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Corsair Vengeance RGB ddr4 memory modules feature customizable multi color lighting and are designed for overclocking with XMP 2.0 support give your build a unique look with vibrant RGB LED memory by Corsair click the link in the description for more information what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware today I'm continuing my monthly build series this is my third installation of the April build of the month which is $1,000 right and 5/8 system with an r5 1600 and a gtx 1070 in there I built this just a couple weeks ago so check out that video if you want to see a little bit more about the build process itself a little some of my notes on the assembling and using the case and that kind of thing so today's videos going to be the testing and benchmarking of this thousand dollar system and actually when I built it a couple weeks ago I actually made it a little bit more expensive than $1,000 I did the thousand and fifty dollar version which included the 1600 X CPU which required an aftermarket cooler in the cooler master master air 4 pro that I put in there now what I did was I decided I wanted this to be a sub $1,000 build and thankfully to check out the links to the pc particulates that I have in the description you'll notice that some prices have fluctuated in fact the gtx 1070 price you can get for 335 to 340 bucks so this system right now at least not with this exact GPU but the EVGA version of it you can get for less than $1000 you also get the Wraith cooler the race spire cooler that's in there which means you don't need to pay extra for an aftermarket cooler and even though this cooler isn't like top-of-the-line or anything like that getting the job done it's not terribly loud and I was able to overclock with it - apart from a CPU cooler though this build features the asus prime v 350 plus motherboard full-size ATX motherboard with the be 350 chipset the graphics card is a gtx 1070 and I basically advise you to choose whatever most inexpensive gtx 1070 you can find this one happens to be MSI's gaming X version of the gtx 1070 remember I have two sticks of corsair ddr4 3000 speed memory eight gigs each giving me 16 gigs total I am running it at 29:33 with very very slightly loosened up timings the case of course is the NZXT s340 in the black and red trim the power supply is the coolermaster v6 50 and finally for an SSD I've actually slept in a Seagate 600 series SSD that's a 480 gig model right there now for setup here I first went and updated the motherboards UEFI or BIOS because that's very important new ones are coming out they introduce greater RAM stability as well as potentially greater stability and compatibility with different hardware you might plug into a be 350 chipset motherboard version I'm using a zero six zero nine and then of course I went an overclocked everything CPU and memory was overclocked using my rising five overclocking methodology that I just did a video on a couple days ago you can check that out via a link up in the corner then I overclocked the graphics card with the MSI Afterburner utility of course I also went and updated all the Windows 10 drivers I got the latest drivers from Nvidia which is three eight one eight nine and then I'm using monitoring utilities cpu-z gpu-z hardware monitor and of course MSI Afterburner so from there I went in to start doing some tests but what I didn't realize was that my overclock wasn't stable I thought it was stable and then I was running 3d mark and I bits basically crashing out of the program when it was running through some tests now basically went back and did a bunch more tweaking of the CPU frequency I had it at 3.9 at first I dialed it back to 3.875 and then three point eight five and then three point eight to five it is nice with the horizon you can down you you don't have to overclock in hundred megahertz increments you can do 25 megahertz increments which lets you get a little bit more granular with that but eventually I decided to just test things one at a time and I realized it was actually the GPU overclock that was causing the failures but ultimately I ended up with a CPU overclock of three point eight five gigahertz which is not too bad at all I did that with a voltage positive offset of about plus point one or maybe plus point one a 106 or something like that that ended up giving me voltage that was hitting about one point three five to one point three seven volts and then when I was running a stress test it was maxing at one point four which is well within the range that you should expect when you're overclocking Rison you just don't want to get past one point four to five of course now CPU temperatures were a little high and actually running at higher voltage if I was going over one point four the CPU is getting it well up above 80 85 degree and you don't want to get too far above that because if it's 95 degrees it's going to start to throw so that is why I dialed back from three point nine that I was at originally but honestly sometimes discovered that the GPU is what was actually causing the instability I could probably go back there and play with it a little bit more so most you guys should be able to hit three point eight or three point nine gigahertz possibly even beyond that depending on your specific CPU and when I tested Cinebench with the 1600 X at stock I got 11 72 was my score when I tested 1600 overclocked I hit 12 79 actually a 12 84 and then I hit 12 79 and I did a few other tests right in that range but clearly you can see that by overclocking at 1600 you can make it perform better than a 1600 X would out of the box of course you can overclock at 1600 X 2 there's nothing wrong with that but just saying I really like the bang for the buck he get into 1600 load again though for the memory overclock I pretty much punched in directly that's 29 33 speed I went into two timing sections and I took all the timings of the listed on the side of the memory and I basically up to the boat all by one point so I went from 15 to 16 or from 16 to 17 loosening up the timings just a little bit which might help stability in the long run but honestly I think my memory was justifying to the whole time anyway for my GPU overclock using MSI Afterburner utility I set plus 90 megahertz on the GPU plus 140 on the memory power target was set to 120 and I did plus 15 points on the voltage setting the fans I manually set to 50% again that was when I was trying to determine what was causing the issue that resulted in a peak GPU frequency of about 2100 megahertz which is a little high it would taper off pretty quickly after that it would end up running at 20 80 max and then it would dip down to around 2000 when it was actually under long-term stress test load temperatures with all of these over clocks in place it is may now I should point out here in Southern California so my ambience are a little bit higher it's about 80 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit here which is 27 to 30 degrees Celsius so bear that in mind CPU temps for 37 degrees Celsius idle about 70 to 80 to 80 degrees Celsius while gaming and then burying the stress test it was hitting about 87 degrees Celsius max GPU was at 38 degrees Celsius idle 72 see while gaming and 81 C during the stress test next up has some noise testing so for comparison here's what the system sounds like while at idle next up to the gaming test here's what the system sounds like while just running Unigine valley and finally here's the full-bore cpu and GPU stress test with Ida 64 and Unigine Valley so obviously this isn't the quietest system ever that is one of the trade-offs that you get by going with the stock heatsink band versus something aftermarket but it does get the job done it's still long for some overclocking and it's not the most terribly difficult thing to swap out in the future if you decide that you want to quiet things down just a little bit let's move into some benchmarks though gaming benchmarks that is I ran all of these at 2560 by 1440 I find that's a good resolution for a system like this and I'm going to do some comparisons here because last month I built a $1400 verizon seven system and I kind of wanted to see how these lined up so here's the comparison of my thousand-dollar build from this month compared to my $1400 bills from last month so if you're just looking at those gaming benchmarks the r5 1600 is pretty much neck and neck with the r7 1700 the eight core chips that I tested last month and that is is pretty nice to know that if all you're focused on is gaming you can still get very nice performance and do not necessarily have to pay for a r7 chip of course the fact this is a six core part versus an eight core part means that scores and Cinebench were definitely lower and then the games have tested the CPU specifically like 3dmark tests you saw lower scores in the physics and CPU focus test as well gaming tests again were pretty much even there was a bit of a fluctuation here and there like for instance and the overwatch test the r5 system actually performed much better but I would attribute that to updated drivers sometime using a newer driver now than what was available about a month and a half ago when I tested the other system so thousand dollars awesome system great for gaming and hey it's a six core 12 thread ship again so productivity I would easily recommend this for as well whether you're doing video editing or probably a really really nice setup for somebody who's doing like streaming on Twitch or something like that because you can play the game and also get extra cores extra threads and CPUs to handle encoding and actually sending your data up to twitch while you're doing the streaming thing so guys if you enjoyed this video then definitely hit the thumbs up button and let me know of course comments in the comment section are always welcome as well whether you arguing the merits of this build or whether you have ideas for a build of your own I know guys thanks again so much for watching and we'll see you next time