Welcome to mikegolden Games and welcome to another computer update vlog so for this one I decided to
upgrade a few parts on the pc because you really don't want to skimp on the motherboard that's
one thing that I was a little iffy about so I did decide to go with a more upgraded motherboard and
i got the RTX 3080 EVGA XC3 Ultra very long name let's go check it out and see what you guys think
so here is the current build i've got it laying down on this bed
don't really have a good work station at the moment i'm trying to improve that and get a good
setup but uh yeah there's the 1080 ti ftw 3 which we are going to be swapping out for the xc3 ultra
uh yeah i got super lucky got getting this uh we'll talk about this in a little bit
uh the motherboard i went with the rog crosshair viii so eight hero with wi-fi
this was an open box so it was a little cheaper than the list price of 379. yeah there we go let's
get the box opened up pretty interesting design it
kind of pops out but gotta love the republic of gamers branding and yeah so here's the motherboard
it's the again the hero so all this is like rgb i should be rgb in here as well
for the most part it looks like everything is in the box so hopefully everything's good
to go and we'll be able to get this installed with no issues and then the cooler i decided to
get a little bit upgraded go with the two-fan corsair radiator it's the iq h100i rgb pro xt
no rgb compared to you know the single fan that's rgb but this is gonna be mounted to the top of the
case so i'm just going to start installing this i'm not sure if i'm going to do a full you know
install showing everything being installed so it looks like first things first i'm just
going to remove the gpu really you want to ground yourself first so just basically touch the case
and let's take these cables out i may need to get different cables for this new gpu and then we just
make sure you hold the case push this button down
a little hard to do with one hand we're gonna remove the gpu and then we're gonna remove the
cpu fan all right so i was just opening up the motherboard and i noticed that the m.2 heatsink
or shroud for it is not here and i mean it kind of looks like there's some kind of liquid so maybe
they were doing some kind of water cooling and it leaked on it so i'm gonna go return this one i'm
not sure what one i'll be able to get because they had two of these both of them open box
so i'm gonna head back there to micro center and see what i can get all right boys i'm back home
we got another motherboard this one is actually the step up we went with the asus rog crosshair 8
formula it is the top of the line motherboard so hopefully this one's good this one was
actually also an open box but we take a look at we took a look at it and it looked like
it was in better shape so we got this here pull that away this one definitely is looking better
than the other one so i'm going to try and get this thing installed right now
all right boys let's check out the new motherboard look at that damn all right so let's uh let's
flip this thing around because this does have a back plate on it just be careful with that and
look at that back plate so that's going to definitely help with mounting and make it a little
more rigid so the gpu and all that doesn't sag as much so we're going to try and pop this thing in
here and hopefully all these wires wire straight up to it if not i'm going to have to you know
completely redo the cable management got the motherboard installed the cpu
right there and everything is wired up so now the ssds and everything the hard drives those are
all wired up as well all we need to do now is get the new corsair iq h100i rgb pro xt aio installed
all right we're just getting these fans mounted to the water cooler there we go
looking good so far the corsair aio is installed and now we just need to get the ram put back in
okay guys i just got back from fry's electronics and i'm 99 sure i could have got this stuff
at microcenter as well but frags was a little closer to me so i just ran over there and luckily
they did have this it's a four pin molex to three sata cables adapter this is going to be for the
corsair aio up here and then these adapters one of them is going to be for these two fans so we
can actually control them from the motherboard you know within the system software so i'm going
to get these hooked up hopefully this is it all right boys we've got her hooked up and plugged in
and as you can see these fans before you might have known they were not a rgb addressable because
i didn't have the proper connectors i've got them connected to the front fans now with that adapter
that i got from frazz electronics everything else in this case is from directly from micro center
the gpu it's the geforce rtx 3080 xc3 and it's from evga it is the brand new 3080 graphics card
as you can see here on the motherboard it's got the little lcd display there
pretty sure it said it was oled but either way it gives you your cpu temperatures and whatnot
tells you any post codes if there's an error got the ram installed uh that's the aio right there
for some reason it's not lighting up so i may need to download the drivers for it uh that's
the next step i guess but everything is hooked up and as you can see the cpu is running pretty
cool right now i'm installing the new graphics driver and yeah all right guys i'm gonna leave
this episode here i hope you really enjoyed this one let me know what you thought in the comments
below but really quick i just want to make a quick correction that uh extension the three
sata cable port i actually took that off of the liquid cooler and plugged that into one of the
ssds because according to corsair it needs direct power from the cpu so not an extension or anything
it needs direct power from a sata cable not a molex cable so because that was a molex 2 aceta
it wasn't working and that's why the rgb wasn't working so one second we'll take a look at what
the build looks like so what i did i just took the sata cable from the ssd plugged it right into
the corsair cooler then i took the extension cable and plugged that into the ssd let's check out the
build all right here she is look at how beautiful it is i need to clean the glass it's a little bit
dirty from you know moving the case around and trying to install everything but look at that
motherboard oh and then there's the corsair liquid cooler up front so with these fans i need to
rewire them they're not actually plugged into an addressable rgb header on the motherboard so
right down in there so right around there there's an rgb header and there's another one at the top
of the motherboard for addressable rgb so you can actually change the colors of the lights
through the software on your computer but yeah let me know what you guys think of this i really
hope you enjoyed this and uh we do have one more one more update coming soon hopefully
i'll be able to get my hands on it it's what sits behind that so i am gonna leave this one
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