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what's up everyone welcome to Paul's hardware this is my monthly builds video for May 2016 every month I do a couple builds these are theoretical parts lists so I'm not actually assembling anything today so for any of you guys who are looking for actual builds I highly encourage you to check out my builds playlist over on my youtube channel so just check that out I'll put a link to this in the description there you can actually watch me assemble things what this video is all about is helping you guys especially if you're new time new to computer building just figure out what parts you should actually use because sometimes choosing the parts making sure that all compatible is a challenge so I'm there is some some actual interaction with you guys in this video series so I do ask for your feedback and you all provide that for me the straw polls so last month in those last month April yes and April I asked you what PC builds you wanted to see for the May 2016 video and while it was actually quite a shoot out here when it comes to the voting the NASS build one right here with 28% of the votes so I'm gonna be doing an ass build today and then I'm also gonna be doing a gtx 1080 based build GTA x 1080 was just launched by nvidia or at least paper launched and let me post this additional straw hole to those of you watching in chat welcome and thanks for being here everyone watching live right now as well this is my question for next month and it's kind of a more vague question than i usually ask them a monthly builds video because i might not actually do a monthly builds video next month at the beginning of june i'm gonna be in taiwan for Computex which is always a very exciting events but it means i may or may not actually be able to do build so for that reason i've left it kind of vague but what hardware you guys most excited about of course we have invidious new GPUs 1080 and 1070 those were just again paper launched and they're available and May 27th for the 1080 Intel's new enthusiast CPUs no to notice the next three I'll have asterisk next to them these are rumored so I can't confirm or deny their exact xual existence but into Intel supposed to have some enthusiast CPUs coming out and be supposed to have new Radeon GPUs based on the Polaris codenamed view architecture and AMD also has new CPUs and ap use on the horizon as well those are probably less likely to be available by next month as far as what I've heard but you guys all please go vote on that and when I come back and do this in June or probably more likely July I will base my builds on that so I'm gonna save the Nass build and I'll do that second I'm gonna jump right into the GTX 1080 launch build so GTX 1080 is in videos new GPU it is currently the flagship in the ten hundred series if that's what they're calling it and at launch it's got some really impressive like frequencies right out of the bat the Embargo hasn't lifted four full reviews of this card yet so there's still some independent testing to be done but everything Nvidia has told us about is very impressive so far the card has an MSRP of $600 or the founders Edition costs $700 now what's been revealed about the founders Edition in the past few days is that the founders Edition is essentially what is Nvidia's reference design but they're creating the reference design and making it more of a premium product I guess for people so they're charging a little bit more for the for the founders Edition it does have a really cool cooler on and everything I mean they've redesigned it and all that kind of stuff so take it or leave it but basically what I'm here to tell you guys is that this founders edition card is probably going to be the only thing available come May 27th we're not sure there are board partners who might also have cards available but that means that if you're gonna get a GTX 1080 on launch day you're probably gonna be spending 700 bucks versus 600 bucks so you might be able to get if you wait a little bit of time in order to get the the non-reference Edition I guess the non founders Edition so all that being said let's talk about the rest of the the products in this actual build so $1,800 is the total price of this I felt these products were all sort of in line with what you would want to get if you're getting a 1080 granted you can shave a hundred to three hundred bucks off of the total cost of this build by shaving you know cutting corners different places so for instance and 6,700 k you could go with the 6600 k if you wanted I have a pretty nice motherboard I mean it's not super expensive and Maximus eight Ranger but you could get you know a you can shave 3040 bucks off the cost of a motherboard there's ways you could go about this I also did some pretty decent storage options with a one terabyte SSD and a two terabyte hard drive which also are both kind of optional you know you could upgrade but anyway of course the 6700 K right off the bat happy to say the 6700 K prices have dropped thank god they're down in the 350 dollar range if you're buying in the u.s. at least all these prices are in the US Dollars and all these links to the stuff is gonna be down in the video description on youtube if you guys take a look here's the CPU cooler I went with and actually have one of these in hand right now I haven't done any testing with it but reviews on this have been really good this is a cryo rig and they're kind of a newer company based out of China I actually think they're out of Taiwan and this is a cool little cooler 35 bucks this little cooler h7 is what it's called and it's got really good ratings already you know and it's got you know it's not quite like the hyper 212 they they got like a little plate on top to give it a better cleaner finish and all that kind of stuff and again for 35 bucks you know I'm not going to complain you have to buy this at Newegg right now and it's 35 bucks at nuoc for some reason that's not updated on PC part picker but anyway get that at newing for a motherboard we have an ASUS Maximus 8 Ranger this is an asus rog motherboard they're not very big pictures of it right here but there you go asus rog it's mostly black with some red accents it's got excellent power delivery let's look on it let's look at it over a new egg it's assuming the new egg website loads come on new egg supposed to be fast supposed to be fast new egg okay alright there's kind of a better look at it but you can see you know it's kind of it's decently kitted out for a mid 150 hundred and seventy dollar motherboard and again rog series so you know you got all kinds of good stuff you got i'm about to support everything you'd really want for for a LGA 1151 motherboard for memory I kept things simple with the Corsair 16 gig kit to buy eight gigs I feel like 16 gigs is what you want to go with again here you could shave a few dollars off the cops by going with like eight gigs total but I like this vengeance series of memory because they're they don't stand out a lot they're low-profile they're black they blend in I feel like memory should either you know do its job and and and not be noticed much for be super blingy like you know the avexir stuff that has you know LEDs or plasma rays coming at the top of it or whatever anyway moving on to storage I decided let's why not go with the one terabyte SSD those are becoming much more affordable these days so SanDisk Ultra 2 is a great option you can get one for a little over 200 bucks again this is somewhere where you could really shave a lot of money off of the total cost of this build because I spent around 200 and there's $78 on storage I also included a Hitachi Deathstar 2 terabytes internal hard drive hitachi drives do a great job you can get this at Amazon 54 bucks again lots of different options for your storage configuration here but um you know go with what works for you save some money if you wants or hey one terabyte SSD is it's pretty impressive the GPU of course as already mentioned is going to be this good old GT X 1080 from from Nvidia and I can't say too much more about this because again there's more stuff that I can't even really talk about yet but these performance numbers from Nvidia are pretty impressive and to be taken with a grain of salt next up we have the case which is the NZXT h4 40 and I went with this because it's white it's gonna kind of stand out give a give a contrast to the the stuff that you have inside there you know well designed case by NZXT and you know of course go with the black version if you want if you like black you can you can do black and red here pretty simply I thought this would have a nice look though and also since the the GTX 1080 is still kind of that silver with the green on it's hard to coordinate everything with that unless you go with like a black and green build but anyway finally for power supply I went with a bit more wattage on the power supply still stick him with the EVGA supernova next 750 went for this one because it's it works out of the box 80 plus gold all the cabling is all black so you're not gonna deal with any ketchup and mustard BS and it's fully modular and you know these I can't stop recommending these cuz $70 for this is a really good price this is with a mail-in rebate of course but just 70 bucks I can't recommend any other power supply as well these exist at the prices that they are I'm sorry sorry but I can't and that pretty much rounds it out so um yeah again guys $1,800 is kind of what I would recommend for getting on board with this and also the reason I went with that stronger power supply 750 watts you could probably get away with 550 or 600 is I really think that with the hundred and eighty watt design power of the GTX 1080 but you could probably do a two way set up with this don't quote me on that but I think it's very very very possible yeah that's it for build one let's move on to the second build which again based on your votes and your feedback was a Nass build so I built an ass counter recently actually I'm building another system right now I meant to mention this at the beginning see this right here do that that's the system I'm building right now once I finish this I'm gonna go and finish building this this is a this is a silverstone power supply with the custom sleeved cables buy-in sourced customs i was smart and didn't do it myself this time i horse did i to insourced that's weird okay back to my point though which is that here is a maximum storage minimum wattage nass build now i recently built the NASS I used some leftover parts some parts that I already had lying around to kind of assemble the thing and I think that's a very popular thing to do for an S this is the NASS that I would built if I was building it from the ground up with new parts so anyone who's thinking about building an S I would really strongly consider looking at what you have on hand first already like I mean if you have an old Sandy Bridge system or something like that's a great option to take that and repurpose it for an S if you're using free Ness and you're using ZFS you definitely want to have lots of memory and you also want to have ECC memory if possible and that was one thing that I didn't have for my FreeNAS build was ECC memory and as a result I'm considering you rebuilding it once again I'll see if that actually happens but if you're building a new nest here's some options I think you should consider first off we have this as Rock Mini ITX it's an atom based motherboard so it's got the motherboard as well as an atom processor built into it which is pretty cool so that's why it costs a little bit more but remember you're getting the motherboard and the processor there I got 16 gigs of ECC memory I got some WD red hard drives I got a silverstone Nass case which has external bays that you can remove which is very convenient and have a corsair power supply which is way overkill but i'll come back to the reason why I chose that power supply in just a moment first off this motherboard let's look at it on Newegg because they usually have good pictures assuming it loads alright so this is a C 550d 4i Mini ITX server motherboard and look look how fancy it is I kind of like this why do I like this well it's it's got passive cooling for one thing it's got an atom processor they don't get too hot but it can get the job done there's a upgraded version of this motherboard as well that has an additional 4 cores on the Atom processor you might also consider it but it costs a good 100 250 dollars more so I decided to go with this one it's also got lots of SATA so you'll notice it's I've read the specs and it listed like tenth SATA ports but I'm seeing I'm seeing 12 on here I don't know what the deal is with that but you know it's got lots of SATA ports let's just say you're building an ass you want lots of connectivity I'll set for RAM slots so even though I'm using a 2 by 8 gig kit of ECC memory for 16 gigs I could easily drop in more and upgrade that in the future so that's pretty nice as well this was originally recommended by Wendell heated a Bilitis a while back it's not necessarily brand new but I think it's a great option and it's something I might actually invest in for mine ass because keeping those you know if you're building an ass for 24/7 use keeping the power draw at a minimum especially when it comes to the CPUs is gonna be pretty useful for you alright moving back over to the memory again this is just a really basic crucial server memory look it's it's it is and it's green but it doesn't matter because DCC err correcting it's got an extra it's got an extra little DRAM chip on there that it uses for parity and the only real drawback of ECC memory is it is I don't know almost twice as much as non-ecc memory also heroes snoring right now sorry about that hero well you go it's loud ok for storage if you're building an S I highly highly recommends getting yourself not consumer-grade hard drives like if you look at the WD lineup for example they do a color base so it's really easy to talk about WD green drives and WD blue drives are not rated for enterprise use or for use in Nats bays or that kind of thing so green and blue drives I don't recommend though they're only used for like eight eight ish hours of a day use Mac's what you want is a WD red drive those are made specifically for NASA's or WD black drives or WD Enterprise drives are also they have the same kind of special technology going on in there it's made so that when there's vibrations from other drives that are next to it it can handle that better without having read/write errors or that kind of thing anyway WD red drives I've been a big fan of they're actually recommended by FreeNAS I have four of them I put three of them in this build oops I'm on the wrong page I put three of them it's in this build so you that is about $450 worth of drives I think this would be a great start out the solution for somebody because you could have a parity drive give yourselves 8 terabytes of storage and you'd have one drive could fail and you'd still be ok but again since a lot of NASA's are built with kind of older hardware that kind of thing you don't you you don't necessarily need to buy any drives if you already have drives that you can use but again I really recommend going with drives that are built for NASA use or enterprise use or 24/7 usage two more things for this one is this case the silverstone ds3 a DB Mini ITX tower case now here's another thing that you may or may not want to go with if you're considering an S this case for instance has these drive bays on the front so made to be an S you can label all these know which drivers are where you have a drive that fails that pops up on your you know your your FreeNAS UI or whatever you can spot whatever drive it is pull it out pop another drive in it'll rebuild and you'll be good to go whereas if you use a more traditional style case you might have to dig in there to pull the drives that might be a little bit more difficult now the flip side here is that this uses SFX power supply so I didn't need to kit it with a smaller size power supply and the smaller size power supplies are more expensive and then I was reading some reviews on this that said it's a little bit more of a challenge to build in if you need to get back into the system after you've built in it they were you know they were so so on that but 140 bucks for that and I think the convenience of having those external bays would be convenient moving on to the power supply again this power supply is kind of ridiculous for this build but it's $90 this is Corsairs SF series so this is the new Corsair series that's you know sfx and fully modular look nice cabling you have nice black cabling to match with your green PCB motherboard or whatever but I didn't really get this for the black cabling or anything like that all I got this for was because it was sfx and it was 80 plus gold if you want to shave another 40 50 bucks off the cost of this there's 80 plus bronze rated sfx power supplies that are in the 250 to 350 watt range and if you look at the total estimated power draw of this entire system at least according to pc part picker it's 103 watts so that's not all that much clearly a 450 watt power supply is way overkill but if you want sfx and 80 plus gold those are the drives that are available there's nothing less than 450 watts I think one of those bronze power supplies would probably be just fine as well but now you could add a graphics card to your kness with no you prize should nobody should do that anyway that is all for this video guys I hope you have enjoyed thanks to all you guys who have jumped into chat and said hello an octane Kitty and punk poets is here wow there's lots of people who have jumped in there so thanks all you guys for stopping by and saying hello I'll be back very soon with this build for my wife 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