Gadgetory

welcome back to our unboxed so a month ago now I set out to build a budget mini ITX gaming rig you know something that costs well under a thousand dollars u.s. I was still waiting on a few components for the build and then I realized I had these three calm da2 brand-new inbox along with a few other goodies so my sub $1,000 budget mini ITX build ended up coming out at $2,200 us so yeah when I would have been off mission on that one I did promise though that I would eventually circle back and make the mini ITX budget build happen and well it's only been about four weeks so all over 30 videos later it's here it's not that bad is it anyway since I've made you wait so long I'm not going to talk you through all the components now we'll just roll the build footage and yeah I'll talk about why I selected these components as we put this little mini rig together so starting with the case we have the fractal core 500 it was either this or the Cougar qbx and I do really like the look of the qbx but I couldn't source one in time and PC case key had a core 500 handy so I just grabbed that in the US they both cost around $55 so either works for our budget in terms of capacity the core 500 is a few litres larger but its footprint is only slightly larger due to its design for a relatively compact Mini ITX case it has an impressive spec sheet it supports up to two radiators can shove a 280 millimeter or 240 millimeter right in the top and a 120 millimeter in the rear also included are magnetic dust filters support for full ATX power supplies up to 170 millimeters long and incredibly up to seven drives so although I've never built inside the core 500 I am confident it will work well for this build moving on to the brains of the operation and for this we have Amy's rather than five 2600 and right now it cost just 165 dollars us making it an exceptionally good value all-rounder that'll provide very solid performance for years to come not only that but our mini ITX be 450 motherboard will support up cummings into pros so this little gaming machine has a rich upgrade path the only downside here being the 2600 does only come with the Wraith stealth box cooler but since I'm not gonna have a copy system I'll just stick with that for now perhaps down the track I can modify the system upgrade the cooler and do some overclocking so if you're interested in that please let me know in the comment section below then for the motherboard the as rocker fatality be 450 gaming ITX AC is one of the cheapest be 450 mini ITX motherboard available right now and it's a pretty solid option at $125 us you get Intel 802 11 AC Wi-Fi plus Bluetooth 4.2 Intel Gigabit LAN real check ALC 1220 audio codec with support for creative Sound Blaster cinema 5 for SATA ports and an ultra m2 port on the rear it's only weakness is the fat 3-phase vrm it's not ideal for overclocking but with a risin v 2600 it won't be an issue and i've run one of these boards for quite an extended period of time now with the horizon 727 hundreds and I've had no problems at all for the memory I'm recommending g.skill ripjaws 4 Series there's 16 gigabyte ddr4 3000 CL 15 kit is exceptional value at 110 dollars still if you want to save about $20 you can do so by getting a CL 17 or 18 kit but I don't really feel like it's worth the saving especially not for a rise and platform then for storage we have the team group T force Delta a 500 gigabyte SSD and if you're wondering why I picked this flashy looking SSD the answer is simple it's bloody cheap I was initially going to grab the team group l5 like 480 gigabyte SSD for just $50 but as I was pricing up the build I found the T force Delta R 500 gigabyte was selling for just $46 us making it an insane bug and sadly right now at least at the time of filming this video it is sold out in your egg but even so you can expect to pay no more than $60 u.s. elsewhere so it's still a great price for a 500 gigabyte SSD with a little bit of bling the drive uses the silicon motion SM 2258 controller and PAX 32 layer TLC based 3d NAND flash from micron so for a two and a half inch SATA SSD it's pretty respectable and for price again it is an incredible by then powering the builders course scx for 50m it's simple but effective and at just fifty dollars this bronze certified power supply is hard to beat it's a semi modular power supply and although it only offers a 450 watt output capacity that will be more than enough for this build still if you're all concerned about this the 550 watt model costs just $10 more or the 650 watt model can be had for $20 more now this is of course going to be a gaming system so we need a gaming graphics card and the choice here is pretty obvious for $150 us you simply can't go past the Radeon rx 570 right now so we won't right now it is possible to snap up the gigabyte rx 570 gaming 4G for $150 but I'd also recommend keeping an eye out for other models as we have seen some going on sale for 140 and even a hundred and thirty dollars for this build I have these slightly more expensive Oris model which sells for a hundred and seventy dollars it's a nice card but I'd probably seek out one of the cheaper models if I'm honest okay so that was a pretty straightforward build haven't bothered with any fancy b-roll and he's sliding shots all that kind of stuff because well it looks pretty much like how we started in fact well you can sort of hear stuff rattling around a lot heavier but you really wouldn't know that I'd built anything in it just looking at it like this because there's no side windows or anything like that the i/o shield at the back gives it away so there you go I'm not filming this you know out of sequence I'm doing it all in sequence I've just finished the build I didn't film this ahead of time with just the case and look if we take the top off you can you can see the stuff in there so anyway I'll just get on with it basically the build is done I am yet to plug it in and play some games some keen to do that but yeah that's it it's the base configuration I did put a second SSD in there but I'm not including that in the cost I just put that in there because team group were gracious enough to send along two of them and I'll probably use the other one for another bill but I wanted to put it in here and but I think one 500 gigabyte SSD would probably be a sufficient for this kind of build and I do have just the single fan in the rear there so I haven't put the I could put two 120 millimeter or I think even 140 millimeter fans in the top that would obviously improve thermals push a bit more air through the case haven't done that just wanted to keep the base configuration didn't want to add $30.00 or whatever for extra fans so just the basic configuration and well I think it's about time we go see how it performs first up let's check out fortnight yes but not this is a good build for young gamers getting into computers after all so I don't think there's any harm in checking out the old court night anyway using the higher quality preset at 1080p the framerate never dipped below 60 fps in the demanding 50 V 50 mode and this was late game with everyone crammed into a small area for the most part the frame rates hovered around 70 FPS and occasionally jumped up to around 90 or even 100 FPS of course the most important thing being that the gameplay was extremely smooth and this made things like aiming quite easy and this was despite the fact that I was sitting uncomfortably off to the side giving the camera the best view of the action anyway fortnight did run great and with competitive quality settings you'd be looking at over 100 yes at all times then for a drastic change of pace I fired up f1 2018 and hit the Bahrain circuit using the maximum quality preset with ta enabled in that turn your P frame rates mostly hopping at around 80 to 90 fps with the occasional dip down to 70 FPS again the experience was great the game was very smooth and their visuals were impressive moving on shuttle the Tomb Raider provided this little rig with its greatest challenge yet and although couldn't push 60 FPS 1080p the performance was still decent and most importantly very playable using the high quality preset the game looks amazing and what 40 to 50 FPS was enjoyable another great looking game is the recently released Resident Evil 2 and despite the impressive visuals frame rates using the second highest quality preset mostly fluctuated between 60 to 70 FPS so good news you can have the absolute crap scared out of you without any dropped frames next up for all you World of Tanks fans I quickly gave the standalone benchmark a whirl using the maximum quality settings at 1080p and I found this little mini ITX build was able to keep frame rates above 60fps at all times so again another smooth and enjoyable experience assassins create Odyssey like shuttle of the tomb right I mostly played it between 40 and 50 fps also like Tomb Raider you don't really need a whole lot of frames in this game to really enjoy it that's it with a few small tweaks you could get a consistent 60 FPS with this setup Just Cause 4 is another title we're achieving an average of 60 fps shouldn't be that difficult using the maximum quality settings at 1080p soft frame rates in the high 40s when driving around then 60 when walking grappling and gliding around the environment so pretty decent performance there unfortunately overlay software like rivatuner doesn't work and Forza horizon 4 but the built-in benchmark reported an average of 67 fps and as you can clearly see here it played very well especially given how great it looks and lastly I fired up hitman is this isn't a particularly AMD your eyes and friendly title but I have to say it did play very well maxed out at 1080p the framerate said about 60 FPS at all times and we're often seen hovering around 70 FPS so another solid result here outside of the usual FPS numbers have to say really impressed with how the system ran I was very doubtful of how cool and quiet it actually would be but yeah turned out to be very cool and quiet so again quite surprising that the graphics card fans spun at about 1700 rpm which is very similar to what I see on the open test bench so yeah really impressive stuff there's not a whole lot of ventilation in the side panel there but regales that seemed to work really well even with just a single 120 millimeter exhaust fan because the graphics card itself only picked 75 degrees and that was after an hour-long stress test running f1 2018 on just an endless loop which I ran for an hour so yeah that's that's a good temperature there I didn't run any CPU stress tests anything like blender or a power bug thing like prime95 didn't do any of that it's just focused purely on gaming I went gaming I think the r5 2600 it peaked with the Wraith stealth box cooler at about 65 degrees and I think the title that did that in was hitman so walked around those crowds or quite heavy utilization there on the rise and 5 CPU and yet got 65 degrees which is very very cool so again considering we only have a single 120 millimeter exhaust fan that's really a great result I'm not even sure how we got such a great result out of this case because it doesn't look heavily ventilated not a lot of air is getting shoved in there so yeah impressive stuff it's a shame that a lot of modern cases don't work as well as this one not sure what magics going on there but anyway throwing to more top 120-millimeter or I think 140 millimeter fans and the top that would obviously help cram a lot more air through the case and probably help reduce possibly the graphics card it would do a lot for the CPU on the motherboard sure like the graphics card because that's on the outside you might have to open up the side panel to improve that but honestly you really don't need to overall I'm really pleased with that little gaming box has to offer particularly for the money and while I suspect in five to six months you'll probably be able to build something better I honestly don't think you can go to wrong with this build if you'll just to pull the trigger on it now especially if you're desperate to build a gaming system you've been holding out but you heard that we've got the Zen to processes coming you see all the Navi rumors that pop up everyday I'd probably forget about all that stuff and just build something like this because as I said you really can't go to wrong and you there's always the opportunity to upgrade later to a Zen to processor or whatever but for 1080p gaming and the sort of stuff this systems doing it's really going to be unnecessary also who knows what could happen to the PC market in six months time we could have another horror repeat of 2018 cryptocurrency makes a comeback and well I don't need to say any more you guys know what happens when that sort of thing happens but I'm not trying to scare anyone I'm not trying to upset anybody I'm just saying who knows what will happen I don't have a crystal ball I don't know what's gonna happen to the PC market in six months time all I'm saying is if you've been if you've been holding out you're desperate for new gaming rig I feel like now is a pretty good time to build one and something like this for $700 us is what the total build cost came to you you really can't go to wrong I don't think you'll be kicking yourself in six months time and again you can upgrade so this has a great upgrade path you can whack us into your processor and then of course you can upgrade the graphics card shouldn't need to upgrade the memory any time soon storage you won't need to you can add a big mechanical drive for storing older games and things on there don't think you can go to wrong I'm not trying to push anyone towards building this kind of system it's just try to give you all the things to think about and all the options because waiting may not be the best thing to do or it could turn out to be a smart thing to do if you can wait anyway sort of rambling on confusing probably you myself so I'm going to end I hope you guys enjoyed this little bill I think it was pretty cool it's good fun to do something that made sense for once yeah the last build the last mini ITX build was a lot of fun but at $2,200 us it probably wasn't that practical anyway that is going to do it for this one I hope you guys enjoyed the video I hope you enjoyed seeing the live gameplay and yeah if you are gonna build something like this let me know and if you're going to change any of the components cuz you don't have to build exactly this I recommend I highly recommend the CPU and graphics card combo I think that is really the best bang for your buck but there's a few different motherboard options plenty different case options plenty of storage and memory options so have to go exactly with what I've given you it's just a rough guide anyway like subscribe support us on patreon if you like I'm your host Steve thanks for watching and I'll see you again next time you