can that be right has it really been almost 3 years since we filmed whole
room water cooling where we upgraded all our editing
workstations that means we've been using the same base editing workstations for
almost 3 years I mean they've served us well six Core Extreme editions 32 gigs
of RAM Titan graphics cards all that good stuff but come on baby it's
2017 it's time for an upgrade so we're
going to be moving to the latest 10 Core Extreme editions and perhaps even more
importantly RGB and to help me I have
enlisted a very special guest my favorite Soviet Canadian Ivan who is
going to be helping me perform these upgrades in place with the goal being to
hot swap everybody's editing workstations so we lose almost no
productivity will it work probably not
so if we miss any uploads you'll know what happened but darn it we're going to
do our best let's go
so this is the part where he finds out why he was brought in today it's a
buildoff do you have a screwdriver what is that it's a custom made one of course
it is why did I even ask wow it's really smooth mhm looks
like it has all kinds of uses mhm I'm sorry I touched
it all right you only get half of the table don't touch my
side don't yell at me don't don't touch my side don't yell at me we're not in
the relationship so in terms of motherboard the choice was actually
pretty straightforward we were looking for something based on ASUS's x99
platform eight sticks of RAM support we needed lots of PCI Express slots and we
wanted Rock Solid stability so that's
why we went with this board versus the more advanced one oh right and it has an
RGB header the most important feature in
terms of processor well as you probably noticed this video was brought to you by
Intel so if you get to choose whatever
processor you want in Intel's lineup come on you go with the
6950x so not only are we getting faster individual cores compared to our
existing 4960 XS we are actually getting
four more processing cores so that means
more multitasking that means better performance as we've measured before in
the past so if you wanted you could actually check out a video that we did a
little while ago on um the best possible
hardware setup for video encoding we get more performance there and we get better
multitasking chill out man I'm the one who should be russing okay yeah you
never worked in the office back with
us you never wanted to oh what did I
hit okay so what I could do is figure
out the orientation myself but thanks to the side by-side format of this
buildoff and the respect that I have for
my competitor I'm just going to jump right in and do it the same way he did
it see he congratulates me for cheating
isn't he wonderful hey what's all this stuff in
my pocket I know where lives oh RGB oh oh Advantage Linus
because he didn't spell out all of the Rules of
Engagement well you're already married get it
gety so in terms of the power supply upgrade here we're actually going from
750 watt 80 plus gold power supplies
that were semi modular to Corsair's hxi 850w power
supplies one of the big advantages here is that the fan itself actually turns
off when it's not under a heavy load which means that these systems will be
extremely quiet at least acoustically
they're going to be RGB so they're going to be their own flavor of
loud did you put in all four screws on the uh radiator or all eight rather yes
sir oh man why you do this because you
taught me that way Ian do not do half job ever wow
oh oh you know what you may have made a
mistake though your RGB fans will not be visible from the
outside then I might have made a
mistake since uh this is the only thing that's going to be lighting up the
inside of the case I actually do stick with my decision because then at least
we'll have the inside of the case lit somehow as opposed to only having it
coming from the front fence which are kind of further to the front arbitrary
rules are also arbit
AR it's like you can't install the motherboard until you install the AO you
can't install the AO until you install the fans you can't install the fans until you install the we got to create
that fake uh like that fake cooking show tension where's the
salt see this is what I love about modern cases that have the the middle
kind of nubin thing going on there so you can actually
mount a motherboard and it'll stay in
place well enough for you put in the rest of the motherboard
screws while you look for the motherboard screws where are my
motherboard screws oh thank
you a
shoot novice mistake man I got my IO
Shield stuck on one of my ports so I
have to pull the board out fortunately I've only put in one screw no washer is
on the ID either no you don't need washers on on the
radiator warps the metal if you
don't I oh come on it's
fine now I have to flip my radiator orientation cuz I think my two hose will
collide with a your friend I always run into trouble with my hose
colliding holla that's okay we've got lots of
clean terrible humor we don't need the dirty terrible
humor is that a SATA cable in your pocket you're just happy to see me
well if I was happy it wouldn't be very happy look at this thing
yeah it's even a little weenie one like weeny like eenie weeny but also
like a penis okay this is a trick that I
use but never recommend where you just kind of line it up on the pins and then
you use a screwdriver to jam it on if you slip you hit your motherboard with a
screwdriver yeah the build off's done I
won by 10 minutes but given that he's
never built in the case before I'd say that's kind of within you know margin of
error so it's going to come down to which build you guys ultimately think is
better Ivan took a different approach to the cabling at the back a different
approach to the cabling at the front and opted to put the fans on the inside to
illuminate the motherboard area rather than on the outside and as for me I have
my 24 four pin cable going up the cable management run I have my uh my drive
cable really not looking as good back there I don't think I did as good a job
of these cables but I've got my Thunderbolt 3 card installed so bonus
points for that they're all supposed to have Thunderbolt 3 and 10 gig Lan and
I've got my fans visible from the top here so that I can have like dope
animated lighting effects like that of
course we had to build six of these systems and Ian did the other four and
he figures this is what he calls the final form so what did you do
differently on this one right well starting from the front I took a
extremely neat approach to the bottom part of the cabling see how everything
snakes around and is barely visible except for this little Rainbow piece
over here uh the other thing is that I
actually found where to tuck away all of
the extra cables there's a cavity up here here so as you can see the backside
is very clean and finally I managed to stick all of the thicker cables behind
this protective sheath and even cleaned up the bottom a little bit still not
perfectly happy with the result but that's the key a clean backside all
right so uh of course you guys aren't here just
for that but also performance so we tested these systems a couple of
different ways first with the RGB lighting mostly disabled the RAM's still
on but all the fans off so we could get
a baseline for how much of an improvement we were looking at over our
previous systems and as you guys can see it is pretty freaking huge whether we're
talking cine bench whether we're talking Adobe Media encoder going from six to 10
cores and faster cores with upgraded
Graphics is a massive
difference but and that's without RGB
flare so my system here was actually
tested a little bit differently we turned on the RGB lighting with some
animations and overclocked the CPU to 4.2 GHz one of which we're not sure if
it was the RGB or the overclock allowed
us to achieve simply mindboggling
performance it actually feels like this is an upgrade over the three-year-old
systems in everything from video editing to heavy multitasking to even gaming so
when it comes to the red footage that we're working on now that we can swap
everybody's systems out now we're looking at definite real usability
improvements over the old systems things like timeline scrubbing are going to be
much faster on these systems than they were on the old ones and I think that
pretty much wraps it up thank you guys for coming along on this wild and
hopefully entertaining ride thank you to
Intel ASUS and Corsair for hooking us up
with what we think are pretty much the most ba editing workstations on the
planet and thanks to you guys for watching see you next time oh yeah and
thanks to Ivan for being here and being productive and that
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