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hey guys Austin and staying here with the electron the most powerful computer I've ever built with 8 cores 2 graphics cards and 5 terabytes of storage the electron is made to max out just about any game out there even at 4k with a white case power supply motherboard and even bands it's definitely got the strong Tripper look going on with just a bit of green on the graphics card and CPU cooler you can individually control all the fans from inside windows to make sure the electron is nearly silent when you're not pushing it hard and there are nice touches like LEDs to light up the rear connections and your graphics cards considering how much time I spend trying to shave a few dollars off of my normal budget build it was definitely nice to have a little fun with this one our get into gaming the electron is all business with BioShock Infinite we're essentially maxing out the built in 1440p benchmark with a cool 113 point 6 frames per second even on ultra step up to 4k inside grid Autosport and that even ultra settings can bring the electron below 60fps keep the settings max at 4k and battlefield 4 is able to get the framerate into the mid 50s where a Metro Last Light Redux we're getting around 48 FPS at 4k getting performance like this out of the box is awesome however one of the nice things about the electron is that there are some serious games to be had if you do a little overclocking on the CPU side I tried the asou ki sweet to automatically overclock the CPU to 4.4 gigahertz and while I usually don't use tools like this the AI suite is surprisingly solid with a conservative 1.3 gigahertz core clock and 300 megahertz memory bump on the graphics cards metro picks up a solid 8 frames per second we're in 3d mark firestrike we're looking at 17% more performance with about 10 minutes of work I usually don't overclock on my build videos it's not for everyone and you won't always get that same level of performance however here it took almost no effort to get some serious performance gains if you decide to build the electron spend just a few minutes overclocking it it's going to be well worth it at the heart of the build is an Intel Core i7 59 60 X this is an 8 core haswell-e monster of a processor with 40 PCI lanes and a whopping 20 megabytes of l3 cache this is straight up the best gaming CPU you can buy now out of the box it might not seem too impressive with a three gears clock speed however don't let that fool you my chip was able to hit 4.4 gigahertz at one point three volts no problem which is a massive jump in clocks and with some extra voltage it was stable at 4.7 gigahertz to put it in perspective this is essentially what you would get if you took two core i7 4770k s and fuse them together this thing is an absolute monster cooling things is an NZXT kraken x61 considering how much heat the cpu can put off having a dual 140 millimeter closed-loop cooler like this is a huge help in getting a solid overclock keeping the 59 60 X powered is the Asus x99 deluxe motherboard not only does it look awesome with its white heat sinks but it's also packed with features you get 10 SATA 3 ports dulce to Express along with an m2 slot and a whopping 10 USB 3.0 ports on the back panel one thing about these new x99 processors is that they like a lot of power so what's stock is going to be a home 40 watt CPU however start overclocking and you're going to get that number well over 200 watts in no time which makes the solid vrm and heatsink on the X 99 deluxe a huge help for overclocking for graphics we have a pair of Nvidia's new GTX 980 s with four gigabytes of memory each these are as good as it gets for gaming cards right now with the new Maxwell 2.0 architecture you're also getting a lot of overclocking headroom enough to push these cards to 1.3 gigahertz and beyond like the CPU the GTX 980 is a killer card and when you put two of them together in sli you're getting some serious performance so the biggest problem is actually just trying to get your hands on them so they're sold out basically everywhere at the moment so I was actually able to get these from my friend al work over ticket tomorrow so big shout out to Al right Phil ahem you borrow his cards to make this build happen however I will have a link in the description to the 980 s which hopefully are in stock by the time you watch this on the memory side we have 16 bytes of Corsair Vengeance lpx not only is this brand new ddr4 Ram but it's also clocked at a whopping two thousand six hundred and sixty six megahertz in quad-channel mode since ddr4 is brand new it's expensive however it's also very very fast now with this x99 deluxe board that were using it supports up to eight Dems which means that if you want you can upgrade and go even more overkill for storage we're using a pair of 512 gigabyte crucial MX 100 SSDs throw these together and raid and you'll have a full terabyte of superfast storage that can easily hidden around the back of the case I really like these new MX 100's not only they sell out SSDs but you can get a terabyte worth of them for about the same price as a single 500 gig 850 Pro of course we can't just have a single terabyte of storage so the electron also sports a four terabyte Western Digital black drive these are rock-solid when it comes to performance for a spinning hard drive and with 4 terabytes of capacity you can load one seriously giant Steam library on here powering the entire build is in NZXT Hale 91 thousand watt power supply not only is this an 80 plus gold rated supply with modular connectors which is more than enough to handle even our overclocked CPU and graphics cards but it also comes in a matching white with the rest of our components my only real complaint is that the 20 plus 4 pin connector isn't fully slave like the rest of the cables otherwise it's a solid supplied putting it all together is the NZXT h6 30 this is hands-down one of my favorite cases out right now not only is it more than big enough to handle an SLI build like this but there are nice little features all over the place I pulled the top drive cages and use the bottom one it's a mount for an additional fan to direct some airflow right onto the graphics cards by default it comes with a normal painted side panel which still looks nice but I was able to get my hands on the optional windowed side panel which nicely adds to the look of the case while it's expensive if you really want to max out games even at 4k the electron is the way to do it as always I'll have links to all the parts I used in the description of this video over on my website so what do you guys think it's been a long time since I've done a high-end build like the electron so do you want to see more like this definitely be sure to let me know in the comments below anyway I've got to give a huge shout-out to audible for making this video possible audible.com is a leading provider of audiobooks with more than 150,000 downloadable titles across all types of literature including fiction nonfiction and periodicals right now audible is offering a free audiobook if you try them out and that includes the awesome what if by Randall Munroe written by the guy who does xkcd what if is all about answering crazy theoretical questions with real science to download what if or another audiobook for free just head over to audible.com slash Austin like always audible is a huge part of the reason why I can do builds like this for you guys so definitely be sure to check them out anyway guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you in the next one