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what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is my monthly builds video for October 2018 if you're not familiar every month I part out a couple pcs that you could buy the parts for and put together yourself at home just FYI I'm not building the system's today so check out my builds playlist if you want to see me put a system together I have plenty of those available and I'm actually gonna start off today's video a little bit differently than I usually do because I'm gonna do a quick unboxing right now Corsairs new Vengeance RGB Pro Series ddr4 memory gives you blazing fast speed and dynamic multi zone RGB lighting with 10 ultra-bright LEDs per module customization options are practically endless with the Corsair IQ software package and they're available with black or white heat spreaders find out more about the Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro Series via the sponsor link in the description so if it's not already obvious this is the core i9 the newest Intel processor ninth gen it's a copy Lake refresh it's still 14 nanometer but it is eight cores and sixteen threads as you can see performance unleashed for Paul's hardware this is a review kits sent directly to me unfortunately we don't have the actual dodecahedron or whatever the the retail packaging is but we do have the important part which is the processor right there in the middle so I now have a 9900 K I can't share any performance numbers about the CPU yet but I can do a theoretical parts list for build if you are absolutely dead set on buying this processor now this video series is still based on your feedback so I do have a strawpoll lengths in the video's description about what pcs you guys want to see in November it's gonna be Black Friday or at least Black Friday month so I've got a few price points listed there as well as potentially skylake x high core count CPUs that were announced the 28 core W 31 75 X or maybe a bang for the buck 9600 K build if you're interested in AMD builds honestly I think I have you guys covered for that today so I'm not gonna probably go over new ones of those next month but we'll see what prices you guys are actually interested in this is the trap hole for last month for October and everyone wanted to see the update to the late 2018 best or fastest gaming PC possible so I definitely have that I did that build last month the 9900 K was available in this video did very well so got a follow-up on that then of course bang for the buck Rison Plus on SIL GPUs and then I also wanted to include the $800 PC because Pete did seem like a fair amount of people were interested in that but let's jump into it but the first build here I did $1000 and $800 for a bang for the buck AMD build and I'm basing these both around the risin 7 1700 because it is on sale for a really good price right now one hundred and eighty dollars and this is still 8 cores and 16 threads and it's still overclockable so you can get very comparable performance to like an 1800 X or 2700 X if you overclock the CPU a little bit I didn't include an aftermarket cooler because we are strength trying to stick to sub $1000 and right now it's coming up to about 970 but adding that on might give you some better overclocking in the future if you're looking at other CPUs available for this platform you can see that for 8 cores you really can't get better than the 1700 right now you got to spend an extra 40 bucks to claw your way up to the 1700 X and even more than that if you on a 2,700 2,700 2,700 X and I think the high core and thread count is really one of the things you should go for if you're considering investing in this platform and you want a a mid to high end PC out of it this is a look at the motherboards that are available for this platform and if you're looking down on the low end there's quite a few that are available down here but if you're going for an 8 core you probably want some better power delivery and for that reason I'd recommend sticking to the motherboards that have good reviews and that are probably more in the 80 to 100 dollar range I actually chose this asus rog board because it does have some nicer features and it's got a got a nice look it's got very good power delivery for overclocking of course this is about a hundred and twenty dollars you could get away with something a little bit cheaper and I will follow up in the second eight hundred dollar build with some more recommendations for that as for video card for $1000 PC I would be looking at either a gtx 1070 or the AMD radeon vega 56 i'm looking for both of those here the vega 56 unfortunately is still about four hundred and twenty dollars at its lowest price you can get a 1070 though for 360 at the cheapest or maybe 380 the 360 dollar version here is thanks to a $30 million rebate and this is the mini version from gigabyte so i would take a look at some of those 380 dollar variants as if you want to get a one that might overclock a little bit better out of the box and then rounding things out for the rest of the build we have a 16 gig memory kit that's 3200 speed you want faster memory and a 16 gig kit it's kind of my starting out point these days if you're not going super budget I have a 500 gig SSD which will be plenty enough to get you by and get some systems loaded up maybe supplement that with a mechanical drive if you have an old one lying around that you can reformat and then we have about $60 on our case that shows the NZ NZXT H 500 because it's a solid black case by the way this whole system would be pretty much all black with the option to turn on RGB if you wanted to and then finally we have a 550 watt power supply it's 80 plus bronze rated this one's a very good deal at about $33 after a mail-in rebate it is not modular but it does have all black cables so if you wanted to spend a few more dollars on the power supply you definitely could get something that's a little bit nicer than this but this will get you buy if you want to spend a few more bucks maybe look into a 650 watt version and then modular power supplies are also very convenient so that's my list for the 1000 dollar version but people were looking at an $800 variants here is that it's only slightly different in a few ways so I went with a slightly less expensive motherboard I went with an 8 gig memory kit instead of 16 gigs and then we've dropped down from the gtx 1070 to an AMD radeon RX 588 gig which you can get for 230 bucks these days which is a good price so i'm just going to go over the parts that are different from the $1000 build starting with the motherboard this is an asrock x3 70 pro 4 as Weka actually did a really good job with their lower end x3 70 and be 350 boards when it comes to power delivery there's some of the only ones at the low end that are actually pretty sufficient and it's also got features you'd want like it's still got MDOT to support and everything it is a standard ATX board so it'll fit in the case and it's all black and white for about 80 bucks or I guess 82 dollars if you go for the mail-in rebate it'll get the job done and it shaves 25 or 30 bucks off of the total price which is part of the thing that gets us down under 800 for memory I went with a slightly slower kit this is a 3000 speed kit rather than 3200 so you get a little bit of a drop-off in performance but not too bad and you can get this for about $91 right now and it is a kid that will work out of the boxers rise and you just got to plug in the XMP values again this is an 8 gig kit versus 16 and of all the parts that I dropped down for this less expensive build I'd probably stick with the 16 gigs over this if you have that choice but this will get you by and if you money is tight then you got to have memory so that's just something that'll work for you finally for the graphics card if you're dropping down from a 1070 basically you're gonna drop down either to an AM be ready on rx 588 gig or in NVIDIA GTX 1066 gig if you look at the prices for both of those they're actually really comparable about two hundred and thirty two two hundred and forty dollars is where they start an depending on the games you're playing these cards kind of trade blows back and forth I opted for the rx 580 because I also like to think that in the future you might consider something like a free sync monitor and free sync monitors are much cheaper so if you're not planning on eventually upgrading to a RT X 2080 or 2080 I in the future then the rx 580 from AMD Radeon could in the future be paired with a free sync monitor which you can get much cheaper in like a 1440 free sync monitor would go great with that so that's why I chose that but of course easily swapping the gtx 1066 gig if you have a g sync monitor already or if you just like nvidia better and now the fastest computer you can possibly build right now or at least theoretically so again I want to point out a couple very important caveats to this bill one I am not endorsing buying the I 999 hundred K right now it has not been independently tested please wait for independent review tests to come out that said it's pretty safe to assume at this point that the 9900 K will be the best choice if all you're concerned about is gaming on a single graphics card and you want the best gaming performance possible that's pretty reasonable to assume right now we don't know how much better it will be we don't know if the 8700 K will still be a better choice by comparison that said someone's gonna buy this there are people who are like I want that I want to get it now and I don't even care that new eggs pre-order price is 580 freaking dollars wow that sucks new egg that's way higher than was supposed to be pre-orders when it was first going on we're like 522 $530 but it's literally the only place it has it available right now so that is impacting the overall cost of the system which is close to $3,000 if you're comparing that to my fastest build possible from a month or month and a half ago that was about $2,400 so yes it costs more now but what can you do you got it you got to pay for the best I guess also want to point out that when it comes to fastest gaming PC possible the CPU is going to be one very important factor and then the graphics card of course is going to be another very important factor the RT X xx atti is the fastest graphics card right now but beyond that I'm trying to keep things somewhat reasonable so I'm not like assuming you're gonna be doing ln2 overclocking I'm not even assuming you're gonna be doing full custom water cooling on this this is still air-cooled parts for the most part except for an all-in-one liquid cooler for the CPU and I've chosen aftermarket GPUs like this asus strix geforce r-tx 2080 TI which has a custom PCB so it's got better power delivery and we have now discovered that the founders edition cards are a little bit more picky about doing custom v BIOS updates and there have been V BIOS release that have higher power limits that allow you to overclock the cards better or at least go higher frequencies if you have adequate cooling and the aftermarket cards are much more capable accepting those aftermarket V bios's as well as of course just running at higher speeds overall because they are over built and the OC versions that ship overclocked have the bin GPUs that promise they will be overclocked one last thing to point out is that the highest of the high end GPUs have not been launched for the r-tx 2080 ti yet so the EVGA is probably going to come out with a kingpin classified gigabytes probably have an horas extreme and so on and those will probably be the fastest of the fastest but we got to work with what we have for now so that said let's quickly run down this list of course the 9900 K at the top and if you buy this you will at least hopefully get this cool dodecahedron packaging which is just kind of fun we want to keep things cool so I did upgrade the liquid cooler this is actually adding $100 to the price of this build so bear that in mind too but this is the master liquid ml 360 R what that would be a nice match with the case that I chose and I also have this on hand so I can build the system which is nice it is 160 bucks a little on the higher end for an all-in-one liquid cooler for a motherboard we've got the z3 90 Taichi ultimate from asrock and this is about two hundred and ninety dollars if you're wondering why I chose it this is part of the reason I physically have it here with me so I can actually again build the system with it this is on the higher end again for motherboard you could probably get by with something more in the 180 to 220 dollar range but since I'm planning to build this system that's what I'm going with and the z3 90 boards have not been widely tested for their power delivery systems yet this one I'm pretty confident will be adequate for overclocking the 9900 K at the highest levels so that is why I have chosen it but of course peruse other motherboards if you aren't interested in this one for memory I've gone with a 16 gig kit this is ddr4 3600 and actually when I was looking at higher speed memory I found the 3600 speed memory had some pretty good deals on it even the RGB variant this is only 160 dollars right now on Newegg that's a pretty good deal it's actually doesn't have the best latency it's casa latency 19 so as always reality check your memory choice and get the fastest speed for the most reasonable price but that's a good kit I would recommend for a storage configuration I once again have an MDOT to nvme SSD for our main operating system that's a 500 gig drive this is basically the same stuff that it shows last month but it's about $155 for that and then a 1 terabyte drive for our game storage for about one hundred and thirty seven dollars and then of course the graphics card we got the Asus GeForce r-tx 20 80 TI Strix this is the overclocked edition again I chose this graphics card because I have it so I can use it for the build for the price I've entered 1250 because these 20 ATT eyes are impossible to find right now you're supposed to be able to get the 20 ATI for as little as $1,000 but that's a pipe dream at the moment you should be able to get one for as little as 1200 theoretically if you're just okay with going with the founders Edition but the aftermarket overbuilt versions like this have been mostly selling for around 1200 to 1250 so that's why I put that price in there finally we have our case just what was the same case we built with before the Lian Li PC Oh 11 under Bauer edition in white and then I 650 watt EVGA supernova power supply is actually a slightly different power supply because it's a better one for less expensive so wanted to update it to that it's fully modular and again of course all black cables so guys there you have it once again my builds for October 2018 if you want the fastest single GPU gaming PC that you can get right now you want a ninety nine hundred K that you overclock as fast as you can within reason and a twenty eighty atti that you do just about the same thing with of course you're paying a lot of money for this so please bear in mind that my first two builds today we're eight hundred and a thousand dollars that are still perfectly adequate gaming PC's that you don't need to spend three grand on and also try to chase down parts that are very difficult to find right now that said people are always interested in what is the fastest thing you can build right now so I will be putting the system together and doing some testing on it later this month so thank you guys for watching hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed it subscribe if you want to see that when it comes out in the future and that oh and links to all the stuff I talked about today is in the description below thanks again for watching guys we'll see you next time