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hey everyone and welcome to Paul's hardware this is my monthly builds video for February 2016 the way this works is that each month I create a couple builds these are parts lists they're based on your votes and your feedback and if you are looking for an actual build this video does not have it but I did build that computer behind me just yesterday and I do have a video coming on that that was one of my builds for January now we're doing February build so if you want to see that build behind me the G 32:58 build that's cost about $400 stay tuned for that should be up on Saturday I believe this month based on your feedback I'm going to be building two systems and they were based on this straw poll that I did from last month which is what PC builds DLC for February we had four options there and I did something tricky here I'm actually gonna do all four of these options but I like combine them together so we have a PC streaming and gaming system as option number one says but I combine that with the farewell to AMD and three plus system with an 83 50 because there are some brand-new 80/50 8350 boards out and I'm gonna use one of those new ones from Asus I also have a budget skylake with LGA 1151 Pentium CPU and that one I combined with a silently passive silent passively cooled HTTP C so I have a budget skylake silent passively cooled HTPC and that one costs about $600 just a few notes before I dive into the parts list here one is that the costs I'm going to be talking about today are just for the system itself that doesn't include monitor or peripherals or like an operating system unless I say otherwise also I'm going to be using PC part picker because I find that it's an easy place to go and shop and choose parts for a computer they have compatible compatibility filters and all that good stuff and links to these builds or down in the description below also there will be a strawpoll link down in the description where you can vote for the March builds for next month so if you guys want to check on the link in the description there's a strawpoll down there for voting for March 2016 and I have five different options on there a $1500 reasonably epic gaming system so like epic but you know it's 1,500 it's not four grand turned a dog gaming PC like a $300 not not just like a bare-bones thing but actually can you game on it maybe that could be curious htpc with a cable card for non cord cutters cuz I have a cable card system right now an ultra wide gaming build with a monitor similar to an ultra wide monitor like the one I have back behind me here and then the smallest x86 computer you can build which I don't know that one sounds interesting too alright guys let's move straight into D builds themselves we're gonna start off with the AMD one so this is again a gaming and streaming system so if you're gonna be gaming and streaming on the same system well you need gaming chops of course but the streaming part can add fair amount of overhead when it comes to the CPU depending on how you're streaming and encoding and all that kind of stuff but typically CPU in having more CPU cores for example like the FX 8350 heads since it's an eight core will help out with that now the FX 8350 depending on the game and the settings and all that good stuff I'm not going to get you quite as good gaming performance especially in the high-end games like triple-a titles as say the newest Intel processors but the fact that it is actually an 8 core processor means that in certain tasks that use more of the course it can actually outperform them I'm not gonna go into any specifics right now but let's just say that hey four hundred and fifty two hundred and seventy dollars depending where you buy it what are we're seeing here a hundred and sixty-five is the lowest price on a PC part picture right now but you can get this and it's a eight core and you can overclock it and all that good stuff - for a cooler I went with the inner max this is one I've used several times before it is 45 at Newegg but on the you can use a 15% off promo code nice thing is PC part picker will often put those in there so the promo codes in there and you can get it for like eight ten dollars more than you would pay for like a hyper 212 and I think it happens to look a lot nicer since it's all black and that kind of stuff it's a good cooler to so give you a little bit of overclocking Headroom and way better than the stock AMD cooler ok next up is the motherboard and this one I had to punch in manually because it's not currently listed on PC part picker cuz this is a brand new motherboard a brand new m3 + motherboard I didn't think we're gonna see any more of these since a m4 is still like it's supposed to be coming I don't know soon a few months maybe but all the motherboard manufacturers have kind of done this last like little slew of am3+ motherboards and they have some cool features for one I mean they look kind of fancier and this one has like the aura lighting effects and all that good stuff but I think one of the nice features on this one which hopefully I can get a good picture of some here somewhere here no maybe not let's just do this look look down there at the bottom that is a yeah that's an MDOT two slot yeah and the bottom right there this one's also got nvme support so faster support for faster drives and all that kind of stuff other than that just you know it's very gamer II of course but it's pretty nice board all around and it's a 970 chipset but AMD has released some of the restrictions on that so you can still even do like crossfire and SLI support if you're talking about 2 card configurations so that's pretty nice for memory I just went with a team dark 16 gig 2x8 kit I wanted 16 gigs for this cuz you want a little bit more than that if you're talking like you know streaming and gaming at the same time 8 gigs I think it's kind of the minimum for gaming and I'm actually leaning towards recommend 16 these days but 16 should be fine and at 1600 speed and whenever I'm looking for memory I just I used the drill-down thing on PC part picker and I just find like the cheapest memory that matches the the capacity and speed that I want and then I just find something that hopefully looks a decent these have kind of silly heat spreaders on them I don't know they're not that bad at the top but I'm you know it'll work for an SSD once again we've gone with 88 a premiere SP 550 240 gig SSD cuz I feel like a 240 gig SSD is really nice price point right now for the capacity you get in the speed and I've used this several times and that is because whenever I'm shopping for an SSD on PC part picker I tend to go in here and I use these filters so I want to show you and I want to do a little bit more focus on choosing the parts this time around and sort of how I do it because sometimes I just say here's the parts I picked but when I'm choosing apart like an SSD I'm like all right I want a 240 gig SSD so I use these little capacity sliders over here to narrow it down to between 220 and 300s SD checkbox right then you can narrow down other things book interface and form factor and all that stuff but all I really care about is I want a 240 256 gig SSD and how cheap can I get 160 dollars is the answer right now which is a good price in my opinion for a 240 gig and then of these that are all 60 bucks right now the a data is just one that I've worked with before and I know it's pretty solid PNY you know is fine as well you got a team one you got silicon power I guess and then if you go more expensive you know obviously there's other options but you know what for our money chances are we're not going to see a huge difference going with the slightly better say to read three six gigabit per second SSDs I wanted to drop some mass storage in there too so we got a Hitachi 2 terabyte hard drive 60 bucks pretty good hard drive should be pretty reliable for you and then gets a lots of mass storage for a video card I just decided on on gtx 970 and i didn't want to go into the whole like which video card to choose and all the team red and team green green options swap this up for something else if you don't like the 970 I just think this one in particular is a pretty good price point it's about 310 on Amazon for EVGA s and this is the super clock version I have used this one specifically it's got a nice you know it's got a pretty decent little little cooling solution on that stage really quiets got the 0 rpm fan mode and all that good stuff and I've done a well I haven't done a lot of streaming with AMD cards so I can't really speak to the experience there but my experience streaming with Nvidia cards has been pretty straightforward and haven't had too much difficulty with it alright rounding things out we of course need a case so it with the Corsair graphite series this is just a fairly budget case this is a 230 t and it's black and it gets the job done that's that's really all we're looking for here it's just a standard ATX case and it's got a couple fans included you can fit all your hardware and it's you know there's other options too of course but hey that's when I chose finally for power supply we got the EVGA 80 plus bronze rated 600 Watts 600 B and this is just a very solid and inexpensive power supply in fact there's a $15 million rebate card here in case you guys are wondering when I show you guys to the lists on PC part picker I usually don't show I usually don't show mail-in rebates I turn that off but you can't get this even cheaper if you include those and this one in particular is one where you got a $15.00 so you can get this for 35 bucks if you include that mail-in rebate not too bad finally since this is a streaming system I figured you should be able to stream with it like you know out of the box more or less so I included a webcam this is a c920 just old standard from Logitech it's been around for a while and shoots 1080 is it for time lapses and a bunch of other stuff you can get it as cheap as it's about 60 I've seen it for 50 bucks but 63 dollars is how much amazon has it for right now the only thing I think besides all this stuff that you might want to also include for streaming and gaming system would be well you got to have sound and something to talk to because you want to talk to the people the webcam does have a built-in mic but it's awful I wouldn't recommend that so the only other thing I would say maybe consider throwing in here be something like a headset so like and for that I'd maybe recommend to Kingston the cloud the HyperX cloud core is a very good headset with actually good audio and and it's only about 60 to 70 dollars anyway so that is first build and guys of course as always let me know in the comments what you think about it one thousand dollar gaming is streaming I know it's an AMD 8350 oh but the one thing I did want to point out for anyone who's looking at this and telling and shaking their fists and saying Paul why did you do that I will say that before I chose to do what I did based on the straw polls from last month I did seriously seriously consider the Z on 12:30 oh crap I'm going to forget what that is hold on I wrote it in my notes earlier but now it's gone out of the three 1231 v3 that one costs about two hundred and fifty dollars out of the box but it's basically like a forty seven ninety or 4790k without the eye GPU but it does have hyper threading so you do get eight threads which is nice again for for live streaming okay so there's that build and I hope you guys like it let's move on to the next one what is the next one next one is the passively cooled HTPC this one was fun because I had to fight I wanted there to be no fans zero fans in this build and everything passively cool the loudest thing in the system we'll be you standing next to it that's my assumption anyway so here it is it's about $600 total and granted that is a little a little more expensive but it's weird here when I'm doing the passively cooled thing the most premium components the stuff that cost the most in here where weird things like the power supply or I guess the SSD maybe or the motherboard but I'm anyway so let's start off from the beginning which is it's a skylake system so it's LGA 1151 socket motherboard is what we're gonna need and I went with the cheapest version which is the pentium g 4400 this one has lower it's got the the a GPU is the Intel 510 if you are willing to pay twenty to thirty dollars more for the GE 4500 or to the G 45 20 I'm sorry if I'm messing up any of these these names then you can get yourself a little bit more performance on the graphics side as it is though I think you could overclock this right now with the BC LK overclocking like I showed you guys last week in my video you should be able to overclock this a little bit if you wanted to but who knows if you will do that since it's gonna be passively cool anyway though it's dual-core it's a 65 watt TDP which is a little bit lower than the higher-end chips and I think it'd be pretty snappy as long as you don't really need the the quad core performance for a cooler since we're going for passively cooled I went with this Zalman FX 70 funny thing here is the FX 70 costs fifteen dollars less than the then that CPU but again there's a $20 million rebate card so you can get this down to 30 bucks if you're willing to do that Mir this has a unique looking fin array because it's supposed to be passively cooled you do have the option to strap fans to this if you want to but as reading through the reviews and they're all pretty positive about its performance even people who are using it to cool like I think one guy had it with a 810 70 50 K which is a name the APU with a GPU built in that's going to generate a lot more that's a 95 watt TDP part and he said it was still working pretty good ok fayliss cooler here's our motherboard the gaz 170 m d 3h there's several motherboards that would fit this build that are in the sub $100 range I went with this motherboard mainly because it z170 and I wanted to keep that option open for the BC LK overclocking even though Intel might turn it off which would suck anyway though this is a pretty full-featured motherboard it's got you again pretty much everything you would need doesn't have those fancy or higher-end features I don't think it's got like an MDOT two on it or anything like that unless it's tucked away in the back no no no I'm about to but who cares it's gonna get the job done and it's got your video outs that you would need to connect to an HTTP C which is mainly gonna be an HDMI port sweet I also got some ps2 and some backwards compatibility doesn't look too bad either nah micro ATX here is some memory g.skill ripjaws v series this is actually some very nice memory from g.skill that's a 2400 speed 2 which is a little bit faster than the default for ddr4 $13.99 that's cool you can get a naked kit of ddr4 for in the $40 ish range and this is even a couple bucks cheaper so hey cool I went with that for an SS deal with the Mishkan eco 2 this is a 512gb SSD and again not the fastest of the SATA 3 SSDs that are out there but 120 bucks for 512 gigs I was gonna go with 2 drives for this but then I was like you know what 512 for an HTTP see it's gonna give you a pretty pretty decent amount of space for like you know recorded media and that kind of stuff I did not include a hard drive in here because I wanted what I've really wanted to do was go with more like more SSD storage but I figured let's keep with a 512 which is totally fine out of the gate and then give you guys the option to maybe upgrade or add more drives in the future but no mechanical drives they will make noise ok Coolermaster and 200 is the case I went with then as you can see here once again there's a $10 mail-in rebate if you want to go that route so you can get this as cheap as 40 dollars if you're in the US right now I love with this one because fairly inexpensive it's black and it will blend in pretty well and htpc environments there are HTPC cases that are you know that they're horizontal instead of vertical and they're made a little bit more to fit into a home theater type look but I those are more expensive generally speaking and what I really liked about this one it she can tell probably from this cigarette from this picture is that it's got grilling across the entire front of it so plenty of airflow for passive cooling it's also got a vent on the top so some of that heat can just go out the top but since I would be removing both of the fans in this case and keeping everything passively cooled I wanted there to be lots of airflow and then beyond that it's micro-atx painted interior to coolermaster it's a good quality so I thought that was a good choice for their here's the power supply I was gonna go with the inner max did you fanless but that apparently has disappeared I can't find it anywhere for less than like $250 so at the C sonic model which is a nice one I hadn't seen it before 80 plus Platinum certified and if if that makes you a little bit queasy due to the price consider that HTTP teas are often on 24/7 so I feel like having a highly rated power supply for efficiency would be a good choice there my htpc out in the living room was on an 80 plus bronze power supply for quite a while and I only just moved it to an 80 plus gold and I noticed a little bit of savings in the on the power bill for that anyway it's fully modular and it's it's a nice I actually really like this power supply for 10 60 watts means it's got more than enough power and if you guys couldn't already tell I was trying to maintain an upgrade path with this build because I like all of my builds to have upgrade pass so obviously I could have gone with micro ITX and super mini ITX and super small and all that kind of stuff but I wanted there to be the possibility to drop a graphics card in there and make it a gaming system and for an HTTP C graphics card plus like a TV tuner card like a what I have is an a seat and infinite TV didn't include that for this build but it's there and available if you wanted to upgrade to that in the future okay finishing out I wanted a couple accessories because I feel like that's kind of what makes the HTPC what it is so we got a vision tech candy board that's a wireless Bluetooth mini QWERTY keyboard which even has a little mouse trackpad on it and some right and left clicks and all that good stuff kyle has one of these and I like it's I have a more full-sized one that I use but uh yeah candy board and what is this 32 bucks not bad at all and then of course you're gonna want to removed for an HTTP seif so just what this little this little twenty dollar Rose will Windows seven certified Media Center Edition infrared remote controller works with Windows 8 Media Center Edition it's got the bundle on stuff and that should allow you to remotely control your completely silence passively cooled htpc from your couch pretty sweet anyway though guys that is all for this video I would like to say a huge thank you to any of you guys who have jumped into chats and said hello if you're watching this on my channel don't forget to hit the like button subscribe to my channel if you want to see more stuff like this I'll be doing these the beginning of every month and again like I said I don't always just go over parts I actually build the system sometimes so stay tuned for later this week when I've got that system that four hundred dollar bill that I made for my parents and that's all ready to go it's in post-production right now thanks again for watching though guys and we'll see you next time