1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,480 oh oh my God 2 00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:10,980 that's right ladies and gentlemen it's finally Zen four time and what better 3 00:00:08,639 --> 00:00:16,139 way to celebrate that than a sponsored video from aorus featuring all of their 4 00:00:13,259 --> 00:00:20,220 great new products that support Zen for I hope it's great it's gonna be great 5 00:00:18,180 --> 00:00:23,279 we're gonna build a computer uh which is not necessarily something we always do 6 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:27,539 in ShortCircuit it's not something I have done on a ShortCircuit so I'm 7 00:00:25,199 --> 00:00:32,700 pretty excited I'm told that there is quite a few pieces in this crate oh look 8 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:35,100 at that wow oh it's very sharp it's just 9 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:38,700 like wow they didn't deburr this aluminum at all 10 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:41,879 all right well I'm gonna steal this I think I'm gonna put this in my car hey 11 00:00:40,500 --> 00:00:46,079 ShortCircuit Christmas has come early and we bestow upon you the latest in our 12 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:48,180 line of am5 motherboards obviously the party wouldn't be complete without some 13 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:54,000 friends to play with so we included those two friends friends oh there's 14 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:57,960 lots of there's lots of goodies under there let's start with what's on the top 15 00:00:55,559 --> 00:01:03,420 though we've got two aorus x670 motherboards we've got their x670e aorus 16 00:01:00,780 --> 00:01:09,420 Master that's going to be the eatx big dog Flagship board and the x670 Aeros 17 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:11,520 Elite ax this is just a standard ATX 18 00:01:09,420 --> 00:01:17,040 form factor got some RAM in here this is a 32 gig kit so 2x16 of 6000 Mega 19 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:22,979 transfers per second ddr5 we've also got an aorus Gen 4 7000 series SSD they will 20 00:01:20,820 --> 00:01:25,920 be having Gen 5 ssds coming out soon which would be perfect for this platform 21 00:01:24,299 --> 00:01:30,180 but unfortunately we weren't able to get that in time still this is gonna be 22 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:34,799 super fast you know I'm starting to understand uh 23 00:01:33,119 --> 00:01:38,820 why he drops things so often it's hard especially when wonderful people like 24 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:42,320 aora send you a box full of so many goodies how are you not going to drop at 25 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:47,340 least some of them right now this might look like a normal power 26 00:01:44,759 --> 00:01:50,579 supply and for most intents and purposes it is I mean it's a modular power supply 27 00:01:49,259 --> 00:01:55,079 you got your connectors for your motherboard your CPU but what you've 28 00:01:52,619 --> 00:01:59,520 also got is a high power 12 volt connector for new graphics cards 29 00:01:57,060 --> 00:02:03,479 specifically PCA Gen 5 graphics cards like the upcoming RTX 40 series as well 30 00:02:01,860 --> 00:02:06,479 as the new Radeon graphics that are going to be coming out presumably in the 31 00:02:04,860 --> 00:02:10,920 next couple of months this connector specifically allows up to 600 watts of 32 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:14,640 power draw but what's also important is the internals of this power supply are 33 00:02:12,900 --> 00:02:18,000 designed to handle much higher power spikes than previous power supplies 34 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:21,060 which is going to be important on these super high power drop cards so if you 35 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:25,379 get one of them you're going to want to get an ATX 3.0 power supply like this 36 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:31,140 one this model specifically is their UD 1000 GM and you see that PCIe 5.0 there 37 00:02:28,860 --> 00:02:35,459 that's so you don't screw it up use this with Gen 5 graphics cards it's 80 plus 38 00:02:33,180 --> 00:02:38,459 gold comes with a 10 year warranty and all of the main capacitors in here are 39 00:02:37,260 --> 00:02:41,760 going to be high quality Japanese capacitors which is what you want to 40 00:02:40,260 --> 00:02:45,900 look for in a high quality power supply oh this is our new cable I haven't 41 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:50,760 actually seen one of these in person yet yeah look at that 600 watts and the last 42 00:02:48,599 --> 00:02:56,760 thing in our box is in the aorus water Force x280 AIO liquid cooler this 43 00:02:54,060 --> 00:03:01,319 thing's got a super sick 330 degree rotatable full color LCD display so you 44 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:05,099 can show custom text or images on there probably like the water temperatures if 45 00:03:03,540 --> 00:03:09,000 that's what you're into it's got extra thick tubing along with a slightly 46 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:13,140 thicker radiator hopefully to improve thermal performance compared to you know 47 00:03:11,220 --> 00:03:16,680 your average AIO it is going to have mounting for am5 hopefully which is 48 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:20,459 basically the same although I have noticed there's no graphics card in here 49 00:03:18,420 --> 00:03:23,519 so we're gonna need to get one there is some thermal paste at least we will be 50 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:28,379 needing that and I'm gonna go find a graphics card so give me a sec what 51 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,879 better than an AMD RTX 6900xt this is 52 00:03:28,379 --> 00:03:34,500 the Halo edition I don't know if it's really gonna like feng shui with our 53 00:03:31,739 --> 00:03:38,400 aorus motherboard but that's what I have look at that gold baby now that we've 54 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:43,260 got everything out of the crate I guess it's time to pick a motherboard and between these two motherboards there's 55 00:03:41,220 --> 00:03:47,940 not a huge amount of differences but there are a few notable ones this is the 56 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:52,440 ATX this is ATX the graphics card slot that's the main 16x slot is Gen 5 on 57 00:03:50,099 --> 00:03:56,280 this board Gen 4 on this one this one has two Gen 5 m.2 slots this one only 58 00:03:54,720 --> 00:04:00,060 has one this one's probably going to cost more definitely going to cost more 59 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:03,480 but it's more baller so I think that's the one I'm gonna use this is still 60 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:11,239 gonna be a great board it's got 2.5 gig Lan Wi-Fi 6E great power delivery but I 61 00:04:07,379 --> 00:04:12,980 usually tend to like the fancy stuff 62 00:04:11,239 --> 00:04:18,419 this one PCIe Gen 5 on the graphics slot nice it 63 00:04:16,500 --> 00:04:21,600 also has 2.5 gig Lan like the other one it's going to have the same amount of 64 00:04:19,919 --> 00:04:26,220 phases on the power delivery although it does look like they have a little bit different caps on this one probably a 65 00:04:24,540 --> 00:04:31,380 little bit higher quality components you can have a little bit more advanced cooling on the vrms as well as m.2 66 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:35,639 thermal guard which is a big heatsink for the m.2 wow they were not kidding 67 00:04:34,139 --> 00:04:41,540 when they said this thing had an m.2 heatsink look at that that's gotta be 68 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:44,220 enough to cool a CPU 69 00:04:41,540 --> 00:04:48,840 holy crap Brandon look at that look at the vrm heatsink that's straight up just 70 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:52,620 like a graphics card he'd think it's they're not even trying to pretend like 71 00:04:51,060 --> 00:04:59,520 this is some like pretty thing they're like this thing needs cooling it's just 72 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:00,840 a giant fin stack holy crap I wasn't 73 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:07,500 gonna open this board because we're gonna be using this one I but I just wanted to show this for reference this 74 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:12,000 is still no joke that's a big heatsink but that that is something else assuming 75 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:18,720 you haven't been living under a rock for the last few months you'll already know this but if you have there is a very big 76 00:05:16,139 --> 00:05:23,460 change on the am5 platform and that is this socket has pins in it no longer is 77 00:05:21,540 --> 00:05:26,220 an AMD CPU gonna have a bunch of pins on the back and you're gonna be worried 78 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:30,300 about bending them instead they're in the socket just like their epic platform 79 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:34,800 interestingly enough they are using very similar brackets as the am4 platform you 80 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:38,580 get like the little plastic hooky boys that your cooler grabs onto rather than 81 00:05:37,139 --> 00:05:42,360 having posts that you mount your own thing through I actually prefer this 82 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:48,240 approach because it comes with an included back plate so if you're installing an AIO or a CPU Cooler of any 83 00:05:46,259 --> 00:05:51,600 sort and you're not really experienced it's a lot easier because the back 84 00:05:49,740 --> 00:05:55,259 Plate's already there you don't have to Fumble through a big bit I mean there's 85 00:05:53,699 --> 00:06:00,600 still a big bank but you don't have to fumble and try to figure out what backplate to use it's already on there 86 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:05,100 we just have to take these off and I have my trusty lttstore.com screwdriver 87 00:06:02,820 --> 00:06:11,039 just for that I guess that brings us to our ramp this is a 6000 Mega transfer 88 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:15,479 per second cl40 kit from aorus and then 89 00:06:11,039 --> 00:06:17,699 uh m.2 this is aorus's 7000s Gen 4 SSD 90 00:06:15,479 --> 00:06:21,180 they will be having Gen 5 ssds launch with this platform but we weren't able 91 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:26,160 to get one on time unfortunately this is an ultra fast NVMe 1.4 protocol 92 00:06:23,759 --> 00:06:31,199 supported drive with read speeds of up to seven gigabytes a second which which 93 00:06:28,500 --> 00:06:35,819 is really really fast the Gen 5 ssds you'll see somewhere in the neighborhood 94 00:06:32,220 --> 00:06:37,979 of 10 to 12 gigabytes a second so we got 95 00:06:35,819 --> 00:06:43,380 a lot of really fast storage coming our way these days I love that boards come 96 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:47,220 with this now the m.2 boom it's installed no little screws to mess 97 00:06:45,180 --> 00:06:50,699 around with just a little cute little latch usually I wouldn't be putting a 98 00:06:49,380 --> 00:06:55,560 graphics card in while the motherboard's still in the box but I wanted to show you guys a little feature on a lot of 99 00:06:53,759 --> 00:06:58,380 high-end boards like this one put your graphics card in and you want to take it 100 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:02,699 out but it's in the case you got to like stick a knife down the back to release 101 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:05,940 the lock well not on this board you just press this little button it releases the 102 00:07:04,319 --> 00:07:08,819 lock pull the graphics card out I wanted to show you guys what easy latch looks 103 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:13,139 like on this board it's a little bit of a simpler design just a little bit of an 104 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:16,680 extended latch but it does still achieve the same thing it's a lot easier to 105 00:07:15,180 --> 00:07:22,860 remove you're also going to find that the PCIe slots on this board are reinforced there's a little metal piece 106 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:26,520 over top that increases the tensile strength by 2.2 times which means it's 107 00:07:25,259 --> 00:07:31,800 going to be able to support those big honking gpus with huge heat spreaders no 108 00:07:29,699 --> 00:07:35,400 problem one of the problems with am4's backplate despite me liking the back 109 00:07:33,419 --> 00:07:38,699 plate being there is it wasn't secured to anything so as soon as you take off 110 00:07:37,139 --> 00:07:43,979 those front brackets it would just be a loose well it looks like on this board 111 00:07:40,620 --> 00:07:45,900 the socket on the front screws into the 112 00:07:43,979 --> 00:07:49,860 back plate so I can pick this thing up I can shake it around I can put it in a 113 00:07:48,060 --> 00:07:54,780 case and my back plate isn't going to fall off which is freaking awesome 114 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:57,360 despite me hyping up the ATX 3.0 Gen 5 115 00:07:54,780 --> 00:08:01,199 ready 600 watt cable we're not going to be using that because we don't have 116 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:05,819 those new gpus this GPU just uses two eight pins and so that's what we're 117 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:10,560 going to use sweet I didn't realize but this cooler has fan and RGB leads 118 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:14,699 actually on the radiator itself so you don't have to run all the fan cables 119 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:18,000 back behind your computer and loop it back in from this part It's all where it 120 00:08:16,620 --> 00:08:22,259 actually needs to be which is super sweet look at that we got a complete 121 00:08:19,919 --> 00:08:26,460 system now uh I guess we can fire it up one thing to note on the New Zen 4 122 00:08:24,539 --> 00:08:29,699 platform memory training which is the process of the CPU and the RAM trying to 123 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:33,360 figure out what speeds they can run at takes a while so turning on the system 124 00:08:31,919 --> 00:08:37,320 we were just sitting there for like a minute before it actually started to 125 00:08:35,219 --> 00:08:41,459 post so don't get worried give it a little bit more time and it'll probably 126 00:08:38,459 --> 00:08:44,700 turn on hey we're booted shout out to 127 00:08:41,459 --> 00:08:46,020 the new zen4 CPUs having an igpu I think 128 00:08:44,700 --> 00:08:52,680 I'm having an issue with this graphics card I haven't tried to troubleshoot it at all yet but with the igpu we're 129 00:08:49,380 --> 00:08:54,540 getting an output the system works ah as 130 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:57,540 with any new build and especially one on a new platform there's a few things 131 00:08:56,100 --> 00:09:01,380 you're going to want to do before you jump into Windows and just start gaming 132 00:08:59,220 --> 00:09:05,220 first and foremost is updating the BIOS now on this board there's a special USB 133 00:09:03,420 --> 00:09:08,940 port you can use to update the BIOS without even needing a CPU a GPU 134 00:09:07,380 --> 00:09:13,260 anything you just need to plug in the 24 pin and the CPU power plug in the USB 135 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:16,140 and follow the procedure to update the board super easy once your BIOS is 136 00:09:15,060 --> 00:09:20,339 updated you're going to want to go in and enable AMD Expo which is their 137 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:23,399 version of XMP that means you're going to get the full potential speed of your 138 00:09:21,959 --> 00:09:27,120 RAM instead of just running at the default speeds with this specific RAM 139 00:09:25,019 --> 00:09:30,959 and board by default we're running at 4 800 Mega transfer per second when we 140 00:09:29,100 --> 00:09:37,260 could be running at six thousand so just have to click enter to enable Expo you 141 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:39,959 can see ddr5 6000cl40 and then just save 142 00:09:37,260 --> 00:09:43,800 and exit after you do enable Expo the board's probably get a memory train 143 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:46,620 again so don't be scared if it takes you know a minute or two to boot after 144 00:09:45,180 --> 00:09:51,120 setting this all right that actually took like 20 seconds and we're back in 145 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:55,320 the BIOS and we see that sweet sweet 6 000 Mega transfer per second super fast 146 00:09:53,220 --> 00:09:59,100 another thing you can do in the BIOS to improve your performance aside from 147 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:03,420 enabling Expo is enabling PBO or Precision boost overdrive it's AMD's 148 00:10:01,260 --> 00:10:07,560 built-in feature that allows your CPU to go beyond its stock power limits to get 149 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:11,220 a little bit more performance so we're going to turn that on now we can play 150 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:14,760 some games one of the cool features about these boards is the Gigabyte 151 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:21,240 control center now in here we can go in and tweak things like your CPU frequency 152 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:24,120 you can go into RGB fusion and change 153 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:28,440 the RGB I've set it to purple on the motherboard and the RAM to match short 154 00:10:26,459 --> 00:10:33,500 circuit colors you can even go go in here and change your fan profile like I 155 00:10:29,820 --> 00:10:36,060 want full speed or I want quiet 156 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:39,600 they also have an SSD tool that can give you some metrics about your SSD we got 157 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:42,779 our Gigabyte one in here it's telling us we have 100 life rating because it's 158 00:10:41,279 --> 00:10:45,899 brand new and we haven't used it it also comes with an update utility so you can 159 00:10:44,399 --> 00:10:50,220 update all of the drivers like your chipset drivers your RGB drivers all the 160 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:54,240 different drivers that come with your motherboard so you don't have to go on their website and figure out oh which 161 00:10:52,740 --> 00:10:57,899 version do I need this one this one that one it just tells you which one and 162 00:10:56,339 --> 00:11:01,500 installs them for you you just click one button it's pretty sick I want to run a 163 00:10:59,820 --> 00:11:06,120 cinebench run I haven't seen these CPUs oh actually we don't even know what CPU 164 00:11:03,660 --> 00:11:13,200 it is yet maybe we should check it's a 16 core so it's got to be a 7950x wow 165 00:11:10,339 --> 00:11:18,120 holy sh look at that score Brandon that's faster than a 32 core second gen 166 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:22,560 threadripper by like not an insignificant amount for 167 00:11:20,940 --> 00:11:27,839 reference the previous flag shipped the 5950x scored a 28 and a half thousand 168 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:33,480 score we're at 35 and a half thousand that's a lot faster 169 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:35,519 these clock speeds are crazy it's it's 170 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:41,220 so insane to think that we just got this CPU put it in a motherboard and it's 171 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:43,620 just chilling at 5.15 gigahertz like no 172 00:11:41,220 --> 00:11:48,000 overclock I mean we do have PBO on so it could be going beyond that but that's 173 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:51,060 just freaking nuts I got cinebench running again in a 10 minute stress test 174 00:11:49,620 --> 00:11:56,519 just to kind of see where our temps are at um we are looking at about 95 degrees at 175 00:11:54,540 --> 00:12:01,019 the hottest but that's actually not that bad when you consider the PBO is on the 176 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:07,019 CPU is allowed to go Way Beyond its stock TDP you can see we're running 177 00:12:02,779 --> 00:12:09,480 anywhere between 200 to 220 230 Watts 178 00:12:07,019 --> 00:12:14,700 yeah 230 Watts Peak that's a lot of heat and it's handling it all right so we're 179 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:19,200 gaming in Halo infinite running 4K Ultra settings and we're getting well over 70 180 00:12:16,860 --> 00:12:23,279 FPS 75 FPS depending on where we're at now obviously your FPS in a game is 181 00:12:21,839 --> 00:12:27,540 going to be a little bit more dependent on the graphics card but having a good 182 00:12:25,140 --> 00:12:32,279 CPU ensures you're making the most of your good graphics card that's very 183 00:12:29,579 --> 00:12:36,779 important oh look at these Frags let's go thanks to yours for sponsoring 184 00:12:35,279 --> 00:12:41,640 this video if you guys want to check out their motherboards we'll have a link down below especially for their x670 185 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:44,940 models for the new CPUs we'll also have all of the rest of the kit we tried out 186 00:12:43,139 --> 00:12:49,860 today in the description as well if 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