We determined to go along with an ultra-clean-looking all-white construct, and Corsair continued to ship the products with its iCUE Hyperlink H150i Liquid CPU Cooler. This 360mm all-in-one cooler has a 2.1-inch LCD show on its pump and chilly plate meeting that may present system very important indicators, like CPU package deal temps and cooling liquid temps. It additionally comes with a Corsair iCUE Hyperlink System Hub controller that, when paired with different Corsair iCUE Hyperlink followers within the system, makes for not solely clear cable-free snap connections—examine our construct video under, across the 7:30 mark, to see these in motion—however all are additionally managed in unison with the iCUE software program. The 140mm followers have inbuilt temperature sensors and might transfer push as much as 82.5 CFM of air.
We cannot get into the nitty-gritty particulars of each single part within the construct; we now have a full checklist within the conclusion and you’ll likewise try most of that our in our magical thriller guided tour and construct video above. Nonetheless, on the coronary heart of our system is ASRock’s X670E Metal Legend motherboard, which is a good socket AM5 host with a stout 16+2+1 VRM design, stable warmth sink cooling, a number of PCIe Gen 5 SSD slots along with its X16 Gen 5 steel-reinforced graphics slot and a couple of.5-Gb LAN, amongst different glorious options. We additionally dig its white camo colorway.
Alternatively, you may go along with ASRock’s all new X870 Professional RS motherboard that may help you hit DDR5 reminiscence speeds as much as 8000MHz, even quicker than the X670E Metal Legend’s rated 6600MHz, and which comes with USB4 together with different goodies.
Ahh, however that beefy Corsair RM1000x Shift energy provide gave us a little bit of pause in our construct plan. We love perfecting and optimizing cable administration in our techniques, and the RM1000x Shift (29% off deal) strikes its modular cable connections to one of many sides of the PSU as a substitute of the normal finish location. Relying on the case, this permits for simpler cable connections and modifications, and presumably cleaner cable administration, too. As such, within the curiosity of cable routing, we first mounted this PSU with its bigger consumption fan dealing with into the chassis. This is not a horrible alternative, however we realized that when put in this fashion, it can pull heat air from contained in the chassis and vent it out its rear exhaust fan, which will even clearly heat up the PSU a contact as nicely. After some consideration, we flipped it round as you see above, and simply needed to dwell with barely much less immaculate cable routing so we might pull in cool air from the appropriate perforated facet panel of our Corsair 6500X chassis. Selections, choices.
Whereas 3DMark Time Spy is one information level indicator of efficiency, we’ll level out that we additionally pulled down a Cinebench 2024 multi-thread rating of over 2200 factors. That places us barely forward of Marco’s Ryzen 9 9950X evaluation system, with implausible compute energy on faucet for all of the content material creation work we will throw at it right here at HH.
And naturally, only for a little bit of kick-back, we fired up Black Fable: Wukong for a little bit legendary monkey beat-down. At about 75 FPS, in 4K decision with all graphics and ray-tracing settings maxed out, our GeForce RTX 4090 was simply getting warmed up, whereas AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X was a cool breeze at simply 58C. Good occasions. GG!
