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excellent what's up guys and welcome to my monthly builds video for February 2017 this is a video series I do every month at the beginning of the month I plan out usually two computer builds either parts list so I'm not necessarily putting anything together for today but I will be talking about the parts going into the builds giving you some priceless for them and some locations where you can purchase them and if you're interested in actual builds themselves well I do those two on the channel and I will be building one of the system's I talked about today later in the month speaking of for January I've actually got the January build right there and I haven't done the final follow up video on that with the testing and everything that is coming soon I'm still waiting for the g.skill RGB memory to arrive for that but that should be here on Monday or Tuesday so expect that video next week sometime in the meantime again if you do want to check out some builds including that build I just did it was a $2,800 system although about 700 bucks - that is one of the SSDs so check that out the build video came out pretty nice got some time-lapse and all that good stuff of course there's fan interaction for this video as well so I do want to hear back from you guys so I asked you last month what you wanted to see for February and the overwhelming answer was give us a damn Zen build already which unfortunately I can't do but I do hear you guys 42% of you watched that and I do have more information coming on that second place winner though was the entry-level x99 build actually a follow-up to that one - because I did an entry-level x9 build back in 2015 but here's some AMD news just true to teach you guys a little bit more Lisa sue their CEO actually talked at a briefing Skol and she actually said that Rison will be launching early in march in early March so hopefully May it within the first week or two of March again we're still not totally sure so for that what PCT builds you want to see in March and I have a wide variety of options here everyone go vote on that it is linked in the description down below I also ask the question back in December which is which under-represented case manufacturer would you like to see future build video with because I've mainly been working with Corsair fractal and bit I'm sorry I'm not dickin NZXT for kind of in the last few months of 2015 so fantex was one of the answers and for that reason I built the fan text base system last month liam leave a second up actually Coolermaster really really close within a voter to them so for that reason again I'm going to be doing a Liam Lee case based system but that's for the second system I'll be talking about today first system is going to be the entry-level x99 build and this is actually the entry-level x99 build that I did all the way back in 2015 August of 2015 and gosh look at it here only 881 dollars now but bear in mind that's because two of these two very important products here aren't available anymore the x99s Li has a new version and the r9 390x so those aren't being included if you added the prices of those it would still be in the twelve thirteen hundred issue dollar range but I'm happy to say that for this entry-level x99 build I was able to get the price down so eleven hundred and seventy seven dollars and again this one that I did back in August 2015 was about fifteen hundred dollars as it says here up at the top at least with the current prices at the time biggest question I had for this system with which CPU to use because if you're going x99 using x99 chipset motherboards LGA 2011 - three is the socket so that needs to be compatible and there's two series of CPUs Intel host released they have the original haswell-e CPUs and then they have Bravo II that they launched more recently so I actually wasn't sure whether to use the lowest and Broadwell ee chip which is 260 800 K or of course is 5820k which came out a little bit further back but I actually went asked you guys on Twitter and although there was again many opinions on both sides of it the winner here was 60 under K for $420 so that's what I used although you can get a 5820k for 370 dollars so if you do want to shave some some money off you can do that also if you're just looking at CPUs that are compatible here you will also find a bunch of Zeon's and I felt like I needed to point this out if you really want to get in on x99 LGA 2011 - 3 for as cheap as possible you can get a Xeon and you can actually get 6 core even 8 cores eons for down below $300 however all of these eons are pretty seriously a hamstrung when it comes to their frequencies so I was like oh why you can get an 8 core Xeon for 300 bucks but it's 1.7 gigahertz so if you do need the cores and the threads ASEAN is very very viable option in this range but my thought was the 5820k in the 6800 k run it at just faster clock speeds out of the box and they're unlocked for overclocking and if you're building a system like this I really feel like you should overclock it and I also wanted it to be at least somewhat appropriate for gaming as well so for that reason I ruled out the Zeon's but I do want to point out that there there and then again because of the strawpoll I went to 6100 K so this one cost about 410 to 420 dollars right now again it's more expensive as compared to the mainstream CPUs but it is a six core 12 thread processor and if you want it even cheaper if you can walk in somewhere if you can find a micro center that's local to you to walk into they're selling it for three hundred and eighty bucks but again that's in-store pricing only so not everyone has access to that now these unlocks processors from Intel don't come with a an air cooler or any cooler at all so I'm with the hyper 212 X again this is entry-level so I stuck with the budget and I'm really not paying too much attention to aesthetics with this build but for 45 bucks here you get the hyper 212 X which is already a very well known good cooler with direct copper heat pipe contacts but you also get an extra fan and cooler master extra ship some pretty nice fans with the hyper 212 X and these aren't the ones with LEDs at a clear look on them either so I thought 45 bucks that would do a really good job for motherboards there's lots of x99 motherboard options around the $200 range and I was looking at some of those but then I decided to go with the asrock X 99 extreme for mainly because you can get it for 160 bucks even 140 dollars if you include a $20 million rebate and overall not a bad board I mean you have a pretty decent cooling and power delivery for overclocking it's got pretty much the feature set you'd want including ultra MDOT two tons of SATA connectivity eight DIMM slots so you're going to get the job done here I don't really like the blue you know if I'm being honest the blue doesn't really match too much as anything but again I'm not carrying about aesthetics with it with this build I'm caring mostly about price and performance for memory I have a 16 gig kit because you don't want to take advantage of quad channel you do still have four additional DIMM slots open so you could expand this in the future memory prices have gone up unfortunately so a 4 gig a 4 by 4 gig kit is costing about 95 books right now this is the ddr4 2400 memory kits from g.skill and again it's not going to match all that great or anything but it's going to work just fine I also want to point out that one of the advantages of going with a 6800 K instead of the 5820k is that you do have support 428 gigs of memory which the 5820k does not so that's kind of nice for storage I went with my kind of standard baseline configuration of Tula what I find is acceptable for storage which is going to be a SSD first for your operating system and main programs and I find that a 240 or 256 gig SSD will give you a little bit more space without being too crazy expenses and then also an additional hard drive to provide mass storage since 240 Giga SSD is going to fill up pretty quick can still get the SanDisk SSD plus not the fastest SATA SSD but still quite fast and will give you the SSD responsiveness that you need for 70 bucks and that's still a pretty good price SSD prices and memory prices have been going up recently so that kind of sucks and then a 2 terabytes a Hitachi desta our hard drive this one is a kind of a standby available for about 55 to 60 bucks on Amazon I'll get you some storage and of course if you already have an old hard drive one or two terabyte or four terabyte hard drive lying around just use that and it'll save you some money here's probably another controversial decision for this build I went with an RX 480 and I like I like it because it's an 8 gig card so if you're doing stuff like OpenCL that you can do GPU acceleration with you get 8 gigs of memory with this card it's much more reasonably priced than some of the higher end stuff like a gtx 1070 or even like a an RN i in fury or something like that those tend to be at least 70 80 bucks more expensive than this this is an aftermarket cooler done by power color it has good good ratings across the board so you get an 8 gig R X 480 with an aftermarket cooler and if you include the rebate card you can actually get it for 200 bucks at Newegg right now so that's the same price you pay for a 4 gig RX 480 and it's a very good card and the other thing I'll point out is if you don't like this that GPU configuration a GPU is such an easy thing to upgrade and swap out in the future that will be easy to do for a case I had also many options that with the cooler master and 400 this is an ATX case very standard get it for about fifty to sixty bucks and it's got lots of ventilation this was my main thing because they are putting some higher-end hardware in here it's got a full mesh front with fan intakes there it's got a fan tip intake on the side you can apply directly to your graphics card if you need some more cooling there it's got exhaust at the top as well as a rear fan and then overall it's pretty well built well-built case so yeah it's going to fit all the hardware in there it's not going to be the crazy fancy this case you've ever seen but it'll get the job done and then again having plenty of options for ventilation that I thought was very important finally maybe powered and for that I went with the C Sonic s12 to again this is a price to performance sort of option here C Sonic is a very solid power supply brand this parcel has a five-year warranty and very good ratings for quite some time it's only 50 bucks you can get five dollars more off if you want and of course the cables suck they are ketchup and mustard but when we're going entry-level and we don't care about aesthetics there there's some corners to be kept and that's the one I cut so there you go guys that entire build will cost you eleven hundred and seventy seven about twelve hundred dollars right now not including of course an operating system and peripherals and stuff like that but I think that's pretty nice I mean you're going to get a huge amount of performance here and imagining this is going to be geared more towards people who are doing workstation tasks not just gaining but other things as well because the practicality of investing in x99 only makes sense if you're actually going to do some heavy lifting with the system so let me know what you think of that build there and let's move on to the next one this is a mini ITX build it's KB light based so it's a Z 270 chipset motherboard and it costs $2,200 so this is pretty high-end this is actually going to be the system that I build this coming months probably in the next couple weeks and this also so for that reason I also have a Lian Li case in here and the Lian Li case I'm using cost $200 so because I'm doing this system with a few external influences such as the votes you guys did as well using a Lian Li case as well as I decided I wanted to be mini ITX so I was looking at mini ITX really cases and we how many cases tend to be very expensive they're very nice but they're very expensive so for that reason I'm actually giving you guys two builds for the Mini ITX cabe you like things so you get a bonus build this week you get three total builds so this one is going to be $2,200 and then I did a much more sensible version that costs $1,200 so here's this one we got a 7700 k with a 120 millimeter closed loop cooler the coarser H 100 IV - EVG 270 stinger corsair dominator platinum memory and Intel 600 P SSD as well as a SanDisk one terabyte SSD an EVGA GTX 1080s at Lian Li Q 37 mini ATX case Corsair SF x6 or what power supply then after a couple not to of fans because I don't think some lammle case for being as nice as it is comes with fans alright so here is the power supply from the last build I don't look at that let's look at the case first so here's that case this is pretty new case so there's not a lot of use on it yet they should be sending this over to me and I will be taking a look and giving you guys some additional feedback on it it's aluminum on the outside it also has a tempered glass panels that are on the front as well as the left side and a pretty cool design I think overall I mean it's a box design but you have SFX power supply so the power supply doesn't take up quite as much room so it's not quite as huge but yeah I feel like this case is really designed for to have a 240 millimeter radiator at the top lots of the dust filtration there as well that's nice so for that reason that's why I want the 200 240 millimeter radiator from from Corsair all right here's the CPU 7700 K you guys should be familiar with this highest and mainstream kV Lake processor that's what I felt was suitable for this build on H 100 I've H 100 IV - if you're going to drop a hundred bucks on a closed-loop CPU cooler in my opinion you better be using the top-end CPU from at least a platform that you're working on so that's why 170 700 K originally I was going to do this with a 7600 K hence why I did this ii build for the motherboard you guys may be happy to know that i have not done any RGB requirements for this and in fact I'm using the EVGA Z 270 stinger which doesn't have RGB at all on it praise praise the Lord this one is a little bit harder to find right now but you can get it directly from the EVGA website 470 bucks there's a couple other places that had it listed but stock was a little little up in the air right now so if you can't find it now hopefully they'll get more of those coming and soon from memory what with the 32 gig kit because there's only two dimm slots but I wanted to have lots of memory this being a higher-end build over $2,000 of course our Dominator platinum it's kind of black and silver which is a color scheme that I think that is gone which for this build that has white LEDs no RGB just whites and it's very fast memory for an SSD I have the 600 P this is an nvme SSD from Intel it's definitely not nearly as fast as the higher-end nvme SSDs but it is much less expensive so for this one you can get a 512 for 175 dollars which way it may or may not be worth the cost again if you don't want to spend that much on storage check out my other bills where I have a more sensible configuration outside of the SanDisk Ultra 2 because when you work with the system it has all SSD storage you get kind of used to not having hard drive noise or anything like that 960 gigs though this one's $250 so again I'm spending a good amount of money on storage for this build and you could get by with less but I think this is going to be very fast and also taking advantage of some of the newer technology on the platform you also have the GTX 1080 in here and with an EVGA card it'll match up nicely with that stinger motherboard and I may have a different cards in this that I use for the build itself but that remains to be seen well we'll talk about that later this is the 1088 gig it's the super clock version so it's got white LEDs on it and yeah often middle it's a good card and then we need a small form-factor power supply a sfx power supply to be specific not ATX this is a 600 watt version from Corsair it's it's a nice little guy I've seen this some of the trade shows that they've had it on display yet it's got all black cabling a very nice minimalist sort of when it comes with the stickers and everything not that you're going to be able to see that in this case but the cabling I did think would be important keeping that all black now finally there are two 80 millimeter fan mounts here at the back of the case you can probably see them there on the right side so kind of a different fan configuration but since it didn't seem like there was a lot of active intake as far as fans from this case I decided to throw in a couple these naktu Redux fans these are the 1200 rpm one so they'll be a little quieter they have again a nice color scheme there sort of silver or kind of gray with a darker gray so that's kind of going to match with everything else they're 18 bucks each they're not to a fans you know they tend to be more expensive but um yeah all that will come together to get to hopefully bill to make a very nice $2,200 ish system but again if that's a little bit too rich for your blood you can sacrifice a little bit on performance and still get a very very solid build for about $1,200 so this is my bonus build I'm not going to go through all the parts in this one like I did with the with the one we just went over but 1179 is a total price right now at least if you're buying in the US and getting the cheapest price prices on PC part picker I dropped the 7700 K down to the 7600 I included a air cooler a low-profile one from be quiet you actually don't need low profile for the case I chose the core v1 from Thermaltake but it'll I kept things smaller here so there's just more room in the case and you can work with it a little bit easier that's only about 40 bucks again same motherboard EVGA Z 270 stinger I think it's a pretty good deal for an overclocking board 170 104 170 dollars when with a 16 gig kit instead of 32 and that significantly reduces the cost of the memory to go with low probably profile memory here with the Vengeance lpx little bit under that cooler Oct try on 150 SSD the prices for SSDs are going up but you can still get 480 gigs for 130 dollars this is 120 bucks like a week or two ago but there you have it and then gtx 1070 does Noatak many ones so again you'll have plenty of space in there and again the Thermaltake core v1 mini ITX case and in AC sonic power supply 550 watt 80 plus gold semi modular again this one has a pretty nice all black cabling so they have it less than $1200 for a very solid mini ITX nice low small footprint mini builds for gaming and whatever else the heck you want to do with it anyway guys that is all for my genuine no this February that's all for my February builds video hope you guys have enjoyed it of course as always I love to hear your feedback I love to hear your ideas for how you might change and manipulate the parts and swap this thing out here or thing in there to make things less expensive just bear in mind whenever you're building a system there's always requirements and you got to meet those requirements first and then see how you can fit everything else within the sighs compatibility so that's why I do these videos I hope you guys enjoy them and a little bit out of them stay tuned for my follow-up video on that system that I build right back behind me that should be up in the night of your week we can ask and then of course I have this still the one in the Lee Emily case coming up soon as well so hit the thumbs up button subscribe if you want to see more tech videos just like this one and we'll see you next time