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hey Ron this is Steve from gamers Nexus dotnet and today we're talking about this this is a computer I just built it's actually pretty awesome this is a mini ITX computer and it's sort of an H CPC a home theater PC meant for gaming in the living room doing your video watching tasks maybe you could even jerry-rigged it as a DVR replacement because we all know that Time Warner Cable provides only the best DVRs and you would of course never want to replace that with something like this so this is built in an anti Gaius K 600 case we've gotten Intel G 3 2 5 8 and here which is their new dual core processor affordable at the price of around 60 to 70 dollars and the whole build is 665 bucks so it is sort of a budget ish it's definitely teetering on mid-range but I have sort of classified it as budget we've got a 750 Ti in there which plays every game pretty much perfectly on high settings you will need to drop down to medium for a few games like Metro last light in battlefield but I have benchmarks for you at the end that will showcase performance in games and the board is just an asrock MITx z97 board it's got AC Wireless built into it so you won't have to get a separate adapter you won't need wired Ethernet of course we always recommend that if you have it available in the living room environment you're setting this up in but it'll work on wireless it'll work with your gigabit connections up to the spec that AC allows so certainly much better than the previous wireless G&B all those now the board is z97 so it is capable of overclock and it's got a decent vrm it's got a couple phases on there so it's enough to get a basic overclock on the g3 2 v 8 which we've been able to push it at least 20% I've gotten it up to almost 50 percent overclock I wouldn't run it at that I think for extended periods of time but certainly 20% should be almost no problem with this processor especially with the board's basic vrm setup and the be quiet CPU cooler we have on there so that will keep things relatively cool and quiet which is always a good thing at an H CBC since you're going to be set up in an extended up time environment that's probably running almost 24/7 in your living room and because of that reasoning we've got an edge PA you in here in Antec edge 550 watt PSU that is enough power for everything in here enough power for an upgrade if you wanted a 760 or a 970 instead or probably want to upgrade the CPU before that really so you do have enough power for both the CPU and a GPU upgrade depending on what route you go and the edge PSU remains relatively silent it's not passive but the fan only spends up when it's necessary and it's got a toggle switch for the LEDs so if you prefer this to be more discreet with all the LEDs off just unplug this strip the strip in the front here there's a an LED strip you can unplug that and you can toggle the switch on the power supply then you got no lights so you can talk to them 2/4 hide it and let it run as a discrete home theater PC as far as RAM we've got HyperX fury ram runs perfectly fine for gaming we've benchmarked it really no complaints there at all looks pretty good I chose white but there's blue and black red also and for the SSD I would recommend the crucial MX 100 SSD do note that you will have to remove the 3.5 inch drive scaffolding the cage in the is K 600 as a result of the mid-size CPU cooler we selected you probably need to use a really low profile silverstone or or one of those other small coolers if you wanted to use the 3.5 inch bays maybe a liquid cooler would be in order but it was removed from this so your own you've only got two 2.5 inch SSD slots if you want more than that get a different cooler and throw a hard drive in there but for my reasons two SSDs is fine and then I just go to a media server for the rest so that is the build pretty small pretty portable as far as the benchmarks this performs pretty well actually and just about everything Borderlands the pre-sequel which I'm not a huge fan of but it's a modern title so I benchmarked it we run out about a little over 70 FPS at almost max settings in Borderlands the pre-sequel in grid Autosport which is one of the best optimized games i've ever tested it's approaching 40 to 50 FPS so and that's at almost max settings so if you lower the settings too high then you're definitely gonna be running pretty close to 60 maybe medium-high outward and 60 is what I define as pretty perfectly playable so there's your alliteration for the day beyond that Metro last light always a very good bench to use for gaming performance you would probably need to run at about medium settings because on high and very high we were just above 30 just under 40 for the average FPS so you would want to run at a medium maybe hybrid medium low settings for a game like Metro laughs like that's more demanding and that does start bottlenecking all the CPU more than the GPU in this instance so that would be your upgrade if you're trying to play games like last night like Crysis 3 every other game for the most part plays pretty darn well at high settings pretty darn well at medium if it is a higher-end game that's more demanding and then you've got a lot of games that'll play perfectly fine at high-end ultra settings like League dota Wow pretty much any MMO at this point and of course Borderlands and things like that so that is the build 665 Bucs click the links in the description below for all the product links for my write-up on this and you can see the benchmark graphs in more detail and I will see you all next time peace