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it's finally time to build you guys the ultimate 1440p gaming PC for 2015 just see the star component selection is easily the most important part of building a new gaming PC I don't know how many times I've seen people put in really high engrams cards with bad CPUs or vice versa and the end result is something that won't perform as well as something that would have otherwise costed a lot less money so today we're going with the build that although is a little bit expensive and face value and the initial cost will be a little bit expensive everything here just synergizes really well to make a great gaming PC as well as double down as a great workstation PC so I'll quickly go through the component selection and why I'm picking what I'm picking in today's build and then we'll get onto the installation so first up here we have the motherboard this is the b85 pro-gamer from a Zeus now if you can't get this motherboard in your country there is an alternative that I will recommend and that is the asrock fatality killer b85 as well both should be had for around about the same price and they should offer similar features as one another however let's get back to this motherboard and the four things that I really like about it the first thing vrm 8 + 2 phase power design with great components in that vrm as well this will mean a solid power delivery for your CPU and other components as well as great power savings as well and it will help keep the motherboard cool as well second thing I like about this motherboard it has the supreme FX audio chipset on board now the audio out on this motherboard is phenomenal especially for a board that comes under $100 the mic in and the line in are okay but the audio out is phenomenal which is what counts especially for a gamer now the third thing I like about this board is it uses the Intel I - 1 7 v ni C which is great for games great for transferring files across networks as well and then there's a fourth thing all this comes under $100 win so for the CPU we're going with an interesting choice and that is the xeon 1231 v3 this is actually the Haswell refresh edition of the xeon cpus for the LGA 1155 socket and this comes clocked in at three point four gigs base though it has a a clock that enables it to go up to three point eight gigs and now with that previous motherboard that I mentioned the b85 pro-gamer you can get this thing to three point eight gigs on all cause if you use the right bias revision so essentially we've got a CPU that can go up to three point eight gigs on a b85 chipset and it comes in at around about 250 dollars now another great thing about this CPU is that it's got hyper threading as well so when we're doing those workstation applications we can take advantage of that hyper threading especially when we're rendering a video for example we can make rendering times a lot faster by utilizing hyper threading as opposed to just a fork or without hyper threading now another benefit of this CPU is that it uses a better fan than the normal desktop by seven and high five editions of the intel coolers so it has the same cooler though it uses a better fan so this fan is going to be a little bit more quiet and it's going to be a little bit more powerful than the cheaper variants that they use on the desktop series of their chips now for the grams card another crucial point for a gaming PC and today we're going with the GTX 970 from Nvidia any-any GTX 970 will be really good for gaming at 1440p this is the g1 gaming Edition from gigabyte and it is an absolute beast at 1440p I haven't had any problems on any games that I've played with this thing now there's recently been a fiasco where effectively this card really only uses 3.5 gigabytes of its be ran and as much as I don't agree with the way Nvidia marketed it it still is a great card for the money so any variant of this graphics card will be great for gaming at 1440p so next up we got the power splay this is the Animax revolution xt 630 watt gold rated power supply now this is overkill for this build however it was the cheapest of power supply that I could get with the features that I wanted I wanted black sleeve cabling to make the build look sleek I also wanted a gold rated power supply to bring down efficiency I also want a decent parameters in there like low ripple suppression and solid voltage regulation and this past play certainly delivers in that regards now there are many other vendors out there ones that come to - see sonic super flower Corsair I'm sure they're an tech there's a lot of other great power supply makers out there however I do recommend going with at least 500 watts for this build I know if you get a solid 450 watt power supply that will be fine as well something like a rose will capstone as well that'll be fine for the job today however I'm going with a 631 gold rated power supply and it does absolutely fine for the build today so for storage today we're going with the 256 gigabyte MX 100 from crucial there are newer variants of this out there's the more faster MX 200 which will give you even better speeds than this - just keep in mind though when you buy an SSD from crucial it's pretty much going to be guaranteed great value for money again great value for money Western Digital blue one terabyte this thing is solid it's fast you'll be able to put all those games that you don't really play on this Drive as well as using it for a temporary Drive to capture gameplay with things like shadow play or capture temporary recordings on your desktop so great Drive so for memory we're going with some ddr3 memory from any reputable manufacturer and the reason why it's not such a big deal is because the b85 has a speed limit on the memory of 1600 megahertz and so you can't get any higher than this so buying super fancy Ram will not give you any benefits on this Oh in today's bill so for peripherals we're going with a little bit of a mix this is my recommendation and this is what I use personally headphones we've got the Fidelio L ones I absolutely love these things especially if you go on the internet you can get a cheap female-to-female adapter and then you can get a V mode of boom Pro and you've got yourself one awesome gaming headset with amazing sound quality for around about a hundred and fifty dollars the next up we've got the mouse this is the G 302 from Logitech this thing is great that's all I can say great sensor great response times great build quality except the price isn't so great it's $50 so it is a little bit expensive but I'm telling you it's my new favorite Mouse and I absolutely love this mouse so next up for the keyboard we've got a cherry MX mechanical keyboard I love to use a cherry MX blue personally even though this is a cherry MX red so go try the keyboards I've got a mechanical keyboards buyer's guide that you guys can check out choose the right keyboard for you though keep in mind that this is an expensive keyboard though it is a luxury that I do recommend to people if there is serious about PC gaming or they're serious about doing work in front of their computer and not getting wrist strain for example especially with the Cherry MX blue cases today we're going with the I vector from Animax this is a great case for the money it's got a clear acrylic side window it's also got a switch on there which you can mod and which I did mod to put in LED lights and switch it to low low noise low settings or even switch the fans off completely great case great room to work with and very easy and makes a lot a lot of things make sense in this case though you don't have to go up this case you can go with something like a like I've got sitting around here at a fractal define are four very solid case could probably survive a nuclear holocaust so the parts list wouldn't be complete without a monitor so in the background here I have a Yamaka C from eBay that which costs about $300 delivered to your door and these are 1440p IPS displays they're absolutely gorgeous you've got a lot of real estate there on your screen so if you don't want to get something shipped from Korea and you want to get something domestically then I'd say hold out for a little bit because later this month aisa have a 1440p 144 Hertz both TN and IPS panels hitting the market they will be a bit more expensive than this though there will be great especially for gaming so now it's time to build this bad boy and before we do we can just quickly go ground ourselves by touching a grounding point or just go touch a car outside that will generally do the trick you don't have to go waste money on an anti-static builder's wristband or some overpriced and ecstatic builder's mat I mean I've built countless computers on the carpet for what it's worth so anyway let's move on to this bill we'll go through a quick run-through of what I did so I generally like to install the CPU or the memory first it doesn't make a big difference unless you have a big air cooler and if you have a big air cool then you'll generally want to install the memory first just to make sure that it clears the memory especially if it's got a high profile heat sinks as well as being a lot easier to install it first up especially if you can't get in there later once the cooler covers the RAM slots but in this case we've got an intel heat sink fan that doesn't even go near the RAM slots so I decided to install that first after I've done this I put some heatsink paste on the dive either the spread method or the pea method is absolutely fine though I will say that I do take a slight preference to the spread method especially in high performance applications though after that would just be very careful here and we install the RAM and just firmly press on the edges of the RAM to get that in and just take your time with this like seriously just you don't have to force anything in just firmly press everything in and if you can't press it in then just have a break or ask someone else to try it for you though I do have a full uncut how to build your first PC guide and I'll put a link in the description below for that though there are some other great guides out there from other youtubers so be sure to check that out especially if it's your first time building a PC if it's not your first time building a PC or if it's second or third or whatever then it's most likely going to be a walk in the park so after we've done that we can then start to screw the motherboard into the case and I do generally prefer a magnetic tip screwdriver and out of my whole PC building experience this is one thing that I will strongly recommend is a magnetic tip screwdriver if you have a normal screwdriver and you drop screws man it can take some time it waste time so I highly recommend getting a magnetic tip screwdriver if you are installing PC components especially I mean yeah screwing things down anyway let's get back to the build here so after you've screwed down your motherboard and everything's all good you can then install your graphics card in the PCI Express slot that's if you're using a dedicated graphics card and then after that you can install the solder drives in the solder drive bays to the side there as well as the DVD drive if you are going to install a DVD drive after that you can then install your power supply and get all your cables ready and start to route things up though I generally like to install my solder cables first before the power supply cables and I like to install the front input output connectors as well before I do power supply cables as the power supply cables are the absolute last thing that I do as well as cable management because with cable management I generally like to zip-tie everything off and after that I don't want to come back to it ever again so as you can see here this is actually a non modular power supply that we used here it's a 650 watt and there was a lot of spare cables the fact that it fitted in this case was actually a testament to the Animax I vector and how much room they do give you here at the back for cable management so here you can see here this is the final step in the build once you've got everything ready you've got all your drive bays installed you can then start routing your cables and generally making everything clean making sure any all the air flow will not be obstructed so after cable management we can then start to put the side panels back on and get everything ready for our first boot that's all those juicy peripheral so once we've done that we can connect all the devices that we need to connect and get it ready for its first boot and as you can see here it's booting up perfectly fine we can then go into the BIOS and get things ready for our first boot so now it's in time to install the OS and I want you guys to get a program called ume that's if you're going to make a USB bootable pendrive and I'll put the link in the description below for it but once we've done this we can get our ISO ready on the desktop right next to you me open up you me and then put our pendrive into the computer and then you me will recognize it and I do recommend formatting it to a fat32 partition if you can it will make life a lot easier but once we've got all that ready we can then select the ISO which is right on the desktop here and then we can click Next and with just a few clicks you me will get a a USB bootable pendrive ready so this program saves a lot of time it's a great program for making USB bootable pendrive so let's get on to the next step and that's to insert your pet USB pendrive into the fresh computer and then press the power button and then repeatedly press f8 until you get that boot menu up and once you get that boot menu up you can then select the USB pendrive from the drop-down options so as we can see here it's appeared here that would be my io data USB pendrive and then you'll see the u me come up here the u me multi boot USB UI you can then select your instable ISO there from the windows 7 8 option and then you can click install windows 8 as we can see here it's recommend it's recognized it and we're good to go so after this step after you've installed Windows 8 on your desktop you can then start to tune your OS and get it ready to your liking and at this stage I do recommend especially if it's your first computer running your components in for a good week just to make sure none of the default settings are causing any problems or you don't have any hardware malfunctions so after our hardware's all good and everything's good and we've customized our OS we can then move on to the next stage and that is overclocking and finding all the settings right for you now if you're building this exact computer feel free to copy my settings and I will put them in the description below all the settings that I've used today in this video and I will be making a under-voltage guide as well for the Zeon so stay tuned for that though once everything is fully tuned we can then move on to the next stage and that is the benchmarks so here we are at the finished product and this is what I decided to call it tu a or the underappreciated as I believe it is just that it's underappreciated in today's market where everyone's off focusing on fancy fish cool tank PCs or they're off focusing on fancy water cooling pcs and I believe something like this is just simple doesn't cost a lot to build and is elegant doesn't get enough appreciation hence the name so something about this PC and something in regards to this case directly is that you can turn the LED lights and the fans off or you can just turn the fans on in silent mode with the LEDs off so I'll be doing a follow-up video showing you or telling you guys exactly what I did in terms of modding this case past just putting the parts in normally and also I'll be answering more questions for you guys in the comments in a follow-up video so if you have any questions about this rig or about the whole setup then put a comment in the comment section below and I'll be following up for you guys so let's move on now to some benchmarks where we can see how well this thing performs in games also productivity tasks and some synthetic benchmarks as well so all those figures you saw in the benchmarks this was attained with power consumption that was just a little bit over 300 watts absolutely fantastic efficiency there so this will mean that you'll be saving money on the power bill especially when you compare it to more power-hungry rigs so how do we get these power consumption figures on these low consumption figures we're using the b85 chipset that's another advantage of using that motherboard we've also got the Xeon under voltage to 0.99 volts also got the ddr3 under voltage so we've tweaked the settings and then we're using the GTX 970 which is one of the most efficient GPUs for the Watts out there so this just makes not only a great value for money build in terms of the end results it also makes a great build in terms of efficiency so if you guys like this build I put links in the description below for the US the UK and Australia as well so feel free to mix and match the components that you like and get the best build for you they keep in mind this thing will do a great job on saving power on the power bill it'll do a great job of giving you high end high gameplay footage at 1440p it also do a great job at workstation tasks if you're into editing videos or if you're into doing special effects or things like that so no I guess I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give it a thumbs up and if you haven't already subscribe to take your city where I'll be coming back to you guys today with some more tech videos video took me a long time to do and I was kind of just battling with some real tough illnesses over the last like month so anyway I'm back in the game make sure if you ask those questions if you have them because I'll be talking about this build a little bit more in depth and in another follow-up video so guys I'll catch you in another video bye