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Oh comfortable hey everyone Greg here with science studio so I want to cut right to it I understand that there is a huge console gaming fan base I understand I was a part of it for a long time in fact only just over a year ago I recently converted to PC gaming I do not intend for this video to step on any of your toes so if you are a console over out there by all means continue playing consoles there is nothing wrong with that this video is more for somebody who I don't know I guess sees the potential to kind of unify the computing experience with the gaming experience and that is essentially what a gaming PC does and so when I realized that I began kind of studying and learning about computers and how to build them and that's what led to ultimately this third or this is a fourth build I think of mine and this is my daily driver this is actually what I added on to believe it or not I don't know if any of you know that I actually edit all of my videos with this little Intel i3 6100 yeah and it does quite well I'll upload a video later on if you guys want detailing how well the processor does render videos and handle the editing process in Adobe Premiere and whatnot so if you want to see something like that let me know in the comments below but otherwise there to get right to it but I want to do I have my little tablet here and I have all my notes and what I want to talk about address what I want to do first is kind of outline the console benefits that is what makes a gaming console obviously the gaming console what makes a console better than a PC in particular gaming PC so what I wrote down first off was that they were smaller and obviously this is true for most most consoles out there they tend to run with a smaller form factor than a general PC this thing behind me here is probably four times larger than an Xbox one and about six times larger than a ps4 so that's one thing that the console definitely has going for it the second would be that it consumes less power now obviously a computer like this is going to step all over a console at least in this generation the current ps4 Xbox one generation but that's not really the point of a console console is not supposed to be able to do all the things that this can do for the most part they're gonna be quieter and they'll consume less power that's another note I wrote on here they're more mainstream I would say the chances of finding somebody who plays a console at least a Playstation or Xbox console on a regular basis are higher chances are higher than finding somebody who tends to game on a PC now PC gaming is becoming more and more popular there are tons of YouTube channels centered around specifically gaming on PCs but the odds of finding somebody who does happen to game on a PC regularly are fairly slim compared to the odds of finding somebody place console so that's the third point I made and then the fourth one it's probably the most important and it's the fact that it's much cheaper so a ps4 or an Xbox one that you know it's bundled nicely you know you get the console and you get the controller maybe get a game or two and connect whatnot it's gonna run you about $350 so you might find some pretty good sales maybe a refurbished one or if you found one on Black Friday for around 300 bucks and yeah you made out quite well but for the sake of this video we're going to assume that a next-gen console that is the most recent console generation that has been released which will include the ps4 and Xbox one will cost around $350 so $350 will be our target for the PC that we're going to build to rival the ps4 and Xbox one so that's the point I wanted to make here while consoles generally do have these gonna kind of bouncing it's a cool chair I don't know the bun joke chair they're not sponsoring this video but I wish somebody would I want to address the fact that just because consoles have these these qualities over most pcs that doesn't mean they have to have these qualities over all pcs and what we're gonna do is build a PC that will trump a console hopefully and we'll stay within the bounds of a console budget will be as small as a console will be as power-efficient roughly as a console and maybe one day be as mainstream as console mainstream as it made its team or something like that mainstream so let's see what we can do let me get this out of the way first and foremost I wrote a whole paragraph on just this one particular point because I want to address this before we dive into the parts which are coming up very shortly stay tuned for that and that's the fact that there are several videos across YouTube claiming to have you know built the ultimate console killer PC and honestly most of them do perform better than the next box one and ps4 but one thing is that the prices of the PCs that they build are around $400 $500 in some cases and kids that you know on a $300 budget they're trying to get their parents to pay for a console are probably not gonna convince their parents to spend an extra 200 dollars on the PC that they probably won't use for anything else other than games anyway so the price issue is is always there and I don't like the fact that they don't stick to just the 300 or 350 dollar budget I know it's tough to do that you'll see how tough it is for us as well and the compromises that we will have to make but if you're gonna build a console killer it's gotta match the console and almost every way except for the fact that it's a PC and uh you know just a gaming system Xbox would argue that their social kind of like a platform is more than just gaming but we all know what we do on Xbox one is just gaming and Netflix again and I know and the other thing is that these these some gaming cases that console killer builders used to put their parts in are in my opinion just ugly I honestly I just I do not like the whole cube form factor well why on earth would I want to have a cube on my desk I would rather something in this big than a cube do I have to you know explain to somebody that's actually a PC know if the keep is a window in it okay yeah that's pretty cool but in most cases these cheap ITX cases are in most cases these cases are just ugly I don't like them at all so that's something else we're gonna tackle with this build here and you'll see that toward the end of the videos so if you're super super impatient and see what ix case we use go ahead and click the link here and it will take you straight to that part just promise me that you'll rewind a bit so that you can see the other parts of the build that we used so first things first we need to figure out just how powerful a next-gen console is and in this case we decided to go with the ps4 specs to kind of match with our computer specs only because the ps4 has no it's a bit more powerful let's just just take more there's a bunch of different reasons why but the ps4 is slightly more powerful in terms of its specifications than the Xbox one so I'm sorry if that enrages some of you Microsoft fans but the ps4 is it's just more powerful that's just a fact okay I will post links in the description that detail everything that has to do with that so if you don't agree with me or if you you want to look more into that click those links and they're in the description I made sure to all-caps them so you can find them down there here are the specifications for the ps4 I'm gonna read these straight up because I don't want to get these wrong and I want you guys to get the facts the ps4 features a single chip low-power processor based on AMD architecture it's an 8 core processor 64 bit and runs on a board similar to an ITX PC board the APU which is essentially a CPU and GPU combined is capable of computing 1.8 for teraflops of floating points per second now a teraflop is just a unit of measure for computing a GPU speed and performance that's really all you need to know about that so generally the more teraflops of floating points that it can compute per second the more powerful the card that's not always the case but in most cases that is true so we've quickly concluded here in studio that we were going to have to resort to an APU there was just no way around it and I say APU because that's it that's all we're going to have we're not gonna have a GPU with it we simply cannot afford to include a GPU in order to match the price of a ps4 or Xbox one so I'm sorry but if you want to build a PC that is identical to a console you will have to forego the separate graphics card all together and just purchase an APU so that's what we did we decided to go with the AMD a 1070 700 K this is a Kaveri APU so what this means is that it has four cpu computing cores and six I can't hold up six but five plus one graphics processing cores so it's essentially a ten core processor but really it's only a quad-core processor processor and then just a hexa core GPU so I mean most GPUs are like Multi multi core so six cores really isn't all that phenomenal now the ps4 is a core processor dedicates six of its cores to graphics and the other two to just basic computing within like the home screen and whatnot so we're going to have the same amount of graphics processing cores and then we'll have an additional two just kind of central processing cores so we have two more cores altogether but we're gonna have the same limb for graphics processing board that's that's really all you need to know about that so the 810 7700 K will allow us a moderate overclock let's say around 4.0 gigahertz that's that's pretty easy to do it's based on the FM 2 plus socket so we're going to need an FM 2 + socket motherboard so that's what made us choose the Omega this right here it's the MSI a 68 HIA CF + 2 + board now it's got reputable features the most important one I believe other than the fact that it actually supports the processor and has like you know RAM slots and whatnot is it as built in Wi-Fi you know the ps4 and the Xbox one both have built in Wi-Fi and I believe that is something that distinguishes consoles from most pcs so without having to know spend extra money on a separate Wi-Fi card our 868 h:i has Wi-Fi built in that's pivotal in my opinion and I wanted to make sure that I chose an ITX board that had that feature so that no one can say oh well your board you know doesn't have Wi-Fi so therefore you're not a concept well boom sorry about that but we're pretty pretty on par with consoles at this point anyway it also has HDMI DVI and analog display outs and whatnot because our CPU is also a GPU so you know onboard graphics is obviously supported has a single PCI Express 3.0 Lane you know that's all we'll need anyway because when I didn't have a graphics card but if you wanted to add a graphics card later for whatever reason it wouldn't be a problem to do so so there's that sense of upgrade ability there that's pretty cool and the board also has two memory slots for ddr3 somebody takes boards only have like one dim slot that's kind of weird I don't really like that why not just add a second line there make a little more room but this board does have two slots so you will be able to run things in dual channel little channel notes that's pretty cool and the board will panel up to 2133 megahertz ram it's also pretty cool a little side note if you happen to purchase Ram that is just clocked at a higher speed than what your motherboard is rated at all you have to do is go into your BIOS and then change your memory speech whatever the highest rated value that your motherboard can support and that's it you're good as bolt so no problem there as long as you have a BIOS that's actually you know friendly now in the case of the ps4 that PS were actually has 8 gigabytes of gddr5 gddr5 meaning that it's graphics face it's just sold in use for graphics but getting like weird popups and stuff in our case obviously because we're going to be making this a legit PC we're going to need your standard ddr3 and and in this case we decided to go with just 2 4 gigabyte sticks of course their vengeance 1680 ddr3 dimms they're going for 35 bucks on Newegg that's not bad at all I would say there were you know there were options a while ago that were a bit cheaper but you know 35 bucks is pretty solid for d2i 3 at this point so I will jump on those now for the power supply ok both the ps4 and the Xbox one under full load draw at the most about 200 watts of power and you notice that the little power bricks that you plug into your consoles are rated at around 150 to 200 watts usually and our system is probably not going to draw any more than 200 watts anyway but we want the path for upgradability to be rather easy to you know walk on that was a terrible analogy so what we did basically was opt for a full ATX power supply the PSU is just a it's just a 430 watt EVGA any plus certified power supply it's not modular or anything like that but it's it's pretty slim it's not like to you know wide or anything and it should fit in our case just fine and it will allow for an easy upgradability path if you decided to add a GPU in the future at least a GPU that's like not super super power hungry or anything like that now as far as storage is concerned the ps4 and the Xbox one both offer different storage variants but we're just going to assume that the consoles offer just the standard 500 gigabytes of storage I know that the ps1 and Xbox for weight then I send it backward pocket I know that the ps4 and the Xbox one offer like 1 terabyte variants and maybe even more than that I have no idea at this point but 500 gigabytes is plenty in most cases we basically scavenge Newegg and Amazon to find a 500 gigabyte hard drive we found one that was a Western Digital blue caviar blue and just 500 gigs it's a hard disk drive not cookie a solid-state drive but if you're somebody who prefers speed and all that you know which I personally prefer not that the constants off of that I would just go for the SSD but in this case we're just gonna count the 500k by a hard drive and we found a Western Digital caviar blue which was great I wanted to show you guys I picked up this this Western Digital caviar blue 320 gig hard drive about five years ago from Best Buy actually in town where I'm at now and I still use this thing in in that I mean I still I use this in there for like general like storage for games and whatnot it's a very reliable brand if you have any doubts about Western Digital but you shouldn't anyway but if you had any take my word for it these things are super reliable they're gonna be more reliable than Toshiba or even other brands so go Western Digital even if it cost you five or ten bucks more go Western Digital so that's what we went with this one cost about thirty bucks so that's it for parts actually inside the case we don't have to worry about a CPU cooler because our APU does have a fan kit included with the purchase of the processor and it should handle the overclock it may be a bit loud but it's gonna handle the overclock just fine so wow we've uh we've actually managed to keep the price within reason I'm actually surprised about this too I mean this is like the first time I've actually gone over everything the total price for this build is almost right at $300 so right away we're pretty much like under budget for a console at least that's pretty awesome now we have something to put these things in and I promise you that the case we chose would look pretty sick at least in my opinion I know people are like super picky I'm super picky too this case may not be up your alley at all but we found a pretty cool-looking one it was slim and it had pretty sweet little colors on it and all that it's called azza or awesome is it as a awesome I don't okay a zz a it's a CSA Z - one with three black mini ITX case but wow this thing will stand out it looks like a console to an extent it sits vertically that's pretty cool I like vertically sittin consoles I just think they look better than the ones that lay down because then it just looks like a VCR or whatever but it stands up and it's got there's no neon green accents you can see on it that's pretty awesome I think it's very cool it will fit our ATX power supply no problem it will fit to 3.5 inch hard disk drives no problem and has support for like a little mini optical drive if you want to include one of those and it does have support for a dual slot extended graphics card so if you wanted to add the graphics card in the future it does support that it has a little like a cable that adapts from the PCI Express sport to let your video card kind of sit I don't know vertically instead of horizontally or vice versa I don't know which one anyway your your video card will sit 90 degrees perpendicular to what usually would sit at in a case like this yeah it's just a cool design all around I actually really like it but if you don't like it if you're not a fan of the black and green color scheme blah L means pain thing I mean paint it whatever you want if you want to check out this video here we painted a lot of stuff in our PC using white plastidip and you could certainly do that with this case out here Plasti Dip is my preferred method for painting if you want to call it paint because have one it's durable and two it's like super easy to remove so if you ever want to return anything just peels right off it's pretty awesome and going back to the case itself it only constantly fifty bucks after a $20 mail in rebate from new egg so yeah fifty bucks for this case like that's that's a pretty good price most ITX cases are a little more than that or like really really cheap like this cube it was talking about I know it's a new brand it's kind of sketchy buying a brand that you've never probably heard of before but it has received great reviews and great feedback from the tech community at least on new egg so you know if you end up not liking it you can blame those guys on me because I'm just going off of what they said so okay now to be fair the Xbox one and the ps4 also have like a gamepad included to play on you like the ps4 controller or the Xbox one controller I actually use that to game on as my xbox one controller the one that I had before I sold the console so um I guess an equivalent to that would be a keyboard and mouse and you can pick up one on you a kit so it's a nice Logitech keyboard mouse combo not bad at all for $15 so let's tack that onto our total price and wow that is pretty good come on that's that's a pretty good price three hundred sixty-five dollars for a PC that is also kind of a console that doesn't play console games like don't play ps4 Xbox one games in this thing if you buy an optical drive it's not gonna work and you'll have to use steam or whatever else to play your video games on but for 365 dollars I'd say it's a pretty dang good deal I mean really come on like 365 bucks that will literally get you a Piet's for maybe like one game when you can go on Steam and take advantage of like their winter sale right now purchase games for like 20 bucks that would otherwise forty or sixty dollars in the GameStop store but something like this is not going to be powerful enough for me and it may not be powerful enough for you but you have to keep in mind that ps4 and Xbox one games are designed specifically to extract the most performance out of their respective ap use so a ps4 game is designed completely around the architecture of their Jaguar eight core APU ok the games we're gonna play on Steam with this little I don't know console killer PC are not going to be optimized specifically for this 7700 K so keep that in mind you may have to dumb down the settings a bit if you're looking to play games on 1080p good luck you're gonna have to really turn things down if you want to see like 30 to 40 fps and games so without further ado represent to you the as a console killer PC yeah I don't know if you're into something more ITX form factor ish then this could be for you especially if you're currently a console gamer and you're looking to make the transition steadily from a console to a PC this might be right up your alley as well so I understand that some of you may not approve this computer at all and you may think it's complete crap and a lot of you probably are right when you say that especially when you compare it to say like the computers that you're using right now to watch this video on but hey you gotta start somewhere and I say that this new guy deserves a few kudos for looking so stylish and being so closely related to a ps4 if you want to stay within the confines of the ps4 s aesthetics or the Xbox ones aesthetics in this case I'd say that looks a little more like an Xbox one than a ps4 and the performance power and price of a console then I'd say this thing is for you now you're probably gonna find things in the future especially if you're watching this video like a month or two after it's already been published to youtube there will probably be price dips it'll make this thing even cheaper so maybe in the future you'll be able to add a separate graphics cards to the system and still get around the same total price but until that happens yeah we'll be yeah seems like a pretty good deal to me what do you think cricket if you liked the video leave a thumbs up we appreciate everything that you get but we also appreciate everything's down you get so if you thought this video was straight crap let us know and also let us know what we can do to improve our videos be sure to subscribe for more and leave a comment suggesting future videos if you want to see certain things being compared I know that a lot of you have been asking for the i5 4460 versi 360 100 comparison I am currently working on that please be patient with me I promise I will have that video uploaded shortly I'm just trying to get hold of an i5 4460 mmm I'm a poor college student so it's kind of 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