**Specs of this PC**

Before we get further into this video, I think it's a good time to mention the specs of this PC behind me. The CPUs are two Intel Xeon X 56 75 six-core CPUs with a base clock of 3.0 GHz. There's 48 gigs of RAM (which I don't think is ECC RAM), and then I've got a GTX 1060 Palet Super Jetstream as a GPU. For storage, I've got a 250 GB Samsung 860 Evo.

**Coolers**

I mentioned at various points in this video that the coolers used are Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition Evos. Unfortunately, they didn't attach to the motherboard nearly as easily as I thought they would. When I actually finished mounting the coolers to the motherboard, I was excited to put the motherboard back in the case. However, because of the grooves in the backplate of the case, it actually wouldn't fit. I had to cut off the backs of two of those square pins to have it slide in.

**Thermal Performance**

It's still arguable whether or not it was worth it, as this PC runs really hot with those stock loser coolers on. They do run hot, but they make a difference. The thermal performance of the two Cooler Master Hyper 212s is...

**Cinebench Scores**

First things first, the most exciting part: how does it do at Cinebench? And now with the Cinebench score out of the way, let's look at some gaming benchmarks.

**Gaming Benchmarks**

Before I get into the final productivity test that I did, let's just do a quick rundown of the benchmarks. Honestly, at 1080p, this PC performs really well. A lot of that is down to the GTX 1060, and it doesn't seem like the CPUs bottleneck it too much.

**Productivity Test**

One of the biggest issues with this system is the fact that it can't overclock, which hurts its Cinebench performance. I think because at 3 GHz each individual core just isn't fast enough. And if you take into consideration the fact that my AMD Ryzen 1700 XCP can get a thousand nine hundred points in Cinebench when overclocked, this PC just doesn't keep up.

**Buying an AMD Ryzen 1700 X4**

Honestly, for 1080p 60 frames per second gaming, this thing is a beast. Even with modern triple-A titles, I've been editing this video on it and it performs pretty well not amazingly but decently. A brief mention of one of the biggest issues for me when it comes to productivity with this PC is the fact that it doesn't have USB 3.

**Transferring Files**

It means transferring files from an external hard drive or an SD card takes really long.

**Sis's Real Benchmarks**

The final productivity benchmark I ran with this PC was Sis's real bench, which is a really well-balanced productivity benchmark. It got a hundred and twenty nineteen ninety-one, compared to the hundred and forty-five thousand four hundred and twenty-eight of a PC that uses an AMD 2700 X and a GTX 980.

**Thermal Performance (continued)**

The thermal performance of the two Cooler Master Hyper 212s is...

**Conclusion**

For $612 USD, I think this PC is a pretty good purchase. And because you can get the gaming performance at 1080p that you can get from this thing, I kind of think it's worth it.

**Final Thoughts**

That brings me to the end of the video now. I have an Instagram and a Twitter account so go and follow those if you want to. If you enjoyed this video do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one. And until next time, bye!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin this video we'll be taking these and turning it into this a dual Xeon 48 gig beast for under $700  buckle up because it wasn't easy hint because of these two guys now I think the best place to start  this story is with the purchase of my first HP z 800 server look at me here talking all proudly  about my new purchase now the seller did tell me that it wasn't working and he cited power supply  issues as the problem and then with a quick google of HP's at 800 power supply issues there seems to  be a very common issue with capacitors going bad in these power supplies and it seems to be fairly  user serviceable so I bought the PC and what I actually got it I opened up the power supply and  obviously I had no idea what was going on inside there wasn't like an obviously burst capacitor or  anything like that so I decided I and I'm quite embarrassed to admit this but I actually called  HP's customer service hotline and started asking the lady about how to actually diagnose a broken  capacitor in one of these power supplies quite understandably the lady was really confused as  to why I was digging around the insides of one of their power supplies and then she in a very  matter-of-fact tone of voice said well how do you know the power supply is broken and she was  right obviously how did I know the power supply was broken so I went through all of the steps of  diagnosing what was wrong with the Machine and then I ended up realizing that the motherboard  power supply cable wasn't making proper contact and when I pulled it out a little bit the PC  action he switched on so then I pushed it back in hoping that it would continue to work because you  know it would have proper contact now or whatever and well it didn't so when I started fishing  around for that point where it switched on again I accidentally set fire to a graphics card rest in  peace my good old friend sorry for destroying you in your prime really catching on fire isn't the  most ideal way to die and at this point I was actually worried that I had destroyed both of  the Zeon X 56 75 CPUs as well and all 48 gigs of RAM but I decided to power ahead with my endeavor  anyway so then I started to look for a different solution and weirdly enough the easiest one was  also the cheapest one I found a website that sells refurbished old HP servers and they per grudgingly  sold me an HP z800 server with no CPUs and no Ram init which is like the only components I really  cared about the first PC and they actually sold it to me for less money than just buying a Hz  800 power supply off of ebay and this actually brings me to the build portion of this video  and with that it's time to actually see whether the conglomeration of the components  between the two machines actually works and our first things first we have to actually set the  CPUs in the correct position I love the fact that I have to say CPUs multiple and not just one very  excited to see how this PC performs the big issue with this motherboard is that it doesn't have the  triangle in the corner of the socket to kind of help you determine which way around you need to  put the CPU in so you have to kind of match the pin array to the actual socket which is obviously  not ideal sorry I looked like there was some bent pins in that no I think no worry I'm gonna clean  them a bit better before I put a new thermal paste on and there's no crunching sound when I close the  actual CPU socket so that's good all the pins on being destroyed so let me give them a good  wife town it's the final wipe down and then I'm gonna mount the actual coolers now as far as CPU  coolers go I'm not going to use the little dainty loser CPU coolers I'm actually gonna replace them  with these two of them this is the black edition of the hyper 212 I've seen a video on YouTube of  someone mounting them in this case so that's why I actually chose them because there's not much  clearance and according to the video you can just screw the standoffs that comes with the  cooler straight into the motherboard backplate so that you don't have to remove the motherboard  from the case now unfortunately I've run into a little bit of a snag so over here is the actual  kind of standoff that you have to screw into the motherboard to be able to mount that cooler master  cooler and the actual hole for a standoff screwing in the backplate is a tiny bit too small I took  the motherboard out because I thought that I could just remove the backplate and use my own back  plate but the backplate is actually a part of this socket so there's no way to remove it so I think  I have two options at this point one of them is I could just use the stock coolers on this and then  be done with it but that's really lame so then I have a second option which is to drill out the  actual screw holes there but that's terrifying taking a drill to a mounting or two mounting  hardware that's actually attached to a motherboard yeah so I'm gonna see how that pans out I'm gonna  get a drill and I'm gonna kind of see how terrifying that's gonna be okay so we're just  gonna have to take a quick moment to appreciate the fact that I am a genius because I figured out  a way to mount it now as you can see here with the actual AMD mounting hardware it uses these screws  through the back of the actual backplate which I'll illustrate with some b-roll so then the screw  comes up through the base so that you can attach these standoffs and then actually mount the coolernow that I've macgyvered the CPU coolers on to the CPUs it's time to actually see whether  or not this PC works now the last try that I had in the first configuration of the PC the  graphics card actually caught on fire like I mentioned earlier so I'm quite scared I'm not  going to put like a 1060 which I'm going to use eventually into the PC on the first try because  I don't want to destroy it so over here we have a sacrificial GPU it's a GTX 285 and  it's not worth much so that's kind of why we're gonna use that in the PC if it catches on fire  it's not going to be a disaster so let's put it in there and see how it goes so now that  I've effectively infuriated an ax plugged everything in including the sacrificial GPU  hopefully it works I'm really hoping that everything doesn't catch on fire because I  spent so much time on this already and I'm not even done with it yet okay so I know  you can kind of point at the PC there's some cables in the fans that's already a bad signI think it lives well we've got that going got this going so the peripherals are lighting up  it hasn't beeped yet oh the monitor might be off actually oh and it's on the huh it's on the wrong  source as well I'm just building tension here guys it's all I'm doing and now there's no oh  it lives okay so now what we're gonna do is we're gonna install Windows on it and we're  gonna see how it works so we know that it's not destroying graphics cards so I'm gonna plug the  1060 into it and we're also gonna paint the actual side panels because they're a bit scratched up so  we're gonna sand it down and gonna make sure that that looks all sexy like you saw in the intro  we have the two panels over there I'm actually going to sand them first because  they've got a bunch of scratches and stuff in them which I want to sand out and then  I'm gonna paint it now the reason that I'm not gonna just sand them down and use the kind of  like a brushed aluminium finish is because I've tried to hand sand a brushed aluminium finish in  two aluminium before and it wasted hours of my life and it still didn't work so I'm not going  to do that to myself I'm just gonna sand it and paint it I'm actually gonna film it through the  window so it's gonna be pretty ghetto but it's just gonna be a quick time-lapse anywaynow before we get any further into this video I think it's an actual good time to mention the  specs of this pc behind me here now the cpus are two intel xeon x 56 75 six core cpus with a base  clock of 3.0 five gigahertz there's 48 gigs of ram which I don't think is ECC Ram I've then got a GTX  1060 palette super Jetstream as a GPU and that and for storage I've got a 250 gig samsung 860 Evo the  actual coolers that I'm using like I mentioned at various points in this video are cooler master  hyper 212 Black Edition Evos which ended up not attaching nearly as easily as I thought they would  now when I actually finished mounting the coolers to the motherboard I was really excited to put the  motherboard back in the case but unfortunately because of the grooves in the backplate of the  case it actually wouldn't fit so I had to cut the backs of two of those square pins off to have it  actually slide in and it is arguable whether or not it was worth it because this PC can't  actually overclock but they do run really hot with those stock loser coolers on so it's still gonna  make a difference now first things first the most exciting part how does it do at Cinebenchand now with the Cinebench score out of the way let's  look at some gaming benchmarksnow before I get into the final productivity test that I did let's just do a quick rundown  of the benchmarks and honestly at 1080p this PC performs really well but a lot of that is  down to the GTX 1060 and it doesn't seem like the CPUs bottleneck it too much but one of the  biggest issues with this system is the fact that it can't overclock and that's what hurts  it's a Cinebench performance I think because at 3 gigahertz each individual core just isn't fast  enough and if you take into consideration the fact that my AMD dries in 1700 xcp you  when overclocked can get a thousand nine hundred points in Cinebench this PC just doesn't keep up  and honestly you can buy a 1700 x4 not very much money and it would also perform a bit better in  gaming honestly for 1080p 60 frames per second gaming this thing is a beast even with modern  triple-a titles and I've been editing this video on it and it performs pretty well not  amazingly but it performs decently now a brief mention of one of the biggest issues for me when  it comes to productivity with this PC is the fact that it doesn't have USB 3 so it means  transferring files from an external hard drive or an SD card takes really long now the final  productivity benchmark I ran with this PC is a sis's real bench which is a really well balanced  productivity benchmark and it got a hundred and twenty 1991 which compared to the hundred  and forty five thousand four hundred and twenty eight of a PC that uses an AMD 2700 X and a gtx  980 and it isn't amazing and here is the thermal performance of the two cooler master hyper 212  on the Zeon's in conclusion for 612 US dollars I think this PC is a pretty good purchase and  because you can get the gaming performance at 1080p that you can get from this thing I kind  of think it's worth it and that brings me to the end of the video now I have an Instagram  and a Twitter account so go and follow those if you want to if you enjoyed this video do like  and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until next one boy