BADASS Full Gaming PC Cheaper Than a CPU???
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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so in my review of the 6950x it was observed that with the $1,700 price tag
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you could probably build a pretty wicked computer the whole thing for less than
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just the price of a singular processor and have money for great peripherals I
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had a few people tweet me saying that I should actually do it and make a video
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about it so here we are but I threw a bit of a challenge at the Linus Tech
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tips Community Forum I asked them to configure the best allaround system for
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under $1,700 let's see who won why and how it
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performs mop is featuring the minivan custom keyboard which comes in a 40%
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form factor with various customization options check it out and other drops in
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the video description down below through browsing all the submissions I noticed
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Trends components that seem to Define this price category or even certain
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specs that I would just gravitate towards personally I left the contest
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fairly open-ended and let the community show me what they could do then after
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skimming all of the submissions I made a list of things that I found to be
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requirements and started judging in my opinion the best most well-rounded can
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doit all computer was configured by someone with one of the greatest names I
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have ever read Herman mcus but there is
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more to this man than just his name and we'll start with the processor that they
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shows the 6700k I liked the inclusion of
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an i7 for tasks like streaming or video editing or anything else that can take
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advantage of the additional threads this was largely a 6600k versus 6700k
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showdown in terms of processor and being able to squeeze in the i7 was great I
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appreciated the inclusion of a 240 mm all-in-one water cooler but this wasn't
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a requirement I found that anyone with the like hyper 212 Evo level cooler and
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up received a pass in this category the motherboard wasn't anything to
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necessarily phone home about but the features are solid with an overclocking
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ready chipset USB type-c connector on the back and all the other basic
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necessities someone is likely to desire nothing too special but not overly
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lacking either much like the 16 GB of gskill rip jaw V series memory the
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capacity of which I saw as a baseline for this build as it's easy to fit in
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the budget and gives you expansion room by only using two of your expected four
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RAM slots moving on to storage is where some of the more aggressive requirements
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started to show up people with ssds that were under about 240 GB or a hard drive
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that was under about 2 terabytes were knocked off almost immediately at this
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price point you shouldn't be making major compromises in any category
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luckily for Herman mcis he met both of these requirements right on the line for
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graphics card it was a battle of the GTX 1070 versus 1080 this this price point
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was a little high for an rx480 and the GTX 1060 but I did find that people who
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pushed for the 1080 fell short in some other category and as the 1070 is an
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extremely powerful card he got a pass
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the case is solid enough and Carries through the white and black theme that
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has been maintained thus far the power supply has more than enough wattage to
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power everything an 80 plus gold efficiency rating and should be built
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well enough in order to not light everything on fire higher so that's a
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plus the monitor he chose is 1440p which
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is a great resolution pairing for the GTX 1070 it has a beautiful IPS panel
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and a 4 millisecond delay meaning it's not exactly going to be the fastest
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gaming monitor out there but can do the job as long as you're not trying to go
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MLG pro or some crap like that the course a Vengeance K65 compact 10
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keyless keyboard is a solid Choice especially at that price point and the
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Logitech g302 paired with that gives you a great great combined hands-on
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experience for your PC so how does it perform it destroys gaming benchmarks at
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1440p nothing below 60 FPS average and
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all of the games were heavy hitting titles including the newer Tomb Raider
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Crisis 3 and Hitman and all of them were maxed freaking settings 1440p very high
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Ultra all that fun stuff no compromises here and then for our synthetic CPU test
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it also smashed in both the multi-threaded Benchmark and the
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single-threaded Ben Benchmark City skylines we included this game because
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it is CPU bound and very heavily 58 FPS
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that's damn close to 60 and finally game
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streaming while streaming using xsplit at 1080p 30fps we able to get
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68.5 n frames per second in Tomb Raider
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that's insane and that's while still playing Tomb Raider at 1440p Max
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settings sick how's that for a
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conclusion all right thanks for watch watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome
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get subscribed hit the like button or check out the link in the video
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description for where to buy all this stuff or a shirt if you want to do that
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as well let me know in the comments down below if you want to see more videos like this should I do more like
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Community showdowns where we get a bunch of people to try to configure a rig at a
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specific price point like maybe a price point for the new Titan X which is
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really expensive or just more logical price points like a budget build or like
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a high-end build or something like that let me know comments down below or on
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Twitter at Linus um check out this video where I
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wasn't in it cuz it's a Channel Super Fun video that was recent and it wasn't
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the chalk one