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excellent what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware today's video is gonna be some follow-up testing benchmarking QA and all that good stuff about my july build which is right here it's a $1200 build that's made for mid to high end PC gaming it's also totally VR capable it's also got a really nice black and red color scheme and I was going for not like the cheapest build I could get but reasonable parts parts that I know you can overclock I know that we're going to perform well and are you gonna get a lot of lifespan out of and ultimately I'm really really happy with how the bill turned out so starting off with what I liked about this build is that everything is pretty much off-the-shelf there was no modding or customization that was needed to be done with this build I didn't even need to dig into my own personal collection of like random little PC components and cables and connectors and stuff to put anything together everything you see here was used from all the stuffs that came in the boxes with all the parts that I have listed in the build list parts list down in the description so check that out if you're interested in any of these parts individually or there's a PC perk picker build list where you can see everything all together with a price point still right around $1,200 I also really like everything turned out with the color scheme since it shows the EVGA power supply with the all black cables there's nothing really that stood out as garish or not fitting in with the rest of the color scheme of this build so that was nice to finally I like that it's all air-cooled we got the cryo rig h7 cooler up here and of course air-cooled graphics card as well there's not gonna be any worries here about a pump failing in the future or leaks happening granted liquid coolers are nice and I've done a lot of liquid cooling in the past but there's something to be said for just a nice simple air-cooled system especially when you're not paying 100 bucks plus for a liquid cooler since the Kyrie gage Civic h7 only cost about $35 on the downside though there were a couple things that were less than perfect and I will start out with a bit of a mistake or just an oversight on my part and that is when it comes to the motherboard now this is a very solid motherboard from MSI the z1 78 gaming m3 and it's more reasonably priced it's less than $150 most of the places that you look however the Amazon listing for this motherboard which is what I first checked out and blindly accepted the thing down here which is wait where did it go multi-gpu supports this motherboard supports SLI and crossfire it says on the Amazon product page if you scroll down a little bit further though it's got a comparison of the m7 m5 and m3 and you'll find that it's actually only crossfire x2 way support the reason for that is that the second by 16 PCIe slot on this motherboard is only wired up 4 by 4 it's physically full-length but its wired at 4 by 4 so rather than being able to get by 8 and by 8 when you have 2 cards installed it actually will still do by 8 and by 4 and by 4 is not enough for official SLI support from Nvidia I think that's probably a segmentation thing that MSI did intentionally with this motherboard and for most people it's probably not going to be an issue since most people don't end up doing SLI configurations that's pretty rare but I wanted to point that out here in case any of you guys we're thinking I wanna buy this build wait 3 4 6 months or something and then grab another 10 70 definitely double check that motherboard choice and to give you guys a little bit better idea of just how minor the change actually is if you can find a slightly more reasonable reasonably priced 1070 like here's the 1070 gaming 8g it's not the gaming X or whatever this one is supposed to be 20 bucks or so cheaper than the than the one that I chose here it is on Newegg where it's actually listed properly but hey look it's even in stock right now really that's insane anyway 440 bucks so you can save you know 10 or 20 bucks by getting not the gaming X version of the GPU and then I went over here and did another PC part picker list where you can see dropping the price of the GPU down a little bit like down to 430 or something which I did with the 1078 gig card which is not black and red and one anyway I'm doing this more for proof of concept but anyway a slightly cheaper 1070 and a slightly more expensive motherboard this is the gaming m5 which has 170 bucks as opposed 250 and the price is still roughly the same 1212 dollars at least stick your bike in the United States and yes my sympathies are with any of you guys in the comments who posted that like wow this deal sure deal in the u.s. here in my country it's exponentially more or maybe not exponentially but it feels that way one other thing I will point out when it comes to negatives and this one was really minor but a few people did point out in the comments that I did not take these power cables and route them straight down because there is a gap here for the s340 that allows pretty clean routing of those cables these are actually two individual six pin or six pin plus six pin peg connectors or at least eight pin plus they both have two plugs on the end with the daisy chain thing on the end and I really hate how that looks when it comes to this right here so I routed them both up here and I'll show you guys a closer look but actually have a velcro strap here holding back those extra two plugs that come off of either one so from the front here and from the look through the window it looks pretty clean but there's actually a bit of a bubble right here in the middle of it so not ideal that's just how the cabling came from EVGA you could you could like mob the cables and snip those off if you really wanted to I've done that before but I didn't want to do anything that would void a warranty that kind of thing anyway let's move on to some actual testing at an overclocking temperature testing noise testing first off overclocking all right so my 6600 K got up to four point four gigahertz with pretty much no problems at all didn't even have to touch the voltage motherboard automatically juiced it up to about one point two seven five volts which is perfectly reasonable that's about what I would expect most people could get out of a sixty six hundred K without too much trouble I could probably push it for five or four six but again I wanted to keep things reasonable for folks who are trying to sort of replicate this build for temperatures with the CPU at stock with the ambient temperature around 26 to 28 degrees Celsius my CPU was idling at 26 to 29 Celsius and while I was gaming it hit 52 degrees Celsius I then added in the overclock 4.4 gigahertz again idling jumped up a little bit but it was still pretty minimal 29 to 32 degrees Celsius was what I was monitoring at 68 C was what it got up to while gaming and then when I did it I 264 stress test it hit 82 C which is you know warmer than it would run at stock but still well within a range of what I would accept for a gaming overclocked especially with pretty simple and inexpensive air cooler in there as far as GPU temps I didn't overclock the GPU since I just used the msi OC mode that it comes with or is available with the msi software but the GPU is idling at 55 C and that's what the fans not spinning spinning it also making no noise and then while gaming the max I got up to with the side panel on and after gaming a long period of time with 72 degrees Celsius also well within range very cool for a gtx 1070 so this build overclocks beautifully and temperatures are very reasonable what about noise listen for yourself if you guys can hear the fans are spinning but when I'm at a reasonable distance it's you can't really hear anything let's move on to some testing we'll start off with 3d mark tests these are of course candid benchmarks so that runs them and I get a score firestrike extreme hit eight thousand sixty-three overall and nine thousand twenty eight on the graphics switching up to fire strike Ultra hit 4400 seven overall and 44:57 with the graphics then I through time spy on there that's the new direct x12 benchmark from 3d mark overall score was 57 64 graphic score was six thousand 43 and the CPU score was 4570 again I'm running all these tests with the overclock enabled on the CPU and now let's move on to some game testing I'm going to be doing doom with Vulcan GTA 5 Metro last light and overwatch and I'm running all these tests at 2560 by 1440 because I feel like that's probably the resolution that would be the sweet spot for this particular build finally I did grab a couple questions from the comments section on the video the original build video of course this one's from John Stewart well a five hundred power supply be enough for this build I created on PC part picker it only needed 376 watts is wondering if I went overkill this is slight overkill but I always like to go a little bit more than what is expected for the power supply most graphics cards where you look for your minimum wattage requirement so usually it's around 500 or 550 watts for most modern GPUs sometimes as low as 450 or even less if you're getting a lower end one I like having overhead though I like having extra room in case I want to expand of course I already mentioned the potential SLI snafu with this build but if you were going for instance dual four 80s for example or you did upgrade that motherboard to the m5 version and he did go SLI you would want a bit of extra power available and then you wouldn't have to swap out the entire PSU and all that kind of thing that said just make sure you get something quality make sure you get something that's well reviewed Johnny guru techpowerup really good reviews for power supplies they need to be well built because even if you're looking at a PC part picker build and it's saying oh you need this many watts you also have to deal with potential spikes often when you first power up a computer for example it can spike and draw a lot more wattage than sort of the minimum or mean value that you would get that's probably not the right usage of that term but it can spike up a lot so that's why you want to have a little bit of extra Headroom that said 500 watts you should still be fine with this build as long as you're not going for SLI or an extremely inexpensive power supply next question from bass player why use an air cooler on the CPU water is cheap and better and quieter a good point water cooling is definitely something that's fun and can get you lower temperatures and even some better overclocking depending on the situation but air cooling does have its benefits as well so air cooling for example never has the potential to have a pump fail if you heard ever had a pump fail on all in one liquid cooler it can be a pain in the ass if the pump fails and you don't find out about it your CPU can overheat and just automatically shut down your system and if you're in a situation like I've been in the past and you're in the middle of booting for example you can like lose a raid array or that kind of thing that has happened to me and few other people I know also liquid coolers do have the potential to leak granted rare but that is something that's possible air coolers can fail but if the fan fails on an air cooler the fan just stops working the air cooler heatsink and everything still works so you won't have quite as catastrophic failure as you would if you had a pump failure on a liquid cooler so that's one of the good reasons to go with it I mean there's benefits pros and cons to either side but hey that's why we make videos on the internet about building computers that is all for this video though if you guys enjoyed it of course hit the thumbs up button let me know you enjoyed I'm going to be doing this again next month so just in a few more days it's going to be August I'll be doing August builds very soon so stay tuned to my Twitter and my youtube channel for those and as always thank you for watching