i think i cracked the code after all this time making youtube
videos i finally figured out what you guys like to see
pc builds and you know i'm a people pleaser so
i'ma give you what you want thanks to MSI who sponsored our video today to
prove once and for all that their competitors aren't the only ones who
make a lot more than motherboards these days
that's a lot of boxes and almost every single one of them is MSI
yes my friends it's time for the all MSI
gaming pc including their new GeForce
rtx 3080 gaming x trio so let's get
cracking and build this sweet rig
of course even though they make more than motherboards that's still where we're going to start with the MSI meg
z490 ace the key features of this puppy are of
course support for the latest Intel 10th gen processors
two and a half gig networking three m.2 slots and
enough RGB to choke a horse
well it's an expression you know it feels like it's harder than
ever to choose the right CPU these days like that's the
double-edged sword of having two legitimately good options for a change
if we go Intel we get called Intel shills oh you guys don't appreciate AMD
enough but in some cases if we go AMD we
get people telling us you're leaving performance on the table
like what happened in our review of the rtx 3080. so
we've gone Intel we're using the 10900k
because we're going to be pairing it with an rtx 3080 which is a flipping
fast graphics card and right now this is
the fastest CPU for gaming and i say right now because i'm filming this on
october the 6th not the 8th so we'll see how things change after that
it changed everything next up is storage we're using a Corsair mp600 2 terabyte
m.2 SSD for a couple of reasons number one is to highlight that while Intel's
10th gen processors do not support pci express gen 4 it is expected that 11th
gen processors which will also be capable of being installed on this
platform will so pci express gen 4 is going to
come with some pretty cool benefits once direct storage gets actually implemented
into Windows and GPU drivers allowing similar features to what we've seen on
the playstation 5 as well as xbox series
reason number two is that we don't have any samsung 980 pros in
the studio right now for RAM we've gone with a couple of 16 gig sticks of
corsairs of vengeance pro RGB that gives us a total of 32 gigs running in dual
channel mode and as for why we went Corsair
well the cold hard truth Corsair's competitors out there is that nobody
does RGB quite like Corsair that is to say that
nobody does RGB quite to the extent of Corsair
now we've reached the point where we're ready to check out our sakura 500x
tempered glass kit just kidding i already took it out of
the box because this thing is so freaking heavy and i didn't want to
unbox it on camera it's got tempered glass pretty much up the wazoo includes
four RGB fans and has a total of a
whopping front usb 3 ports who's plugging in that
much front usb oh yeah maybe this guy brandon would you
oh all right fair enough 100
easily removable side panels check giant 200 millimeter fans
check built in RGB hub check but i do
get the uncomfortable feeling that it might be haunted
like i can hear this voice
they've got solid materials in front of their fans
i think steve from gamer's nexus died and he's in there we'll find out soon
enough if these perforations along the side and on the top here where it seems
air is intended to come in are enough because the system we're loading this
thing up with is not going to be very forgiving if there isn't enough airflow
underrated feature the little motherboard standoff nubbin
right here absolutely love it just makes installing the motherboard a breeze
personally i like to build standing up like this it's an old habit and it makes it a lot
easier hey colin how much is this case
huh okay that's not cheap certainly but definitely fully featured so they
include the bracket that you need for a vertical GPU mount uh you've got these
nice little sleds for your three and a half inch drives lots of included fans
i'm liking it so far not cheap though good packing materials
actually oh that's worth mentioning i get such a boner for good packing
materials see got that really nice foam in there
and these oh yeah confusing branding though MSI's got to
get their stuff figured out i know they're the sponsor today's video but that doesn't prevent me from you know
trying to help them you know i got to help what is mpg what's the difference
between mpg and mg and what's the difference between
meg and mag m-a-g apparently it's MSI
performance gaming MSI extreme gaming and MSI arsenal gaming happy to clear
that up for you on the subject of MSI arsenal gaming it's time to install our
core liquid 360r so this is a triple 120
millimeter liquid cooler that if MSI's marketing is anything to go by
should be a perfect match with our other MSI
product in fact there are pictures of both this case and this radiator on the
back of the motherboard with a clever pin header location making them a
perfect match ew that's a gross spider go away no no don't go under my rug
well i'm not gonna i don't want to kill it it's a spider spiders are good they're our friends just i just don't
want it here that's all this threw me for a bit of a loop here i
saw this thing embedded in the radiator and my
immediate response was oh okay it looks like MSI came up with the admittedly
quite cool idea of putting the temperature sensor for the CPU cooler in
the radiator so that you could actually adjust the RPM of your fans based on
coolant temperature but what it actually is is a pump so this is the way that MSI
has gotten around that acetec patent they also claim that it helps improve
the longevity of the pump because it keeps it away from the heat source which
is of course the CPU the coolant will not be nearly as warm as the CPU itself
with that said there's a coolant buffer in between the pump and the CPU itself
anyway so i don't think it'd make that much of a difference but hey what do i
know i'm not MSI's engineer that's a pretty neat idea especially given that
it sits right in the dead zone right under the hub of the fan like you're
probably not losing a ton of cooling potential
oh interesting very interesting so you're actually using the outer edges of
the radiator where your water is hottest which as
colin found in a recent video you guys should go check that out when you're
done with this one does make a difference having the most cooling
potential where the water is hottest one thing i don't like that much about this
approach is that they've only put a cable management spot over here on this
side see to get this out without mushing the cable but what i actually wanted was
to have it oriented this way with the cable coming out the other way so MSI i
would love it if you guys put a slit on this side as well so i could go out that
way it's fairly minor but just
you know there's only one orientation that i would really recommend in this
particular case for the fan so that's pulling air down into the case and the
reason for that is twofold one it makes cleaning the radiator pretty simple
because it's just two thumb screws to slide it out
pretty cool little mounting mechanism and number two the fans are
pre-installed on the top blowing air down and you don't want to be you won't
want to have them fighting each other also from a lighting standpoint reason
number three we're gonna have RGB lights here so there's no point putting the
fans up above the rad we want our RGB lights right here right so we can have
RGB everywhere from the front there's gonna be a sick looking system from the
back even with all this pre-done cable management
it's going to be a bit of a challenge i couldn't help noticing that the built-in
RGB hub which has eight slots on it only has two of them free
so um it looks like for the fans for the
radiator we're gonna need to take advantage of the daisy chaining feature
here if i can figure out which one is which so that we only use up the one
port then for the fans we're gonna have to use the included three-way splitter
to plug this into the CPU fan header and then this into all three of the fans and
then we'll just like cable tie it down okay i went from happy
about the abundance of headers on this motherboard that made it super easy for
me to plug in all of my system fans and all that cool stuff to
being sun i am disappoint because there's
literally a picture of this case on the back of this motherboard box this case
has two of the older style usb 3.0 connectors this motherboard only has one
of that style header so two of my usb ports at the front are
gonna be dead now MSI can solve this problem by just including a usb 2 to usb
3 adapter so that i could have two of them just be usb2 but still work
but it doesn't appear to be included for now so
they could still make me happy while you might say that an hx1000 power supply is
overkill we've actually found in our rtx 3000 series testing that NVIDIA's
recommendations for power supply for the first time that i can remember
might not be overkill and in fact you might be better off going with something
even higher than what they say because there tend to be these spikes in power
draw that can trigger the over current protection of a lesser power supply so
1000 watt power supplies for the first time in the 10 years
they've existed they're not pointless one thing to watch
out for if you've got a longer power supply is look at this
not a lot of room between this hard drive cage and the back of the psu
there's no way i'd be able to plug in cables right now the good news is most
people don't have a ton of hard drives these days and you can remove this cage
it looks like there's a couple of screws in the bottom so we're gonna pop this out to give us some more room to run all
our cables we've got two options here we can either mash these cables because
this power supply is a little bit on the long boy side or we can actually use
this cover plate here to
fill in the gap which do you prefer
cover plate oh all right well that's easier
the more i use this case the more i'm kind of rooting for it here so being
able to slide this in and out while i'm working means that it's much much easier
than in some of the other cases i've worked with to get at things like the 8-pin CPU power connectors up here i'm
gonna put the Intel bracket on the CPU block now and this is a cool feature you
can actually rotate the logo here to make sure that it's oriented the right
way and then you can have your tubes kind of wherever is most natural for you
it's kind of nice oh they're shooting a ShortCircuit on the new google speaker
over that's why we got crab rave in the background
make sure you're subbed to ShortCircuit by the way we do a lot of our like first impressions and unboxings and stuff over
there i love the labels for the 5 volt addressable RGB headers on the board so
there's two of them one at the bottom and one at the top and they're called j
rainbow i cleaned up a few things off camera so
we've got our front usb 3 plugged in our front panel headers plugged in down here
tidy that the cables out the back a little bit
is that acceptable can we accept that all right all right we're going with
acceptable and now it's time for my favorite part
graphics card it is such an exciting time to be a pc
gamer not because of the 3080 specifically necessarily but the whole
3000 series is just turning the existing
you know price to performance ratio on its head it's going to drive
once they're actually available readily it's going to drive pricing of last generation stuff down like everybody
benefits when there's a big leap forward in performance like this and then of
course there's the fact that if you can get your hands on a 3080 and you can
afford it 4k gaming is finally within reach
i'm a big fan of the over-the-top approach for the pci express power
connectors because one of the things it helps with is reducing GPU sag although
MSI does actually include a bracket in the box for supporting it
i don't think i need it though that looks pretty level which means it's time
for the finishing touch all we gotta do is put these thumb screws in
lock the radiator in place enough pc building let's take a look at our
peripherals oh
fine whatever i'm over it
this is the mpg 341cqr
it's got HDR 400 support it's 3440 by
1440 and of course features a high refresh rate 144 hertz panel and one
millisecond response times this right here is the vigor gk50 elite it's got
individually backlit RGB keys and kale blue switches it's also available with
some other different switch types and this is the gm30 clutch mouse which has
like a u-shaped RGB thing what are we waiting for
let's fire this thing up and see the RGB this looks
flippin awesome same goes for the top damn can you see
that
smoked glass and RGB there's very few things that look better
i like it they even managed to get the MSI like
tacky dragon shield thing on there and have it not look too bad oh yeah i
didn't talk about their wrist rest thing they included they really sent over like MSI everything
it's actually really nice it's like super mushy another thing they nailed is
enough space behind the motherboard tray that you can actually close the door as
long as your cable management isn't horrible
we are on ultra nightmare absolutely everything running at 3440 by 1440 and
we have not dropped below the refresh rate of this monitor which is 144 hertz
but it's smooth of course the question wasn't whether or
not this rig was going to run games real well i mean it's rtx 3080 and 10 900k
what do you think is going to happen the question is whether the thermals will
hold up
hey there we go all right the fans are definitely going
now you can really hear the difference all right let's load a checkpoint and
let's pop open hardware info and see how high we went on our temps here our CPU
wow our CPU is pinned at 5.1 gigahertz
pretty happy with that sitting at around
65 to no 70 to 75 degrees okay that's
reasonable with our preliminary results we're just going to pop back into doom
here reset the timer and then what i want to see is after maybe another five
minutes of playing once it's already heated up in there what's the minimum
clock speed we see so the rated boost clock on this card is 18 15 megahertz
but honestly i expect better
more like 2 gigahertz if it's actually doing its job
yeah based on how hot that glass is i'm uh
not sure really pleased with every other aspect of this system but unfortunately
i think this case is just going to struggle with this tier of hardware
unfortunately the glass is hot to the
touch and if we go ahead and
pop open hardware info here we're going to see that our GPU clock
went down as low as 1830 megahertz that is technically within spec
but everything you need to know about how hard this poor thing is working
you'll know when i do this
okay the fans turning down
can you hear that yeah everything else
great thanks to MSI for sponsoring this video
if you guys enjoyed this video we're gonna have the parts list down below
along with links for where you can buy them thanks for watching and we'll see
you guys at the next one if you enjoyed this video maybe go check out our
ultimate high airflow machine where we actually used an industrial fan to put
the most airflow we possibly could through a computer case that was pretty
fun