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The $800 AMVIDIA Mini ITX Gaming PC

2017-08-18
so I recently finished reviewing the Rison 3 1200 and 1300 X and they are great DB use if you want to overclock them and today we have a mini ITX build that one cost too much more than a regular build especially a cookie-cutter build and of course you get that small form-factor awesome performance and I've even thrown in some extra options if you want to save even more cash happy days welcome back to tech yes cities is brand coming to you guys today with a mini ITX build and we're using the Ragin tech Metis which is a $63 all aluminium constructed case it actually includes a fan 2 very small very easy to work with though it does have a few caveats and we will talk about that a little bit later after we did some benchmarking and temperature tests though as for the other parts we've got 8 gigabytes of RAM from crucial this is their new 3200 brand and it cost around $100 though the good thing with Verizon is the 32 hundred megahertz XMP profiles works perfectly on both boards that I've tested here so if you want to get the most performance out of your eyes and chips then this memory is certainly recommended those for the graphics card we've gone with the GTX 1060 mini this is a three gigabyte edition they're actually coming back into stock and the prices aren't too ridiculous the one that I've got here cost around about 225 USD so if you do want to save some money of course you can it go with the gtx 750ti a same mini edition this will set you back around about a hundred and forty five dollars so if you don't need to promise out of the ten sixty then you can save a bit of money and go with that temper TTI though as for the cpu I just recently reviewed this this is the risin 312 hundred one hundred and nine dollars includes the cooler and the great thing is you can overclock these pretty high even in this mini ITX build today with restricted airflow I managed to get it up to 3.9 gigahertz which at these speeds it performs phenomenally well as we'll see pretty soon though for the Mini ITX motherboard on the rise in series we go with the big 350 fatality from asrock great motherboard for the money comes in a 115 dollars you get included Wi-Fi as well which is why I went with this board over the Biostar and of course the as rock bass is very easy to work with it's very easy to overclock with and I'll be doing my overclocking tutorial with this motherboard and then for the storage we're going with an MX 300 from crucial this is a 575 gigabyte model coming around about 150 USD so if you do want to save money and you're on a strict budget then you can get a one terabyte 7200 rpm small 2.5 inch hard disk drive for around about 56 dollars so it's up to you I have put in some options in the description if you want to save some money and then for the last component in this bill we're going with a EVGA power supply for $30 we'll have ample amount of power to power the GTX 1060 and of course the Rison 3 1200 went both the overclocked and with that it is a full sized ATX power supply however the case we're using today allows you to fit in a full sized ATX power supply and still have ample room to work with and what was that said let's take a look at how this thing performs and now with the CPU I managed to get it up as I said before to 3.9 Giga on the core the graphics card I also managed to squeeze out an extra hundred mega that's on the core and about 350 megahertz on the memory so with that said roll those benchmarks so first things first with those benchmarks you can see that this thing performs phenomenally well that's because they overclocked my gear and I know I stress this a lot but seriously guys start overclocking your stuff the performance gains are huge and you paid nothing for those performance gains they're absolutely free and with that we saw dota 2 I was playing a very heavy intense multiplayer match absolutely no dips below 100 FPS at all times even in big battles I was really surprised great if you don't want any choking while you're trying to get those clutch plays and then of course f1 2016 again over 100 FPS though did dip down to the minimum of 80 FPS but at all times it was ridiculously smooth and then fallout 4 I did break the vsync limit on this and of course we're over a hundred FPS at all times 1080p high settings csgo again over 200 FPS great for those clutch plays if you want high smooth fps and the last game we tested pub G of course very popular title people want to play this game all the time one of the fastest growing games and it hasn't even been officially released yet we were getting over 50 FPS at all times have a one thing to remember with pub gear one thing that I've actually noticed after doing a lot of testing on it is it does depend on the server you're on if you're on a bad server then you will get some really bad spikes and this isn't the fault of your own hardware it's actually the fault of the person hosting the server or the company hosting the server now it's time to talk a little bit more about the hardware itself usually in the past if you go with the Mini ITX build you usually end up paying a premium especially over cookie-cutter build over in this case or like all pun intended the region tech Metis isn't that expensive $63 case and it allows you to use a full sized ATX case and of course the graphics cards the minis are usually the cheapest option and of course it's got ample room for a decent sized cooler I believe up to 160 millimeters though the rapes self that's included with the rise of three is plenty enough however with all the good parts aside I mean this case was very easy to work with ample room to install things it wasn't a problem at all some of the problems with this build however is the air flow in this case the included side panel actually had to switch sides because it blocked airflow so much and you may want to do this you may even want to take off that clear side panel if you want the best airflow possible however I do notice a problem with temperatures and that's why in my review I reviewed rising 3 at 4 gigahertz but in this case I had to down clock it to 3.9 gigas with 40 millivolts less otherwise it was just getting too hot to handle the machine would switch off also another problem with the region tech medicines the feet included now I've only traveled with this case once I brought it from Japan to Australia and I've already lost the foot on the bottom I've actually had to go on superglue the one of the feet on the corners in the middle so now it's got three feet so if you want to travel with this case you may want to rethink your options and get a different case that's a little bit more sturdier especially when it comes to the included feet however those two negatives aside it is actually a really good case for the money it's got an all-metal construction includes a fan and it's also very easy to work with so I can recommend it just don't go putting in too heavy hardware in there like an ache or Rison for example and a gtx 1070 mini i think you'll have too much of a heat problem on your hands or on your desk and of course the last thing to talk about with this build is it came to around $800 with the 1060 and also the SSD however I did manage to drop it down to around about 580 dollars if you wish to use cheaper memory a gtx 750ti and also not an SSD go with the one terabyte hard drive so I have put some options in there for you guys go check it out in the description below but with current cryptocurrency mining prices sending graphics cards to insane levels ddr4 memory being overpriced it's actually not a bad time to build if you get the three gigabyte 1060 as I believe they're being phased out in terms of popularity for minors and also things like the Rison 3 the SSDs and hard drives are bringing decent value to the table so you've just got to pick and choose your parts but you can still build a decent PC as of now it's just I think there's a six gigabyte 10 60 s and also the 8 gigabyte 10 70s will be pretty popular for quite some time due to their veer and buffers popularity for cryptocurrency mining unfortunately any guys that's it for today I hope you enjoyed today's and any ITX verizon building if you did then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comment section below would there be anything that you would swap around love rating your comments as always and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye and I'm never going to break around you it's like everything stops going by old morning I've been doing some testing all morning nothing and when I go to hit that record button it's like Boop wormy I'm flagging it a break ok welcome back
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