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Building the $1850 "Entry Level" Threadripper PC! 1900X + 1070 Ti

2017-11-02
the Coolermaster each 500 p case features two huge and distinctive 200 millimeter RGB fans up front a tinted tempered glass side panel window and a vertical GPU mount with room for 360 rads on the top and front a tasteful PSU shroud and helpful cable management covers in the back the H 500 P will make your next build both easy and sexy just like me click the link in the description for more hey guys how's it going welcome to today's video I'm gonna build a computer but I don't have all the parts I need Joe is gonna help me and we're price cuz we need an AMD thread Ripper 1900 X to build our entry-level threader per system let's go shopping alright it's an unexplored world of technology Joe computer parts are everyday this camera zoom so smoothly guys price has obtained lead speak technology and II know what we want 1800 I don't think it's listed here I'd have to ask the friendly salespeople hey that wasn't too hard got my paperwork gonna pick it up upfront meanwhile Joe's looking for a USB card reader oh we got unit UNIX it's not unisex it's unit Rick's I guess that'll get the job done and I'm cutting off the fries trip because we could obviously spend way too much time in here just looking at all the various things that we could impulse buy what a joke on the porn section too I think it's only softcore here though so we're gonna move on all we have to do is navigate the the last impulse-buy section in the checkout aisle look at these through these pans like a griddle it could make I could make pancakes got it stay close all right I don't know what to say cuz we're about to get run over but success okay it's like also I also got one of Joe's USB 3 card readers because you can never have enough USB 3 SD card readers so we've returned from our successful trip to Fry's I've got the 1900 he R on sale for $550 $50 off the MSRP of $600 and you guys already might know some of the rest of the parts that I'm putting in this build but just in case you don't this is intended to be an entry level thread Ripper build and buy entry level I mean if you want to get into thread Ripper if you want an enthusiast class high-end desktop computer you've decided to go with AMD you gotta get thread Ripper this is the cheapest edge Ripper CPU that you can buy the parts that I have pairing it with are not the cheapest basement level crap that you can get to go along and build a functional computer it's a little bit nicer than that but it's still a bit more towards the budget than a full-fledged system the idea being that if you were to build this system and get it parted out you'd have a very powerful system right now and you have a very nice upgrade paths upgrade your CPU to an eight core or a I'm sorry upgrade to a 12 core or a 16 course since this is the 8 core and then potentially other upgrades in the future from AMD we don't really know about that but apart from the 1900 X processor of course have this motherboard from asrock the X 399 Taichi a very full-featured motherboard and on the lower end of price bracket when it comes to socket TR for thread report for motherboards with the X 399 chipset it's still going to cost you upwards of 300 bucks about 330 340 as of the time of the making of this video but that's still cheap sort of when it comes to threader for motherboards apart from that our case is gonna be the fractal design mesh fic chosen for the fact that it's a very solid fractal case very well put together well-constructed all the features that you want to fit the hardware that you wanted here and mesh if I because it's got that full mesh front panel plenty of airflow since this is potentially going to be a system that's a little bit more high-powered we want to have lots of cooling available for it so I thought this case would be a good choice let's talk power supply memory and storage our power supply is this is just an IMDB box because I don't have the retail box for this power supply it is the Corsair RM 850 I and I have used this power supply just briefly although it didn't get too much use but 850 watt power supply which is more than enough for the hardware that's going into the system as well as having expansion room in the future they fit the I means it's intelligent you can connect it up to the motherboard and use the Corsair software to monitor some stuff in there as well and of course all of the modular cables it's got all black cabling so it should look pretty nice to the tempered glass window for storage or at least for an operating system SSD you're probably want more storage than just this so I'd recommend getting a one or two terabyte hard drive to go along with this but about a 240 to 256 gig SSD you can have right now for about 80 to 85 dollars so keep an eye out for something like that and I have links in the description to some of those I'm using a Kingston HyperX savage this is a 240 gig SSD and this is kind of in the same range as the others that would cost about that same price finally for memory my recommendation is a 4 by 4 gigabyte kits of ddr4 memory and I recommend ddr4 3000 speed if not 3200 speed this kits is not exactly that and actually the Corsair kit I was planning to use for this build I real I don't have her it's actually in use of the system over there so I'm gonna get hit up Corsair for a replacement for that so for the time being I'm gonna use this G scale kit it is ddr4 and it's a four by four gig kit I believe this is rated at 20 666 but I will most likely be swapping this out for the actual finish build because and I haven't you mentioned this but the finished build is going to be available either via a donation auction or just an auction itself for a charity giveaway more on that coming in the future though I'm going to be doing that with a Kyle at the beginning of December and now unboxings this package arrives is just in the past I want to say 24 hours but I think it might have been 48 hours this is directly from Nvidia and if this is what I think it is and I'm pretty sure it is what I think it is keep talking here installing so I can actually pull it out of the box look at the gtx 1070 TI now the graphics card that i originally chose in the original parts list for this build that i did at the beginning of this month and i actually chose the gtx 1070 the gtx 1070 in my humble opinion would be kind of your best bet right now when it comes to getting a reasonably placed price graphics card which should be around the say 380 to $40 range combined with something like a threader for build which is definitely not on the cheap side now 1070 TI is just launching and this is going to cost a bit more than a 1070 however if you do have that extra 50 60 bucks to spare the 1070 TI should be a nice boost in performance over the gtx 1070 so for that purpose and for the system's future use gonna be dropping in the 1070 TI this is just the standard founders Edition and I'm probably gonna be swapping this out with a third-party design 1070 TI for the actual finish system giveaway but for the time being this will get the system up and running and also I get to unbox my 1070 TI so that's exciting and our final mystery unboxing components to go into this build sent over by our good friends at enter Max and that is our cooler right there which is the liquid tech OC tr4 and now another budget option if you are building an entry-level thread Ripper system that I would probably recommend you go with is not to as air coolers and they have a hundred and twenty millimeter version and a hundred and forty millimeter version that can be had for about sixty to eighty dollars depending on where you buy them and deal with all that kind of stuff now the reason I recommend those is because you can get the thread Ripper adapter you do get an adapter that comes with your thread Ripper processor that will let you use an ace tech based closed-loop CPU cooler and those have been available for quite some time for quite a few years however the contact plate on those ace tech coolers is a little bit smaller and even though it's enough to go over the four risin dies it's in a threader for CPU it's not the best when it comes to the actual amount of thermal dissipation that you get between the CPU and your CPU cooler so for that purpose and also because this is probably going to end up being shipped and it's a little bit more difficult to ship a computer with an air cooler at our style cooler in it than it is with a all-in-one liquid cooler so for that reason I hit up enter Macs and they were kind enough to send over there no lick tech oct are for version and this has a specifically designed block that's much larger to make much better contact with the CPU itself providing better thermal heat dissipation and it should work a little bit better than the alternative so those are all the parts I think it's time to build now yes it's time to go we're now opening our 1900 X I really like how they put rip here for thread Ripper there's a substantial packaging with thread Ripper processors it's kind of fun in the base down at the bottom you'll actually get your mounting a little screwdriver so hang on to that that's also where that 8th Tec bracket adapter is but we're not gonna be using that so I'll keep that in the box for whoever happens to end up with this system and then at the back unlock the power with the twist like so then our threader for CPU comes out and now we can take our bracket like that pop it up like that and then we grip the top and bottom like this and that comes off and then we have our carrier frame right there that slides out and the processor stays in that frame we're gonna leave it like so this is actually made to be installed directly under the motherboard and you can see just how actually large this CPU is here's our animatics lick lick the tech cooler large block a little pump block combo there but there you can just look at the contact plate and I don't have a side-by-side here to show an ace tech version but it's just much larger and when you actually put it side-by-side there with the risin processor you can see that it's gonna make a lot more contact much much more contact so we're gonna use plenty of thermal paste because that has also been shown by quite a few different people who have tested it more thermal paste better contact between the heat spreader on the CPU and our block on the CPU liquid cooler it's going to give us the best temperatures we can get for our 1900 X now guys I have an installation video specifically on this so check that out if you want to but just so you know it's labeled on here open is three to one so we're just going to use our Torx wrench okay with this to unscrew three and then to those actually weren't even threaded on there's also I think we're fine and then one and then this should pop open beat actual sockets or they suck at retention it is spring loaded so it pops up like that and then there's another piece underneath and this is the actual carrier frame that our processor is going to slide down into this has a little dummy plastic piece in there and there's actually a couple little rails along each side that that slides up and down on to so we're just going to slide that up and remove it and then we'll take our processor and slide it down onto those rails like so drops all the way down in there and it kind of lines up with the bottom there's a couple of little notches it'll kind of slot into let me just drop that back down kind of snaps into place drop this lid down closing you want to go the opposite way one two and then three so we'll start with one right up here make sure that's threaded I like getting that one threaded and then getting these threaded and then tightening them down so let's get number two threaded on there as well maybe and sometimes these take a little bit of pressure to get going although those weren't too bad to finally close things off bear in mind that there's a specific amount of pressure that this torque wrench is torqued to so we can go until it is pretty secure on there and then it should give us a little snap once it's all the way tighten it down that was it so this actually spins in this little snap on the center of it do that again with number two as you can see I'm very very coordinated today and so here as it's getting tight it does a little snap and that just means you've tightened it down enough number three s'okay there's a top exhaust and a rear exhaust and I've decided that there's only this one fan plug up here that's position there's two down here I can feed it down to but since there's only two fans and neither of them are up against radiators or anything I'm just going to use a splitter real quick so I can plug these both into this top left plug everything is coming together I'm just lining up our inter max cooler down here now it would actually maybe look better this way and then your max logo would be facing up although there's lots of extra tubing so may might we might want to flip it would bring the tubing out here but it's still going to be coming down like this is this graphics gonna be right there so I just feel like it'll it'll be fine like y'all put I'll put a twist tie or something that kind of hold it up right there I'll be fine then we'll paste yeah you use lots of it and we're gonna use the spread it around method I got the thermal paste all spread out nice and even then I got excited and went to just drop it on there but there's actually these four screws I have to put down there first don't worry about thermal paste as you can see it's nice and even on there so far and air bubbles are typically not much of a concern in this situation the thermal paste after it warms up after the CPU is amused will will get a little bit looser a little bit more moved a little bit more towards liquid state and it will fill in any gaps and everything anything that might be in there well ladies and gentlemen I must say that as this build came together we kept commenting how like nice it was turning out it's fairly compact I mean this is a full-size ATX case but it's not that long there's not a ton of drive space in there for expansion however you do have a couple drive bays at the bottom of there's a couple more SSD mounts in there so this does have some expandability options when it comes to storage but what I haven't done yet and I'm going to do that would be to actually turn the damn thing on so power one power to glorious alright so thankfully everything appears to work which is good because I didn't do an outside-of-the-box test build with this hardware but I was very confident in it of course and we're seeing also a very limited amount of RGB LEDs in this case there is a tiny accents that's on the motherboard itself from asrock and you can't control that with the software and there's an RGB header on there so it could be added to this if you did want to go that route of course if you're building this as a workstation then maybe you don't want it to be super bright and blingy and for that reason we kind of liked it how it was turning out which is a pretty mellow for the most part when it comes to lighting at least and also very compact and just like everything kind of fit in there really nicely also I will point out that our graphics card was just barely long enough to fit in here so do bear that in mind if you're considering doing a front mounted radiator with fans on this this is a slightly thicker radiator from inner max it's probably a little bit more towards 30 millimeters wide and then with the fans on there we didn't have enough room but a longer graphics card might not fit in there beyond that I routed the tubing up north and I kind of zip tied it up there a little bit just so it would hold it up and out of the way we got the inner max logo on there and that's facing right side up which is nice as well it does appear that you can remove that panel off of the front of it and flip that if you did decided to flip it 180 degrees if writing that tubing would be a little bit easier for you that way and we're not really using much of the basement area down here like I already mentioned so there is some expandability options down there although the power supply did just barely fit in there so thankfully there's enough room for that and enough room for all the hardware inside but guys that is gonna wrap it up for this video this has been my entry-level thread Ripper build and once again this build is going to be going towards charity breakfast on the fence how we're going to do the charity event but it's either going to be where each an auction off a computer this one for me and then when the cow is going to build and then all that money will go to charity or we're going to accept donations and then like a small dollar amount like 5 bucks of a donation will enter you in a drawing to win the systems we're still figuring that up so if you guys have any feedback for us and how you think that little giveaway thing would be best friend leave that in the comment section down below all the links to the parts I'm using in this system are also linked in the video description down below so check those out thank you guys so much for watching this video and we'll see you next time
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