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the RC 100 nvme SSD and XS 700 portable SSD are both powered by Toshiba's advanced 3 DB ICS flash memory meaning you get solid-state speeds at an affordable price the XS 700 is a wicked fast external drive with USB 3.1 gen2 via a type-c connector and the IC 100 may be small but it's MDOT to nvme interface means sequential read and write speeds at well over 1,000 megabytes per second click the sponsor link in the description to learn more what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is my monthly builds video for august 2018 i have two mini ITX systems today and $800 and $1200 but if you're not familiar with this series every month at the beginning of the month i part out a couple pcs so you guys at home if you're trying to build your own pc get a better idea of what parts to choose and how i go about that process later in the month i then build one of the pcs and then follow it up with some testing after that so subscribe to my channel if you're not already if you want to catch those videos when they come out now if you're interested in a video where actually build a computer check out my builds playlist I have plenty of those available and I'll link that in the description and a strawpoll is available down there too where you guys can vote on what builds you want to see in September since your feedback is what my upcoming builds are based on and this is actually a multiple-choice response here so the top two are kind of what are you choosing between here or choose between AMD and Intel or choose between high end desktop and mainstream or give me a budget range and I'll sort of compile all those results and come out with something next month last month though you guys voted on a mini ITX gaming build you wanted mid-range and I actually have a couple one that's a little bit higher end and one that's probably mid-range now today instead of just rattling off the parts for you guys and giving some notes on each one I thought I would go through my actual thought process as I put these builds together and this was based on two primary things one being that mini ITX form factory requirements and the second being the recent launch of B 450 motherboards this provides a less expensive option for people want to build a rise in horizon 2 based system and it's still overclockable and of course available in mini ATX form factor like this one right here from asus although i didn't actually choose this one for today cuz it's a little bit on the more expensive side but i digress here's build number one though coming in at about twelve hundred dollars actually just under twelve hundred dollars total down there so we have a risin seven 2700 a B 450 mini ITX motherboard 16 gigs of memory a 480 gig SSD a gtx 1070 TI graphics card a mini ITX case from rio toro and a 650 watt 80 plus gold rated power supply so overall really nice set of components 8 core processor means you can not just game but you can also do video editing or other tasks that are CPU intensive you're gonna be somewhat limited on expandability with the system due to the form factor but it's still incredibly powerful in a very small package and not too crazy high of a price so here's where I started mini ITX was the requirements so I started by looking at mini ITX cases that are available and gosh there are quite a few of them and there's even some quite inexpensive ones down in the 40 to 50 dollar range so I looked at quite a few of these before deciding on the ryote or OCR 280 for this build it is pretty small it's still the vertical tower style orientation but it comes with a couple hundred and 20 millimeter fans it's a pretty simple design aesthetic that I don't think too many people will be offended by and it's got a little bit of red highlighting on there if you're into some red accents also airflow is pretty decent on this case and you do get a side panel window so you can look in at your finish build also it supports full-size ATX power supplies which means you can save a little bit of money by not having to buy an SFX power supply now there's a ton of cases in this range about sixty to eighty dollars mini ATX honorable mentions that I did not choose but you could totally go with is the NZXT h 200 or h 200 I thermaltake corvy one that I worked with recently fractal define nano s or the fractal node - OH - or the fantex evolved ITX all really solid cases and you could totally swap them into this bill without any troubles so if the case picked out I moved onto the motherboard next I know I won't be 450 and I know I want Mini ITX there's a lot of be 450 motherboards more coming out probably on a daily basis right now because they are very new but if I go down here and choose just mini ITX boards there's actually only three listed at least on PC part picker right now this this ROG Strix from Asus which is a hundred and sixty dollars which is just it's very expensive and we're not going over the top here so I opted for the MSI B 450 gaming plus AC there's also an asrock option down here the feature set is pretty similar between these two I went with ms:i honest and just because it was five bucks cheaper but either of these would be a good choice but some things to point out that are pretty nice about these before 50 boards is they have built in 802 dot 11 AC Wi-Fi it's got a USB 3.1 gen2 and you should keep an eye out for at least one m dot 2 slot on these for a lot of mini ITX boards they put it on the back now for the CPU I wanted to go with an 8 core because I think in the Mini ITX form-factor and with everything that AMD has done with Rison over the past year and a half or so gettin 8 cores in the Mini ITX is pretty sweet now if you want 8 cores and you want second-generation Rison you have to pay a bit of a premium right now you can actually get the 8 core 1700 for about 220 dollars to jump up to the 2700 which is the 8 core second gen rise and the second generations are the ones that start with 2000 here by the way it's $280 so I went with that because second gen Rison and B 450 seems to match up but you could also easily go with the 1700 here for 220 heck you can get the 1800 X right now for 240 it's really up to you but 8 cores is 8 cores really if you want to shave the price down you're gonna need to drop down to 6 cores which is what I did for the follow-up 800 build but before moving on to that the next thing you're going to want to do is choose memory here i wanted 16 gigs since there are only 2 DIMM slots that means we want a 16 gig 2 by 8 gig kits appétit for ddr4 3000 or 3200 as our options here because you get better speed and better overall performance at a verizon with some faster memory and then here's where I very much recommend double checking your chosen motherboard to make sure that you have rising compatibility with the memory that you choose this 8 a 2 x PG gamax d-10 kit has proven to be compatible with Rison and it's different flavors and it's only a hundred and sixty dollars or only about eight or nine dollars more than the cheapest 16 gig kit of ddr4 3000 memory so I chose that it's red by the way it's also available in black for like five more bucks if you guys wanted to go with that instead next we needed storage and here again I went with a very simple compatibility feature which is one of the things you can do on PC part picker in the 500 gig range so you're looking at 480 gig and 512 get compatible SSDs the cheapest one here is this team l5 light 3d 480 gig SSD when you're using the parametric filters here always double check reality check kind of what the cheapest options are and make sure you're not getting like some cut-rate product that you've never heard of before team is a company that I've worked with and they make solid products the l5 light it's not gonna be super fast but it's an SSD will get you by and it's 480 gigs next a graphics card here I was looking at the $400 in up range so gtx 1070 but if you're looking at a 1070 might as well look at 1070 TI i think you're looking at 1070 TI might as well keep an eye out on 10 80s right because if you're looking at the cheapest 1070 right now it's 400 bucks and there's some other options of course maybe spend 10 20 dollars more to get yourself a slightly better version maybe with a better cooler but then you're like oh well cheapest 1070 TI right here is $435 it's pretty reasonable and it's actually a few right here for $435 I opted for the so tech mini here because we do have a smaller case and we want to make sure it's simple the case actually is compatible with a reasonable size a range of graphics cards but smaller is generally okay and this otech mini card works just fine it's still got two fans for cooling by the way if you're spending four hundred thirty-five dollars in a 1070 TI why not spend $450 in a 1080 those have come down and priced quite a bit too so this is of course the dilemma that everyone who parts out a PC gets into that just these slight upgrades that you can get for just a little bit more money it's a creeping problem but just base things on what your budget can afford and know that even if you get a 1070 1070 TI or 1080 they're all really solid cards you'll just get more frames with it with the higher-end card ok finally we needed a power supply and for most standard gaming PC's I recommend between 550 and 650 watts for a PSU I'm also taking a look at the higher wattage here options and I want with 80-plus gold because I will give you some good efficiency while that's commanding the price premium that the 80 plus platinum stuff does we can get a Roseville cap stuff capstone 550 watt for $43 here but that has ketchup and mustard cables that aren't that pretty so here's how I found the Corsair TX 650 M this is actually on sale right now so this price probably won't hold but $55 here for this power supply a very solid Corsair power supply it's got all black cables it's got partial is it partially or fully modular it's partially modular but that's still handy on a mini ITX build and there you go guys for about $1,200 a really really powerful eight-course system with 16 gigs of memory and a really powerful graphics card of course there are some slight upgrades there's like downgrades you can switch around if you wanted to raise the lower the price or increase or decrease the performance to meet your needs but let's do one quick look at the follow up build which is really just a slight variation of the $1200 build I just did but I shaved $400 off the price so here's the $800 more mid-range Mini ITX gaming PC and it's based on roughly the same platform we got the same case with the Rio Toro case here we've got the same motherboard with the MSI be 450 here I have downgraded the CPU a little bit to the 6 core 2600 that's gonna save us $100 two less cores but you can still overclock it so for gaming and everything this is going to be super awesome gaming and streaming - I cut a memory in half down to eight gigs so two by four gigs this is really just what you need to get by right now and it's still just under $100 I'd recommend more memory if you're gonna choose one thing in this set of parts to upgrade but beyond that we've got a 240 gig SSD which you can get for $45 again this is saving some money here but it's really not that much more to go for 480 gigs so very much consider that if you don't want to be swapping out an SSD in the future we downgraded the graphics card to the EVGA GTX 1066 gig it's only 270 dollars though so that shaved a ton of money off the price and still a very capable graphics card same case of course and then we've got a Rosewell capstone 550 watt power supply which again saves us a little bit of money but not a whole lot here again I might just up for that 80 plus gold 650 watt unit because the capstone does have ketchup and mustard cables which won't look very pretty but if you're on a budget ketchup and mustard cables don't really matter when it comes to performance and you can get this whole system for 800 dollars and here again very well rounded system actually extremely close in specs and performance to the $800 builds that I recently did in my $800 how to build a PC video as well as the setup video that I followed it up with so if you guys are interested in how to build a PC definitely check out that video and check out the setup video too if you want to know the steps to go through if you're setting up your PC for the very first time installing Windows and getting your drive set up and of course leave me a comment in the comment section to let me know what you of these builds if there's any spin on it that you would put to sort of give it your own flavor or maybe he got a little bit more performance and of course don't forget to vote on the straw poll for next month's builds because there's a lot of exciting hardware coming out that I am looking forward to working with thank you guys so much for watching this video though and we'll see you next time