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hey everyone this is Greg with science studio the holidays are approaching and that means so our Black Friday and Cyber Monday will show you here how you can build yourself an Intel skylight gaming PC for around six hundred dollars which seems to be the sweet spot for the average consumer typical sky like built here on YouTube feature either the 6600 k or the 6700 k that the cpu prices lead to build costing upwards of eight hundred to a thousand dollars and we here in the studio don't want to leave the budget-conscious consumers behind the solution settling for modest to core for thread CPU the Intel i3 6100 stay tuned for a future video featuring this build so as we've just highlighted the intel core i3 6100 is a dual-core hyper threaded processor from the new skylake lineup and while this one in particular isn't a fancy quad hexa or octa-core cpu it's 3.7 gigahertz dual-core architecture certainly holds its own especially when you consider its price we found the lowest offer yet on supervised supervised superb is I don't know for 123 99 which is actually only a few dollars more than the Haswell equivalent i3 processor the i3 4160 the hyper threading advantages on the 6100 mimic to an extent a 4 core processor and should allow us to run games efficiently and without severe or really even moderate bottlenecks will need a motherboard to house our cpu and in this case will specifically need a socket LGA 1151 board there are several options to choose from and we opted for the asrock z 170 pro 4 board due to its upgradability and admittedly its fancy design the Z 170 chipset allows for overclocking which can't be utilized with our I 3 but could certainly be taken advantage of with an upgraded k cpu such as the 6600 k or the 6700 k the board comes in a variety of variants including as rocks fatality edition which packs an extra ddr4 boost and built-in Wi-Fi regardless of your decision between the two these pro 4 boards certainly hold their own and at a price of just 117 99 this LG a socket 1151 motherboard will not steer you in the wrong direction the next piece to our puzzle is RAM now since ddr4 is available and supported by our asrock board will be seizing the opportunity here i scavenged newegg in amazon for quite a bit in search of relatively cheap reasonably fast ddr4 dimm and miraculously came across these bad boys pan Ram ninja five sticks they come in a pack of 24 gigabyte variants allowing for a dual channeling and also boast a hefty 2666 megahertz memory clock speed which should give us a few extra FPS in CPU intensive games GTA 5 comes to mind the graphics card choice is entirely up to you what I like to do is purchase everything else first and then splurge with my remaining budget on the best graphics card I can afford I opted for an Asus Strix are 73 74 gigabyte variant not only for its quiet nature in adamant standards of reliability but also for the potential to crossfire this card with another one in the future if you watched our review video of this particular card you know that its fans don't even turn on until temps reach around 60 degrees celsius and the four gigabytes vram is more than enough for running almost any game at high quality in 1080p resolution if you want a bit more horsepower but don't mind cutting back on the vram snatch up and r9 380 or a gtx 960 for around the same price deals are fastly approaching you can get some of these cards for quite a steal we have the online 382 gigabyte XFX variant featured in our latest build here next comes storage I'm not particularly a storage hog kind of guy so 240 gigabytes of solid-state storage will be plenty for my extraneous files and few games on steam i really only play GTA 5 I that's a huge game 62 gigabyte or something like that but that's really the only game i ever have installed on my storage device so if you're a guy who's more concerned about storage or maybe a girl who likes to play multiple games at the same time then I go ahead and snatch up a seagate 1 terabyte hard drive for around forty dollars keep in mind however that boot times and file loading times jump up significantly when you decide to forgo the SSD I like to choose my case and power supply last the reason I choose the PSU last is because I'd like to get an idea of how much power my computer is going to draw under idle and full loads I then multiply the load wattage summation by a factor of about 1.5 basically a safety factor and then select a power supply base on this calculated value in a case of this bill the 500 watts is more than enough and even leaves the possibility of adding a second card with a bit of room to spare we do however recommend purchasing a modular crossfire or sli configured power supply if you plan on utilizing two GPUs right away this power supplies cables plenty long enough to reach our terminals in the case we've chosen which is in a segue of sorts the NZXT s3 40 so super buys is currently running there s 3 40's 463 99 which is the lowest I've ever seen this case sell for for reference i actually purchased mine for around $75 plus shipping and handling and NZXT case for this price is phenomenal and features were not compromised for such a budget sticker price NZXT provides to stock fans to dust filters a large side window and minimalistic aesthetics with plenty of room for future expandability Linus Sebastian and many other popular channels on YouTube have covered this case simply due to its amazing appeal and stellar price of course however the s3 40 is one of many cases you can pick up for a competitive price just make sure that what you purchase will fit all of the parts accordingly it would be a shame to you know have to have all your parts ready to go only to find out that your motherboard power supply of what have you won't fit our latest build features the NZXT of the white windowed edition and we have been more than satisfied with the looks as well as the temperatures that we're getting under load add a few LEDs prop it up on a desk and watch as your computer tower turns into a valuable piece of eye candy and furniture so that's it folks our grand total as of november nineteenth 2015 comes out to just over six hundred and twenty bucks not including shipping though most of these items can be shipped free of charge the case is really the only exception that immediately comes to mind oh and one other thing don't doubt this little sky like i three this thing is the little engine that could just check out some of these benchmarks uploaded by Hardware unboxed their channel link is in the description if you're interested we greatly appreciate your interest in this video and we look forward to building it actually very soon if you haven't already be sure to leave us a like or a dislike depending on whether you thought we did a great or terrible job and be sure to subscribe for more from our channel this is science to do thanks for learning with us you