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excellent that is some powerful nog hello everyone welcome to Paul's hardware this is my Christmas Eve video because it is Christmas Eve I'm doing a build today gonna be assembling the parts that you see right here in front of me but first up since it is Christmas Eve I wanted to start by saying Merry Christmas to all you guys out there hope you're having a wonderful holiday season whether you celebrate or whether you don't celebrate just best wishes to all of you out there I've had a fantastic year producing videos for you here on Paul's hardware and I plan to continue that in 2016 so happy new year all that good stuff but let's move on to the actual build that I'm putting together which is actually going to be a Christmas present tomorrow morning for my little nephew he's about eight years old and the request was that he get a computer first that he could upgrade maybe a little bit in the future at a year or two when he sort of moves into that phase in his life starts learning to tinker with and play with things like I think a lot of us probably did at that age but second that needs to be able to play Minecraft so this is my Minecraft plus system it's using an AMD APU a 78 50 K at the heart of it and I think it's going to be a great starter system so first just kind of get off the ground or hit the ground running with being able to play some games in Minecraft of course but also to provide an upgrade path since there's no graphics card you could possibly add a graphics card in the future possibly do some memory upgrading that's easy enough to do maybe even add some more storage in the future since we have a 240 gig a data SSD but not necessarily a mechanical hard drive for mass storage but I wanted it to be fast so with SSD right out of the gate this is also the build that I did or sort of preassembled in my December builds video so just circling back around like I promised you guys and actually putting it together they might notice some of this build is actually already pre-built I worked on this yesterday and I actually got windows loaded and up to date so that's good because if we want to use this tomorrow while all the guests are over here and we have lots of kids running around and screaming and we want to say hey look go play Minecraft for a while and let the adults do adult things we can do that so I'm happy to say that everything does work already so it was kind of a outside-the-box build to make sure everything was functional now I'm going to go ahead and drop this all into the system our case of course is the fractal four or five hundred let me run down the rest of these components real quick and then we'll proceed with the build so apart from the 78 50 K that's pre-installed onto the motherboard down there I wanted to go with a better than average CPU cooler so rather than using the stock cooler that comes with it I went with the hyper T 2 from cooler master this was actually available with a rebate so it came in at about eleven or twelve dollars and for anyone who's using a stock CPU heatsink fan this is a very inexpensive upgrade and although it's not the best CPU cooler out there it seems to be doing a great job for me so far stays pretty quiet it's got a sleeve bearing fan but it's a 92 millimeter so maybe you could upgrade it in the future anyway I don't spend too much time in the cooler so let's move on the motherboard is the FM to a 78 M ITX from asrock this is also a fairly budget oriented motherboard as it uses the a 78 chipset but it is fairly inexpensive this also came with a $30 million rebate so it made it very cost-effective but it's got six SATA 2 ports it's got a nice finish I mean as far as the color it looks pretty good it's got your expansion slot for PCI Express so we could drop in a graphics card in the future if we wanted to I maybe like to see a couple more USB ports on this board but as far as IO does it's got everything you'd need to kind of get you up and running and off the ground and I think it's a great bang for the buck might want to drop in a Wi-Fi card here in the future maybe a USB one but other than that I think we'll be set to go for memory we have a 2 by 8 gate kit of g.skill ripjaws x-series memory not a huge fan of like the heatsinks or the color on these but they are 2400 speed which is pretty fast for ddr3 memory with faster memory because we're using the eye GPU that's in the 78 50 K and pairing that with really fast onboard memory is going to give you much better performance if you're actually running games off that eye GPU so something to consider if you're going to do that and that's why it was pretty much the fastest slash cheapest 2x4 gig kit that I could find and G skills reputable brands so very happy with that for long-term storage we have the a day 2 SP 550 240 gig SSD this is one of the ones that was around 60 to 65 dollars on Black Friday time period so fast SSD storage 240 gigs which should be plenty for now it was very inexpensive and there's of course plenty of room for upgrading or adding a we'll drive in the future for our case and power supply we have fractal products and starting off with the power supply this is a fractal Integra M 750 watt power supply this is actually the power supply that I was using in our htpc out here 80 plus bronze does a great job it's partially modular stays very quiet and it's just been great for me so far it's also very short so it will fit even in smaller cases and hey it matches with the case itself which is the fractal core 500 ITX case this is a new one from fractal so it's got USB 3.0 up front tons of expansion options in there even has some water cooling support and also very nice it has a sport for taller air coolers in there so even though we've got a significantly taller air cooler here than we would if we're using the stock one it's still going to fit in there anyway though guys I'm really excited to get this put together so why don't I stop talking and start building so there you have it guys this build came together very easily and very quickly thanks in no small part to the fact that I had pre-installed the CPU as well as the CPU cooler in the memory and pre-installed the operating system happy to say that this thing plays minecraft like a dream thanks it also in part to that SSD I want really wanted this to be a fast system for it to feel fast especially since we're introducing it to kids we used to like that you know the smartphone type response that you get now and an SSD is great way to do that it boots really quickly and building in the fractal Core 500 was really really easy even though this is a mini ITX case which I was kind of on the fence about because I do want it to be upgradable and that's not necessarily the thing you get with an ITX case there's tons of space in here you could even do water cooling in the future if you wanted to since that's an option so I'm hoping in the future if my nephew does decide to do some upgrades on this that he has some expansion room in this case so then of course limitless possibilities for the future when it comes to PC building modification and customization that is all for this video though really hope you guys have enjoyed it I have had a wonderful time bringing you guys video content throughout 2015 and I plan to be bringing it right back at you in 2016 starting off with CES first week of January so hit that like button subscribe to my channel if you want to stay tuned for more upcoming videos I have lots of exciting stuff planned thank you so much for watching and commenting and just all the positive feedback you've given me again Happy Holidays Merry Christmas and we'll see in the next video