**The Reality of Building and Using a Custom Gaming PC**

Many have talked about the fact that 7,000 series CPU and AM5 just won't even post with four sticks at any speed, even stock speeds. A lot of people complained about this issue, and I don't know if it's improved. I'm excited to play around with my system now that it's put together, even though I had a test bench. Now that I'm forced to use this daily PC, I can try out different settings and see how things have changed.

**Long-term User Report on the New CPUs**

This is also an open letter to NZXT again, regarding some real weirdness with their design choices. One of the issues is with the F360 frame fan that comes in the case. It's called a "frame fan" because it's installed on the front of the case, but what's interesting about this fan is that it has a breakout cable with a three-pin connection - not PWM (Pulse Width Modulation), which is unusual for a modern PC fan. The connection is also not standard, as it uses an NZXT connector that looks similar to a JST connector but is slightly different.

The twist is that the fan comes in the box with four-pin pwm fan and flat connectors, but the cables next to it are for the ARGB (Addressable RGB) lighting system. This means that you need to use an adapter that comes with the kit to get the same breakout as what's already installed on the front of the case - the F360 frame fan. However, I was surprised to find that the hub that came in the separate box doesn't even have this flat connector, so I had to use the adapter anyway.

This is like perpetuating a problem that I've complained about for many years, where other brands have gotten better at designing their cable systems and connectors. Unfortunately, NZXT still has some issues with their design choices, such as using separate skew for the front fans in this case - why not use the same skew that exists in the standalone hubs? This seems like a logistical problem that's hard to understand.

Fortunately, one of my only gripes regarding the cables is that I don't have a per-fan adapter for each of the 9 different fan connections. I only have three adapters, which is weird - it's nice to have fewer adapters, but it still counts! And I had to use another adapter for the rear fan because it also has a pigtail-type connection.

**Getting Back into AMD**

This system will be an opportunity for me to really play around with AMD again and get that system on display. I haven't used AMD in a while - since my home system was the 7950 X3D, actually. I did make a video about why I'm switching back, which wasn't clickbait, but rather just my long-term user experience. Some of the issues I've experienced with AMD are not necessarily problems, but rather things that are hard to figure out.

One thing that's consistently good about AMD is their RAM. The current setup is running at 5200 MHz, which is fine for me. So far, everything has been smooth sailing. However, there may be some updates on the horizon with the microcode, and I'm excited to see how things will play out.

**Personal Perspective**

What CPU are you running? Are you currently team Intel, waiting for the microcode updates, or just happy with your current rig? As for me, I don't really have a side - I'm just a computer enthusiast who wants to use whatever works best. For now, I'm still in the "team red" camp, but that's more of a joke than anything serious.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI'm going to replace this today hey day d d what we got work to do yeah I'm playing World of Warships World of Warships is the free-to-play naval strategy game where you command the most iconic and famous warships from World War I and World War II recreated with stunning detail and accuracy build your Fleet while participating in various game types while upgrading your ship's Arsenal along the way new players who sign up using my link below will receive an exclusive starter pack to get you up and running quickly by receiving 7 Days Premium Time 1 million credits 300 to blooms and the tier five premium ship the exitor so what are you guys waiting for start sinking ships of w warships by heading to the description below and getting your freebie this is my EVGA E1 tribute build yes this is an MSI 490 um Supreme X water cooled thing remember what I talked about I was stopped using my RTX 490 from EVGA the N 490 well it's over here on the wall now because I was like I want to stop using this and have it potentially die so I figure it's probably time to retire this whole rig from day-to-day use cuz I don't want to kill my EVGA motherboard or not to mention it's got EK water cooling stuff in here but this was a tribute build that I did for evj not for evj but for myself with evj stuff including the E1 yeah police yeah but this was the E1 build with their carbon fiber chassis and it was just a fun build to do and I've been using it as my workstation here now for the better part of a year um anyway because it's open chassis and we're in a Dusty environment it is filthy so I'm going to put the 490 back in here and I'm going to put this on display back here with my EVGA wall and I'm going to kind of like reconfigure this so the PCS in the middle and the graphics cards are like around it and then there we have this really cool 3D printed EVGA sign that's supposed to light up that we made two years ago that I have yet to put together and we'll finally get that done right so that means I need to build myself a new workstation so that's really the point of today's video is I'm going to be trying out a bunch of stuff I haven't used before but I'm switching back to AMD and I think given and fun fact this 13900 K is a golden sample this thing with this sure this EK water block has a severe amount of mass to it but I never exceed like 75c at 320 Watts it's insane maybe the EVGA logic is still better than the all the other crap motherboard companies out there that were pushing the stuff too far another reason why I miss EVGA because their stuff was good and now that I feel like we don't have them in the market anymore we just are limited to I guess the stuff being really kind of forced Upon Us in the industry so anyway this will be made together as you see it not with the GPU though as a tribute build back here in the back wall the only thing I'm going to take out of here for my system is my drive and I'm going to be moving it over here and letting AMD reinitialize and install its own drivers and stuff so I'm going to set this out of the way actually first I need to take the GPU out so I can get to my uh SSD which is under the GPU cuz it's a vertical Mount so it aside and then I'm going to build my new system over here let me get this out of the way and we'll talk about the parts so the chassis I'm going to be using here is the H7 flow RGB it's like the new version they actually revised this a little bit um it's got the what do they call it the f360 it's like a framed in 360 fan shroud thing so it's one fan connection with three fans in it which is pretty awesome also too that doesn't take up too much room cuz it's not a it's like a hybrid dual chamber it's kind of like a dual chamber but not really so it's not the full width of like an 011 type case or like H9 or anything like that so we are going to move that over here to the side um I have white because that's what they sent this is be the first time I've ever had a white PC for work to be honest which is good because it doesn't use up a lot or doesn't show a lot of dust and stuff okay so here is the uh CP already talked about the 7950 X 3D I was going to go with the standard 7950 X I've used the x3d at home had all kinds of weirdness with it when it came to Ram so I'm really hoping that I'm not going to run into those types of issues with this build although though this build does not have the same level of um I was going to say the same level of crucial but that that'd be a crucial Ram reference which we are putting in the white uh crucial Pro in here because there's no RGB and it'll look sick but uh so at home I had a lot of weirdness when it came to Ram compatibility but I also was running it like right when it came out so a lot of BIOS updates and stuff were supposed to address that so I'm really kind of curious as to how it is now but since my system is like we're not editing on it or anything like that all of the work that we access is in the cloud so we do we do online based stuff so all of my spreadsheets and charts and our server and all that it's not located on a on my system so if something starts acting weird I can still have access to other stuff if I have to play around with changing out RAM and all that I didn't really ever have crashes or anything like that I mean I had blue screens related to Ram but once I slowed down the Ram uh at home I didn't really have that many problems with it so I'm really kind of excited to use this over the standard 7950 X cuz I can really compare the improvements from when I switched about a year ago to uh an Intel based system at home it'll be the my first AMD system ever at work personally Nick's on an AMD system but I've been using Intel the whole time so it should be interesting Ram as I already mentioned white crucial uh ddr5 Pro it what's the speed on this the transfer rate on this is 6,000 I probably won't get 6,000 on my x3d that's the problem the the speed I had a problem with before but fortunately crucial does have an expo uh rating as well so we'll see how those perform the motherboard I already talked about this in our Microcenter video um it's the ORS extreme it's the x670 ORS extreme it's like 550 bucks it's a very expensive motherboard The Superficial reason I got this motherboard is for the built-in 10g ethernet which I need for our server and I still want to use my vertical Mount right here so I can't use a 10g Nick that uses pcie slot so I went with an expensive motherboard cuz it was the only one that had 10g so it was a very superficial reason it is a very diminished return I don't recommend this type of motherboard for this typ type of build for instance if the 10g wasn't an issue I'd probably go with something like this this is the steel Legend from gigabyte uh gigabyte or a rock ack oh this azrock yeah so it would it would match the Aesthetics a lot better you can see on the back it's like this white kind of a snow camo looking thing I think it would look sick in this build but um this is like $299 I think which is still expensive for a motherboard but really they're both x670 e so we're going to get the same benefit of both the orus is overkill for this build I just want to point that out so don't copy this build thinking it's efficient in cost because it's honestly not especially since I bought a 490 accelerate card because of the fact that I don't have any aircooled 490s other than my Founders Edition card which has to remain available for benchmarks so I could have stepped down to a white 4080 super but you know it's also super my ego and it will not allow me to go from a 4090 down to a 4080 super which I know is stupid the logical part of my brain says Jay you're aing for thinking a 4080 super on your Alienware 3440 X 1440 OLED panel is not enough because it is it's way more than enough I even went from a 4K panel down to 3440 by 1440 gaining me less less pixels and more performance I would have never known the difference other than the fact that I know there be no nine on it so again that's the important part do as I say which is don't copy this build as an efficiency build for cost because it's stupid which is why it's awesome okay moving on I talked about the NZXT stuff like I said they did sponsor all of the the case and fans and power supply and the cooler for this build so these are the two f360 fan frames if you will I think the F stands for frame they're 360s I have them in at 240 as well for a second there I said I wouldn't they make 120s but that would have been the stupidest comment I would have made today uh and I made plenty of them today anyway I digress so it's one frame with one connector one argb connector which does come and and NZXT was like made it a point to mention that it does come with like a jst type adapter to go from their plug to a motherboard header which is great that way you don't have to use cam to control all this if you don't want to so you can control the fans off your motherboard and any argb controller that you want outside of Cam which I think is great anyway they sent two of these that way I can put one of these on the AIO so they match and then one of these in the bottom and it already comes with one inside the the case so I have three of these essentially so that's kind of nice and then what I can do is I can take the one of the RGB fans off of the aiio and put it in the rear if I want just that way it matches um a AR argb is not something I care about for this build I'm probably going to just set them all to white or ice blue or something like that I just like I did on my system the EVGA system it was all set to White it didn't RGB puke or anything and then they sent a couple of these in case we need them um these are just RGB fan and controller hubs which again can be controlled entirely off of your motherboard so if you don't have enough headers and stuff you can use this six RGB lighting channels and three fan channels okay so it's more than likely going to have to be used with Cam but you can add channels that way which is kind of nice because Splitters you have a limited amount of RGB LEDs that'll work on the channel and then this is just an internal USB hub if you don't have enough USBS on your motherboard not going to need that they just sent it just in case um let's talk about the power supply for oh well this is the vertical Mount I already did a video about this one of the best vertical mounts I think you can buy for the money it's about 50 bucks um I don't know if the price shows on here yeah shows 50 bucks it's adjustable in and in and out away from the glass and sliding left and right inside the case comes with the Riser cable which is a pcie Gen 4 Riser cable which is fine cuz 490s are still Gen 4 so that's just so I can do the vertical Mount which is the whole reason why I'm going a more expensive motherboard so I don't have to buy or even use that I already have a 10g nit card you see how I'm saying this is like some of the most stupid rationale and elitists type thing you can think of so again don't do as I do here's the power supply we're talking Overkill it's a c500 okay why because it's what they sent I think a th000 watt would have been fine anyway this is their newest digital power supply and it's kind of neat because and if you're wondering if it's any good or not Steve's advertising it so it must be great just pointing that out right now if you're like why are you using this stupid power supply well then you just called Steve stupid anyway so it's the latest of their C- series power supplies It's All Digital and it's actually using the C gentics type of efficiency and noise ratings which is a more stringent standard when it comes to uh power supply ratings cuz it rates noise it it checks more uh efficiency points along the curve rather than just the Four Points 80 plus does and it checks other things like uh vampire power and and standby idle power and all kinds of other what cybernetics says is above and beyond the current 80 plus rating stuff so NZXT is now certifying their power supplies with the cybernetics ratings which I think is pretty awesome every time I say Cy cybernetics I think I'm saying cybernetics and I think it's going to like transform into a robot and do something cool but it's just going to transform electrons from the wall to a very usable digital output for my PC that hopefully won't damage anything because it's all digitally controlled now the cables in this in my opinion uh they just have the big fat sleeve rather than individual like cables or individual cable sleeving it's just a single bundle so I'm going to try these out uh these are the easy DIY sleeved cable extensions in ice white so what ice white means is the plug is white and the cable sleeve is white you can get them in regular white which has a black plug on the end rather than ice white now this does have 12vt high power it's not 12vt 2x6 hopefully it should be fine but it also I thought it had I thought I ordered one that had a pci5 plug on each end it doesn't this one has four PCI Express on the end and it is just an extension cable I may or may not use these cables we we'll see I just thought it would be the ultimate like icing no pun intended on the cake to have these cables on there you know in the white build but because my GPU is black and my motherboard is black their black cable might not look terrible and because I'm vertical mounting it you're not going to see much of it anyway so anyway I I'll see whether or not I'm going to use these the price point on these is really aggressive aggressively affordable I think the entire set was like 30 bucks for these so I've really become a fan of easy DIY because they're coming out with so and this is not sponsored this is just my opinion I've been using them for a while now they come out with things that are in my opinion Enthusiast type products at an affordable price so that's why easy di wise really easy easy to get behind and then for the cooler this is my Kraken Elite 360 RGB already did a video about this NZXT didn't send it in fact they were even like we don't care what cooler you use it use any cooler you want um but I figured if I'm going to use cam already potentially for um I don't know if I need to install cam I do need to run cam if I'm going to have the screen and stuff work but I don't have a problem with that honestly I've used cam in the past and it's really improved from what it was way back in the day I think a lot of people are just really stuck in the old days when it used a lot of resources but I digress um it's going to be plenty for my 7950 x3d which is a 120 W TDP part I think it's 170 Watts for the non x3d and that's because the x3d CCD has a lower um max frequency than the other CCD so it actually doesn't need as much power as a 7950 X so compared to like us being used to 253 plus Watts on Intel this is clearly going to get the job done just fine when it comes to thermals anyway it's been a while since we've had Phil really get to squirt his creative juices all over you guys so that's what we're going to do today by by Montage that's what I montage w he m well there it is my extremely Overkill very LED bright computer uh anyway couple things so I did boot it up and we immediately started playing around with uh you know PBO and it's been a while since I ran the 7950 x3d unfortunately I still cannot run run the Ram at 6,000 Expo I said I probably wouldn't be able to and I do have other Ram kits I can play around with if I want but uh it's running at 5200 megat transfers right now that's fine like I said I'm not doing anything that's Ram intensive at all I mean it could help gaming a little bit but I think the the VD or the 3D V cache is going to help me more than additional RAM speed would at this point lighting nothing crazy um the accelerate card I hate these red stickers on the front hate the fact that they have a red logo so we're just going to end up cutting our own stickers to cover that just with our crck cut with the black plain sticker there um which will look good but I didn't do anything crazy with the lighting I just went with kind of an ice blue and then a purple with a vapor wave sort of thing I like that those colors I'm an ' 80s kid I love Vapor wave but let's talk about one of the real reasons why I chose AMD is because of everything going on with Intel right now I just felt like it was time to really just kind of see how things have improved with amds since I stopped using them on a daily basis about a year ago and I'm going to tell you right now I'm pretty impressed with the performance actually by just going in doing a quick and dirty minus 30 on the uh curb Optimizer I'm getting 5.2 GHz on the ccd1 which is the nonv uh 3D V cache and I'm getting a 5 GHz all core on the uh 3D V cache and that's a quick and dirty minus 30 so I could probably even get a little bit more but to be honest it doesn't really matter um I went with like a little kind of a reactor looking electrical deal behind my LCD on the NZXT I don't know if I'll leave it it makes it kind of hard to see the text and zc if you're listening add drop shadow to the text it make it easier to see in situations like this or an outline or something that we can adjust I know that's that's easy for you guys to do so add that also too please make F 420s make triple 420 fans or something for the front of this because that would be awesome there's just a lot of dead space around the front that looks kind of silly from the front but I think if they were filled out with 140s it' be great I'm also very surprised at how much air flow there is uh through this mesh so there's no filters built into this the the mesh itself is the filter but the amount of air that still pulling in through these these these mesh panels is actually kind of insane um I'm I'm kind of surprised to be honest it was really good but yeah the whole point of this honestly like I said was was twofold to get my E1 system on display which is where I always intended it to be I never really intended it to be my daily driver PC um and then two with all the Intel stuff to just go back to team red for a while see how things are over there one of the unique things about this kind of job is the fact that I can just jump back and forth over the fence and be like oh the grass is greener over there oh hey they've been watering let's go back over there oh there's a little weedy over here now let's go back over there you know um also one other thing I think was kind of neat if you look at the wiring you'll see most of it is completely hidden I was able to move the cable cover back over to the left closer to the motherboard which like kind of covers the right side actually it covers the QR code readout a little bit too based on the angle you're looking at it but that's okay which really stealthed in the cables so you I have the white cable extensions on there but you can't really see them because they're behind it's behind the cover you can see the EPS cables there but again they're white and way up top where you can't really notice them but I think it's an ultra Sleek looking build I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out not a whole lot of complaint so far other than the fact that on for whatever reason AMD CPUs just can't handle very fast ddr5 which is unfortunately one of the benefits of R5 which is not a benefit you can take advantage of on AMD and I'm not running four sticks of ram because we also know AMD with the same sensitivity I'm talking about with mega transfers or the speed of the ram it's also very sensitive to four sticks of ram many have talked about the fact that 7,000 series CPU and am5 just won't even post with four sticks at any speed even stock speeds a lot of complained about that I don't know if that's improved I can play around with it now that I have this system put together even though I had the test bench but now that I'm forced to use this daily I can play around with it and see how things have improved and then when 9,000 Series stuff is out and we get some extra CPUs for that I can throw one in here and really start messing around with that on a daily basis which gives you a much more long-term user report on what it's like for the new CPUs rather than running them through a couple of days worth of test a bench test so um this is also an open letter to NZXT again there's some real weirdness with a couple of choices that you decided to make one the f360 the frame fan they call it the frame fan that's what F stands for the frame fan that comes in the case has a breakout cable has it's a normal three pin first of all not a pwm so it's a DC controlled fan which is weird um and it's got a three pin on one side and then the other side has an argb and NZXT connector it looks just like a kind of like a jst connector but a little different it's not a jsd which has a pigtail to a normal argb so you could use it with a motherboard or a hub the ones that you buy separately that came in the Box have this flat connector which is just the fan connectors and which are four pin by the way four pin fans pwm fan and then the wires next to it are for the argb then you have to use this adapter that comes with it that gives you the same breakout that I just described as what's already installed on the front FS but I don't The Hub that they provided me doesn't even have that flat connector so I had to use the adapter anyway on their Hub so unless there's another Hub that uses a different connector than the Hub that came either in the separate box I showed or even the Hub that came with the aiio they're all different this is like perpetuating a problem that I've complained about for many many years that other brands have definitely started getting better at course I'm looking at you it's gotten better with link unfortunately link has another plethora of problems that have that have sort of crept up through that closed off ecosystem so I don't know why you have a separate skew for the front fans that are existing in this case rather than just using the same skew that exists in the Standalone so that seems like a logistical problem I don't know why that exists I'd also love to know what Hub uses that flat connector I haven't gone looking at their catalog to see but if that's if that's the case why didn't you send me that Hub I don't I just I just think it's almost like I'm back to a problem I thought we had solved a long time ago my my only gripe regarding the cables fortunately because I don't have one of those per fan I don't have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine of those stupid adapters I just have one two three of them which is weird I mean it's nice to only have three versus 12 but or nine whatever that counts to oh yeah and then I had to use an adapter obviously for the rear fan because that fan also has the same like pigtail type of deal as the front right here but I believe if I'm not mistaken the rear fan was actually a pwm so why is the front only a three pin DC fan whatever so there you go guys this is an opportunity for me to really play around with AMD again and then get that system on display like I wanted and uh it's been a while since I've used AMD actually ever since my home system was the 7950 X 3D I hadn't touched it I did a whole video too about why I'm switching back and it's not clickbait it's just use long-term user experience and some of the issues I wouldn't say issues I've experienced so far is just the ram ram is the most consistent thing with AMD and I I think deow has even talked about like why is Ram so hard for AMD to figure out but that's all right we're running at 5200 that's good enough all right guys thanks for watching what CPU are you running are you running away from Intel currently waiting for the micro code updates or are you just like hell yeah team red let's go I'm team computer so I really don't have a side but right now I guess I'm team red in my blue PCI'm going to replace this today hey day d d what we got work to do yeah I'm playing World of Warships World of Warships is the free-to-play naval strategy game where you command the most iconic and famous warships from World War I and World War II recreated with stunning detail and accuracy build your Fleet while participating in various game types while upgrading your ship's Arsenal along the way new players who sign up using my link below will receive an exclusive starter pack to get you up and running quickly by receiving 7 Days Premium Time 1 million credits 300 to blooms and the tier five premium ship the exitor so what are you guys waiting for start sinking ships of w warships by heading to the description below and getting your freebie this is my EVGA E1 tribute build yes this is an MSI 490 um Supreme X water cooled thing remember what I talked about I was stopped using my RTX 490 from EVGA the N 490 well it's over here on the wall now because I was like I want to stop using this and have it potentially die so I figure it's probably time to retire this whole rig from day-to-day use cuz I don't want to kill my EVGA motherboard or not to mention it's got EK water cooling stuff in here but this was a tribute build that I did for evj not for evj but for myself with evj stuff including the E1 yeah police yeah but this was the E1 build with their carbon fiber chassis and it was just a fun build to do and I've been using it as my workstation here now for the better part of a year um anyway because it's open chassis and we're in a Dusty environment it is filthy so I'm going to put the 490 back in here and I'm going to put this on display back here with my EVGA wall and I'm going to kind of like reconfigure this so the PCS in the middle and the graphics cards are like around it and then there we have this really cool 3D printed EVGA sign that's supposed to light up that we made two years ago that I have yet to put together and we'll finally get that done right so that means I need to build myself a new workstation so that's really the point of today's video is I'm going to be trying out a bunch of stuff I haven't used before but I'm switching back to AMD and I think given and fun fact this 13900 K is a golden sample this thing with this sure this EK water block has a severe amount of mass to it but I never exceed like 75c at 320 Watts it's insane maybe the EVGA logic is still better than the all the other crap motherboard companies out there that were pushing the stuff too far another reason why I miss EVGA because their stuff was good and now that I feel like we don't have them in the market anymore we just are limited to I guess the stuff being really kind of forced Upon Us in the industry so anyway this will be made together as you see it not with the GPU though as a tribute build back here in the back wall the only thing I'm going to take out of here for my system is my drive and I'm going to be moving it over here and letting AMD reinitialize and install its own drivers and stuff so I'm going to set this out of the way actually first I need to take the GPU out so I can get to my uh SSD which is under the GPU cuz it's a vertical Mount so it aside and then I'm going to build my new system over here let me get this out of the way and we'll talk about the parts so the chassis I'm going to be using here is the H7 flow RGB it's like the new version they actually revised this a little bit um it's got the what do they call it the f360 it's like a framed in 360 fan shroud thing so it's one fan connection with three fans in it which is pretty awesome also too that doesn't take up too much room cuz it's not a it's like a hybrid dual chamber it's kind of like a dual chamber but not really so it's not the full width of like an 011 type case or like H9 or anything like that so we are going to move that over here to the side um I have white because that's what they sent this is be the first time I've ever had a white PC for work to be honest which is good because it doesn't use up a lot or doesn't show a lot of dust and stuff okay so here is the uh CP already talked about the 7950 X 3D I was going to go with the standard 7950 X I've used the x3d at home had all kinds of weirdness with it when it came to Ram so I'm really hoping that I'm not going to run into those types of issues with this build although though this build does not have the same level of um I was going to say the same level of crucial but that that'd be a crucial Ram reference which we are putting in the white uh crucial Pro in here because there's no RGB and it'll look sick but uh so at home I had a lot of weirdness when it came to Ram compatibility but I also was running it like right when it came out so a lot of BIOS updates and stuff were supposed to address that so I'm really kind of curious as to how it is now but since my system is like we're not editing on it or anything like that all of the work that we access is in the cloud so we do we do online based stuff so all of my spreadsheets and charts and our server and all that it's not located on a on my system so if something starts acting weird I can still have access to other stuff if I have to play around with changing out RAM and all that I didn't really ever have crashes or anything like that I mean I had blue screens related to Ram but once I slowed down the Ram uh at home I didn't really have that many problems with it so I'm really kind of excited to use this over the standard 7950 X cuz I can really compare the improvements from when I switched about a year ago to uh an Intel based system at home it'll be the my first AMD system ever at work personally Nick's on an AMD system but I've been using Intel the whole time so it should be interesting Ram as I already mentioned white crucial uh ddr5 Pro it what's the speed on this the transfer rate on this is 6,000 I probably won't get 6,000 on my x3d that's the problem the the speed I had a problem with before but fortunately crucial does have an expo uh rating as well so we'll see how those perform the motherboard I already talked about this in our Microcenter video um it's the ORS extreme it's the x670 ORS extreme it's like 550 bucks it's a very expensive motherboard The Superficial reason I got this motherboard is for the built-in 10g ethernet which I need for our server and I still want to use my vertical Mount right here so I can't use a 10g Nick that uses pcie slot so I went with an expensive motherboard cuz it was the only one that had 10g so it was a very superficial reason it is a very diminished return I don't recommend this type of motherboard for this typ type of build for instance if the 10g wasn't an issue I'd probably go with something like this this is the steel Legend from gigabyte uh gigabyte or a rock ack oh this azrock yeah so it would it would match the Aesthetics a lot better you can see on the back it's like this white kind of a snow camo looking thing I think it would look sick in this build but um this is like $299 I think which is still expensive for a motherboard but really they're both x670 e so we're going to get the same benefit of both the orus is overkill for this build I just want to point that out so don't copy this build thinking it's efficient in cost because it's honestly not especially since I bought a 490 accelerate card because of the fact that I don't have any aircooled 490s other than my Founders Edition card which has to remain available for benchmarks so I could have stepped down to a white 4080 super but you know it's also super my ego and it will not allow me to go from a 4090 down to a 4080 super which I know is stupid the logical part of my brain says Jay you're aing for thinking a 4080 super on your Alienware 3440 X 1440 OLED panel is not enough because it is it's way more than enough I even went from a 4K panel down to 3440 by 1440 gaining me less less pixels and more performance I would have never known the difference other than the fact that I know there be no nine on it so again that's the important part do as I say which is don't copy this build as an efficiency build for cost because it's stupid which is why it's awesome okay moving on I talked about the NZXT stuff like I said they did sponsor all of the the case and fans and power supply and the cooler for this build so these are the two f360 fan frames if you will I think the F stands for frame they're 360s I have them in at 240 as well for a second there I said I wouldn't they make 120s but that would have been the stupidest comment I would have made today uh and I made plenty of them today anyway I digress so it's one frame with one connector one argb connector which does come and and NZXT was like made it a point to mention that it does come with like a jst type adapter to go from their plug to a motherboard header which is great that way you don't have to use cam to control all this if you don't want to so you can control the fans off your motherboard and any argb controller that you want outside of Cam which I think is great anyway they sent two of these that way I can put one of these on the AIO so they match and then one of these in the bottom and it already comes with one inside the the case so I have three of these essentially so that's kind of nice and then what I can do is I can take the one of the RGB fans off of the aiio and put it in the rear if I want just that way it matches um a AR argb is not something I care about for this build I'm probably going to just set them all to white or ice blue or something like that I just like I did on my system the EVGA system it was all set to White it didn't RGB puke or anything and then they sent a couple of these in case we need them um these are just RGB fan and controller hubs which again can be controlled entirely off of your motherboard so if you don't have enough headers and stuff you can use this six RGB lighting channels and three fan channels okay so it's more than likely going to have to be used with Cam but you can add channels that way which is kind of nice because Splitters you have a limited amount of RGB LEDs that'll work on the channel and then this is just an internal USB hub if you don't have enough USBS on your motherboard not going to need that they just sent it just in case um let's talk about the power supply for oh well this is the vertical Mount I already did a video about this one of the best vertical mounts I think you can buy for the money it's about 50 bucks um I don't know if the price shows on here yeah shows 50 bucks it's adjustable in and in and out away from the glass and sliding left and right inside the case comes with the Riser cable which is a pcie Gen 4 Riser cable which is fine cuz 490s are still Gen 4 so that's just so I can do the vertical Mount which is the whole reason why I'm going a more expensive motherboard so I don't have to buy or even use that I already have a 10g nit card you see how I'm saying this is like some of the most stupid rationale and elitists type thing you can think of so again don't do as I do here's the power supply we're talking Overkill it's a c500 okay why because it's what they sent I think a th000 watt would have been fine anyway this is their newest digital power supply and it's kind of neat because and if you're wondering if it's any good or not Steve's advertising it so it must be great just pointing that out right now if you're like why are you using this stupid power supply well then you just called Steve stupid anyway so it's the latest of their C- series power supplies It's All Digital and it's actually using the C gentics type of efficiency and noise ratings which is a more stringent standard when it comes to uh power supply ratings cuz it rates noise it it checks more uh efficiency points along the curve rather than just the Four Points 80 plus does and it checks other things like uh vampire power and and standby idle power and all kinds of other what cybernetics says is above and beyond the current 80 plus rating stuff so NZXT is now certifying their power supplies with the cybernetics ratings which I think is pretty awesome every time I say Cy cybernetics I think I'm saying cybernetics and I think it's going to like transform into a robot and do something cool but it's just going to transform electrons from the wall to a very usable digital output for my PC that hopefully won't damage anything because it's all digitally controlled now the cables in this in my opinion uh they just have the big fat sleeve rather than individual like cables or individual cable sleeving it's just a single bundle so I'm going to try these out uh these are the easy DIY sleeved cable extensions in ice white so what ice white means is the plug is white and the cable sleeve is white you can get them in regular white which has a black plug on the end rather than ice white now this does have 12vt high power it's not 12vt 2x6 hopefully it should be fine but it also I thought it had I thought I ordered one that had a pci5 plug on each end it doesn't this one has four PCI Express on the end and it is just an extension cable I may or may not use these cables we we'll see I just thought it would be the ultimate like icing no pun intended on the cake to have these cables on there you know in the white build but because my GPU is black and my motherboard is black their black cable might not look terrible and because I'm vertical mounting it you're not going to see much of it anyway so anyway I I'll see whether or not I'm going to use these the price point on these is really aggressive aggressively affordable I think the entire set was like 30 bucks for these so I've really become a fan of easy DIY because they're coming out with so and this is not sponsored this is just my opinion I've been using them for a while now they come out with things that are in my opinion Enthusiast type products at an affordable price so that's why easy di wise really easy easy to get behind and then for the cooler this is my Kraken Elite 360 RGB already did a video about this NZXT didn't send it in fact they were even like we don't care what cooler you use it use any cooler you want um but I figured if I'm going to use cam already potentially for um I don't know if I need to install cam I do need to run cam if I'm going to have the screen and stuff work but I don't have a problem with that honestly I've used cam in the past and it's really improved from what it was way back in the day I think a lot of people are just really stuck in the old days when it used a lot of resources but I digress um it's going to be plenty for my 7950 x3d which is a 120 W TDP part I think it's 170 Watts for the non x3d and that's because the x3d CCD has a lower um max frequency than the other CCD so it actually doesn't need as much power as a 7950 X so compared to like us being used to 253 plus Watts on Intel this is clearly going to get the job done just fine when it comes to thermals anyway it's been a while since we've had Phil really get to squirt his creative juices all over you guys so that's what we're going to do today by by Montage that's what I montage w he m well there it is my extremely Overkill very LED bright computer uh anyway couple things so I did boot it up and we immediately started playing around with uh you know PBO and it's been a while since I ran the 7950 x3d unfortunately I still cannot run run the Ram at 6,000 Expo I said I probably wouldn't be able to and I do have other Ram kits I can play around with if I want but uh it's running at 5200 megat transfers right now that's fine like I said I'm not doing anything that's Ram intensive at all I mean it could help gaming a little bit but I think the the VD or the 3D V cache is going to help me more than additional RAM speed would at this point lighting nothing crazy um the accelerate card I hate these red stickers on the front hate the fact that they have a red logo so we're just going to end up cutting our own stickers to cover that just with our crck cut with the black plain sticker there um which will look good but I didn't do anything crazy with the lighting I just went with kind of an ice blue and then a purple with a vapor wave sort of thing I like that those colors I'm an ' 80s kid I love Vapor wave but let's talk about one of the real reasons why I chose AMD is because of everything going on with Intel right now I just felt like it was time to really just kind of see how things have improved with amds since I stopped using them on a daily basis about a year ago and I'm going to tell you right now I'm pretty impressed with the performance actually by just going in doing a quick and dirty minus 30 on the uh curb Optimizer I'm getting 5.2 GHz on the ccd1 which is the nonv uh 3D V cache and I'm getting a 5 GHz all core on the uh 3D V cache and that's a quick and dirty minus 30 so I could probably even get a little bit more but to be honest it doesn't really matter um I went with like a little kind of a reactor looking electrical deal behind my LCD on the NZXT I don't know if I'll leave it it makes it kind of hard to see the text and zc if you're listening add drop shadow to the text it make it easier to see in situations like this or an outline or something that we can adjust I know that's that's easy for you guys to do so add that also too please make F 420s make triple 420 fans or something for the front of this because that would be awesome there's just a lot of dead space around the front that looks kind of silly from the front but I think if they were filled out with 140s it' be great I'm also very surprised at how much air flow there is uh through this mesh so there's no filters built into this the the mesh itself is the filter but the amount of air that still pulling in through these these these mesh panels is actually kind of insane um I'm I'm kind of surprised to be honest it was really good but yeah the whole point of this honestly like I said was was twofold to get my E1 system on display which is where I always intended it to be I never really intended it to be my daily driver PC um and then two with all the Intel stuff to just go back to team red for a while see how things are over there one of the unique things about this kind of job is the fact that I can just jump back and forth over the fence and be like oh the grass is greener over there oh hey they've been watering let's go back over there oh there's a little weedy over here now let's go back over there you know um also one other thing I think was kind of neat if you look at the wiring you'll see most of it is completely hidden I was able to move the cable cover back over to the left closer to the motherboard which like kind of covers the right side actually it covers the QR code readout a little bit too based on the angle you're looking at it but that's okay which really stealthed in the cables so you I have the white cable extensions on there but you can't really see them because they're behind it's behind the cover you can see the EPS cables there but again they're white and way up top where you can't really notice them but I think it's an ultra Sleek looking build I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out not a whole lot of complaint so far other than the fact that on for whatever reason AMD CPUs just can't handle very fast ddr5 which is unfortunately one of the benefits of R5 which is not a benefit you can take advantage of on AMD and I'm not running four sticks of ram because we also know AMD with the same sensitivity I'm talking about with mega transfers or the speed of the ram it's also very sensitive to four sticks of ram many have talked about the fact that 7,000 series CPU and am5 just won't even post with four sticks at any speed even stock speeds a lot of complained about that I don't know if that's improved I can play around with it now that I have this system put together even though I had the test bench but now that I'm forced to use this daily I can play around with it and see how things have improved and then when 9,000 Series stuff is out and we get some extra CPUs for that I can throw one in here and really start messing around with that on a daily basis which gives you a much more long-term user report on what it's like for the new CPUs rather than running them through a couple of days worth of test a bench test so um this is also an open letter to NZXT again there's some real weirdness with a couple of choices that you decided to make one the f360 the frame fan they call it the frame fan that's what F stands for the frame fan that comes in the case has a breakout cable has it's a normal three pin first of all not a pwm so it's a DC controlled fan which is weird um and it's got a three pin on one side and then the other side has an argb and NZXT connector it looks just like a kind of like a jst connector but a little different it's not a jsd which has a pigtail to a normal argb so you could use it with a motherboard or a hub the ones that you buy separately that came in the Box have this flat connector which is just the fan connectors and which are four pin by the way four pin fans pwm fan and then the wires next to it are for the argb then you have to use this adapter that comes with it that gives you the same breakout that I just described as what's already installed on the front FS but I don't The Hub that they provided me doesn't even have that flat connector so I had to use the adapter anyway on their Hub so unless there's another Hub that uses a different connector than the Hub that came either in the separate box I showed or even the Hub that came with the aiio they're all different this is like perpetuating a problem that I've complained about for many many years that other brands have definitely started getting better at course I'm looking at you it's gotten better with link unfortunately link has another plethora of problems that have that have sort of crept up through that closed off ecosystem so I don't know why you have a separate skew for the front fans that are existing in this case rather than just using the same skew that exists in the Standalone so that seems like a logistical problem I don't know why that exists I'd also love to know what Hub uses that flat connector I haven't gone looking at their catalog to see but if that's if that's the case why didn't you send me that Hub I don't I just I just think it's almost like I'm back to a problem I thought we had solved a long time ago my my only gripe regarding the cables fortunately because I don't have one of those per fan I don't have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine of those stupid adapters I just have one two three of them which is weird I mean it's nice to only have three versus 12 but or nine whatever that counts to oh yeah and then I had to use an adapter obviously for the rear fan because that fan also has the same like pigtail type of deal as the front right here but I believe if I'm not mistaken the rear fan was actually a pwm so why is the front only a three pin DC fan whatever so there you go guys this is an opportunity for me to really play around with AMD again and then get that system on display like I wanted and uh it's been a while since I've used AMD actually ever since my home system was the 7950 X 3D I hadn't touched it I did a whole video too about why I'm switching back and it's not clickbait it's just use long-term user experience and some of the issues I wouldn't say issues I've experienced so far is just the ram ram is the most consistent thing with AMD and I I think deow has even talked about like why is Ram so hard for AMD to figure out but that's all right we're running at 5200 that's good enough all right guys thanks for watching what CPU are you running are you running away from Intel currently waiting for the micro code updates or are you just like hell yeah team red let's go I'm team computer so I really don't have a side but right now I guess I'm team red in my blue PCI'm going to replace this today hey day d d what we got work to do yeah I'm playing World of Warships World of Warships is the free-to-play naval strategy game where you command the most iconic and famous warships from World War I and World War II recreated with stunning detail and accuracy build your Fleet while participating in various game types while upgrading your ship's Arsenal along the way new players who sign up using my link below will receive an exclusive starter pack to get you up and running quickly by receiving 7 Days Premium Time 1 million credits 300 to blooms and the tier five premium ship the exitor so what are you guys waiting for start sinking ships of w warships by heading to the description below and getting your freebie this is my EVGA E1 tribute build yes this is an MSI 490 um Supreme X water cooled thing remember what I talked about I was stopped using my RTX 490 from EVGA the N 490 well it's over here on the wall now because I was like I want to stop using this and have it potentially die so I figure it's probably time to retire this whole rig from day-to-day use cuz I don't want to kill my EVGA motherboard or not to mention it's got EK water cooling stuff in here but this was a tribute build that I did for evj not for evj but for myself with evj stuff including the E1 yeah police yeah but this was the E1 build with their carbon fiber chassis and it was just a fun build to do and I've been using it as my workstation here now for the better part of a year um anyway because it's open chassis and we're in a Dusty environment it is filthy so I'm going to put the 490 back in here and I'm going to put this on display back here with my EVGA wall and I'm going to kind of like reconfigure this so the PCS in the middle and the graphics cards are like around it and then there we have this really cool 3D printed EVGA sign that's supposed to light up that we made two years ago that I have yet to put together and we'll finally get that done right so that means I need to build myself a new workstation so that's really the point of today's video is I'm going to be trying out a bunch of stuff I haven't used before but I'm switching back to AMD and I think given and fun fact this 13900 K is a golden sample this thing with this sure this EK water block has a severe amount of mass to it but I never exceed like 75c at 320 Watts it's insane maybe the EVGA logic is still better than the all the other crap motherboard companies out there that were pushing the stuff too far another reason why I miss EVGA because their stuff was good and now that I feel like we don't have them in the market anymore we just are limited to I guess the stuff being really kind of forced Upon Us in the industry so anyway this will be made together as you see it not with the GPU though as a tribute build back here in the back wall the only thing I'm going to take out of here for my system is my drive and I'm going to be moving it over here and letting AMD reinitialize and install its own drivers and stuff so I'm going to set this out of the way actually first I need to take the GPU out so I can get to my uh SSD which is under the GPU cuz it's a vertical Mount so it aside and then I'm going to build my new system over here let me get this out of the way and we'll talk about the parts so the chassis I'm going to be using here is the H7 flow RGB it's like the new version they actually revised this a little bit um it's got the what do they call it the f360 it's like a framed in 360 fan shroud thing so it's one fan connection with three fans in it which is pretty awesome also too that doesn't take up too much room cuz it's not a it's like a hybrid dual chamber it's kind of like a dual chamber but not really so it's not the full width of like an 011 type case or like H9 or anything like that so we are going to move that over here to the side um I have white because that's what they sent this is be the first time I've ever had a white PC for work to be honest which is good because it doesn't use up a lot or doesn't show a lot of dust and stuff okay so here is the uh CP already talked about the 7950 X 3D I was going to go with the standard 7950 X I've used the x3d at home had all kinds of weirdness with it when it came to Ram so I'm really hoping that I'm not going to run into those types of issues with this build although though this build does not have the same level of um I was going to say the same level of crucial but that that'd be a crucial Ram reference which we are putting in the white uh crucial Pro in here because there's no RGB and it'll look sick but uh so at home I had a lot of weirdness when it came to Ram compatibility but I also was running it like right when it came out so a lot of BIOS updates and stuff were supposed to address that so I'm really kind of curious as to how it is now but since my system is like we're not editing on it or anything like that all of the work that we access is in the cloud so we do we do online based stuff so all of my spreadsheets and charts and our server and all that it's not located on a on my system so if something starts acting weird I can still have access to other stuff if I have to play around with changing out RAM and all that I didn't really ever have crashes or anything like that I mean I had blue screens related to Ram but once I slowed down the Ram uh at home I didn't really have that many problems with it so I'm really kind of excited to use this over the standard 7950 X cuz I can really compare the improvements from when I switched about a year ago to uh an Intel based system at home it'll be the my first AMD system ever at work personally Nick's on an AMD system but I've been using Intel the whole time so it should be interesting Ram as I already mentioned white crucial uh ddr5 Pro it what's the speed on this the transfer rate on this is 6,000 I probably won't get 6,000 on my x3d that's the problem the the speed I had a problem with before but fortunately crucial does have an expo uh rating as well so we'll see how those perform the motherboard I already talked about this in our Microcenter video um it's the ORS extreme it's the x670 ORS extreme it's like 550 bucks it's a very expensive motherboard The Superficial reason I got this motherboard is for the built-in 10g ethernet which I need for our server and I still want to use my vertical Mount right here so I can't use a 10g Nick that uses pcie slot so I went with an expensive motherboard cuz it was the only one that had 10g so it was a very superficial reason it is a very diminished return I don't recommend this type of motherboard for this typ type of build for instance if the 10g wasn't an issue I'd probably go with something like this this is the steel Legend from gigabyte uh gigabyte or a rock ack oh this azrock yeah so it would it would match the Aesthetics a lot better you can see on the back it's like this white kind of a snow camo looking thing I think it would look sick in this build but um this is like $299 I think which is still expensive for a motherboard but really they're both x670 e so we're going to get the same benefit of both the orus is overkill for this build I just want to point that out so don't copy this build thinking it's efficient in cost because it's honestly not especially since I bought a 490 accelerate card because of the fact that I don't have any aircooled 490s other than my Founders Edition card which has to remain available for benchmarks so I could have stepped down to a white 4080 super but you know it's also super my ego and it will not allow me to go from a 4090 down to a 4080 super which I know is stupid the logical part of my brain says Jay you're aing for thinking a 4080 super on your Alienware 3440 X 1440 OLED panel is not enough because it is it's way more than enough I even went from a 4K panel down to 3440 by 1440 gaining me less less pixels and more performance I would have never known the difference other than the fact that I know there be no nine on it so again that's the important part do as I say which is don't copy this build as an efficiency build for cost because it's stupid which is why it's awesome okay moving on I talked about the NZXT stuff like I said they did sponsor all of the the case and fans and power supply and the cooler for this build so these are the two f360 fan frames if you will I think the F stands for frame they're 360s I have them in at 240 as well for a second there I said I wouldn't they make 120s but that would have been the stupidest comment I would have made today uh and I made plenty of them today anyway I digress so it's one frame with one connector one argb connector which does come and and NZXT was like made it a point to mention that it does come with like a jst type adapter to go from their plug to a motherboard header which is great that way you don't have to use cam to control all this if you don't want to so you can control the fans off your motherboard and any argb controller that you want outside of Cam which I think is great anyway they sent two of these that way I can put one of these on the AIO so they match and then one of these in the bottom and it already comes with one inside the the case so I have three of these essentially so that's kind of nice and then what I can do is I can take the one of the RGB fans off of the aiio and put it in the rear if I want just that way it matches um a AR argb is not something I care about for this build I'm probably going to just set them all to white or ice blue or something like that I just like I did on my system the EVGA system it was all set to White it didn't RGB puke or anything and then they sent a couple of these in case we need them um these are just RGB fan and controller hubs which again can be controlled entirely off of your motherboard so if you don't have enough headers and stuff you can use this six RGB lighting channels and three fan channels okay so it's more than likely going to have to be used with Cam but you can add channels that way which is kind of nice because Splitters you have a limited amount of RGB LEDs that'll work on the channel and then this is just an internal USB hub if you don't have enough USBS on your motherboard not going to need that they just sent it just in case um let's talk about the power supply for oh well this is the vertical Mount I already did a video about this one of the best vertical mounts I think you can buy for the money it's about 50 bucks um I don't know if the price shows on here yeah shows 50 bucks it's adjustable in and in and out away from the glass and sliding left and right inside the case comes with the Riser cable which is a pcie Gen 4 Riser cable which is fine cuz 490s are still Gen 4 so that's just so I can do the vertical Mount which is the whole reason why I'm going a more expensive motherboard so I don't have to buy or even use that I already have a 10g nit card you see how I'm saying this is like some of the most stupid rationale and elitists type thing you can think of so again don't do as I do here's the power supply we're talking Overkill it's a c500 okay why because it's what they sent I think a th000 watt would have been fine anyway this is their newest digital power supply and it's kind of neat because and if you're wondering if it's any good or not Steve's advertising it so it must be great just pointing that out right now if you're like why are you using this stupid power supply well then you just called Steve stupid anyway so it's the latest of their C- series power supplies It's All Digital and it's actually using the C gentics type of efficiency and noise ratings which is a more stringent standard when it comes to uh power supply ratings cuz it rates noise it it checks more uh efficiency points along the curve rather than just the Four Points 80 plus does and it checks other things like uh vampire power and and standby idle power and all kinds of other what cybernetics says is above and beyond the current 80 plus rating stuff so NZXT is now certifying their power supplies with the cybernetics ratings which I think is pretty awesome every time I say Cy cybernetics I think I'm saying cybernetics and I think it's going to like transform into a robot and do something cool but it's just going to transform electrons from the wall to a very usable digital output for my PC that hopefully won't damage anything because it's all digitally controlled now the cables in this in my opinion uh they just have the big fat sleeve rather than individual like cables or individual cable sleeving it's just a single bundle so I'm going to try these out uh these are the easy DIY sleeved cable extensions in ice white so what ice white means is the plug is white and the cable sleeve is white you can get them in regular white which has a black plug on the end rather than ice white now this does have 12vt high power it's not 12vt 2x6 hopefully it should be fine but it also I thought it had I thought I ordered one that had a pci5 plug on each end it doesn't this one has four PCI Express on the end and it is just an extension cable I may or may not use these cables we we'll see I just thought it would be the ultimate like icing no pun intended on the cake to have these cables on there you know in the white build but because my GPU is black and my motherboard is black their black cable might not look terrible and because I'm vertical mounting it you're not going to see much of it anyway so anyway I I'll see whether or not I'm going to use these the price point on these is really aggressive aggressively affordable I think the entire set was like 30 bucks for these so I've really become a fan of easy DIY because they're coming out with so and this is not sponsored this is just my opinion I've been using them for a while now they come out with things that are in my opinion Enthusiast type products at an affordable price so that's why easy di wise really easy easy to get behind and then for the cooler this is my Kraken Elite 360 RGB already did a video about this NZXT didn't send it in fact they were even like we don't care what cooler you use it use any cooler you want um but I figured if I'm going to use cam already potentially for um I don't know if I need to install cam I do need to run cam if I'm going to have the screen and stuff work but I don't have a problem with that honestly I've used cam in the past and it's really improved from what it was way back in the day I think a lot of people are just really stuck in the old days when it used a lot of resources but I digress um it's going to be plenty for my 7950 x3d which is a 120 W TDP part I think it's 170 Watts for the non x3d and that's because the x3d CCD has a lower um max frequency than the other CCD so it actually doesn't need as much power as a 7950 X so compared to like us being used to 253 plus Watts on Intel this is clearly going to get the job done just fine when it comes to thermals anyway it's been a while since we've had Phil really get to squirt his creative juices all over you guys so that's what we're going to do today by by Montage that's what I montage w he m well there it is my extremely Overkill very LED bright computer uh anyway couple things so I did boot it up and we immediately started playing around with uh you know PBO and it's been a while since I ran the 7950 x3d unfortunately I still cannot run run the Ram at 6,000 Expo I said I probably wouldn't be able to and I do have other Ram kits I can play around with if I want but uh it's running at 5200 megat transfers right now that's fine like I said I'm not doing anything that's Ram intensive at all I mean it could help gaming a little bit but I think the the VD or the 3D V cache is going to help me more than additional RAM speed would at this point lighting nothing crazy um the accelerate card I hate these red stickers on the front hate the fact that they have a red logo so we're just going to end up cutting our own stickers to cover that just with our crck cut with the black plain sticker there um which will look good but I didn't do anything crazy with the lighting I just went with kind of an ice blue and then a purple with a vapor wave sort of thing I like that those colors I'm an ' 80s kid I love Vapor wave but let's talk about one of the real reasons why I chose AMD is because of everything going on with Intel right now I just felt like it was time to really just kind of see how things have improved with amds since I stopped using them on a daily basis about a year ago and I'm going to tell you right now I'm pretty impressed with the performance actually by just going in doing a quick and dirty minus 30 on the uh curb Optimizer I'm getting 5.2 GHz on the ccd1 which is the nonv uh 3D V cache and I'm getting a 5 GHz all core on the uh 3D V cache and that's a quick and dirty minus 30 so I could probably even get a little bit more but to be honest it doesn't really matter um I went with like a little kind of a reactor looking electrical deal behind my LCD on the NZXT I don't know if I'll leave it it makes it kind of hard to see the text and zc if you're listening add drop shadow to the text it make it easier to see in situations like this or an outline or something that we can adjust I know that's that's easy for you guys to do so add that also too please make F 420s make triple 420 fans or something for the front of this because that would be awesome there's just a lot of dead space around the front that looks kind of silly from the front but I think if they were filled out with 140s it' be great I'm also very surprised at how much air flow there is uh through this mesh so there's no filters built into this the the mesh itself is the filter but the amount of air that still pulling in through these these these mesh panels is actually kind of insane um I'm I'm kind of surprised to be honest it was really good but yeah the whole point of this honestly like I said was was twofold to get my E1 system on display which is where I always intended it to be I never really intended it to be my daily driver PC um and then two with all the Intel stuff to just go back to team red for a while see how things are over there one of the unique things about this kind of job is the fact that I can just jump back and forth over the fence and be like oh the grass is greener over there oh hey they've been watering let's go back over there oh there's a little weedy over here now let's go back over there you know um also one other thing I think was kind of neat if you look at the wiring you'll see most of it is completely hidden I was able to move the cable cover back over to the left closer to the motherboard which like kind of covers the right side actually it covers the QR code readout a little bit too based on the angle you're looking at it but that's okay which really stealthed in the cables so you I have the white cable extensions on there but you can't really see them because they're behind it's behind the cover you can see the EPS cables there but again they're white and way up top where you can't really notice them but I think it's an ultra Sleek looking build I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out not a whole lot of complaint so far other than the fact that on for whatever reason AMD CPUs just can't handle very fast ddr5 which is unfortunately one of the benefits of R5 which is not a benefit you can take advantage of on AMD and I'm not running four sticks of ram because we also know AMD with the same sensitivity I'm talking about with mega transfers or the speed of the ram it's also very sensitive to four sticks of ram many have talked about the fact that 7,000 series CPU and am5 just won't even post with four sticks at any speed even stock speeds a lot of complained about that I don't know if that's improved I can play around with it now that I have this system put together even though I had the test bench but now that I'm forced to use this daily I can play around with it and see how things have improved and then when 9,000 Series stuff is out and we get some extra CPUs for that I can throw one in here and really start messing around with that on a daily basis which gives you a much more long-term user report on what it's like for the new CPUs rather than running them through a couple of days worth of test a bench test so um this is also an open letter to NZXT again there's some real weirdness with a couple of choices that you decided to make one the f360 the frame fan they call it the frame fan that's what F stands for the frame fan that comes in the case has a breakout cable has it's a normal three pin first of all not a pwm so it's a DC controlled fan which is weird um and it's got a three pin on one side and then the other side has an argb and NZXT connector it looks just like a kind of like a jst connector but a little different it's not a jsd which has a pigtail to a normal argb so you could use it with a motherboard or a hub the ones that you buy separately that came in the Box have this flat connector which is just the fan connectors and which are four pin by the way four pin fans pwm fan and then the wires next to it are for the argb then you have to use this adapter that comes with it that gives you the same breakout that I just described as what's already installed on the front FS but I don't The Hub that they provided me doesn't even have that flat connector so I had to use the adapter anyway on their Hub so unless there's another Hub that uses a different connector than the Hub that came either in the separate box I showed or even the Hub that came with the aiio they're all different this is like perpetuating a problem that I've complained about for many many years that other brands have definitely started getting better at course I'm looking at you it's gotten better with link unfortunately link has another plethora of problems that have that have sort of crept up through that closed off ecosystem so I don't know why you have a separate skew for the front fans that are existing in this case rather than just using the same skew that exists in the Standalone so that seems like a logistical problem I don't know why that exists I'd also love to know what Hub uses that flat connector I haven't gone looking at their catalog to see but if that's if that's the case why didn't you send me that Hub I don't I just I just think it's almost like I'm back to a problem I thought we had solved a long time ago my my only gripe regarding the cables fortunately because I don't have one of those per fan I don't have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine of those stupid adapters I just have one two three of them which is weird I mean it's nice to only have three versus 12 but or nine whatever that counts to oh yeah and then I had to use an adapter obviously for the rear fan because that fan also has the same like pigtail type of deal as the front right here but I believe if I'm not mistaken the rear fan was actually a pwm so why is the front only a three pin DC fan whatever so there you go guys this is an opportunity for me to really play around with AMD again and then get that system on display like I wanted and uh it's been a while since I've used AMD actually ever since my home system was the 7950 X 3D I hadn't touched it I did a whole video too about why I'm switching back and it's not clickbait it's just use long-term user experience and some of the issues I wouldn't say issues I've experienced so far is just the ram ram is the most consistent thing with AMD and I I think deow has even talked about like why is Ram so hard for AMD to figure out but that's all right we're running at 5200 that's good enough all right guys thanks for watching what CPU are you running are you running away from Intel currently waiting for the micro code updates or are you just like hell yeah team red let's go I'm team computer so I really don't have a side but right now I guess I'm team red in my blue PC\n"