so in my review of the 6950x it was observed that with the $1,700 price tag
you could probably build a pretty wicked computer the whole thing for less than
just the price of a singular processor and have money for great peripherals I
had a few people tweet me saying that I should actually do it and make a video
about it so here we are but I threw a bit of a challenge at the Linus Tech
tips Community Forum I asked them to configure the best allaround system for
under $1,700 let's see who won why and how it
performs mop is featuring the minivan custom keyboard which comes in a 40%
form factor with various customization options check it out and other drops in
the video description down below through browsing all the submissions I noticed
Trends components that seem to Define this price category or even certain
specs that I would just gravitate towards personally I left the contest
fairly open-ended and let the community show me what they could do then after
skimming all of the submissions I made a list of things that I found to be
requirements and started judging in my opinion the best most well-rounded can
doit all computer was configured by someone with one of the greatest names I
have ever read Herman mcus but there is
more to this man than just his name and we'll start with the processor that they
shows the 6700k I liked the inclusion of
an i7 for tasks like streaming or video editing or anything else that can take
advantage of the additional threads this was largely a 6600k versus 6700k
showdown in terms of processor and being able to squeeze in the i7 was great I
appreciated the inclusion of a 240 mm all-in-one water cooler but this wasn't
a requirement I found that anyone with the like hyper 212 Evo level cooler and
up received a pass in this category the motherboard wasn't anything to
necessarily phone home about but the features are solid with an overclocking
ready chipset USB type-c connector on the back and all the other basic
necessities someone is likely to desire nothing too special but not overly
lacking either much like the 16 GB of gskill rip jaw V series memory the
capacity of which I saw as a baseline for this build as it's easy to fit in
the budget and gives you expansion room by only using two of your expected four
RAM slots moving on to storage is where some of the more aggressive requirements
started to show up people with ssds that were under about 240 GB or a hard drive
that was under about 2 terabytes were knocked off almost immediately at this
price point you shouldn't be making major compromises in any category
luckily for Herman mcis he met both of these requirements right on the line for
graphics card it was a battle of the GTX 1070 versus 1080 this this price point
was a little high for an rx480 and the GTX 1060 but I did find that people who
pushed for the 1080 fell short in some other category and as the 1070 is an
extremely powerful card he got a pass
the case is solid enough and Carries through the white and black theme that
has been maintained thus far the power supply has more than enough wattage to
power everything an 80 plus gold efficiency rating and should be built
well enough in order to not light everything on fire higher so that's a
plus the monitor he chose is 1440p which
is a great resolution pairing for the GTX 1070 it has a beautiful IPS panel
and a 4 millisecond delay meaning it's not exactly going to be the fastest
gaming monitor out there but can do the job as long as you're not trying to go
MLG pro or some crap like that the course a Vengeance K65 compact 10
keyless keyboard is a solid Choice especially at that price point and the
Logitech g302 paired with that gives you a great great combined hands-on
experience for your PC so how does it perform it destroys gaming benchmarks at
1440p nothing below 60 FPS average and
all of the games were heavy hitting titles including the newer Tomb Raider
Crisis 3 and Hitman and all of them were maxed freaking settings 1440p very high
Ultra all that fun stuff no compromises here and then for our synthetic CPU test
it also smashed in both the multi-threaded Benchmark and the
single-threaded Ben Benchmark City skylines we included this game because
it is CPU bound and very heavily 58 FPS
that's damn close to 60 and finally game
streaming while streaming using xsplit at 1080p 30fps we able to get
68.5 n frames per second in Tomb Raider
that's insane and that's while still playing Tomb Raider at 1440p Max
settings sick how's that for a
conclusion all right thanks for watch watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome
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as well let me know in the comments down below if you want to see more videos like this should I do more like
Community showdowns where we get a bunch of people to try to configure a rig at a
specific price point like maybe a price point for the new Titan X which is
really expensive or just more logical price points like a budget build or like
a high-end build or something like that let me know comments down below or on
Twitter at Linus um check out this video where I
wasn't in it cuz it's a Channel Super Fun video that was recent and it wasn't
the chalk one