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excellent what's up guys welcome to my monthly builds video for August 2016 every month I create a couple computer build parts lists based on your votes and feedback from the previous month and then I'm actually building one of them every month as well so here's a look back through history and my saved parts list in the past on PC part picker of course at three technically two but kind of three builds for this month as well and last month I asked what PC villas you guys want to see in August and you all voted very it was very contentious there was lots of clothes voting here but twenty percent one with the 1200 Allah all-rounder however last month I built a twelve hundred dollar system that I felt actually fit perfectly into this category so for that reason i vetoed this one and i went with the twenty-six percent option cheapest vr ready system plus headset so we got both of those you guys one of up for next month link is down in the description what PC bills you want to see in September and your options are right there that's well hundred-dollar bill as well if you guys want to check it out links or also in the description you can watch me actually assemble the dang thing turned out really really nice i was super happy with the final finished product super clean and then i actually went through the trouble of testing it and benchmarking it too so I check out both of those videos because I think you will find there just jam-packed with information and they're super useful moving on to this month's bills Oh for Argus 2016 so here's the thirteen hundred dollar v r build + oculus rift and I wanted to do a full build because when I've done builds before and I've said this bill does v already and people said that's not VR ready because you don't include the VR headset head-mounted display just a significant amount of the cost to be fair so six hundred dollars is what you'll pay for an oculus rift and that is the cheapest viable full VR ready capable headset meant to go with a gaming PC so that is what I've included beyond that you have essentially the rest of the price which came in at just shy of thirteen hundred dollars so you have about seven hundred dollars worth of computer going along with that oculus rift headset which is I just sort of manually put that in there since pc part picker actually doesn't have it listed anyway so for the cpu which is probably to be the most controversial choice i went with an i5 6500 now they're off obviously other viable options for CPUs that are oculus rift ready but I wanted a quad-core and I like skylake because it's new and it's got the best instructions per clock performance and all that kind of stuff turbo will go up to 3.6 gigahertz the 6400 is also a full quad-core CPU from Intel that could also slot into this it's about 20 bucks cheaper but it has a lower base clock or lower boost base and turbo frequency so you're not going to be able to get quite as much performance out of it especially if you're doing the BC okay overclocking okay motherboard is this one right here it's a gigabyte h17 tmds 3h only about 80 bucks you can get it as cheap as 70 depending on where you look for it and it's got pretty much like everything you would need for a motherboard i want micro ATX to keep the size down a little bit so you'd have a little bit of expansion of course your slot for your graphics card right there it's even got an m2 built in there as well for I oh you've got your display outs which you're probably going to use because you'll be using your discrete GPU ones and everything else you need some USB 3 all that good stuff no USB type-c on here that's the only real downside but you do have two USB 3.0 front panel ports which you're really gonna really be able to use the case I chose but who cares anyway for a storage device we went with a simple SSD 240 gigs is enough for your operating system and some games if you want more storage find an old one terabyte hard drive or something and drop it in there as well sixty bucks for 240 gigs is kind of the going rate for a bargain on an SSD right now and it's it's not the fastest SSD in the world it's a team SSD but if you look at a SATA SSD and the reads and writes are up there in the 500 megabytes per second range and your I ops are around seventy to a hundred thousand you're going to be getting most of the performance and going beyond that you're not going to get a whole lot memory trace hears from g.skill actually had some team memory in here but it disappeared as of this morning as I was trying to set this all up but anyway 34 bucks for an eight gig kid of memory 2400 speed who cares if it matches there's no side panel on the case for the graphics card I went with a one that I was hoping you could actually find this was in stock yesterday it is not in stock anymore finding an RX variety that's in stock is difficult my apologies and also this is a reference design if you're going to get an F for 80 and you're going to try to keep your eyes out and find one that's in stock i would definitely recommend going with an aftermarket design rather than the reference design that i have listed here again i was just trying to go for one that's in stock and also around the actual price so 240 to 250 is kind of what you'd pay the higher end more expensive for 80s kinda get you up into the GTX 1060 range and then it becomes more of a question whether you're getting the most bang for your buck but the RX variety has proven itself to be very capable when it comes to VR performance and it's got eight gigs of memory and it's a good GPU I like any way for our case we have a fractal design core 1100 it's $30 case its micro ATX and it's got a USB three front panel connector what more do you want I guess maybe HDMI on the front for a VR build could be kind of useful I don't know other than that though you know is this really kind of a no-frills case from fractal but you know again it kind of gets the job done micro-atx got enough space in here for some storage drives your power supply of course goes up the top you know that's it's a case 30 bucks for power spy finally went with EVGA 500 this is the 500 be it's 80 plus bronze again a kind of no frills power supply but it is 80 plus bronze rated so the decent performance it's not going to have super fancy looking all black cables or anything you do have ketchup and mustard but again it's going to get the job done and when we're looking for the cheapest system we can build its be already this is going to be a solid power supply for you and look if you count the rebates you can get it for as cheap as like 28 bucks right now so that is a very good deal in my opinion and this whole system comes in at just shy of thirteen hundred dollars and that is including six hundred dollars of the price for the oculus rift which you know that'll get you off off the ground up and running and you know 1,300 bucks total for all that including the headset i think is a pretty good deal especially when you consider you know comparing just compared to a tight necks which costs 1200 bucks by itself for the second build i went to kind of over-the-top i wanted to do a two-way gtx 1080 builds i'm also kind of considering that i'm going to build one of these systems later in the month and i wanted to do something that was feasible if possible so this is actually kind of an asus and corsair build and I leaned towards asus and Corsair components partially because Corsair might end up sponsoring the build if I do it later in the month although that is still TBD so believe that to your we'll figure that out later anyway total price here is actually 35 4289 as of the filming of this and you'll notice we have really high end parts so I figured this was going in like groups of six hundred six hundred dollars for the CPU six hundred dollars for like the memory and the motherboard 600 bucks each for your graphics cards six nine bucks for storage i guess but that is 11 terabytes of storage so what i did was i did this whole build with the corsair and a sous parts and then i redid it which i'll come back to enjoy once i go over all these and i shaved like five or six hundred bucks off the price 6850 k is a six core processor from Intel Broadwell II and if you want a really really fast processor you kind of have to go this route although it is very expensive so 606 dollars is what these are selling for right now you can get a six core Broadwell ecp you for less money than this by going with the 6800 k that is down around four hundred dollars however that one has 40 PCIe I'm sorry that one has 28 PCIe lines whereas this one has 40 PCIe lanes the choice is yours whether you think that's a valid or not I actually went with the 58 20k with the second version of this bill but 6850 k gets you six core 3.6 gigahertz turbo it is unlocked for overclocking and all that good stuff so a very very powerful processor whether or not it's worth the price is of course up to your discretion want to keep that nice and cool so we have the corsair hydro series h100i v 2 240 millimeter cpu cooler i also want the black and white color scheme for this build i don't think i mentioned that yet this one has some little plates you can swap in to make the colors match and everything and all in all very very nice cooler they've done some upgrades from that for the compared to the v1 version for the motherboard i want the asus x 99 deluxe to this is a really nice motherboard and actually just finished shooting a review on it it comes with an insane amount of accessories so even though you're looking at a pretty expensive motherboard which costs over four hundred dollars for twenty dollars at newegg right now you get some pretty compelling ad on options like a thunderbolt three card they drop in there you get the fan splitter option as well you denim to riser card a bunch of other little random accessories and stuff in there too so i thought it made a little bit more compelling deal it's also got RGB leds that actually look pretty cool when they're lit up and stuff i did a demo that that video should be up in just a couple days stay tuned for that anyway very nice motherboard might again be more expensive than what some people want to spend but think it'll look pretty cool corsair vengeance LED series memory is what I chose for this one 32 gig kit four by eight gig this is 2666 speed and I went with this again because okay it was kind of sticking with the Corsair and Asus theme these are also new as of computex this year and they finally have actually launched I chose the version with the white LEDs across the top so the tops of these sticks have LEDs that look pretty stinking cool of course there's even working on software to make them dance for you and everything so yeah that's why with those still more expensive than what you could get so but i'll come back to that SSD have a 960 gig se23 neutron XD i corsair doesn't have a huge range of options when it comes to SSDs in the 2.5 inch range but they do have some very solid options and the neutron series is very good when it comes to right consistency this one's 350 bucks though I believe in the actual parts list it's less than that ya know 350 at newegg apparently that's the cheapest cheapest price you can get to get for that but still very fast SSD 960 gigs and again there are better Christ performance options welcome back to in just a sec toshiba five terabytes 7200 RPM a storage tribe these are 3.5 inch mechanical drives I just wanted to throw in a bunch of storage since this is a high-end build I was actually looking for a single 8 terabyte drive and I decided to go with 25 terabyte drives because these that single a terabyte drives around three hundred dollar price range two of these you can pair up and raid if you want to or give yourself some redundancy and easiest Peter redundancy for raid 0 or raid raid 1 and you'll get 10 terabytes of storage or five usable terabytes if you go for raid 0 I would go raid I go raid 1 this option just keep yourself some backup okay for our graphics card i have 2 dt x 1080 s since it was an asus motherboard i just decided well let's stick with an asus graphics card and what was the rog Strix version however these are again really hard to find just like the 480 so it's out of stock here this is at least a reasonable price six hundred dollars really is the MSRP of the GTX 1080 than 630 i think is a very reasonable price to pay for a upgraded version with asus strix cooler on it and RGB leds and all that stuff and again this was something that was stock yesterday but for ten 80s you just really have to keep an eye out if I actually do this build I'm not sure if I going to be able to get a hold of two of these but I will at least be able to do to standard founders edition 1080s for that I know I can obtain but who knows maybe i'll get the asus strix cards actually might be checking out an asus strix gtx 970 fairly soon but that still remains to be seen okay moving on to the case corsair carbide series air 540 I was considering the 780 t as well this one's a little bit cheaper still full ATX I think it's a nice little boxy system you get a bit wider footprint with the box style design but you can still of course fit everything in there and of course it will fit our cooler and since it's a corsair case we know it's got good build quality and I like how these looks keeping the power supply on the opposite side and everything I think it turns out really nice especially with a couple graphics cards in there for the power supply we have a corsair HX I series 1000 Watts 80 plus platinum so a thousand watts I think is a good you can get away with it like 850 even or less with 210 80s but thousand watts i think is a good round number 80 plus platinum is a almost the highest level of efficiency you can get 200 bucks for this although you can get a rebate right now so you're going to be able to like connect this up with the your other corsair stuff and use corsair monitoring with course your link which is kind of cool but again if you don't want to spend that much you can get this build for a lot cheaper but we are shaving some pieces off anyway so just to compare these two builds this is a 58 20k still with 1080 SLI this comes in so set 2850 earlier today and it's extra dropped even less 2814 again that's compared to our original build here with similar product but similar specs 3540 289 is what I'm currently seeing for that one now what did we change their here first off of course most obviously is going to be the processor we shaved two hundred and forty dollars or so off the cost of the processor by going with a knife I 758 20k so this is the last gen haswell-e processor that's not quite as fast but it still has six cores it still has 28 pcie lanes so it's still going to be just fine for your 2-way sli support you might have a little bit more limitation when it comes to extra connectivity on the motherboard with something like this because if you got two way sli its using up probably eight by eight of pcie lanes and you have whatever's left over for your u dot two and your m dot to another storage and a USB 3.1 and that kind of thing so you are saving us some of your performance but as long as you're not maxing out your eye oh you're still going to get most of the performance with a 58 20k when with an air cooler for 40 bucks rather than the liquid cooler for over a hundred dollars this is an enter Maxie TST 40 it's black so it'll match and everything with an still an asus motherboard still very solid asus motherboard the x 99 a 2 here instead of the deluxe this one again you know it's got everything you need it's not quite as high end and it doesn't have quite all the bells and whistles as the deluxe but still it's going to get the job done and anyone who gets it i'm sure will be totally happy wait i lost my list when with an 8am premier 960 gigs so this is a full over a hundred and this is like a hundred and forty dollars cheaper for this adata 960 gig SSD compared to the the corsair late i skipped the memory here's the a day to premiere look I don't even have a picture of it surely newegg will have a picture of it there a native premiere SP 550 seems to be really hitting the price to the bang for your buck dollar amount amounts when it comes to SSDs but yeah just a lot cheaper not going to be quite as fast as the xti of course for the memory i just went with about a 30 ish dollar cheaper kit from crucial ballistix this is a very simple kit but it's still going to match with the color scheme and then finally for the power supply went with an EVGA thousand-watt 80 plus gold instead of 80 plus platinum and you still get again the same amount of wattage a little bit less efficiency your power bill is going to be slightly more but saves about forty to sixty dollars like 120 I guess that's including a mail-in rebate so it saves 60 70 80 bucks depending on whether or not you include that mail in rebate and those are all of my bills for the month of August up you guys have enjoyed if you did hit the thumbs up button leaving comments in the comments section let me know if you like this video or what you do differently or your build that you picked out the way better than the builds that I picked out and I'm going to do one more straw poll down there where you guys can vote on which of these systems you think I should assemble later this month it's going to be in a couple weeks today I'm going on a trip in a few days here and I will be telling you more about that as I'm on the trip but in the meantime let me know what you think thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time