Gadgetory


All Cool Mind-blowing Gadgets You Love in One Place

1440p BUDGET GAMING RIG! April PC of the Month pt. 1

2017-05-05
oh hey Chris how is the co enough to be a brutal man I don't know something snapped off and it's just hurting yikes sorry about that hey you know some dogs sort of look like their owners what a Pacemakers share the same traits as their cases that's ridiculous no it kind of works right I mean because like the peer-based 600 is cool right and you're arguably cool right the case is super quiet and you've always been on the soft-spoken side yeah think it's totally true actually there's one more thing we have in common what's that well after the colonoscopy I think girls or supportively 16-millimeter radiator that like include push-pull or the pure base 604 be quiet offers a tempered glass side panel sound damping material and a highly versatile design chips with a pair of powerful peer wings two fans and intentional support for 360 radiators click the link in the description for more info what's cracking people welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing well today I'll be assembling April's PC of the month sorry I'm a little bit late on this but it should be a pretty killer system we've got an eight hundred and fifty dollar budget risin v gaming PC I guess it could also be a streaming PC or really you could use it for anything that the hardware will allow which as you're about to see is quite a bit I'm pretty stoked about the price point today I think staying well under a thousand bucks puts this rig well within reach for a lot of us budget gamers and builders out there of course if you were looking for something a bit more high-end go ahead and check out the recent rising bill that I did including a gtx 1080p eye and an 1800 x but on that note slate and gentlemen let's go ahead and take a look at the parts will be using for today's build all right look at this i'm on a tripod today really moving on up in the world getting fancy figured you guys would appreciate it want it to be with my shakey cam chronicles like you usually do but let's take a look first at our cpu here and there was a lot of debates and internal struggle that i was dealing with when choosing horizon parts and eventually i settled on this Rison v 1600 i almost went with the 1600 x but i figured this is the better value considering our tight budget honestly you're still getting six cores 12 thread it's going to be great for for multi-threaded applications of course as well as gaming especially since I'm targeting this build to to really gain and shine best at 2560 by 1440 you can definitely get away with that we'll talk more about that later but I think the 1600 is is a good call it's a 65 watt TDP part so we don't really need too much cooling power and with the included race spire which you can check out my full review of in the top right corner of the screen if you haven't seen that yet I think we're going to be saving quite a bit of cash this way so that we can actually dump it into other more important parts in our computer but I think it's also going to overclock fairly well on our motherboard here which is the Asus Prime let me go ahead and move this guy out of the way the ACS Prime be 350 plus I've actually been using this board quite a bit ever since the launch of Verizon mainly just for testing and stuff and I've actually really liked it so far it overclocks well enough and just as well as like an X 370 board or at least the ones that I've tried it with and the memory compatibility is actually pretty solid ever since ASA started rolling out those BIOS updates we've been able to hit some nice 3200 mega Hertz on on various kits including this Ripjaws v 16 gigabyte kit this is g.skill memory and it's totally good stuff ddr4 3200 megahertz so we're going to be running it at that rated speed which I'm very confident that we can hit no problem and we've also got a 1 terabyte Seagate Barracuda for our only storage drive I know you guys are going to kill me Kyle how could you not include an SSD in this build I can already feel the riots brewing in the comments but guys with 850 bucks to spare I really wanted to squeeze every last ounce of performance out of our our gaming PC here which really I had to tribute that money or distribute that money to to like a CPU the video card and I didn't really want to cut corners in those areas so what it ended up what ended up happening was I cut corners with our storage but that's ok I think because an SSD is super easy to upgrade later down the line if you just want to drop one in and migrate your OS and other applications on to it should be pretty pretty pretty straightforward but I will say if you guys are building something similar to the build that you see here and you have an extra you know hundred bucks or so to spare I would highly recommend getting an SSD in the 250 gig capacity for your operating system because it will in fact make your system run a bit zippier actually much zippier but for the purpose of today's video I think the 7200 rpm mechanical will do the job just fine for now moving on to our power supply we've got a 550 watts EVGA units this is just a very generic sort of budget oriented power supply here and I actually thought when I purchased it that it was 80 plus certified at least 80 plus bronze it's not there's no 80 plus rating on it which is kind of strange but I'm still fairly confident that it should be okay for our needs so I mean you can expect maybe 75% or so efficiency as opposed to 80 plus see what I did there but honestly we've got a low tbp part here for our CPU even if we overclock it I think that's not going to draw too much power at all and we've also got a fairly power efficient video card here from AMD the brand new rx 580 this in particular is the power color red devil comes factory overclocked with a bit more headroom but the RX 580 which just launched but from AMD not too long ago is quite a bit more power efficient as well then the R X 480 even though it's using the same Polaris 10 GPU in there we should be able to get away with you know an on 80 plus certified to power supply at least I would hope for hope so hopefully this bill doesn't melt or incinerate by the end of it all let me go ahead and adjust the camera angle shaky cam chronicles are back again whoo and finally we've got our case of the hour this is the spec alpha from Corsair as part of the carbide series it's only about 75 80 bucks a super budget oriented case great for a build like this and a lot of you guys have actually been requesting that I do a build in this chassis which I was like wow yeah there's enough requests for then I will so here it is this is going to be my first time building in it personally so I've I'm not sure what to expect I haven't really seen a full review of it yet it's been more or less well received from what I understand but it's always different and nice to just experience it yourself firsthand so looking forward to building in this sucker today hopefully it doesn't give me too many problems but those my friends are all the parts for today's build overall I'm very excited to put it together I think the end result is going to be glorious so let's go ahead and kick it off to a quick time-lapse and get to building but okay guys here's the finished build and she's looking pretty good actually for the budget we had to work with I'm pretty impressed how we were able to color match as well as we did there's really no color clashing drama going on apart from maybe the green sticker on the hard drive but fortunately that's tucked away in the drive cage so you can't really see it too much you guys may have noticed that I peel the sticker off of the power supply during the time lapse only to reveal a manufacturing flaw underneath which is kind of a bummer it looks like some sort of blemish or or paint got on there before they put the sticker on whatever it's just a cosmetic affair no big deal cable management in the spec alpha wasn't terrible it wasn't great either at first I thought it was going to be really rough because there's hardly any room from first glance behind the motherboard tray and then you realize quickly that the the backside panel actually is indented so it does give you some extra space there but sort of minimal with the tie-down points I wish there was a few more of those and the included zip ties with this case are just just too short they're way too shorts of course they're maybe make them a little bit longer for next time one thing I ought to mention is that there's actually no cable routing hole near the 8 pin CPU connector so that means I had to route the cable all the way across the vrm across the entire motherboard and through the same hole that I routed the 24 pin ATX cable which kind of looks a bit silly fortunately but the power supply cables are black but if they weren't God that would though just look horrendous so also something to be aware of if you're going to be going this route with this case there's also you know you can sort of see the the cables coming through the the right side of the motherboard tray there so it doesn't look the cleanest I could have spent a bit more time tidying that up and making sure that they're not visible from this side of the case but that's at a time that I didn't really want to spend over although I'm pretty happy with how this turned out I kind of like how the fans are and you know have red LEDs them it sort of illuminates just the right side of the case just a bit gives us a bit of glow without having to buy some LEDs but overall very happy with how this turned out stay tuned for part two where we do a full analysis we do all the benchmarks overclocking acoustics and thermals and that sort of thing so it should be very fun but guys let me know what you think of this build eight hundred and fifty bucks we can I know for sure we can definitely do 2560 by 1440 gaming with the majority of titles at pretty decent settings but let me know what you guys think if this is a good value if you like the parts list for for this month and yeah love to hear your feedback as always thank you very much toss me I like on the video if you enjoyed it also feel free to subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff come at you really soon and check out bit with ultra might add free early access channel for just a dollar fifty a month first two weeks are completely free you can back out any time have a going guys thank you so much for watching once again I'm Cal bit wit and until next time I'll see you guys in the next video
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.