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whether it's you or a member of your circle if you're a gamer it's pretty

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much a guarantee that you've seen the effects of the ongoing shortage of key

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computer components like power supplies processors and especially gpus i've seen

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countless stories from gamers who have saved for months or even years to buy

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their dream machine only to have it pulled out of reach thanks to scalpers

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and commercial crypto miners not to mention unprecedented demand thankfully

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we have a solution a diy gaming rig that

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is readily available today and at a reasonable price and this video is

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brought to you by MSI

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we'll kick things off with the heart of our build one that perfectly

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encapsulates its underlying theme an Intel rocket lake core i7 11700k

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now its eight cores might be a little low by today's standards and it might

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not be the fastest or the most power efficient but it's got a really

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important ace up its sleeve that we're going to talk about later and gosh darn

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it it's tough to walk into a computer store where they've managed to run out

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of stock of these puppies now we just need to install it in our

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motherboard open the latch line up the old golden triangle and seat

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the CPU into the socket give it a little wiggle to make sure

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it's in correctly close the latch and make sure you hold on to the socket

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cover in case you ever need to rma your motherboard now for our board we've chosen MSI's

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tomahawk z590 wi-fi it's got a built-in

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i o shield so you'll never forget to install it a six layer pcb two and a

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half gig lan for lightning fast local file transfers without having to replace

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your cat5e cabling wi-fi 6e if cables

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aren't your thing and pci express gen4 support that's right ladies and

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gentlemen Intel finally got there

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not that it matters for us today some of the best m.2 ssds on the market are

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still enjoying lower power consumption and lower prices thanks to their use of

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slower but still really good gen 3

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controllers like the Intel 670p and

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crucials p5 which uses tlc nand for better longevity but is priced only a

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little higher than some qlc drives to install this puppy all we've got to do

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is remove the armor grab a standoff and m.2 screw from the motherboard

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accessories pack add the standoff slot the drive in screw it down and replace

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the armor for memory we've chosen two 8 gig modules from crucial rated for 3200

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megahertz cl 16. they're not overly expensive but their compatibility is

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excellent and RGB is always a nice bonus

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just open the dimm slot clips line up the notches with your modules and push

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them down into place making sure that you hear a distinctive click on each

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side and if you've got just two sticks like we do today use slots a2 and b2 for

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dual channel operation for optimal performance by the way if you guys are

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enjoying this video make sure you get subscribed so you can check out our

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upcoming Intel charity build stream where i build you yes you a computer

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now let's get to the case we're using a phanteks p500a because it's got plenty

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of room to build in a tempered glass side panel and some great cable

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management runs with straps built into the back really it's just a fantastic

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case with tons of features for a reasonable price

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bringing us perfectly then actually to our second product from our sponsor MSI

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the meg core liquid k360

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now we actually complained a little bit about the mounting system of this cooler

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in our recent RGB build guide but it seems like MSI has been hard at work

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ironing out the kings since then this one looks a lot simpler and with a 360

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millimeter radiator we'll be sure to be able to keep even a rocket leg CPU cool

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of course before we worry about that we need to get our motherboard installed in the case and fantex does such a great

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job of making this more intuitive for new users so inside their accessory

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package you actually find all the screws you're going to need in a nice handy

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dandy little plastic compartmentalized doohickey to install your motherboard

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you'll need nine of the short m3s with the circular skirt that's the easiest

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way to identify them thankfully the Intel bracket comes pre-installed so

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just grab your lga 1200 back plate mounting bolts and thumb nuts then align

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the back plate and push it into place screw in the mounting bolts remove the

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plastic cover from your block and then mount it with the thumb nuts

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now fewer wires coming out of this thing

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would definitely make cable management a little easier but if you run them all

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together it's actually not too bad so

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just pull everything coming from the block over the top of the motherboard

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bring it around to the back of the case there we go

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and that gives you easy access out of the way so you don't have to look at any

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of it to get it all wired up but we'll talk about that later first now is an

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excellent time to grab the 8-pin CPU power connector out of your power supply

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box and run it up around the motherboard

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tray here and plug it into the top left of the motherboard before that area of

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the case gets too crowded later on

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now this next part's a little tricky but the best way to mount your fans and rad

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is in the top of the case with the long screws going through the fans as they

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pull air through the fins and then exhaust it to the outside

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now push versus pull doesn't affect performance but pull is so much easier

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to clean so i prefer it it like does not

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come off once you've got all 12 fan screws in

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hopefully you oriented your fan so the cables come out toward the back of the

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case here you can go ahead and plug them into those cables that we routed away

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from the CPU block before conveniently MSI provides nice little labels on these

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things so fan one but wait i haven't even done the most

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important part yet included with the CPU cooler is this one to three addressable

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RGB splitter so we're going to use that to go off of the

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male connector off of the block and plug into all three of the female connectors

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for our fans while power supplies are in

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somewhat short supply right now most of the issues are actually with a thousand

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watt and up power supplies which coincidentally is the range that is

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typically targeted by crypto miners so you shouldn't actually have any trouble

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getting your hands on our third and final MSI component the mpg a650g power

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supply it's 80 plus gold rated it's modular and this lineup is available

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with up to 850 watts which is plenty of juice for what we're doing speaking of

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juice our circuit board water bottles will hold up to 40 ounces lttstore.com

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before we put this in though i'm going to go ahead and pre-attach the handful

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of modular cables that i'm going to need this right here is my

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pin motherboard connector this one here is a pci express

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dual six plus two pin so we'll plug that into vga1

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this one right here is a quad SATA connector and then

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finally there's the eight pin that we actually ran before

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right just like so

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i'm gonna have my fan down and i'm gonna just

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gently put all these through the thing

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and then realize that i have done screwed up

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and i needed to take this back bracket off first

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ah that's better with the power supply installed all that

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remains is to run our cables to where they will ultimately live our 24 pin atx

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goes somewhere kind of around there our SATA

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connectors go kind of down there in the bottom there

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and our six plus two pin pci express

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but we don't need no stinking pci express connectors getting in the way of

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this ultra clean build right here

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but just in case we need them later we're going to go ahead and run them

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just under here so we can grab them and plug them into a graphics card

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later finally we pull around our cables for

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front panel audio front usb 3 front usb 3.1 our front panel switches and leds

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and then we just need to plug in the last two connectors for our aio the SATA

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power that i alluded to before which is just down in the bottom and the front

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panel usb 2 that is going to allow us to control the RGB that is built into this

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i love that this still amuses me

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i just like magnets you know

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and after some beautiful cable management and making sure the thing

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actually freaking boots up all that remains is to throw our side panel back

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on and address the elephant in the room we

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didn't need our pci express power cables because it is so freaking hard to buy a

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graphics card for a reasonable price right now unless you get one as part of

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a pre-built system but from our point of view that's no reason

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to miss out on the joy of pc building which we scientifically proved is a real

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thing truly it was worth it so as crazy as it sounds

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this is not a terrible recommendation for today if you go rocket lake you can

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game on a combination of its xc graphics and cloud services like GeForce now

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while you sit on a wait list or try to snag a GPU from our verified actual

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gamer program so let's see how well it handles that shall

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we to be clear i'm not saying Intel integrated graphics are perfect by any

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stretch of the imagination we plugged in via HDMI and got a bug where

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Windows was reporting that it was running at one hertz when it was clearly

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running at like 60-ish so we're going to switch over to

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displayport and see if that sorts it out we going to get away with medium what do

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you think

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GeForce now it is we're on a wired connection now which is

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going to make a big difference for GeForce now you want to be on wired

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connection and seeing all those pictures especially

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of like half finished ryzen machines

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that had no gpus in them when we did the uh roast my setup video you don't have a

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graphics card because of the shortages and he doesn't even know if the rest of

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his computer works very sad because at least if you go Intel you've

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got the onboard graphics to be clear it's not like i wouldn't go ryzen if i

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had a choice but if you got no GPU you got no you got no

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options with that said AMD is finally bringing their 5000 series apus to north

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america they're in pre-built like almost immediately and then they're coming to

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the channel i think later in the year so at least we'll have another option

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okay having the extra latency with GeForce

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now it's not the best thing

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fortunately more sightseeing type games like witcher 3 which we're looking at

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right now don't rely on the same kind of twitch reflexes that counter-strike

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global offensive does and are very easy

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to enjoy using a service like GeForce now so thanks MSI we know this machine

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isn't exactly ideal but you gotta make the most of the situation okay and MSI

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has got basically everything you need to make the most of your next pc from power

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supplies to aio coolers to motherboards and even graphics cards usually some of

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which they actually generously already contributed to the verified actual gamer

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program so again thank you MSI now the

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question for you guys is how many of you have caved and overpaid for our graphics

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card recently let us know in the comments below and if you haven't yet

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check out our more detailed video on how to game without a GPU where we checked

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out not just GeForce now but most of the major streaming services