Gadgetory

hey everyone this is Greg with science studio and you've likely seen our past computer building videos featuring rather modest parts and budget conscious decisions well that's about to change to an extent and now I should clarify the goal here is still to build the best gaming PC for the price and in this case our budget has gone way up but that doesn't mean that we weren't willing to save a few dollars here and there for example if an MSI version of a graphics card is 320 dollars and the gigabyte version of the same card is $300 we not for the gigabyte version it's simply based on the fact that the price is lower but don't worry we haven't cut any major corners here that this build is still one of the best you can find for around $1,400 so first things first the processor then right off the bat we have a confession to make I know we promised a 6700 K build however at the moment this video is being produced the prices for the 6700 K are outrageous the cheapest we could find was four hundred and forty dollars NCIX was out of stock amazon tours to try again later and Newegg wasn't even playing ball I mean literally it was nowhere on new egg so this left us with no choice but to forego the 6700 K and book this 6600 K instead but no worries here obviously the 6700 K has an extra hand and rendering and executing tasks but game performance is surprisingly similar between the two giants we can also save a bit of money here as well so Amazon was out of stock at the moment but they told us more were on the way and Newegg offered them for around 30 bucks more so maybe wait a few days and see if amazon has his back in stock because intel understandably doesn't supply a stock cooler with their skylight k CPUs we opted for a water cooling unit in this case the cooler master glazier 240 l it features a single 240 millimeter radiator and excellent performance for the price it's ratings by customers were very compelling as well this custom cooler will allow us a liberal overclock of our hefty quad-core our motherboard is the Asus z170a our ATX board z170 of course and packed with features surround-sound sli or crossfire overclocking potential on both our RAM and CPU and the nice white accents all appeal to the board's modest price of just 159 bucks the ddr we've chosen this time around no not the same pan ram dims as before is the g.skill trident z series pack boasting two eight gigabyte sticks with a memory clock speed of 32 hundred megahertz stellar indeed with these speeds expect a few extra FPS on top of way you'd normally get with the twenty six sixty six megahertz boost as for storage we went with both the Samsung 850 Pro Series 128 gig SSD is a boot drive and a one terabyte Western Digital Black Series HDD for general storage now if you have a few extra bucks lying around okay maybe not just a few extra bucks but you get the point we suggest going fully solid state that is 86 the hard drive and purchase a couple of SSDs to finish the job you won't regret the decision loading and rendering speeds will double and even sometimes triple with the upgrade our video card choice was a bit tricky we know that there are compelling reasons to go Invidia in this case especially with such a generous budget but AMD's prices were just they were too difficult to resist the 390x packs a punch similar to that at the GTX 980 and for around $200 less this is an example of that budget conscious mindset I was talking about earlier if you're in video for life by all means go for that 980 or a downgrade to a 970 but to us it just doesn't make sense to pay more for a similar performing card or pay less for a card that doesn't come close frankly now as for power you probably know the minimalistic equation we use to determine what power supply we need so add up all of your TDP s plus the bit extra wattage for overclocking Headroom and multiply that sum by a safety factor of 1.5 so 800 watts is our sweet spot we scavenge Newegg and amazon for a great deal but surprisingly super bias came to the rescue I've just conceded to the fact that it's probably pronounced supervised and they offered an an tech hcg 850 watt semi modular power supply for 96 99 we don't recommend purchasing a cheap third-party power supply I know it's tempting but if this wattage you just have too many reliability reasons to consider antics HCG m is 80 plus bronze certified quite a bargain for its offerings and even comes equipped with an LED fan not that we'll be able to see it from inside the case we've chosen unless you know you're one of those guys or gals who thinks it's totally cool to position the power supply fan side upward especially in a raised case with legs just point the thing downward okay and let the light bounce around underneath the case what case you ask well the NZXT phantom 530 a full sized ATX tower seemed appropriate for this bill does the phantom 530 lino Sebastian and several others have praised this case really for its accessibility features looks and price if you're not ready for the Phantom experience just make sure that whatever you pick supports the 240 millimeter radiator a full sized tower though is still preferable the grand total to this build here is fourteen hundred and twenty three dollars and seventy cents as of November 22nd 2015 recording date of this video I know it's quite a bit of money but we assure you buyer's remorse won't be a problem here games will run liquid smooth if you're gta5 junkie not a problem enjoy 4k at 30fps or a generous 1080p experience with 80 FPS in maxed out settings we don't include msaa in that determination since MSAA pretty much wrecks any modern GPU at the moment regardless of your preference you'll have a top-of-the-line liquid-cooled gaming computer this holiday season for a compelling price but if you're not for spending this handful of cash or check out either of our other skylight bills in the series for $600 or $900 if you are new to the computer building experience check out our how to build a computer video as well so thanks for watching leave a like if you think we did a good job leave a dislike if you think we just did it outright terrible job and let us know what you want to see next and also be sure to subscribe for more this is science studio thanks for learning with us you you you