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fractal venturi fans love radiators yes they do hello everyone welcome to Paul's hardware this is my monthly builds video for August 2015 and I'm going to call this the skylight condition I know it's a little bit late it's actually August 13th now but I wanted to wait until the skylake processors were out because I wanted to do builds based on the skylake processors another question you guys might have is what about those July a builds that you also did all because you said you were gonna build one I am still gonna build one I'm gonna build the x99 entry level system I have all the parts for that skylight kind of push that back a little bit but like I said in that video even if you're building on x99 right now and even though skylight came out in the interim x99 still like the high level dizziest platform and it's still a very very good way to go but for today's video I have two builds to share with you guys one of them is the $1,000 balanced build that was actually requested by y'all last month so I posted this draw poll a bunch of people responded thanks to all you guys who voted and as you can see at the top there is the all-rounder 800 $2,000 multi-purpose build so I went for it dollars and then also on this list we had some other we had votes for other things the other build I'm doing is more of a high-end gaming build so I guess you could kind of say you guys voted for that one as well and since these are skylake builds it just kind of makes sense that I'm using the two new skylake processors to base them off of so these 6600 K which is about $250 right now and the 6700 K which is about 350 dollars right now so with that all said let's go ahead and dive in but actually no no no let's not dive in yet let's also share with you guys in chat and whatnot the straw poll for this month so you guys can already start voting on that and feel free to do so what kind of systems builds do you wanna see for September I kept some of the ones I'm from last month such as the mini ITX overkill system I did a 4k gaming system for $440,000 which might be interesting and that would be including monitor and peripherals do another console killer try to redeem myself there video editing system silent or fanless HT PC or a really really cheap system similar to the one that Kyle recently built so those are your options they are feel free to vote if you're watching this on youtube links to all this stuff is down in the description but let's get started I'm using PC part picker for these builds as I have been continuing to do because it's a great website to put together builds and kind of get low prices on things so this is the more expensive build this is the route right about two thousand dollar price points this one's based on the 6700 K and I went ahead and threw a gtx 980ti in there as well for the graphics card so 67 okay we're gonna NZXT Crake Crake in or kraken however you want to pronounce that X 61 gigabyte z170 ex-gay mning motherboard Corsair Vengeance memory of course our Neutron XT SSD and EVGA geforce gtx 980ti 68 video card NZXT Noctis 450 and of course 850 watt power supply this build is another build that I'm also going to be building and I said that last month but what you guys have looking forward to very soon so you should make sure to subscribe to my channel is like back-to-back builds I'm gonna do the this skylight build and then I'm also going to be doing the other build from last month the x99 entry-level build mate maybe I'll like pit them against each other or something but let's run down the parts of course the 6700k processor this is the new skylake good it's actually on sale now three 360 at NCIX but it should be around three 350 360 bucks it's a really good processor for my testing so far you can get decent overclocks on at four point six two 4.8 gigahertz you do need a cooler for it so that's why we got the in sixty NZXT Kraken X 61 which is a nice big 280 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler for men's ext in that pairs of nicely with the case weight I wanted to show the case next right the case go ah there's the case they have too many tabs and they're all tiny there's a case which is the NZXT Noctis 450 so this is the kind of these successors sort of to the NZXT h 440 and i never actually built in the h 440 although it did get many many good reviews and feedbacks and all that good stuff so I'm gonna build in this one now and this one's cool it's got like ground effect lighting and stuff like that just kind of kind of pretty cool so we'll be taking a look at this one and you know a nice big side panel window and all that good stuff and this is what is it 140 but I think you can actually get it for as cheapest whereas where'd that go ah 138 well 130 on Newegg if you get an instant rebate alright so apart from the case CPU CPU cooler we also have this gigabytes z170 X gaming 7 motherboard this is kind of this is kind of a black white and red build all together so so that's how that went I guess and this motherboard actually so the motherboard I'm using in the build is about $220 right now the motherboard I'm actually gonna build with is this one and I'm actually I'm actually not even sure yet this is gonna fit because this is an e 2e ATX board and I don't know if it'll fit in that case if it doesn't then I'll probably end up just sitting up gigabyte and seeing if I can get to gaming 7 because this one is like the flagship z170 board from gigabyte and it's 500 freakin dollars which is cool for some people but that's pretty expensive also for the memory for this build I'm using some Corsair Vengeance lpx series ddr4 so this is a 2 by 8 gig kit and I and I can show you the pricing and whatnot for that - theoretically I like this kit because it's nice low profile black ones in 2666 beats a decent little overclock not that memory overclocking gets you a whole lot of extra performance but it's gonna do a good job and it's 2 by 8 gigs which means you have upgrade potential I always like having upgrade potential so the two by eight gigs will allow you to add two more sticks of the future if you wanted to update it to 32 we also have of course our Neutron XT SSD for an 80 gig you might notice that I don't really do a whole lot of like like hard drives and builds these days and there's a specific reason for that it's because I think for your money the SSD is more important that's gonna get you more performance out of the gate and I think most all of us have an old hard drive lying around a 1 or 2 terabyte you know hard drive that we don't use anymore or carrying it over from an older system or grab that hard drive that we talked about on the on the live show the other day which is like 50 bucks for a 2 terabyte because it's really not that much money but I prefer to have that flexibility when it comes to it but as far as the SSD itself this Neutron XT has gotten amazingly good reviews it's a 480 gig so it's gonna give you plenty of room for us and lots of games and apps and stuff so happy with that one the video card has already mentioned as a gtx 980ti I chose the generic one here because I have one so that's what I'm gonna put in the build this is also kind of a diplomatic choice because there's so many 980ti is out there in different variants and I have the EVGA one but it wouldn't really match with this build as much so I'm just going to go ahead and use this one and if you guys are actually putting the system together go ahead and you know pick your poison as far as other 980ti czar that are out there because there's a bunch of really good examples okay power supply is of course there are m8 50 i this is a brand new power supply course they're just announced this series at Computex and actually available in the market now these are 80 plus gold they're fully modular they're they're very nice units they're black and white which is going to blend in with a lot of a lot of different system builds and I like that all the modular cables as you probably can't tell too well here are all black as well so those are going to blend in and and match and not gonna get the nasty different-colored cable thing going on oh wait I'm skipping forward so yeah that's that's my that's my $2,000 sky like 6700 K build and I think this one's gonna be a beast and as mentioned I'm out I'm gonna be putting this together so stay tuned for that one coming in the future next up is the thousand dollar all-around build and when it comes to an all-around build I guess I would ask the question what do you mean like buy an all-around build well basically I'm looking for something that's just not specifically aimed at like gaming although gaming is obviously going to be a very key thing that you do with this system but it means that you're looking for a more powerful CPU for example you're not necessarily going to go for a more budget oriented CPU because you're going to want to be able to do other things with it besides just game and often you can get away with the lower end CPU if all you're doing is gaming it also means I'm going for a slightly more powerful GPU and then it also means that I want to have again as I usually do with builds lots of upgrade potential I want to be able to add things on to this to make it do other things and just what it can do out of the box and if it wasn't already obvious by everything I've already said we're starting out with the 6600 K for the base level CPU for this build so there's a whole build together oh look the price went down I built this all last night and it was 999 dollars and I was like perfect just under $1,000 so then this morning I looked and it was a thousand twenty dollars because the prices they change all the time but now by the time the video started I think this is thanks to a couple mil and rebates that got applied oh the price of the power supply dropped down it's down under a thousand again so 996 here also got a 6600 K a hyper 212 Evo an MSI z170a crate motherboard a data 2x4 gig memory kit SanDisk 240 GB SSD and Asus GTX 970 graphics card NZXT s340 case and an EVGA 500 watt power supply so let's kind of rundown each of these little components here and we'll talk a little bit about each one 6600 K obviously goes without saying this is overclockable case q quad-core no hyper threading but a very good processor I actually have one of these on the way so I'm going to be doing some 6600 k testing very soon and apart from that it doesn't with a power supply with a CPU cooler so there's a cooler master hyper 212 which is kind of my go-to defaults because it's like 25 30 bucks does a really good job cooling and it's 25 or 30 bucks i kenneth i was scouring around because i actually put some thought into the the aesthetics and the look of this build and I wanted something I wanted like something that looks a little bit nicer because I have 4 to 12 it's just you know it's got the bare aluminum and copper you might consider this inner max I know I talk about the inner max ETS T 40 and I've used a black one a couple times I just feel like it's the best like as far as a good-looking cooler that is available in a couple colors white and black does a really good job cooling as well it's only like 10 15 dollars more than a hyper 212 although they seem to be harder to find these days so anyway keep an eye out for that one if the hyper 212 isn't your cup of tea or you want to make things look a bit prettier moving on to the graphics card this is a geforce gtx 970 and maybe some of you are looking at that this video right now is and scowling and saying pol why are you putting a 1970 in this build well I have an answer for you I'm gonna come back to it in just a moment but this I thought was a unique little card from Asus you don't see non reference cards that actually have blower style style coolers very often so I kind of like the look at this card if if you're doing a specialty build and when I chose it I kind of based some of the other aesthetics of the system around this one so that's why I went for example with the white NZXT s340 case which is right here I hope I can mouse over this stuff cuz this is some weird then I got some weird stuff going on ya see it doesn't work doesn't work with it used to anyway s340 this is like hardware connects gave this like a best value or bang for the buck something like that award it's like you can get this as cheap as like 55 dollars sometimes when it's on sale ATX case fits everything in there nice and easy and it's available in black or whites and I chose the white one here because it's like black it's it's again kind of black white and red I guess this is a theme with a lot of my builds that's why also for the motherboard I went with this MSI z170a crate which is black and whites and a little bit of red and will blend in beautifully I like this board because it's a it's got your z170 features it's got all kind of the the base level z170 features that you would want only hundred fifty bucks and a very nice look to the board as well I like what MSI has done with a lot of their crate series motherboards for memory I was looking for some white memory couldn't really find much ddr4 that was White's look for black and I was just it was kind of played out so I was like oh well we got black white and red going on here why don't we do some accent with the xpg from a data nice black PCBs red heat spreaders and I think as an accent color in this bill that would look nice of course if you don't want this specific memory it's really easy to swap out a different two by four gigabyte kit that's the main point here is you want a two by four gig kit which will kind of get you in there on the ddr4 train dual channel not a whole lot of money and then gives you a couple of upgrade slots again in the future to add more memory in a day that has apparently a large robot that uses its memory as wings that's been fantastic alright SSD as mentioned I'm gonna I gotta go with an SSD for this so this is a SanDisk 240 gig this is their SSD plus slightly older it's not quite as fast as the brand-new ones but honestly for a 240 gig SSD it's really fast $78 and it's black and red and it matches as well I like SanDisk's SSDs because they actually manufacture than and I think they didn't and pretty sure they do than and and I think this one might have a SandForce controller in it but that's still okay and then for the power supply with the EVGA 500 B this is an 80 plus bronze 500 watt power supply which has more than enough juice for a 970 based system but going back to those of you who might have looked at this build and thought Paul why did you go with the 970 you can get more performance for your dollar for $1000 system and I would say yes and that's why you guys get a bonus build right yeah for bonus builds it hit the like button if you want a bonus wait hit the like button if you enjoyed bonus builds or if you liked the video I guess this is a thousand dollar all-rounder very very similar configuration to the one I just showed you however this one I've swapped out just a few parts in order to give us an AMD based graphics card instead of an Nvidia based graphics card and that is the msi r9 398 gig and actually ended up swapping out three pieces for this slightly altered build because we have an r9 390 which uses decently a decent amount more power a good hundred watts more than what you need for a 970 so with this we also have an upgraded power supply wait wait there it is the EVGA 600v and actually if you're looking at the other the nvidia base one you might just go ahead and get this power supply as well because it was it was as cheap as 50 bucks is only like five or eight dollars more than the 500 watt version and it's got pretty much all the same features and everything very solid power supplies from EVGA yeah it's a it's an it's nice that they have had those coming in at a pretty low price they're partially modular and then for this one since we didn't have that white 970 from Asus I went for the black version of the S 340 so you could swap that out as well so three different parts there and you end up coming in wow the price is actually also dropped on this last night this was about a thousand twenty and now it's a thousand one thousand 187 so still coming in at just about the same price point main difference with AMD side is you're going to be using more power so it's not going to be as efficient but you're gonna get a decent boost when it comes to like frame rate and everything and the the r9 390 has eight gigs of gddr5 memory whereas the GTX 970 has 3.5 gigs well it's got four gigs but 3.5 they're good and then the rest is yeah yeah we've already we've all discussed the GTX 970 thing in the past so there we go that is my two builds actually two plus one build since I did a double build for the thousand dollar system I hope you guys have enjoyed this but I'm always looking for your feedback so post in the comments and let me know what you thought of these builds always looking for like alternates are variants or like hey I did the same price point with a few other part swapped out and maybe a little bit more performance I was like those types of things because it's always fluctuating and there's always more you can do but stay tuned for the July x99 build as well as that $2,000 build maybe I should go back to this stay tuned for the July x99 build that I'm gonna be doing soon also stay tuned for the this $2,000 that I showed you today because I will be building that very soon as well other than that you can visit my store if you are interested in shirts mugs or glasses that stored up Paul's hardware net you can buy some of those things to help me out in my channel of course you can like the video subscribe to my channel for all that stuff I've already talked about and as always thank you for watching