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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here at the video going over what is it in my gaming PC so before we get started I just want to cue you guys a little apology and in advance I haven't done any videos in the last week because I got the flu at CES I'm still not quite a hundred percent over it but it's trying to do a video for you guys also definitely sure to stay tuned to the end of the video as I've got a pretty awesome giveaway you guys are not gonna want to miss to start with we have the case which is a fractal design define r4 so I've been using fractal design and several my builds lately and I've gotta say I've been really liking how these cases look and work and all that kind of stuff so the reason I went with this is mostly because I like a kind of a understated look so you guys can see here it's not really flashy it's very simple and it still obviously says hey I'm a gaming PC with that giant window powering the build is an Intel Core i7 2670 some of the parts for my old build in the new one basically it's kind of a continuous work in progress so I'm always adding more RAM or hard drives or changing fans or whatever so it's just kind of a natural thing to continue to use some of the old parts so this is a great CPU it's overclocked to 4.5 gigahertz the motherboard is also from our previous build it's a good goodbye z68 board now of course like I lift the CPU and some other parts here if you guys want to do this exact build I really wouldn't recommend it if I was buying it all brand new today I would make some changes but in general a lot of this stuff from so close to what a brand-new part would it's really not worth it to scrap all the parts to get something that's like 2% faster for a CPU cooler I'm using the corsair h 100 i so this is a closed-loop liquid cooler so it's a lot simpler than doing a full water cooling loop so of course you got to get a pump or reservoir you're fitting your tubing your water blocks through CPU your graphics card there's a lot of stuff that goes into that and while it's definitely fun and it's cool to do i do like these h 100 i and other kind of closed-loop systems we're all you gotta do is mess it onto your cpu put it in the roof your case or the back or you know whatever the reservoir the reservoir if the radiator goes and you're good to go one thing i do want to mention though is that you guys have a define our for or want to do a build in one be careful you can fit an h 100 or h 100 i up into the top of the case but you have very very limited clearance so while i was able to get it to fit up there it actually over tops the motherboard just a little bit so the top part like maybe half inch or so is behind the fans and as far as routing the cave if you want really nice neat cable management is a huge pain to try to fit your fingers up there and try to route stuff so you can do it if you guys want to but it might not be a bad yet - you know maybe cut some extra holes on the top of the case maybe move the cooler over just a little bit but overall it's good stuff for memory I'm using 16 gigabytes of Corsair Vengeance ddr3 RAM so this is pretty much some standard stuff so back when I first got I think I paid something like $200 to get it but nowadays you can get 32 gigs for like 150 bucks or even probably cheaper than that right now so it's okay Ram it's really nothing wrong with it but I definitely do plan on upgrading it if only because the blue really sticks out because the whole kind of color scheme with this case is black and white and then you've got like four giant blue heatsinks kind of sticking out which doesn't really look cool to me so I will be definitely replacing this most likely with some corsair dominator ram which looks awesome if you guys have never seen it before got light bars and it's kind of like a silvery kind of finish which looks really cool I think it'll fit well in the build but for now the stuff works fine and if you guys are interested in some cheaper stuff I believe you can probably guess the 60 70 bucks definitely the weak link on my system is the Asus Radeon 68 50 so this is an older graphics card and while it does give you enough performance which is the only reason I haven't really replaced it it's really not meant to be in this bill I mean all the other parts are kind of high-end except the graphics card but again something that I will be replacing the next few months for my main SSD I'm using a 250 gigabyte Samsung 840 pro series drive now I'm a huge fan of Samsung SSDs so I have an 8 30 in another bill which has been ticking away for a while and I have full confidence that it will continue to work for years and years and the 840 pro is the newer and much faster version of that so again two and fifty six gigabytes although I have over provisioned it so it's only about 220 gigabytes usable this is just a little tip and kind of getting a little off topic here if you guys have an SSD it's usually a good idea to give it a little bit more free space as it allows it to do garbage collection and that kind of thing to make sure it does stay nice and speedy so now let's say about it 840 pro is in my opinion pretty much the best normal 2.5 inch SSD out there right now it's also backed up by a 128 you can go by ocz vertex 3 so this is from my older build and again and so basically what I did was it's just set up as a steam drive right now so all my steam games are loaded up onto the vertex 3 so anytime I want play a game I have that nice fast SSD load times without actually having to use up all the space on my main SSD for storage I have four drives totaling nine terabytes of storage so these are all Western Digital caviar greens except a single high tachi drive and I really do like the caviar greens for data storage like what I'm using them for they tend to run a little bit quieter a little bit cooler and also because they're relatively cheap considering you can get like a three terabyte drive which is the latest drive I put in there about 130 hundred 40 bucks again I don't know the price off the top of my head I will put links in the description but anyway I really do like the caviar green dries for a data storage especially if you do have an SSD for your you know your more important things that you want to get out a little bit faster my power supply is a corsair TX 750 is a good power supply and i've had zero problems with the power supply itself but again this is definitely one of those things that I definitely plan on replacing fairly soon so the big thing is is that the cabling is not really that great looking so you guys take a look you can see a lot of the in the ends of the cables the wrapping didn't go all the way over so you can see some yellow wires poking out which doesn't really look cool at all so that's one of the main reasons why I'm going to do it I've thought about Reese leaving the cables themselves but it's kind of a pain especially considering this isn't a modular power supply so I've got a lot of cables that are gonna be kind of hanging around they're gonna be tucked around anyway so more likely I'll just be replacing this power supply with something hopefully with better cabling for lighting I've added a pair of BitFenix alchemy strips to the top and bottom both in white so I'm not really a big fan of kind of really flashy cases I like to my stuff to be a little bit more understated and since I was going for a black and white color scheme a pair of these white lights look really nice especially when you turn off the lights and look through the window of the case kind of illuminates everything it makes it look really cool now these strips are really nice they just plug into a molex lead to your on from your power supply so it's really nice to kind of tuck them as away and in fact normally you can't even see them with the normal side panel on the case it's a really good stuff they're a little bit pricey but if you want some really high quality lights that have their own adhesive so you just kind of take off the strip put them wherever you want on your build and you're good to go giveaway time so I've teamed up with my friends over h/h Greg who are going to be providing three 100 HH greg gift cards for you guys so again there's gonna be three winners of three different $100 gift cards as you guys can spend on pretty much anything over there including all their awesome electronics they also have something going on where they're giving away lots of really cool stuff including Samsung TVs Galaxy Note tablets home theater systems and even signed Dan Marino gear to enter it super easy all you need to do is go to the link in the description of this video and share the contest so you can do this over several places including Facebook Twitter and Google+ not only does that enter you into winning one of the 3hh great gift cards but it also enters you into the main contest which you win all of the rest of the awesome prizes and on top of that you could also win the grand prize which is a 60-inch Samsung 3d TV the contest is running until February 2nd so hopefully you will be one of the lucky winners anyway that's about it good luck and I'll catch you guys next time