hey everyone Eber here with Hardware Canucks and today we are putting together
one of our fastest AMD gaming / workstation PC this build solely
revolves around AMD's x570 platform which is their latest offering as well
as embracing their brand new Ryzen 9 processor which is an absolute beast and
taking advantage of their flagship 5700 series GPU so this build is gonna be
epic until a new drivers crash on me now I do want to take this time to explain
why we haven't posted our Ryzen 3000 series review and that simply because
we've been experiencing some odd boost behaviors with the motherboards that
were sent to us there were also other reports reported online as well so we
weren't 100% confident in publishing a review until we were you know certain
that these new CPUs perform as per AMD's spec now we decided to instead publish a
build video featuring one of their new processors to give you a snapshot in
terms of what you can expect in terms of performance so if anything changes we
will definitely make sure to give you guys an update on that so yeah
definitely expect a lot more rise in content coming in the next few weeks now
coming back to the build I do want to make this visually appealing without
adding too much RGB into the mix but rather unify the color of individual
components inside the system so I believe all the components that are
sitting in front of me fit that criteria so let's get started but first a quick
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heart of the system lies the writes in 9 3,900 X this is Amy's first 12 core 24
threaded processor for the aim for platform the boost clocks go as far as
4.6 gigahertz according to AMD and it has 64 megabytes
of l3 cache intel has certainly left the chat our motherboard of choice is the
asrock x5 70 Taichi and this thing is packed with features like a metal
backplate an entire thermal armor that also acts as a heat sink for the 3 PCI
Gen 4 slots so this should definitely help improve
dissipation for the Chandpur drive that will be popping into one of these slots
more on that in just a bit the IO is loaded with USB three-point to Gen 1
ports a couple of USB 3.2 gen to 10g ports and more Plus this board does
support Wi-Fi 6 which is awesome also I love the effects of this board and it's
not shy while we're clocking to asrock has implemented their best power phase
design so it's very refreshing to see motherboard manufacturers not skimp on
enthusiast level features on the m4 platform cool nd 3,900 X is the Animax
lick tech 3 60 millimeter a aia cooler it is white in color so it definitely
fits the theme that were going for in the first place as for RAM I chose
Corsair Vengeance RGB 2 times 32 gigabyte kits so total of 64 gigabytes
and we're populating all four dims as for storage or has hooked us up with a 2
terabyte Gen 4 and me me drive and what's special about this particular
drive is all for starters given that it supports the latest PCI Gen 4 protocol
the read and write speeds are off the charts I mean we're talking 5 gigabytes
per second read and over 4 gigabytes per second right now it's not gonna yield
you higher FPS but in this case given that it is constant find as a Gen 4
drive cooling is certainly an important factor to consider but it looks like
Oris has figured that out because they've actually included a copper heat
saying that goes on top of the drive and I could admit this thing is as heavy as
my smartphone which is just absolutely insane this thing is a tank guys you
really have to you know hold it and kind of feel in your hands but unfortunately
in our case I won't be able to take advantage of this particular heat sing
because the thermal armor on the azure motherboard is geared for all of those
two slots so we're just going to wait and see how that can efficiently cool
the Gen 4 Drive given its rated speeds moving on to our graphics card and we
chose the rx 5700 XT and as I'm opening the box it's not there because it's how
my test bench and I have to get it out for the build but nonetheless I'm pretty
sure a lot of you guys know about what the GPU is and what can what it can
offer in fact if you're interested in a full performance review you can check
out our link right over here we compare it with our TX super cards and what
anybody has to offer so that is what we're going with powering our entire
build is beak straight power 10 700 watt 80 plus gold
modular power supply this thing is plenty enough to power the 3900 X and
the 5700 XT we're also pairing this PSU with cable mods mod flex white and black
kit it should suit our color scheme pretty well our case of choice is the
fractal design measure Phi s 2 and we went with the white and black variant
with the tempered glass panel and it looks absolutely gorgeous I mean this
case doesn't skimp on things like air flow and it can comfortably accommodate
our 360 millimeter high or cooler so that's awesome in fact if you're
interested in a full in-depth review you can check out Dmitry's video right over
here so with all that out of the way let's put this thing together
so the build is finally complete and I have to be honest it's one of the
coolest looking pcs that are built in a while simply because the color of
individual components blends in really well with each other the 360 monaro
matches perfectly with the case so does the memory modules I think the only
issue that I had was with the LED lighting of individual components so the
azrog motherboard actually outputs a white that isn't white there's actually
a little bit of a purple hue on top of that so I had to play around with the
RGB channels to match the memory modules so that that certainly took some time
and it was a challenging process but if there is a motherboard vender thinking
about an all-white motherboard I am so down for it the red Radeon logo on the
5700 XT does add a nice accent color to this entire build I mean I wanted to
throw in something that screamed or something that added that team red
finish so it happened to do the job just fine also let me know what you guys
think about the vertical GP positioning of that graphics card do you prefer it
that way or should I switch back to the standard horizontal mount let me know in
the comments down below alright so now it's time to evaluate the performance on
the 3900 X and the 5700 XT now do keep in mind that I ran all of these tests
and stock setting I'll be it I did enable precision boost over drive
through AMD's rise and master software and I will touch on the overclocking
experience with this processor in just a bit but let's start off with some
synthetic tests starting with cinema r15 the multi-core score was over 3,000
points and to give you a little bit of context my 8,700 case called 1630 when
overclocked to 5 gigahertz and this is the processor that I used for my
everyday video editing workflow and compared to my previous AMD bill which
is a little bit more on the affordable side featuring the Ryzen 5 2600X yeah
it's where we expected it to be now moving on to blender running the BMW
benchmark the 3900X took less than three minutes to complete that task and
when I compared to something like the 87 Andrew K overclocked to 5 gigahertz that
took well over 4 minutes and the 2600 X took over 6 minutes to complete it so
this 12 core 24-hour CPU is an absolute monster when it comes to multi-core
performance moving on to our Adobe Premiere Pro test
and boy interesting stories of statite this is
an all AMD based system it is running AMD drivers so as I was playing back
this 12 minute 4k project it is our standard benchmark for Adobe Premiere
Pro the program monitor was completely glitching out on me and as you can see
it is not pleasing to the eye and it certainly isn't feasible for content
creation or just the experience as an whole but as soon as I hit the spacebar
key which stops the playback it displays the image just fine so it's definitely a
driver optimization issue with Adobe Premiere and AMD and this is a big red
flag especially if you're considering picking up the 5700 XT and if you're
thinking about you know both gaming and doing a little bit of content creation
and if you plan on using Adobe Premiere Pro yeah not so well but but this is the
most fun part it actually managed to render the entire project without a
problem using Adobe Media encoder and here are the results and as you can see
my 8700 K is still faster and that's thanks to Intel Quick Sync but that
being said the 3900X is not too far behind it still manages to complete or
render that video just a little over 12 minutes but to give you a little bit of
context if I were to compare this 12 cores here to a 6-quart 12 30 2600X the
difference is pretty significant and that's obviously due to the thread count
but I also want to mention that if you're planning on building a system
specifically for Adobe creative applications I would highly recommend
Intel going the Intel platform because QuickSync can come in super handy for
those Suites but if you're planning on building a system for say DaVinci
Resolve or other applications that can take image of multi-core horizon is the
way to go moving on to gaming performance and I
noticed a major issue you see for some reason my 3d mark 5 strike scores were
so low so I decided to monitor my GPU clock speeds and I noticed that it
wouldn't go over to 70 megahertz so basically it wouldn't switch from 2d
mode to 3d mode when it's doing something graphically intensive now we
assume that the graphics card and the motherboard would switch automatically
to Gen 3 mode and given that we're using a gen 3 riser card but that wasn't the
case because it was ultimately a signal interruption issue so if you plan on
building a system with an x570 motherboard and if
d7x t he planted vertically mounting it you are definitely gonna run into this
issue now if you're using the 5700 XT on an X470 platform or something that
doesn't use the pc engine for interface you should be okay but luckily the as
romp x5 sunny tech she had the option within the bios to change the x16 the
top slot to gen 3 config so that's what I did and everything turned out to be
just fine with all of that sorted I was finally able to run some gaming
benchmarks and as you can see this system is an absolute beast
most replayed titles will comfortably hit over 100 frames per second like
battlefield 1 overwatch and apex legends these are all at the highest percent I
shadowed the Tomb Raider far cry 5 and Warhammer 2 where slightly depending on
the 5700 XT but it was completely playable I do want to quickly touch base
on the gen 4 SSD from Oris and as you can see it just flies I mean we're
talking 5 gigabytes per second read over 4 gigabytes per second right
it's crazy fast I mean if you are someone who can take advantage of all of
this bandwidth then the gen 4 SSD is for you but I also wanted to monitor the
temperatures and the tunnels of this drive and I used my thermal camera and
it looks like it does the job pretty well the thermal armor on the asrock
motherboard seems to cool or efficiently dissipate the heat coming off of that
drive it is a hot spot but it seems to do the job and finally I want to wrap
things up with my overclocking experience on the 3900 X so I was able
to get this 12 core 24 32 CPU to 4.25 gigahertz at one point three seven five
volts and I did make sure to run prime95 at a 64 stress test even ran some
synthetic benchmarks to make sure it's stable and as you can see by these
multi-core tests there isn't a substantial improvement over stock
settings single core performance does take a hit and that's because the core
frequencies are constant at 4.20 gigahertz so they don't boost because if
I switch back to stock settings the core frequencies actually fluctuate between
4.1 and 4.2 Hertz they never hit 4.6 gigahertz which is
what AMD claims that the CPU hits but I never saw it hit that frequency so that
is certainly something that we want to investigate in the future so definitely
stay tuned for that honestly if you want my opinion
I would just leave the CPU at stock settings it performs like a champ
and if you've paired up with some faster memory you're sent you wouldnt have to
worry about temperatures or anything like that
so that's that's my take on overclocking for now speaking of temperatures they
wear under control under low during both stock and overclock settings I didn't
see them rising over ADC so that's nice the new hydro x-series from Corsair is a
full water cooling eco system with transparent blocks for RGB goodness and
built-in flow indicators with soft and hard to being available and the full
array of fittings so you can design the perfect loop for you hide your X by
Corsair everything's linked below so that's the build guys let me know what
you guys think about in the comments down below are there any specific
components or alternative components that would have better fit this pc most
importantly are there any other tests that you'd like us to run on this
particular system I'm curious to know about that in the comments down below
again stay tuned for more content on risin 3000 we certainly have a lot of
digging up to do but that about wraps it up for now thank you so much for
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