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for our first rise in PC build guide we're using the r5 1600 X CPU that received our editors choice award when it was reviewed this PC is built with two tasks in mind ultra-wide gaming and production ready workload at the same time we wanted to prove that as possible to game at 34 40 by 1440 without buying the most expensive parts on the market and given Ultra wise to complement to production work the R 5 Series fit the bill before getting to that this video is brought to you by the current bundle on the GTX 1060 and GTX 1080 video cards where you can get Ghost Recon wildlands or for honor at checkout this comes alongside new MSRP is for the GTX 10 80 series cards now down to $500 you can learn more at the link in the description below so those were the goals ultra-wide 1440p with production readiness but the next set of requirements was under $1,200 and everything had to be pulled from our inventory so I tasked gns team member Patrick Lathan with this build he was basically told don't buy anything he only what we have in stock so this is what we ended up with now the complete parts list is in the description below I'll go over most of them here in the video we also have had an article online for a few days if you are curious to see how that went over but yes we know you might pick different things the point is from inventory in-house things we have tested validated it built with and suffered with for the last couple months as we've figured out all the quirks of Ryze and now it's fairly smooth doubt with the efi updates and the memory can more or less figure it out from at least our perspective so that means we can piece together things that we know work and that's really important because of the new uark it's not necessarily as easy as plug-and-play all the time there are a lot of weird quirks that haven't been fully discovered yet depending on board and all this other stuff so we know this one's good that's why we built it the complete parts list again is below the result was good overall we're pretty pleased with it the system came out to about eleven hundred fifty dollars after rebates maybe 12 or 1205 if you don't count those and your cost the core parts include an r5 1600 X we don't have a 1600 but the 1600 X did really well on our benchmarks in an overclocking and all that so we used it here we've got a gtx 1070 SC which was purposely chosen to fit the price and show that yes 34 by 14 34 40 by 1440 is in fact playable with something that's not a 1080 class piece of hardware so 10 at 70 SC there the gigabyte X 370 gaming 5 motherboard am 4 board of course is used for our motherboard of choice you could probably save 100 you probably go down $250 save like 50 bucks if you want with something like a k3 but we just didn't have one in the house so that fits the board memory because it's so important to rise and we are using Corsair Vengeance LTX memory at 3000 megahertz we looked around a lot for 32 hundred megahertz kits from what we have and we've got a lot of them but it's just not affordable right now and ultimately we made the judgment call that we would rather have 200 megahertz lower memory and save some money than the other way around because although the performance gains are reasonable it's not worth as much as ddr4 cost today hopefully that changes soon though and just the costs are brutal but we did find a couple of combo deals though on new egg Amazon and elsewhere and there's all the links below but we can get into some of the benchmarking now so we've got tests for power thermals and gaming for the case we're using a corsair 270 our case this is one that reviewed positively back when the 570 x launched the other massive corsair case for its price the quality and ease of installation features are great with 270 are and it runs reasonably cool as will show later we've also got a bit of a corsair theme here we have an MP 500 SSD and a cxm 550 watt PSU to accompany the case for cooling we found as you'll see in testing later that the stock fan configuration was enough to keep the system reasonably cool a thermal take contact silent 12 air cooler at $25 provided an affordable solution for direct CPU cooling and again our thermal tests will show that with the 1070 SCS cooler handling the rest now because this is a PC build and not a comparative benchmark like the CPU and GPU reviews that means we just built this thin and then tested it to fit what a real user would be doing so that means tuning settings so that 34 or 40 by 1440 is actually we'll add a reasonable framerate 60-plus for the most part or even higher in some cases and that also means that we can test using different games different courses and different approaches than we normally do just because again it's a one-off build we've done some overclocking it's really not useful for gaming because we are so limited by the pixel throughput required of the GPU that the CPU overclock is minimal at best for even overwatch and then in TV production workloads you can get some benefit there like in blender and premiere but we've got benchmarks for that already if you want to see those starting with power draw we measure power draw at the wall and found total system power draw at idle to be about sixty eight watts followed by a CPU accelerated blender crunch workload demanding 151 Watts really not bad overall so we can that same blender heavy render workload to use CUDA with 256 by 256 tile sizes and the 1070 pushed us up to 185 watts at the wall and overwatch has proven surprisingly useful for some CPU testing and power load testing so we threw that in for gaming workload we were at about 250 eight watts for overwatch given a 550 watt PSU we're around or under 50 percent load marks in most realistic environments you'd start pushing more power if running joins CPU and GPU rendering taneous lee but would still be able to sustain that on this PSU though you'd not want to run that 24/7 obviously thermals go hand-in-hand with power as the two are directly correlated we tested thermals inside the 270 are with the system fully built measuring room ambient second a second to keep track of external influences on temperature Emmie's was between 28 and 29 t for the entirety of our thermal tests rather than run a torture test we decided to use at real-world scenarios again to provide a representation of what you can expect as a user if you were to build this box idle thermals are good for both the CPU and GPU operating that 37 and 39 °c respectively given an ambience of 2029 relax with a delta in the 8 to 10 sizes range that's workable with our blender crunch load at 100% on the CPU and zero on the GPU let's see the CPU temperature climbed to about 63 Celsius max which considering our $25 cooler is pretty damn good we'll look at noise levels in a moment see how they match this case ambien which increases as a result of course and despite the GP undergoing no actual works during this time for that reason we see a slight spike in the gpio temperature though really it's something more than marginal doubts a 3d mark combined test executes for our gaming simulation and makes the workload bump in GP temperature up to around 76 which is where it sits before maxing out its fan curve for the most part and CPU temperature to around 49 C considering this is representative of gaming we're close and both components are under relatively heavy load temperatures are completely agreeable here just as thermals go with power so - noise goes with thermals we configured our system to run its fans at 100% at all times the case fans even the CPU fans Auto completely idle our system was running somewhere around 35.4 DBA with blender workloads not really changing that the CPU fan speed didn't really change very much during testing that said when running a mixed workload involving the GPU as well the fans spin up increased noise output by about 4 DBA not bad overall though fps is where it gets really interesting overwatch was the first with max settings we're seeing a frame rate of 80 FPS average 65 1% low and 59 0.1% low optimizing overwatch by using our overwatch graphics optimization guide that we published recently resulted in slightly adjusted shadows local fog detail and reflections down to medium and a 108 FPS average as a result of that with spikes to 120 if you really wanted to you could drop settings a bit further and get near 120 FPS study any higher than that will become somewhat constrained by the CPU even if we were to throw a GTX 1080 into the mix though total or warhammer output about 60 FPS average on ultra or 80 on high this was also GPU constrained at 34 40 by 1440 so no games there from an overclocking battle builds one was around 64 FPS with ultra or 72 on a high in the campaign but you can expect roughly a 15% drop in multiplayer depending on how many actors are nearby the player zoom on ultra got around 85 FPS average and dirt rally represented our racing crowd on ultra wide with 80 FPS average at Ultra if you're curious about blender and premiere results we have those in the article linked below now these were also covered very heavily our our five reviews for more analysis on that you can check our r5 1600 X review where we gave the CPU an Editors Choice Award actually the first editor's choice for we've given four CPUs this year so the build overall we're pretty happy with it performs well it does gaming at thirty four forty by 1440 pretty handily considering the gtx 1070 which is the biggest choke point for that resolution and production workloads are definitely viable on the cpu if you do software accelerated stuff if you do could accelerate stuff to ten seventy is still damn good with premiere if you run cuda on the ten seventy it will outperform the r5 1600 x no problem at all so that is there as a potential workhorse for things like premiere or blender and then if you are using the CP you've got the 1600 X or of course if you're doing something like game streaming which we haven't tested yet but this should help out in that use case specifically things to change one thing to look out for would be potential memory upgrade so if you can find a 3200 mega kit without a huge increase in price over this one it's a worthy consideration once you start spending 20 or 30 dollars it's pushing price kind of into next CPU territory so be careful at how much you're spending on memory right now the motherboard if you wanted to save 50 bucks the gigabyte k3 is worth considering especially if you're not going to be doing any heavy overclocking and you don't need the extra features on the gaming 5x 370 board but there is a bit of a trade in the vrm department so keep that in mind other than that the build holds up well performance is good thermals are really not bad you could add an extra fan to the top it's got one in the middle right now but adding one to the top would increase your air flow through the CPU area and reduce those temperatures it's just it's really not necessary it does pretty well without it so that helps keep the noise levels down as well and that's it complete parts list in the description below you click on the article for the full thing if you want to check that out thank you for watching as always subscribe for more patreon.com slash gamers next to selves that directly or you go to store it out gamers next to spot net to buy a shirt like this one if you like what you see it definitely supports us so thanks for watching I'll see you all next time you