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what's up guys welcome back to the channel today we are assembling January's PC of the month the long-awaited rig that I've been promising you guys all month sorry it's a little bit late it's almost February now but I did get backed up after CES and all that stuff so it's finally here though in the flesh I've got all the parts behind me very exciting stuff this is going to be a high-end z2 70 gaming machine so we're going to be able to pump out some pretty decent frame rates at hyper 1080 resolutions I wouldn't say 4k 60 on all the games I would say some some of the games definitely yes but for the most part what we're looking at here is quad HD and ultra wide resolutions is pretty much your sweet spot and we'll be able to push over 6 well over 60 fps at those resolutions which is exciting to say the least now if you guys are new to my PC of the month series it's basically a two part video where as the name suggests every month I build a full-blown system that's centered around a use case scenario and/or budget and in part one of the series which is what you're watching now for this rig I basically go over all the parts that I'm using give a little explanation and then we kick it off with a nice time-lapse assembly you can watch me build the damn thing I look all super fast and there's cool music in the background makes me look awesome and then we finish that off with some sexy b-roll in part 2 which should probably come within a week or two after this upload is when we'll really dive into the testing that includes overclocking gaming benchmarks and we'll we also be looking at things like acoustics and temperature so be sure to stay tuned for that but on that note why don't we go ahead and take a look at the parts that we're using for this high-end Z 270 gaming machine so take a look at our case first this is the fantex enthu pro m mid tower chassis 420 bucks MSRP this is a pretty freakin sweet deal here I did opt for the tempered glass side panel version and here it is don't be fooled by the box don't be fooled by the box I think they just use the same acrylic design for all their models but if it is an acrylic panel and I pull this thing out I will legit inside of this case you guys know I'm prone to doing that too but sorry also for forgive via the nasty grease stains on the box there's some weird grease issues going on in the back of my trunk in my car don't ask but this thing does have some pretty awesome radiator support as well 360 on the top or the front right we're not gonna be putting a 360 in this thing today but you do have that option available to you there's also plenty of custom water cooling support and things like that additionally we've got our CPU of the hour I 777 hundred K from Intel's as part of their seventh generation KB Lake family that is their flagship model within that lineup and it's an overclocker it's an overclocked beast you can push this thing all the way up to five gigahertz and then some if you know what you're doing and you have the proper cooling in place so I'm really excited to be using this again I've been using it quite a bit on the channel I'm not tired of it quite yet so that's going to be having to be cool though pre pretty significantly by a decent liquid cooler here so we have the kraken X 62 from NZXT it's a 280 millimeter rad so I thought you know what the hell I've been doing a lot of 240 millimeter rads lately and this thing is such a damn heat monster does get pretty hot when you're overclocking it to the extreme so two hundred eighty millimeters should give us just a bit more room for thermal Headroom and things like that some more participation than then we might ordinarily have on a 240 ret also we've got our memory kit here our Rams our Ram stuff the rich jaws 5 from J scale this is a 16 gigabyte kit of ddr4 of course at 16 no no wow 1600 what is this was a freaking Sandy Bridge video no this is 3000 megahertz Gio it's freaking 2017 this is the RAM kits can be paired with this motherboard this is also a beast of a motherboard this is the Asus tough Z 270 mark 1 and when AC sent this to me I immediately opened it up in the liquor shall wing yo-yo give me a straight up chub and you know features Asus or a sink and all that stuff it's got thermal armor which is very unique feature to the tough series of motherboards and yeah should be should be pretty kick-ass I think it's going to look really sick in the empty pro-am now the graphics card we're using for this build is basically our bread and butter for this whole system it is the star of the show for the most parts of the EVGA GTX 1080 hybrid which says most of you guys know features a built-in 120 millimeter liquid a i/o unit on top of it integrated pump and all that stuff so it's good to go it's completely water cooled out of the box and base clock of 1860 megahertz I believe you know you got the typical 8 gigs of gddr5 X memory and all that good stuff we already of course it will totally crush anything vr related for sure you can probably even do like I said earlier maybe some 4k 60 gaming depending on the game but it's going to just haul ass in our tests I can't wait to actually get this thing in the system I've never I've never tried out one of these firsthand so this is going to be another first for me looking forward to seeing what kind of over clocks we can hit on it and what kind of frame rates that will yield we've also got some really nice storage options for today's build this is the hellfire nvme SSD MDOT to derive from patriot the 480 gig model so we'll have plenty of storage for our operating system which will be Windows 10 64 bit of course as well as all of our games and applications I mean I would say all of our games but there's definitely a lot of room here to install at least a couple Triple A games for really fast loading times and getting into your games in your Maps very quickly there's also two 2.5 gigabytes a second I believe for for reads and 1.2 gigabytes there about a second for write so very fast indeed it's got a slice in five zero zero seven controller I believe which just sounds fast and badass and I'm sure it is going to be plenty fast for our needs today we've also got a one terabyte where are you a one terabyte WD black I thought I had a 2 terabyte on me but I don't apparently they're going to using this 1 terabyte today let it be known that if this is my personal build I would have definitely upgraded this to a 2 terabyte hard drive just because I've got quite a few games nowadays and they're getting bigger and bigger ever dice so but that's going to be plenty fine for for this build we've also got the EVGA supernova 650 watt g2 fully modular fully modular I can't talk any more fully module take a breath Cal fully modular units 80 plus gold certified very good certification rating that tons of efficiency and all that jazz got a really nice warranty I believe as well fans we're going to be installing from the third-party fans here from course share this is their ML 140 pros we've got four of them to deal with the two I work with today I should say nothing else we've got to deal with these fans these are they're they're very nice magnetic levitation fans that I did get to check out at Computex last year I hear that they're pretty quiet and the really nice thing is that they're kind of balanced for airflow and static pressure so you can either use them as case fans or radiator fans so depending on how things are looking I might actually slap some of these on to the crack and x60 to not just because you know not that I don't have any faith in the NZXT fans or anything but just maybe to give it a little bit more of a personal touch to customise it a bit and maybe maybe this will be a little bit quieter I'm not sure we'll test it out and stuff I also really like the way they look so it is a bit of an aesthetic thing for me as well less but not least we've got the err that uga power link power link I don't know if you guys are familiar with this Jade did a really good video on it it's uh it's really cool little little unit that you can actually attach to the front or the PCIe connectors of your graphics card and allows you to plug in your cables from the side of the graphics card instead of the front just give it a nice clean look overall the front of this thing looks really really slick and I will be using that it's in tandem today with these fantex pre sleeve cables in black the 24 pin is not shown right now but I will be using that as well I think the power link is going to be cool especially since I've never used it before pretty excited to be using all of that so on that note guys I think those are all the parts that I miss anything no look looks looks pretty good so now you can just sit back relax and enjoy the time-lapse as I assemble this collection of badassery here we go Oh all right so here she is folks whoo looking good I must say holy moley by the way I'm going handheld now so forgive any shakiness that may occur but this is looking pretty sweet I'm really happy with how this turned out the one thing that I'll say is sticking out right now is the orange LED on the motherboard here on the tough motherboard but that is RGB so once we load up Windows 10 we can jump into the software and you could disable it or change it to white something that's a bit more matchy-matchy but apart from that looking pretty good really loving how the fans turned out as well how they look pretty sweet in this chassis with everything else the one thing that will said that you might have noticed there were a couple changes that I made along the way during the time lapse that were not addressed at the beginning of the video first of which was the ramp so instead of using the rip jobs of four or sorry rip jobs five g-scale I swapped those up from some dumb class and course share also a 16 gigabyte kit at 3,000 megahertz but I just felt that there was nothing silver in the build to match the the silver accent on the GPU shroud here so I wanted to kind of make it a bit more cohesive so this is mainly just for aesthetic purposes I threw it a bit more silver into the build overall and I think it was a good choice I'm happy with that decision because I think it just ties everything together a little bit nicer so yeah that was that was one thing the other thing is uh I can address the the radiator configuration here and how I set that up so I got the CPU a IO which is at the front of the case as an intake this is in push-pull so I've got the the stock ng XP fans on the front that you can't really see then I've got the two of the ML 140 s right there we're even fresh air into the chassis and then we've also got the the GPU AO which is mounted to the back of the case as an exhaust now one concern I might have when I was looking at this after I built it with if there's if the fuel exhaust fans appear that ml 140 is a pop are going to be stealing any airflow from the from the radiator back here for a GPU so as air comes in I'm hoping that it doesn't get sucked up and exhausted before it ever reaches the red and I'm going to be doing some testing on that perhaps in part two of this video or maybe it's worth a standalone video maybe I won't include it in part two and I'll just do a separate video on it altogether let me know what you guys think so the other thing I wanted to mention is the hard drive I completely overlooked the fact that if you're installing a 280 rad at the front of this case then you lose pretty much you have to uninstall the hard drive cage that's down there which which houses two three and a half inch mechanicals natively so I had to remove that and I was like where do I put my mechanical drive so what I ended up doing was just mounting it by chance there's happened to be two slots at the bottom of the case for for mounting a pump that's where your pump mount would go for custom water cooling it's not meant for hard drives at all but somehow I managed to get two screws in there and kind of bolt it down however I wasn't able to get the the whatchamacallit but the hard drive completely flush with the bottom of the chassis because there were four those SSD screws basically for these things for these bad boys because you can mount the SSD tray if you're here or at the bottom of the case or behind the motherboard so there was a quad of those at the bottom of the case so the hard drive is actually resting on top of it which looks a little awkward but it actually kind of worked out because it's still really stable and it also kind of provides just a little bit of lift at the end of that hard drive so it's a bit easier to connect like the SATA cables and stuff like that so I'm pretty happy with how that turned out I don't think it's too big of an issue but apart from that it's looking pretty good the only thing you can't really see apart from the hard drive is the SSD the m2 Patriot hell fire in there but it went in like a champ went in like a charm and you kind of covered up by the shroud that's on the test motherboard but I think that's that's pretty much all I want to say this is a pretty solid build that went very smoothly of course of course there's like any build there's a couple workarounds that you have to kind of improvise with but I'm very satisfied with its overall you guys let me know what you think about it in the comments and if you think you're it let me know if it's a refreshing change to see a system that's not just riddled with RGB LEDs because I'm pretty I'm pretty sick of that for at least for a while but that is going to do it for now guys I didn't really plan out how I was going to frame the shot so I'm kind of like crouching right now awkward camera angle hopefully if you'll forgive me and it's also a little bright when we turn that down yeah yeah but that's going to do it for now guys thank you very much for watching and also thanks to my sponsors who stuff this up D scale is not a sponsored by the way so I didn't like victim over by swapping in the corsair module just in case you were wondering but that's going to do it now talk to me like and all that jazz subscribe to the channel if you haven't already part 2 coming very soon I promise I will get around to that sooner than I did with this initial part 1 and February is around the corner so stay tuned for February can see the month as well on top of all the other tech stuff that I've got going on on the channel I love you guys I don't want to go right now just I'm gonna miss you so much I mean I'm kidding bye guys