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we've built a lot of over-the-top pcs on this channel seven gamers one CPU the

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16k gaming station but all of those had

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something in common nobody in their right mind would ever

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actually buy them so today the goal is a

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little bit different we're building the absolute highest end gaming pc that we

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would actually recommend so it needs to be blazing fast but also stable it needs

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to be well expensive but also something

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that we could with a straight face say there's a chance someone is actually

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going to buy it so we are talking a pre-binned 9900 ks at 5.1 gigahertz from

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silicon lottery we are talking dual rtx 2080 ti's and

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air cooling because guys

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to help me in my quest to build the fastest gaming pc money can buy i've enlisted Jake

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you got a little something on there just go ahead yeah just rub that in the

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challenge though is that due to bc guidelines we actually have to stay at

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least two meters apart from each other here's what we're gonna do

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uh you're gonna take that end of our very long table and i'm gonna take this

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end you're gonna focus on the case i'm gonna put the motherboard and all the

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components on there and then at the end we're just gonna

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you know really wow it wasn't even me

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hard drives cables i need

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those are yeah but still let's kick off with our CPU choice now

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obviously AMD ryzen 3rd gen processors deliver a ton of value but when it comes

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to absolute balls to the wall gaming performance thanks to their slight

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single threaded performance edge Intel still comes out ahead in the majority of

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games now with that said as games start to

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take advantage of more processing threads that could change and something

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like a 3900x or a 3950x with four or

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eight more cores than this one respectively could beat it maybe we'll

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try out some apex legends when we're done building up the machine but for now

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the king of the roost really is still the 9900 ks and this one is a little bit

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special so we got this pre-binned to 5.1

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gigahertz at stock voltage pretty much right i think it's like 1.25 a little

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bit boosted from silicon lottery now we would have bought the 5.2 gigahertz one

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for what is it like nine hundred dollars it's like eleven hundred eleven but they

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were out of those thankfully for my wallet because they did not just provide

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this to us which is great

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thanks for buying cpus on the company dime Jake love it well

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they gave us a discount all right it's only got eight cores and 16 threads

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compared to a top end verizon with up to 16 cores and 32 threads especially for

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the price we paid but in most games that shouldn't make that

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much of a difference we will fire up some apex legends though just to see now

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obviously case choice is a little subjective based on you know what style

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you're going for or how many fans you want or what radiators you got but for

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us we're basically just looking something with the most airflow possible

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because we're gonna have a lot of hardware in there that's 220 atis 500

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watts and that CPU overclocked is probably 250 maybe

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so something like this the pco1 from liam lee with nine fans we're going to

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completely load it up with knock to us here we are

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should be plenty of airflow for our setup for motherboard we're using the

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maximus 11 hero from ASUS we could have

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probably gone with the code with its like cooler looking aesthetic and better

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rear i o but there's no vrm difference

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so given that this is all about performance and most of the motherboard is going to

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be covered by well all the money we spent on performance

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with these graphics cards there was no purpose to it now their top end board

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the formula has like water-cooled drams and all that good stuff but

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again no real difference in performance and

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more air cooling anyway so as always the process is lift up the ARM align the

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little golden triangle with the little uh dot on the motherboard or the little

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triangle on the cover insert the CPU put down the hold down

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and lower the ARM this will pop off hold on to this in case you need to remove

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your motherboard in the future if we were truly trying to be unlimited budget

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with no bounds we could have gone with the 1600 watt but we wanted obviously to

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be a little bit more sensible so this is the 1000 watt prime titanium unit from sea

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sonic they make awesome power supplies totally not sponsored we just love their

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stuff because we're not using subzero cooling and extreme overclocking or

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anything crazy like that the only way we can squeeze more performance out of our

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system is by getting faster components in the first

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place so we've gone with some 3600 megahertz cl 14

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sticks of trident zeneo from g-skill these are a combination of high speed

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and extremely low latency and we've got 32 gigs of it which i'm not expecting to

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be a bottleneck for gaming anytime for at least the next couple of years as for

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why we went RGB honestly we wouldn't have spent more on it but unlike the old

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days when you used to compromise some of your speed to have RGB lighting nowadays

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the high-end stuff is just a lot of the time RGB i'll make the rules okay one of

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the objectives we set for ourselves when planning this project is that it needed to be stuff that was off the shelf

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something you could just pick up and buy or add your shopping cart and build in a

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couple days so we went with cable mods pro cable kits in their carbon color

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which should match our ASUS board really well that's gonna look awesome one area

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we did go a little over the top was our SSD

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z we're gonna run two samsung 970 pros

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in raid zero but i don't even mind this because compared

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to their 970 evo it uses mlc flash so we

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should get extra longevity out of it and quite honestly the choice to go with 2

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and raid 0 was more just about having 2 terabytes of capacity and less about

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trying to get more performance by raid zeroing ssds honestly it makes very

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little difference once you go to an SSD as we demonstrated in this video right

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here oh now there's a dent in this hard drive now you've got to be kidding me

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what is the little one when we're working on a showcase build

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more often than not we will use a water cooler even if it's an aio water cooler

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just because the amount hey

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the amount of extra space they leave around the socket and the aesthetics of

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the tubes and the led fans and all that cool stuff looks really great but the

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cold hard truth is they don't actually perform any better than a really high

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quality air cooler like this Noctua nhd15 and now that Noctua has a black

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version of it water coolers don't even look that much

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better jaku where's the exhaust on this case

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top or back bottom bottom you're going bottom exhaust so you want me to have

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the fan blowing down i mean i can't uh

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can you no okay well yeah the options are back

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and there's a hole here but there's not gonna be a fan okay just just do it

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whatever there's gonna be so much airflow in this case anyways it's not gonna matter these are hard drives these

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are gonna hold all the stuffs we need that's why we chose them that's why we

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chose them you're probably thinking wow 16 terabyte iron wolves those are

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overkill and uh you'd be right um we

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just had two spaces in the back of this case so we figured let's just use those

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extra drives seagate sent us and throw them in the back of the case to fill

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those slots man it's kind of crazy to think that this is 32 terabytes of

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storage just in this little block right there i know right my first computer

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that like i remember our 386 or whatever

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it was had a 100 megabyte hard drive

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and then we upgraded we got a 600 megabyte one and i would always have to

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like move programs off the 100 one

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because my dolt family would install everything there and i'd be like no we

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have to put everything over here this looks stealth as f

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all it needs now is gpus i'm wearing our GPU shirt lttstore.com i can't imagine a

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situation where i'd be like the product manager for x motherboard company and

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been like you know what we need red SATA cables this is what we're gonna

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manufacture in both i just don't understand why things are the colors

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that they are by default why aren't they just black in the first place

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why was red ever or these

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these are worse yeah dude okay you wouldn't remember this you were

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probably too young but Gigabyte used to ship powder blue ones oh

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yeah it was pretty awful and that was on their high-end stuff back in the x 58

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days the best though dfi

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uv yellow oh wait wait is this the Gigabyte one you're talking about these

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things no that's Intel those are sick those are uv blue those look awesome

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with the uv light those things are awesome big pp oh they're big pbs

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they're 3000 that is so unnecessary it's amazing here's your fans

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oh my god why well i can't hand them to you can i well yeah i guess you're right

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they're also like knocked to a fan so like i could probably throw this at a wall multiple times and

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it would be fine you could probably throw it at a tv and the tv would break not the fan these are gonna be real

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close together is this the right envy link bridge yep ooh yeah they're gonna

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be toyed so what i'm gonna do to make my life a

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little bit easier is plug the 8-pin connector in now you can't tell but this

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is my life being easier that is such an annoying ringtone only because it's the

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one that i used to use though that has woken me up at like four in the morning

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for a flight so many times in my life oh my god

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it doesn't fit that doesn't fit oh my god oh you've got to be kidding me

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what are you kidding me

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oh no that's so bad let's just switch to

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an aio i guess i look pretty good you're not even paying attention so we'll get

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the graphics cards plugged in get an os loaded up and we'll try this thing

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got a little update for you after we completed the build we found that with

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the pci express slot spacing of that motherboard there was no way for us to

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install our two triple slot cards in such a way that the top one wasn't going

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to absolutely suffocate so we switched to the MSI z390 godlike it's got a bunch

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of great features including support for overclocked memory 18 phases of power

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fancy onboard audio and most importantly a much better slot layout so that we can

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get one extra slot between them for some extra airflow with the new spacing our

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cards are clocking up as expected and everything is set up for the showdown as

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it turns out our 5.1 gigahertz pre-bin CPU is 750

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exactly the price of a ryzen 9 39 50 x

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16 cores so Jake

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is over on the other side at the studio there because he doesn't have a sore

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throat and he has an identically configured AMD system that he's going to

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drag race against ours telling us once and for all if we actually picked the

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right gaming system because when it comes to other things 16 cores

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definitely a lot more than eight so so we're not going to be looking at anything other than gaming here for

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shadow of the tomb raider we're running everything cranked at 4k with the only

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exceptions being that we're not running rtx dlss and we have turned off motion

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blur we're using taa for anti-aliasing and we're ready to go i'm at like 80 FPS

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and the opening sort of move around lara

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all up around 90. drumroll average FPS 103. average FPS 97. ah i

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win by ooh five percent all right here we go boys

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three two one all right i'm 500 and

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change benchmarks done my average is 381 what's

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yours uh 300.8 that doesn't tell the whole story though so we're gonna check

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our frame view numbers in notepad plus plus here render minimum

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13.5 oof i'm at 25.7

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double the frame rate in the smoke 99 of

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my frames were over 99.5 uh 99 of mine were over 85.4 okay

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so that's actually a significant win that's about a 20

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uplift oh my god this is bright the HDR oh my god like so many games it doesn't

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have any support at this time for multi GPU so we'll be using just one of our

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rtx 2080 ti's uh we're running everything on ultra nightmare with HDR

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at 4k uh what difficulty level you want Jake i'm too young to die ha

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hey got him all right here we go boys let's

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uh rip up some demon daddy oh wow i'm gonna die how are you gonna die

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oh oh man oh man i'm looking at about 86.6 on my render average and then

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render 99 one two three four 69.3 so

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that's a 10 advantage here which surprises me because vulcan tends to

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favor multi-threaded processors more with that said the 9900 s is still an

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eight core 16 thread processor and there's sort of a limit finally it's

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time for apex legends we're running everything at insane slash maxed out

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we're running tsaa and uh we have no FPS target desync

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disabled pick up a second weapon oh yeah pick up

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another weapon i grabbed the spitfire it's the second on the left

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then i'm going to switch weapons wow when you really max it out this game's

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kind of heavy eh i averaged 96.8 87 and

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a half i thought i was gonna win this one ten percent up i mean i guess that's

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what a pre-overclocked processor does for you but uh all right well it looks

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like we done did okay we wasted a little bit of money on a second graphics card

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most of our games didn't really get much benefit from that but other

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than that it's looking pretty good it seems like a

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pre-binned pre-overclocked CPU from Intel is still able to edge out AMD's

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3950x which is their fastest gaming CPU

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with that said the situation might change when AMD launches their 4th gen

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ryzen processors which are rumored to be built on tsmc's 5 nanometer node really

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i didn't hear that actually that's insane yeah it's gonna be interesting

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mission accomplished then without spending extra money on things we don't

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need like 18 core processors we built

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the unlimited budget gaming pc and it really does perform better than

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something priced the same but that isn't 100

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focused on gaming with that said i'm not recommending that

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anyone run out and buy this exact configuration particularly the second

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graphics card is going to benefit very few people and only in some games but it

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was a lot of fun to say okay we're laser focused on nothing but maximum gaming

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performance and just build up something based on that

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