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look guys welcome back to the channel today I am building yet another gaming PC not just for fun this time around or for my dad I've been doing a lot of dad builds lately this one is actually because Nvidia the folks at Nvidia have called me out to participate in one of their challenges to be specific the GTX 950 budget PC challenge where essentially I go ahead and try to build a system for under $600 that's my maximum budget that I have to play with and it has to feature a gtx 950 because that's kind of what this whole contest is promoting ah connecting the dots then I have to send the computer into Nvidia they go ahead and test it and they run a few different games and benchmarks I think they're doing 3d mark fire strike as well as grant photo 5 there's a bunch of other ones but essentially they go ahead and put a load on it and see how it performs against the competition and then based on that which is the main criteria is performance how well your system performs and also based on your frugality if you can go even below 5 $600 you get some extra points there and then lastly there are a few points that get added due to aesthetics now granted if you're dealing with a budget build at this price point you're not gonna be able to make it look super tricked-out in fancy you know with like LEDs and custom sleeve cables and all that but I think they're what they're kind of really going for is like cable management that sort of thing does it look like you just plug things in and call it a day or did you actually take your time and route things nicely and make it nice neat so based on those three pieces of criteria I'm going to totally win this challenge it's just no contest now I'm totally joking everyone has a fair chance of winning so why don't we go ahead and take a look at the parts really quick of course starting with the gtx 950 there it is this one in particular is the EVGA super super clock this is one that I have actually benchmarked you can go watch my video on it if you haven't already nvidia actually sent this card over to me and they said that i could use it for the purpose of this challenge even though this is a hundred and seventy dollar card I'm only counting it as a hundred and sixty dollars in my $600 budget and that that was approved by Nvidia so you can't yell at me for that it's not cheating it is super super clock so it's factory overclocked now manual overclocking is allowed in the competition so I am going to be pushing this a bit further granted it's already overclocked pretty extremely but there is a bit more margin there that I could go ahead and and push it to so I'm going to be doing that as well as the CPU of choice is the core i5 4690k now many of you guys who follow me on instagram might have seen the picture that i had recently posted of all these components set up on this table right here and you might have noticed that this was actually a 4690k and this motherboard in fact was a z97 version of this h 81 chipset board so why did I change why did I go from an unlocked overclockable CPU to a non case q1 well the fact of the matter is is once I had added up the entire price range or the entire cost of all these components the final cost was 599 dollars and 93 cents or something ridiculous like I had a nickel left before tapping out on the budget so what I decided was to kind of push back a little bit and kind of cut the cost down I actually got this to just over 550 bucks by going with a non case cue with the processor and an H 81 non non Intel chipset right there so I think I think that's going to give me some extra points honestly the overclocking wouldn't have done very well anyway because I had I had barely had any more room for a CPU cooler which means my temps would have been awful I mean this was the CPU cooler I was going to be tried trying to overclock with and I was just looking at this thing going yeah I could probably get like a you know moderate overclock on here but is it really worth like pretty much maxing out my budget and how many points am I going to get docked for that you know most of these tests are gaining and a lot of them you know a couple of them are CPU intensive we all know that GTA 5 is a very CPU intensive game but based on all things considered I figured this would be a better value and probably get me a higher score in the end if I went with a non case Q and a cheaper motherboard to really shave the cost down so that's what I'm going to do and that was a bit of a digression there but hopefully it sheds a little bit of light on on my product rationale so moving out of the memory we've got this 8 gig kit from Team it's their Elite Plus series it doesn't actually look too bad for the 35 or 36 bucks that I paid for it so you do get to-four gig sticks right there it is 6 hundreds peed so not too shabby for for under forty bucks there for storage honestly all we need is something to boot on doesn't need to be super fast really we're not testing boot times in this competition so I'm just going with a 320 gig WD caviar blue drive which is actually fairly reliable for the 20 bucks that it costed that it cost on Newegg so I'm pretty happy about that and then last but certainly not least actually this might be leased as well last and least is the case in power supply because damn this is like as budget as it gets this is a lodge assists where's the box there's a box it's a large assist that I'm just gonna call it at that it so that it's that case right there and you'll notice it also comes included with a 480 watt power supply oh god that's horrifying contemporary mid-tower case yeah my ass it's more like more like temporary mid-tower case I paid 40 bucks it was like $39 for this I know it's it's it's scary so um here's here's my other rationale for this it's a sort of super dirty Wow here that I think I'm gonna I could puncture a hole through it with my finger so the reason why I went with this setup is because I literally only need this system to function for the few hours that Nvidia will be testing it for if it explodes because of the power supply five seconds after Nvidia sends it back to me I'm still in the clear and I'm still qualified that's also why I'm going with this this is literally the cheapest combo I could find like I said forty bucks for both components so you can really see where I right where I cut corners here think about it this was what is a 240 dollar $230 around and then 160 170 alright now all of this combined is probably like a hundred and fifty bucks or a hundred and sixty bucks so a fraction of what just these two components alone cost so just a little bit of an insight there when you're dealing with this kind of it's a very niche and kind of rare instance where you're building a system like this only to win a challenge is the only time you should follow anything I'm saying but there you guys have it those are all the parts and I've been rambling on way too long now so I should probably just go ahead and shut up and build this thing let's do it it's the first big pop this game huh I'm put your arms yeah it's golden hello Ginny oh it's beautiful all right this is this is what I do when I'm filming time lapses and you watch all those towel APS's I'm just talking to myself saying stupid stuff memory jack so I forget to mention this is a micro ATX board again the case pretty much determined what form factor board I'd be using because I I knew that I could save a killing on case of power supply combo and it just happened to be micro ATX so that's the motherboard size I went with I'm going to go ahead and install this super high-end cooler this is not going to look pretty but it'll work now let's install the motherboard so I've got my standoffs already standing off and we're just going to go ahead and top this i/o shield in here all right by the board installation complete so while we're here having just installed the hard drive here I'm actually surprised that these hard drive trays are not utter shite I mean they're actually decent granted they are plastic but they are toolless and go ahead and just get these little notches it's one of the notch ones you got notches on both sides interesting did they snap off all right these things are utter shite alright so there we go and pop that in and then we'll take care of these front panel connectors here so actually I'm going to do here I'm going to route all this through this little opening here and starting off with our USB 3.0 route all of them through the bum all right so we got USB HD audio where you at grah Oh up here don't tell me I'm not going to be able to reach there no no I mean I guess I could get away with it video card will go right over there but it does look pretty tight I mean I can try it you can try it right now might work does work looks terrible down here but who cares let's go ahead and hold this sucker down granted I would suggest installing your front panel connectors first as far as like power reset and your hard drive LED all the little ones because those are kind of nasty and difficult to install once you've got your video card in there but I'm a pro so do as I say how does that do that go ahead and rub these guys together Oh family are driving he put the hard drive baby in there just like that just like that thing at the power LED get 2 plus man you know don't matter hop down there out there go ahead and pop them in there what else you got over here you got a you know that reset switch like the back ear hang rebooting sit ins all day alright we're all good front panel connectors done done deal go ahead and plug it must say the drought all over here alright let's go ahead and move on to the dreadful power supply cables here studying with our big guy boom met at the top curving around dammit - yeah they're just like dirt okay didn't I say - poor baby I won't be surprised if some of you inscribe after watching this video hell I'm I unsubscribe why the hell I subscribe from me oh god I'll do make good videos anymore Kyle apparently my alter ego in building a computer is an illiterate redneck so there is a little bit of a cutout here for power supply or for the motherboard now bear in mind this power supply only has a four pin EPS CPU connector motherboard on the other hand is an eight pin now you can still plug in a 4 pin plug from power supply into an 8-pin connector on your motherboard the only thing is is that you won't really have much overclocking potential but that's ok because we're not over here beam em in a unlocks Q on your CPU so that is just fine for now now I can just get this damn plug-in damn Oh redneck how will be put right at ease yeah yeah oh yeah so quick sidenote here you guys may have realized that since this power supply only has a four pin CPU connector it probably doesn't have an 8 pin PCIe connector either and you would be correct in that assumption instead it's got two molex plugs right here so we're going to use some adapters to get this video card powered I do have these two adapters here they are identical it's essentially molex to 6-pin so we're going to go ahead and wire these up to our power supply cables I've actually had these adapters lying around just for several months maybe even years they're just kind of taken from other video cards that I've honed in the past or that I still own and that I thought I'd never have a use for but here we are and then alright so we've got we've got our adapters wired in there so now we have two 6-pin connectors coming from the power supply essentially which is one step closer I suppose to getting connected to the video card so missing piece of the puzzle is this guy right here you basically got two female 6 pin PCI II going to 1/8 in male so we're going to go ahead and plug these in like so definitely a kind of a long-winded workaround to get this thing going but it is going to work I assure you and now voila power men crave it women want it since these little molex connectors here coming off of these adapters aren't being used for anything I'm just going to go ahead and clip them off just because it'll clean up a little bit of the cable management to make things a bit more tidy so here we go you uh you get squeamish easily suggest looking away yes of circumcising cables apparently it feels better for the female connectors alright then we're at the final stretch folks let's go ahead and wrap this up looking on camera look all right looking good yeah yeah ah all right we've made it over to the other side of the case going to go ahead and plug this guy in because we do want at least that pain running for a little bit of airflow it is set to exhaust I if I was using the system long term I'd probably flip it to intake because it is the only case man I'd rather have positive air pressure than negative air pressure speaking of which this is a great time to mention my you stay positive shirt which you can see right here stay positive now for sale on the awesomesauce merch store look at that like I see the blue arrows the intake more intake les exhaust positive air pressure yeah that's just a positive a boob sag and and in belly sweat are not included so you'll be rest assured that this is a sanitary shirt from the get-go go ahead and check him out guys I don't know if I'm gonna be restocking them so eat that eat it up all right I think that's pretty much gonna do it for cable management so then you need one more guy right here that surprisingly has a decent amount of room behind the motherboard tray you don't get an inch or anything like that it's probably more like a half an inch I'd say a lot of cases at this price point don't have any kind of cable routing options behind here it's just literally flat but I think we're pretty much wrapped up here guys so let's go ahead and try to put it putting the side panel on it's always a good indication if you've done enough cable management properly if the side panel goes on with relative ease which it it does I just know you've been I can't in there there we go not sure what that was about all right let's see what test moot looking in putting in everyone power on power button down go hmm come on I hear it there we go CPU fan looks good and the GPU fans are spinning yes that is good that is good the video card is working the adapter situation here a little Frankenstein solution has been a success now I'm just going to go ahead and plug this into a monitor because that's still still need to get a video signal that might not happen I don't I don't yet all right and here is the computer yes listen to it hum it's actually fairly quiet and here it is installing currently installing Windows 8.1 pro which is a good indication that I have built this thing successfully at least for now there are no red flags like I said it'll probably give this power supply a few weeks before it explodes but in the meantime for the purpose of this contest I'm pretty happy with how it turned out honestly this isn't a bad system apart from the power supply which you can swap out it's not it's not riveted so you can just it's got four standard Phillips head screws there you can just swap this power supply output a decent one in there that's maybe 80 plus bronze or you know from a brand that you trust and honestly this is a fairly decent system that can do 1080 gaming at high settings for most triple-a titles right now which is pretty damn good for a five hundred and fifty dollar system if I do say so myself so I'm pretty happy with what I accomplished today you guys let me know in the comments what you think if you guys think I'm totally screwed in this challenge or do you think I stand a chance against the competition and yeah also let me know what you thought of the build the actual format usually I do a time lapse as you guys are familiar with I've been doing a lot of those lately decided to switch it up a bit this time around so let me know which one you like better or if you would kind of like a mixture of the two because I definitely see the the pros and cons to each but that's gonna do for now guys go ahead and like this video if you enjoyed it feel free to subscribe to my channel if you haven't already and until next time I'll see you all in the next video