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hey guys how's it going and welcome back to Falls Hardware this is my monthly builds video for December 2018 every month at the beginning of the month I do a couple PC parts lists for those of you who might want to build a computer but don't necessarily know which parts to choose to put in there especially if you're looking for good deals or just perks that can fit well together now I have actually already built the PC of the month for this month it's right here so you'll be seeing this build video very soon probably the next day or two but just in case you're really antsy and you want to check out more builds check out my builds playlist if you want to see me building many other computers in the past this video is also based on your feedback so last month I asked what PC builds or what type of PC build you guys want to see this month we have a $1000 PC so we can remember 2018 pricing and compared to 2019 we'll have to of course wait a few months probably to do that but I actually don't have a strawpoll for next month for January just because it's the beginning of a new year we're starting fresh there's some new launches coming I'm also gonna be gone to Computex at the beginning of the month so don't worry though I still will do the builds video next month so don't forget to subscribe if you're not already that said let us dive in and start off with the first build for this month this is the $1,000 gaming PC as requested and I want to point out there's a bit of a theme for these two builds for this month and that is giveaway yes that's right I'm going to be giving away this system right here we're gonna be doing that during a charity livestream that's happening on Saturday in just a couple days so on December 8th Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Pacific time here in California we're gonna be live-streaming from right here me and Kyle it should be lots of fun and we're gonna raise some money for some children's charities as well so stay tuned for that and again you can enter to win you don't need to donate to the charity to enter the giveaway but you know it's always nice if you do that - point being though here's a $1000 PC build which is loosely based on this system I put together here that meaning the system I put together here was largely based around parts that I had on hand so I could put the system together here we have a very comparable system I've swapped a few parts out here and there to make things a little bit more sensible where necessary but it's a risin 5 2600 based system it's still a very solid 6 core processor 170 dollars now you were able to get this for 10 bucks less than that a week or two ago on Black Friday but that's ok still $478 great deal and it comes with a CPU cooler as well we got an Asus RG Strix motherboard we have 16 gigs of memory we have a 512 gig nvme SSD a 1070 TI as well as a defined an OS and a 550 watt 80 plus bronze rated power supply all coming in for about nine hundred and ninety four dollars so here is the processor not a whole lot to be said here it's it's a solid processor it's $170 so let's move on here is the motherboard this motherboard I specifically chose again because I have it here so I can build the system and do the giveaway you can definitely get away with a motherboard that's maybe 10 20 30 bucks cheaper than this that'd still be 450 and Mini ITX and will fit in here so feel free to peruse some of the other ones that are out there you can't get 10 bucks off this motherboard though right now with this promo code and it is a very solid motherboard overall it's got some nice features like dual RGB headers at the top both addressable and non addressable and it's also got a couple MDOT two slots one on the front here that has a heatsink over it and then there is another MDOT two on the back of the motherboard not that new a bother to take a picture of the back that trust me it's there I just built with it oh also one last thing is the audio jacks light up which is one of those kind of nice higher-end asus rog features but it's actually pretty convenient if you're trying to fumble around for plugging in mic and headphone jacks and it's dark you see the lights back there and it's a red a green and a we're adding a green light for the mic and headphone at least I forgot to tell you someone's blue anyway rememory I have of course their vengeance lpx kit because it's a long-standing kit that's always been compatible with Rison it's only hundred and thirty dollars you could get a cheaper kit than this I was finding 16 gig kits for as low as 110 or so but this is a very widely compatible kit and it's the one I used so feel free to shop around if you wanna save a little bit of money there but I can tell you with confidence that kit will work with Rison here is the SSD and this is the Intel 660 P series which is $90 for a 512 GB SSD which doesn't seem like that great of a deal if you're comparing it to the Black Friday deals that we're going on like a week or two ago it's still not bad I will say if you're looking for a 500 gig Class SSD you can get a 2.5 inch one for about 55 to 65 dollars so you could save 20 or 30 bucks here the SSD actually used in this build is the Toshiba RC 100 which is a very tiny 22:42 only 42 millimeter long SSD it's 480 gig and is nvme it's got about 16 hundred megabytes per second reads and about 1100 megabytes per second writes on this model unfortunately it's not really widely available right now from what I found so that is why I've swapped in this until SSD 660 P series SSD instead which is comparable in terms of performance and it's still not crazy expensive so that's what I did there we have it 1070 TI for the graphics card in here and I've chosen the cheapest one currently available for this builds list which is available on B and H for only three hundred and sixty dollars so that's a great deal right there that does backorder but it's affected to be available soon and I want to point out sort of a weird thing going on right now with the GTX pricing in the mid-range 410 70s 1070 T is and 10 80s there's there's just a big jump for the 1080 for some reason for the 1070 s you can get as cheap as 330 $340 1070 T is starting as low as 360 bucks maybe 380 if you want a 1080 though you really have to climb your way up this chart in fact the easiest way is just to not look at 10 70 years of 1072 eyes we can see the cheapest 1080 is 400 I'm sorry $500 which is significantly more than a 1070 TI especially given how close in performance the two are together and I think part of the reason for this is that the 2070 is taking the place of the GTX 1080 so if you're comparing the two then I would say get a 2070 over the 2080 if you're gonna be paying $500 but also that said there's like a hundred and twenty hundred and thirty dollar price drop off if you're willing to go with a 1070 TI rather than the 1080 so I think the 1070 FEI is kind of in a nice sweet spot right now when it comes to bang for the buck in the 300 to 400 dollar price range and that's why I chose that rounding things out for this build though I have an inexpensive case a fractal design to find an OS and this is a very good case my wife's current build is in this case and it's only $55 again I built the actual system in this real otário case which is a CR 280 you can get this case for seven year 80 bucks and it's a good case comparing that between the two I probably go with the defined nan OS for $55 instead it is slightly larger than this case actually but does a little bit more support in there for water cooling and it's a little bit better built in my opinion as well and lastly here's a corsair cx-5 pity watt power supply 50 bucks 550 watts 80 plus bronze rated again during Black Friday time we were finding 50 to $60 80 plus gold rated power supplies for about the same wattage so definitely still shop around and see if that's available but this is sort of a good all-around choice for a power supply and I'm pretty confident that that will remain in stock at this price so that is this build roughly a 1,000 dollar gaming PC in a little mini ITX case and again this system will be given away very soon so stay tuned to my channel for that my second build for December is significantly more expensive actually about 4,500 dollars total and it's mostly Asus products and you might look at me and say Paul what are you doing just chilling out for asus by doing an all Asus build and I will say I don't usually go this route when it comes to builds and say hey get all Asus products and put them all in there this system is also probably going to be given away this is a giveaway I've been working on with Asus for a little while now it's been delayed slightly but I will say that I had this processor arrive in the mail so I'm fairly confident this is still going forward I'm not sure if it's still gonna go through this month in December or might be pushed to January but it is a call of duty black ops 4 build with a ton of Asus hardware and it's an absolutely insane overall system again was the total retail price of about 4500 dollars and and again gonna give all of this stuff away once I build the system so highlights are the i7 9700 k-8 core processor at the heart of it and then we also have a geforce r-tx 20 80 TI the 11 gig ROG Strix Edition which currently retails if you can find it in stock for about $1400 as well as a ton of other hardware Asus peripherals and and all that good stuff so let's run down kind of the highlights here AC SRT Maximus 9 hero motherboard they have a call of duty black ops 4 edition of this and I believe actually they have call of duty black ops 4 special editions of some of this other Hardware too I wasn't able to find that all listed but you'll probably be seeing a little bit more like this so it's got some black ops 4 logo designs on the heatsinks as well as the lighting and other than that it's a Maximus 9 here which is also a solid motherboard for memory we still have decided on that so I'm assuming it's gonna be something along these lines though a 32 gig kit this is a Corsair Vengeance 200 speak it a little on the more expensive side again but what do you guys carry if it's a giveaway system there is cheaper memory than that of course but I'm getting distracted here is the graphics card which you can auto notify for $1400 at Newegg right now but this is the ROG Strix edition of the r-tx 2080 TI i actually have a couple of these they're beastly cards i really like some of the updates they've done to the design it is a phat card it's about 2.7 slots as far as the space it takes up but I really like this brace they've put along the whole thing it really makes a lot sturdier and helps combat GPU sag with that it's also got some nice lighting on there too so very similar to their previous generation but it's a good design beyond that we have a LAN Lee PCO 11 err case the Black Edition this is the airflow version with it which I think will be more appropriate for this build since there's lots of hardware going on inside a solid case so only about $110 at doing Asus is throwing in the ROG Thor 1200 watt power supply which is an insane massive power supply with RGB lights on the side and there's other features included here it's just it's basically Asus throwing the kitchen sink at a power supply and trying to over design it as much as they can so very expensive power supply but again if you win it for free what do you care here is the monitor we're going with which is the rog swift PG 2 v 8q24 point five inch so not the hugest and it is 1080 but 240 Hertz refresh yes indeed this is a high refresh rate monitor so for serious gamers who wants maximum frames for competitive gameplay or just maximum smoothness combine that with g-sync and you have a very solid gaming monitor oh and it's still got that Asus logo that shoots down onto the ground underneath the monitor as well as I guess I guess a fancy ventilation system I wasn't aware of that but there you go Mouse we got the ROG Gladius 2 or a sync currently sells for 82 bucks I've only dabbled this with with this mouse briefly but it has a pretty good feel to it then we also have the keyboard actually the keyboard I'm using right now which is the ROG Strix flair which I've actually kind of liked so far originally I thought that it didn't have the sturdiest feel to it but the more I use it actually the more I've been liking it it does have a bit of sort of a brush metal edge corner here and then it's got this kind of edge lighting here along the sides - one thing I haven't done is get the software installed so I can do some more fancy lighting right now I'm using one of the defaults that it ships with they are throwing in a headset - in the ROG Strix fusion 700 gaming headsets this I have the box for but I haven't taken it out and mess around with it too much but again looks looks pretty fancy I'm not gonna speak on this too much until I've tried it out of it myself but Asus generally does a pretty good job with their peripherals that I've seen so there is that finally you may have noticed that there's no liquid cooler right up here and that's because I added it it's actually down here because it's not currently registering on PC part picker is a liquid cooler anyway the ryujin asus rog all-in-one liquid cooler there have been a few videos that have gone up on this just recently it's pretty insane it's two hundred and eighty dollars so it's expensive for a liquid cooler but they've gone all out they've included knocked two of fans that are all black they've got some nice sleeve tubing addressable RGB LEDs as well as a NC vm coated cover I don't even know what that is there's an embedded fan fan along in the pump to help cool it off and there's a little life - full color LED display on there - so that's pretty insane when it comes to the liquid cooler of course but I really like that they paired up with Noctua for the fans and you know it seems like if you got the money to spend then it's pretty beastly of course like I've been mentioned in this whole time this is gonna be all included in a giveaway so maybe again you don't care how much this stuff costs if you happen to win it on my channel so definitely subscribe to Paul's Hardware for this giveaway coming in the future again we're still getting that some of the final parts together so I'm not a hundred percent sure when that's going to start but tons of giveaway is actually coming up this weekend in just a few days so again join us for that live stream on December 8th from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Pacific time we're going to be streaming to my twitch channel Paul's hardware will be streaming the whole thing to the combine twitch channel that can I do awesome hardware and then Kyle's gonna be streaming to his channel bit wit Kai as well so stay tuned for all that thank you guys so much for watching this video and we'll see you next time