- You wanna build your own DIY computer and you find yourself on newegg.com,
who sponsored this video, by the way. Overwhelmed by all the choices and all the acronyms.
You got your NVMEs, you got your LGAs, your PCIs.
What does it all even mean? Do you painstakingly research?
Which parts are the best? No my friends, not today.
Today you let the fates decide.
Or more accurately the sort by Best Rating feature.
Yes my friends, for today's machine, we are gonna be flying absolutely blindfolded,
simply ordering whatever it is on newegg.com
that has the highest egg rating, throwing it all together and seeing
what kind of computer we end up with. And I can tell you some of the choices are probably not ones
that I would have defaulted to.
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First up, we've got the Ryzen 7 3700 X from AMD.
It's an eight core, 16 thread processor, and its just $300.
This puppy is a multitasking powerhouse
able to plow through the latest games and your renders
or animations or whatever else it is that you like to do
on the side. It has five out of five eggs with 3,300 reviews on Newegg
with some of the highlights being good performance and the stock cooler is good.
And if this chip doesn't convince you to dump Intel,
you must be dead. What does that even mean?
We won't actually be using the stock cooler though. So let's focus on the bottom line here.
Pros: just what I wanted, even more. Cons: Just too much power.
Overall review: Perfect product.
All right. Fair enough. We'll have to see what Ryzen 5000 has to say about
the perfect Ryzen 3000. On that subject one of the best things
about AMD's platform right now is the forward and backwards compatibility
of their chip sets. So this motherboard right here, the MSI Meg X570 ACE,
not only has features that are useful today, like 2.5 Gig Ethernet and Wi-Fi 6 as well as solid VRMs
for overclocking but the capability to upgrade it
with a Ryzen 5000 series CPU down the line.
Now motherboards tend to be a little bit more
on the finicky side than CPUs. So our highest rated motherboard was actually
just four eggs out of five with 176 reviews.
In spite of the fact that this is a $360 board.
Let's go ahead and throw our CPU in there. A little something like that.
That's customer satisfaction right there. That's what it looks like.
The herd mentality PC is going really well here so far.
For memory we ended up with a 16 Gig kit of 3200 MHZ,
CL 16 RGB memory from none other than G skill.
The general consensus here with four out of five eggs
and 2,494 reviews
was that the pros are that they are highly compatible with most boards out there.
And one of the few 3,200 MHZ kits that happens to be on the QBL or the Qualified Vendor List
for lots of boards with the cons being that it has ignored my advances, will not make me a sandwich
and does not run hot enough to warm my coffee.
Those are some pretty small downsides.
The highlighted overall review was, has run continuously and flawlessly in my system
for about half a year now. And also the RGB works and looks great.
Here's what I didn't see coming. When I think boot SSD, maybe I bought into the hype.
I tend to think more like, you know, the guys that market cutting edge features
like PCI express gen four, like Corsair or the guys that focus almost exclusively on SSDs,
like a Samsung or a micron, but Intel actually came out on top with their 660P.
This right here is a 1TB drive that boasts 1800MHZ per second reads and writes
with QLC NAND. So not exactly a top performer, but at 130 bucks,
it's reasonably priced for a terabyte of reasonably fast storage
and it's got five eggs out of five with almost 900 reviews.
Advantages for this product include things like, fast, reliable, and easy to install.
While one of the biggest complaints about it was that the user no longer had enough time
to go get a glass of water while their system booted leading to dehydration.
So it could be dangerous to use one of these SSDs,
but your computer will run just fine.
Maybe the cooler I'll end up being something I don't agree with, I'm just kidding.
The community knows not Noctua knows what's up.
So highlights of the NH-U12S are just that it is,
a no-nonsense cooler that gets the job done. It has good enough performance
while being absolutely silent.
If you can figure your BIOS to a silent mode.
And of course it comes with not to as legendary
Sekou firm mounting system, which I am personally a big old fan of.
While we work on updating the compatibility of this older unit of this cooler,
seems like a good time to talk about one of the patterns that I've noticed emerging
in the hardware choices that we've looked at today. The SSD had a five-year warranty,
the cooler has a six-year warranty and Noctua has an outstanding reputation
for providing a mounting brackets and adapters
that customers need down the line for their products. And this Seasonic Power Supply has a 10-year warranty.
It seems like, by large, the herd mentality computer
is considering things that a hardware reviewer might not normally,
like the long-term support that comes with the product, as opposed to just the price to performance ratio.
For the finishing touch, we throw on our fan and plugged the fan cable into the CPU fan header
right there on the motherboard. Back over to the Power Supply.
We didn't strictly speaking need a 750 Watt Power Supply,
but I also don't disagree with the Newegg Community's choice here.
This is the Seasonic focused GX-750.
It's got 80 plus gold certification, it's fully modular,
it's quiet and even includes a hybrid mode, where the fan will turn off entirely under very light loads,
and it's going to have a little bit of growing room for you in the future.
The main pros were, Hey, well, I didn't need a 750 Watt Power Supply,
but it was the same price as the 650, so why not?
With one of the main cons being, an out-of-date user manual?
Oh, we should have a look at that. That tells me not to use it in the bathtub in 20 languages,
but not how the fan control button works. Oh, Lordy. Okay.
Well, Oh yeah, no, it doesn't say which toggle is right.
I think out is actually hybrid mode, which is weird.
Don't quote me on that though. A separate manual for that now. Yes, yes, yes.
Out an Audi belly button is hybrid build.
Bringing us finally to probably the funkiest choice
in our viewers choice PC here. This is the Cooler Master HAF XB Evo
and it's advertised as like a land box
slash I think they also say it's like good as a test bench or something.
Do they actually say that? Or is that your thing? - [Nicholas] That in the marketing.
- It's in the marketing for it. Huh? Okay.
What's funny about this is that even though I don't recall
ever having seen one of these out in the wild, like at a land party or anything,
it has a five out of five egg rating with get this,
8,562 reviews as of the time of recording this video.
I mean, that is shocking. The main pros for this guy
or that it is surprisingly spacious with a well thought out design in most regards.
And that really is all you can ask for a case, Isn't it? Six thumbs screws at the back,
give us pretty much all the access that we need to the inside of the chassis for building.
And I can actually see how this would appeal to people
even though I haven't set eyes on this thing in years and years.
And that was probably a previous revision of the case.
All the accessories are included in this little hard drive shaped-cardboard box.
And natively has support for up to four hard drives with two of them being hot swaps
really is pretty easy to work in. Get our front panel cables out of the way
and plug in front USB three. You know what's another interesting trend
is the fact that RGB lighting seems to be a complete non-factor when it comes
to people's purchase satisfaction, all of the three items that do have any RGB lighting,
only the RAM is available in an identical, but non RGB configuration.
So it seems like for the most part, people are just picking whatever is great bang for the buck
with a complete indifference towards whether it has RGB or not.
Even the RAM. I wouldn't read too much into it because a lot of the time
what memory people buy is more down to what on promo this week
as opposed to what they actually think is the best.
Although there were some complaints about not two as Brown and tan color scheme.
People really wanted a different though, there is a black one for $10 more.
So apparently it just doesn't matter that much. You know I made a couple offhand comments before
about how old this case design is, but like this really dates it,
it still has one of those AC97 offshoot dongle things
on the front panel, audio connection. Who's putting a motherboard old enough
with the cooler master, revise your is here. Hooking up the front panel connectors now,
this is not my best cable and management, but whatever,
whoever wins this thing can fix it for me.
Oh yeah, I don't think I actually mentioned that part of the Newegg sponsorship for this video
is that we going to be giving away this computer. Fun, right?
That's one of the nicest things about modular Power Supply cables
is you can kind of run them whenever and whichever direction you want.
So I'm running them over to the motherboard first
then I will plug in the Power Supply end once I put the PSU in down here.
Got a couple of eight pins. Man, this is easy to get at compared to a typical tower case
where all the cable management room is kind of like
behind the motherboard tray in this tiny little channel.
We are gonna have a hard drive so I'm gonna go ahead and grab a SATA cable here
and then do what the, Hey,
why don't we throw it in the old hot swap thing? So that's Oh, that's kind of a kludgy approach to that.
They've just got this female connector, like soldered on to an exposed PCB there.
Okay. The most amazing part is how much of a difference all these little conveniences make
to how long it takes to complete a build. Like here we are, we are almost done ladies and gentlemen.
We are wiring up the Power Supply. We're going to screw it back in, throw the graphics card in and we're close.
We settled on the Western Digital 4TB, WD 405SZBX,
because it's got four out of five eggs and 1500 reviews
and 150 bucks is not a lot of money for a whack ton of storage space.
It's super easy to install with tool less Mount. You just got to line up the thing in Boober
and then you put the pokies and the Holies there
and just kind of do like that kind of thing
until it's kind of in there, like it should be
and then you take the whole sled, slide it in there.
Oh, Oh, it's falling apart. Can you go in there?
What the, Oh, stop. Why are these getting caught?
They're not even sticking out. Oh, it's under the drive now just go in.
It's caught again. What the heck is it caught on?
Okay, well it's there now. This is a perfect example
of how going by whatever has the best,
and or the most reviews can be a great strategy,
but it can also mean that you're stuck with sorta out of date information,
because the thing about the RTX 2000 series is awkward.
It's kind of been replaced at this point, but because the RTX 3000 series is so supply constrained,
well, nobody has them to leave a bunch of positive reviews about it.
So it's not like we're getting a bad product here in the form of the RTX 2070 super twin frozen Gaming X
from MSI. It's just that we're not getting the most current one.
Removed before gaming, zero froze or fan not spinning,
don't worry this card runs in silent mode,
under low load situations. Nice. That's fun.
One of the cons of this card is that it is big, real big,
but one of the pros is that MSI actually went out of their way to include a support bracket with it.
How fun is that? Got a whole like bracket experience to help with that sag.
Nothing against them assign Nicholas, but I'm a little curious as to how exactly we got
so many of their products. What did you use as a tie breaker
if you had two five-eggs products?
- [Nicholas] Basically the number of reviews. - Got it. So we took whatever was the bigger seller
and said, okay, well this is a greater sample size. So it's more statistically significant.
I have never installed a graphics card with a support bracket like that before
and it's totally unnecessary in this chassis because the graphics card actually just sits like this.
There is no sag, but I kind of want to do it anyway.
So we're gonna do it. Come on, sometimes you just got to do stuff for fun,
you know? - [Girl] Hey daddy. - Yes. My darling girl.
- [Girl] Can I have Apples please? - You would like apples.
Well, we're more of a PC house.
- [Girl] What are you playing? - What am I playing? I'm not playing anything my love
I'm building a computer. - [Girl] Can I help please?
- Actually. Yes. you can help if you'd like, would you like to help?
- Yes. - Okay, come here.
Fun. This is something I didn't actually notice before. These handles are super handy
if you want to move the system around, all right, go ahead. One there and one there, my darling,
(instrumental music) This might take a while.
Let's go get our peripherals so we can fire up some games on here.
It posted immediately. Let's go ahead and try XMP and it's only 3800MHZ.
It should be okay. Don't read too much into the monitor or peripherals.
These were just things you grabbed from the office, not the top rated ones or anything like that.
Now this game is violent, you can't watch this Tylan. All right, We're running some dual maternal at 1080P
at what? Just shy of 300 FPS,
which actually makes more sense than you might think with this 360 Hertz monitor.
Nice and clean obviously coz it's like little butter smooth.
I mean, that doesn't change that I missed a lot of the shots I take, but minor details.
Right, right, right, right. See you later. Oh, I'm gonna die.
Oh, I died. That's okay. The main point was, does the system work?
Yes it does and does the review system work?
Actually it kind of seems like it does
without any knowledge of parts, other than making sure that our CPU and motherboard
were compatible. All we had to do is take the top reviewed products
and we ended up with what is not only a very competent gaming rig,
but even one with great cooling and silent operation,
and it's a pretty great value. And the best part is, thanks to Newegg sponsorship.
You don't even have to pay for it at all if you win it. We're back at the office and guess what?
Instead of the last gen RTX 2000 series card,
Newegg asked us to upgrade our system with a new EVGA 3080X3
that they sent over. I think Newegg must be going for a five-egg rating here,
because check this out. They also sent another card and EVGA 3090 FTW3
for us to give away.
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