it's been a couple months since we built a PC here on ShortCircuit so when ASUS
and Intel reached out about sponsoring a video showing off ASUS's new line of
tough gaming products along with Intel processors we thought what better way to
fix that than by building a PC with it we've got a full setup of gear here
there's some over here there's some over here there's some behind the camera that
we're going to get in here shortly and yeah we're going to build a PC and it's
all going to start with a motherboard as usual of course the most beautiful
motherboard box we have here I'm sorry ASUS love you guys but I'm going to call
you out for for giving us a plain box for a sponsored motherboard and part
unboxing this is kind of weird but I assure you what's inside is much cooler
than the Box specifically this motherboard is the tough gaming z790
plus Wi-Fi D4 the D4 meaning that this
board uses ddr4 which is a great way to keep the cost down on a new build like
this and it kind of goes hand in hand with the tier of parts so tough for ASUS
is kind of like their more mainstream affordable line there's of course Rog
which is usually a good bit more expensive but these are kind of designed
to give you all of the performance all
of the functionality you need without being too crazy too expensive too many
like fancy knickknacks you don't really need I mean there's a good bit of USB
here we've got 20 gig we got 10 gig type c 2.5 gig Lan which is great Wi-Fi 6 on
an Rog board you might see Wi-Fi 6E but
Wi-Fi 6 is still super fast there is also display outputs in case you're
building a system and just using the integrated GPU other than that the i o
that's pretty much it on the board itself oh wow this board's got PCIe Gen
5 damn boy got a Gen 5 by 16 slot at the
top for a GPU we've got a one by slot here another one by another four and
then this one looks like it's a 16 but is actually electrically a four there's
no CMOS battery in this motherboard we found the only CMOS battery in the bin
is Sunbeam brand and I don't know how old it is or if it works so hopefully it
does if it doesn't post that's going to be the first place I look
what else we got on here uh there's USB 3.2 front panel header which is a nice
inclusion man back in the day a couple years ago you would have to buy a five
six seven hundred dollar motherboard to get that and this is not going to be anywhere near that in terms of price
which is great what else we got m.2s how many m.2's they're three m.2s on this
board we yeah wow three m.2s look at that
what Holy balls there's four m.2 slots
on this board yeah on top of there being a lot of m.2 slots I mean look at this
they all have the easy latch everybody hates m.2 screws it's like a universal
thing this one doesn't have any
very good it also just looks nice I mean this is It's a 275 dollar board right
now I mean you could you could tell me this is like a three four hundred dollar motherboard and I believe you one thing
I forgot to mention about that Gen 5 slot look
button release thank you also it's got
the metal reinforcement which I think they call Safe slot yeah they call it
safe slot it's just kind of a reinforcement especially if you look at how big graphics cards are getting have
you seen those 40 90s they're like this big you don't want that just resting on
a plastic slot this is going to be a lot stronger I guess let's put a CPU in it
of course this is LGA 1700 z790 Intel
which means you're gonna be using a 13th gen chip like this 13600k try to make
this build a little more normal a little more mainstream the 13600k is a very
capable chip even despite it being a bit mainstream like I mentioned before this
is a D4 board so we're going to be using ddr4 this is some 3200 Mega transfer per
second cl-16 ddr4 16 gig sticks maybe
not the fastest RAM you could put in this board by any stretch of the
imagination but should be fine what else we got here
fans wow tough gaming fans three pack
okay did you know you can get this at ltgstore.com it's the Jerry rig
everything knife okay got some cables what is this oh
it's like a little controller all right the Hub worth up to four fans to control
their RGB you can use this little three pin guy with the little included adapter
to plug it into your motherboard's addressable RGB control what you're
going to want to do I think this is mostly just here a as a splitter so you
can plug three of them in and B if your motherboard doesn't have an addressable
RGB header you can get some extra like manual control here oh they also include
a fan splitter nice so for the fan power itself you just have to plug you know
one guy in there and boom you can plug your three fans into that nice touch
because wiring three individual fans kind of annoying hey look at that we got
a graphics card RTX 4070 TI tough gaming
12 gigabytes RAM aorus sync of course is
the OC Edition this is a much nicer box than the motherboard ASUS this
particular card the OC Edition is around 850 bucks but the non-oc
version of this is 799.99 on the back we've got three DisplayPort and two HDMI
that's a good Loadout a lot of cars nowadays are just like 2dp to HDMI or
3dp one HDMI this one has at least two of each in terms of power this card is
using the new 12 pin connector I don't know if our power supply has it but they
include an adapter so you can run two standard PCIe eight
pins into the fancy 12 pin when you're
plugging this in make sure that it is plugged all the way in in terms of the
cooler it's a triple fan design it's a big cooler I mean just look the card PCB
ends here and the cooler actually goes all the way over here so you're gonna
get some flow through these slots here it's a little bit bigger than a three
slot design just ever so slightly like this is three slots and this shuts out a
little bit it uses military grade capacitors that are rated for 20 000
hours at 105 degrees Celsius I imagine they'll probably run a lot colder than
that so you should get more than twenty thousand hours but other than that just
it's a 470 TI it's gonna be a very very fast graphics card what's left oh right
I need something to build the computer in oh my God
what is this the gt502 tough gaming case
oh look at that it's got handles
oh whoa this is larger than I expected but
look it's got handles so I'm just like yeah it's fine it's it's not that heavy
actually this is they're very nice handles like look some padding in there
like God damn brother what is this oh oh look at that quick release side panels
whoa look there's some peels in oh these are
fan filters nice okay I'm not gonna peel those in I'm just gonna leave them on there that's a little hack for you
they're magnetic but also you could just leave this tape here and then you don't
have to worry about the magnet coming off just leave it what else we got here
okay so this is a dual chamber design back here you're going to have power
supply down here you can put fans up here there's some SSD mounts hard drive
Mount but it's kind of like a second chamber back here so everything's
separate apparently these straps can hold up to 30 kilograms which is like
over 60 pounds I bet you these could hold more than that I feel like one of
these could support 60 pounds but either way that's plenty enough to support an
entire system so if you were going to take this into a LAN party this
it up take it for a walk I got some clarification on the Dual Zone you could
put a second radiator back here that was specifically for cooling your GPU that's
why they say you could have dual zone Heating and Cooling but if you're using
an air-cooled GPU like we are obviously the GPU
is going to go in the front here so it's only one zone for that this is a nice
looking case I have no idea what case they got inspiration from when building
this one I like the quick release side panels big tempered glass panel which is
nice I'm a big fan of cases with glass in the front just because of the amount
of access you get it does hinder your Cooling in some ways because you don't
have fans up here but this case has a little trick up its sleeve you see these
steam outs here
a couple of fans there or an AIO or like a distribution plate for a water coin
setup very versatile how many fans can you put in this thing we got one two
three four five six seven eight nine ten
eleven twelve thirteen fans holy
that's a lot of fans this is not a tough power supply do they make tough power
supplies do we know this is also kind of a weird power supply for this build it's
sfxl which is unnecessary and more expensive than a
regular ATX power supply which this case does support however it's what I had
over here already and most sfx power supplies
come with a little adapter so you can put them in an ATX case just like that
you see it's like now it's it's big size say if you were planning or thinking
down the road hey I might do a small form factor build someday well you could
buy an sfx power supply use the included adapter and then you
don't have to worry about buying a new power supply down the road a lot of the time I make this mistake I'm like I'm
gonna put my computer together put my computer together throw the motherboard in there let's do it motherboard's in
you put your AIO in and then you're like crap I didn't run the cables how am I
gonna I gotta fish these stupid EPS cables through these little little
doodads here but this there's a lot of space even if you put an AIO here it
would be a little tight but um if you don't have an AIO here because you can
put the AO on the side with this case you got all this access you can cram
cables through there all you want no problemo wow that's a hell of a
what is this thing this is a ryugen 2
240. it's got the mother of all bumps
here Jesus I think most of it is this oh yeah wow whoa it just comes off what the
hell yeah okay that's just basically all screen
all right GPU goes in we're getting there okay that's a computer right looks
like a computer I've never built one before so this is this is all news to me whoa look at that
what is this the tough gaming VG 78u 4K 144hz HD
freesync premium 90 DCI P3 color gamut
we got HDMI 2.1 g-sync one millisecond response time wow this thing has a lot
of ports holy crap spinning around there is four HDMI
inputs DisplayPort audio and a USB hub
two of them are HDMI 2.1 too so you could have your computer plugged in over
HDMI 2.1 and a console it's like actually kind of dope hey it lights up
that's a good sign all right we've got GPU tweak 3 open here they revamped the
user interface so it looks a lot nicer they also overhauled the frequency and
voltage settings and they also added automatic profile switching I'm just
gonna like yeah screw it let's just set our power Target a little higher yeah
oh man we're playing at 4K Ultra
nightmare settings Ray tracing on and we're still over 100 FPS this game runs
so good and looks so good that it makes other games
just kind of a joke like how can they
achieve these Graphics in this performance and other games are not
anywhere close I mean there are there are games that run good but this one
runs really good check our temperatures we got our CPU
package temperature let's see 57 degrees we're drawn 70 Watts you're not going to
be pushing your CPU too bad when you're gaming usually uh what do we got for
graphics card 64 degrees 225 watts of
power 230 watts of power it performs
good it's quiet it's cool and best of all you can check out the ASUS tough
lineup at the link down in the description they also have a giveaway running for some of their tough products
so definitely check that out as well if you like this video like it comment what
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