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whatever will we do to keep warm during this frigid crypto winter

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have you tried looking at the hot prices on gpus there's so many deals to be had

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that clearly it's time to party and by party i mean build computers now we did

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just do a 500 pc build but the case

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wasn't very good and it was filled to the brim with used components so this

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time we're spending a thousand dollars and we are going brand new baby uh

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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

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and that's why instead of springing for Intel's shiny z690 premium platform

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we've gone with their mid-tier b660 it's everything we need you get twice as many

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RAM slots compared to h610 greater bandwidth to the chipset which enables

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better i o like front usb type c more m.2 slots that kind of good stuff and

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perhaps most importantly it supports memory overclocking allowing us to

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squeeze a little bit more performance out of our CPU the particular board

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we've chosen the b660 plus d4 from ASUS

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is fine it's got RGB two and a half gig lan

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decent cooling on the vrms and as much io as most people are likely to need

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it's got a lot of RGB it has five RGB headers

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okay for our CPU we've got a big upgrade over last time the 12400f may only turbo

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100 megahertz higher than the 12 100 that we used last time but it also has

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two full additional cores now you could

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spring for a 12 600 kf for additional cores even if they're efficiency ones

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would be a huge boom for multi-threaded workloads but it's 70 more dollars

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and doesn't come with a heat heatsink which adds at least another 25 to 40

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dollars to your cost at this budget we just can't make that work without

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another trade-off that we wouldn't be comfortable with we've used this cooler

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before so i'll need to apply some thermal compound to the CPU but if you

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bought this brand new there would already be some thermal paste pre-applied here and you really don't

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need to reapply it and the installation of this boy is as simple as

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pressing on these it's like sticking pins into a baby

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what one typical drawback of budget boards is that you might not find the headers in

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their usual or ideal locations so the CPU fan header is over here by the rear

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i o rather than being up along the top edge it's not as nice for cable

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management but it's not going to affect performance i'm gonna take all these

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horrible little m.2 standoffs and pre-install them ASUS you could have

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done this but instead you wanted to save a dollar since we're at it now seems

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like a perfect time to install our SSD while the conventional wisdom would tell

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us take your boot drive and install it in your highest performing m.2 slot the

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one connected directly to the PCIe lanes coming off of the CPU in our case we

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went with a 670p drive from Intel it's got a 5 year warranty and is a great

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bang for the buck but what it isn't is a top performer so rather than waste our

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top performing slot which we could install something else in later i'd

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rather choose between one of these two both of them run at PCIe gen 4 speeds

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through the chipset meaning that you could encounter bottlenecks if you've got a lot of other heavy io going on at

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the same time but one of them has four lanes and one of them has only two we're

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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

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slot well because the drive only supports gen three and the slot only

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supports two lanes we would get gen three by two cutting our maximum whoop i

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got it cutting our maximum throughput in half it is very convenient that they sue

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silk screens this information onto their pcb so you don't have to consult the

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manual and it's just such good energy building rigs people can actually afford you know

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screws yeah i haven't oh for our RAM the

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obvious choice was ddr4 we've gone with a 3600 mega transfer per second 16 gig

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kit from g skill because we feel this is the sweet spot in terms of bang for the

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buck for gaming we could have gone for a ddr5 board and

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ddr5 but the reality of it is while there are performance benefits in some

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scenarios it's not all the time and the additional

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cost just doesn't make sense to us at this price

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now it's time to drag out our case the p300a from fantex it might not come with

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the greatest packing material and it might not have all the frills and

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gimmicks but what it is is a solid value

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pretty darn good looking and compared to

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our last case it has much better airflow and is a lot nicer to build and just

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little creature comforts like better cable management here you see hide

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everything away back there and just having all the edges folded over so

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you're not liable to cut yourself while you're digging around in it you don't

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have to go the same route as us though at this price about 80 us dollars there

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are lots of options one notable one is the fractal design pop air before you

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forget bend back these otherwise they will end

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up in your slots and you will have to take out your motherboard to fix it then

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the i o shield pops in a little something like that credit to fantax for

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having a nice robust system for attaching their hard

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drive cage to the case but that means that if we want to completely remove it

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to fit our large power supply we've got to take out a whopping eight screws

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our power supply choice an evga supernova 850g plus might look a little

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overkill it's 850 watts 80 plus gold and

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it's got a modular interface but at this price point we can afford some creature

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comforts and we can afford a little bit of the f word future

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a good quality power supply is a benefit both today giving your components nice

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clean power and down the line when you go to upgrade and knowing what we know

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at least from the rumor mill about NVIDIA's upcoming 4000 series

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cards a high wattage power supply is

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looking like a pretty good play at the moment they're accustomed to operating

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on GPU margins so they came into the power supply space all like who needs to

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make fun money we're evga

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and that right there is why we can't have a hard drive cage you could pick up

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an 850 watt power supply that's a little shorter than this one and maintain your

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hard drive cage but at 90 bucks it is hard to argue with that value the last

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two modular cables we're going to install are an eight pin CPU connector

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looks a little something like that and one of these dual six plus two pin

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connectors for our GPU one option by the way for expanding your storage now that

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you've given up your hard drive bays is throwing two and a half inch ssds on

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these sleds well this one sled at the back or you could just double sided tape

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them wherever you want pro move at this stage in the game is to pre-run your

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cables to where they need to go ow now we can go ahead and install our

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motherboard one of my favorite features of fantex cases is that the middle

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motherboard standoff has this little kind of raised like nipple

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lip thing that helps the board stay in place once you've got it

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positioned over the middle hole

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won't move evga doesn't have the little uh

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little things that hold the two four pins together so yeah

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i'll figure it out while you're cursing evga trying to get that installed you

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can just think about the money you saved here comes our front usb 3 little

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something like that beautiful our one case fan does

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not quite reach

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that's okay there's a solution to this problem we will unzip tie it gotta

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appreciate nice clear labels on front panel connectors shout out motherboard

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manufacturers and case manufacturers that do that why look at the manual if i

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don't have to you know now we've got our front panel audio right down here in the

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bottom left corner boop and that is

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pretty much it can i just say i love budget builds no RGB no all-in-one water

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coolers with a whack-ton of fans everywhere and especially RGB 4gb

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this is great it's kind of amazing when you think

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about it that 9.99 has been the sweet spot for a diy gaming rig for basically

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as long as i have been in the business you can get rtx 3070s these days for

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anywhere from around 400 to 450 dollars

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yes they are secondhand and there is a

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chance that someone will sell you defective goods but that's what buyer

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protections are for so if a shady seller says oh hey you know why don't we do the

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transaction off of ebay so that i can save the transaction fee you say no

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buy it make sure it works and if it does

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400 rtx 3070 baby let's go like if you

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dispute something say look they shipped me a brick or they shipped me a

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defective product you can get a refund pretty much no questions asked

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we went with a zotac card but really at this point you're going to be choosing

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based on the price that you can find it for as opposed to which particular brand

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you prefer it's not like you're going to have warranty support anyway because it

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is a secondhand product one thing that occurs to me is you will want to watch

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out for i o if for whatever reason you need dual HDMI ports not every 30 series

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has those and you can see that ours does not can fit so much gaming in here rtx

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3070. Jake was sad he missed the peel but

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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

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a case with no front intake fan but uh

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optimism this computer GPU fans definitely

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ramping up a little bit i happened to also shoot the all knocked will build

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today that was quieter you know we're not in game yet we're not

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in match serviceable what's also serviceable is

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probably be there i haven't watched it i don't know what she said hopefully it

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was all nice things guys i'm running at 4k

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medium presets right now that is responsive

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it's responsive look at that you got a nice none of my t

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no one on my team is going to drive me

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60 FPS halo infinite

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4k medium if you can't get kills at these kinds of settings then the issue

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was not okay really what is my partner doing did you want to get me a shot at

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anything maybe oh my god

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the worst driver ever

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30 70 baby definitely good enough to get kills boys i love that this is like a

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machine and you could die just like that we are

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turboing all the way to 1850 1875. GPU

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temps are under 80. that's fantastic i

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mean you gotta love that nice open front mesh panel because even though we've

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only got the one exhaust fan and boy is

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it ever moving some heat out

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it's just that there's no resistance to the airflow so it's able to draw that

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fresh air in from the front and keep that GPU fed i kind of love this machine

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