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excellent hey everyone I'm welcome to Paul's hardware I am doing a build video today that's right and just just like a regular build video there's no modding going on or customization I'm using off-the-shelf parts this one's been kind of a long time coming because I actually got this be quiet silent base 800 case well a few months ago now and I've been planning a build in it so I've got the the case here I'm going to kind of focus on the case for this video but I also of course have some parts from gigabyte so let's rest to the component so I'm going to start off kind of run down each one of these tell you what I'm using this for and why I chose each part I'm going to be using this for live streaming by the way I will go ahead and do a full build all kind of time-lapse through all that and then at the end I'm going to come back and give some feedback on the build experience in to be quiet silent based 800 case as well as my experience with some of the other components I've used today so for parts of course I started out this build with the silent beta 800 and the straight power 10 700 watt both from be quiet so I'm going to come back to those and give you guys a closer look the graphics card is right here and this is from gigabyte this is their g1 gaming geforce gtx 960 so that means it looks pretty high-end because it's the g1 gaming series so it looks very similar to their 970 and their 980 i don't necessarily need a ton of graphics horsepower for this build in particular that said there's a chance i might swap this out in the future with something a little bit more powerful but for the time being what i'm actually going to be doing is feeding video over to this system via capture card so i'll be playing on a couple water-cooled 2 gigabyte gtx 980 g1 gaming cards from from the arctic panther build moving along though we also from gigabyte have the z97 X SOC you might have seen this in my first 5 things I do when I'm shopping for a motherboard video this is a z97 board it's also very orange and it's going to match very well also full-featured boards so should get the job done CPU at the center is going to be an i7 4770k I don't know if anyone is like using this video as a build guide but if you're buying new I would get a 4790k the 4770k I already had so I didn't really feel like it was - by the 4790k just for the sake of this anyway I did that dumb since it's a streaming system I wanted the quad-core plus the hyper threading for memory I have repurposed a kit that already had this is an 8 gig 2 by 4 gig kits of Corsair Vengeance it's just ddr3 1600 for an SSD I have an Intel 240 gig and totally I forget the model this it's a model of assess SD it's one of those ones from Intel it like it's very simple in design anyway this is a sand force controlled SSD and again that one's kind of repurposed from another system I've had I've had that one for a little bit a couple little add-on items here I of course have this Blackmagic capture card this is the same card I've been using that we've been using to stream awesome hardware and that sort of thing so I'm going to be popping that into this system since it will be dedicated for streaming it will also finally have a bit more of a home and then lastly I'm going to be throwing in this thermal take water 2.0 a CPU cooler since there's actually not even a CPU cooler in this box name in a stock one I used it for something else so this also has already been used but I'm going to be cleaning it off and then installing it to keep the CPU cool and maybe do a little bit of overclocking as well since it's the super overclocked z97 X motherboard so here's a closer look at the power supply this is be quiet straight power 10 this is a pretty much everything that comes with it our cable of course it is semi modular so you get these cables I will say the blue plugs are not necessarily my super favorite but there's no side panel window on this case so not to be seeing too much of that anyway there's your modular cables side-by-side you do have a always attached 24 pin main motherboard power connector so that one is always stick on there but um you're probably going to need that so not a huge deal modular connection points are down here they're all clearly labeled on the top you have a large be quiet fan and it is a quiet fan it just it doesn't just say be quiet on there some metal grilling across the top and then other than that pretty flat black finish be quiet logo on that side nothing on the bottom not a whole lot going on on that side and then there's your power chart and all that good stuff so this does have three rails to 89.1 22f so bear that in mind if you're looking for something for something like I don't know say an hour nine 295x2 other than that though it is very efficient 80 plus gold rated and a pretty decent price for that and again this is a 700 watt model and this should get us by just fine other than that though our case requires some little bit of assembly I did get out of the box there but let me pop these feet on the bottom so I can stand it up a bit more stable II and then we'll look at that these little feet just kind of pop in like that and here's a quick look at the case before I start jumping in with the build itself so you can see this one has orange trim it's also available with kind of a gray or silver trim and black interior is nice and spacious it has some distinctive kind of orange markings inside as well as out it has a swinging door on the front that you can open up to reveal your five and a quarter inch expansion bays front panel also will pop off like so it's got some rubber protection on there you can see you got a couple hundred and forty millimeter be clad fans in the front this is 120 that comes pre-installed in the back more features after I actually put hardware in this one so I'm going to get going I began to build confident in the decisions I have made for the parts in my epic orange streaming system 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click the spots or link in this video's description or visit linda.com slash pulp but back to my cliffhanger from before was something about my overconfidence being my undoing I believe and I will say that things did not go quite as smoothly as I would have liked with this build my main dilemma was the CPU cooler of course and since I don't actually have one it'd be quiets excellent air coolers around for this bill I went with an all-in-one instead now I also wanted to keep the rad and the fans in this lower chamber down here rather than the upper area up here because this top panel can restrict some of the airflow and I wanted to avoid that if possible now you probably saw that my first planned unit was the thermal take water 2.0 a cooler with a 240 millimeter radiator that is thicker than most which meant that I didn't have quite enough clearance for the fans and the radiator which conflicted with my RAM slots another point to make here is that my older model Corsair Vengeance memory has kind of absurdly tall heat spreaders which Linda limited my options a bit further I probably could have fit the water 2.0 with some low or lower profile dims in there but I gotta work with what I have so next I took a shot at installing the corsair h 110 a larger 280 millimeter all-in-one unit with a thinner radiator and here again I probably could have made it work by removing the front optical drive cage maybe planning ahead a bit more to but spacing wise you really do run out of room quickly if you don't want to put the fans in the top area up above which I didn't want to do so I scrapped the h 110 plans as well third time was a charm though I pulled the cooler master depth in 240 M out of another system and it fit in perfectly with the fans mounted at all so the biggest hurdle of this build was overcome everything else went very smoothly I'm happy to say after some work getting all the parts in place wrangling the cables I had the finished build that you now see before you I'm going to focus on the straight power 10 700 watt power supply again for just a moment this guy got the job done I like 80 plus gold units for the efficiency at a lower price than you often pay for the premium that you have to pay for platinum units 700 watts gives some good Headroom and you can even handle two-way GPU configurations with this power supply depending on the graphics card of course and the housing has a nice finish and a be quiet embossed logo on the side and a very quiet fan as well partially modular designs are helpful too but on the downside the cables just aren't really all that attractive they suffer from the multicolored wiring barely hidden by loose sleeping problem that so many PSU suffer from and there's just no hiding the burst of color at the end of the 24 24 pin connector the fact that the peg connectors have this kind of bright blue translucent 6 + 2 pin connectors was also a little bit baffling to me it really stands out I'll be honest I'd recommend some sleeved extensions for this power supply if it's if aesthetics are a concern for you of course lastly it is a multi rail design with four 12-volt rails on the 700 watt model which is fine for most situations except those unique ones like when you're using an AMD r9 295x2 for example or a similar GPU that requires a lot of amps on a single rail to provide enough juice on the associated connector so bear that in mind moving on to the silent Bass 800 case though on the plus side I really do like the design it's quite pleasing to look at and it has at all kind of skinny look to it if you're viewing it from the front it's also very quiet and the sound dampening and the padding material throughout is high-quality and does a really good job reducing internal noise I also like the included fans 240 millimeters at the front and the 120 at the back give you adequate airflow for most builds and it kind of emphasizes positive air fresh pressure by having this two large intake fans which is almost always preferred I also had plenty of room for all of my hardware with the exception of the radiator issues I already mentioned and one other minor note is that I had to remove the middle drive cage up here in order to fit my gigabyte gtx 960 which is a pretty long graphics card for today's market I also wanted to point out that the side panels which are held by catches on the top and bottom edges which isn't a design that I usually prefer I usually actually find it kind of tiring putting the panels on and taking them off but thanks to the way the panels are actually designed they're a bit thicker thanks to the roll edges the edges wrap around and they become flush with the rest of the case so putting it on and taking it off is actually a bit easier than other panels that use this design on the negative side for the SB 888 er up to there and bringing those radiator fans inside the motherboard chamber can be awkward depending on the hardware configuration in there and what memory you have what motherboard you have of course now if you've got a standard 240 millimeter radiator like mine you'll probably be okay but I also had some disappointment with a damaged on a rival piece actually the front cover right up here or the 140 intakes had a broken plastic tab at the bottom the tab broken piece is actually on the case itself below the else good yeah see that broke a plastic bit broke fortunately it still stays on okay when I put it on but it looks pretty bad when I pop it off I have to say that I've seen this happen on quite a few cases or sir I'm looking at you right here and I would love to see a solution for these removable front panels that doesn't rely on an easily breakable tiny plastic tab for a hinge all that said though I'm happy to say that the silent base 800 gets the job done very well it looks good it fits all the hardware there's modularity and the drive cages and the side intakes on the panels and yes it remains very quiet with the system up and running so it definitely lives up to its name now I wanted this build to look good inside and out even if there's no side panel window which is why I chose the gigabyte z97 X SOC because it's orange black it matches so well and the key ended g1 gaming GTX 960 and I suppose since I'm making this video there's also plenty of enough opportunity for you guys to appreciate it with side panel off but what do you guys think would you be interested in a windowed side panel version of the silent bass 800 if be quiet made it also let me know what you think of my build here in general you can talk about all these things down in the comment section down below also don't forget to hit the like button while you're down there check the description for links to my t-shirt store you can buy shirt like this one as well as my Amazon affiliate code which you can click before you check out an Amazon that helps me out a ton and of course there's going to be links to the case and the power supply and all the other parts in here that you might want to click on as well and lastly of course as always thanks for watching