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hey guys this is Austin say hello to the positron with the absolute best bang for the buck graphics card out there a quad core processor and top-notch SSD all wrapped up in one of my favorite new cases the positron is definitely the little brother of the four thousand dollar electron for a full ATX chassis it's actually fairly small but take a look inside there's plenty of room for future upgrades with the white and black color scheme a few hints of blue here and there and a big window to show the entire build off the positron looks like no other PC out there it's got the performance to back it up to well you can definitely play games at 1080p with the positron what it's really aimed at is Max and games out at 1440p jump into grid Autosport one of my favorite racing games on PC and even on Ultra settings at 1440p you'll still be pulling in just under 90 frames per second move over to Battlefield 4 and we're still getting rock-solid performance with 56 FPS at 1440p Metro last light Redux is an upgraded version of the already excellent last light and here we're still getting over 54 frames per second on very high settings a new addition to my benchmarks is Middle Earth shadow of Mordor a game that's not only quite a bit of fun but it also looks fantastic with the optional ultra texture pack installed the positron is still capable of a framerate in the mid 50s powering everything is an Intel Core i5 4460 CPU for around 200 hours this is the best processor out there with a quad core design based on Intel's Haswell architecture it might only be clocked at 3.2 gigahertz but don't let that fool you this packs a serious punch and can easily keep up with our graphics card the real heart of the build is the EVGA gtx 970 with 40 gigabytes of memory and Nvidia is excellent new GM 204 GPU under the hood this outperforms most of the highest-end cards out there at a far more reasonable 350 dollars a big chunk of our budget is spent on the 970 and it is 100% worth it not only can easily handle 1440p gaming but it's not even that power-hungry it's kind of insane to think that you can get a graphics card this powerful and $1000 build for the motherboard we've got an MSI h97 guard pro this is a full ATX board with support for CPUs up to a core i7 6 SATA 3 ports as well as an m2 slot for an onboard SSD along with 6 USB ports on the back panel including 4 USB 3.0 on the memory side the positron is using a gigabytes of Corsair Vengeance Ram clocked at 16 megahertz this is really all you need for gaming right now and while I'm usually not a fan of big heatsinks the blue nicely matches the rest of the bill on top of that you can easily add another eight gigabytes of RAM to the positron if you ever want to upgrade an SSD is a must for a build like this so we've got a 256 gigabyte crucial m X 100 these are my favorite SSDs at the moment not only are they about as fast as it gets for a SATA Drive but the fact that you can pick up a 256 gigabyte SSD for around $100 it's hard to argue with like the memory you can also easily add another MX 100 if you really want to go overkill on the SSDs we've also got a one terabyte Western Digital blue hard drive while SSDs are perfect for installing windows and your programs on a hard drive makes a lot of sense for storing your normal files and it can be nicely hidden away in the basement of the case for the power supply the positron uses a 600 watt corsair CX 600 I use CX series supplies in my builds all the time because they're dead reliable and can easily handle even a powerful build like this this also goes into the basement of the case it attaches to the bracket and slides in to be completely hidden to put this all together we've got the NZXT s340 unlike normal ATX cases it ditches the front mounted drive cages which shortens the chassis as well as lets you show off all of your parts with the built in window the SSD mounts nicely show off your drives and the cable management is outstanding for a case of this price point you can get it in white or black but I think the white really pops with the black interior and top panel with dual USB 3.0 now if you thought I'd like the GTX 970 well you would be right but I also really like the s3 40 in 60 really nailed the balance between price performance and looks the positron is hands-down my favorite build I've ever done not only does it look awesome but being able to max games at 1440p at nearly 60 frames per second is insane for $1000 as always I'll have links to all the parts I use in the description over on my website so definitely go check it out anyway I've got to give a big shout out to Squarespace for making this video possible Squarespace is the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website or online store I've been recommending Squarespace for a long time because it really is dead simple there's no need to learn how to code or anything like that works there are tons of great-looking templates 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