WEBVTT 00:00:01.319 --> 00:00:09.200 okay guys so it is finally time for me to upgrade my trusty test platform so 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:15.280 I'll take this episode to sort of spend some time talking about what I used to 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:17.920 be using versus what I will be using now 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:21.800 so I'm just going to sort of yak at you guys while I disassemble this so I've 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:26.400 actually had a lot of people ask me about my test bench here it is a 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:30.560 high-speed PC tech station just so you guys know you can buy them from ncx or a 00:00:29.080 --> 00:00:34.000 variety of other places so I'm taking off my graphics card here 00:00:32.279 --> 00:00:41.440 you can see the motherboard I was using before was actually an assus p7p 55 de 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:47.840 premium motherboard so that is a p55 board I had been questioned a lot of 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:51.879 times also about my use of a p55 board 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:54.000 even in dual graphics card testing and I 00:00:51.879 --> 00:00:59.199 can tell you guys with much confidence that in my experience dual 8X Graphics 00:00:57.079 --> 00:01:05.479 slots does not adversely affect performance versus using two 16x slots 00:01:03.120 --> 00:01:14.240 so I will be upgrading my platform from a p551 with an 875k and 4 gigs of RAM to 00:01:10.479 --> 00:01:16.720 a p67 platform and this is going to be 00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:21.079 with a core i7 2600k so that is an unlocked 00:01:19.119 --> 00:01:28.159 hyperthreading enabled processor on an MSI p67 Motherboard now 00:01:25.240 --> 00:01:32.680 p67 has some similarities and it has some differences when you compare it 00:01:30.320 --> 00:01:37.920 against the old p-55 platform so let's start with the similarities similarities 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:45.920 is that it has uh support for quad core sockets our quad core CPUs so just like 00:01:41.240 --> 00:01:49.000 p55 p67 has no six core processors 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:51.079 enabled for the platform at launch and 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:55.600 p-55 will never be getting any six course six cores are going to be 00:01:53.280 --> 00:02:01.640 exclusively the domain of 1366 and then future sockets from Intel 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:09.080 another similarity that I mentioned before is that they both have dual 8ex 00:02:05.119 --> 00:02:11.520 Graphics support and no support for dual 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:17.120 16x now you will have some motherboard manufacturers that are releasing boards 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:20.599 with an nf200 chip or some other kind of 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:23.640 workaround in order to enable 2 16x 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:27.160 slots but I mean whether or not it 00:02:23.640 --> 00:02:31.879 actually adds any bandwidth to the 00:02:27.160 --> 00:02:34.080 system is pretty Deb able I would say 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:37.239 okay so I'm just taking off my uh my back plate here now this is something 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:43.959 that I wanted to mention you know I'll probably do a separate video about this 00:02:40.519 --> 00:02:48.720 concept uh but the mounting sockets the 00:02:43.959 --> 00:02:51.840 mounting holes for LGA 1156 and LGA 1155 00:02:48.720 --> 00:02:55.000 are identical so I've actually taken my 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:58.519 LGA 1156 cooler and I've thrown it right 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:00.720 onto my LGA 1155 motherboard just like 00:02:58.519 --> 00:03:06.799 that so that's all I had to do now I can take that throw it on my test platform 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:08.480 and I have upgraded to the 2600k now one 00:03:06.799 --> 00:03:13.840 of the things I'm going to have to do is see what kind of an overclock I can get 00:03:10.640 --> 00:03:16.239 out of my 2600k here and that is what I 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:20.640 will oh look at that that was close and that is what I will be using to give you 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:24.440 guys performance results whenever I do any graphics card testing or anything 00:03:22.480 --> 00:03:28.680 like that so this is a bit of a quick and dirty uh motherboard swap so I'm 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:34.280 just going to use some TP clean off the 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:37.760 CPU use some TP clean off my heat sink over 00:03:35.239 --> 00:03:41.519 here this is a heat pipe direct touch heat sink so I'm actually going to use 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:45.480 quite a bit more thermal compound than I normally 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:50.840 would because there are these large grooves that thermal compound can settle 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:53.040 into so if you have a flat bottomed heat 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:57.280 sink you wouldn't want to use quite as much cameraman the camera's in my way 00:03:55.319 --> 00:04:00.480 you wouldn't want to use quite as much thermal grease as I'm about to use so 00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:04.760 there we're going to call that clean enough like I said this is not 00:04:02.480 --> 00:04:08.200 necessarily the correct procedure for any of the things that I'm doing but 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:12.159 this is kind of when I need to get things done in a hurry and I'm on camera 00:04:10.040 --> 00:04:16.600 so that is like gobs more than I would normally 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:19.079 use all right so go ahead and throw the 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:25.080 heat sink on there there we are then I have my little 00:04:21.919 --> 00:04:27.479 washers so in terms of memory we haven't 00:04:25.080 --> 00:04:33.120 actually seen any changes from that previous platform LGA 1156 to the new 00:04:30.080 --> 00:04:37.600 one so I'll be using my same Kingston 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:40.360 DDR3 2133 modules these are their hyperx 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:45.360 H2O modules these are oh sorry pardon me DDR3 2000 so these are high performance 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:49.960 modules whether you're running them with the water cooling that they do support 00:04:47.479 --> 00:04:54.160 or whether you're not bothering doesn't really matter they'll still perform 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:57.560 really well and I'm just going to carry those right over to the new platform I'm 00:04:55.880 --> 00:05:02.840 going to be carrying over my old power supply so that was uh that's a c suar 80 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:05.680 plus silver Power Supply with the funky snake looking 00:05:12.039 --> 00:05:19.680 wiring okay we have our heat sink installed now I'm going to go ahead and 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:25.160 plug this into the CPU fan header noct fans are not pwm enabled but that's okay 00:05:22.440 --> 00:05:32.639 cuz they're quiet anyway so throw that on there and then I'm using my noise 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:35.520 dampening mounts here to plug in here 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:42.000 and here in case you guys are ever wondering how to mount a fan using these 00:05:39.520 --> 00:05:47.120 uh noise dampening rubber mounts this is how to do it just position them in place 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:51.400 then pull them all through and then your fan will not make any vibration noises 00:05:49.520 --> 00:05:56.759 against the heat sink I think they're great I remember 00:05:54.560 --> 00:06:00.880 when they first came came out it was like amazing it's like wow we have a way 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:05.400 to mount fans it doesn't involve like bolting them directly to things so that 00:06:02.479 --> 00:06:11.919 it's noisy now like LGA 1156 you have to make sure that you 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:13.520 install the memory in the first slots so 00:06:11.919 --> 00:06:18.400 I'm actually guessing on this board right now cuz I haven't used this board 00:06:15.039 --> 00:06:20.319 yet although it's labeled 1 2 3 4 that 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:24.240 doesn't seem right because typically what I've seen in the past can you see 00:06:22.599 --> 00:06:28.000 those labels there yeah there you go typically what I've seen in the past is 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:32.400 that the primary slots tend to be the two that are a little bit further away 00:06:30.400 --> 00:06:37.680 from the motherboard socket or from the CPU socket in order to enable the use of 00:06:35.599 --> 00:06:42.560 larger coolers that overhang tall memory modules although it looks like we're not 00:06:39.440 --> 00:06:44.759 going to run into any problems with this 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:49.720 configuration so I'm going to go ahead and so if it doesn't post I'll know what 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:54.360 to try right away and I will take those modules and I'll move them over to the 00:06:51.560 --> 00:07:00.160 next slots over so I'm going to go ahead and plug in my four pin CPU connector 00:06:56.919 --> 00:07:03.879 over here so that's one thing that 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:05.919 hasn't changed at all 24 pin four pin 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:11.599 that's all fine you can see at the back we have some uh some new slots so 00:07:08.400 --> 00:07:14.360 instead of running only two USB 3.0 00:07:11.599 --> 00:07:18.440 ports on the back panel we actually have two on the back panel and two on an 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:23.919 internal header so that's one change that will be made to my test platform 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:26.639 here I'm also going to be changing the 00:07:23.919 --> 00:07:30.479 way I plug in my SATA cable for my DVD drive apparently cuz this isn't going to 00:07:28.840 --> 00:07:34.240 reach to where I had it plugged in before so we've actually that's another 00:07:32.479 --> 00:07:40.240 thing that's changed we've got two SATA 6 gbit per second ports or rather two 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:42.720 Banks four SATA 6 gbit per second ports 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:48.360 and four SATA 3 gbit per second ports so I'm plugging that into a SATA 3 gbit per 00:07:45.280 --> 00:07:50.639 second port on there and uh actually 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:55.759 here why don't we plug in uh here I found another video card we're 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:59.319 going to plug in a GTX 580 so I had a 460 on there before but we're going to 00:07:57.960 --> 00:08:05.680 go ahead and throw the highest per performance graphics card I have on hand 00:08:02.960 --> 00:08:10.280 onto the test platform for my upgrade and from now on all the results I 00:08:07.919 --> 00:08:15.840 provide to you guys will be using the LGA 00:08:11.960 --> 00:08:17.479 1155 Sandy Bridge platform versus the 00:08:15.840 --> 00:08:23.680 older LGA 1156 Lindfield platform so find out what 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:29.039 kind of an overclock I can get I'll let you guys know and then we will go from 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:36.320 there so my upgrade is complete that is how we do a motherboard swap in however 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:39.320 many minutes or less there's our old 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:39.320 board