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this monstrosity right here is my personal gaming rig and it's

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actually served me really well for the last three years

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at the time the specs were pretty blazing fast it had

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an extreme edition eight core processor

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calling eight cores extreme these days seems kind of quaint and a titan x

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graphics card but because it uses NVIDIA's old maxwell

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architecture this titan graphics card not only is much

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slower than modern gaming cards it actually lacks a bunch of really cool

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features like their updated video encoder as well as you know rtx real

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time ray tracing so today's video is all about

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upgrading it but here's the thing

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i don't have time to spend literally a year

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designing a custom paint job for the front okay i didn't design that but

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admittedly i do think it looks cool and a completely custom enclosure for full

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loop water cooling in a rack mount chassis that ain't happening so today is

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going to be all about well if i'm being honest playing anno

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1800 because i got that game it ran like

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garbage on my 3440x1440 monitor and so i reached out

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to aorus and NVIDIA who put together this little care package that's going to

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take us from very very last gen to

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pretty much the fastest it gets ibm is giving away 1500 dji tello drones

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to enter to win complete the ibm developer challenge no prior coding

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and spain you gotta be 18 years of age so check it out at the link below

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so i guess we'll start with a little classic unboxing of what has to be one

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of the coolest motherboard products to come down the pipe

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in in my opinion at least the last year or

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so this is the Gigabyte z390 aorus

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extreme what do they call it water force

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5g and what's special about it is that this

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is like an 1100 motherboard or something

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crazy like that but it's also not as insane as it might

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sound because unlike most motherboards

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this one actually includes a pre-binned

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and pre-overclocked CPU so check this

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out the board actually comes with the CPU pre-installed so it's a

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core i9 9900k that's been validated for

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5.1 gigahertz it's got all the usual features you'd expect a handful of m.2s

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sli support three PCIe 16x slots uh oh

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this could throw a bit of a monkey wrench in the pudding we've got a side

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mounted 24 pin hopefully that fits my

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case is a little unconventional but

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right what's more interesting than all the

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features it has is what it doesn't have

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check that out bear chipset check that out

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we've got bare vrms there's no cooling on this board what

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kind of crazy person would buy a thousand dollar motherboard with

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absolutely no cooling on it whatsoever so it turns out what i was looking for

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was actually in a clearly labeled separate box this is the aorus

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all-in-one monoblock so

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a monoblock is basically a single block

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that is designed to cool multiple different components so this one right

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here is designed to cool check this out the CPU

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the vrm components all three of your m.2

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drives and the chipset it weighs

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probably like oh my goodness like a kilo

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or two and it looks like it includes not one

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but two RGB lighting leads here's one and here's

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what appears to be another one although i'm not a hundred percent sure if that's

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right here we've got a bracket and a rubber

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because uh when you got this much sex appeal you never know what might accidentally

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happen am i right my friends and then

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we've got a bunch of a bunch of supplies for screwing so our first order of

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business then is mounting the monoblock to

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the motherboard

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okay and now we start to put in screws

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one pro tip for installing any kind of block whether it's an individual CPU

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block or some kind of a mono block whether it's graphics or full

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motherboard is you never want to go in too tight so i'm just putting these in

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a little bit to make sure they're not cross threaded i am basically not

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tightening them at all just holding them in place i've determined that the

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washers are for these screws not by reading the manual of course but by just

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noticing that they are either plastic or they're coated

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and otherwise these screws would be going into a bare pcb which could cause

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a short because they're just normal metal screws

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so these washers then are serving two purposes

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one is to make sure that it doesn't short out the second purpose of these

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washers is to ensure that the screws don't accidentally loosen over time you

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might not realize this but the inside of a computer can have a lot of vibrations

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whether it's from fans or spinning discs and unless you've got loctite and or

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washers on anything that you've mounted it is possible for them to vibrate loose

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over time wow

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so as much as it kills me to bid adieu to

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my limited edition gold-plated CPU block

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this is pretty spiffy looking

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so now i've got to take apart my old rig

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all right so the first thing we're going to do is pop out both the GPU and CPU

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it's one of the things i love about soft tubing is that it is super quick

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actually to get your entire loop removed for

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system maintenance there we go

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so that gives me completely unfettered access to my motherboard area

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here's my Intel nick these days every motherboard that's worth its salt ships

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with a better network card than this so i'll be uh i'll be leaving this behind

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you know it's funny i would say one of the most notable things about

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this machine is how not out of date certain components are i

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mean Corsair only replaced the ax 1500i i think like

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six months ago and even then the 1600i

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yeah it's it's better but it's not like

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you know a quantum leap forward in power supply performance or anything like that

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and i actually will still get to reuse my

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dominator ddr4 in here so this is a 64 gig kit of cast 15

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memory yeah it only runs at 26.66

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designed for gen 6 i5s and i7s but hey

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if it fits i sits right i mean to be clear i'm not expecting xmp profiles to

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work or anything like that but it should function

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now a lot of people get into newfangled coolants with you know colorants or

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additives or whatever else but i have always been a proponent of straight up

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water and i will show you guys why because even with plain water you can

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see that the flow over time like water will erode pretty much anything we've

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managed to strip the nickel plating from some parts of this block exposing the

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original copper also even with pure

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water although that is with a couple of drops of biocide we still get a little

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bit of like you know corrosion and stuff like that

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but what you don't see is any microbial

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growth because the thing is a little bit of corrosion or a little bit of erosion

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which is what we're looking at here is not going to kill your system

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microbial growth that will gunk up your blocks

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like that and it is pretty much game over it's

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funny it feels like such a downgrade going from the hedt or the high-end

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desktop platform of your to a mainstream solution

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but not only does this consumer you know

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mainstream CPU have just as many processing cores they are so

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much faster than my old rig that i'm expecting from the CPU alone a double

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digits performance uplift okay i think it's in

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it's not in okay

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so now that our motherboard's in we're ready for the main event of this

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upgrade so this is it

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looks so good i almost feel bad taking the like sexy air-cooled shroud off it

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but we definitely have to do that so this is part of Corsair's entire new

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lineup of full custom water cooling products it

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took them a long time to enter this segment of the market but they've been

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a big name in the aio cooler space for a

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long time so i'm excited to see just how this new endeavor works out for them

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overall i have to say i'm not uh like

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my initial impressions of the of the build quality

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don't really blow me away like especially when

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you compare the stock back plate which is like this thick

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friggin thing um this looks very plain and

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kind of flimsy by comparison also their block seems to be designed to

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help save them some copper because this shroud on the outside while very stylish

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and sexy looking is made of aluminum which is quite a lot cheaper and then they've

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also gone with some kind of molded plastic for the

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fittings up here that is

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so this saves them like a lot of copper

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but when you compare that to the high-end blocks from other manufacturers

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it really sets them behind in terms of build quality

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okay so here's the situation i've got the board cleaned up so we're

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pretty much ready to mount man that is a big GPU

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couple key developments we've got the Corsair block installed

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actually on the card it looks pretty sharp

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i will give them that not bad Corsair

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not bad so our GPU is going to go in here

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and then out like this a little something like that

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so let's go ahead and plug in the motherboard first

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so i actually had the length of this

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cable done up custom for this case and the old motherboard so that means it's

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going to be a little bit wonky now go ahead and

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pop that in there the good news is that it fits

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i was really worried that this reservoir bracket was going to interfere but it

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like just barely fits on there so that's pretty sick

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all right GPU is going in

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not bad not bad

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oh i think my original tube here might make it

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that looks so tacky i love it so much it's

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horrible there we

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go that's it ladies and gentlemen

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that is my upgraded personal rig until i

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upgrade anything else about it however

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oh that's heavy that's really really heavy uh

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one moment please all right so i borrowed a power cable

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i found my trusty mini funnel

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and we are ready to fill this

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puppy there it goes

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oh it's backwards

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wait there may actually still be time to rectify this

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one moment if i flip it up onto its face plate

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you can see the water draining out of the CPU block there see

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that now the GPU

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doesn't matter ah

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doesn't care which way it flows

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but our CPU block does so what we need to do

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is we need to get a new run that goes

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from here to here instead and from here to here

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oh yes

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okay of course

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it would be cruel and unusual punishment

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if we didn't at least see if it runs the game well

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and also if it works so i grabbed riley's monitor off his

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desk which happens to be the exact model that i use for gaming at home

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and we're gonna go ahead and fire this baby up

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hey there where's my keyboard and mouse

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all right them options

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oh look at that it defaulted me to lots of crazy settings that's cool

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okay i will just uh load up this sandbox game

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all right oh that is so much better

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so by comparison with my old system i

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was running at medium details and i was

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chugging down to as low as like 40 FPS

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now there's actually a frame rate counter up in the top left here i'm at

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ultra everything except i turned anti-aliasing down to 2x and i'm

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hovering in the 45 to 70 frames per second which is

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fine for a game like this more than fine

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especially if you're running a g-sync monitor

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