**Upgrading to a New Build: A Step-by-Step Guide**

When it comes to building a new computer, especially on a new platform, there are several things you need to do before jumping into Windows and starting to game. The first thing you'll want to do is update the BIOS. This may seem like a daunting task, but it's actually quite straightforward. On this board, there's a special USB port that allows you to update the BIOS without needing a CPU or GPU. All you need to plug in is the 24-pin power connector and the CPU power cable, and follow the procedure to update the board. This process takes only a few minutes, but it's an important step to ensure your new build runs smoothly.

**Enabling AMD Expo**

Once the BIOS has been updated, you'll want to enable AMD Expo, which is their version of XMP. This will allow your RAM to run at its full potential speed instead of just running at the default speeds. By default, our system is running at 4,800 megabytes per second, but with AMD Expo enabled, we can boost that speed to 6,000 megabytes per second. To enable Expo, simply click on the "Enable" button in the BIOS settings and save your changes. You should now see DDR5 6000CL40 as the default speed for our RAM.

**Enabling PBO**

Another thing you can do in the BIOS to improve your performance is enabling Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO). This is AMD's built-in feature that allows your CPU to go beyond its stock power limits, resulting in a little bit more performance. To enable PBO, simply toggle the switch in the BIOS settings and save your changes. With PBO enabled, our CPU will be able to run at higher speeds, resulting in improved performance.

**Gigabyte Control Center**

One of the cool features about this board is the Gigabyte Control Center. This software allows you to tweak various settings on your motherboard, including your CPU frequency, fan profile, and RGB settings. With the Gigabyte Control Center, we can adjust our fan profile from full speed to quiet mode, giving us more control over our system's noise levels. We can also set our RGB lights to a custom color scheme, in this case, purple on the motherboard and matching colors for our RAM.

**SSD Tool**

The Gigabyte Control Center also includes an SSD tool that provides metrics about our solid-state drive (SSD). Since we have a brand new Gigabyte SSD, it's showing us a 100% capacity rating, indicating that it's been fully utilized. The SSD tool also comes with an update utility, which allows us to easily update all of the drivers for our motherboard, including chipset drivers and RGB drivers.

**Cinebench Results**

With our system fully set up and configured, we can run some benchmarking tests to see how our components perform. We've run Cinebench, a popular benchmarking tool that measures CPU performance, and the results are impressive. Our 16-core CPU is scoring an incredible 35,500 points, which is faster than a 32-core second-gen Threadripper by a significant margin. To put this into perspective, our previous flagship shipped scored around 28,500 points. This is due in part to the high clock speeds of our CPU, which are running at 5.15 gigahertz with PBO enabled.

**Stress Testing**

To further test our system's performance and heat handling, we've run a 10-minute stress test using Cinebench. We're seeing temperatures in the mid-90s Celsius range, which is relatively low considering that our CPU is allowed to go beyond its stock TDP with PBO enabled. The peak power consumption of our system is around 230 watts, which is impressive for a system running at these high clock speeds.

**Gaming Performance**

Finally, we can test out our system's gaming performance by playing some popular titles like Halo Infinite. We're running 4K Ultra settings and getting well over 70 FPS in most areas of the game. While the frame rate will vary depending on the graphics card, a good CPU ensures that you're making the most of your GPU. With our system configured to run at its maximum potential, we can enjoy smooth gaming performance without any significant lag or stuttering.

**Conclusion**

Building a new computer, especially on a new platform, requires some planning and configuration before it's ready for use. By following these steps, you'll be able to take full advantage of your system's capabilities and enjoy smooth performance in games and other demanding applications. Whether you're looking to upgrade your existing system or build from scratch, this guide should provide the necessary information to help you get started.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enoh oh my God that's right ladies and gentlemen it's finally Zen four time and what better way to celebrate that than a sponsored video from aorus featuring all of their great new products that support Zen for I hope it's great it's gonna be great we're gonna build a computer uh which is not necessarily something we always do in short circuit it's not something I have done on a short circuit so I'm pretty excited I'm told that there is quite a few pieces in this crate oh look at that wow oh it's very sharp it's just like wow they didn't deburr this aluminum at all all right well I'm gonna steal this I think I'm gonna put this in my car hey short circuit Christmas has come early and we bestow upon you the latest in our line of am5 motherboards obviously the party wouldn't be complete without some friends to play with so we included those two friends friends oh there's lots of there's lots of goodies under there let's start with what's on the top though we've got two aorus x670 motherboards we've got their x670e aorus Master that's going to be the eatx big dog Flagship board and the x670 Aeros Elite ax this is just a standard ATX form factor got some Ram in here this is a 32 gig kit so 2x16 of 6000 Mega transfers per second ddr5 we've also got an aorus Gen 4 7000 series SSD they will be having Gen 5 ssds coming out soon which would be perfect for this platform but unfortunately we weren't able to get that in time still this is gonna be super fast you know I'm starting to understand uh why he drops things so often it's hard especially when wonderful people like aora send you a box full of so many goodies how are you not going to drop at least some of them right now this might look like a normal power supply and for most intents and purposes it is I mean it's a modular power supply you got your connectors for your motherboard your CPU but what you've also got is a high power 12 volt connector for new graphics cards specifically PCA Gen 5 graphics cards like the upcoming RTX 40 series as well as the new Radeon graphics that are going to be coming out presumably in the next couple of months this connector specifically allows up to 600 watts of power draw but what's also important is the internals of this power supply are designed to handle much higher power spikes than previous power supplies which is going to be important on these super high power drop cards so if you get one of them you're going to want to get an ATX 3.0 power supply like this one this model specifically is their UD 1000 GM and you see that pcie 5.0 there that's so you don't screw it up use this with Gen 5 graphics cards it's 80 plus gold comes with a 10 year warranty and all of the main capacitors in here are going to be high quality Japanese capacitors which is what you want to look for in a high quality power supply oh this is our new cable I haven't actually seen one of these in person yet yeah look at that 600 watts and the last thing in our box is in the aorus water Force x280 AIO liquid cooler this thing's got a super sick 330 degree rotatable full color LCD display so you can show custom text or images on there probably like the water temperatures if that's what you're into it's got extra thick tubing along with a slightly thicker radiator hopefully to improve thermal performance compared to you know your average AIO it is going to have mounting for am5 hopefully which is basically the same although I have noticed there's no graphics card in here so we're gonna need to get one there is some thermal paste at least we will be needing that and I'm gonna go find a graphics card so give me a sec what better than an AMD RTX 6900xt this is the Halo edition I don't know if it's really gonna like feng shui with our aorus motherboard but that's what I have look at that gold baby now that we've got everything out of the crate I guess it's time to pick a motherboard and between these two motherboards there's not a huge amount of differences but there are a few notable ones this is the ATX this is ATX the graphics card slot that's the main 16x slot is Gen 5 on this board Gen 4 on this one this one has two Gen 5 m.2 slots this one only has one this one's probably going to cost more definitely going to cost more but it's more baller so I think that's the one I'm gonna use this is still gonna be a great board it's got 2.5 gig Lan Wi-Fi 6E great power delivery but I usually tend to like the fancy stuff this one pcie Gen 5 on the graphics slot nice it also has 2.5 gig Lan like the other one it's going to have the same amount of phases on the power delivery although it does look like they have a little bit different caps on this one probably a little bit higher quality components you can have a little bit more advanced cooling on the vrms as well as m.2 thermal guard which is a big heatsink for the m.2 wow they were not kidding when they said this thing had an m.2 heatsink look at that that's gotta be enough to cool a CPU holy crap Brandon look at that look at the vrm heatsink that's straight up just like a graphics card he'd think it's they're not even trying to pretend like this is some like pretty thing they're like this thing needs cooling it's just a giant fin stack holy crap I wasn't gonna open this board because we're gonna be using this one I but I just wanted to show this for reference this is still no joke that's a big heatsink but that that is something else assuming you haven't been living under a rock for the last few months you'll already know this but if you have there is a very big change on the am5 platform and that is this socket has pins in it no longer is an AMD CPU gonna have a bunch of pins on the back and you're gonna be worried about bending them instead they're in the socket just like their epic platform interestingly enough they are using very similar brackets as the am4 platform you get like the little plastic hooky boys that your cooler grabs onto rather than having posts that you mount your own thing through I actually prefer this approach because it comes with an included back plate so if you're installing an AIO or a CPU Cooler of any sort and you're not really experienced it's a lot easier because the back Plate's already there you don't have to Fumble through a big bit I mean there's still a big bank but you don't have to fumble and try to figure out what backplate to use it's already on there we just have to take these off and I have my trusty lttstore.com screwdriver just for that I guess that brings us to our ramp this is a 6000 Mega transfer per second cl40 kit from aorus and then uh m.2 this is aorus's 7000s Gen 4 SSD they will be having Gen 5 ssds launch with this platform but we weren't able to get one on time unfortunately this is an ultra fast nvme 1.4 protocol supported drive with read speeds of up to seven gigabytes a second which which is really really fast the Gen 5 ssds you'll see somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 12 gigabytes a second so we got a lot of really fast storage coming our way these days I love that boards come with this now the m.2 boom it's installed no little screws to mess around with just a little cute little latch usually I wouldn't be putting a graphics card in while the motherboard's still in the box but I wanted to show you guys a little feature on a lot of high-end boards like this one put your graphics card in and you want to take it out but it's in the case you got to like stick a knife down the back to release the lock well not on this board you just press this little button it releases the lock pull the graphics card out I wanted to show you guys what easy latch looks like on this board it's a little bit of a simpler design just a little bit of an extended latch but it does still achieve the same thing it's a lot easier to remove you're also going to find that the pcie slots on this board are reinforced there's a little metal piece over top that increases the tensile strength by 2.2 times which means it's going to be able to support those big honking gpus with huge heat spreaders no problem one of the problems with am4's backplate despite me liking the back plate being there is it wasn't secured to anything so as soon as you take off those front brackets it would just be a loose well it looks like on this board the socket on the front screws into the back plate so I can pick this thing up I can shake it around I can put it in a case and my back plate isn't going to fall off which is freaking awesome despite me hyping up the ATX 3.0 Gen 5 ready 600 watt cable we're not going to be using that because we don't have those new gpus this GPU just uses two eight pins and so that's what we're going to use sweet I didn't realize but this cooler has fan and RGB leads actually on the radiator itself so you don't have to run all the fan cables back behind your computer and loop it back in from this part It's all where it actually needs to be which is super sweet look at that we got a complete system now uh I guess we can fire it up one thing to note on the New Zen 4 platform memory training which is the process of the CPU and the ram trying to figure out what speeds they can run at takes a while so turning on the system we were just sitting there for like a minute before it actually started to post so don't get worried give it a little bit more time and it'll probably turn on hey we're booted shout out to the new zen4 CPUs having an igpu I think I'm having an issue with this graphics card I haven't tried to troubleshoot it at all yet but with the igpu we're getting an output the system works ah as with any new build and especially one on a new platform there's a few things you're going to want to do before you jump into windows and just start gaming first and foremost is updating the BIOS now on this board there's a special USB port you can use to update the BIOS without even needing a CPU a GPU anything you just need to plug in the 24 pin and the CPU power plug in the USB and follow the procedure to update the board super easy once your bios is updated you're going to want to go in and enable AMD Expo which is their version of XMP that means you're going to get the full potential speed of your RAM instead of just running at the default speeds with this specific RAM and board by default we're running at 4 800 Mega transfer per second when we could be running at six thousand so just have to click enter to enable Expo you can see ddr5 6000cl40 and then just save and exit after you do enable Expo the board's probably get a memory train again so don't be scared if it takes you know a minute or two to boot after setting this all right that actually took like 20 seconds and we're back in the Bios and we see that sweet sweet 6 000 Mega transfer per second super fast another thing you can do in the Bios to improve your performance aside from enabling Expo is enabling PBO or Precision boost overdrive it's amd's built-in feature that allows your CPU to go beyond its stock power limits to get a little bit more performance so we're going to turn that on now we can play some games one of the cool features about these boards is the gigabyte control center now in here we can go in and tweak things like your CPU frequency you can go into RGB fusion and change the RGB I've set it to purple on the motherboard and the ram to match short circuit colors you can even go go in here and change your fan profile like I want full speed or I want quiet they also have an SSD tool that can give you some metrics about your SSD we got our gigabyte one in here it's telling us we have 100 life rating because it's brand new and we haven't used it it also comes with an update utility so you can update all of the drivers like your chipset drivers your RGB drivers all the different drivers that come with your motherboard so you don't have to go on their website and figure out oh which version do I need this one this one that one it just tells you which one and installs them for you you just click one button it's pretty sick I want to run a cinebench run I haven't seen these CPUs oh actually we don't even know what CPU it is yet maybe we should check it's a 16 core so it's got to be a 7950x wow holy sh look at that score Brandon that's faster than a 32 core second gen threadripper by like not an insignificant amount for reference the previous flag shipped the 5950x scored a 28 and a half thousand score we're at 35 and a half thousand that's a lot faster these clock speeds are crazy it's it's so insane to think that we just got this CPU put it in a motherboard and it's just chilling at 5.15 gigahertz like no overclock I mean we do have PBO on so it could be going beyond that but that's just freaking nuts I got cinebench running again in a 10 minute stress test just to kind of see where our temps are at um we are looking at about 95 degrees at the hottest but that's actually not that bad when you consider the PBO is on the CPU is allowed to go Way Beyond its stock TDP you can see we're running anywhere between 200 to 220 230 Watts yeah 230 Watts Peak that's a lot of heat and it's handling it all right so we're gaming in Halo infinite running 4K Ultra settings and we're getting well over 70 FPS 75 FPS depending on where we're at now obviously your FPS in a game is going to be a little bit more dependent on the graphics card but having a good CPU ensures you're making the most of your good graphics card that's very important oh look at these Frags let's go thanks to yours for sponsoring this video if you guys want to check out their motherboards we'll have a link down below especially for their x670 models for the new CPUs we'll also have all of the rest of the kit we tried out today in the description as well if you like this video maybe check out the iPhone 14 unboxing I just did that was super fun hit the like button get subscribed and I'll see you in the next oneoh oh my God that's right ladies and gentlemen it's finally Zen four time and what better way to celebrate that than a sponsored video from aorus featuring all of their great new products that support Zen for I hope it's great it's gonna be great we're gonna build a computer uh which is not necessarily something we always do in short circuit it's not something I have done on a short circuit so I'm pretty excited I'm told that there is quite a few pieces in this crate oh look at that wow oh it's very sharp it's just like wow they didn't deburr this aluminum at all all right well I'm gonna steal this I think I'm gonna put this in my car hey short circuit Christmas has come early and we bestow upon you the latest in our line of am5 motherboards obviously the party wouldn't be complete without some friends to play with so we included those two friends friends oh there's lots of there's lots of goodies under there let's start with what's on the top though we've got two aorus x670 motherboards we've got their x670e aorus Master that's going to be the eatx big dog Flagship board and the x670 Aeros Elite ax this is just a standard ATX form factor got some Ram in here this is a 32 gig kit so 2x16 of 6000 Mega transfers per second ddr5 we've also got an aorus Gen 4 7000 series SSD they will be having Gen 5 ssds coming out soon which would be perfect for this platform but unfortunately we weren't able to get that in time still this is gonna be super fast you know I'm starting to understand uh why he drops things so often it's hard especially when wonderful people like aora send you a box full of so many goodies how are you not going to drop at least some of them right now this might look like a normal power supply and for most intents and purposes it is I mean it's a modular power supply you got your connectors for your motherboard your CPU but what you've also got is a high power 12 volt connector for new graphics cards specifically PCA Gen 5 graphics cards like the upcoming RTX 40 series as well as the new Radeon graphics that are going to be coming out presumably in the next couple of months this connector specifically allows up to 600 watts of power draw but what's also important is the internals of this power supply are designed to handle much higher power spikes than previous power supplies which is going to be important on these super high power drop cards so if you get one of them you're going to want to get an ATX 3.0 power supply like this one this model specifically is their UD 1000 GM and you see that pcie 5.0 there that's so you don't screw it up use this with Gen 5 graphics cards it's 80 plus gold comes with a 10 year warranty and all of the main capacitors in here are going to be high quality Japanese capacitors which is what you want to look for in a high quality power supply oh this is our new cable I haven't actually seen one of these in person yet yeah look at that 600 watts and the last thing in our box is in the aorus water Force x280 AIO liquid cooler this thing's got a super sick 330 degree rotatable full color LCD display so you can show custom text or images on there probably like the water temperatures if that's what you're into it's got extra thick tubing along with a slightly thicker radiator hopefully to improve thermal performance compared to you know your average AIO it is going to have mounting for am5 hopefully which is basically the same although I have noticed there's no graphics card in here so we're gonna need to get one there is some thermal paste at least we will be needing that and I'm gonna go find a graphics card so give me a sec what better than an AMD RTX 6900xt this is the Halo edition I don't know if it's really gonna like feng shui with our aorus motherboard but that's what I have look at that gold baby now that we've got everything out of the crate I guess it's time to pick a motherboard and between these two motherboards there's not a huge amount of differences but there are a few notable ones this is the ATX this is ATX the graphics card slot that's the main 16x slot is Gen 5 on this board Gen 4 on this one this one has two Gen 5 m.2 slots this one only has one this one's probably going to cost more definitely going to cost more but it's more baller so I think that's the one I'm gonna use this is still gonna be a great board it's got 2.5 gig Lan Wi-Fi 6E great power delivery but I usually tend to like the fancy stuff this one pcie Gen 5 on the graphics slot nice it also has 2.5 gig Lan like the other one it's going to have the same amount of phases on the power delivery although it does look like they have a little bit different caps on this one probably a little bit higher quality components you can have a little bit more advanced cooling on the vrms as well as m.2 thermal guard which is a big heatsink for the m.2 wow they were not kidding when they said this thing had an m.2 heatsink look at that that's gotta be enough to cool a CPU holy crap Brandon look at that look at the vrm heatsink that's straight up just like a graphics card he'd think it's they're not even trying to pretend like this is some like pretty thing they're like this thing needs cooling it's just a giant fin stack holy crap I wasn't gonna open this board because we're gonna be using this one I but I just wanted to show this for reference this is still no joke that's a big heatsink but that that is something else assuming you haven't been living under a rock for the last few months you'll already know this but if you have there is a very big change on the am5 platform and that is this socket has pins in it no longer is an AMD CPU gonna have a bunch of pins on the back and you're gonna be worried about bending them instead they're in the socket just like their epic platform interestingly enough they are using very similar brackets as the am4 platform you get like the little plastic hooky boys that your cooler grabs onto rather than having posts that you mount your own thing through I actually prefer this approach because it comes with an included back plate so if you're installing an AIO or a CPU Cooler of any sort and you're not really experienced it's a lot easier because the back Plate's already there you don't have to Fumble through a big bit I mean there's still a big bank but you don't have to fumble and try to figure out what backplate to use it's already on there we just have to take these off and I have my trusty lttstore.com screwdriver just for that I guess that brings us to our ramp this is a 6000 Mega transfer per second cl40 kit from aorus and then uh m.2 this is aorus's 7000s Gen 4 SSD they will be having Gen 5 ssds launch with this platform but we weren't able to get one on time unfortunately this is an ultra fast nvme 1.4 protocol supported drive with read speeds of up to seven gigabytes a second which which is really really fast the Gen 5 ssds you'll see somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 12 gigabytes a second so we got a lot of really fast storage coming our way these days I love that boards come with this now the m.2 boom it's installed no little screws to mess around with just a little cute little latch usually I wouldn't be putting a graphics card in while the motherboard's still in the box but I wanted to show you guys a little feature on a lot of high-end boards like this one put your graphics card in and you want to take it out but it's in the case you got to like stick a knife down the back to release the lock well not on this board you just press this little button it releases the lock pull the graphics card out I wanted to show you guys what easy latch looks like on this board it's a little bit of a simpler design just a little bit of an extended latch but it does still achieve the same thing it's a lot easier to remove you're also going to find that the pcie slots on this board are reinforced there's a little metal piece over top that increases the tensile strength by 2.2 times which means it's going to be able to support those big honking gpus with huge heat spreaders no problem one of the problems with am4's backplate despite me liking the back plate being there is it wasn't secured to anything so as soon as you take off those front brackets it would just be a loose well it looks like on this board the socket on the front screws into the back plate so I can pick this thing up I can shake it around I can put it in a case and my back plate isn't going to fall off which is freaking awesome despite me hyping up the ATX 3.0 Gen 5 ready 600 watt cable we're not going to be using that because we don't have those new gpus this GPU just uses two eight pins and so that's what we're going to use sweet I didn't realize but this cooler has fan and RGB leads actually on the radiator itself so you don't have to run all the fan cables back behind your computer and loop it back in from this part It's all where it actually needs to be which is super sweet look at that we got a complete system now uh I guess we can fire it up one thing to note on the New Zen 4 platform memory training which is the process of the CPU and the ram trying to figure out what speeds they can run at takes a while so turning on the system we were just sitting there for like a minute before it actually started to post so don't get worried give it a little bit more time and it'll probably turn on hey we're booted shout out to the new zen4 CPUs having an igpu I think I'm having an issue with this graphics card I haven't tried to troubleshoot it at all yet but with the igpu we're getting an output the system works ah as with any new build and especially one on a new platform there's a few things you're going to want to do before you jump into windows and just start gaming first and foremost is updating the BIOS now on this board there's a special USB port you can use to update the BIOS without even needing a CPU a GPU anything you just need to plug in the 24 pin and the CPU power plug in the USB and follow the procedure to update the board super easy once your bios is updated you're going to want to go in and enable AMD Expo which is their version of XMP that means you're going to get the full potential speed of your RAM instead of just running at the default speeds with this specific RAM and board by default we're running at 4 800 Mega transfer per second when we could be running at six thousand so just have to click enter to enable Expo you can see ddr5 6000cl40 and then just save and exit after you do enable Expo the board's probably get a memory train again so don't be scared if it takes you know a minute or two to boot after setting this all right that actually took like 20 seconds and we're back in the Bios and we see that sweet sweet 6 000 Mega transfer per second super fast another thing you can do in the Bios to improve your performance aside from enabling Expo is enabling PBO or Precision boost overdrive it's amd's built-in feature that allows your CPU to go beyond its stock power limits to get a little bit more performance so we're going to turn that on now we can play some games one of the cool features about these boards is the gigabyte control center now in here we can go in and tweak things like your CPU frequency you can go into RGB fusion and change the RGB I've set it to purple on the motherboard and the ram to match short circuit colors you can even go go in here and change your fan profile like I want full speed or I want quiet they also have an SSD tool that can give you some metrics about your SSD we got our gigabyte one in here it's telling us we have 100 life rating because it's brand new and we haven't used it it also comes with an update utility so you can update all of the drivers like your chipset drivers your RGB drivers all the different drivers that come with your motherboard so you don't have to go on their website and figure out oh which version do I need this one this one that one it just tells you which one and installs them for you you just click one button it's pretty sick I want to run a cinebench run I haven't seen these CPUs oh actually we don't even know what CPU it is yet maybe we should check it's a 16 core so it's got to be a 7950x wow holy sh look at that score Brandon that's faster than a 32 core second gen threadripper by like not an insignificant amount for reference the previous flag shipped the 5950x scored a 28 and a half thousand score we're at 35 and a half thousand that's a lot faster these clock speeds are crazy it's it's so insane to think that we just got this CPU put it in a motherboard and it's just chilling at 5.15 gigahertz like no overclock I mean we do have PBO on so it could be going beyond that but that's just freaking nuts I got cinebench running again in a 10 minute stress test just to kind of see where our temps are at um we are looking at about 95 degrees at the hottest but that's actually not that bad when you consider the PBO is on the CPU is allowed to go Way Beyond its stock TDP you can see we're running anywhere between 200 to 220 230 Watts yeah 230 Watts Peak that's a lot of heat and it's handling it all right so we're gaming in Halo infinite running 4K Ultra settings and we're getting well over 70 FPS 75 FPS depending on where we're at now obviously your FPS in a game is going to be a little bit more dependent on the graphics card but having a good CPU ensures you're making the most of your good graphics card that's very important oh look at these Frags let's go thanks to yours for sponsoring this video if you guys want to check out their motherboards we'll have a link down below especially for their x670 models for the new CPUs we'll also have all of the rest of the kit we tried out today in the description as well if you like this video maybe check out the iPhone 14 unboxing I just did that was super fun hit the like button get subscribed and I'll see you in the next one\n"