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excellent hello everyone and welcome to paul's hardware this is my monthly builds video for October 2015 so the way this works is every month at the beginning of the month ideally and apologies I'm a little bit late this month I'm going to be doing a couple builds I do them live so I'm streaming this right now to my twitch channel which is twitch TV / Paul's hardware if you want to follow me over there and I'm gonna be showing you guys the parts for the build so these are theoretically reticle builds i'm not actually assembling them today although i will be assembling one of the builds later this month so subscribe if you're interested in that you can see already some of the builds that I've done in the past here behind me apart from being my twitch channel live this is also going to go on my youtube channel Paul's Harbor so you can help me out by clicking the like button if you watch this video and like it also links to these builds are down in the description i use pc part picker and then if you want to help me out further than that you can always visit my store and pick up merchandise like my shirt here or mugs or glasses or that sort of thing so going back to pc part picker that's what i use because i think it's a great website and it allows you to take lots of parts from Los lots of different places and kind of conglomerate them all together and it shows you price history and it shows you like where you can buy them at different locations and it tips you off to combos and that kind of thing as mentioned i do sometimes build these systems like the ones behind me and i will be building the one that's based on this motherboard that's right here next to me in the past I've done for example the entry-level x99 build which I assembled nuts that's that one no that one every day and then what else have I done Oh recently I also did I tried this was an experimental thing but I my two-thousand-dollar skylake gaming pc build that I did actually did live so it's a two hour video and again that was kind of experimental so thanks to all the folks who have actually watched that one I was surprised as many people did who did it anyway alright so let's get right into it um oh wait no let's not get right into it because I'm forgetting some very important things I need your feedback I need you guys to participate here because that is how this works in fact last month I specifically requested Oh what's up what's up with a bombs going off in chat last month I requested you guys first budget builds systems are just kind of looking for a price point seven hundred dollar gaming system was the number one request and I also did a thousand-dollar video editing system for this time around because those were the top two on there and then I'm also going to be asking for you guys's feedback for this coming month which is coming sooner rather than later so for November what kind of builds do you want to see and I just have a few random suggestions I put up there we have an email system for a mom and pop for 300 bucks an entry-level skylake build I did the entry level that I did the entry level haswell-e build our x99 build and that was interesting I kind of want to do the same thing for sky like how cheap can you get a skylake build system built the system for ultra via a VR ready build could be interesting or a twelve hundred dollar bang for the buck system anyway give me a feedback vote on those links are in the description if you're watching this on youtube to those voting things alright first built here is actually a very specific build one it is of course the seven hundred dollar gaming system that you guys requested but to it's also a build that I'm going to be building for my brother-in-law Jason so he actually started off with a few parts that he already had but one part in particular so here is kind of the system that i put together for him this link isn't in the description but you can see most of the parts that i have here and then also his case city area has on hand which is a real legacy you to dash B that's this one right here and it's not available anymore rosewill has discontinued this case this is also the windowed side panel version although I will be working with the non windowed side panel version so I already started out with the case that he had and I kind of based on that had to choose the rest of the parts from the system now since you guys at home can't necessarily gotten by that case I've replaced it for the actual build this is the actual October build seven hundred dollar gaming system and you can see all the parts right there and I 560 400 so this is a skylake system the gigabyte h17 TN Wi-Fi motherboard g.skill ripjaws 5 series eight gig memory kit a crucial be x 100 250 gig SSD geforce gtx 950 OC edition video card from gigabytes roseville neutron mini-itx which was the replacement case that i got and then the EVGA supernova GS 550 watt power supply and let's just kind of run down each of these parts and I'll kind of tell you guys why I chose and kind of my thought process behind them because I think that's a one of the important things about doing these every month is not just to tell you guys here's a build put it together but to kind of introduce you to my thought process and kind of the way I go about choosing parts because I think the process of picking is important and if you don't necessarily want to build this system or these systems then you can use the thought process to choose out your own parts anyway um does the roseville Neutron minitower and I picked this one because it's cheap 40 bucks right now originally it was ninety dollars it's mini-itx it's a little bit I think it might be actually a little bit larger than the legacy you to dash be but um it's got like some red LED fans in there it's got a side window and it's forty dollars i actually think this might be going end of life from rosewill which is why it's on like a kind of a blowout special right now so bear that in mind I don't know how long this will be will be available but forty bucks for mini ITX system painted black interior all that good stuff I think you'll be happy with its let's move on to the base of the system now when when when my brother-in-law told me he wanted to build a new system oh wait now i'm skipping things in my notes if you want a different case in that one I just showed you if you want something else besides Rosewell Neutron the other ones i was looking at with the corsair 250 t the cooler master elite 130 although that's a smaller little shoebox one which would still work but i wanted something a little bit spicier Lanley has also has a pc dash Q 0 1 B which is another possibility doesn't have quite the same finish inside anyway does just some other options that are available for you guys all right so I wanted to do a skylake system and the nice thing about skylake is it's the newest platform from Intel gives you access to the newer technology has like more bandwidth for your storage and PCI Express and it's also got like a USB 3.0 USB 3.0 and then some more native support for stuff like youryour you to connectivity depending on the motherboard you get of course you're not going to get all that stuff the i5 6400 is about a hundred and eighty five ish dollars 180 I don't know it depends where you get it mostly say they're on special right now but I can't feel like they'd be able to sell this chip for much more also consider an i5 6500 which is going to cost you about twenty to thirty dollars more but that one does have a higher boost clock speed this one right out of the box gets you what does it give you wait I have notes 2.7 gigahertz is the base frequency 3.3 gear hereit's is the turbo you're not going to be able to overclock this but that's okay it's quad-core that's one of the big reasons I went for it full quad core and that's definitely important if you're going to be doing some of the newer games that are out there alright moving along from that we have the motherboard of course that's a gigabyte h17 TN I have it right here we talked about this a little bit on our live show I really like the feature set of this motherboard from the i/o options that you have on the back which there are a ton of Jason's going to be using the integrated GPU out of the gate so it's nice to have the full feature set there you also get stuff like USB type-c connector I believe it has USB 3.1 if i'm not mistaken wait does it does it even if it's three-point oh that's still okay to USB 3.0 but it does have the it has that does have the type-c connector so that's pretty nice the other cool thing about it that you can't see in the pictures here if you're looking at this on newegg is that it's actually also got an m dot 2 on the back of it right there and i like having that m dot to support this is an m dot 2 PCI Express connected slot as well so you can do pcie you can also run a sada n dot two on there and i believe it's m dot to 20 to 60 length and 20 to 80 that's supported so i really like that feature set i like to look at this little bored too so if you're building in that window case i think everything will match pretty nice for you all right moving right along we got a g.skill ripjaws 5 series kits this was a very close call i was actually came down to the wire here with this kit because i was originally going to go with a corsair kit that i found but then the prices fluctuated a little bit and I was really trying to keep this under seven hundred dollars I didn't completely I wasn't completely successful on that but it's a 3200 kit so like what I do when I'm if I'm looking for men first off like I got to find how much I want and I wanted eight gigs for this I wanted to buy two because I want I want to take advantage of that dual channel I'm sorry two by four and that beyond that I was looking for as fast as memory as I could get because you want to give the igpu a pretty good yeah you want you want to make sure that your I GPU can can handle what you're throwing added and faster memory faster memory speeds is definitely a very good way to do that so 3,000 speed 3,200 speed you can actually get a pretty reasonable price for this is a two by four gig kit of 3200 speed ddr4 memory for $65 the other one I was looking at was a 3000 kit for seventy dollars she just find what the fastest is it's that's not lower that's that's low price if you get too much beyond that you get to the premium stuff that's like the cutting edge as fast memory as you can by the price really starts to ratchet up pretty quick so that's why I cut it off at 3,200 but that'll give you a good performance for your I GPU and your 6400 processor alright moving along to storage 250 gig SSD I think it's kind of the standard right now ATX for crucial be x 100 of course there's lots of other 240 gig SSD options in this little range but i find the bx 100 to be a good option if there's others there that you like the color of better or something like that then feel free to go for those and then lastly we have a video card since this is a little gaming system and this is gtx 950 from gigabytes i went with this one because it's a hundred fifty bucks straight up I feel like it's a great card for 1080 gaming which is probably what your ad if you're spending seven hundred bucks on system and as does it doesn't look too bad either it's got a black PCB this is overclocked straight from from gigabyte this is the I believe this is an OC version this is it yeah this is a 950 OC and then they have the wind force in the extreme but this will this will kind of get you set up for gaming then of course you have the option in the future if you really wanted to you can always upgrade all right the final thing to point out here is that I'm I'm over budget I have to admit only by $13 713 dollars and ninety three cents so I was trying to figure out how to cut down some stuff but i really like I just just scrounge up another fourteen dollars I'll say that all right anyway that's the seven hundred dollar gaming system and let's move on to the next build which is a one-thousand-dollar video editing system and $1,000 video editing system I was like all right let me throw this together then I found it was more challenging than I expected because what's important when you're building a video editing machine everything like you need a fast cpu for rendering you need a fast graphics card ideally a workstation graphics card are those but those get really expensive and that's going to be for like real time effects processing like you know you're doing overlays or after effects that kind of thing you need massive hard drive space for storage because video files take up a lot of space you need even bigger hard drives if you're considering doing 4k stuff you need a fast SSD so you can have your roz on there and that will give you on the fly like it'll be able to pull the video off there faster so if you're scrubbing through a bunch of files or something trying to find your in and out points that kind of thing it'll load up quickly you need another fast SSD if you can afford it to use as a scratch disk you need lots of memory for keeping all the big video files in the memory which is much faster than even than having them on the SSD so basically that a thousand dollars for video editing system yes we can make one and we can do make a pretty powerful one but we are going to be making some compromises we're not going to be doing the ideal video video editing system which if you were asking me straight up I'd say go for as well II system go for a six core or even an eight-core processor but those are much much more expensive we need to keep this under a thousand dollars so I'm just to run down the the parts list right off the bat Intel Xeon e3 1231 yeah I'm with the Xeon i'll explain that in a second the msi h 97 pc mates budget motherboard for just under ninety dollars i got a 16 gig kick a kit of g.skill ripjaws x ddr3 memory sandisk SSD plus 240 gig SSD i went with a couple two terabyte hard drives and then a radeon r9 390 from gigabytes and then I case and a power supply you know what I feel like I did I feel like I completely glossed over the power supply in the last build so you know what I'm going to do is I'm going to go out of order here and jump back to it because that's something that I actually wanted to point out did I don't think I even pulled it up pardon me guys just one second here yeah did I know I Wow bit of an oversight on my part alright I pull this up real quick that's assuming that new eggs page will load all right there we go jumping back to the last seven hundred dollar bill really quickly I wanted to point out the power supply because i was looking at power supplies and i thought this one was really nice sort of feature set of things 80 plus gold for first off this could be very efficient it's got a high quality components inside 550 watts it will support pretty much any system you want to build right now with a single GPU in it barring some of the very very highest end GPUs even with like a 980 TI I feel like you should be able to get by with it it's also fully modular it's black and look at the cables that's how I want to show you the cables the cables are all black even the 24-pin so it means if you have a window system and if you watch Kyle on my live show and we talk about pit my pc and things that suck and things that often sucker the cabling and power supplies and it okay moving right along let's go back to the thousand-dollar video editing system we got 16 gigs of ram i think i got all the way down to the end and then reminded me of my oversight on last build which is the EVGA 600 watt power supply this is a less expensive power supply because it's 80 plus bronze but again we're having to cut a few corners to stick within the thousand dollar price point now let's talk about the Xeon e3 1230-1 v3 the reason I went with a Z on there's a couple different reasons one is that this is the slightly older platform from Intel it's LGA 1150 so this is going to be compatible with like your z97 boards your H 97 boards and even some z87 and h87 and some of the other budget chipsets that are in there as well double check with your motherboard manufacturer though because you want to make sure that if we are using an older board that has been updated the bios has updates to be compatible with this new or xeon but the things i like about this one is one that is a quad core with hyper-threading for two hundred fifty dollars hyper threading is significant it does play a significant role when you're rendering out a video rendering out a video and like you know you got a 20 minute 4k video and you hit render and you walk away are you going to be coming back to that and a half an hour or you're going to be coming back to that in an hour and a half or in 15 minutes that's that's really your price is going to play the biggest role in that so having the quad core with hyper-threading as well as it being a Zeon which means you get ECC memory supporting that kind of thing I didn't go with that but it is possible and this turbos up to 3.8 gigahertz right out of the gates anyway the other alternative to this one that I was looking at was like a 6600 k which is a skylake we're going to pay a little bit more for that platform overall and you're also going to need to get ddr4 memory which costs a little bit more and even with the 6600 k even though you can overclock it you still don't get hyper threading so I think I think for your heavy list heavy lifting tasks this actually be a pretty decent choice that's why I went to with the Xeon e3 1221 v3 the motherboard i went to pair with it is the msi h 97 pc mate this is a budget option but it gets the job done look how tiny these little pictures are it's blue and black did I pull up the actual website for this I did it's blue and black I was not carrying it all about how this system would look as purely going for performance but it's got like some extra PCI Express slots is not completely cut down with x1 slots so you have some ad on potential layer for adding on stuff for memory slots of course so you can expand it in the future six say 26 gigabit per second connectors I was happy with the feature set of this board the only thing that made me think maybe you might want to spend a little bit more money on something else will be to get something that does have an m dot 2 slot or something like that for dropping in an SSD or something like that in the future oh yeah 6600 k not to be confused with the Q 6600 for those of you discussing that in chat alright let's move on to the video card and this is probably a controversial decision when it comes to a video card well I chose the r9 390 eight gig video card from gigabyte now this is a really really really important point for any of you guys are actually building a system for video editing the GPU is really important any time you're doing stuff that involves real time like effects or transitions or anything like that if you have GPU acceleration rather than relying on the GPU it is a night and day difference just just trust me however you are dependent on your software for whether or not you can turn on GPU acceleration I think a lot of you guys for editing on windows-based system are probably going to be using Adobe Premiere if you're using Adobe Premiere and you have six point 0 or creative cloud or newer then you can do GPU acceleration using nvidia gaming GPUs or AMD gaming GPUs AMD's is opencl and video ones used CUDA it's really really helpful like like I would not do it without it the flip side of that is getting a dedicated work sedation GPU can give you better performance and it will be more widely compatible with higher and software if you're doing actual like cat or you know if you have other like I actually don't even know of some of the more industry standard like high-end software's that are out there like avid or that kind of thing I don't know how those work with the acceleration okay but anyway moving along the reason I got this card was because it has eight gigs and video memory eight gigs is a good thing to go with but again i'm assuming that you're using Adobe's software or a dish video editing software that has GPU acceleration if you're not if you're specifically building a system to use other software then definitely swap out the gaming graphics card and get yourself a actual workstation graphics card that means you're going to be getting a quadro card if you're looking at Nvidia are going to be getting a fire pro card if you're looking at AMD the other nice thing about getting a gaming card though for video editing workstation is because you can game with it too whereas the quadrant firepro cards or a lot more finicky about that kind of thing anyway hurt so where am I at this is the gigabyte radeon r9 390 a king a bite video card and this was three hundred dollars and i found out immediately afterwards that it was like sold out so that's definitely a problem but you should be able to find a 390 for about three hundred dollars you might have to look around for a little bit a little bit of time some of these are really overpriced than these some of the other locations that you can get them for but look for a 390 with eight gigs if you can't find that for 300 bucks and look for a 290 or 290x with eight gigs and those should honestly work just about the same maybe a little bit slower and put those are your options okay feel like I'm moving through this what's next memory alright so for video editing you need lots of memory 16 gigs was about all i could get by with giving the budget constraints this is a 2 by 8 gig kit though it actually also happens to be blue i went for the cheapest to buy a kick kick that i could find that was from a reputable memory manufacturer it was also a reasonable speed honestly 1,600 would be fine but the pricing on this was it's the same for 1866 kit and it also happens to be blue and it'll match with that motherboard even though I don't care alright moving along to storage one thing that I find to be extremely important when you're doing video editing are you doing video capture is making sure that that raw footage which is worth so much money it's saved in a safe location for that reason I have not won the two hard drives these are hitachi two terabyte hard drives these are fairly well known to be good performing drives long lasting drives they're 65 66 dollars each and I got two of them because you can put them in raid 1 and then when you copy to that you got the data on two drives and I think that's important okay um I'll part from the hard drive so you of course want an SSD I don't build systems these days without an SSD in them so this will be for your operating system and probably also as a scratch disk since you're only going to get one in here this is a sandisk 240 240 gig SSD plus and get this for 7124 again a budget option that be x 100 that i showed you in the first build would also be a great choice there's lots of inexpensive 240 gig SSDs but this is one that I've used before and it does a good job let's let's get down to the dregs here when I was running out of money and I just needed to find stuff that worked we have a DIY PCF m18 dash BK black case this case is probably pretty god awful but it's about thirty dollars and again gets the job done so it's black it doesn't have any fancy like gaming features like LEDs or lights on the side or a window which is unnecessary no painted interior but hey it's $35 probably not much in the way of cable management either this is going to get the job done you're gonna have a but you also have lots of drive support there at the top and that kind of thing I did want one feature from this case which was USB 3.0 I wanted that on the front panel because it's useful for transferring video files and stuff like that so yeah twenty 2799 with seven dollars shipping that's pretty inexpensive granted there's lots of better cases you can get by spending fifty 2015 20 or 30 dollars more but yeah staying within budget finally power supply ebg631 600 watt power supply originally had a 500 watt power supply for this build I upped it to the 600 watts mainly because of the graphics card choice I was getting pretty close to hitting 500 watts of actual usage on pc park pickers so i opted to a 600 watt unit and there's 80 plus bronze at CVG a's the cabling on these is looks pretty bad begin who cares i don't care about the cabling i just care that it works because it's a video editing system and i was showing you guys the cabling but i wasn't actually showing you guys the cabling hey here's a cabling tada yeah it's pretty bad anyway so there is my thousand-dollar video editing pc i think this will do a really good job editing for anyone who needs an editing system and you can even game on it a bit and i kind of had fun because my first xeon build or my first xeon based system that i've done with these monthly builds so there you go guys again links to these builds are down in the video description so feel free to check those out to feel free to let me know what you might have changed your updated or made difference in the comments down below and of course don't forget to vote on the builds for next month which is actually probably just going to be in about a week and a half two weeks now because this one is so late also don't forget you can get shirts mugs glasses at my store that's stored at paul's high road and that's like the video subscribe to my channel if you're interested in more just like it thank you so much for watching and a big shout out to all you guys who have joined in and said hello live because you're great and I really appreciate Creek right because you're great people and I really appreciate appreciate I'm having difficulty talking here at the end of the video you're all great people is the point I'm trying to impress thanks for watching this video guys we'll see