Welcome to mikegolden Games and let's upgrade my PC as you can see in front of
us here we have a few new pieces of components
for the PC let's take a look at what we got first up let's take a look at the
Corsair ram that we got it's the Corsair Vengeance pro series 1600 megahertz
currently I have some PNY 1333 megahertz
super old Ram next up we have a new Samsung SSD it's the 860 Evo this one's
one terabyte I'm running the 860 Pro for my operating system this one will mainly
be for gaming will also be applying some new thermal paste to the CPU since it's
been a few years since I've applied some probably about two years Arctic Silver
of course a little hard to focus on the GoPro so what we're gonna be doing for
this video is of course we're gonna be installing this but before we do that
I'm gonna run some benchmarks so we can see the what the difference the 1333
megahertz ram we have currently installed compared
to the new 1600 megahertz which also I forgot to mention currently I'm running
16 gigs 4x4 gigabyte RAM sticks and we're upgrading to Corsair 4x8
gigabytes RAM sticks it's a little late I apologize for that as for the
benchmarks go it is gonna be as scientific as possible but also these
are really real-world results that we're gonna be testing some of you're probably
going to complain that you know we're changing up a thermal pace so that might
skew the results and them one way or the other but honestly if you're gonna be
upgrading your PC this is probably the most realistic way you're gonna do it so
let's get into it so let's see we need to remove the RAM first and then we're
gonna need to get to the fan as you can see with this cooler it's a thermal take
what is that NIC C5 it's a little tricky to get installed or to remove
because the screws that hold it in down here are covered by the fans got to kind
of pop these fans out so actually let's see maybe we will be able to do that and
one thing before you ever work inside your computer you always want to make
sure you grounded so maybe I should remove my
watch make things a little easier as well but basically just touch the metal
of the case while you're working inside the computer
so what we want to do is remove this
there we go we should be able to get to the screws down there once you slide the
fans out of the way you got one screw in the middle there a little hard to get
the GoPro in there there we go so that middle screw you want to remove
that one and on the other side there's one more the two other ones are the
mounting plates you don't need to remove those know that we got there was two
screws free you can see the thermal paste was a tiny bit excessive it kind
of dripped a bit so we want to be careful about cleaning that up and the
underside of this take a look at this really quick it is a little dusty so I
do want to blow this off that might be another thing that somebody might
complain about is all you clean the dust out again this is real world testing
Vaseline car anyways the thermal paste actually still looks decent it's not all
caked on which actually somebody in our discord if you haven't checked out our
discord check it out in the link below come hang out with us talk with us chat
whatever you want to do anyways I was helping somebody out in our discord and
he replaced his thermal paste because I had him take it apart to make sure it
was good and it was all crusty all caked up it was it was horrible this still
looks a little tacky so I'm gonna go use a compressed air can and clean this out
before we apply the new thermal paste to the CPU since we have the room
open right now mine as well just replace the RAM so let's open the box in new Ram
again this is the Corsair Vengeance Pro Series top-of-the-line stuff for ddr3
look at that I would love to get RGB but that's ddr4 my motherboard and CPU only
supports DDR3 again when you're dealing with the components for the PC
you want to make sure you're grounded so touch the PC before you touch the
components so now to remove the RAM I'm just gonna
press down on this little tab here like that and then you're just gonna slide
out there we go so you can see this is the old puny RAM its 1333 megahertz and
it's again ddr3 I got this I believe it was like 2014 or so one quick note if
you aren't really familiar with pcs as you can see there's a red channel a
black channel a red channel and a black channel basically if you only have two
sticks of RAM you're gonna want to use one color or the other so say you have
two sticks you'll put one in the black here and another one in the other black
one here so now when you go to put it in you see the little divider in the middle
there it's a little offset you want to line that off with the opening on the
right might be a little hard to see on the motherboard but basically you'll
just line that right up that it's so dark I apologize for that put the back
down and then push the top make sure the back snaps in and there now that we have
the new RAM installed we should put on some new thermal paste now you're just
going to use a little drop in the center or the CPU
it should be good make sure we have full coverage because the fan cooler is
pretty large just gonna put a few drops around the edge got the CPU cooler back
on the fans back into position and everything's looking good here is the
old RAM again this was four gigabytes sticks and I had four of them making
sixteen gigabytes the new ones are of course a gigabytes the stick four of
them makes 32 gigabytes so we'll see how this goes Oh again the 4 gigabyte sticks here
were 1333 megahertz the new Corsair is of course 1600
megahertz let's slap in the new SSD from Samsung here is the back of my case and
as you can see there are wires everywhere trying to keep it as clean as
possible but with all these hard drives got one two three four five six I think
six hard drives alright so with six hour drives let's add another man look at all
those storage slots alright so we're gonna just open that up like that
and this tray should slide out there we go and now let's take the SSD I hope
this has screws alright so I just realized I don't have screws to bolt
this down so we will have to install this in another time so let's get this
thing put back together then and then do the after benchmarks let's take a look
at CPU Z just so you can see again all the all the guts of this PC we got Intel
Core i7 4790k what we want to look at because the only thing we're really
changing is the memory it is ddr3 16 gigabytes the DRAM frequency is roughly
six six six megahertz which you want to double that which gets you your 1333
megahertz roughly so that's the current ram i am using it's puny some some puny
ram it it's i got it in like 2012 or so I think it's only 1333
megahertz which the new RAM is 1600 megahertz and if you're wondering this
is my motherboard I'm using the ASUS Maximus VIII formula again I got this
thing in like 2014 or so the RAM I may have got before then like in 2012 or so
alright so now that we are back on the PC everything is up and running let's
switch over to memory and alright so as you can see it's still saying the DRAM
frequency is 666 so basically what we're going to need to do is go into the BIOS
and turn on XMP it is registering as 32 gigabytes of RAM though so we know
something's working right so now what we're gonna do is go down to easy mode
right here and then we will just turn on XMP profile 1 there we go ddr3 1600 and
that should be good enough if not we'll have to do a little more
tuning to it save and exit alright so here we go
I have a tuner auto have some PE should be good if not where you may need to
take the RAM out and look at the timing alright it looks like it's booting up so
that is some good news I do apologize for the poor quality because we got the
reflection and all that I really strive to have the highest quality videos but
sometimes you have to have raw you know nitty gritty footage if you know what I
mean I really do hope you guys are enjoying this so far alright so there we
go the switch back over to OBS alright now we're back in CPU Z and as you can
see the DRAM frequency is 799.9 megahertz basically 800 megahertz double
that at 1600 megahertz so we are running at full capacity for the RAM and it is
32 gigabytes so for the first benchmark we are looking at Grand Theft Auto 5 as
you guys know I do a lot of LSPDFR videos so my grand theft auto is for
lack of a better word heavily modified
and for this part of the benchmark it's supposed to follow the Hummer but I have
you know so many mods installed that it seems to have broken it so hey it's
supposed to follow the Hummer and it will catch up to it eventually a little
odd that the benchmark itself got messed up
Grand Theft Auto is really odd it's all random events and everything random NPCs
everything is randomly generated so that is really interesting for a benchmark
and the next game we're benchmarking is the division 2 as you guys know the
warlords of New York DLC just released recently so I've been playing this game
quite a bit lately so I hope you guys are enjoying those episodes if you
haven't checked them out go check out my division 2 playlist and my LSPDFR
playlist if you haven't checked it out yet
alright now let's take a look at Premiere Pro this is a video that I got
edited and ready to go so let's just start the render and see what the render
time is so what I do is go to youtube 4k I'll rename the video this is just a
test video so let's do that and 1440p is what I try to render most
of my videos at this video itself may be in 4k not sure what I want to render it
as yet render a maximum depth and use maximum render quality video is about 31
minutes long so let's hit export alright so it looks like it's stabilized so it's
about an hour and 20 minutes to render our 19 minutes now that we have 32 gigs
of ram installed let's get this video rendered out and see what the render
time is I just realized I forgot to initialize the 32 gigs of RAM in
Premiere Pro so actually we have to cancel that you need to go to edit and
then preferences and then go down to memory alright let's see reserved for
other applications so it actually is automatically using the full mount
alright I guess we're good alright now let's get this thing
exported and see how it is so we should be getting the full use out of the new
Ram benchmark test 2 in 1440p and render a maximum depth and maximum render
quality let's export it and let's see how it works now all right so it hit one
hour and 17 minutes it looks like it's starting to actually countdown now we
may have actually gotten to the peak so we'll see I believe it's about 4 to 6
minutes quicker again I am actually running OBS
at the same time as rendering so when I'm actually rendering a video it should
be substantially quicker right so yeah it looks like it we are good though it
looks like it is a few minutes quicker again without OBS running this should
theoretically render a lot quicker now let's take a look at 3d mark we're just
gonna run the standard time spy DirectX 12 benchmark not the extreme version
we're gonna run the benchmark without the demo that's just a video it doesn't
actually benchmark anything and I'm not actually not gonna record this just to
make sure we get the full before-and-after to see what the changes
actually are so let's get on into it alright so we
just ran the test and we had a score of 83 70 which is a decent score
comparatively if you look at the website we could compare results online but I'm
not that's not the point of this video of graphics score 10,104
CPU score 4244 of 14.26 fps I'm curious to see if the CPU score will go up I'm
assuming it will again we are using NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti for the win 3
the CPU is an Intel Core i7 4790k which I got I think in like 2014 or so anyways
I am gonna go and install the new parts now as well as apply the thermal paste
it's been a few years since I've added that thermal paste now for the final
test 3d mark let's go back to time spy DirectX 12 standard not extreme and keep
the demo off and now we're gonna run it again I'm gonna turn off OBS so we get
the full results without anything being skewed
alright so the final test is in and it improved a little bit not substantial I
mean I guess you know we're still running the same CPU but we did gain a
little bit of points on the CPU the graphics card actually the graphics core
actually did go up about 40 points and the CPU score went up almost 300 points
so that it's decent but it's not that substantial you know what whatever we
got 32 gigs of ram now what do you want it's only 1600 megahertz honestly so the
final score is 8551 not too bad I gotta say