Gadgetory

excellent what's up guys and welcome to today's build video I am very excited about today's video for three reasons one is it's my March build and I'm building it and it's still March and that is that's a win right there honestly if you've been following my monthly build video series we're getting caught back up second reason is this is my first full system built based on Rison so I will be using the r7 1700 in this build eight core 16 thrift processor very excited about that then the third reason is I definitely tried to stick a little bit more of a budget with this build so the system that you see here is going to cost you about fourteen hundred dollars but I put a second variant of the system with just a few parts changed here and there that comes in at about twelve hundred dollars so check the video description if you want to see links to both of those over on PC part picker all that said though let's run down all the parts that I'm going to be building with today I guess you could add this as a four threes and I'm kind of excited for this build this is a mastercase pro six this is going to be our case and this is a brand new case from coolermaster it is part of their master case series though so it does fit with their freeform modular system it's all the accessories and everything that they sell like the mastercase 5 and 3 and all that stuff are swappable into this this one has a silent design where the top panel can pop up and down and give you either more airflow or a block a little bit of the internal noise so that should be a nice spacious case to build in and I love the quality of cooler master cases because they're always built like tanks for the motherboard we have the asrock X 370 Taichi this motherboard has been getting a lot of good press I think since Rison launched because as rack has been pretty diligently working on updated BIOS ease for the this board as well as the entire series of am4 motherboards this one has a pretty cool black and white design and I'm hoping we can get a pretty decent overclock going on this one as well once it's all installed also uh plenty of features like in two supports and high-speed storage as well as connectivity for storage we have a single SSD and I'm assume you're going to want additional storage in this build and you're building it at home you're probably going to want to drop in another mechanical drive or something like that in the parts list and a 480 gig version of this sander sculpture - I'm actually building with a one terabyte version because that's what I have on hand right here but that shouldn't affect speeds or anything like that it's a very nice fast drive and if you keep an eye out for you can find it for very reasonable prices now we have the CPU and cougar combo so the CPU of course the rise in 717 hundred in my opinion this is the price to performance King when it comes to the recent CPUs launched by Ryze and if you are willing to overclock a 1700 you can get it - very very very close to the type of performance you get from a 1700 X or an 1800 x8 core 16 thread beast of a workstation processor handles games just fine as well and I'm going to be pairing that with also a new product from cooler master their master air probe for we're hoping this will be a worthy successor to the hyper 212 Evo although the hyper 212 is of course still available this one I think looks a little bit better they put a plate on top to give it a sort of a darker look still has your direct copper contact heat pipes and all that so we'll be putting that through its paces in the follow-up video when I test performance of course and I'll be giving you some feedback on that we also have a coolant master power supply there be 650 this is very good power supply all Japanese capacitors five-year warranty 80 plus gold rated it has all black cables as well so no ketchup and mustard going on here and then almost finally I was about to say finally but I realized I'm missing a pretty important piece here we have the memory this is a Corsair Vengeance lpx ddr4 insanely popular memory because it's just it just gets the job done it's low-profile it's all black and then when it comes to the AMD stuff the rice and stuff that's just launched memory compatibility can be touchy at times but Corsair at least with this kit has done the widest amount of validation across a bunch of different motherboards so we're confident that it will work and I've at least run this 29:33 I will see what the Taichi maybe maybe with the new motherboard BIOS we can we can run this at Street 3000 but and in a 2x8 gig kit and then you might have noticed in the intro I didn't have a graphics card set out here and that is because I basically said get a gtx 1070 for this bill but least that's what I'm pairing it with and when it comes to GTX sensitivities I mean pick your flavors they all kind of perform within the same relative range of each other as long as you have like an aftermarket cooler and you're overclocking a bit this is the galaxy gtx 1070 x0c which is a pretty decent overclocker and it's got a nice little cooler on there as well so that's what I'm going to be dropping in here but hey if you find one on PC part picker or wherever else that you get a better deal on or anything like that as long as it says GTX 1070 on it and it's from a vendor you've heard of before you know you know Asus MSI gigabyte EVGA you'll be just fine but Galax I mean they do a good job - a little harder to come by in the US but then I already tested this card and it is solid so they're all the parts and now begins ye-olde build time-lapse so wish me luck and here goes so what the build all completed and put together I do have a little bit of initial feedback on the assembly and just a few of the quirks and everything the case the mastercase pro sticks overall I think it's done a pretty good job here it's definitely some pros and cons to it though I do like the look of it I like to finish it's got sort of a nice gray finish it's not quite black but it's it's subtle and I feel like appropriate there's some quirks to this case that take a little bit of getting used to but once you're used to them you're getting more used to them so for instance and as all these panels that pop outs like this front panel I just pop that and you can see give it a couple centimeters of space there the top panel can do that as well as I just did there it feels a little awkward at first but once you figure out how it works you start to think okay well that's pretty easy to pop up and then that would just allow more air to flow in there or floor flow out of there whatnot so you kind of put yourself in here flow mode for a better coolie the top front panel connectors here are again sort of strange they're kind of tucked away in this old panel which just flips it up in them it's got a rubber piece right that it holds in that puts all the way back in a magnet holds it in place actually magnets hold lots of these pieces in places place so it makes it easier to pop them on and off again once you get used to but there's i/o then like for the front piece here if you don't want to put it in airflow mode like that you can also just remove it by like lifting all the way out like that and that kind of pulled the back and then you can just lift it off which again it's pretty easy and that gives you access to the front panel for cleaning out your desk filters or whatnot and this this you just grab from the bottom to pull off so pretty good as far as airflow and dust filtration goes it can get a little awkward down around here at the back though because there's also a piece back here which also kind of pops off which I don't know I might just not use this piece honestly if I had this case come on the fence about it because you can imagine if you had all your cables coming back through here this would be stuck you couldn't get it off without removing all those cables but you need to remove it in order to get at the thumb screws so it makes removing the side panels I think a little bit more complicated than it needs to be speaking of which let's move that side man now the side panels have this cool trick you can do where if you pull back like that it will just sort of hang like that which is actually kind of nice and then again you just lift it off there's just some kind of catches down there along the base of that that holds it in place and then I like that they have a protective piece over there to cover your power supply area I thought that was a nice to have that you don't always see this is not a tempered glass piece on here on the side so that is one thing I feel like was I don't know it would be interesting to see this case with just tempered glass and as is insert instead of just flexi but then internally you can see everything you know it all fits in there thanks thankfully and I will say that the a.m. for mounts for the coolest year the master air pro 4 is not too difficult it's pretty much the same mount situation that you have with like a hyper 212 the am4 bracket does not ship with this cooler right now though they will be doing I believe an updated version of it that does ship m4 compatible they will send you an AM for mounting kit which they sent me for my hyper 212 Evo and since it's the same mounting solution I was able to just use that for the master air pro 4 as well and I do like the look of this - I think that black cab brush metal plate gives it a much cleaner finished look and puts this kind of more inline with some of the coolers who've been seen from micro rig and enter max that's it you know do a good job cooling but also looks pretty decent as well so I will be coming back to the system and doing some testing and benchmarks got to check out some of the new BIOS updates for the X 370 Tai Chi from as rack right there see if I can get some higher memory memory speeds going and just see what kind of gaming and workstation performance we get from this system the 1200 to 1400 dollars rise and build for March 2017 but thanks for watching this video guys really hope you've enjoyed it hit the thumbs up button if you did I'll be back soon with more videos on Paul's hardware