WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.480 oh oh my God 00:00:03.500 --> 00:00:10.980 that's right ladies and gentlemen it's finally Zen four time and what better 00:00:08.639 --> 00:00:16.139 way to celebrate that than a sponsored video from aorus featuring all of their 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 00:00:18.180 --> 00:00:23.279 we're gonna build a computer uh which is not necessarily something we always do 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:27.539 in ShortCircuit it's not something I have done on a ShortCircuit so I'm 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 00:00:29.400 --> 00:00:35.100 at that wow oh it's very sharp it's just 00:00:32.700 --> 00:00:38.700 like wow they didn't deburr this aluminum at all 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 00:00:40.500 --> 00:00:46.079 ShortCircuit Christmas has come early and we bestow upon you the latest in our 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:48.180 line of am5 motherboards obviously the party wouldn't be complete without some 00:00:47.100 --> 00:00:54.000 friends to play with so we included those two friends friends oh there's 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 00:00:55.559 --> 00:01:03.420 though we've got two aorus x670 motherboards we've got their x670e aorus 00:01:00.780 --> 00:01:09.420 Master that's going to be the eatx big dog Flagship board and the x670 Aeros 00:01:06.360 --> 00:01:11.520 Elite ax this is just a standard ATX 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 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 00:01:20.820 --> 00:01:25.920 be having Gen 5 ssds coming out soon which would be perfect for this platform 00:01:24.299 --> 00:01:30.180 but unfortunately we weren't able to get that in time still this is gonna be 00:01:27.960 --> 00:01:34.799 super fast you know I'm starting to understand uh 00:01:33.119 --> 00:01:38.820 why he drops things so often it's hard especially when wonderful people like 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 00:01:40.500 --> 00:01:47.340 least some of them right now this might look like a normal power 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 00:01:49.259 --> 00:01:55.079 you got your connectors for your motherboard your CPU but what you've 00:01:52.619 --> 00:01:59.520 also got is a high power 12 volt connector for new graphics cards 00:01:57.060 --> 00:02:03.479 specifically PCA Gen 5 graphics cards like the upcoming RTX 40 series as well 00:02:01.860 --> 00:02:06.479 as the new Radeon graphics that are going to be coming out presumably in the 00:02:04.860 --> 00:02:10.920 next couple of months this connector specifically allows up to 600 watts of 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:14.640 power draw but what's also important is the internals of this power supply are 00:02:12.900 --> 00:02:18.000 designed to handle much higher power spikes than previous power supplies 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:21.060 which is going to be important on these super high power drop cards so if you 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 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 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 00:02:33.180 --> 00:02:38.459 gold comes with a 10 year warranty and all of the main capacitors in here are 00:02:37.260 --> 00:02:41.760 going to be high quality Japanese capacitors which is what you want to 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 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 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:56.760 thing in our box is in the aorus water Force x280 AIO liquid cooler this 00:02:54.060 --> 00:03:01.319 thing's got a super sick 330 degree rotatable full color LCD display so you 00:02:59.640 --> 00:03:05.099 can show custom text or images on there probably like the water temperatures if 00:03:03.540 --> 00:03:09.000 that's what you're into it's got extra thick tubing along with a slightly 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:13.140 thicker radiator hopefully to improve thermal performance compared to you know 00:03:11.220 --> 00:03:16.680 your average AIO it is going to have mounting for am5 hopefully which is 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:20.459 basically the same although I have noticed there's no graphics card in here 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 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 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:29.879 better than an AMD RTX 6900xt this is 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 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 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 00:03:41.220 --> 00:03:47.940 not a huge amount of differences but there are a few notable ones this is the 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 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 00:03:54.720 --> 00:04:00.060 has one this one's probably going to cost more definitely going to cost more 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 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 00:04:07.379 --> 00:04:12.980 usually tend to like the fancy stuff 00:04:11.239 --> 00:04:18.419 this one PCIe Gen 5 on the graphics slot nice it 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 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 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 00:04:29.520 --> 00:04:35.639 thermal guard which is a big heatsink for the m.2 wow they were not kidding 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 00:04:38.520 --> 00:04:44.220 enough to cool a CPU 00:04:41.540 --> 00:04:48.840 holy crap Brandon look at that look at the vrm heatsink that's straight up just 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 00:04:51.060 --> 00:04:59.520 this is some like pretty thing they're like this thing needs cooling it's just 00:04:55.560 --> 00:05:00.840 a giant fin stack holy crap I wasn't 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 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:12.000 is still no joke that's a big heatsink but that that is something else assuming 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 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 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 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:30.300 about bending them instead they're in the socket just like their epic platform 00:05:28.080 --> 00:05:34.800 interestingly enough they are using very similar brackets as the am4 platform you 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:38.580 get like the little plastic hooky boys that your cooler grabs onto rather than 00:05:37.139 --> 00:05:42.360 having posts that you mount your own thing through I actually prefer this 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 00:05:46.259 --> 00:05:51.600 sort and you're not really experienced it's a lot easier because the back 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 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 00:05:58.080 --> 00:06:05.100 we just have to take these off and I have my trusty lttstore.com screwdriver 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 00:06:07.500 --> 00:06:15.479 per second cl40 kit from aorus and then 00:06:11.039 --> 00:06:17.699 uh m.2 this is aorus's 7000s Gen 4 SSD 00:06:15.479 --> 00:06:21.180 they will be having Gen 5 ssds launch with this platform but we weren't able 00:06:19.320 --> 00:06:26.160 to get one on time unfortunately this is an ultra fast NVMe 1.4 protocol 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:31.199 supported drive with read speeds of up to seven gigabytes a second which which 00:06:28.500 --> 00:06:35.819 is really really fast the Gen 5 ssds you'll see somewhere in the neighborhood 00:06:32.220 --> 00:06:37.979 of 10 to 12 gigabytes a second so we got 00:06:35.819 --> 00:06:43.380 a lot of really fast storage coming our way these days I love that boards come 00:06:40.440 --> 00:06:47.220 with this now the m.2 boom it's installed no little screws to mess 00:06:45.180 --> 00:06:50.699 around with just a little cute little latch usually I wouldn't be putting a 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 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 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 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:05.940 the lock well not on this board you just press this little button it releases the 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:08.819 lock pull the graphics card out I wanted to show you guys what easy latch looks 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 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:16.680 extended latch but it does still achieve the same thing it's a lot easier to 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 00:07:20.400 --> 00:07:26.520 over top that increases the tensile strength by 2.2 times which means it's 00:07:25.259 --> 00:07:31.800 going to be able to support those big honking gpus with huge heat spreaders no 00:07:29.699 --> 00:07:35.400 problem one of the problems with am4's backplate despite me liking the back 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 00:07:37.139 --> 00:07:43.979 those front brackets it would just be a loose well it looks like on this board 00:07:40.620 --> 00:07:45.900 the socket on the front screws into the 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 00:07:48.060 --> 00:07:54.780 case and my back plate isn't going to fall off which is freaking awesome 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:57.360 despite me hyping up the ATX 3.0 Gen 5 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 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 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:10.560 going to use sweet I didn't realize but this cooler has fan and RGB leads 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:14.699 actually on the radiator itself so you don't have to run all the fan cables 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 00:08:16.620 --> 00:08:22.259 actually needs to be which is super sweet look at that we got a complete 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 00:08:24.539 --> 00:08:29.699 platform memory training which is the process of the CPU and the RAM trying to 00:08:28.440 --> 00:08:33.360 figure out what speeds they can run at takes a while so turning on the system 00:08:31.919 --> 00:08:37.320 we were just sitting there for like a minute before it actually started to 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 00:08:38.459 --> 00:08:44.700 turn on hey we're booted shout out to 00:08:41.459 --> 00:08:46.020 the new zen4 CPUs having an igpu I think 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 00:08:49.380 --> 00:08:54.540 getting an output the system works ah as 00:08:52.680 --> 00:08:57.540 with any new build and especially one on a new platform there's a few things 00:08:56.100 --> 00:09:01.380 you're going to want to do before you jump into Windows and just start gaming 00:08:59.220 --> 00:09:05.220 first and foremost is updating the BIOS now on this board there's a special USB 00:09:03.420 --> 00:09:08.940 port you can use to update the BIOS without even needing a CPU a GPU 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 00:09:11.640 --> 00:09:16.140 and follow the procedure to update the board super easy once your BIOS is 00:09:15.060 --> 00:09:20.339 updated you're going to want to go in and enable AMD Expo which is their 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:23.399 version of XMP that means you're going to get the full potential speed of your 00:09:21.959 --> 00:09:27.120 RAM instead of just running at the default speeds with this specific RAM 00:09:25.019 --> 00:09:30.959 and board by default we're running at 4 800 Mega transfer per second when we 00:09:29.100 --> 00:09:37.260 could be running at six thousand so just have to click enter to enable Expo you 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:39.959 can see ddr5 6000cl40 and then just save 00:09:37.260 --> 00:09:43.800 and exit after you do enable Expo the board's probably get a memory train 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 00:09:45.180 --> 00:09:51.120 setting this all right that actually took like 20 seconds and we're back in 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:55.320 the BIOS and we see that sweet sweet 6 000 Mega transfer per second super fast 00:09:53.220 --> 00:09:59.100 another thing you can do in the BIOS to improve your performance aside from 00:09:56.640 --> 00:10:03.420 enabling Expo is enabling PBO or Precision boost overdrive it's AMD's 00:10:01.260 --> 00:10:07.560 built-in feature that allows your CPU to go beyond its stock power limits to get 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 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:14.760 some games one of the cool features about these boards is the Gigabyte 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:21.240 control center now in here we can go in and tweak things like your CPU frequency 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:24.120 you can go into RGB fusion and change 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 00:10:26.459 --> 00:10:33.500 circuit colors you can even go go in here and change your fan profile like I 00:10:29.820 --> 00:10:36.060 want full speed or I want quiet 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 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 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 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:50.220 update all of the drivers like your chipset drivers your RGB drivers all the 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 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 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 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 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 00:11:10.339 --> 00:11:18.120 holy sh look at that score Brandon that's faster than a 32 core second gen 00:11:16.680 --> 00:11:22.560 threadripper by like not an insignificant amount for 00:11:20.940 --> 00:11:27.839 reference the previous flag shipped the 5950x scored a 28 and a half thousand 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:33.480 score we're at 35 and a half thousand that's a lot faster 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:35.519 these clock speeds are crazy it's it's 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 00:11:37.680 --> 00:11:43.620 just chilling at 5.15 gigahertz like no 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 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:51.060 just freaking nuts I got cinebench running again in a 10 minute stress test 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 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 00:11:58.800 --> 00:12:07.019 CPU is allowed to go Way Beyond its stock TDP you can see we're running 00:12:02.779 --> 00:12:09.480 anywhere between 200 to 220 230 Watts 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 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:19.200 gaming in Halo infinite running 4K Ultra settings and we're getting well over 70 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 00:12:21.839 --> 00:12:27.540 going to be a little bit more dependent on the graphics card but having a good 00:12:25.140 --> 00:12:32.279 CPU ensures you're making the most of your good graphics card that's very 00:12:29.579 --> 00:12:36.779 important oh look at these Frags let's go thanks to yours for sponsoring 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 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 00:12:43.139 --> 00:12:49.860 today in the description as well if you like this video maybe check out the iPhone 14 unboxing I just did that was 00:12:47.940 --> 00:12:53.540 super fun hit the like button get subscribed and I'll see you in the next 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:53.540 one