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what's up guys and welcome to my monthly builds video for July 2016 I get asked all the time for me to look at people's parts lists or to give them builds so that they can build a system so this is my response to that each month I do two parts lists for computer builds these are all based on your votes and your feedback from months past so I actually didn't do this for June because I was a Computex last one was back in May and the results from that straw poll have come in although I had to make that strap a little bit more vague so here are the results I was just asking what are people more excited about because again I there was parts that were not out yet at that time anyway everyone was really excited for in videos new GPUs back at that point in time I also asked about AMD's new radeon gpus which happens to be the RX 480 which we know now I think there was less excitement about it at that point in time but I think now it's gotten a little bit more exciting so for today's video I'm gonna be doing two builds based on the AMD R X 480 which is a $600 build as well so $1200 build based on the nvidia gtx 1070 specifically the msi version of that also a couple changes for this month one is that i'm not live streaming this in case you didn't notice they were always just very short when i livestream them and so i decided i'm just gonna do it and then upload it to youtube and also whereas in the past i have done the builds and then occasionally actually built one now i'm going to commit to do the build and then most of the time actually build them so i will be building one of these builds specifically the $1200 build later this month so stay tuned for that and finally before we get into the builds you guys should definitely check out and vote on the straw poll for next month what pc bills do you want to see in august it's linked on the video description I got a cheat be are ready system budget gaming rig $1200 all-rounder or a GTX 980 SLI built any of those you can vote on and those will be used to determine what we talk about next month but let's get into the builds for this month starting with the less expensive $600 rx for e build and there it is right there I based it around a core i3 6100 CPU it's a dual core processor with hyper threading it's skylake it will be upgradeable although it is one of the weaker parts of this system but it only costs about 110 $220 u.s. right now I've got an asus motherboard crucial memory of course that AMD graphics card wasn't AMD SSD you know just for matchy-matchy is fractal design core 2300 case in an EVGA at 500 watt power supply so let's go over these parts one at a time and we'll kind of talk about what's what also by the way check out my builds list my builds playlist on youtube if you want to see me do builds and anytime I do these builds I will add them to that list alright so starting off with the processor it's a core i3 6100 3 megabyte cache 3.7 gigahertz so it actually runs at a pretty decent frequency and it does have hyper threading so even though it's got two physical cores it's got four logical cores so that can trick some games that require a quad core into working with this processor and it comes with a CPU heatsink fan which is also important for motherboard I just stuck with an Asus budget range motherboard again this is a little over a hundred dollars depending where you buy it at z170 e LGA 1151 this should be drop-in compatible with kb lake once it comes out so if you do decide to upgrade that weaker link in the system being the processor you can drop that into this motherboard or you should be able to with a BIOS update based on what we are told other than that it's got a nice feature set all-around good feedback from from the reviews and whatnot and hey even a $20 million rebate card at new AG if you buy it there right now cool for memory we went to a 2 by 4 gig kit 8 gigs total Crucial Ballistix sport it's it's kind of sporty you know it's silver it's got some digi camo in there which I'm not a huge fan of but hey that'll blend in black and silver though I'll blend in with the motherboard and look pretty nice in an 8 gig kick kit is what you want for an SSD I like to do an only an SSD and most of my builds simply because I feel like most people have old hard drives lying around that they can easily drop in to add some more mass storage and a 240 gig SSD will get you by without too much difficulty about 60 bucks is kind of the going price for a decent 240 or 256 gig SSD this is a solid pick from AMD Radeon I actually don't know who OEM is this SSD I used to but I forget now and let's move on then to the actual graphics card Nick's which is of course the Radeon R X 480 now if you looked at my actual parts list you might have spotted the rx 480 which is listed right here and actually wrote in the price for this at $200 so I went with a 4 gig card this is the only 4 gate card that's currently listed on PC part picker for gig cards are $200 and this is an XFX version right here anyway a lot of these are sold out right now but they're supposed to be more stock coming in soon if you happen to get a four gig are X 480 there is a chance if you get one of these early versions that you might actually get a for an 8 gig card even though it's actually running on a V bios that runs only 4 gigs of that memory so what you can do is check and even some of the boxes this is a tweet count article by the way even some of the boxes said 8 gig on them and they put a four gig sticker over it so if you happen to get one of these lucky early versions then you can basically flash your V bios with an 8 gig version and you get an 8 gig card for the 4 gig price that's not guaranteed by any stretch I imagine AMD will be launching actual 4 gig cards as well but hey it's 40 bucks cheaper and you get the chance of getting free vram right now and for this build honestly you're probably gonna be playing at 1080 anyway and 4 gigs is probably sufficient so for the 40 bucks and to keep the price down a little bit the 4 gig card but hey if you really want the 8 gigs pay 40 bucks more for a case I went with a simple fractal core design fractal design core 2300 it's a full sized ATX case in this 40 bucks this is just it's a purely features and a basic simple design that will get the job done it's got a USB 3.0 up on the front and you know nothing blingy at all about this case but it's solidly built and it has the features you need to put this the parts in there and get everything up and running finally for power supply I keep going with the EVGA power supplies trust me guys I keep looking and trying to find other good alternatives but EVGA just seems to have a pretty decent stranglehold on like the good 80 plus bronze or better rated power supplies this is not their supernova series as long as you don't get a supernova supernova any X and that was pointed out to me in the may build series the supernova NEX not good rated not well rated but the other ones in that series from EVGA all the other ones are pretty good this one does not have very nice cabling like some of the other models but it is a more budget to variety for 500 Watts 80 plus bronze power supply hey you can't go wrong with that one and you know other options are out there but well I'll leave that to you guys if you haven't spend a little bit more to get better cabling or that kind of thing that's all for the first build let's move on to the second build which is more expensive of course this is the $1,200 it's based around a gtx 1070 and i was going to go with a quad-core like 6400 or 6500 for the processor and then I was like Nina I think it's 6600 K will be good for this so you could get a gtx 1070 based build for less money than this for sure you could probably shave one to two hundred dollars off of this by for example going with a 42 $50 cheaper processor that's not unlocked that maybe doesn't require an aftermarket CPU cooler you could also get a little bit cheaper price on the graphics card for example and I'll show you one example of that if you don't want to go with the founders Edition and you know there's a couple other places you could shave off money but hey this is a $1,200 build and I think it's really solid all around it's also very well matched it's black and red and if you want to match up the colors on your system then build a black and red system because that is definitely like the the easiest way to do that running down the parts one more time though I 560 600k can get these for about 240 bucks now if you find a micro Center walk in and buy it for cheaper again forty to fifty dollars less you can get the not unlocked versions of these but you can get a lot of extra power a lot of extra performance by overclocking at 6600 K so go for this if you're planning to overclock it and of course if you do overclock well if you do get the unlocked processors they don't come with the heat sink fan so you will need to buy one the cry Rig h7 is a great choice for that it's about $35 you can buy it here from Amazon oh it does have free shipping okay 35 bucks plus free shipping that's also available on Newegg but a very solid cooler it looks pretty nice too and I'm going to be building the system and I have one of those so hey that's useful MSI's gaming z170a gaming m3 motherboard is the one that I chose here again black and red z170 chipsets good good features all around you know it's got your SATA Express on there and your your new egg you know image and knowing needs to like knowing image servers used to be awesome they would pop up in like seconds now it takes way too long like watch watch how long this takes okay that wasn't terribly long but anyway good power delivery on this it's a decent overclocker LGA 1151 socket of course forward four dims for memory say to express it even does have an MDOT to porch kind of right in there in the middle just underneath CPU slot so very very nice seldom other board all around for memory I went with black and red of course g.skill ripjaws five series lots of black and red memory kits out there this one was just a good deal seventy bucks and it's fast ddr4 3000 so hey if you can find equivalent memory or faster memory for roughly the same price I always go for the faster memory when that's an option although I don't pay exorbitant amounts of cash for it you don't need the faster memory but hey as well next up for SSD I wanted the 480 gig drive I find the 480 gig drives are just eminently affordable now a little over $100 for this 109 total it's a SanDisk SSD plus it's not quite as good as their ultra the very solid read and write speeds overall and again black and red hay matches with the color scheme look how thoughtful I was with that alright moving on to the graphics card and this is the one that I actually have right here and I have reviewed or at least I did an SLI test with this this is msi gtx 1070 gaming X I believe and they also have a just a gaming version of it now here's an interesting thing about these cards at least their listings on Newegg first off it's pretty expensive I mean 380 is what the founders of dish or what they reference cards are supposed to be or than whatever they're calling the non reference cards this one's for 60 it is overclocked right out of the box but you could get four four hundred and forty dollars the gaming version that's not gaming X which looks exactly the same doesn't have the RGB lighting on it but the RGB lighting wasn't all that impressive for me anyway and you can just get this one on overclocking and your performance to be the same and you can save twenty bucks so maybe go ahead and do that and that would be a little bit better option for you than paying the full price for the gaming X version although that is what I've listed here so you can shave 20 bucks off the price just by doing that but that's your graphics card let's just finish out with the case NZXT s340 this is the black and red version so again a little bit of red accents on there will help everything match super nice it's got a big side panel window so your red and black build will look pretty in there with your special cabling and all that good stuff and yeah for 75 bucks very solid case all around very reviewed finally for power supply EVGA again the 650 GQ this time this one's 80 plus gold rated so it's definitely more efficient so you'll save a little bit more on your power bill nine point four out of ten from Johnny guru who does really good power spy reviews and again 75 bucks for 650 watt 80 plus gold so I think that's a great choice and the cabling on this also it's not fully modular it's partially modular but even that even that cable that's that's permanently attached has a nice black cabling on it so it's going to look good in your build anyway that's all for this video guys I hope you have enjoyed it again I will be building that's gtx 1070 system very soon so stay tuned hit the subscribe button if you're not already and you can check out that when I come to it if you want to see more builds right now check out my builds playlist that's also linked down in the video description thank you guys so much for watching hit the thumbs up button on your way out and we'll see you next time