oh come on oh yeah there it is there it is no
last hit last hit yeah free ball
i'm free ballin that was intense you guys see that
of course you did thanks to our sponsor for today's video Corsair Corsair sent
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capture sick gameplay montages like that one and like crazy thing they have gone
from just system memory to the point where you can build almost an entire
gaming setup with nothing but Corsair parts
so why don't we give it a shot
at the heart of almost any sick gaming and streaming rig is an AMD ryzen
processor and we went with the ryzen 7 3700x mostly because the ryzen 5000
series isn't out yet it's roughly 300 features eight cores and 16 threads and
at this price is pretty much the best bang for the buck when it comes to a
multitasking CPU in order to avoid an
awkward situation where we do a build video and then two weeks later it's
irrelevant we chose the ASUS rg crosshair 8. it runs an x570 chipset
allowing you to easily upgrade to the new ryzen 5000 series cpus once they
land it's also got solid vrms if you're into overclocking AMD has said that
ryzen 5000 should be an overclocking beast 11 usb type a ports onboard wi-fi
6n bluetooth and yeah it's expensive at 380 dollars but
it's about as feature-rich as it gets for system memory naturally we've gotten
Corsair and naturally we've gone for
RGB lighting this is their vengeance RGB and we've got a 32gb k here clocked at
33 33 megahertz cl 16. at 150 bucks this
is a pretty darn good bang for the buck in terms of performance today and
probably not needing to upgrade for quite some time what's a little dumb is
having to remove this grille from the fan in order to get at the m.2 slot but
what's not dumb is going with the Corsair mp600 pci express gen 4 SSD it's
rated for read speeds of almost 5 gigabytes per second and at 180 for a
very fast boot drive it's pretty darn reasonable it actually comes with a
cooler but as you can see we stripped it off because our intention was to mount
it under the spreader that's built into our motherboard so
for our case we've gone practical today here ladies and gentlemen this is the
Corsair 275 airflow and they're really
taking the airflow thing seriously yes they do have kind of like a stylistic
front panel that really doesn't have a lot of gaps
for airflow in it but then bam not only do they have these gaps in the side they
actually went and popped it off the rest
of the case so you've got almost unimpeded access to fresh airflow from
the sides at least in theory we'll see how it goes it's also got a tempered
glass side panel magnetic fan filter doodad up here and of course cable
management up the wazoo with room behind the motherboard tray for most of your
cables and then a basement down in the bottom to cram all the ones that you
couldn't figure out how to hide back there of course managing our unnecessary
cables won't be a problem with our modular Corsair rm750x power supply
Corsair was one of the first to jump into the modular power supply game and
they've got it pretty much down to a science at this point so we'll pop this
into the bottom this case has nice tall feet so we're not going to worry about
having our fan down and it getting suffocated or anything like that
screw it in from the back and go ahead and add our 24 pin connector our 8-pin
connector for the CPU our other more different 8-pin connectors for the
graphics card and then we're also going to need a SATA cable to power some of
our other peripherals oh what the deuce
okay got it figured out it's just this motherboard the plate that covers the
fan here also covers the middle uh screw hole so
i guess i'll start with some of the other ones first it's got a little
nubbin that's holding it in place there's a feature i really like of course there's cases this was also a
hilarious innovation the first time i saw it a box for the accessories that's
shaped like a hard drive with hard drive holes that comes in the hard drive tray
neat our fan upgrade not exactly a practical one but there's
no doubt that Corsair's ml-120 pro RGB fans with their magnetic levitation
bearings and of course RGB lighting both perform great and look fantastic
so we're going to hook them all up to a commander pro RGB and fan controller
that i'm going to just bury in the basement and not bother to cable manage
because cable managing RGB stuff is a nightmare look at it all two wires per
fan even though some elements of this rig are more bang for the buck our
cooling configuration is gonna be freaking
awesome with three intakes at the front and then three exhausts in the top and
the back now these two i can't put in yet because i need to mount them to
to my h100i RGB pro xt liquid cooler
first um yeah main features of this puppy RGB
lighting and well it's an aio liquid cooler keep that CPU
nice and cool this is the key moment in radiator
mounting when you either knock everything down
or you get the whole thing lined up in one go so i had mounted the fans with
the long radiator screws look a little something like that had them just
stacked there now i'm going to try and put them all the way through to the rad
and get the whole thing secured did i get it oh i got two that's most of the
battle nice that's a quick aio mount
right there thermal paste is pre-applied and uh
i cheated and used the clip mount instead of the uh
one that takes longer so we're just gonna pop that on there i
mean ah realistically who cares what are we talking maybe one degree with the
different mounting pressure two is this gonna have enough room for the
GPU yeah it should be fine right oh god this is really tight uh okay we're
running our eight pin for the CPU power connector up here and this is going to
be a real tight fit ladies and gentlemen there we go that extra 4 pin next to it
we only really need that if we're getting into like extreme overclocking
or something like that and we won't be we're also going to plug in our 24 pin
at this time after running it through the
cable management grommet here giving us a nice clean look
this is all fan and RGB connectors
that's why the commander pro comes in real handy okay
that's gonna go there
that hangs off there and we plug all our fans into that all
right which way do you guys want to go one two three four five six
or wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong
perfect we're not going to do that as much as fan and RGB wiring is
annoying though this really does make it quite a lot less painful having it all
go to one place so i'm just gonna tuck this down here
and then tuck these over here and the cable management shouldn't look
too bad front panel audio goes right here i just
love this pass-through here i hate it when cases don't have that this is really
annoying this usb port doesn't quite line up with where it would need to be
to go straight through the cable management hole so we're stuck with kind
of a bit of an awkward thing there but what i'm kind of hoping
is that when we bring the GPU cable through
it'll kind of hide that behind the GPU and the power cables the connectors for
the front power and buttons are an example of why i do like to have a cable management hole like kind of right here
right here but you can see we can reuse the one that can be used for GPU cables
as well if you want to bring them up from the bottom so that that works out
pretty good actually do should we bring the GPU cables up from the bottom what do you think this location versus this
one what do you want to see you like the side okay i like it because
it can help with GPU sag a little bit if you bring it over top that's the main
reason it's not for aesthetics on that note it's finally time to put the
graphics card in so we're gonna pull out these two pci covers
wow that's a strong magnet okay
and we're moving those tubes over a little
all right let's see here does that fit all right
hey they can stop making these runs between the two connectors so long
because no one's gonna run dual gpus anymore is that good enough yeah
all right look okay for a system with RGB
all over this is not bad
got to use the old trick
came together pretty nicely didn't it
not bad still got to fire it up and make sure everything works but so far not bad
now it's time for phase two of the build
the peripherals if you told me Corsair was gonna have everything but the CPU
GPU and motherboard under their umbrella like even all the peripherals just like
a few years ago i've been like really actually yeah they seem to be on the way
towards world domination that makes sense that's probably what i would have
said one of the big highlights today is of course the k100 RGB it features
Corsair's iconic all-aluminum construction and the new iq wheel so
this thing's super cool you can use it to like zoom or
scroll between all tabs and actually it's got an sdk so the potential is kind
of limitless that's pretty neat it's got like a wrap around RGB lighting that
we'll see in a moment here 4 000 hertz
polling rate which is apparently thanks to using a usb 2 data path instead of
usb 1.1 and this particular one is
equipped with cherry mx speed switches although there is a different version
using Corsair's opx switches that are optically triggered it's got Corsair's
traditional solid build quality that's looking real fine actually but a price
to match it over two hundred dollars but hey
it's got the cable management for your headset wire oh david i missed the best
part look at this wrist rest it's so plushy also does it mount magnetically
it does
now i'm feeling fancy i'm a fancy gamer
for our mouse we're using a dark core RGB pro we actually managed to forget to
grab a Corsair mouse pad so i guess what we're going to find out is how well it
tracks on a random vinyl sticker surface
here oh iq nexus their companion
touchscreen we were supposed to do a ShortCircuit unboxing of this thing i
saw this and it looked super cool but i never got around to it
so i guess we're gonna find out how it uh how it works here this is
officially Corsair's most hilarious product they've dropped all pretense
this is the Corsair RGB RGB stick
it just sits on your desk and is RGB
they don't they're not even pretending that it is going to have some other
function like being a mouse that's also RGB or a case that also has RGB this is
just RGB oh wait no wait there's a headphone
stand doohickey you can attach to it but that's optional
there we go how funny is it that they intentionally hung the headphones off
the back so that it wouldn't get in the way of the RGB even though that's like
less ergonomic to grab them i mean i guess technically you could put it on
any way you want okay you could do this if you really wanted to but then you're
only getting 75 of the RGB that you paid for
clearly this is the way how many buttons do you need
i don't know but the stream deck xl has them
if you're not familiar with the stream deck lineup every one of these is a
screen so you can put like your scene or images or if you have like a sound board
or something each one of these can have a unique function we won't actually be
using one of the key benefits of the wave 3 microphone from elgato because
we're using a wireless headset but if you plug directly into it you can actually control both volume and mixing
of volume and your own voice directly on the microphone itself which is pretty
cool it comes with a little um mounting adapter if you have an ARM but we're
just going to throw it on the little standy stand here and then that leaves
only ah one of their big new products which
is the elgato ring light it's wi-fi enabled which means you can
control it with an app on your phone or i'd never do that i usually just use um
the app on my computer but then i guess if you're in game yeah it makes sense
you might actually use your phone okay i get it now usually i'm streaming lanchow so i don't
use it for that and then as a ring light of course one of the key benefits is
that you get nice even illumination around your face
got a little camera mount right in the middle there so you can mount your camera right in the middle we can adjust
the color temperature and the brightness but uh in software so we're going to go
ahead and get the app installed when we boot up the system let's see if this
thing actually fires up here now that everything is functionally
working i'm uh adding some RGB accents we've got our fans lit up so that looks
pretty sweet oh yeah
now we'll find out david and i were talking about this off camera how the
RGB is gonna look through the front grill i would say not bad we're gonna have to
get a b-roll shot of it or something not in like bright light because it looks
way cooler when it's not under studio lighting
there are a couple configuration things that are a little weird right now i
couldn't get the ring light to sync wirelessly for whatever reason my ones
at home are like just work instantly so i'm not sure what
the deal is with that and then this is a funny one the backlight definitely works
on this but when i load the profile for the h100i RGB
it's like not backlit it's like it's in a power saving mode or something so it's
working see check this out that's extreme
then i go ahead and click quiet give a sec there he goes ramping down
everything else seems to be working pretty much normally though so all
that's left now is to actually fire up a game i guess
all right i may not have chosen the most intense game but it's definitely in line
with our RGB themes here all right ladies and gentlemen
you've unironically played this game oh yeah i love piglet yeah all right hey i
realize for some of you this might not live up to the expectations you might
have had for what we were going to do with this epic
Corsair gaming rig but look i don't judge whatever people want
to stream go ahead and stream and Corsair with
their elgato subsidiary in particular has got all the gear that you need to do
it so you can check it all out at the link in the video description thanks
again to Corsair for sponsoring this video and thanks to you guys for
checking it out if you enjoyed it maybe check out uh what else yeah check out
the rest of our all whatever builds we've done like four of them now