Gadgetory

how's it going ladies and gentlemen welcome to another fantastic episode of your autumn sauce news and today I'll be doing a little bit of a project I should say it's actually going to be a three-part video well you know I actually haven't decided if it's going to be two parts or three parts but it's at least going to be two parts I'm building a new system and this is very exciting because it's going to be my personal system that I will be using personally what's that vibrating but yeah it's going to be an HTP see so for those of you who don't know htpc stands for home theater PC and as many of you might know from my last video I mentioned that I am moving I'm going to be moving into a new place with two awesome people and we actually managed to get a house we were debating on whether or not to get an apartment or a condo it just worked out to our benefit to get a house and because of that we actually have a fairly decently sized living room and I kind of want to put a bunch of cool stuff in there I want to be able to entertain my friends when they come over and just hang out with my roommates occasionally in the common areas so because of that I decided to finally build an HTTP C which is something that I've been wanting to do for a really long time now but since I'm kind of cooped up in my current room as it is my current living situation I never really had a reason to build one this first part of the video is basically just me introducing the build the purpose of it and all of the parts that will be included and why I decided to choose those parts the second video will be a build video where I actually physically construct the build and you get to watch the entire process or most of the process anyway and I still haven't decided whether I want to do a time-lapse filled of it or a tutorial maybe you guys can help me out what would you like to see me do for the build itself and if you guys have any good ideas I might just take your advice in the third video I'm still debating on whether or not should even exist it's either going to be well it's probably going to be a demonstration just all set up in my living room in my future living room so it might not not actually come for a couple weeks or so but nonetheless I would like to do some benchmarking on it and just kind of show you the physical setup once it's all installed and ready to go in my new place the cost of all this of this build is is really going to be about 1100 bucks and that's not including Windows 7 which is what I'm planning on installing it so that's without the OS it's about a hundred-dollar bill I think a thousand 1070 $5.25 to be exact so you can actually check out the parts for the information stuff if you want to buy the parts they're in the link in the description below they're all linking to Newegg I think for maybe one or two parts that are discontinued on the website the link to another site that I won't mention but aside from that this is pretty much just going to be a multimedia heaven or a central hub for everything media / entertainment so it's going to be really awesome for video playback and playing blu-rays streaming Netflix and all that kind of thing but also it's going to be able to do some gaming as well now it's not a pure gaming powerhouse that isn't the intention of this build so I don't want to hear you guys saying $1,100 and you only got the graphics card because that's not the point of it it's really just to to be a really nice kind of middle ground as far as a multimedia I'm really excited to share the parts with you guys so why do we do that now alright so starting off with the chassis I decided to go with silver stones sg0 5 and this case is actually been around for quite some time now but it's still a really solid case it provides excellent airflow for beings just small little chassis it only has one 120 millimeter fan at the front of it but it is pretty darn good the only thing is it's a little bit loud for my liking so I'm going to be swapping that out for a fan that I will be talking about momentarily but more on the case it does some Ursuline has made some revisions to this case they actually kind of reinvented it I wouldn't say reinvented it but they kind of enhanced it a little bit with the USB 3.0 USB 3.0 it actually has two USB 3.0 ports on the front panel so I can quickly stick a flash drive in there if I wanted to watch a movie you know transfer a movie there on a whim it's really useful and it's just a really good case it has a ton of ventilation for being such a small form-factor chassis and I'm actually really excited to be building in its because it's just so darn cute and cubish that a cubic I should say but yeah so that's that's the case that's enough of the case and I'll be talking more about the components during the build video when I when I build the computer for the power supply also the silverstone products this there s FX series 450 watt fully modular power supply that's cool but it's sfx it's a fully modular sfx power supply which you don't really see too many of these and granted this does come with a pretty hefty premium I will say that but it's it's fully modular and what where would you want fully modular anymore than in a mini ITX form factor build because obviously you're trying to save space for all that excess cables and stuff right 80 plus gold certified as well so this is going to be pretty epic I can't wait to use this guy it's gonna just fit so nicely you know Silverstone power supply Silverstone chassis it's just going to be a beautiful marriage in my opinion aside from that I've also got well here's the brain of the operation this is a 35 70 K Core i5 from Intel I will be doing some overclocking with it just because well it's unlocked so I should hit overclocked it right be a shame not to but I understand this is probably a little bit more overkill than I need for a htpc but like I said I will be doing some gaming on it and I don't know the cooling the cooling in this chassis is just going to be so awesome that I figure I might as well have some some higher-end components in there that that are worth cooling so this is really cool I'm excited to use this guy I know it's last gen but it's still still kicking strong and yeah should serve me well in all of my gaming and media playback needs as far as the motherboard goes I've got a and asrock z77 II Mini ITX or I TX board this is actually a pretty decent board it's about 140 bucks right now and it actually comes with built-in Wi-Fi so actually has those two external Wi-Fi antennas you can just place wherever to get better reception and this is gonna be really useful because I'm pretty sure not going to have a landline or I'm sorry like an Ethernet cable that's long enough to reach from the living room to wherever the router might be so this is just nice to have Wi-Fi as an option I could always you know hardwire it in later if I so desire and I'm really to use the Wi-Fi but it is nice to have that option moving on let's see what component should I use next memory let's go to the memory and makes the most logical sense these are 2 4 gig dims these are Crucial Ballistix sport edition of memory these are ddr3 240 pin of course and they're clocked at 1600 mega transfers per second now I looked at the reviews of this kit online on Newegg actually and it just got a lot of hate but I realized after doing some research that people were only only people that had AMD builds we're having issues with these sticks and Grenda there's always that chance that you're going to get a kick do a no matter what platform you're running but crucial admitted themselves if there was some compatibility issues with their memory sticks these ones in particular and AMD systems so hopefully I don't run into any issues with these guys they look pretty solved they're also extremely low profile if you've ever seen some ridiculously low profile dims these are probably the ones you can just put you can barely see them when they're installed so these should also be pretty pretty sweet and makes a lot of sense to use it a kit like this in the build like the one I'm building aside from that oh this is cool this is a CPU cooler heatsink this is a Samuel 17 from prolimatech probe no I'm sorry yeah it is prolene attack I've actually never used prolene detect product before but this had really good reviews online I actually first saw this heatsink in a build on overclock net I was in the BitFenix prodigy owners club or whatever and I saw some dude with really sick looking build in a white prodigy and he was using this cool and I just it just caught my eye was like what cooler is that I need to find out luckily he had he had specified which one it was it was the Samuel 17 and it's gotten really good reviews on new egg as well so I also like the fact that it's just it's just the heatsink so I can include whatever fan I want on it and have a little bit more control there the fans for actually which I should talk about now I don't have on me right now they're still being shipped you can do a little hand dance while I talk they're still being shipped to me there on their way there are two gelid fans they are kind of a happy medium actually between air flow as well as static pressure so I'm going to have one of them on that heat sink on the Samuel 17 and the other one is just going to be replacing that fan on the SG 0-5 case so I'm going to go for a little quieter fan I think these gelid spin at 1500 rpm they are PWM I believe and they've also gotten really good reviews so gonna be excited to swap those out and see how they perform moving under the video card now this is probably all what you guys are wondering I just care about the video good nothing else matters I'm going with the EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti boost this is the super clock edition it is also 2 gig has 2 gig frame buffer so it should be able to handle most 1080p gaming with a lot of triple-a titles definitely not going to be anything close to what my 670 is doing right now in my full desktop tower but like I said this isn't a peer gaming machine it's not intended to just rip the crap out of every game I throw at it it's just intended to you know have fun and be able to play some casual kickback games with some friends every now and then in the living room so I think this thing will suit mean really well for this build if you actually want to see some more benchmarks on the 650 TI boost reference design actually did a video of that a while back a couple months ago I actually even did a two-way SLI benchmarks with this guy so keep in mind it was the reference though so this will have a little bit of a performance increase because it is factory overclocked I also want to mention that it is a you know typical EVGA reference style cooler so it is a blower style fan all the air is going to be ejected out back which I felt was a good choice considering the chassis and the form factor that I mean that I'm using and I'm almost done here and most wrapped up let's go with the SSD so this is the SSD this is actually the same model of SSD I'm giving away this isn't the same SSD am giving away totally two different different SSDs am I going to use this thing for a month and then give to you guys use but this is the Plextor m5 pro 256 gig SATA 3 drive it is a pretty pretty beastly Drive and it's going to suit my needs because I don't know I feel like 256 gigs is a nice happy medium as easily be getting cheaper lately so I was gonna go with 128 I was like yeah you know what screw it let's just let's just upgrade and have a little bit more space than we need to but it's always good to have more and not need it versus the other way around so really good Drive and also yeah I just didn't want to opt for a mechanical Drive at all just because I feel this is enough space I'm probably do a lot more streaming than actual downloading but yeah this is also going to make the system a little bit quieter as well as a little bit it's going to free up some room not having a massive three and a half inch mechanical drive in there and lastly this I don't know why maybe it sound like a drum roll or something it's just a slim optical drive this is LG's it's a blu-ray combo Drive basically I don't think it writes blu-rays it is a DVD combo Drive however and it does read blu-rays so this is going to be pretty vital to my htpc because I do have a small blu-ray collection and I do still like optical media as far as when it comes to movies and stuff it's just it's really nice I like having a physical copy of a disc sometimes just being able to pop it in and watch it not have to worry about any codecs or anything like that it's all just good to go right when I want it so this is a really nice Drive it's slim once again I don't know if I mentioned this but sg0 5 only accepts a slim form factor optical drive so yes they are a bit pricier but actually not by much if you're just going to get like a regular form factor optical drive into blu-ray blu-ray player it's really not going to be that much cheaper so and you know optical drives aren't for everybody but for my purposes and this HTPC definitely wanted one of these guys so I think that's pretty much it I'm going to just close the video out like this because I'm too lazy to set up the tripod and all this stuff how's the framing too lazy self a tripod and all that stuff but they're all the parts for this build I hope you guys enjoyed it and I hope you guys are excited and looking forward to the actual build video leave your comments in the section below and give me some advice on what to do for the next video particularly the build so thank you all for watching and Kyle awesomesauce news and I'll see you guys in the next video