oh oh my God
that's right ladies and gentlemen it's finally Zen four time and what better
way to celebrate that than a sponsored video from aorus featuring all of their
great new products that support Zen for I hope it's great it's gonna be great
we're gonna build a computer uh which is not necessarily something we always do
in ShortCircuit it's not something I have done on a ShortCircuit so I'm
pretty excited I'm told that there is quite a few pieces in this crate oh look
at that wow oh it's very sharp it's just
like wow they didn't deburr this aluminum at all
all right well I'm gonna steal this I think I'm gonna put this in my car hey
ShortCircuit Christmas has come early and we bestow upon you the latest in our
line of am5 motherboards obviously the party wouldn't be complete without some
friends to play with so we included those two friends friends oh there's
lots of there's lots of goodies under there let's start with what's on the top
though we've got two aorus x670 motherboards we've got their x670e aorus
Master that's going to be the eatx big dog Flagship board and the x670 Aeros
Elite ax this is just a standard ATX
form factor got some RAM in here this is a 32 gig kit so 2x16 of 6000 Mega
transfers per second ddr5 we've also got an aorus Gen 4 7000 series SSD they will
be having Gen 5 ssds coming out soon which would be perfect for this platform
but unfortunately we weren't able to get that in time still this is gonna be
super fast you know I'm starting to understand uh
why he drops things so often it's hard especially when wonderful people like
aora send you a box full of so many goodies how are you not going to drop at
least some of them right now this might look like a normal power
supply and for most intents and purposes it is I mean it's a modular power supply
you got your connectors for your motherboard your CPU but what you've
also got is a high power 12 volt connector for new graphics cards
specifically PCA Gen 5 graphics cards like the upcoming RTX 40 series as well
as the new Radeon graphics that are going to be coming out presumably in the
next couple of months this connector specifically allows up to 600 watts of
power draw but what's also important is the internals of this power supply are
designed to handle much higher power spikes than previous power supplies
which is going to be important on these super high power drop cards so if you
get one of them you're going to want to get an ATX 3.0 power supply like this
one this model specifically is their UD 1000 GM and you see that PCIe 5.0 there
that's so you don't screw it up use this with Gen 5 graphics cards it's 80 plus
gold comes with a 10 year warranty and all of the main capacitors in here are
going to be high quality Japanese capacitors which is what you want to
look for in a high quality power supply oh this is our new cable I haven't
actually seen one of these in person yet yeah look at that 600 watts and the last
thing in our box is in the aorus water Force x280 AIO liquid cooler this
thing's got a super sick 330 degree rotatable full color LCD display so you
can show custom text or images on there probably like the water temperatures if
that's what you're into it's got extra thick tubing along with a slightly
thicker radiator hopefully to improve thermal performance compared to you know
your average AIO it is going to have mounting for am5 hopefully which is
basically the same although I have noticed there's no graphics card in here
so we're gonna need to get one there is some thermal paste at least we will be
needing that and I'm gonna go find a graphics card so give me a sec what
better than an AMD RTX 6900xt this is
the Halo edition I don't know if it's really gonna like feng shui with our
aorus motherboard but that's what I have look at that gold baby now that we've
got everything out of the crate I guess it's time to pick a motherboard and between these two motherboards there's
not a huge amount of differences but there are a few notable ones this is the
ATX this is ATX the graphics card slot that's the main 16x slot is Gen 5 on
this board Gen 4 on this one this one has two Gen 5 m.2 slots this one only
has one this one's probably going to cost more definitely going to cost more
but it's more baller so I think that's the one I'm gonna use this is still
gonna be a great board it's got 2.5 gig Lan Wi-Fi 6E great power delivery but I
usually tend to like the fancy stuff
this one PCIe Gen 5 on the graphics slot nice it
also has 2.5 gig Lan like the other one it's going to have the same amount of
phases on the power delivery although it does look like they have a little bit different caps on this one probably a
little bit higher quality components you can have a little bit more advanced cooling on the vrms as well as m.2
thermal guard which is a big heatsink for the m.2 wow they were not kidding
when they said this thing had an m.2 heatsink look at that that's gotta be
enough to cool a CPU
holy crap Brandon look at that look at the vrm heatsink that's straight up just
like a graphics card he'd think it's they're not even trying to pretend like
this is some like pretty thing they're like this thing needs cooling it's just
a giant fin stack holy crap I wasn't
gonna open this board because we're gonna be using this one I but I just wanted to show this for reference this
is still no joke that's a big heatsink but that that is something else assuming
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
change on the am5 platform and that is this socket has pins in it no longer is
an AMD CPU gonna have a bunch of pins on the back and you're gonna be worried
about bending them instead they're in the socket just like their epic platform
interestingly enough they are using very similar brackets as the am4 platform you
get like the little plastic hooky boys that your cooler grabs onto rather than
having posts that you mount your own thing through I actually prefer this
approach because it comes with an included back plate so if you're installing an AIO or a CPU Cooler of any
sort and you're not really experienced it's a lot easier because the back
Plate's already there you don't have to Fumble through a big bit I mean there's
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
we just have to take these off and I have my trusty lttstore.com screwdriver
just for that I guess that brings us to our ramp this is a 6000 Mega transfer
per second cl40 kit from aorus and then
uh m.2 this is aorus's 7000s Gen 4 SSD
they will be having Gen 5 ssds launch with this platform but we weren't able
to get one on time unfortunately this is an ultra fast NVMe 1.4 protocol
supported drive with read speeds of up to seven gigabytes a second which which
is really really fast the Gen 5 ssds you'll see somewhere in the neighborhood
of 10 to 12 gigabytes a second so we got
a lot of really fast storage coming our way these days I love that boards come
with this now the m.2 boom it's installed no little screws to mess
around with just a little cute little latch usually I wouldn't be putting a
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
high-end boards like this one put your graphics card in and you want to take it
out but it's in the case you got to like stick a knife down the back to release
the lock well not on this board you just press this little button it releases the
lock pull the graphics card out I wanted to show you guys what easy latch looks
like on this board it's a little bit of a simpler design just a little bit of an
extended latch but it does still achieve the same thing it's a lot easier to
remove you're also going to find that the PCIe slots on this board are reinforced there's a little metal piece
over top that increases the tensile strength by 2.2 times which means it's
going to be able to support those big honking gpus with huge heat spreaders no
problem one of the problems with am4's backplate despite me liking the back
plate being there is it wasn't secured to anything so as soon as you take off
those front brackets it would just be a loose well it looks like on this board
the socket on the front screws into the
back plate so I can pick this thing up I can shake it around I can put it in a
case and my back plate isn't going to fall off which is freaking awesome
despite me hyping up the ATX 3.0 Gen 5
ready 600 watt cable we're not going to be using that because we don't have
those new gpus this GPU just uses two eight pins and so that's what we're
going to use sweet I didn't realize but this cooler has fan and RGB leads
actually on the radiator itself so you don't have to run all the fan cables
back behind your computer and loop it back in from this part It's all where it
actually needs to be which is super sweet look at that we got a complete
system now uh I guess we can fire it up one thing to note on the New Zen 4
platform memory training which is the process of the CPU and the RAM trying to
figure out what speeds they can run at takes a while so turning on the system
we were just sitting there for like a minute before it actually started to
post so don't get worried give it a little bit more time and it'll probably
turn on hey we're booted shout out to
the new zen4 CPUs having an igpu I think
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
getting an output the system works ah as
with any new build and especially one on a new platform there's a few things
you're going to want to do before you jump into Windows and just start gaming
first and foremost is updating the BIOS now on this board there's a special USB
port you can use to update the BIOS without even needing a CPU a GPU
anything you just need to plug in the 24 pin and the CPU power plug in the USB
and follow the procedure to update the board super easy once your BIOS is
updated you're going to want to go in and enable AMD Expo which is their
version of XMP that means you're going to get the full potential speed of your
RAM instead of just running at the default speeds with this specific RAM
and board by default we're running at 4 800 Mega transfer per second when we
could be running at six thousand so just have to click enter to enable Expo you
can see ddr5 6000cl40 and then just save
and exit after you do enable Expo the board's probably get a memory train
again so don't be scared if it takes you know a minute or two to boot after
setting this all right that actually took like 20 seconds and we're back in
the BIOS and we see that sweet sweet 6 000 Mega transfer per second super fast
another thing you can do in the BIOS to improve your performance aside from
enabling Expo is enabling PBO or Precision boost overdrive it's AMD's
built-in feature that allows your CPU to go beyond its stock power limits to get
a little bit more performance so we're going to turn that on now we can play
some games one of the cool features about these boards is the Gigabyte
control center now in here we can go in and tweak things like your CPU frequency
you can go into RGB fusion and change
the RGB I've set it to purple on the motherboard and the RAM to match short
circuit colors you can even go go in here and change your fan profile like I
want full speed or I want quiet
they also have an SSD tool that can give you some metrics about your SSD we got
our Gigabyte one in here it's telling us we have 100 life rating because it's
brand new and we haven't used it it also comes with an update utility so you can
update all of the drivers like your chipset drivers your RGB drivers all the
different drivers that come with your motherboard so you don't have to go on their website and figure out oh which
version do I need this one this one that one it just tells you which one and
installs them for you you just click one button it's pretty sick I want to run a
cinebench run I haven't seen these CPUs oh actually we don't even know what CPU
it is yet maybe we should check it's a 16 core so it's got to be a 7950x wow
holy sh look at that score Brandon that's faster than a 32 core second gen
threadripper by like not an insignificant amount for
reference the previous flag shipped the 5950x scored a 28 and a half thousand
score we're at 35 and a half thousand that's a lot faster
these clock speeds are crazy it's it's
so insane to think that we just got this CPU put it in a motherboard and it's
just chilling at 5.15 gigahertz like no
overclock I mean we do have PBO on so it could be going beyond that but that's
just freaking nuts I got cinebench running again in a 10 minute stress test
just to kind of see where our temps are at um we are looking at about 95 degrees at
the hottest but that's actually not that bad when you consider the PBO is on the
CPU is allowed to go Way Beyond its stock TDP you can see we're running
anywhere between 200 to 220 230 Watts
yeah 230 Watts Peak that's a lot of heat and it's handling it all right so we're
gaming in Halo infinite running 4K Ultra settings and we're getting well over 70
FPS 75 FPS depending on where we're at now obviously your FPS in a game is
going to be a little bit more dependent on the graphics card but having a good
CPU ensures you're making the most of your good graphics card that's very
important oh look at these Frags let's go thanks to yours for sponsoring
this video if you guys want to check out their motherboards we'll have a link down below especially for their x670
models for the new CPUs we'll also have all of the rest of the kit we tried out
today in the description as well if you like this video maybe check out the iPhone 14 unboxing I just did that was
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