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what's going on guys welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing well today I am building a mid-range workstation PC that's right I said workstation this is not a gaming rig so we're switching things up a little bit but it is for a purpose this is actually going to be a system for my beloved father-in-law and cousin who happen to work together at their family-owned machine shop where they do a lot of 3d modeling rendering AutoCAD and all that sort of stuff and their current system right now is is just a hot piece of garbage quite frankly I think they're still using integrated graphics it's a prebuilt it must be five plus years old if that's any indication that it's time for an upgrade so hopefully this new system will speed up their overall workflow and productivity so getting right into single talked about the CPU choice first I went with an AMD rising 5 1600 and I went with rising over Intel because we talked about Intel I mean what it will do you got some mainstream options which is like Katie Lake for example but you only get four cores and up to eight threads that's if you're spending over $300 for 7700 or 7700 K but with Rison AMD has has offered us a lot of mid-range options with a quite affordable that still rock a pretty high corn thread count so here we have again the 1600 has six cores and twelve threads I should also mention there's a software that my father-in-law and cousin use at the machine shop is Autodesk fusion 360 which I looked it up does utilize multiple cores and thread so it can take advantage of hyper threading so I feel like this was a great bang for the buck option is just around 2 to 2 200 to 210 dollars the 1600 is just an amazing price to performance chip that is again about $100 cheaper than the mainstream desktop CPU from Intel and the save a bit of cash we're going to be using the r8 spire cooler that came included with our CPU here because it's a fantastic little stock cooler never thought I'd say that but there you have it and as far as the motherboard goes we're going be 350 because who needs x3 70 in a system like this even though we are using a gaming oriented motherboard from gigabyte this is the a be 350 gaming free so it's got you know like the fancy keep saying it's got fancy heat sinks on the DRM and the chipset but it's still only about 110 dollars it's fairly budget oriented and it has just a ton of connectivity more than enough for what we need today it's also one of these I think it is the only part that I'm contributing to this bill just because I had it longer I don't really have much use for at this point so you probably could find a cheaper motherboard that would get the job done for what they need it for but since I already have this around might as well give it a proper home for memory we've got a 16 gigabyte kit of Corsair Vengeance lvx this is 2 by 8 gig sticks of course at 21 33 megahertz oh no wait actually this is not right what are you doing here I did not mean to put a 21 33 megahertz kit along with our Rison system here so here we have some modules that are 32 hundred megahertz users and g.skill ripjaws five and still the same 16 gigabyte capacity to buy eight gig sticks we're going to be swapping that in instead now for our graphics card I opted for a workstation GPU just because it's got a little bit more driver implementation that's optimized for workstation applications this is the nvidia quadro 4000 not the P 4000 that's that's much more expensive than this one and it's a reverse switch which is why it has no packaging the fans a little bit dusty even cleaning that later now it's true that gaming cards can sometimes work adequately in the 3d modeling software but just to be safe and err on the side of caution I wanted something that was guaranteed to work smoothly with what they're using this for and when you think about gaming cards I mean they're really more tailored for performance trying to render as many frames as possible at the expense of absolute precision when it comes to calculating and doing all the maths that's required for workstations applications so that's why we're going to go with the Quadro 400 if you guys were curious it's about a $200 cards refurbished at least I'm not sure what the MSRP is on it new if you can even find many of those because this is an older architecture this is actually based on Fermi from good ol Nvidia so yeah there's that but at the end of the day the different requirements for fusion 360 aren't too heavy and I feel like if they were able to scrape by even with integrated graphics that this is just going to make their system fly in comparison at least for the next few years definitely powering the system we've got an EVGA 500 Watts just 500 Watts there's no real brand name because the budget cheapy power supply but it is 80 plus certified and it's pretty much where the features end it's not modular it doesn't have fancy looking black cables or anything like that but all we really care about here is a unit that will power our system safely without blowing up a few weeks down the line for storage we've got an SSD plus this is a sand 240 gig SSD just a regular old SATA drive we've got the 3.5 inch form factor I'm sorry 2.5 inch form factor of course and nothing fancy it's a fairly budget drive however it's going to be loads faster than any mechanical drive sitting next to it speaking of which we've got a 500 gig if you get Barracuda this is a cute little Q and a half inch form factor I don't know III wasn't really expecting it to be the size but that's how it came and I accept hard drives of all shapes and sizes I'm not going to discriminate so that should be a pretty nice bowl set up there by the way this is going to be for the boot drive I don't know if I mentioned that and then finally our chassis that we're going to be fitting all this in this is actually what I'm most excited about is to build inside of the Focus G from fractal design this is one of their brand new budget cases I think the MSRP is only like 50 bucks or something but it looks pretty nice for 50 dollars and I really like kind of like the white it's got a large side panel window which you don't see too often on budget cases at that price point and radiator support as well at the front top and back I believe tons of airflow at the front as well you get two included 120 millimeter fans they are white LED we'll be able to see those powered on later of course and there is probably a bunch of other features in there that I don't talk about right now but those are all the parts guys you can find links to any of this stuff in the description below and on that note I'm going to go ahead and clear the table and we can get to building this thing one two three go t go I was kind of sad when you do it by yourself Parappa prepare here she has guys all built from the ground up the process was very straightforward everything went very smoothly inside of the Focus G here some fractals beat and yeah it looks pretty nice I mean yeah obviously colors are a bit mismatched or whatever we weren't going for aesthetics that being said I think it's still like a handsome-looking rig I do say so myself and by the way a shout-out to wifey sauce my wife for helping me build this system you guys probably caught some of her in the time lapse so she did a great job everything looks really nice and tidy I helped of course some of the cable management at the end but yeah looking good as far as just you know sort of feedback on building inside of this chassis I mean for 50 bucks it was a pretty smooth ride overall I feel like all the all the cutouts the cable cutouts are are sensible they're wide enough for pretty much routing everything you need and you've got some at the top there for your obligatory eight pin EPS for the CPU 24 pin a lot of good routing options there the back is well there's actually quite a bit of space there's not a ton that you would find like on a higher-end case but there is enough to route pretty much all of our cables again we were using a non modular power supply you're still able to route even our unused cables back there I was at one point I was just assuming that I would have to group all the the reject cables that we weren't using right here but I was actually able to browse them behind and tuck them away it was a five and a quarter inch because so uses those anymore there's even a few tie-down points behind there to keep things all nice and tidy airflow is is coming in pretty strong fans are quiet by the way it's kind of the what it looks like those white LED fans but the front is completely meshed so you're getting tons of airflow from the front there go into the graphics card by the way also it's a pretty spacious it's pretty cavernous inside for being a relatively slim chassis so you know that's nice you get full graphics card support for whatever length I think 165 millimeters for high clearance on the CPU cooler so pretty much any tower that you want to fit in here for the most part and power supply clearance is obviously pretty stellar as well so overall dig in this case there are a couple critiques though I guess going back to the cable management the little cut out underneath the motherboard for you know presumably your HD audio is a little small unless you remove the power supply so we actually had to uninstall the power supply to get that HD audio connector through but that's a minor gripe the power supply dust filter at the bottom is hot garbage IMO because just one of those super flimsy ones are kind of a pain in the ass but fortunately you don't need to replace those or you know service that too often but yeah I would have liked to see maybe a rear fan again this is a fifty dollar case so I can't really complain too much but you know if you wanted to just sort of aid in the airflow path here you might want to install a 120 it's a back but overall ladies and gentlemen this is a pretty sweet-looking mid-range to budget workstation the system so hopefully it serves my father-in-law and cousin well speeds up their workflow and all that jazz but that is pretty much gonna do it for now guys so thank you so much for tuning in and let me know what you think of this workstation if you've built a workstation put you know primarily for you there editing or 3d modeling or whatever feel free to share your experience with the class in the comments below otherwise feel free to toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it you can also check out the with ultra my ad free early access channel for a buck 30 a months the first two weeks are completely free and you can back out any frigging time as always i'm khaled would thank you guys so much for watching i know this video is a little short i've got a best friend's bachelor party to go to this weekend which means you know social life equals less time for youtube which you know is always kind of a conflicting battle inside but I digress so on that note I'm going to get the heck out of here have a good one guys I love you all so much and until next time I'll see you in the next video