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FINALLY benchmarking the $850 GAMING PC! (April PC of the Month pt. 2)

2017-06-30
hi what anything no oh the next stuff cool it makes stuff cool whoa that that's not supposed to happen yeah hey where's right I need this this isn't good you know it's fine it's just a little wardrobe malfunction nothing we can't handle where the heck did this Corvette come from the does he even have a life no he does not we spray put this somewhere say you're still with the Celsius line of all-in-one liquid coolers from fractal design it's easy to stay cool click on the link in the description for more info what's going on guys welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing well so I got to fess up to something back in April I built this fantastic machine this was April's PC of the monthly budget 1440p gaming rig for eight hundred and fifty dollars but unlike most other PC of the months I did not follow through with a part to giving you guys the full look at all the gaming benchmarks thermals acoustics and all that jazz so yeah that was that was my bad I'm sorry the some of you guys have been waiting on that for so long I kind of got swept up with the Hawaii trip I took with my family then Computex right afterwards it's just been complete madness for the last couple months so finally the dust is settled and I can now give you guys some performance numbers on this PC so you can go ahead and watch the build video on that if you haven't seen it yet but just as a quick refresher we are rockin arisin v 1600 processor that's a 6 for 12 thread part which I have overclocked for this test to 3.9 gigahertz on all cores that's running stable at the stock voltage I didn't touch the vcore anything 3.9 gigahertz guys so that's fantastic along with 16 gigs of g.skill ripjaws v ddr4 and 32 hundred megahertz rated but unfortunately even with the latest bios update i was only able to get it to run at 3066 megahertz which isn't a huge step down so it shouldn't affect our our frame rates that much so I'm pretty I'm okay with that for now and then we've also got the rx 580 from this is the power color red devil and this card comes factory overclocked out of the box so just to be mindful of the thermal limitations here inside of the spec Alfa case from Corsair I decided not to overclock the GPU any further and just run out of the box settings it's still well above reference speed so so it has that going for it but overall I did not really touch anything on the GPU apart from that we are running on the d3 50 chipset from AMD this is an asus prime b3 50-plus motherboard again with the latest bios and the one shortcoming the one big downfall to this system that i specifically even mentioned in the part 1 video was that it only has a single mechanical hard drive so i did also mention in that video that if you had any sort of even like succeed 80 bucks to spare to seriously consider buying an SSD and there's the alarm on my phone going off mother so if you had any wiggle room at all with your eight hundred and fifty dollar budget again an SSD even 128 gig SSD i feel like in a budget system would be totally worth it just install your operating system and a couple basic programs your web browser etc and leave everything else to the mechanical hard drive that way you can still save a ton of money as opposed to going with like two hundred and forty or a 500 gig SSD but still benefit from the faster load in boot times so let's talk about thermals our risin 5 1600 actually spiked up to 86 degrees celsius at one point but it was kind of an outlier i didn't see it go or reach into the 80s any other time during our 15 20 minute run in GTA 5 in actuality the package hovered in the mid 70s pretty much the entire time which considering that we're only using the included breaks fire stock cooler that came with the cpu that's actually not bad at all so I'm happy with that the GPU again all these thermals were tested with an ambient temperature of 27 degrees Celsius in my room and with the 5 panel on despite what you see here the GPU got up to 76 degrees Celsius so yeah I think there was there's also a little bit of thermal Headroom there if we did want to go in and dial in an overclock to see to see how much further we could push the Red Devil here the arts 580 then I feel like we probably could afford a couple more degrees before we get into like the low eighty territory which is where I usually personally like to cut it off so after spending a whole day gaming on this system the thermal seemed pretty reasonable all things considered which isn't too surprising because we've got a really nice airflow path in the spec alpha we've got to 122 the front one one 120 at the back kind of a nice front to back path of airflow that we have here and that sort of leads us into acoustics so the overall noise emissions of this chassis we're pretty impressive the case fans for one are linked up to the the built-in fan controller on the Speck alpha which I had on the middle setting so there's low medium and high we were running it on medium the entire time very quiet fans surprising for such a cheap case and the rates fire on its own is just freakishly quiet without sort of any any kind of tuning involved the one caveat here was the graphics card which did emit a degree of coil wine which is not terribly noticeable with the side panel on you almost have to be in a room with zero ambient noise to even pick it up so thankfully it's not too noticeable in this chassis however if you're considering this graphics card and in the events that these particular models are known to cause any element of coil line then beware that you're not picking up a chassis that has a ton of ventilation open mesh or something on the side panel closer to the graphics card because then there will be a lot of sound bleed and it will get obnoxious I think so just something to bear in mind but I think on that note we can go ahead and talk about gaining benchmarks I ran six games in total at two resolutions at 1920 by 1080 and of course 2560 by 1440 which again this is being advertised as a budget gaming rig for that resolution for quad HD so to speak but that being said there's a you know people have their different preferences on the framerate range that they like to game at some people are perfectly happy with you know 50s and 60s on average other people are like hell no nothing below 75 IMO you know or whatever it is so because of that I decided to run both resolutions just in case you were considering specking out a future system similar to this one but maybe you don't you're not very happy with 1440p numbers we're about to see then at least you know what you could achieve at 1920 by 1080 so Windows 10 64-bit all the latest revision drivers have been installed and we're using the newest BIOS version for our motherboard on that note ladies and gentlemen it is with great honor that I finally present to you the long overdue benchmarks for our budget 1440p game and Darby you're benchmarks ladies and gentlemen what do you guys think overall let me know what do you think about the 1080p versus the 1440 t numbers are the average frame rates enough for you guys or like where are we at here where are we at is that is you see those number to be like could be a lot faster for the money or do you see me be like that's a respectable and reasonable average frame rate to be running at I don't know let me know what you think in the comments below my personal opinion I mean based on the results just to quickly recap at 1440p we were seeing anywhere from the 50s to the 70s in terms of average frame rates which i think is perfectly adequate for the the games that we were running a lot of with many of which all of which were triple-a titles most of which we're running at max settings with the exception of GTA 5 that was a blend of high and very high no anti-aliasing things like that but for the most part I think that's pretty solid and at 1080p we were seeing I would say 24 25 and fame rates and even on the the 1% or 0.1% lows going from 50s and 70s range to now 70s and 90s range which i think is absolutely fantastic for the money again but there you guys have it I can't stress this enough though if you are going to build a system include an SSD if you possibly can because it is going to improve the overall experience not just with your gaming but with your general day-to-day tasking and computing as well so that's pretty much I've run once again run out of things to say so I'm just going to call it quits right here guys finally the results have been given to the public let me know what your thoughts are as always guys pass me a like on the video if you enjoyed it and feel free to subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon you can also check out bit wit ultra my ad free early access channel for a buck 50 a month the first two weeks are completely free and you can back out any friggin time as always I'm cow big which thank you guys so much for watching have a good one and I'll see you in the next video
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