it a shot and see what happens now when it comes to the other parts in the system for the motherboard I'm going with the MS SI mag B 650i Edge Wi-Fi and one of the big Reasons I'm going with this is pricing if you've tried to go Mini ITX with a am5 platform you know that these boards can get quite expensive but this one will work out really well I've actually tested this with the 7700x a few times never had any issues dual Channel ddr5 and we've got a pretty beefy cooler over here on the vrm now it is a passive cooler but it worked out well with that 7700x even with some major overclocking so I'll go ahead and give this one a try when it comes to storage I went with the 2 TB aorus 7000 series pcie 4.0 nvme SSD and of course we need to add some Ram to this system since it is am5 we have to go ddr5 I went with 32 GB of Kingston Fury at 6,800 megaherz so we've got a dual Channel set up here and like I mentioned I did go with a 16 core 32 thread ryzen 7000 series CPU it's the AMD ryzen 9 7950 X it's the non x3d variant this was one of the the first ryzen 7000 series CPUs that I had I've still got it it wasn't being utilized so I figured we'd go ahead and put this cooler and case to the test base clock of 4.5 GHz with a boost up to 5.7 and this is a great performer single and multi-core it'll push through anything definitely a little overkill for gaming but again we're just going to go ahead and see what we can do with it with this case love the fact that we have that pre-installed power supply 850 W gold we do get several different adapters it's fully modular and with the GPU I'm using I do need three pcie 8 Pin connectors we've got them here comes included with the case itself plus we've got this GPU Riser right down here to tell you the truth definitely looks messy right now but I think we can clean this up really nicely once we get everything installed uh that mini ITX board does sit right down in here very nicely we've got front-facing USB 3.5 mm audio jack and USB type-c so now I need to get everything mounted in here here I'm also going to go ahead and install the cooler on this CPU and once that's finished it looks a little something like this I actually think it went together really nicely but I haven't installed the GPU on the other side yet so I still have a few cables I need to plug into that modular power supply but uh so far so good it's actually been really easy to build in now it's time to install the GPU and I wanted to go all AMD so we went with the ASRock 7900 XTX this is the taiichi variant this case will support a 336 mm in length GPU and we can do up to 140 mm in height this card will fit in here but it's a really tight squeeze I did need to do a little bit of maneuvering to get it in but once it's installed you can see it actually sits in here quite nicely I think it goes together really well and the cable management on this case has been awesome I mean it is topnotch the way they've got everything set up tons of mounting points so we can use zip ties or whatever you want to use to get everything situated and really the last thing we need to do here is get the top cover on that radiator and the side panels installed so let me go ahead and get all that done and we'll get this thing booted up real quick just wanted to give you a look we've got that bronze Edition and yeah I do think it looks really good the GPU does have a little bit of RGB this can be disabled from the card itself there is an RGB switch on it so if you're not into that you can always turn it completely off and that's probably what I'll do okay so I've got everything installed and updated been doing a little bit of testing so far and this thing is an absolute Beast as you can see we've got that ryen 79 50x uh 32 gigs of ddr5 at 6800 and of course we're going to be utilizing that AMD radon RX 7900 XTX with 24 GB of vram now I was really interested in this little cooler here to see what it was going to do with this uh high-end CPU CPU Z run a stress test you can see this jumps up to around 200 watts and the temp really does go up pretty quickly here now that fan ramps up uh it's not too loud of course we could definitely hit thermal throttle with this if we were to max out all 16 cores and 32 threads for a long period of time but while gaming we're not going to be pulling this kind of wattage from that CPU it actually stays a lot cooler than I thought it would be around 72° C and that might sound a bit high for somebody with a larger PC 360 mm aiio but we're working with a small 120 mm cooler here and uh you know putting this high-end 7950 x on it it's kind of crazy but it is working now the first thing I did once I got everything installed and updated was run some benchmarks here we have geekbench 6 looking really good here with a single core of 2,681 multicore 19,268 single core looking great and multi is outstanding given that we have those 32 threads to work with next up we've got some GPU benchmarks using 3D Mark with fire strike we scored a 53,486 50 I also ran the Port Royal Benchmark now these AMD gpus aren't known for raay tracing but we got a total score of 16, 520 I mean very respectable here and a final Benchmark we have is times spy with a 2,960 this is definitely one of the most powerful all mdpcs that I've been able to build and test so far but we need to get into some real world gaming to see what we can do with this thing and we're just going to see how far we can push it right out of the gate with Starfield 4K Ultra with FSR set to balance now that's really the way we need to run this even on the 7900 XTX but overall I'm actually seeing some pretty decent performance especially given that we're in the city if you've played this game on any GPU you know that planet exploration and indoor situations do really well on most gpus out there but as soon as you get to a city it can fall on its face even with the highest in GPU on the market this is looking pretty decent wish we didn't need FSR but we're actually getting an average of 77 FPS now I always like to throw at least one fighting game in so we've got Mortal Kombat 1 maxed out at 4K and going into this I knew we'd have some pretty decent performance with this game here our CPU is only pulling around 855 to 86 watts and our GPU isn't even halfway maxed out coming in around 170 Watts I see this GPU regularly pull a little over 400 watts with most newer AAA games running at 4K I did run the built-in Benchmark for shadow of the Tomb Raider 4K very high settings no resolution scale so we didn't need to scale it down manually we didn't need enable FSR or Fidelity Cass and we got an average of 129 FPS but I'll tell you at the end of this I was actually expecting to see a little more out of this the newer Spider-Man games for PC do really well on these Radeon gpus especially the higher end ones and with the 7900 XTX we can Max Max this out at 4K no problem at all if you added a little bit of FSR we could get much more out of it but we're over 100 FPS here at 4K very high and I think it's more than playable on this setup hey there's a Breakin Happening Here you and the final game I wanted to get into was one of my favorites fors of horizon 5 4K extreme settings and from the extreme settings you can actually enable a little more going up to what I like to call Ultra extreme because there are some settings that are kind of set at Ultra you can take up a little more even at that preset but with this at 4K we got an average of 152 FPS okay so in the end with the specs we have here yeah we can run any triaa game at 4K as you saw with Starfield we did need to add a little bit of FSR so we had some resolution scale going there but with everything else I tested you really didn't need to enable it unless you wanted just a little bit more or a lot more going to FSR performance personally I love the form factor it doesn't take up that much space because we need to kind of work vertically with this we've got tons of room in here as you saw we were able to fit this ASRock 7900 XTX no problem and you could do an RTX 490 in here if you wanted it's a super clean build the way they've got cable management is awesome we do get that 850 W power supply and there is rumor that there's a th000 watt version out there I personally haven't seen it plus we've got that pre-installed all-in-one cooling system which does handle this r a 9 7950 x a lot better than I thought it would I figured we'd be at thermal throttle all day long but while gaming our temps were only around 72 to 73° C which isn't bad at all given the form factor personally I'm a huge fan of the new Cooler Master Encore 100 Max and if you're interested in learning a little more I'll leave links in the description plus I'm going to leave links for everything I used in this build in case you want to put something like this together but again this is a bit Overkill I would probably just go with like a 7800 x3d maybe even a lower end Radeon GPU or something like an RTX 47 you're still going to see great performance out of it but I wanted to go all AMD right now because I will be doing a video with Steam OS installed on this so stay tuned to the channel but that's going to wrap it up for this one if you've got any questions let me know down below like always thanks for watchingokay so yeah loving the form factor here this thing is putting out amazing performance I've been able to run everything at 4K and I know some people might not be into this style of case but I do think it looks really good hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be putting together a really interesting very powerful miniitx gaming PC using The allnew Cooler Master Encore 100 Max case I've been really excited about doing a build with this case and I've actually had it in my possession for about 2 months but uh the release was kind of pushed back so I had to wait a little while but I think it's going to be well worth it because the new incore 100 Max is one of those miniitx Tower cases so it's not a huge case it's actually pretty small form factor once it's all put together but it does include up to a 1,000 wat power supply and an aiio cooling system again for this build we're going to go all AMD and as we put it together I will go over the parts used but just keep in mind I mean we've got a powerful 16 core 32 thread CPU and the most powerful Radeon GPU on the market the RX 7900 XTX believe it or not the new Encore 100 Max will support up to a 336 mm GPU and you can actually go up to 140 mm in height with that GPU so you could theoretically put an RTX 490 in here if you want to and the version of the case that I have actually comes included with an 850 wat sfx gold rated power supply it is fully modular and the way they set this case up is actually really interesting we don't need any tools to get in here we can pull this side panel right off and taking a look internally you can see that our GPU is going to sit over on this side so they did need to include a riser and since this comes with that pre-installed aiio and power supply all of the cables are basically routed for us it's actually super clean right out of the box now moving over to this side we can see this is where our motherboard is going to sit and it only supports a mini ITX board but from what I've seen online so far everything should fit in here really nicely a lot of the cases we see on the market nowadays don't come with a pre-installed power supply and an AIO system this one is a bit different because we've got a 120 mm radiator up top and it's 38 mm thick now they do claim that you can do up to an Intel I9 or a ryzen R9 CPU and since I'm going with an R9 with 16 cores and 32 threads I am a bit skeptical about this 120 mm aiio but the radiator here is thicker than a typical 120 mm radiator coming in at 38 mm th and right underneath this there's a custom pwm fan with a pressure blade design which is specifically designed for these radiators so it's going to blow air up through and it will spin up a bit faster than others this will go up to 2400 RPM allowing it to get that air through that thicker radiator and uh yeah I mean from what I'm seeing so far it definitely looks a little smaller for the CPU I'm opting to use here but we're going to give it a shot and see what happens now when it comes to the other parts in the system for the motherboard I'm going with the MS SI mag B 650i Edge Wi-Fi and one of the big Reasons I'm going with this is pricing if you've tried to go Mini ITX with a am5 platform you know that these boards can get quite expensive but this one will work out really well I've actually tested this with the 7700x a few times never had any issues dual Channel ddr5 and we've got a pretty beefy cooler over here on the vrm now it is a passive cooler but it worked out well with that 7700x even with some major overclocking so I'll go ahead and give this one a try when it comes to storage I went with the 2 TB aorus 7000 series pcie 4.0 nvme SSD and of course we need to add some Ram to this system since it is am5 we have to go ddr5 I went with 32 GB of Kingston Fury at 6,800 megaherz so we've got a dual Channel set up here and like I mentioned I did go with a 16 core 32 thread ryzen 7000 series CPU it's the AMD ryzen 9 7950 X it's the non x3d variant this was one of the the first ryzen 7000 series CPUs that I had I've still got it it wasn't being utilized so I figured we'd go ahead and put this cooler and case to the test base clock of 4.5 GHz with a boost up to 5.7 and this is a great performer single and multi-core it'll push through anything definitely a little overkill for gaming but again we're just going to go ahead and see what we can do with it with this case love the fact that we have that pre-installed power supply 850 W gold we do get several different adapters it's fully modular and with the GPU I'm using I do need three pcie 8 Pin connectors we've got them here comes included with the case itself plus we've got this GPU Riser right down here to tell you the truth definitely looks messy right now but I think we can clean this up really nicely once we get everything installed uh that mini ITX board does sit right down in here very nicely we've got front-facing USB 3.5 mm audio jack and USB type-c so now I need to get everything mounted in here here I'm also going to go ahead and install the cooler on this CPU and once that's finished it looks a little something like this I actually think it went together really nicely but I haven't installed the GPU on the other side yet so I still have a few cables I need to plug into that modular power supply but uh so far so good it's actually been really easy to build in now it's time to install the GPU and I wanted to go all AMD so we went with the ASRock 7900 XTX this is the taiichi variant this case will support a 336 mm in length GPU and we can do up to 140 mm in height this card will fit in here but it's a really tight squeeze I did need to do a little bit of maneuvering to get it in but once it's installed you can see it actually sits in here quite nicely I think it goes together really well and the cable management on this case has been awesome I mean it is topnotch the way they've got everything set up tons of mounting points so we can use zip ties or whatever you want to use to get everything situated and really the last thing we need to do here is get the top cover on that radiator and the side panels installed so let me go ahead and get all that done and we'll get this thing booted up real quick just wanted to give you a look we've got that bronze Edition and yeah I do think it looks really good the GPU does have a little bit of RGB this can be disabled from the card itself there is an RGB switch on it so if you're not into that you can always turn it completely off and that's probably what I'll do okay so I've got everything installed and updated been doing a little bit of testing so far and this thing is an absolute Beast as you can see we've got that ryen 79 50x uh 32 gigs of ddr5 at 6800 and of course we're going to be utilizing that AMD radon RX 7900 XTX with 24 GB of vram now I was really interested in this little cooler here to see what it was going to do with this uh high-end CPU CPU Z run a stress test you can see this jumps up to around 200 watts and the temp really does go up pretty quickly here now that fan ramps up uh it's not too loud of course we could definitely hit thermal throttle with this if we were to max out all 16 cores and 32 threads for a long period of time but while gaming we're not going to be pulling this kind of wattage from that CPU it actually stays a lot cooler than I thought it would be around 72° C and that might sound a bit high for somebody with a larger PC 360 mm aiio but we're working with a small 120 mm cooler here and uh you know putting this high-end 7950 x on it it's kind of crazy but it is working now the first thing I did once I got everything installed and updated was run some benchmarks here we have geekbench 6 looking really good here with a single core of 2,681 multicore 19,268 single core looking great and multi is outstanding given that we have those 32 threads to work with next up we've got some GPU benchmarks using 3D Mark with fire strike we scored a 53,486 50 I also ran the Port Royal Benchmark now these AMD gpus aren't known for raay tracing but we got a total score of 16, 520 I mean very respectable here and a final Benchmark we have is times spy with a 2,960 this is definitely one of the most powerful all mdpcs that I've been able to build and test so far but we need to get into some real world gaming to see what we can do with this thing and we're just going to see how far we can push it right out of the gate with Starfield 4K Ultra with FSR set to balance now that's really the way we need to run this even on the 7900 XTX but overall I'm actually seeing some pretty decent performance especially given that we're in the city if you've played this game on any GPU you know that planet exploration and indoor situations do really well on most gpus out there but as soon as you get to a city it can fall on its face even with the highest in GPU on the market this is looking pretty decent wish we didn't need FSR but we're actually getting an average of 77 FPS now I always like to throw at least one fighting game in so we've got Mortal Kombat 1 maxed out at 4K and going into this I knew we'd have some pretty decent performance with this game here our CPU is only pulling around 855 to 86 watts and our GPU isn't even halfway maxed out coming in around 170 Watts I see this GPU regularly pull a little over 400 watts with most newer AAA games running at 4K I did run the built-in Benchmark for shadow of the Tomb Raider 4K very high settings no resolution scale so we didn't need to scale it down manually we didn't need enable FSR or Fidelity Cass and we got an average of 129 FPS but I'll tell you at the end of this I was actually expecting to see a little more out of this the newer Spider-Man games for PC do really well on these Radeon gpus especially the higher end ones and with the 7900 XTX we can Max Max this out at 4K no problem at all if you added a little bit of FSR we could get much more out of it but we're over 100 FPS here at 4K very high and I think it's more than playable on this setup hey there's a Breakin Happening Here you and the final game I wanted to get into was one of my favorites fors of horizon 5 4K extreme settings and from the extreme settings you can actually enable a little more going up to what I like to call Ultra extreme because there are some settings that are kind of set at Ultra you can take up a little more even at that preset but with this at 4K we got an average of 152 FPS okay so in the end with the specs we have here yeah we can run any triaa game at 4K as you saw with Starfield we did need to add a little bit of FSR so we had some resolution scale going there but with everything else I tested you really didn't need to enable it unless you wanted just a little bit more or a lot more going to FSR performance personally I love the form factor it doesn't take up that much space because we need to kind of work vertically with this we've got tons of room in here as you saw we were able to fit this ASRock 7900 XTX no problem and you could do an RTX 490 in here if you wanted it's a super clean build the way they've got cable management is awesome we do get that 850 W power supply and there is rumor that there's a th000 watt version out there I personally haven't seen it plus we've got that pre-installed all-in-one cooling system which does handle this r a 9 7950 x a lot better than I thought it would I figured we'd be at thermal throttle all day long but while gaming our temps were only around 72 to 73° C which isn't bad at all given the form factor personally I'm a huge fan of the new Cooler Master Encore 100 Max and if you're interested in learning a little more I'll leave links in the description plus I'm going to leave links for everything I used in this build in case you want to put something like this together but again this is a bit Overkill I would probably just go with like a 7800 x3d maybe even a lower end Radeon GPU or something like an RTX 47 you're still going to see great performance out of it but I wanted to go all AMD right now because I will be doing a video with Steam OS installed on this so stay tuned to the channel but that's going to wrap it up for this one if you've got any questions let me know down below like always thanks for watching\n"