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welcome back to how our unboxed a bit of a different look to the studio for this one and that is because we have the unique opportunity to test out a few custom pre built gaming systems that are based on hardware from our top five CPU and GPU videos however before I get too far into it I would like to just let you guys know this is sponsored content PC case key is paying me for my time so yet just want to make that crystal clear having said that if I didn't honestly believe their service to be one of the absolute best available for Australians I wouldn't be promoting them on the channel now this opportunity came about when PC case key reached out and asked us if we'd like to work with them to create a few harbours unboxed certified computers and well that sounded like a whole lot of fun and I just couldn't resist the temptation to yeah make a few computers that you guys could purchase if you weren't able to or didn't want to build your own and for those of you unaware we have worked with PC case care quite a bit so we have a bit of history with them they've been well they've become really good friends of the channel I think that's one way of putting it they've supported us quite a bit with our various ideas one that comes to mind was we asked them if we could borrow about a dozen core i7 87 okay processors and to my surprise they agreed so that allowed us to an interesting overclocking investigation and that was very much appreciated and quite a few of our patreon members and other viewers have bought and dealt with PC case key quite a bit and they've got a really good reputation so yeah we're we're very happy to work with them to create some really cool pre-built gaming systems this also isn't my first time dealing with a pre-built system from PC case gear I checked out a system last year and I was really impressed with the presentation from the packaging when it arrived at taking it all out it was really well packaged transported really nicely then cable management and everything was excellent and of course allowed to do was plug everything in hit the power button and a Buddha straight into Windows so really nice experience that and I've recommended them to a few friends to friends have actually bought pre-built systems from them since then and they've been really impressed with the quality and as standard they do offer two-year return to base warranty and that covers parts labor and shipping so getting to the pre-built computers we have here there are three harbor unboxed certified gaming systems and please note all the pricing that I'm quoting in this video is in Australian dollars so if it sounds a bit higher to the US viewers that is the reason why it is Australian dollars but still for those of you who are osseous you should still find the the CPU and GPU combos quite interesting and later on the video we will look at performance and stuff like that so that should still be of interest for those of you looking for pre-built systems in your region or perhaps building your own computers having said that be aware that the Hardware pics are based on pricing and availability in this region and for things such as memory storage cases and power supplies we've had to stick with the brands PC case key works with ok so enough with the disclaimers time to check these gaming rigs out let's start with the unboxed 16 60 TI gaming system as the name suggests this one gets our best mid-range GPU pick the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 16 60 TI and we're pairing it with our best value of around a desktop CPU the rise in v 2600 you guys know I'm a big fan of the value offered by the GTX 1660 TI and the r5 2600 so sticking them together will no doubt be a winning combo as for the graphics card model used we're going with the msi gtx 1660 TI gaming ex i've reviewed this one on the channel already and i found it to be of excellent quality so it makes sense to use here then to ensure success we're sticking them on the msi b 450 m motor which is one of the best and 4 motherboards you can get certainly in this price range and certainly for a micro ATX motherboard you guys are always asking no rather demanding more micro ATX builds so i thought it'd be pretty fitting to make one of our first pc case key harbour unbox certified builds micro ATX as for the memory we're using a 16 gigabyte kit of ten groups t4 stark ddr4 3200 i've used this stuff in the past and it is excellent value memory then for storage pc case key likes to use the a data XP g sx 6000 pro m2 nvme SSD and they're selling the 256 gigabyte model for just $80 so seems be a good fit to me and when paired with a two terabyte Seagate Barracuda there's plenty of secondary storage for meteor and whatever else you like to put on large hard drives all of this hardware has been meticulously placed inside the fantex Eclipse p300 along with the be quiet pure power 11 500 watt power supply and adjust things up a little they've thrown in some fan text 120 millimeter RGB LED fan frames come on guys its 2019 you can't expect them to try and sell a gaming system without any RGB lighting we don't make the rules the total build cost comes to sixteen hundred and seventy nine dollars and that includes a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows 10 with the two-year warranty that I spoke of earlier so if you were to buy these parts and put it together yourself without an operating system it costs fourteen hundred and twenty nine dollars and then with a genuine copy of Windows 10 home expect to pay around fifteen hundred and ninety eight dollars that means for assembling and a two year warranty PC case carriers charging eighty two dollars the labor over what you could buy the parts for individually that's pretty impressive because putting one of these systems together isn't super fast and then once you install over hardware do the cable management install windows drivers and get it all ready that is quite a bit of work and I have to say the build quality is excellent cable management is very good and this isn't some special review all the systems come exactly as you see here now for those of you who aren't interested in compact micro ATX builds we do have a larger mid tower version with a few upgrades as our best high-end 1440p GPU pick we're of course going with the geforce r-tx 2060 and since we recommended both the Rison 526 hundred and twenty six hundred x as our best value or on a desktop cpu this build gets a small upgrade to the 2600 x as you can see this built is housed inside the LAN leal and cool one digital a beautiful looking case with tempered glass been keeping things simple we have the same be quiet pure power 11 500 watt power supply a data nvme 256 gigabyte SSD see you go to terabyte hard drive and the same team group ddr4 3200 memory of course we have changed the motherboard to suit the larger mid tower and there are a few options better than the MSI B 450 tomahawk it is after all our best value all around a be 450 motherboard it has the best vrm of all available be 450 motherboards with the only exception being Emma size own gaming Pro carbon which is more expensive again then providing a little extra bling is a 3-pack of Lili Bora light RGB 120 millimeter fans so the total bill for this model comes to eighteen hundred and $99 Ozzie which again is incredibly reasonable for this kind of hardware configuration now moving on we have the granddaddy the biggest heaviest most powerful build of the three the unboxed 2080 as our best extreme GPU winner alongside the r-tx 2080 TI the geforce r-tx 2080 is the obvious choice for this high-end build therefore we're going with the Isuzu force our TX 2080 dual fan OC so this system will be targeting high refresh rate 1440p gaming as for the cpu that was a bit of a tougher choice there is the risin 720 700 or 2700 X Core i7 87 okay I 797 okay and I 919 900k but given the 9900 K cost more than twice as much as the 2700 and doesn't often noteworthy gains with an RT X 20 80 at 1440p for me it's out the 9700 K is also too expensive at six hundred and seventy dollars leaving us with the choice of the 87 RK for $600 or the rise in seven 2700 for just three hundred and sixty dollars I had contemplated going with the 2700 X but right now it is a hundred and ten dollars more and frankly I can't justify that premium for a factory overclock and a slightly better box cooler but rewinding a little bit when it comes to picking between the rise and 7 and core i7 options both really will deliver a similar gaming experience and we've proved that time and time again with our benchmarks so the reason why I'm going with the rise and 7 processor is because of its superior upgrade path you will be able to take advantage of those upcoming Zen to processors and that'll provide a really nice upgrade so for me I feel more comfortable recommending Rison at this price point especially for this kind of build also once you factor in the cost of a decent cooler it pushes the total build cost over $3,000 Ozzy if you were to go at the core i7 processor now housing this high-end build is the impressive-looking fantex Eclipse P 600 s which can be quickly configured to either maximize airflow or minimize operating volume there's a large insert in the front of the case which when removed reveals a mesh panel that allows the front mounted case fans to gulp air then adding a bit of bling once again we have some RGB accessories this time we've included 240 centimeter fan tech digital RGB LED light strips along with a fan text halos 140 millimeter RGB LED fan frame and that's been installed in the rear oh and just a capital off nicely we have some team group T Force Nighthawk ddr4 3200 RGB memory because well why not the storage has also been upgraded to the Samsung 970 Evo plus + vm a SSD and we're using the 500 gigabyte version while the Seagate Barracuda 2 terabyte has once again been used for these secondary storage we're also again using the be quite pure power 11 though this time has been upgraded to the 600 watt model to handle the added load so to purchase this rig you'll need two thousand eight hundred and ninety nine Australian dollars that's $1,000 more than the horizon 526 hundred x / g-force our TX 2060 version but it will enable considerably higher frame rates at 1440p speaking of which I think we've drooled over these builds long enough now it's time to see how they perform of course for a really detailed benchmark information please refer to our big benchmark breakdowns featuring the gtx 1660 TI RT x 2060 and RT x 2080 what i was really interested to check out was how hot these gaming pcs are run the components certainly will look good but how do they go and thrown together to find out let's first look at the gtx 1660 TI system and see how it got on after an hour of f1 2018 here we see the msi geforce gtx 1660 TI gaming expected just 67 degrees and this is of course inside the fantex eclipse p 300 oh and this is also with an ambient air temperature of 21 degrees and on that note i should just point out that all tests were conducted with these same ambient temperature that's really a great result for the gtex 6et i and we see that the horizon 520 600 also did very well hitting just 62 degrees and that's with the Wraith stealth box cooler granted f1 2018 isn't an extreme cpu test but for a game the cpu load is fairly typical now for comparison we have these slightly more powerful GeForce r-tx 2060 gaming system with the risin 5 2600 X and please note you can't directly compare the frame rates here because the footage is random after an hour so each system is rendering a completely different section of the track this PC is of course using the msi geforce r-tx 2060 ventus XS OC and we saw a peak at 69 degrees making it just a few degrees warmer than the gtx 1660 TI the horizon 520 600 X has of course been upgraded with the Wraith spire cooler so despite the increase in clock speed the CPU temperatures only increased by a few degrees and that's all them peak at just 64 degrees though for the most part operating temperatures were around 61 62 degrees so these are some great temperatures for the Lian allele and cool one digital and those extra 120 millimeter fans are no doubt helping out here quite a bit then finally we have the RT X 2080 system inside the fantex Eclipse P 600 s along with the AMD risin 7 2700 the associate X 2080 dual fan OC graphics card picked 75 degrees which is still an excellent result especially for such a high-end graphics card meanwhile the rise in 720 700 with the wraith spire peaked at just 56 degrees though only briefly as it typically operated around 54 to 55 degrees now we just have a very brief look at a few games again for detailed GeForce GTX 1662 I RT X 2060 and RT X 2080 benchmarks I'll link those in the video description also please note that the GTX 1660 Ti and RC x 2060 systems were tested at 1080p while the RT x 20 idea was compared at 1440p as you can see all three systems pushed well over 60 fps and fortnight with the maximum quality settings the RT X 2060 was a little fast in the GTX 1662 as you'd expect while the RT X 28 II was able to deliver comparable performance while rendering at the higher 1440p resolution then we see performance in battlefield 5 is also excellent the GTX 1662 iRig maintained well over 60 fps at all times while the r-tx 20/80 managed to our class the r-tx 2060 is spite rendering at 1440p World War Z also proved to be of little challenge for these PC case geared gaming pcs the GTX 1662 I rendered around 100 FPS while the r-tx 2060 was around 10 to 15 percent faster and the ITX 2080 was again comparable despite rendering at a higher resolution even the division 2 with the ultra quality preset was a breeze for these systems the gtx 660ti averaged over 60 FPS at all times while the r-tx 2060 was again 10 to 15 percent faster then the r-tx 2080 also matched the 2060s 1080 performance despite once again rendering at 1440p much the same we're seen when testing with far cry new dawn so again all three pcs delivered excellent performance oh and there's one last test I'd like to do and that's operating volume but you'll probably need some headphones for this one so there you have it all three gaming pcs were extremely quiet when under load and I was actually quite surprised by just how quiet they were that Oh soos GeForce r-tx 2080 dual fan OC graphics card has a surprisingly massive cooler and with a peak fan speed of around 750 rpm you really can't hear it the msi geforce r-tx 2060 ventus XS OC that was a little more noticeable but in that system it was the LAN Lieber alight RGB fans that made the most noise I'm not quite sure if there was something a little bit wrong with these fans because it wasn't the air movement that was causing the noise it was more of an electrical noise than hum for about five seconds then they'd fall silent for a second and they'd repeat over and over again quite odd that one I'll have to talk to the guys at PC case gear about this issue to see if it was just these fans or perhaps we need to switch to a different three Packer fans still it's certainly not a deal breaker and I just saw all three systems did run exceptionally well the GeForce GTX 1662 I proved once again why it's a favorite of mine it's really a great value option then for some serious 1440p gaming you really can't go past the ITX 2080 and of course if you want to that card will also work at 4k as for the Rison 507 processors well they performed very well and proved once again why they're such great value processors i didn't delve into any ray-tracing or deal SS demonstrations in this video naturally all three systems support these features so if you're interested in performance please check out Tim's work anyway it was great to see how these three rigs turned out and it was kind of nice getting to pick all the hardware and then outsource all the hard work to PC case gear and then when they were done with that they just handed them over to me and I got to play with them a bit see that was that was a lot of fun but yeah I'm really pleased with how they've turned out and if I had to pick one of the three builds well that's pretty obvious I'd go with the unboxed 20/80 because in my opinion that one looks the best and of course it is the most powerful and most expensive but yeah that's that's the most impressive of the three rigs of course but if I had to pick one of them well I was purchasing with my own money and I wasn't I didn't have a huge budget let's say I wasn't super keen to part with a large sum of money then I think the unboxed 1662 I would probably be my number one choice because the value for money there is just amazing and yet quite incredible what you get with this system for well under $2,000 Ozzy and that is going to do it for this one big thank you to PC case key for sponsoring this video and supporting the channel and we don't do a whole lot of sponsored content so yeah when opportunities like this come up I think it is a it's good to do because it's a well this partnership makes sense and I think it's content that a lot of you guys will enjoy and yeah we get paid for our hard work so that's always nice it's a bit of a win-win but anyway thank you very much for watching and hopefully you did enjoy this video if you did you hit the like button you can subscribe for more content and if you really appreciate our work then you can consider supporting us on patreon you get access to our discord chat monthly live streams all that good stuff anyway once again thank you for watching I'm your host Steve and I'll see you again next time you