this monstrosity right here is my personal gaming rig and it's
actually served me really well for the last three years
at the time the specs were pretty blazing fast it had
an extreme edition eight core processor
calling eight cores extreme these days seems kind of quaint and a titan x
graphics card but because it uses NVIDIA's old maxwell
architecture this titan graphics card not only is much
slower than modern gaming cards it actually lacks a bunch of really cool
features like their updated video encoder as well as you know rtx real
time ray tracing so today's video is all about
upgrading it but here's the thing
i don't have time to spend literally a year
designing a custom paint job for the front okay i didn't design that but
admittedly i do think it looks cool and a completely custom enclosure for full
loop water cooling in a rack mount chassis that ain't happening so today is
going to be all about well if i'm being honest playing anno
1800 because i got that game it ran like
garbage on my 3440x1440 monitor and so i reached out
to aorus and NVIDIA who put together this little care package that's going to
take us from very very last gen to
pretty much the fastest it gets ibm is giving away 1500 dji tello drones
to enter to win complete the ibm developer challenge no prior coding
knowledge is required and the contest is open to residents of the us canada uk
and spain you gotta be 18 years of age so check it out at the link below
so i guess we'll start with a little classic unboxing of what has to be one
of the coolest motherboard products to come down the pipe
in in my opinion at least the last year or
so this is the Gigabyte z390 aorus
extreme what do they call it water force
5g and what's special about it is that this
is like an 1100 motherboard or something
crazy like that but it's also not as insane as it might
sound because unlike most motherboards
this one actually includes a pre-binned
and pre-overclocked CPU so check this
out the board actually comes with the CPU pre-installed so it's a
core i9 9900k that's been validated for
5.1 gigahertz it's got all the usual features you'd expect a handful of m.2s
sli support three PCIe 16x slots uh oh
this could throw a bit of a monkey wrench in the pudding we've got a side
mounted 24 pin hopefully that fits my
case is a little unconventional but
right what's more interesting than all the
features it has is what it doesn't have
check that out bear chipset check that out
we've got bare vrms there's no cooling on this board what
kind of crazy person would buy a thousand dollar motherboard with
absolutely no cooling on it whatsoever so it turns out what i was looking for
was actually in a clearly labeled separate box this is the aorus
all-in-one monoblock so
a monoblock is basically a single block
that is designed to cool multiple different components so this one right
here is designed to cool check this out the CPU
the vrm components all three of your m.2
drives and the chipset it weighs
probably like oh my goodness like a kilo
or two and it looks like it includes not one
but two RGB lighting leads here's one and here's
what appears to be another one although i'm not a hundred percent sure if that's
right here we've got a bracket and a rubber
because uh when you got this much sex appeal you never know what might accidentally
happen am i right my friends and then
we've got a bunch of a bunch of supplies for screwing so our first order of
business then is mounting the monoblock to
the motherboard
okay and now we start to put in screws
one pro tip for installing any kind of block whether it's an individual CPU
block or some kind of a mono block whether it's graphics or full
motherboard is you never want to go in too tight so i'm just putting these in
a little bit to make sure they're not cross threaded i am basically not
tightening them at all just holding them in place i've determined that the
washers are for these screws not by reading the manual of course but by just
noticing that they are either plastic or they're coated
and otherwise these screws would be going into a bare pcb which could cause
a short because they're just normal metal screws
so these washers then are serving two purposes
one is to make sure that it doesn't short out the second purpose of these
washers is to ensure that the screws don't accidentally loosen over time you
might not realize this but the inside of a computer can have a lot of vibrations
whether it's from fans or spinning discs and unless you've got loctite and or
washers on anything that you've mounted it is possible for them to vibrate loose
over time wow
so as much as it kills me to bid adieu to
my limited edition gold-plated CPU block
this is pretty spiffy looking
so now i've got to take apart my old rig
all right so the first thing we're going to do is pop out both the GPU and CPU
it's one of the things i love about soft tubing is that it is super quick
actually to get your entire loop removed for
system maintenance there we go
so that gives me completely unfettered access to my motherboard area
here's my Intel nick these days every motherboard that's worth its salt ships
with a better network card than this so i'll be uh i'll be leaving this behind
you know it's funny i would say one of the most notable things about
this machine is how not out of date certain components are i
mean Corsair only replaced the ax 1500i i think like
six months ago and even then the 1600i
yeah it's it's better but it's not like
you know a quantum leap forward in power supply performance or anything like that
and i actually will still get to reuse my
dominator ddr4 in here so this is a 64 gig kit of cast 15
memory yeah it only runs at 26.66
designed for gen 6 i5s and i7s but hey
if it fits i sits right i mean to be clear i'm not expecting xmp profiles to
work or anything like that but it should function
now a lot of people get into newfangled coolants with you know colorants or
additives or whatever else but i have always been a proponent of straight up
water and i will show you guys why because even with plain water you can
see that the flow over time like water will erode pretty much anything we've
managed to strip the nickel plating from some parts of this block exposing the
original copper also even with pure
water although that is with a couple of drops of biocide we still get a little
bit of like you know corrosion and stuff like that
but what you don't see is any microbial
growth because the thing is a little bit of corrosion or a little bit of erosion
which is what we're looking at here is not going to kill your system
microbial growth that will gunk up your blocks
like that and it is pretty much game over it's
funny it feels like such a downgrade going from the hedt or the high-end
desktop platform of your to a mainstream solution
but not only does this consumer you know
mainstream CPU have just as many processing cores they are so
much faster than my old rig that i'm expecting from the CPU alone a double
digits performance uplift okay i think it's in
it's not in okay
so now that our motherboard's in we're ready for the main event of this
upgrade so this is it
looks so good i almost feel bad taking the like sexy air-cooled shroud off it
but we definitely have to do that so this is part of Corsair's entire new
lineup of full custom water cooling products it
took them a long time to enter this segment of the market but they've been
a big name in the aio cooler space for a
long time so i'm excited to see just how this new endeavor works out for them
overall i have to say i'm not uh like
my initial impressions of the of the build quality
don't really blow me away like especially when
you compare the stock back plate which is like this thick
friggin thing um this looks very plain and
kind of flimsy by comparison also their block seems to be designed to
help save them some copper because this shroud on the outside while very stylish
and sexy looking is made of aluminum which is quite a lot cheaper and then they've
also gone with some kind of molded plastic for the
fittings up here that is
so this saves them like a lot of copper
but when you compare that to the high-end blocks from other manufacturers
it really sets them behind in terms of build quality
okay so here's the situation i've got the board cleaned up so we're
pretty much ready to mount man that is a big GPU
couple key developments we've got the Corsair block installed
actually on the card it looks pretty sharp
i will give them that not bad Corsair
not bad so our GPU is going to go in here
and then out like this a little something like that
so let's go ahead and plug in the motherboard first
so i actually had the length of this
cable done up custom for this case and the old motherboard so that means it's
going to be a little bit wonky now go ahead and
pop that in there the good news is that it fits
i was really worried that this reservoir bracket was going to interfere but it
like just barely fits on there so that's pretty sick
all right GPU is going in
not bad not bad
oh i think my original tube here might make it
that looks so tacky i love it so much it's
horrible there we
go that's it ladies and gentlemen
that is my upgraded personal rig until i
upgrade anything else about it however
oh that's heavy that's really really heavy uh
one moment please all right so i borrowed a power cable
i found my trusty mini funnel
and we are ready to fill this
puppy there it goes
oh it's backwards
wait there may actually still be time to rectify this
one moment if i flip it up onto its face plate
you can see the water draining out of the CPU block there see
that now the GPU
doesn't matter ah
doesn't care which way it flows
but our CPU block does so what we need to do
is we need to get a new run that goes
from here to here instead and from here to here
oh yes
okay of course
it would be cruel and unusual punishment
if we didn't at least see if it runs the game well
and also if it works so i grabbed riley's monitor off his
desk which happens to be the exact model that i use for gaming at home
and we're gonna go ahead and fire this baby up
hey there where's my keyboard and mouse
all right them options
oh look at that it defaulted me to lots of crazy settings that's cool
okay i will just uh load up this sandbox game
all right oh that is so much better
so by comparison with my old system i
was running at medium details and i was
chugging down to as low as like 40 FPS
now there's actually a frame rate counter up in the top left here i'm at
ultra everything except i turned anti-aliasing down to 2x and i'm
hovering in the 45 to 70 frames per second which is
fine for a game like this more than fine
especially if you're running a g-sync monitor
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