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what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is my monthly builds video for September 2018 and today I'm gonna tell you how to build the fastest one say the fastest gaming PC possible for now the enter max liquid tech cr.42 all-in-one liquid CPU cooler has a massive contact plate made just for thread Ripper and is rated for 500 watts of heat dissipation high pressure pwm fans mount two rubber channels on the radiator to absorb vibration and the sexy logo and edge lighting on the block is addressable for syncing with your motherboard it comes with an RGB control box too so click the spots or link in the description for more so if you're not familiar with this series every month at the beginning of the month I part out a couple pcs I'm not actually gonna build the system's today so if you're interested in actual builds check out my builds playlist here it is featuring just recently my build of the month for last month which I built and then tested that's pretty much the mo plan the builds in one video build one of the system's in another video test one of the builds later in the month that's a process that I can't seem to stop doing and if you wants to take part in next month's builds video then go ahead and check out the strawpoll length in the video's description for what pc builds you want to see in october and then of course last month i did this multiple choice selection which many people chose many multiple different things but the top vote-getter was a back-to-school build for school work right but but actually for gaming we also wanted the most epic writer for to build possible i didn't do that this month mainly because threader / - kind of fizzled people are not very interested in that I'm gonna follow up with some more thread Ripper - content but just not right now and then we're also pretty close to the top was AMD and $500 budget so I've combined a few of those ideas into the first build for today this actually is my February build sub $500 gaming PC and this was about 470 bucks at the time now it's down to about 420 dollars so we have had some price drops and I did a full how to build tutorial on this system as well as they follow up with setting things up and testing it so to that end I have my four hundred and fifty dollar back to school gaming PC it has some upgrades compared to that one I did at the beginning of the year first off in that we're using a 2400 G instead of a 2200 G so this is a four core eight thread CPU it's got a bit better integrated video graphics than the 2200 G it costs a little bit more but you can for about hundred and fifty five dollars right now but bear in mind when you're looking at the total price for this build at four hundred and fifty bucks you could easily shave about fifty bucks off of that and make this a four hundred dollar build if you just go with the twenty-two hundred G which is four cores and four threads still an APU so it's still got graphics integrated and you can get that for about a hundred bucks here you'll get a little bit more lifespan out of the CPU side of this but both of these are designed with the idea that in the future you will upgrade these to a system with the graphics card these are going to use an APU the integrated CPU and GPU together on the same chip but you can take it discrete graphics card which you can buy for you know 200 to 500 ish dollars drop-in alongside that and give yourself a really big boost in gaming performance and I've also done a test on upgrading this 500 build to a more like a $750 build so check out that video too if you want to see some of the difference between the two but if you're just getting at a PC gaming and you've got a budget of 400 to 500 dollars this is what I would recommend you build and of course this is back-to-school build so you know you can use it for school work and stuff too that's that's what you explained that's how you explain it to your parents and you look you say look mom and dad this doesn't even have a graphics card so it's not even like a gaming PC right truth is you can game just fine with this CPU at 1920 by 1080 most games you want to play for tonight or anything like that and it comes with a cooler to the AMD Wraith stealth so that will get you by again for now this system has lots of potential upgrades and if you're interested in the difference between performance from a 2400 G to a 2200 G check out my apu testing video that i did earlier this year where I ran some benchmark comparisons between the two but apart from that core component the CPU and GPU combo we have a motherboard for about $80 we have an 8 gig memory kit for about $85 a 240 gig SSD for about $40 and then a case for 60 and a power supply for about $30 so let's run down those and why I choose what I choose I want micro ATX for this build because I like it as a form factor it's a little bit bigger than mini ITX and you have the potential for a little bit more expansion because you're not limited to just a single PCI Express expansion slot I chose this as rock board the B 450 M pro 4 because with the precision the be 350 motherboards asrock had some really good choices down in the budget range for 70 or $80 actually decent power delivery with some cooling on it so you can get some overclocking out of this board it's got 2m about two slots for upgrading your storage in the future if you want to go with the high-speed m2 and via me drive one there and then one down in the bottom right only four SATA ports so bear that in mind but you're probably not gonna be maxing this out with SATA drives it has the requisite 4 memory slots so you can upgrade your memory in the future which is very important and then it even has a couple RGB headers both in addressable 5-volt as well as the standard 12 volt RGB headers so if you do want to customize your system in the future with some LEDs I don't recommend doing that right off the bat because you don't get extra performance out of LEDs but it does have the headers on there so for $70 I think that's a nice set of features for B 450 board for memory I chose this Team 8 gig kits and eight gigs is kind of on the low side for a system right now but memory is one of the more expensive components still that you have to buy also and I've addressed this many times with Rison systems before it's better to go with faster speed memory so the ddr4 memory speed that you'll read is usually going to be 2666 3030 200 and it gets faster I recommend 3,000 or 3,200 speed memory or faster with an 8 gig kits and then also double checking the motherboard that you've chosen to make sure that on the motherboards memory compatibility list the ticket you've chosen has been tested with Rison so that you can plug in the XMP speeds and get it to run at that speed I chose this kit in particular because it's $85 it's not specifically on the memory list for the motherboard that I chose but we do have some positive feedback including one guy down here who just bought it within the past couple months who said gigabyte gamer 3 motherboard and an AMD Reisen 7 1700 X CPU 3200 speed with no problems so we're trusting that guy and that this memory is going to work and the team T force Vulcan kits have worked pretty well for me in the past too and one of the biggest upgrades you can do to this system although what up the base price by a decent amount is going with 16 gigs our 2 by 8 gig kits instead of the 8 gig version either way I would go with the 2 by 8 gig or 2 by 4 gig kits and remember again with 4 slots you could add more memory in the future or get rid of the kit you already have an upgrade memory is a really simple thing to upgrade but it's also a pretty key component for getting the most performance out of your eysan system so more on that in my how to build videos so check those out if you want a little bit more feedback for their main ether components these are pretty swappable you could easily go with something different than what i have specifically chosen here in particular for the storage since I'm on PC part picker and they have a thing called a parametric filter told it I want an SSD I want a capacity range that's going to give me a 240 gig or a 256 gig drive and then I'm sorting them by price and you can get 240 gig SSDs for 40 bucks which is pretty cheap right now again here you might want to double check reality check if you have a brand that you like or one that you've seen reviews on I've personally used the SanDisk SSD plus for quite a few builds so that's one that I often will recommend to people for a case that shows the fractal design focus G mini and here I was pretty much looking for a micro ATX case that was in the price range that would fit with this build so about fifty to sixty dollars you could spend a little bit more on a case if you want to but this one is going to give you a couple one hundred and twenty millimeter fans built in so you will have your airflow taken care of and you can swap one to the back if you didn't like the all intake configuration fits full-size ATX power supplies it's a micro ATX case so we're gonna take advantage of it and being a little bit smaller since this is a back-to-school build I wanted it to be somewhat portable so you could take it with you it's got a clear plexi side window so you can take a look at your system after you put it together and also some decent cable manage options so this is a perfectly adequate choice but of course if you find another cases in that range its micro ATX and you like the look of it better or the reviews better by all means feel free to swap that out finally for a power supply I wanted a 550 watt power supply I wanted it to be 80 plus bronze rated and then of course I wanted it to be somewhat aesthetically okay looking this power supply is not modular so all the cables can pre connected but that's okay to deal with I just wanted to make sure that they were all black of course if you can find another power supply that suits you better like a modular one provides some convenience or going with a better efficiency rating like 80 plus gold again feel free to swap that and power supplies are pretty swappable as long as it's ATX and those are all the parts for my $450 back to school gaming pc bear in mind here again lots of potential upgrades here you're gonna want to add another hard drive for example so you might want to budget 40 bucks for that if you don't have one around that you could use of course you're gonna want Windows to install in there so there are some more expenses but you also have the upgrade potential of going with a 16 gig kit instead of a 2 by 4 gig kit or of course adding a graphics card in the future adding more storage but that's really where the fun of building your own computer comes from is all of the modularity upgrades you can do in the future let's move on though so my next build is more on the expensive side total price here is 2356 dollars and 49 cents as of today including a mail-in rebate and this is the fastest gaming PC that you could possibly build for right now any time I use an absolute like fastest I have to remind you guys my mantra which is never speak in absolutes and for that I need to point out I'm not going all-out throw as much money at the build as possible this is still a build I find somewhat sensible and I would say if you want some of the core components here this is kind of what I would guide you towards we have the highest end Intel mainstream processor that's the 8700 K which is a 6 core 12 thread processor and it's got the best instructions per clock and that's gonna correlate to the best gaming performance right now that's even better than the Intel high-end desktop stuff that they have an X 299 again for right now because we're expecting an Intel 9000 series CPU launch maybe very soon we're not really sure so for anyone investing in this bear in mind you're probably gonna have faster Intel processors coming out very soon but the second part of this of course is that NVIDIA has announced and will be launching theoretically in about 11 days their GT I'm sorry their RTX series the RT X 2080 and RT X xx atti they're supposed to ship out on the 20th of this month and they're already available for sale and pre-order in a lot of different places now I want to point out and reiterate I do not recommend pre-ordering the RT X 2080 or 2880 hours the 27 T once that's available you should wait until there's inter independent reviews of these cards before you go and you drop your money that said there are people who are like I want to build the best gaming computer I can build right now so this is my answer for people who would want to do that with what's available or available very soon and the total price of 23 or 24 hundred dollars is of course very expensive but it's not like absolutely insane expensive when it comes to high-end gaming pcs so let's run down these parts apart from that 80 700k I paired it with a 240 millimeter all-in-one locally cooler from Coolermaster now there are other air cooling options that are out there but if you're gonna get the CPU and you're going for the fastest gaming performance you're probably gonna want to overclock it and a 240 millimeter all-in-one is a good choice for that I've used this one before it's nice and quiet it gets the job done and Wow you can get it for as cheap as 60 dollars although I did find out that this Amazon link is broken on Amazon if you go directly and look up the master liquid light 240 you can get the white LED one for $52 but we're kind of splitting hairs when it comes to the overall price of this system any 240 millimeter all-in-one will do just fine but if you can get those $70 I think it's a good choice for our motherboard I usually go in the 150 to $200 range for mainstream Intel motherboards and I've chosen the Z 370 or s gaming 5 which I just found has a nice set of features four dimm slots of course it's got some lighting on it which you might find appealing or not that's entirely up to your aesthetic decision but let's talk functionality it's got that USB 3.1 gen2 front panel connector as well as the slightly older USB 3.0 connector there it has good lighting options apart from the LEDs built into the motherboard it has RGB W header are up there which is nice to have if you like having white options in the RGB LEDs too and it's also got the 5 volts addressable header there too so either way you will have support for your RGB strips it's got very solid power delivery for overclocking and it's got a couple PCI Express slots if you do decide to go with a two-way configuration in the future more LED headers down at the bottom oh and look a debug LED I like having that for your motherboards that's just a nice feature there - oh and did I mention 3m two slots one two and three you probably don't need more than two in fact if you go with more than two you're probably gonna run into some potential conflicts with SATA ports and otherwise but better to have it there than not I would say and 470 dollars that's a good motherboard running down the rest of the parts on the list we have a 16 gig memory kit ddr4 3200 fast memory isn't quite as important with Intel as it is with AMD but best memory is still good and then the less-than for about a hundred and fifty dollars you can get this set I focus purely on gaming performance here so of course you could great to a 32gig kit that would be completely reasonable for this system but 16 gigs is all you really need if you're not concerned about say gaming and streaming at the same time if you are gonna stream at the same time upgrade that memory that would be a good choice for storage I chose an MDOT to drive because we want very fast load times for our games if you want to install steam on this a 500 gig main operating system drive in the 960 Evo which has really fast read and write speeds it's a really good nvme drive and it's actually come down in Christ this is one of the first time I've recommended one of these for like a somewhat normal system for about a hundred fifty-five dollars that's a good price for the 500 gig 960 evil I was also looking at the Western Digital black MDOT to nvme drive but this one has a bit better performance and it was about the same price not just the 500 gig 960 Evo but another 1 terabyte ish data drive and it's also about 150 dollars of course you get out of mechanical Drive instead of this if you wanted to save a little bit of money you know 2 or 4 6 terabyte mechanical drive would be a perfectly adequate solution here but hey if we're gonna have lots of games installed on the system that we can load at a moment's notice we want our steam drive to be on an SSD and not a mechanical drive so again here just use the PC part picker search options to look for an SSD that is in the 1 terabyte range and sort by price and again just like I recommend it but the first build just reality check here and choose one that suits your needs that's not terribly overpriced this is actually from a brand you've heard of and then there is the graphics card the r-tx 20 80 TI and this again is only on pre-order so currently the cheapest one I could find that you could order right now is $1,150 maybe GA these are supposed to sell for as little as $1,000 but I'm not gonna pretend that they're available for that much until I can point you guys to somewhere where you could actually order it for that much so this is the one I chose just based on was available on PC park picker you can actually preorder it from B&H although expected availability is October 22nd a month late it's supposed to have actually be available on September 22nd but we'll see how shipments go when when it comes to the early sales you can buy this directly from the EVGA website or pre-order I don't know you can just Auto it notify right now although it's 50 bucks more expensive there for some reason compared to bnh but anyway so you have options for ordering right now but don't don't order any of these 2080 or 2080 TI's until you can actually get some reviews from me and hopefully some other people too rounding things out with case in the power supply it just shows a about $100 case that I know is a good one there's a pure base and there's a silent base both from be quiet that you can find in this range I just chose the all-black version you can get the one with the orange accents that would match with the motherboard a little bit I suppose but I like these because they come with nice be quiet fans that are very quiet it's a solid all-around case but if you have a case that you preferred by all means swap it in as long as it's ATX it should work just fine and then of course power supply here since it's a higher-end system with a 650 watt power supply if you are ever considering an SLI configuration especially for 20 80s or 20 ATT eyes I'd recommend something more like an 850 watt power supply but 650 watt 80 plus gold and then from a good brand like EVGA and then I opted for a fully modular version here and and and of course the 80 plus gold a little bit more efficient there so 80 bucks for that and you can even get it for down to $60 if you opt for that mail-in rebate of course you gotta remember to fill forms and send it in after you order it but guys that pretty much wraps it up for my monthly builds video for September 2018 I'm actually gonna build one of these systems probably going to do that 2080 ti version because I think I might be getting my hands on one of those but that all remains to be seen in the future hit that thumbs up button if you enjoyed this though and links to the builds lists as well as all the individual parts are down in the description as well as links to my earlier videos on how to build systems and how to set up systems and all sorts of other helpful contents that I have on my channel which hopefully helps you guys out that's all for this one though guys thanks again for watching we'll see you next time