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what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is my monthly build video for November 2018 I have a system here I'm gonna put it all together today at the beginning of this month just a few days ago actually I did parts lists and I did a $750 builds and then I did more like a 1414 hundred and fifty H dollar build this build is kind of right in between if you take all the parts here it's about twelve hundred and fifty dollars but I want to point out I've made some specific accommodations for the case I'm using today this is the new cooler master SL 600 M which I've wanted to build in since I first saw it back at Computex but this is a high-end case it's a two hundred dollar case and I've also paired it up with a 240 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler which costs about one hundred and twenty dollars so three hundred twenty dollars for the case and the CPU cooler is a little on the high side and you can easily shave off one hundred eight hundred and fifty even close to two hundred dollars by going with a less expensive case and maybe an air cooler but that said everything here is about twelve fifty you maybe could come in and around eleven hundred dollars again if you make some different choices there but I will be talking a bit about building in this case today and of course I'll be talking about this entire system altogether and we'll be testing the system and a follow up video and comparing this system with the three thousand dollar plus system that I built last month and we'll see kind of the gaming experience between both do you get that much more paying that much more for the high end Intel system with the ninety nine hundred K and an RT X 20 80 TI or could you get yourself pretty much the same experience by going with an AMD setup so I'm gonna be using the 2600 or actually the 2600 X is a cpu I'm installing down there and then for the graphics card we have a Radeon Vega 56 four hundred dollar version of that card more on that in just a second though the motherboard I've chosen is the MSI B 450 tomahawk and this one has been reviewed by quite a few people and it's got good power delivery for overclocking it's also got a very nice feature set and it's only about $100 I did in the initial builds video at the beginning of the month to talk about using a different motherboard at the asrock x4 70 tight sheet which I would recommend potentially upgrading to if you're gonna pair it with this case because that will allow you to connect the front panel USB see USB 3.1 gen2 type-c connector on that because this motherboard does not have that header other than that everything else is perfectly functional the liquid cooler is in master liquid ml 240 RGB is cool performs quite well and it's got some fancy addressable RGB lighting on the fans as well as the cooler itself but if you want to get by with something a little bit less expensive this was the original piece I was planning on using which is the hyper 212 black edition I will still integrate this into a system in the future because I wanted to give it a shot but it's only $35 so 35 bucks for this versus 120 bucks for that save yourself a little bit of money and go with air cooling if you're trying to get in at a lower price I did go with the higher end power supply for this build the EVGA 650 GQ here which is a few more bucks it's 80 plus gold rated though and it's a modular power supply but around $60 you should be able to find yourself a 550 watt or 650 watt 80 plus gold rated power supply with all black cables I like that one now for the graphics card I actually had to make a terrible choice or maybe you will have to make a terrible choice because I was able to make my choice when I was still able to get an aftermarket card for 400 bucks right now what I have linked in the description is for four hundred five dollars assuming the price is held a blower style version of the Vega 56 and section asrock variant there this is just the standard reference design Vega 56 but what I'm using today is the card that I bought for $400 from Amazon just like two days ago which is a red dragon version of the Vega 56 which has aftermarket cooler triple fan design which I'm pretty confident will do a better job than the blower style design so if you can find yourself a bargain on a Vega 56 like this one then definitely jump on it hopefully more of those will come out between now and Black Friday and just around things off have a 240 gig SSD for a main operating system drive and then I have g.skill ripjaws 5 ddr4 memory here which is the kit that I recommended in the video's description because the 3200 speed kit is a nice fast kits that is good to parrots Rison the reptiles 5 kits from g.skill do work with Rison from all accounts and from my testing as well but these are for gig Stix and I did want a 16 gig kit so I'm actually gonna be swapping in this flower X kit from g.skill which is a more expensive kit because it's very very compatible with resin I'm just using it because it is a 2 by 8 gig kit it's rated 3200 speed castling Z's 14 so I will change the timings on this to match the Ripjaws 5 kit that I originally recommended so those are the parts I'm working with today and it is time to assemble this computer so the SL 600m definitely makes an impression when you first get out of the box it's got aluminum construction on the Front's on the top here and it's got a unique design it's got two 200 millimeter intake fans at the bottom with what they're calling a chimney designs so the vertical airflow pushes air northwards and then exhausts mainly at the top so you might actually notice pretty quickly for example there's no 120 millimeter exhaust right here where you would expect one to be instead on the other side of that they've actually put a reservoir mount so it's sort of a unique use of that space if you're not going to use this for an exhaust there are a few things unfortunately that I was immediately not impressed with upon taking it out of the box one is this that's not exactly a stable sitting stance that it has going on there I believe what's causing that is this back support which is a piece of metal that's kind of got some wobbles going on and I'm guessing this got bent or something maybe during shipping this unit does appear to have been previously unboxed maybe it was a sample that they checked out before they sent it over to me but it might be a challenging to get that to bend back in place so that's a little bit disappointing other than that though the side panel here has coolers masters method that they've been using for a while where you sort of loosen the thumb screws pull its halfway off and then it can sort of sit like that and when I first did this and opened it up it was making a noise it was making Joe cringe which is kind of the noise of like adhesive on glass or metal being slowly peeled away and I believe that's actually from this bottom piece here feeling it here it's pretty sturdy this is a tempered glass piece and it's got some metal reinforcement along the sides it just seemed like this was possibly peeling away a little bit slightly it's not bad enough that I think it's a concern for me right now but it would be if I was going to be using the system long term I feel slightly concerned about that adhesive failing actually Leon Lee case I've been using recently had that piece fail on the front of it so it's made me slightly suspicious of cases that have tempered glass that is held on by a metal piece that's held to the tempered glass by just a piece of adhesive and then the only other thing I wanted to mention here just as far as first impressions go is where this panel sort of hooks onto that base piece there just upon or moving it I was noticing a pretty good amount of wear already along this edge and from where that hooks in again that would be covered when the side panels on and everything I'm just trying to give you guys my honest first impressions as I take this this little case apart for the first time and prepared to build in it I'm actually discovering these little mounts are actually multi-purpose mounts so they have SSD mounts harddrive mounts 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch drive mats and then they've got a bunch of other holes spaced out there so I imagine you can mount a reservoir or a pump to one of these as well one here is mounted at the back of this which is actually the power supply shroud a one back here at the back that I already showed you and there's actually two on the front as well at the very top is a pretty easily removable piece and this is just a cover so probably gonna block some noise at the top underneath is just mesh so if you want more airflow you can remove that or if you want things to be a little quieter or just to complete the look pop it right back on you can remove this front piece here which again is just pretty much a solid piece but we don't care because this isn't where the intake is happening the intake is happening at the bottom of the case again here you can see two more of those mounts that are mounted there and there can also get a look at where the power supply is going to Matt right in there and for the power supply there is a extension cord it's tied in there that feeds back to the back of the case so you can plug the power supply and where you normally would there's also an included fan hub that's already plugged in got a couple 2.5 inch drive cages there as well and here on the bottom you can get a look at those two 200 millimeter fans that are configured to use this as an intake so big old dust filters right underneath there this has a sort of unique design for a dust filter you can pull it out from the back of the case entirely but it's also attached here it's like a hinge and another handle so but which made me think you could they made it so you could pull it out from the front to which which I appreciate that would be kind of a nice feature to be able to do it's a friend actually has these catches here so you can't do that but anyway unique unique adjustable filter for your intake fans say at the bottom so as little baffled about how to get at the power supply mounts here because it is kind of tucked away in there so this piece is held on by two squeeze screws at the top and two at the bottom remove those and then you can remove that this also has two more mounting points for a 2.5 inch drives by the way you just put the plugs on them and then stick them on there and then behind here we actually have an outer shroud here as well as an inner ear piece that the power supply mounts to and this is made so that you can remove this to support longer length power supply since the power supply length if it's longer or shorter is gonna be longer that way since the top of the power supply is gonna be going up right there so I got four thumb screws at the front right here that you need to loosen and then this piece pops off and it's just held on by a couple plugs at the back there and this is that single this is that same similar rail system that Coolermaster has used in the past so again you can mount that there you could shift it down if you needed to those lower two screws or what's holding this outer shell on whereas the upper two screws from forth is what was holding this piece on and that's why I just fell when I removed it so next we'll mount the power supply to that and then this will mount back into the case there I decided to mount the SSD to the back here interesting the coolermaster did not provide a little fine thread the m3 threading screws no standard ones just a little plug ones that are made to mount on that front SSD mount I'm still using it back here you still can it's just slightly awkward in that once this is actually mounted you know have four little posts sticking out there but it's it shouldn't stick out far enough that it actually conflicts with the side panel so we can proceed so guys I'm just working on the cable management back here I have added the little RGB controller so I can have some RGB lights on the cooler master master liquid ML 240 R however I noticed a potential incompatibility issue that I wanted to point out I'm mainly giving Coolermaster a hard time about this because there are two cooler master products cooler master all in one liquid cooler at the top which would be a very good place to position it these are the two fan plugs the two headers for that you'll note that at the maximum length here they are about an inch short of actually reaching down here to the fan splitter the fan splitter has mounts on the case itself with standoffs so it's not really something you could reasonably move around you probably want to keep it there so just pointing that out and my solution here is just going to be a little fan splitter which will also act as a little bit of an extension and give us just enough length to plug both of these in hey oh yeah look like it's like things you might need when you're building a PC more people should watch that video so everything is pretty much installed now our red dragon Vega 56 just barely had enough clearance there at the end and I was trying to plug it in it's got an awkward plug position here because the PCB on this card actually only comes out to here this entire area right here here is just a fin stack which actually has air flow air pass through flow which actually I think will be very good for this case because the air coming up here can just go right through that radiator to provide some extra cooling for the GPU and then it get up there to provide some ventilation for the liquid cooler of course butt plugs on this are right in the middle it's just kind of awkward that this little cable here I was actually saying earlier as I was building that this little space right here to pass like front panel connectors and USB and stuff is actually pretty nice and in a good position and then Joe realize just now it's actually held on by a couple screws I'm now discovering that this piece is actually the entire cover for the bottom enclosure area that has the two fans on it which does have also amounts for radiators and stuff if you want to read reconfigure for water cooling or something in that range but removing those screws is giving me a little bit more clearance here so maybe I can pass these PCI Express power cables through okay's my bills has been assembled in the SL 600 M everything is installed and plugged in as far as I can tell I need to another front panel that's correct Jo minor issue all right let's try that again with the front panel on now but what I was about to say is let me switch the power supply out in the back but I can't because the power supplies on extension so protip switch your power supply on first before you try to do your test boot and maybe do that with the side panel off so you can reach the switch on the power supply ah there we go so we have learned construction of a computer in this case I think it is a unique layout and a unique design and as already mentioned some reviews have already come out on this when it comes to the performance and if your graphics card is running hot this does a really good job obviously just taking all that air and feeding it directly up that is also why it has such a high stance off the ground so there's plenty of space here underneath and if you're gonna have airflow like that you definitely need to have a removable dust filter and I guess one that folds to because that's very convenient but as usual this has just been a build video and I will be following up later on testing the system for some performance and ideally plugging it into a 2560 by 1440 freesync monitor so we can test adaptive refresh rates gameplay on this configuration and give a bit of a comparison to the much more expensive system that I set up last month but guys thank you so much for watching this video definitely hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed it and links to the parts they use are down in the video's description below including this new case from Coolermaster thanks again for watching and we'll see you next time