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Building a $2800 7700K / GTX1080 Gaming System - January's RGB PC!

2017-01-31
hey what's up guys welcome back to vault hardware I am very excited because there is a big old pile Hardware here in front of me which means it is of course time for yet another bill actually my first build of 2017 so I'm pretty excited here this is a cave you like build it's full-size ATX and it's also RGB I'm calling this a classy RGB build because you have the ability to turn all the RGB lights up if you want to which means you can go for single color and change that or if you want to go crazy with the RGB you can do that as well I'm liking the newer family of RGB products again because they're usually like a neutral color scheme like the the asus motherboard and graphics card that we have there and then the software has come a long way so we're going to be using AC sapporo software that will be in the follow up video where i do testing on this which should be out in hopefully week or so i am waiting on one final product for that part but more on that in a second let's go over all of these parts individually starting with cpu which if you didn't already notice is going to be an intel we still don't have AMD processors from zen yet know rise in cpu so stick with a with intel for now this is a 7700 k highest end chip in the mainstream series from the kb lake newly launched set of kb lake processors the case is going to be the end to evolve from fantex which is right here this is a tempered glass side panel version and it's in the satin black finish fantex also sent over a couple of just basically RGB LED strips here so i can add them to the connection and at what the goal here the idea is that the motherboard over here has RGB headers on it so i should be able to wear those up to the case and i should be able to wire those up to the internal led's so all control will be of the same software now for storage I have some persevere from OCZ I have a really fast M to drive the Rd 400 there this is also very expensive so bear that in mind it's a one terabyte version of the m dot 2 nvme drive again super fast but pretty expensive so maybe not as practical only consider this if you really need the speed if you're doing like lots of video editing or something like that or if you just need some really fast do you like evans a stuff i have a much more reasonably priced for an 80 gig to achieve a drive through the TR 150 this one you can get for round 20 dollars or so I believe and that's again much more reasonable so maybe just get two of these or something if you don't want to get this one for a cooler for the seat to you since I actually don't have a CPU cooler and this is the unlocked case q70 700k so you do need an aftermarket cooler it's on its side but at the NZXT kraken X 62 this one has RGB LEDs in it as well but this is the only product that isn't going to tie in as far as I know with Ora sweet so I'm going to maybe need to use the NZXT cam software to control that one but to my knowledge there's no RGB LED CPU coolers that work with Ora software yet probably soon but I'm not not right now here's the memory this is a g-scale tried at Z set and again this is temporary because I'm getting the g.skill I believe it's still tried at the RGB version that has RGB LEDs going across the top so this will be a placeholder for now but it will get the job done and allow me to at least get the system up and running and then of course our motherboard and graphics are both from Asus the Maximus 9 hero I think a very full-featured and yet more reasonably priced member of the rog series of motherboards from asus and also these Strix GT X 1080 this is the overclocked version and again both of those are going to have our DV LEDs and work with the Ora software and all that good stuff oh I almost forgot I almost forgot to the power supply up C on the top EVGA supernova 750g - this was one that I can have already had on hand and it's got all black cabling 700 Watts 80 plus gold it's again it's going to get the top job done just fine and I may or may not be getting some sleeving for it some sleeves cables or maybe some extensions again if I do that I'll do it for the the second follow-up video for this where I do testing anyway I am just super excited to put this all together so I'm going to set up some cameras and get some good footage for you guys and and I hope it turns out good wish me luck here goes you so I've just reinforced a very important lesson if you guys have been watching hopefully something like I got everything completed tempered glass eye panels on even went to peel peel the plastic off there and that's very satisfying end of the build process however I've said the past before you shouldn't put the sides handle on before you power the system on because of course there is a an ancient curse that applies to all pcs that are built but if you do that you will bring pain and misfortune upon yourself and your family I mastered it in a way that I have never managed to do before and that is when the system went on I discovered this yes friends at some point in this build process early on when I install the motherboard I basically took the pre-wired cable from this case fan and wedged it between the clear CMOS button and IO shield meaning the clear CMOS button is depressed is pressed down meaning the system will not power on at all meaning I need to pretty much remove the motherboard or at least get it to Moot to shift to get that out of there which is like practically a rebuilt it's not like a rebuild I don't know how let's see how quickly I can fix this but anyway that's going to require me to at least remove the motherboard or at least shift it in order to get that out of there which means I'm going to need some undo a lot of the stuff that done with this build and it's going to suck but anyway I better fix this ASAP and I'll be back once it is fixed and the system powers on alright so here it is this little cable right here and I've managed to fix it or get it cleared out of the space it was wedged into thank God I didn't have to remove the motherboard but I did have to pull the graphics card out I removed all nine screws and I lifted the board up just like shifted away from the i/o shield a little bit then I was able to get the screwdriver done and I can't pull it off to the side and then by accessing from the rear panel I pulled it out all the way okay problem solved moving on so here it is everybody the build in its present state and you can probably hear it it's pretty loud right now the fans are running at full speed so it's noisy but before I turn it off so you can hear me better I do want to point out the the kits that sent excess over which is right here it's just for connecting up their RGB strips as well as the RGB elements on this case which are the accent up at the top right there there's also a little bar across the front does seem to have worked it's got a kind of a loopback thing that you do if we add connects it doesn't seem like it would work at first but they're lighting up and it even lets you pass through and still power these these LED strips that are magnetic that I've kind of stuck in there temporarily for now so good that all that worked and and yeah it's functional but it's not displaying the same colors right now that the motherboard showing I think I need to get into the software and update that and that way I can actually control everything individually but I do not have time for today's video to load windows and get the software up and running I'm going to need to cut this video a little bit short I wants a short but I would normally give you some sexier b-roll shots of this and everything at the end but I just don't think it's quite in that state especially without the RGB s up and running properly as they should be so let me power this off for a sec and let's quickly go over a few of the other things I really like this case I have liked it for a while and this my first time actually building it I love the way the panel's pop off like you they just pop out of there and then they fit bag in its got dust filtration for the entire front and the bottom which is nice and just it's pretty well built it doesn't have quite the like enthu Pro had a lot of features in my mine but the build quality wasn't there this one seems like it built a bit better and I like that they've got like some some pads going on here for descending or for the tempered glass side panels and everything some things that I'm going to change an update for the second follow-up video because I do have another video coming up on this build and I will give you guys 63 year old in with the RGB is working I promise definitely I definitely need to clean up the cable management down there in the basement the basement usually you can just shove it in there it doesn't matter but here it does because you've got tempered glass on both sides and you can see right through that there because I removed this front piece here because I put the radiator for the NZXT creaking cracking X 62 up in front here and pulling in I mainly did that because I felt like there was there was enough clearance I could if it is in the top up there but I wanted the memory to be able to stand out and it was really bumping up right up against it up here with the van and there and the radiator on the top so when I do switch out that memory I want it to not look like it's crowded or anything let me know what I think I should do about this tubing for the krey-kin because originally it was hanging a little bit looser and dropping down and covering the RGV logo on this graphics card which is terrible you can't do that so right now I have it just kind of velcro up there with a loop of it to kind of keep it up to the side but I feel like there's a better solution for that possibly let me know how badly you think these look the NZXT fans facing inwards with the upside down logos I think it's okay I'm on the inside of those and then of course going to be swapping out that g.skill memory and I think that's about it the only other thing that I was considering is possibly some extensions or sleeves cables for the EVGA power spot oh yeah the EVGA press place so please cables maybe I might actually I know EVGA makes them directly for their power supplies although I don't know I think they're pretty decent quality so maybe I'll maybe I'll see if they want to send some of those over for the 24 pin as well as the these are the most visible ones for the graphics card they then also the EVGA logo on the power supply I've left it on for now because I don't think it stands out too badly but let me also know in the comments if you think I should peel that off because you know killing that off is all the rage and that's what we all often recommend into my PC on awesome hardware anyway that guys thanks again for watching this video I hope you have enjoyed it it's been quite a long build made namely mainly that thing that happened this the cable in the back and the clear CMOS that that's really threw me for a loop that was weird and random but anyway hit thumbs up button if you enjoyed this video and I will be back very soon probably give me a week so we can have to get the follow up video on this out because the memory from G feels Dawn's way and I need to wait for that to right before I do everything else but I do have more videos coming up this week stay tuned thanks for watching click on links down a description up with links to all the parts to use and all that good stuff and we'll see you later have a good one
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