it's back so i promised you guys that the dual CPU eight core skull trail rig
that tom from the uk sent over was going to be making another appearance and that
we were going to be kicking things up a notch but i actually didn't think things
were going to go quite this well so here's what i have in store for you
we're going to be overclocking our cpus we're going to be upgrading to rtx
graphics with sli for bonus points we're going to be
going from 8 gigs to a whopping
32 gigs of ddr2 memory thanks to paul from
ontario who sent over these bad boys and
thanks to our sponsor for today's video we are going to be hooking this whole
thing up to samsung's latest curved 240 hertz
gaming monitor so uh
why don't we get started with that so let's start by getting our monitor
cracked open the c27rg5 is the world's first 240 hertz curved gaming display
and guys if you're regular viewers of this channel i probably don't have to
explain the advantages of a 240hz
display basically means smoother animations and you are getting more
information per second to your eyeball holes which gives you a competitive
advantage as we actually demonstrated in a recent video now another cool feature
is that it happens to be g-sync compatible so that means that if you
don't reach quite hertz which
i think might happen today then you're gonna have g-sync as long as you've got
an NVIDIA graphics card to help smooth out some of the uh
some of the gaps there so on the back we've got a look at the i o we've got
dual HDMI ports displayport a usb service port and a dc power in for the
external power brick and the main standout features of this guy are really
going to be the 3001 contrast ratio thanks to its va panel the bezel-less
design and this is a cool one it's actually got a special low input lag
mode which for a 240hz gaming monitor i would certainly hope that
everyone would enable that i'm hoping to pair with some of NVIDIA's new driver
optimizations to get a a smoother more
responsive overall gaming experience on
well very dated hardware here so just like
last time our underpowered CPU is already apparent
when we're doing something as simple as downloading and installing a graphics
driver we're sitting at 80 percent CPU utilization and 40 of it is google
chrome which surprisingly wasn't even open that's a new one
good job google chrome how even what even
happened that oh there's another one wait why is there another one what even is this and what do i even have open
i have two pages open while we're off to a flying start here
after an excruciatingly slow driver install our titan x is still not showing
up with the infamous code 43 error so that's fine we weren't really intending
to use that anyway so let's go ahead and restart it
and throw in an rtx 2080 ti
okay so here we go ladies and gentlemen
you know what we're just gonna we're just gonna go full yolo we're gonna
upgrade the RAM we're gonna overclock the snot out of this thing let's just
let's just holy ow
so we're gonna put these eight gig sticks in so these are two gig sticks
that we're replacing we'll be handling those by the edges wow those get really hot
i guess that makes sense they did draw a lot more power than normal ddr2 modules
with of course the benefit being these high capacities
32 gigs of RAM in four slots was a
freaking lot back then meanwhile now Corsair has gaming kits
with 32 gig sticks in them
now before we go any further i actually want to throw some active cooling
on my memory here let's see can i just kind of wedge that
you know it should be fine
there it is skull trail with 32 gigs the stupidest
configuration ever let's overclock this thing
so in the interest of time efficiency we're not going to be dialing in the
world's most uh careful overclock or anything like
that we're basically going quick and dirty
boom we're going for four gigahertz just like that and at the same time
memory ratio boom one to one
okay wish me luck and we're posted
okay window stability is a whole other story though oh
i need a drink from this water bottle ltdstar.com
so let's verify that everything is working as intended we've got our RAM
running at 400 megahertz wait
times one equals 400 megahertz that's weird task manager shows it at 667 which
would be a double pump 333 which is what it's rated for what this is
oh god
okay so we bumped our mch voltage and
hopefully that'll be enough to get us stable no
try the 16 gig kit so i bump the front side bus voltage and
i am changing these CPU fans to just run at the full 12 volts rather than be
speed controlled which should give us a little bit more chipset cooling
better finish this run
yes okay check out this score
733 okay it's not amazing but
but that is a mere 90 points less than a
4770k so
if we can find games that are suitably multi-threaded
we might actually have a decent gaming experience
not the younglings you're not supposed to hold the lightsaber
and this is how i always get myself into freaking trouble because you get it
working good enough i mean we've got 16 gigs of RAM in the thing
but i want more
758 oh that is dangerously close to 3770
4770 processor performance territory all
right sli then
sli is enabled so okay we couldn't do
our tx 2080 ti but we were able to do dual titan x pascals
and g-sync boom g-sync is working enabled for both
windowed and full screen mode so that means we'll be able to run our games
without any screen tearing stuttering or lag because our samsung monitor here
changes its refresh rate to match up perfectly with the frames being rendered
by the GPU is this a lock on the sli connector oh oh my god it has this wait
ah it's a color switch wait what the
it's funny unless you look close you'd never know this is like not a modern
system you know these gpus look pretty modern that memory amount looks pretty
modern that core count looks pretty modern
now before we get into games i wanted to give adobe premiere pro another shot
just because like hey we got 32 gigs of RAM now right
maybe it'll be a little better yeah huh
yeah wow that's actually a really good slideshow that we're watching here
that's at full resolution though that's at 8k try one quarter
and we're done bud although we did manage to use more than eight gigs of
RAM so hey it wasn't all completely for nothing-ish sort of let's play some
video games i figure we should start
with rocket league i just want to see if it runs a little better this time than
it did last time okay so this was probably a mistake i
cranked the details up and that was a mistake
performance we're still sitting at about 40 FPS
however one key difference here is that i'm not getting the same
really bad stutters that i was before it's like actually kind of playable well
that doesn't give me much hope for our second game but i did promise you guys
more game testing today so let's go ahead and give doom a shot here do you
see it skipping around like that whoa
so technically we are running at 50 frames per second
right now but you guys you can look at it even through the camera i'm sure you
guys can tell that that is some chop-tastic
animation going on there so now we can see our frame times here
you can see there is a ton of inconsistency in them which is why we're
getting these really ugly skips however
doom has a trick up its sleeve now as far as i know this is going to
completely brick our compatibility with sli but
one of the key advantages of the next-gen apis like vulcan is supposed to
be is supposed to be better handling of multiple CPU threads
so maybe we'll be able to take advantage of
our eight CPU cores a little better here
oh
that is looking quite a bit more consistent
this is doom running on a 10 year old computer
we're at medium details right now so i guess man we could probably push this
harder but that is actually butter smooth this
is actually awesome can you believe the CPU running this is 11 years old you
know what let's push for more
oh oh
dude not responding power usage very high
stage two is everything on high except motion blur
on low because i hate motion blur let's see how this goes
oh that is looking real good oh i
thought i felt a little stutter there for a second it's definitely not bad though
we are running at anywhere from 80 to 100 plus frames per second
and uh oh i died so now i was thinking
let's try something a little bit more modern we're gonna fire up apex legends
which isn't CPU does not have popkins
next up minecraft now i have to confess i have played very little minecraft
couldn't really figure out what the hell i was supposed to do this is a test for
what may eventually be a like LMG
minecraft thing who binds run to control
now the good news here is that wow now the good news here is that we are
actually running at anywhere from 100 all the way up to
well over 200 FPS here which is pretty
freaking sweet so for the first time today
we are actually getting the proper
full smooth gaming experience of this monitor huh
here's here's a good segue subscribe
yeah why aren't you subscribed to Linus tech tips yet minecraft told you to do
it you know my biggest problem is with minecraft though the realism this
clearly wouldn't be burning in the rain so we should probably how do i ride the
horse somebody else's horse who cares
do you need to just teleport you somewhere far away so you don't screw anything up no i don't care if i screw
anything up can you build stuff under water yeah
how do you breathe
that's not swimming if you go down to the bottom it's sinking
see this is what i'm talking about it's not realistic
to give our poor system a fighting chance we wanted to fire up a vulcan
game so this is the talos principle and you can see it's actually not running
great right now anywhere from 20 to
45 FPS so we're running directx 11 now
and we're gonna change that in hopes of
here we go seeing a little bit of a better result
here all right we're vulcan now boys
that's not bad that's not bad at all dang vulcan you
cool breathing fresh life into ancient
hardware so this is the new wolfenstein ii
oh oh crap you know it feels a little stupid to be
fighting with this eight cores total
dual socket nonsense from 11 years ago
when i have a 64 core 128 thread AMD
epic that i like have to finish this video before i can play with really
we're on we're on ultra jig does that seem
kind of unfair yeah two type so this is a weird one because if i
don't try to move the mouse you see that the animation is actually really smooth
but if i try to move the mouse it just completely falls apart
so many new and exciting ways for a system to be horribly horribly
bottlenecked today thanks for the gun bro
wow cool gun alright so that was fun but if i was
samsung i would be crazy to let me showcase
a 240 hertz wow this thing is heavy
gaming display on only that so
let's pull out the big guns and see what the experience
is supposed to be like
now doom ran okay on our other rig but that was at like medium details instead
of having everything on high and
this is a lot smoother like there's no doubt whatsoever
that high refresh rate gives you a clear competitive advantage and when you have
the FPS to back it up obviously the whole concept works a
little bit better i'm actually pretty impressed with this
monitor the pixel response times are quite
satisfactory while we fire up csgo show you guys got all the usual you know
different game modes black equalizer you can turn on a crosshair if you're a big
fat cheater why would you pull out your knife like
what even is the logic here
like is it i'd love to see the dungeons and dragons
rulebook version of how they programmed the bot behavior to not be good is there
just like a 20-sided die that it rolls and it'll just like pull out a random
weapon if it comes up you know what i mean
oh man i got killed by it this is a lot smoother like there's no
doubt whatsoever that high refresh rate gives you a clear competitive advantage
and when you have the FPS to back it up obviously the whole concept works a
little bit better so this monitor is equipped with both g-sync and a 240hz
refresh rate so it's able to serve up every possible frame my pc is producing
right now that means i'm getting however many more opportunities per second to
beat my opponents i mean i think we can all agree with my skill if i was online
right now i'd be winning for sure so massive thank you to samsung for
sponsoring this video thanks to you guys for watching if you enjoyed this one
because you love bottlenecks you can check out the video where we put a titan
rtx on the latte panda i'll link that one for you
if not then sorry i'll come up with a better
recommendation for you next time