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excellent what's up guys welcome to Paul's hardware this is my builds video for October 2016 and I do these videos at the beginning of every month this is going to be a couple parts lists that you can use as starting off points for your own builds or you can just you know build them as I tell you to just right here now if you're looking for the actual assembly you should check out my builds playlist which is linked in the video description below last month I did a five hundred dollar build which I just actually assembled and put the video for earlier this week so check that out I actually did a full tutorial from a beginner's perspective so if you've never built the system before that is a great starting off points I do try to build one of these systems every month for this month I'm actually going to be upgrading this system so I'm kind of making this into a bit of a two-parter but check out that original build video if you want to see how that one was done there is some fan interaction though so check out the description as well for links to these straw polls where you can vote now this was last month's straw poll and you guys voted for me to do a mid to high end $1500 gaming PC with Windows monitor and peripherals which I kind of did I also tried to combine that with the spooky Halloween themed build since it is October so those are your going to get both of those and then just because I'm obstinate I also I'm doing the upgraded $500 build as my second build although I did three different versions of it so technically this month you guys get four builds instead of just two be sure to vote for next month what PC builds you want to see in November a dual system living room build I put that up there again salvaged build bit built from the bones of an old system $750 build or a fast this mini ITX build all right let's dive right into the actual builds for this month I use PC part picker for these and again links to these full things are in the description so here's my $1500 build I started off going for something akin to the $1200 build that I did just a couple months back and then what I ended up doing was really going for all of the black and orange parts I could possibly find and it ended up making the system very expensive but also Halloween themed so the black and orange is the Halloween theme and the spookiness comes from the fact that a lot of these parts are really really difficult to find or grossly overpriced if you can find them so at the heart of the system is a 6600 K kind of the standby in the 200 to 250 dollar range for a CPU overclockable quad core from Intel LGA 1151 and then since it doesn't come with the cooler I chose this enter maxi TST for TFB K this is kind of a smaller version the fit version of their black twister fan the ETS T 40 that I've recommended a lot so it's a little bit smaller but still seems to perform quite well from the reviews I've read so far but I don't want to use the fan that comes with it we'll be replacing the fan with special fans in just a moment now if you want an orange and black motherboard again very challenging to find there were actually a lot of these in z97 gigabyte was doing a series of them but the only real orange and black motherboard on z170 you can get right now is the z1 70 X SOC force which came out back when skylake first launched and now apparently is discontinued or something because you can only really find it on ebay for like four to five hundred dollars which is just ridiculous and if you actually look at my parts list here it's not listed because it was not available anywhere however apart from just going with an all-black motherboard which you could easily do and would be much more reasonable this I wanted to stick with black and orange so that's why that's there and that's why I also got confused as I was going through this parts list it says 1309 right now but if you add another two hundred bucks or so for a motherboard that's about $1,500 they didn't notice that and then I got all my parts together and then I realized I didn't have enough money for a monitor and all that stuff but hey that just goes to show that if you're parting out a system and you're being really really picky about like color coordinating or color coordinating everything it can kind of mess up your price to performance ratio and it can also make it a lot more difficult to get all the parts you want especially if you're going for a slightly more obscure color scheme such as orange anyway though the next spooky part I have listed here is an avexir core series memory kit now if Exia I did a video on recently a very flashy colorful memory can be a little bit expensive this is only 75 bucks for a 16 gig kit but this is not the right one I link to the red version but they do have this available in orange this is the core series this is actually a ddr3 kit that's shown right here but I've been told by a vex ear they're also doing the core series of ddr4 but really really hard to find especially in the US but it's black with orange LEDs and I just that's that's just what I would want to go for if I was building the system so there you go anyway for a graphics card the gtx 1070 this is from gigabytes the 1070 g1 gaming card has again like with orange and it's a very nice well-designed card for a little over four hundred dollars so you can actually get a ten seventy for a little less than four hundred bucks now but this one's only a little bit more expensive and this one's actually pretty well built for power supply one with the C Sonic mainly because I'm tired of using EVGA power supplies and all of my build recommendations see Sonic is freaking awesome when it comes to power supplies and samely stable really well-built this one you have to pay a little bit more for them though to get like all black cabling and stuff like this one has they have some more reasonably priced 80 plus gold rated power supplies but the cabling isn't that great and I didn't want to make this too spooky with with ketchup and mustard cabling anyway for the case I want with the NZXT phantom this is the new egg version which is orange and black and I've actually built in this system are built in this case before does support the ATX motherboard so it would support that gigabyte motherboard if you could find it and I felt like you know for black and orange this one works really well I was also really close to choosing a be quiet power supply I'm sorry it be quiet case for this one because they have like the silence series that I have over here those are also black and orange and also a good option the ones I found were just a little bit more expensive though so I went with this one now for fans I chose for extra noctua fans to add to this system build as you can see right down here at the bottom if you buy these straight up and these are the industrial ones that are actually brown on the corners they are about twenty to twenty-five dollars each which is adding another eighty two hundred dollars to the system build cost but what I really wanted to use with the Linus tech tips additions as demonstrated here by Luke which are orange and black and they're also knocked to a fan's which means they're awesome but these are just they're sold out everywhere they rely on is tech tips special editions and they're gone so I don't know maybe I could hit up Linus directly and get some for myself but probably not so anyway there's my spooky Halloween build again Halloween cuz it's black and orange and spooky because you probably can't build it yourself let's move over to something more reasonable though this is my five hundred dollar budget gaming PC which was one of my system builds for last month's September builds and I've actually assembled this now although I did slightly change some of the parts so I changed up like the memory for instance and I did go while I ended up with a different our supply but that was simply because that's what Amazon sent me I ordered the 450 they sent me the 700 now what I wanted to do with this one was provide an upgraded version of it but there's different ways that you might go about upgrading a system like this if you're buying all the parts outright right now I would not say to start with this and then buy the extra parts I would say buy all the parts you want and spend more if you're starting out with this and you buy this now and then upgrade one upgrade in like a month or two then you might consider the other system parts list that I recommended here so I have three versions of this at nine hundred and fifty dollars at seven hundred and seventy dollars and at seven hundred and forty dollars I've basically swapped in a different processor a different graphics card and then at least for this one the more expensive one whoops wrong one at least for the 950 dollar one I also upgraded the power supply because i went with the gtx 1070 which does have a 500 watt power supply recommended limit now I'm just going to mainly stick to PC / picker on this one because I want to be able to show you the i-5 6500 is a great upgrade to a quad core that's what I actually have right here and that's what I probably will be doing the system build upgrade with now the 6400 is very very similar to this but you can get it for about 20 bucks less the main difference is that the frequency that it runs that out of the box is lower for the 6400 so the 6500 will be a little bit faster if only we could still do non kc pu overclocking without having to worry about the using an old bios and not having turbo boost and all that stuff it would make the 6400 kxt 400 the clear choice but um anyway i also upgraded the motherboard with this one to a z170 board because honestly if you're buying a $500 PC it makes sense to go with a be 150 motherboard out of the gate because you're going to save 20 30 40 bucks that might make everything fit within your budget a little bit more if you're buying outright say a 700 to $900 system I think it's worth it to spend a little bit more money on a z170 board this is also a gigabyte board that's going to be a little bit higher quality than that as rock one still has four dimm slots still has an MDOT two but again it's just like twenty to twenty-five dollars more expensive but z170 means you can overclock if you were to again upgrade your processor to a 60 600k a 6700 K or one of the KB Lake processors which are supposed to come out in January or February assuming of course the gigabyte does an update to this motherboard to support that anyway I've used some parametric filters which I haven't done in my build parts list very much because I like to say here get this specific thing but the parametric filters are very useful on PC part picker basically you can use the filters on the left side here to drill down to kind of what you want so I chose DDR 420 420 666 I wanted a 16 gig kit 2 by 8 gigs and that was pretty much it everything else it's going to use the automatic compatibility filter for the motherboard that I chose then you just sort by price over here and you can choose inexpensive memory honestly any of the memory down here in the 60 to 70 dollar range will work just fine but you will want to click in on each one to see what it looks like because that's one of the problems of the parametric filter is you don't always know exactly what you're going to get it's just based on the current pricing so you know this might not look that great for you so if you're if you're shopping for these use that parametric filter but drill down into a little bit and choose just the one within this range that you find works best for you and as long as you're getting a 2 by like a 2 by 8 gig kits of ddr4 memory and it's 2426 66 you'll be totally fine alright still sticking with the same solid-state drive at 240 gig this is a really good deal on a data and I keep talking about this one other 240 gig drives costs like upwards of $100 and they're really not that much faster if you're talking about a SATA Drive I again used the parametric filter here for the hard drive because I wanted to include extra storage and that's definitely something you should start out with you can get a one or two terabyte hard drive for really cheap but this is something that I would highly recommend seeing if you have lying around first because a lot of people have old desktop computers or even an old laptop that you can pull the hard drive out of just pull it out reformat it and pop it in your system as an extra drive save yourself 40 or 50 bucks to be used on a different part of your system other than that I kept everything mostly the same still the same fractal design core 1100 case I did add an extra fan because if we're upping the hardware inside we won't want a little bit more airflow in there what just was a really simple King 120 millimeter and then also again just upgraded the wattage on the power supply by 50 watts to 500 watts to make sure that we have plenty for that that for the graphics card the gtx 1070 and also there's a mail-in rebate for this GP right now that makes it and this power supply that makes it 30 bucks all right so that is the system upgraded to a 6500 kit a 6500 and a 1070 with a couple other changes coming in at about nine hundred and forty-two dollars now if you were doing the upgrade from the system to the system there are two things you should well mainly one thing you should keep in mind which is that your existing CPU and your existing graphics card you will need to cash out somehow so you'll have to need to take into account selling those or you know giving them away to a friend or just biting the bullet on that and you know taking a loss but most people like to kind of recycle those and get a little bit more for their money like I said I did two other variants of this so this is a one coming in at 770 dollars if you buy all the parts straight up this is still sticking with the 6500 for the CPU same motherboard this time again the parametric filter for the memory so get whatever the heck you want same storage configuration I again have added that hard drive but feel free to leave that out if you have one that will drop another 43 dollars off the cost of this build one with the GTX 1066 gig and in this particular build which you can get for around two hundred and forty to two hundred fifty dollars right now and again the same case power supply and that added extra fan seven hundred and seventy dollars is a toll on that one and then one final version here for this one I went with the 6400 so again about twenty to twenty-five dollars cheaper for the processor same motherboard same memory same storage configuration this time I want with that rx 488 gig which is right in line price-wise with the 1060 so I'm not going to tell you guys to get one or the other right now I'll leave it up to your discretion which of those you want to go with but the main actual price difference in this one bring it down to about seven hundred and forty-two dollars was going with that 6400 processor but that does give you a little bit more flexibility to use that money for other parts like getting a better graphics card for example that's all for this video though guys I hope these parts lists have helped you out and figuring out what you want to put in your own system build again check out my bill this system if you want a step-by-step guide on how to put together your own computer I have another follow-up video coming later this well probably next week about reassembling this one or doing the upgrades on it and then I'm also going to do a full testing video where I compare this configuration with the 6100 and the 460 with the upgraded configuration which is going to be 6,500 and I haven't decided probably the 480 or the 1060 but leave me a comment in the comments let me know which of those you'd rather see I'll try to do both but I don't know if I'll have time anyway guys thanks again for watching this video and we'll see you next time