BLD an Affordable Gaming PC! - NZXT BLD Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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999 words · ~4 min read
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when you're building a new pc what do you use as your guiding
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principle for the build do you just kind of grab parts that have similar looking
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boxes or do you find like
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one part that you like like say for example
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this gtx 1080 ti right here and then
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build everything else around that no
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most people start with some kind of a use case or an application like
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i want to build a workstation pc or a
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video editing one or i mean this is probably the most common one for our
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viewers what kind of computer do i need to play poorly optimized but super
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trendy new game du jour on high settings
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that's why nzxt reached out to us to sponsor a showcase of their new
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let's bold configuration tool which we
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used to order this puppy right here so let's
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see how well that worked out for us
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okay so the best way to describe how i built this computer is going to be to
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actually just show you so i'm gonna go to letsbuild.com
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and begin by hitting the big start button
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boop now we're looking at 21 popular pc games
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across loads of different genres including FPS
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open world real time strategy and of course battle royale so the idea here is
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that you pick either the exact game or games or type of games you want to play
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you select your monitor's resolution your approximate budget we entered
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fifteen hundred dollars and then you choose AMD or Intel
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so check this out we've got a ryzen based pc built around our price point
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and right here an estimation of the number
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of FPS that this system should reliably
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get in our selected games and nzxt is actually guaranteeing these
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approximations to within 10 of what you're actually going to see
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once you're up and running of course though we wanted to test that
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so we hooked our machine up which with the one page instructions and
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corresponding stickers on the i o plate means
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literally anyone can do and downloaded fortnite which like lots of people was
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the one and only game that we cared to optimize our 1500 gaming machine for
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according to the site we're supposed to get around 98 FPS playing at 1080p with
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the game's highest settings epic
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and right out of the gate quite frankly it
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looks like nzxt has pretty much broken their promise because we're seeing as
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high as a 130 140 150
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frames per second that's looking not bad
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i don't know what's my squad doing haha they're all talking
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oh good luck you guys like what kind of
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towns are these where like literally every building is
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full of like guns and stuff my partner is apparently still alive
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somehow oh there's more guys i think there's going to be oh they're
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shooting at me oh i'm going to die okay i did 50 damage and then i died
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time to go off the edge goodbye
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cool world so my team placed 11th that's pretty
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cool after a few rounds by the way we did end up with an average of 106 FPS
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once we accounted for all the dips and loading screens and whatever else so
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that is within 10 and if this was the end of the video
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that would still be pretty cool and this would be a neat
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tool but it actually gives you way more control than just the three broad build
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outs you can step up or down through more granular price points and see how
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the FPS is affected in real time or if
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you want to tweak your components yourself like changing your case or
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getting more RAM then you can do that too so then you have all the information you
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need you can just close the nzxt tab and
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head over to newegg.com and order all the parts right
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well they don't actually want you doing that
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and there are a couple of good reasons not to starting with pricing so looking
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at the complete price breakdown they give you something that you won't
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necessarily get if you buy a regular pre-built machine from best buy for
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example so you can see that you're getting all of the individual parts at msrp which is
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not a guarantee across the board especially for gpus like the gtx 1070
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that's here in our build and second okay yes there's a 99
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additional cost in there but that's not just like some weird made up fee they
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actually give you a unified warranty on all of the parts and labor for two years
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and they haul but to ship your order out within 48 hours best of all they
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actually build it for you with by the way some pretty darn nice cable
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management even in the parts you don't see so then
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if you're looking for that diy control but you don't actually want to
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or don't know how to build it yourself nzxt's let's build tool is one of the
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easiest ways to order a computer out there so thanks to nzxt for sponsoring this
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video keep on building cool tools for pc
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gamers see what i did there that's bold humor
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and i like my man like i like my font
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bold wait what are we talking about so thanks for watching guys if you
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disliked this video you can hit that button if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking
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out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description
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also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our
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community forum which you should totally join