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welcome back to hammer on box today we're going to be making a gaming PC not quite sure what kind of gaming PC but I do know it will have a heck of a lot of suits hardware so that being the case firstly let me just get this other way this is not sponsored content a soos did provide the hardware for free but that is the extent of it so they approached me said would you like to build a PC using a lot of our new hardware and yeah I said what sounds like a lot of fun so let's do it better be crystal clear I was not paid to make this video but stay if free hardware is getting paid well then if that's the case then I guess we have been paid for almost every video we've ever done on the channel so yeah sure let me be a little more specific on that one we aren't getting paid using any recognized currency and we can do whatever the hell we like with this hardware that is to say there's been no rules or guidelines set by a soos and let's be honest I always do whatever the hell I want anyway so getting to the actual build on hand I have what looks to be a rather somewhat random assortment of hardware like I said a soos just approached me they said we have a new case we have a new all-in-one liquid cooler and a new power supply and yeah we'll put that together with some other hardware that we're quite well known for such as graphics cards and motherboards and you can do a build so yeah that's pretty much what's landed us here but yeah they throw in the tough Zed 390 + gaming Wi-Fi so a motherboard that supports Intel processors and then the ROG Strix gtx 660ti which is a graphics card that supports games does so quite well and then they've also teamed up with team group we would like to do a lot of yeah I won't use that that pun anyway this provided some tough RGB memory so that should go pretty well with our tough motherboard and then we have a tough SSD so yeah it's gonna be pretty tough and since we do have an Intel as it 390 motherboard and a GTX 16 DTA I thought probably a perfect pairing for this kind of hardware combo would be that new core i5 9500 F processor that I just purchased for the comparison with the horizon 5 2600 so that would be a I think that's fair to say that would be a perfect fit for this build but then I realized we have this guy a 240 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler and it doesn't really make sense to throw one of those on a locked Intel CPU will be nice and cool and quiet but probably overkill a 20-dollar air cooler will achieve pretty much the same thing on that part so that being the case I sprung for another new processor the core i5 9600 K and quite shockingly I've never actually tested or reviewed that CPU before so yeah I thought this would be a pretty good opportunity to snag one for future testing with that sorted it's time to get building so while I put this thing together I'll talk about the parts used rather than play some background music first up let's talk about the tough gaming GT 501 case this thing is an absolute beauty and despite being released late last year I really haven't seen that many reviews or builds using it so I'm glad we can check it out obviously looks are subjective but for a gaming focus case I really do like the look of this thing what's not subjective though is the price and at 140 dollars u.s. it's certainly not cheap but for a case of this build quality size and design it's not outrageous either granted something like the fractal design mesh fic is much cheaper at around $90 u.s. but you don't get quite the same level of features inside the GT 501 comes with three 120 millimeter or RGB fans pre-installed and there in the front there also rated for 1,200 rpm and then there's a single 140 millimeter PWM fan in the rear you can also expand upon this setup with 3 120 millimeter fans or 2 140 millimeter fans in the top of the case as for radiators you can fit up to a 360 millimeter out in the top or front with a 140 millimeter rad in the rear if you're not interested in liquid cooling then the case can support up to a 180 millimeter tall air cooler as for the graphics card there's really no length limit here as you can put graphics cards as long as 420 millimeters and the same kind of applies for the power supply 240 I will fit just fine for storage there's for two and a half or three and a half combo drive cages and then adjacent from the motherboard tray there are three two and a half drive bays oh and for the motherboard you can fit up to a 12 inch by ten point nine inch extended ATX motherboard a soos calls this thing their mobile battle station and despite weighing almost eleven kilos and that's empty they encourage you to Logan around with a pair of woven cotton carry handles and they say these are safer transport up to thirty kilograms so who said computer nerds don't workout getting this build started I quickly installed the core i5 9600 k processor onto the asou stuff is added 390 + gaming Wi-Fi motherboard along with the 16 gigabyte kit of team groups T force Delta tough gaming RGB ddr4 3200 cell 16 memory the mother board costs $180 us and only features a basic four phase vrm and for less the gigabyte Zed 390 or SLE it offers a true six phase vrm so I'm not necessarily recommending the tough model especially at this price point but it is what we're using for this seuss theme to build I haven't personally tested this motherboard but that is something I can do in the future with the motherboard processor and memory install I decided to hook up the Isuzu ROG Ryu 240 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler since we already have three fans pre-installed in the front of the case and the GTX 1660 Ti doesn't really dump that much heat I've decided to top mount the radiator forcing the heat generated by the Core i5 processor at the top of the case the cooler is another reasonably expensive item costing 155 dollars u.s. though to be fair that makes it cheaper than similar specter items from Corsair there are cheaper models though available from the likes of Coolermaster deep cool EVGA and a Max and Thermaltake for example so make sure you check reviews comparing those models then powering everything is the lowest end power supplier soos offers the beastly rog Thor 850 it's an 80 plus Platinum 850 watt fully modular RGB power supply with a live - OLED panel and a 10 year warranty so naturally it's not gonna be cheap two hundred and five dollars for this one so yeah certainly not cheap if you want a cheap 850 watt power supply again get something like the horse scx 850 MV 2 or the BitFenix whisper em they both cost just $90 and even if you want a platinum rated model there are much cheaper options such as the g.skill PS 850 p or the corsair HX 850 both of those cost just one hundred and forty dollars us for around the $200 mark so the same price as the Isuzu unit you can get 1200 watt units from FSP and Thermaltake such as the tough power grant RGB 1200 watt that said none of these units have an oled display so depending on how much importance and value you place on that the ROG thought might be worth the asking price next i installed the team group t force delta s tough gaming RGB SSD into the bottom mounting position for this build we only have the 250 gigabyte version and it sells for around $50 u.s. that said though I'd never personally buy this particular model as you can get twice the storage capacity for $20 more so a 40% increase for a hundred percent more storage so yeah just get the 500 gigabyte version of the T force Delta s but it is a pretty cool SSD with the RGB lighting I kind of mocked the whole are GB SSD thing with Tim when he first used it but in this case it does look kind of cool and be kinda nice if we had three because I think that would look pretty spectacular in this one then lastly I hooked up the ROG Strix gtx 660ti this is an awesome quality 1660 TI that I have reviewed on the channel though again it is a premium product in at 325 dollars u.s. it is a bit of a tough sell anyway we've now pieced this thing together it's time to run a few stress tests and see how it performs okay so here's my complete all seuss build or at least as a soos as you can possibly make anyone build and I think it looks pretty good I think most of you guys will agree it's not too over-the-top not too gamer II but it is meant to be pretty gamer ish and I think it's yeah kind of a nice balance there it's not yeah too ridiculous anyway I quite like it let me know what you guys think in the comments section below if I were building this computer here or a similar computer for myself or for a friend change too much but I would change the power supply the ROG thought 850 it's a really nice-looking power supply actually it looks quite spectacular really even when it's not turned on but as impressive as it looks well it's pointless in this build isn't it because as you can quite plainly see or can't see there's a plastic shroud over the power supply and you could opt to not use the plastic shroud but this one of the advantages of this case is that big basement section I was pretty pretty loose and wild with the cable management on this one just quickly put it all together and shoved everything down there on the back side of the case with the door off it looks quite good because everything's just stuffed in there so you have to spend a lot more time and energy making all the cables nice and neat if you wanted to show off your power supply but yeah anyway I think in this build it is just way too expensive and yeah a bit pointless because you can't see it anyway as far as I can tell the power supply is very higher-quality so if you're building a higher end more expensive rig then it probably would make sense to use something like the ROG thought but in this instance you can easily buy a similar quality power supply for about half the price and that being the case that's what I recommend you do especially for a PC like this that's worth around $1500 us I was pretty impressed with the all-in-one liquid cooler that's got some neat features you can see the temperature here that looks kind of cool really high-quality resolution there and yeah you could change the logo and do a few things but that and performance was great so the system peaked at 88 degrees in a 20 degree room and that was after an hour of prime 95 and most crucially I should note that that was with the 9600 K overclocked to 5 gigahertz seemed to do that really easily and yeah I think 88 degrees in prime 95 after an hour with the 9600 K at 5 gigahertz is a pretty respectable result from a 240 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler after I mean I was in a bit of a hurry to get this build done so I could move on to other things so I just applied the 5 gigahertz profile in the tough is ed 390 + gaming Wi-Fi motherboards by ah and that worked really well just applied that one setting Reber of the system and I was at five gigahertz it did apply at one point two seven volts that's it was perfectly stable there but you could probably get that 88 degree load tamp down a little bit with a bit of voltage tuning because I reckon it would run with a bit less voltage but anyway for a one sort of click tune option that's pretty impressive and you could run this system 24/7 with that overclock applied without a problem as for the ROG Strix GTX 16 60 TI well that thing ran really cool as expected because it has well it has an extreme overkill heatsink on it really it's just a massive gtx 1660 Ti and I have reviewed it so we know what that one's all about it ran at 57 degrees and full load after hour of gaming and the vrm hit 43 degrees so very very cool card there that's a few degrees cooler than what we got in a Corsair crystal 570 X test case but the room temperature was a few degrees cooler as well so basically the same results we saw in our review of that card so yeah really cool and quiet card there whether it makes sense spending that much on a GTX 1662 oh well that's a completely different matter we discussed that in the review so if you want to know more about this card then check out our review of it as for gaming benchmarks not going to bother with any of those because well spoiler alert the GTX 1660 Ti performs like a gtx 660ti and we've done plenty of gtx 660ti benchmarks on the channel so I don't think we need any more when paired with a core i5 9600 K at 5 gigahertz there's no CPU bottlenecks there so you can expect the full performance that we've shown on the channel already in the end some really great temperature results there I don't believe this case has any air flow issues seem to pump a lot of cool air through it and coming out the back there and as I said everything around nice and cool so yeah personally I really like the gt500 one really nice case getting a little bit pricey probably not the most competitively priced case and it's sort of mid tower range but it's unique looking the build quality and design are excellent and it's extremely easy to work with like I said that big shroud the basement section that made cable management very easy these plenty of cable management room on the back as well comes with lots of fans pre-installed and ya ever I think it's a pretty solid offering from a soos I think this might be their first ever standalone case but not home resent sure on that one anyway it's quite a good offering and yeah with these little handles on top it makes makes transporting it relatively easy I mean it is a complete this is just over 20 kilos but yeah you can uh you can pick it up and carry it off with relative ease and that is going to do it for this video hope you guys enjoyed my all soos build challenge thing yeah turn down a bit better than I thought was going until I thought we had a real mismatch of components there but the 9600 K with the gtx 660ti it's not a bad combo you could go with an RT X 26 DNR TX 2070 or even an RT X 2080 with that CPU and get pretty good performance again it's probably not my first pick for a CPU I'd probably rather save a bit of money in this price range again something like the rise in 520 600 X makes a little bit more sense and it's got 12 threads so it may age a little bit but anyway that's a that's a whole different thing that I don't want to get into for this one enjoyed the build it was a lot of fun and it's certainly a really good gaming system so you wouldn't be disappointed with that but not really a build guide either because like I said I wouldn't use that power supply a few other things but anyway that's that's really it for this one I'm looking forward to going back through some benchmarking we have a really cool livestream coming up later in the week if Tim can get better you guys might have missed news corner on Friday a few other videos were meant to come out from Tim but he is very very sick at the moment poor little guy hopefully he will be better soon of course I'm giving him lots of support and all that sort of stuff but yeah hopefully he'll be better because Thursday we want to do a live stream build off we're going to do we're gonna build a system each for Computex that we're going to take in a bags a carry-on luggage so a desktop computer now that's going to be interesting a whole lot of fun and hopefully Tim recovers so we can do that Thursday because it was meant to happen today but it didn't so thank you for watching if you liked the video like it subscribe do all that stuff I'm your host Steve and I'll see you again next time