 It is time my friends for personal rig update 2015 where I build a drool worthy rig touching its ram and savoring its drives while you guys watch and sometimes press the like button depending on whether you're into the whole multi-part video of which this is definitely one and like whoring thing which is definitely what I'm doing right now now Corsair delivers real mech or, oh here I have one, real mech or nothing with their new strafe mechanical keyboard featuring genuine German made Cherry MX key switches. Click on my chin to learn more. I'm gonna move my chin now just the three for a loop. So let's start with the story so far this is the final version of personal rig update 2012 which as some of you know took until 2014 to finish. Oh that took a long time so the highlight points here are 4960x 6 core processor GTX Titan we've got an LSI 9268i RAID card with 8 Corsair 120 gig force SSDs running in RAID 0. They're actually refurbished drives although they've held up just fine until now so I guess what we need to do aside from just listing components is do a couple pre-update benchmarks to find out where we're sitting at and where we need to end up so Cinebench we're looking at 1068 points and then CrystalDiscMark just a very rudimentary disc benchmark. Whoa we're looking at about 800 megabytes per second reads 321 megabytes per second sequential writes so as you can see that RAID array has degraded a lot in the last few years since I've been using it because on most RAID controllers trim functionality is not supported in RAID so the timing is right for a personal rig update let's have a look at the new components that are going to be taking the place of what's already in here. Alright so let's do this haul video style I'm actually not upgrading the graphics card this time around and the reason for that is quite frankly I don't game that much these days and when I do I'm usually gaming at 720p streaming to my shield portable so is a Titan enough for that yeah I think probably so first up the new platform this is the rampage 5 extreme that some of you will recognize from my blue painted motherboard guide it used to be red now it's blue and it is going in the personal rig also replacing the 4960x is a 5960x so I'm adding another two CPU cores and then I'm sticking with 32 gigs of RAM but this time a more subdued 32 gigs of RAM no flashing lights or anything this is just a kit of Corsair Vengeance LPX 2400 megahertz DDR4 so that's what we got for that next up and this is kind of a funny funny story I have another rampage 5 extreme not because that one is broken or anything but as you guys may or may not have noticed I have taken this heatsink and ASUS ROG logo off and I have actually misplaced it so I will be Frankensteining one off of another board that Luke used for a build guide and then I have a very cool finishing touch because as some of you noticed when I painted the board the one thing left on it that was still red was that freaking glowing logo so I had a buddy of mine Rich Soros better known amongst the modding community folks as Darth Beavis whipped these up for me on his laser cutting machine which we first witnessed at mod 24 so check this out he's actually sent me a variety of different ones to use and I will be replacing the stock ROG logo with either a black one or a blue one depending on how they look I'm gonna try those babies out check that out doesn't that look sick so a huge shout out to Darth Beavis for sending these little custom pieces over to me these look absolutely fantastic and for our next trick yes this is the piece that I'm really excited about this is an Intel 750 series 1.2 terabyte PCI Express NVMe SSD it has been a long time since I paid less than a dollar per gig for those refurb drives like way back in 2012 or something like that I want to say it's been a long time since any SSD has actually tickled my fancy and made me want to upgrade to it well this is finally it it's an capacity upgrade it's a speed upgrade and it's a space-saving upgrade I no longer have to have a whack of SSDs bolted to the back of my motherboard tray and a PCI Express card this is just a simple PCIe gen 3 4x card that is gonna do everything that my previous bulky setup did and better with trim support so the performance won't degrade over time really excited about this one so I guess that's pretty much it let's get started mostly unobstructed access now some of you might wonder why I went with a rampage board instead of a WS board like I did last time around I'm on the record as being kind of a fan of the whole no-nonsense WS board concept the reason is that Asus opted for whatever reason to put a PS2 port on the ROG board this time around and not on the WS board and when you're troubleshooting something let me tell you a PS2 port can be an absolute lifesaver that and the ROG board comes with a 3x3 AC wireless solution that's actually like pretty friggin fast so there you go with this board oh wait what those LEDs are red I assumed they were white and that it was just a red layer in between you can paint LEDs Brandon so I actually have to plug into the top SATA port here because I scratched the the finish of the paint on the inside of the connector there I am gonna have to touch that up a little bit but other than that there shouldn't be any other red bits visible with all the components installed and speaking of all the components installed there's actually not that much left to do here is there let's go get the new SSD yeah boy oh just like that so very much performance I should I wish Intel would clue in and use black PCBs but if they're not gonna do that then I guess the heat spreader on the back is the next best thing so there it is friends 1.2 terabyte 750 series look at all those flash chips both sides covered in flash chips I think the ideal spot for it would actually be here but the sound card back in its prior location easy now yeah so that's in I need new thermal compound where's the back plate but ah come on post come on post time to consult the manual what thanks manual oh you have got to be kidding me okay well there's no signal detected so it may be broken anyway but I did not have the monitor plugged in as much as I want to go back to the drawing board and paint another motherboard not in the plan I need this one to work then why'd you paint it Linus well I don't have to answer your questions nobody's fooled Linus you were asking yourself the question in a different voice shut up you oh we got stuck there this time that's okay we're just gonna take it slow then one at a time come on computer work with me you got to at least give me consistent results here well maybe if you hadn't painted me Linus maybe if you just shot up no okay well it's after six I'll just have to keep working on this so significant progress I figured it out this chip has a weak sauce memory controller there's actually nothing wrong with the CPU but what I didn't realize what is that this motherboard having been used as a test bench before was configured with XMP enabled so that chips weak memory controller didn't like it at all so as soon as I put another 5960 X in there boom all four dims no problem XMP working all that good stuff so I ran and found myself a Windows 10 RTM ISO installed that puppy it looks like they have brought back the simple do this later instead of getting product keys right away and we are launching Windows 10 let's get some benchmarks hey we're started I actually haven't run Windows 10 yet at all so this is my first kick at the proverbial can you know what the last time I went for gold like on our TM day was Windows Vista and that worked out great so I'm just gonna go for it like I'm I'm switching out right there isn't even room for more logos on the front look at all the logos light scribe remember that did anyone ever once burn a light scribe disk yeah presumably they could it could do absolutely nothing and we'd have never known the consumer has been played so I'm fairly sure when batteries bulge that's considered a bad thing danger of explosion bang okay well whatever let's do our let's do our crystal disk benchmark in the meantime so BAM let's find out just how fast this drive is whose speed is documented all over the internet already anyway I don't know why the control panel won't want though I just like I just hate that when a brand new fresh install when you like bork it up in the middle of like installing drivers because you never know should I go back and do a fresh format will this cause problems later or is it probably fine like is it never gonna rear its ugly head down the road no way of knowing all right looking good so we do have an improvement in CPU performance we did see this coming a scoring 1389 but crystal disk mark the SSD that is where the real performance improvement is coming in read speeds in the neighborhood of in excess of one gigabyte per second for both sequential scenarios both read and write and even 4k reads and writes are looking pretty strong although that read number does look a little bit on the low side with that said there's still got to be some room for driver optimization on Windows 10 here particularly on the Nvidia side but we can't get the control panel open right now but the real test for me the thing that drives me absolutely crazy about this machine is the boot times so let's go ahead and shut her down and find out how long she takes to start up with the new SSD array or system SSD there's just one SSD now it's not an array the number to beat is two minutes here we go here we go here we go here we go BAM about 45 seconds so thanks to not having to wait for this card to initialize I have reduced my boot time to less than half of what it used to be but that is actually not the end of this project I said this was gonna be a multi-part video and then I proceeded to do a quick motherboard swap and it appears to be basically done appears at first glance to the inexperienced viewer some of you may have noticed that this fan is actually broken so clearly I have not performed the final upgrade no I will be taking it to the next level other experienced viewers may have noticed this in the new hardware pile that I didn't mention at all before yes I will be working with proto case to manufacture a custom new rack mount computer case to replace my venerable TJ 07 I will be moving both mine and my wife's computers to rack mounted cases in a separate room in order to achieve the ultimate in PC silence I'll be running a single Thunderbolt cable to each of those machines to a Thunderbolt splitter dock thing in order to have all of my peripherals running at the same time and that will be documented over the next few parts of personal rig upgrade 2015 but for now I at least get to enjoy the speed of the new hardware that's going into the machine I may also throw a graphics card upgrade into the mix at a later date as well so in the meantime guys dislike this video if you thought it sucked you guys all know where that button is I know you do but if you like the video go ahead and like it get subscribed to the channel and also consider supporting us by buying a cool t-shirt like the ones that I usually wear using our affiliate code to shop on Amazon we even have a video guide for how to do that now or even giving us direct monthly contributions to our community forum all that stuff helps us out a lot if you're done doing all that stuff and you're looking for something else to watch Luke actually just finished up a great video on the Intel compute stick this is kind of the opposite end of the spectrum but whatever if you're 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