whatever will we do to keep warm during this frigid crypto winter
have you tried looking at the hot prices on gpus there's so many deals to be had
that clearly it's time to party and by party i mean build computers now we did
just do a 500 pc build but the case
wasn't very good and it was filled to the brim with used components so this
time we're spending a thousand dollars and we are going brand new baby uh
except for the graphics card that's still gonna be used but it's gonna be
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we've clearly got more money to spend but what we don't have is money to waste
and that's why instead of springing for Intel's shiny z690 premium platform
we've gone with their mid-tier b660 it's everything we need you get twice as many
RAM slots compared to h610 greater bandwidth to the chipset which enables
better i o like front usb type c more m.2 slots that kind of good stuff and
perhaps most importantly it supports memory overclocking allowing us to
squeeze a little bit more performance out of our CPU the particular board
we've chosen the b660 plus d4 from ASUS
is fine it's got RGB two and a half gig lan
decent cooling on the vrms and as much io as most people are likely to need
it's got a lot of RGB it has five RGB headers
okay for our CPU we've got a big upgrade over last time the 12400f may only turbo
100 megahertz higher than the 12 100 that we used last time but it also has
two full additional cores now you could
spring for a 12 600 kf for additional cores even if they're efficiency ones
would be a huge boom for multi-threaded workloads but it's 70 more dollars
and doesn't come with a heat heatsink which adds at least another 25 to 40
dollars to your cost at this budget we just can't make that work without
another trade-off that we wouldn't be comfortable with we've used this cooler
before so i'll need to apply some thermal compound to the CPU but if you
bought this brand new there would already be some thermal paste pre-applied here and you really don't
need to reapply it and the installation of this boy is as simple as
pressing on these it's like sticking pins into a baby
what one typical drawback of budget boards is that you might not find the headers in
their usual or ideal locations so the CPU fan header is over here by the rear
i o rather than being up along the top edge it's not as nice for cable
management but it's not going to affect performance i'm gonna take all these
horrible little m.2 standoffs and pre-install them ASUS you could have
done this but instead you wanted to save a dollar since we're at it now seems
like a perfect time to install our SSD while the conventional wisdom would tell
us take your boot drive and install it in your highest performing m.2 slot the
one connected directly to the PCIe lanes coming off of the CPU in our case we
went with a 670p drive from Intel it's got a 5 year warranty and is a great
bang for the buck but what it isn't is a top performer so rather than waste our
top performing slot which we could install something else in later i'd
rather choose between one of these two both of them run at PCIe gen 4 speeds
through the chipset meaning that you could encounter bottlenecks if you've got a lot of other heavy io going on at
the same time but one of them has four lanes and one of them has only two we're
going to choose the four lane slot and the reason for that is that if we installed it in a gen four by two lane
slot well because the drive only supports gen three and the slot only
supports two lanes we would get gen three by two cutting our maximum whoop i
got it cutting our maximum throughput in half it is very convenient that they sue
silk screens this information onto their pcb so you don't have to consult the
manual and it's just such good energy building rigs people can actually afford you know
screws yeah i haven't oh for our RAM the
obvious choice was ddr4 we've gone with a 3600 mega transfer per second 16 gig
kit from g skill because we feel this is the sweet spot in terms of bang for the
buck for gaming we could have gone for a ddr5 board and
ddr5 but the reality of it is while there are performance benefits in some
scenarios it's not all the time and the additional
cost just doesn't make sense to us at this price
now it's time to drag out our case the p300a from fantex it might not come with
the greatest packing material and it might not have all the frills and
gimmicks but what it is is a solid value
pretty darn good looking and compared to
our last case it has much better airflow and is a lot nicer to build and just
little creature comforts like better cable management here you see hide
everything away back there and just having all the edges folded over so
you're not liable to cut yourself while you're digging around in it you don't
have to go the same route as us though at this price about 80 us dollars there
are lots of options one notable one is the fractal design pop air before you
forget bend back these otherwise they will end
up in your slots and you will have to take out your motherboard to fix it then
the i o shield pops in a little something like that credit to fantax for
having a nice robust system for attaching their hard
drive cage to the case but that means that if we want to completely remove it
to fit our large power supply we've got to take out a whopping eight screws
our power supply choice an evga supernova 850g plus might look a little
overkill it's 850 watts 80 plus gold and
it's got a modular interface but at this price point we can afford some creature
comforts and we can afford a little bit of the f word future
a good quality power supply is a benefit both today giving your components nice
clean power and down the line when you go to upgrade and knowing what we know
at least from the rumor mill about NVIDIA's upcoming 4000 series
cards a high wattage power supply is
looking like a pretty good play at the moment they're accustomed to operating
on GPU margins so they came into the power supply space all like who needs to
make fun money we're evga
and that right there is why we can't have a hard drive cage you could pick up
an 850 watt power supply that's a little shorter than this one and maintain your
hard drive cage but at 90 bucks it is hard to argue with that value the last
two modular cables we're going to install are an eight pin CPU connector
looks a little something like that and one of these dual six plus two pin
connectors for our GPU one option by the way for expanding your storage now that
you've given up your hard drive bays is throwing two and a half inch ssds on
these sleds well this one sled at the back or you could just double sided tape
them wherever you want pro move at this stage in the game is to pre-run your
cables to where they need to go ow now we can go ahead and install our
motherboard one of my favorite features of fantex cases is that the middle
motherboard standoff has this little kind of raised like nipple
lip thing that helps the board stay in place once you've got it
positioned over the middle hole
won't move evga doesn't have the little uh
little things that hold the two four pins together so yeah
i'll figure it out while you're cursing evga trying to get that installed you
can just think about the money you saved here comes our front usb 3 little
something like that beautiful our one case fan does
not quite reach
that's okay there's a solution to this problem we will unzip tie it gotta
appreciate nice clear labels on front panel connectors shout out motherboard
manufacturers and case manufacturers that do that why look at the manual if i
don't have to you know now we've got our front panel audio right down here in the
bottom left corner boop and that is
pretty much it can i just say i love budget builds no RGB no all-in-one water
coolers with a whack-ton of fans everywhere and especially RGB 4gb
this is great it's kind of amazing when you think
about it that 9.99 has been the sweet spot for a diy gaming rig for basically
as long as i have been in the business you can get rtx 3070s these days for
anywhere from around 400 to 450 dollars
yes they are secondhand and there is a
chance that someone will sell you defective goods but that's what buyer
protections are for so if a shady seller says oh hey you know why don't we do the
transaction off of ebay so that i can save the transaction fee you say no
buy it make sure it works and if it does
400 rtx 3070 baby let's go like if you
dispute something say look they shipped me a brick or they shipped me a
defective product you can get a refund pretty much no questions asked
we went with a zotac card but really at this point you're going to be choosing
based on the price that you can find it for as opposed to which particular brand
you prefer it's not like you're going to have warranty support anyway because it
is a secondhand product one thing that occurs to me is you will want to watch
out for i o if for whatever reason you need dual HDMI ports not every 30 series
has those and you can see that ours does not can fit so much gaming in here rtx
3070. Jake was sad he missed the peel but
there's a second peel cable management here is not bad i think
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i have some doubts about our rtx 3070 in
a case with no front intake fan but uh
optimism this computer GPU fans definitely
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it's responsive look at that you got a nice none of my t
no one on my team is going to drive me
60 FPS halo infinite
4k medium if you can't get kills at these kinds of settings then the issue
was not okay really what is my partner doing did you want to get me a shot at
anything maybe oh my god
the worst driver ever
30 70 baby definitely good enough to get kills boys i love that this is like a
grand you too could be the proud owner of this
machine and you could die just like that we are
turboing all the way to 1850 1875. GPU
temps are under 80. that's fantastic i
mean you gotta love that nice open front mesh panel because even though we've
only got the one exhaust fan and boy is
it ever moving some heat out
it's just that there's no resistance to the airflow so it's able to draw that
fresh air in from the front and keep that GPU fed i kind of love this machine
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