AMD Vision Black "Best of AMD" Gaming Machine Build Teaser Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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so this is a pretty cool shipment that arrived I've got an extreme AMD build
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that I'm going to be working on For an upcoming launch that I can't really talk
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about yet but I'm going to go over all the parts that are going to be in this
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particular sort of best of AMD system so
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first of all we're going to be housing everything in the Corsair graphite
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series 600t case extreme air flow all of
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the amenities for all of the hardware we're going to be using
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very very very nice looking case great Cable Management I actually did an
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unboxing a while back so you can check that out if you don't already know
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everything there is to know about the 600t in terms of the motherboard we've
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got pretty much the best of the best for AMD motherboards the Crosshair 4 formula
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there is a Crosshair 4 extreme but it's debatable whether there is much benefit
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to the extreme over the formula because the hydrologics chip does not contribute
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a whole lot in my opinion
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okay next we have the the radon
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6870 and hopefully shortly I will have a
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second 6870 to add in crossfire so that
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we are truly getting the best of AMD in this configuration now remember even
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though the 6870 is a little bit slower than the 5870 in some older titles as
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games start to make more use of tessalation which is a very Advanced
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direct X11 feature this one is going to really pull away from the the 5870 and
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we're already seeing that all right in terms of power supply we have the ax850
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which I did do an unboxing of a while back as well for that matter I did an
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unboxing of the 6870 as well so this is a single rail high-end 80 plus gold
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power supply it has a modular interface which means you only attach or detach
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whichever cables you require efficiency is a huge story for this guy though at
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115 Vol AC I mean you're looking at
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basically above 88% efficiency no matter what you throw at it so very very very
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impressive next of all we have let's see
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what do we have got lots of cool stuff for this build I'm very excited oh yeah
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we've got two sand Force Corsair 4
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Series ssds and we're going to run these in raid zero for maximum performance so
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that means we're going to have an 80 gig boot drive because remember when you run
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in raid zero you get double the capacity double the performance but also double
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the chance of data failure so make sure even if you are running ssds which are
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very reliable that you are doing backups I've done an unboxing the four series
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ssds as well which you can find on my blog we have a dominator airflow
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fan which I believe I've also demonstrated in the past which we'll be
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using on our Dominator GT memory modules now these are look awesome and they're
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going to go really well with the Republic of Gamers theme of the build as
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well as the red and black color scheme that we have going on the graphics cards
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it's going to look really really sharp so we've got some Dominator GTS here
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with the red tops and the red stickers on the side these are running at 1866
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mahz C9 so that should be some pretty good memory performance
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although yeah I don't think that's
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um I forget where I was going with that okay we have the corser h70 to handle
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the cooling we showcased the h70 in one of the NC PC builds we did very recently
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it is a very high performance very impressive little cooler and I shouldn't
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say little cuz the radiator on this thing is like thick thick and then you
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got two fans and you run them in push pull you get great performance out of it
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so we're going to show you all of this when we've got the build completed and
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last but not least I have the CPU which we're not going to talk about so there
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it is that is our best of AMD build that we're going to be doing over the next
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little bit and also so as part of this teaser I'm telling you guys what I will
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be doing with this Hardware is a build guide I've had yes endless requests for
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a PC build guide so just in time for the
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holiday season this year I will be doing a full how to build a PC guide around
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this best of AMD system that is based on
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AMD vision black so we're using all AMD vision black components don't forget to
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subscribe to lus Tech tips and also don't forget to I've mentioned NC PC a
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