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excellent what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is my first builds video of 2017 and if you've never seen them before essentially every month I do three videos the first one is a parts list where I do a couple builds show you guys the parts talk about my choices and why I chose this or didn't choose that or that kind of thing second part is when I actually build the system third part is a testing and follow-up and sort of seeing how the system performs so I'm actually running a little bit late already this month because I was at CES for the first two weeks of January it's already a couple weeks into January so check out that playlist if you want to see any of my CES coverage tons of new stuff announced but actually not a lot of it is available quite yet if you want to see any of the builds I've done previously such as the thousand dollar build that I did for December or they mini ITX builds I did the months before that or the more budget entry-level systems that I did the months before that check out my books playlist and of course like all of those in this video's description now the second part of my builds videos is that I like to have fan interactions so I actually asked you guys a series of questions from last month's so we're going to talk about the results of that really quick but first you should already be voting or checking the vote for next month because February is coming up soon what bills USD in February link is in the description for the straw poll as well you guys get to vote in let me know what you feel like seeing hopefully we'll have some Zen options coming very soon but last month I asked some different questions and I typically asked so for example asked which under represent a case manufacturer would you like to see in a future build video this is basically all the major case manufacturers and a list apart from Corsair fractal design and NZXT because I've worked with all of them pretty recently in the past say the last few months of 2016 okay fantex was number one on the list I also have Lian Li kun master be quiet and when Thermaltake coming in there as well here's the lesser votes down there at the bottom but anyway I'm going to try to work in multiple vendors coming in very soon we're going to be working with fantex this month I also asked what rumor to product launch in early 2017 you're most excited about andy topless kb lake coming in a second we're gonna be doing kb lake build today can't do AMD build yet with Rison because it's not launched yet and then of course I also asked what should be included with the typical parts list because usually I just do just the hardware and it seems like most of you are okay with that 42% a few more also asked for the PC hardware operating system and peripherals and I do new complete builds at times as well but I will try to point that out you know pretty clearly at the beginning of the video either here here's just the hardware for the core computer or here is the hardware and monitor and accessories and of course you're going to need an operating system if I don't include Windows just to check out my windows 10 for $20 video it's now more like 30 dollars but you can get a Windows license that's legit and you can get it fairly inexpensively alright enough exposition let's dive right into the first build I have two builds for today they're both very similar we're going to start off with an epic RGB build with KB Lake processor and a GTX 1080 because RGB is everywhere it's matured a little bit I feel like after looking at some of the demos they had at CES and of course cabe you like just launched and is available and again I'm not trying to ignore AMD by any stretch but we can't we can't buy their processors yet so hopefully Rison will come soon also bear in mind I'm not necessarily explicitly recommending KB like right here if you have a skylight processor at 6600 ka 6700 K the upgrade to KB Lake is really not worth it however if you're buying a new system right now and you're looking at well skylight or KB like I'd say just buy KB like of the 7700 KS and 67 7700 KS and 7600 KS are only about 10 or 20 bucks more than the skylight counterparts and for that much difference I would say just go ahead and get KB like the ship at higher clock speeds and from everything I've heard so far you should be able to overclock a little bit better with KB Lake than you could with sky lake that said here's our first build this is an expensive build $2,700 is the total price if you buy all these parts outright but I'm dealing with some parts that I already have on hands so I can actually assemble this and I also have a $700 SSD in there which I'll explain in just a moment but 7700 K and a GTX 1080 are the core components here let's run down the one at a time of course the 7700 K the newest quad core on this main stream platform from Intel if you want to get a 6 core or an 8 core processor you got to jump up to the enthusiast level and that's much expensive anyway these are selling for about 350 bucks right now which is thing could be cheaper but you can you can find it 6700 K for about three hundred and thirty dollars again for twenty bucks I would just get to 7700 K if you didn't find a deal on a 6700 K though then go ahead and jump on it they still overclock quite well and you should be just fine with that one with a high-end cooler all-in-one liquid cooler Corsair h 100 i it's a pretty pretty much a standard standby been used many times course there's been continually improving their design i like the way this looks and the sleeved cabling on a tubing and everything it has RGB on the actual this part of it on the pump block and you can't control that is the only part of this build that you're going to have to control independently or just turn it off but you can adjust the RGB lighting on that everything else you should be able to wire up and control via the motherboard software and the Hydra series 8 100 IV 2 costs around $100 which is a pretty penny to put on top of the price of your CPU but um the second version of this bill that I'm going to do afterwards shows you hacking you can get everything for a lot cheaper if you don't need the maximum performance speaking of maximum then speaking of quartz there you have on hands light notes up in the corner there I have a Maximus 9 hero already this is a really nice board I really like what Asus did with it it comes in at only about $230 so it is part of the rog series and even though this picture looks a little weird and squish the picture looks looks over on the left there anyway it's full sized normal ITX that's really nice like kind of brushed metal finishes on the the cooling for the VRMs and everything it has to RGB headers one and a lower right and one on the top right tons of fan headers and connectivity and it's got a couple of dot two slots on there and a couple nights locations and I just I think a tooth did a really good job with support and it's even not terribly expensive it only about 230 dollars so that should get you everything you need now for the memory this is a placeholder for now this is G scale shredder next series at 4 by 8 gig kick so 32 gigs of memory it's going to populate all the dem slots and the one I actually chose for the build here is a sort of a white and silver finish look out look at these look at the massive amount of zoom get there it's white and silver but what they're actually sending me you can't buy it which is the RGB version of their tried NZ's which actually works with the Asus aura software but that's not going to be available for sale for a couple more weeks I'm expecting to get a really early version of that so I'll be installing it but for now it's the same capacity of memory in the same brand and even the same style with the tried NZ let's talk about storage ocz I'm working with for this one so I'm going to be using the Tryon 150 which is right here and I actually have no problem recommending this drive because it's a very solid very fast not the fastest SATA drive you can get but they're using slightly more budget and and on this so it's a little bit less expensive and for that reason you can get the forward and 88 version for still 120 dollars and we're expecting then and prices to go up right now or sooner they have been creeping up so still being able to get a 480 gig drive 420 bucks I think that's a solid Buy and actually I'm using this in both builds for today now here's far the most controversial one but some I'm throwing in here anyway I keep talking about MDOT 2 and how nice it is to have a really fast I'm about to nvme drive so here's the RT 401 terabyte but it's currently priced at 705 $700 right they so there it is a 1 terabyte really fast MV ma a drive and man man you gotta pay for it at this point so hopefully we're going to see prices on these come down I'll fully admit this is not a reasonable part to put in a build like this which is again why does the second version version of this build that's much more reasonable when it comes to pricing and what goes in there so 700 bucks for this right now again it's very expensive but I haven't and I want to test it and see how fast it is and how it works but that gives me one point five terabytes of SSD space in this build and if you remove that SSD then the price drops to about $2,000 for this system instead of 2700 ish dollars anyway I want it again this to be an RGB build so for that reason I've gone with an asus motherboard and an Asus graphics card now I've seen lots of the different RGB software's from other word manufacturers I've worked with a few of them in the past year they've all been updated they all have new hardware that works with them and Asus was one of the demos I saw at CES that I just thought like wow they really I got a little stuff together especially when you integrate the RGB memory and you can tie it all together and I like the different effects you can do they had an RGB lightning storm effect that I thought looks pretty cool but of course the RGB you know everything working together only really functions if you have like all the same hardware so a Sakura is the family of parts in this graphics card is compatible and a it's only 650 630 dollars after mail-in rebate so for a 1080 not terribly expensive especially for a nice one by asus and now we have the case this is a fan text and to evolve this is a glass one and again going with your recommendation from fan tech or from from who i should work with fantex was recommended i really liked their cases i have a relationship with them already so it was very easy to reach out and say hey i want to check up and to evolve so they're going to similar these over they're also sending their fantex RGB strips that should also integrate with the asus motherboard so yeah and this case has been worked with before don't get me wrong i have seen it and checked it out kyle has a couple of these now he has a silver one and the white one i went with black partially because i didn't want to use the ones that cal had already used and also because i asked you guys on Twitter yesterday so I was going to if you're going to do an RGB build would you want the case to be black and white very very close between black and white them but I had a little bit of an edge for black there so that's what I opted to go with alright lastly power supply EBG EVGA supernova I like EVGA power supplies this one's fully modular so supernova g3 which is the successor to the g2 and actually might be building with the g2 but I got the g3 out now so go ahead and go for it all black cabling Saltire supplies from EVGA you know 120 bucks a little bit more expensive so there is those are all the parts and again if you were to buy all this stuff straight up your price out of the online retailer your purchase from would be in the $2,700 range probably closer to 2800 with mail and rebate now what if you didn't need all this what if you wanted to build a gaming PC but you're like I don't need a 7700 K I don't need at any or at least maybe I maybe I want one but you know you can get by with a lot less than that so I was like what if I take this build try to still stick to a bit of an RGB theme still thinkin with Kb like because it's new and everything and the other new stuff is it out and give ourselves a more sensible version so that's build number two here it's a more sensible build with the same RGB theme a lot of the same manufacturers I'm actually using because I tried to stick with sort of a universal look and feel throughout but 7600 K instead of a 7700 K gtx 1070 instead of a gtx 1080 and all around just parts that i found to be a little bit more sensible when it comes to do it so 1236 is the price that you're getting right now on this if you again were to buy it all from the most reasonably priced sellers so it's all hundred to $1,300 depending on whether you including a windows license and that sort of thing so again the 7600 K instead of the 7700 K and you maybe even could shave another 20 or 30 bucks off of this if you found a good deal on it 6600 K but again all you're really missing out there on there is the hyper threading and depend on what depending on what game you you play that may or may not be a good thing for CPU cooler wants a crier ring look it's got this is h7 look it's got RGB on the fan sort of it's black and white so it's going to blend in and for $35 really good performance pretty simple to install will work with the this socket and yeah 35 bucks which is a lot less than what you pay for the H 100 IV - so the motherboard here I stuck with Asus once again because again that are that Ora software it's pretty good I think I want to compare this to like mystic lights as well as I forget what gigabyte is calling there so maybe do an RGB software comparison thing soon maybe sometime but this is the strict z2 7ee gaming there's actually several Strix z2 70 boards this one's kind of in the mid-range but it does still come with your RGB LED headers comes with like the USB 3.1 front panel header instead it's very very slightly less less features and four features I would say that then you get with the ROG board but still very solid all all around and it looks pretty cool not quite as aggressive a look but again still compatible to Asus or a software and I think for uz2 somebody needs that would match right in there for memory I went with the 16 gig kit instead of 32 because if you're building a gaming system you probably don't need 32 gigs you can get by fine with sixteen I found this kit for 85 bucks again still with still g.skill and I've used these actually this is the same kit that I have in the Arctic Panther and they are black you just peel that sticker off and then you're fine as far as aesthetics go next steps for the SSD I stuck with the same one the Oct try and 150 because again it is a very good price for 480 gig SSD and here I will advise get this SSD and then find an old mechanical hard drive that you have say anywhere from the 500 gig to 2 or 3 terabyte range most people have something like that lying around pair that up with the SSD and then you'll have your fast storage for your operating system and some games and you will also have a larger Drive for for mass storage and backups and that kind of thing Asus GeForce GTX 970 aka card this is again just the same Strix version of that card that I already showed you just a 1070 makes it cheaper by 100 and 200 how much cheaper like 200 bucks cheaper still has the RGB lighting effects still a very well designed card still gets you you know 80 to 90 percent of the performance of the GTX ten eighty depending again what game you're testing and then for the case stuck with fantex here because again they have some nice RGB features integrated I'm not sure if this one in particular you can wire up directly to the asus motherboard or not but this one does have some RGB lighting on it it does allow you to control that directly on the case so you could line that up with whatever you have going on internally and a much more reasonable price this one's about 70 bucks has a nice side panel window very well designed case by fan ticks very positive readings and reviews from what I've read so far finally power supply EVGA supernova NEX oh this is the NEX I was wrong nevermind and I've just realized that I have the wrong parts plan here EVGA makes some solid tyre supplies but don't get the NEX this is a warning I've recommended this before I was corrected and I sort of purged it from from recommending it anymore but the NEX is not a good series so don't get it get the phone instead this one's semi modular but it's the 650 gq-- much better internals and it's much better raid by the good power supply guys hooray power supplies I'm like it's even the same price it's just semi modular instead of fully modular don't know why the NEX is even still there but there it is and sorry if earlier on I had the wrong link all the links in the description will be updated with that power by rather than the NEX but there is guys a couple KB Lake builds for you whether you're looking for something a lot more blingy and a little bit more powerful in the $2,000 price range or maybe something that's a little bit more reasonable in say the 1213 hundred dollar price range and of course both of these bills you could start pulling stuff out of and replacing with slightly less expensive parts and get things a little bit cheaper so I always recommend if you guys are interested and want to sort of dive into PC part picker and like see what you can work out feel free to leave those suggestions and other alternative builds in the description because that's a big reason why I do this and why I do it every month is because there's always questions about what I should choose what's going to work with what what's going to be more compatible what's recommended and that's why I do these videos and of course your feedback as well whether it's via the votes in the straw polls or comments and the videos are always appreciated by me as well as by other people who are just learning how to do this whole PC building thing anyway guys thanks again for watching I hope you're having a wonderful 2017 so far I have tons and tons of videos planned so I'm really excited about that starting with this build that I'm going to be doing next week so stick around hit the subscribe button and thumbs up button and all that good stuff and we'll see you next time