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what's up guys welcome back to the channel today we are putting together yet another PC build of the month this time around it's gonna be an HT PC or home theater PC it's gonna be for a family friend his name is Ron and he is my mother-in-law's boyfriend he works for LAPD he's a really solid dude stand-up guy he'll never give me a ticket cuz he knows me he actually confronted me the other day and I could tell there was some sadness in his eyes like Ron you look troubled man what's bothering and he said kow just I don't know I feel like there's something missing in my life and I was like HTPC and he was like yes yes so after I helped Ron have this epiphany we immediately started talking about what kind of parts he might use for an htpc of his own and what we found was well it's all back there where let me go check it out now really quick before we dive into the parts here I did want to mention this even though it's fairly obvious that run is going to be using this PC for home theater needs such as Netflix Amazon Hulu you know media streaming and things like that browsing YouTube and whatnot he's not going to be gaming much but more on that in a bit all right so for starters the case that we're building in today is the node 202 from fractal design and if you guys watch the channel often you've probably seen me do a build or two in this chassis before first of which was my dad's PC and the second one was the go anywhere do anything rig and I think it's just a really great HTPC chassis especially because it's got a super slim profile and it can be oriented either vertically or horizontally so depending on how much room or what kind of configuration you have in your entertainment center at home it can really fit pretty much anywhere which is really nice it also comes included with an Integra sfx 450 watt power supply which isn't modular or anything but it's small form-factor it is 80 bronze plus certification certified I should say which is also nice to see it's got two USB 3.0 ports at the front which should be very convenient for a home theater PC and it does actually have some decent ventilation for a smaller case and it does have a full slot for a graphics card up to like 10 or 11 inches or something like that so even though runs I can be doing any gaming if he did want to do some gaming he could swap out the video card that I'm giving him for a more sizable one in the future if he wants to get his game out for our CPU we've got the core i5 6500 from Intel and obviously this is a lock skew so no overclocking here but Ron's not really a super hardcore tech enthusiast and he really has no interest or need to overclock anyway so this is a good way to save some cash while still delivering a decent amount of performance here on our 1151 skylake platform we've also got a pretty decent cooler here actually I've just been told that it's decent I've never used this cooler before but I have used a cry or a cooler the h7 this is the c7 this is the low profile version and it is supposed to be pretty damn good for the price it's on Amazon right now for about 30 bucks and there aren't that many great options in terms of low profile super low profile coolers because I think the limit on the the height clearance for the no.2 is like 50 something millimeters but this one is like 47 or something like that however this cooler for the price is known to deliver a decent amount of thermal dissipation for a chip like the core i5 6500 there now over here we have these z170 and Wi-Fi from gigabyte and as you can tell from the name it does feature Wi-Fi which is really handy especially because I don't know exactly know what kind of setup Ranas going to have it as home if he's gonna be able to directly connect it via ethernet or if he might actually need to use a wireless connection so it's nice to have that super convenient for small form-factor builds also what's the point of really going z170 if we have a lock skew processor we might as well save some change and go with h1 70 it's a bit cheaper no no supporting for no support for overclocking but like I said we're not really going to need it for this system so that's that's a good option there also we've got 8 gigs of ram this is HyperX theory ddr4 of course let me see what the speed is here the speed zoom in cow but probably 1866 or something similar this is only like 34 35 bucks on Amazon so I can't imagine it's like super fast or anything but obviously going to get the job done no problem for storage we have VP NYC s1 3 1 1 SSD 480 gigs now this is the only drive that's going in wrong system today and the reason why that is is because he's also planning on picking up a WD my cloud and a s or network attached storage I don't know why I called it na s that sounds really weird it's an ass it's an ass yeah so he's really not going to need too much internal storage other than this 480 gig drive which i think is going to be plenty even if he were to potentially game in the future as unlikely that might be he still has some room there as well on his boot drive so with with that said we let's move on to the graphics cards now I did say that Ron is not a gamer he does not game at all he might game in the future but I just wanted to get situated and make sure that he's got all the horsepower that he might need for the future so just future proofing here we've got two gtx 1080s the reason why we have two of them obviously they won't fit in the note 202 is because I simply just want your guys's opinion of which one I should give him so there's the EVGA for the win gtx 1080 and we've got the gaming ex from msi both of them are eight gigabyte models so eight gigs of gddr5 ex and I am totally messing with you because I am actually going to be putting in this gtx 750ti I would never give Ron a GTX 1080 you guys oh I got you I got you good oh I would have loved to see the look on your faces Oh Kyle such a troll such a troll but yeah I'm totally bullshitting I'm going with this card this is the like I said the gtx 750ti this is a black edition from gigabyte this is actually the car that I used in my htpc back in the day maybe a two years ago or so but it's got it's got it's got some really decent performance if Ron ever wanted to do some like light 1080 gaming you know at high to medium quality settings I'm pretty sure that this would handle it no problem so I think it's going to be it's going to serve him well for his needs for sure obviously it can handle like all the HTTP C stuff and even some gaming in the future as well but those are all the parts that we will be using actually not those let me put these back on my shelf and in case you guys were curious the total cost of this build came out to around 650 bucks on Amazon at the time of filming this video but that does not include the complimentary gtx 750ti that i am giving him out of the kindness of my heart I'm just such a nice person if you were to pick one of these up used on eBay it's probably gonna cost you about a hundred bucks or so so if you want to factor that into the build maybe you're looking at 750 ad in a copy a license of Windows than maybe an $850 HTPC but again it's going to be really really super fast and last him for a long long time so on that note I can see myself in the reflection of the monitor which means I clearly did not plan out this video as well as I should have so let's just ignore that for now and build this computer you Oh Roy here's the boot oh excuse me the cooler it's pretty quiet you can you can hear it a little bit but Windows doesn't installed yet and I haven't tweaked the fan curb or anything like that but it looks like it's moving some air can kind of feel to feel some of the air going through and you know cable management is always kind of the bane of small form-factor cases like this one but I've built in the node 202 enough times to kind of just get a feel for where the cable should go and so you can see I've kind of got them routed in between the power supply and the motherboard at least our eight pin EPS and actually I guess 4 pin EPS was only a 4 pin that CPU connector on the motherboard and our 24 pin ATX they're just kind of routed between this canal here between those components and then we've got it all tied down right down there so it's not it's not bouncing around or anything I was very happy with how this turned out there's plenty of room for activities right around here if Ron wanted to he could install a 120 millimeter intake fan right here or exhaust who knows and even one below the video card as well however I don't think he's going to be putting much of a load on this thing considering he's not really gaming at all but in the off chance that he does decide the game later down the line he will have that option to include a bit more airflow the SSD went in no problem it's just chilling there right now oh and I just while I was building I realized that this motherboard has an m2 slot behind it and I'm pretty sure it's just a SATA slot but that's still pretty cool for for being like a little h1 70 board I was pretty surprised to find that I'm about to slot especially because if Ron wanted to upgrade his storage capacity in the future or add another drive later down the line even if he doesn't know a damn thing about computers or building them he can still install an MDOT to drive relatively easy without much guidance so that's that's really convenient for him and I think that's pretty much it y'all pretty solid system let me know what you guys think about this HTPC in the comments below and toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it this has been the PC build for the month of August I'm Kyle with awesomesauce Network thank you guys for watching subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon and I will see you all in the next video