California Trip | May 2017 | Part 1

Hey, everyone!

Here's our trip to California from back in May 2017. We hope to go back there again this coming May but there may be some important items which may cancel the trip. We'll see.

Part 1 is the actual trip. I was able to reduce and edit the video from about 12 hours down to about 15 minutes. These dash cam files have been sitting on the laptop hard drive for a while...

Part 2 and possible future videos will also be dash cam footage with the possible addition of pictures of the trip.

This is also the first time editing a video on the used Dell Latitude workstation laptop. The laptop is a handful of years old but it's still going strong (especially with the addition of an SSD as the primary drive). Editing was done in Sony Vegas 13. Overall the experience was great. Everything went smoothly aside from Vegas crashing just one time. It did take about half hour to render the video. No real effects or filters were applied. It was basically the raw video with some titles appearing on screen from time to time. I may take the laptop apart to clean it out and re-apply the thermal compound on the CPU and GPU.

If you made it this far down then thank you! As for the video it was shot with the SJCAM SJ4000 action camera.

Xeonomorph | Awesome Budget Gaming Rig - Summer 2017 | Part 3B | PUBG

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Here is the second sub-part of part 3 of Xeonomorph! After the initial CPU benchmark using Cinebench R15 we go on to see how PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds performs on this system.

Graphics Settings
Screen Mode: Fullscreen
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
FPSCameraFOV: 90
Equipment HUD: Off
Weapon Slot HUD: Off
Brightness: 50
Colorblind Type: Normal
Quality: High
Screen Scale: 100
Anti-Aliasing: High
Post-Processing: High
Shadows: High
Texture: High
Effects: High
Foliage: High
View Distance: High
Motion Blur: Unchecked


System specs:
Dell Precision T1600
Intel Xeon E3-1245 (v1)
8GB DDR3 RAM
250GB HDD
AMD R9 290 GPU (reference)
Thermaltake 500W PSU


Music provided by Alex Talavera

Thermaltake SMART 500W PSU: http://amzn.to/2vVjcqS

Production Equipment
Audio recorded with a CAD U37 microphone http://amzn.to/29cFjt6
Edited with Vegas Pro Edit: http://amzn.to/2pET4h3

Xeonomorph | Awesome Budget Gaming Rig - Summer 2017 | Part 3A | Cinebench R15

Hey, everyone.

Here is the first sub-part of part 3 of Xeonomorph! We put the beast together. It's clean and ready to go. The first test is using the Cinebench R15 benchmarking tool. We're going to see the results as well as compare it to the Intel Core i5-4690K processor at its stock speeds. The i5-4690K is at stock speeds to show a fair comparison between this and the E3-1245 since that processor cannot be overclocked (at least on this system).

System specs:
Dell Precision T1600
Intel Xeon E3-1245 (v1)
8GB DDR3 RAM
250GB HDD
AMD R9 290 GPU (reference)
Thermaltake 500W PSU


Music provided by Alex Talavera

Thermaltake SMART 500W PSU: http://amzn.to/2vVjcqS

Production Equipment
Audio recorded with a CAD U37 microphone http://amzn.to/29cFjt6
Edited with Vegas Pro Edit: http://amzn.to/2pET4h3

Xeonomorph | Awesome Budget Gaming Rig - Summer 2017 | Part 2

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Here is part 2 of Xeonomorph! Let's talk about what's inside this beast, let's talk about the hardware. All the parts work and we cleaned the components. Thermal past was re-applied to both the CPU and the GPU. The stock PSU has been swapped to a new Thermaltake 500W PSU. Some slight modification had to be made to allow the R9 290 to fit inside the case. After everything that's been done the system does work!

System specs:

• Dell Precision T1600
• Intel Xeon E3-1245 (v1)
• 8GB DDR3 RAM
• 250GB HDD
• AMD R9 290 GPU (reference)
• Thermaltake 500W PSU

Music provided by Alex Talavera

Thermaltake SMART 500W PSU: http://amzn.to/2vVjcqS

Production Equipment
Shot with a Panasonic Lumix G85: http://amzn.to/2q1lIWK
Fotasy M3517 35MM F1.7 CCTV Lens: http://amzn.to/2vudXLs
Tascam DR-22WL Portable Handheld Recorder with WiFi: http://amzn.to/2x2RbeG
Aleratec 3.5 mm Computer Clip on Mini Microphone
Magnus VT-4000 Professional High Performance Tripod System with Fluid Head: http://amzn.to/2uU9yVG
Edited with Vegas Pro Edit: http://amzn.to/2pET4h3

Xeonomorph | Awesome Budget Gaming Rig - Summer 2017 | Part 1

Hey, everyone.

Here is part 1 of Xeonomorph! It starts off with a cheesy film-like preface and then an introduction to the gaming system.

System specs:

• Dell Precision T1600
• Intel Xeon E3-1245 (v1)
• 8GB DDR3 RAM
• 250GB HDD
• AMD R9 290 GPU (reference)
• Thermaltake 500W PSU

Music provided by Alex Talavera

Thermaltake SMART 500W PSU: http://amzn.to/2vVjcqS

Audio recorded with a CAD U37 microphone http://amzn.to/29cFjt6
Shot with a Panasonic Lumix G85: http://amzn.to/2q1lIWK
Edited with Vegas Pro Edit: http://amzn.to/2pET4h3