Xeonomorph | Part 5 | 100% Complete!

Hey, everyone.

Xeonomorph is 100% complete! It had a great start but the AMD R9 290 was holding the whole system back due to it's temperature issue. After careful consideration we decided to flip the card and were able to get an awesome deal on an EVGA GTX 970 SSC graphics card plus add an additional 2TB hard drive. I feel we have succeedded on creating an awesome budget gaming rig for this summer. Stay tuned for benchmarks and gameplay on Xeonomorph!

System specs:
Dell Precision T1600
Intel Xeon E3-1245 (v1)
8GB DDR3 RAM
250GB HDD
2TB Hitachi HDD
EVGA GTX 970 SSC
Thermaltake 500W PSU


Music provided by Alex Talavera

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Xeonomorph | Awesome Budget Gaming Rig - Summer 2017 | Part 4B | VG909 GPU Cooler

Hey, everyone.

Here is Part B of Part 4 of the Xeonomorph budget build. We're putting the Cooler Boss VG909 on to the AMD R9 290 reference graphics card. At the end there will be some comparison numbers from the Heaven Benchmark.

System specs:
Dell Precision T1600
Intel Xeon E3-1245 (v1)
8GB DDR3 RAM
250GB HDD
AMD R9 290 GPU (reference)
Thermaltake 500W PSU
Cooler Boss VG909 GPU Cooler

Music provided by Alex Talavera

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

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Xeonomorph | Awesome Budget Gaming Rig - Summer 2017 | Part 4A | VG909 GPU Cooler

Hey, everyone.

To start off this video had to be split into two sub-parts. One reason was due to length of the video. Having it as one video would have made it too long. Second reason is due to the second half still being worked on.

In this video we will take a look at the Cooler Boss VG909 GPU cooler. It's advertised as being able to cool an AMD R9 290. It was a challenege obtaining this cooler due to numerous cancellations from sellers on Ali Express. This was due to the sellers stating they no longer had the item in stock. We finally got one off of eBay. Today I'll give you some info on this cooler and stay tuned for the application process.

System specs:
Dell Precision T1600
Intel Xeon E3-1245 (v1)
8GB DDR3 RAM
250GB HDD
AMD R9 290 GPU (reference)
Thermaltake 500W PSU
Cooler Boss VG909 GPU Cooler

Music provided by Alex Talavera

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

Production Equipment
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Xeonomorph | Awesome Budget Gaming Rig - Summer 2017 | Part 3C | Benchmarks

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Here is the third sub-part of part 3 of Xeonomorph! With PUBG completed we move on to some older but still recent games: Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Division, and Ghost Recon: Wildlands. We are using the latest driver from AMD as of the time of this upload. We're running with the high preset on all three games.

Graphics Settings:

Rise of the Tomb Raider:
Screen Mode: (Exclusive) Fullscreen
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
DirectX 12: UNchecked
VSync: Off
Anti-Aliasing: FXAA
Preset: High
Texture Quality: High
Anisotropic Filter: Anisotropic 4X
Shadow Quality: High
Sun Soft Shadows: On
Depth of Field: On
Level of Detail: High
Dynamic Foliage: Medium
Ambient Occlusion: On
PureHair: On
Specular Reflection Quality: Normal
Vignette Blur: Checked
Motion Blur: Checked
Bloom: Checked
Tessellation: Checked
Screen Space Reflections: Checked
Lens Flares: Checked
Screen Effects: Checked

The Division:
Screen Mode: Fullscreen
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
VSync: Off
Frame Rate Limit: Off
Shadow Quality: High
Shadow Resolution: High
Spot Shadow Count: High
Spot Shadow Resolution: High
Contact Shadows: Sun Low
Post FX AA: Off
Temporal AA: Supersampling
Resolution Scale: 100%
Sharpen image: 70%
Particle Detail: Ultra
Enable Wind-Affected Snow: Yes
Volumetric Fog: High
Reflection Quality: Medium
Local Reflection Quality: High
Sub-Surface Scattering: Yes
Anisotropic Filtering: 8X
Parallax Mapping: High
Ambient Occlusion: High
Depth of Field: Medium
Object Detail: 40%
Extra Streaming Distance: 50%
Chromatic Aberration: Yes
Neutral Lighting: No
Lens Flare: Yes
Vignette Effects: Yes

Ghost Recon: Wildlands
Screen Mode: Fullscreen
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
VSync: Off
Frame Rate Limit: Off
Shadow Quality: High
Shadow Resolution: High
Spot Shadow Count: High
Spot Shadow Resolution: High
Contact Shadows: Sun Low
Post FX AA: Off
Temporal AA: Supersampling
Resolution Scale: 100%
Sharpen image: 70%
Particle Detail: Ultra
Enable Wind-Affected Snow: Yes
Volumetric Fog: High
Reflection Quality: Medium
Local Reflection Quality: High
Sub-Surface Scattering: Yes
Anisotropic Filtering: 8X
Parallax Mapping: High
Ambient Occlusion: High
Depth of Field: Medium
Object Detail: 40%
Extra Streaming Distance: 50%
Chromatic Aberration: Yes
Neutral Lighting: No
Lens Flare: Yes
Vignette Effects: Yes


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

Hey, everyone.

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
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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
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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

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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
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