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- I know you guys love the use price performance, and over the last couple of months I have been picking up some of the best deals, because I wanted to do a feature piece. And right here, we've got the best of the best, going into a brand-new case. Now, I couldn't find a really good case over the last couple of months, that represented good value, and have the RGB Blink. So, on eBay sale, I got this V200, just four fans included, and as a power supply, which we will be pulling out, and it's not a bad power supply either, and then we going to be putting in a 850 watt power supply. So we got that for $100 AUD, which is like $70 USD. So I'm extracting a lot of the value out of that. We got the SOC Force Motherboard here Z87. This is one of the best overclocking boards. I picked this up in a liquidations sales. If you haven't seen that video, I'll put it up here. We've got this for $80 AUD, which it makes it so damn cheap. Then we got the GTX980 G1. Got this for $180 AUD. And then we got a 477OKA, in last month's pot hunts, for $90 AUD. Then we got this here, $30 Aussie Dollars, to this water cooler. It did include the bracket too, so I am lucky. But I don't know if some of this stuff work. So we are going to give this graphics card some tech loving. This cooler, some loving as well. And this power supply. And we going to delete this CPU. And then, put it together before we put it in the build, and see if everything turns on. See if we good to go. But, besides that, we've also got some Dominator DDR3 Memory. Now, picked this up off an old-school overclocker from Team AU. They sold it to me directly for $100 AUD the four sticks. Now, usually that's not a really good deal for DDR3 Memory, but since it is a Corsair Dominator from much the best DDR3 Memory you can get, I do consider that pretty good. So basically, we're going to be overclocking. this build today to Kingdom Come. And for drives, I've got a brand new 240 GB SSD. I picked this up for $39 AUD on a sale, and a 2 terabyte, which I got prorated from four 2TB drives, which I picked up for a $100 noisy dollars. So that makes it 25. So the total is build will come to $487 US dollars, or if in stress $684 AUD. So it's under the $500 price point, which is a magical number. So today's build is not only going to represent awesome price performance, but it's also going to be something that will look good and overclock like a monster with really good parts inside. With that said, let's start cleaning these parts and put this thing together. (upbeat tempo music) (dubstep music) - So I'm cleaning off this Graphics Card, and there was so much thermal paste on this GTX 980. So someone was clearly having a lot of fun with that thermal paste, but that wasn't to worry because I had a lot of fun with the brake cleaner. But also, another thing we saw this GPU has the thermal paste hard and crusty and that will affect performance. Which could be the reason why this particular person let this card go cheap, because they thought the performance is low or great to a new card. It's nice and quiet. But that's not to worry this thing will run even better that brand-new because we're gonna put the better thermal paste on it right now. (dubstep music) - So all the parts are pretty much ready to go except for one more thing, and that is a delete on this 477OK. Now, the reason it's being is that the thermal paste is mediocre, but it's actually a few years-old now. So the thermal paste is probably dried-up, and we want to get the best overclocks possible. So let's get that underway (dubstep music) - So we had some boot problems before. But, it looks like we're just going to update the Bios as it's working with this one random stick of hynix. So, sometimes your memory is not compatible with initial rounds of Bios, especially it's my little, just pretty much brand-new and box. So, after we update that, everything should be ready for a trial run. It should be ready for the install. (dubstep music) - So basically the problem with this motherboard is the Altitude Dims won't support the Corsair Dominator Memory. I've tried the two Dims in the second slot here, and they work fine or for Dims do with them switched out. So, gigabyte Bios. What are you doing? This is the latest Bios as well. This is why there is a lot of frustration around these old school gigabyte boards and overclocking. But, we got some of this stuff here. I picked this up. I actually got 64 gigabytes of this stuff, for $200 noisy dollars. So, I'm going to do 16 gigabytes in just dual channel instead of having it in the quad channel. But that's not a problem, because, we're going to drop the price down to the build, but I did really wanted to use this Dominator Memory. (dubstep music) - So we now got the build finished, up and running, and it is looking so good. And we're just installing Windows and today's video sponsor, SCD Keys. If you guys haven't got a Windows 10 Key Pro License already, and they've got legit single end-user licenses going for as little as $13 dollars of pop. So if you need one of these and got a brand-new build, and instead of going out paying hundreds for a Key, you get one of these today. Delivered pretty much instantly for $13 box using the coupon code TYCSK on. Check out links in the description below. Let's get back to this build. (dubstep music) - So I've spent all last night with this thing, tuning it, pulling my hair out, having a hard time to getting it to run a hundred percent. Now, along the way there were some problems. And the first of all, the two stick of memory that I put in, I believe, one of them is actually faulty because we changed that around. Then everything started working okay. But then we came into other problems with a 4.6 gigahertz overclock wasn't a hundred percent stable. So we dropped that down to 4.4 just to get the testing done. And then I decided to test a 388 drivers, which is what Windows will automatically install if you don't do anything and don't download the latest drivers and compare that against the four to five drivers which were the latest on invidious site. And, here we did see improvements in performance at 1080P high settings, on all three titles that I tested: Metro Exodus, Anthem and also Apex Legends. Metro and Apex did see a sizable boost going from 70 average and 84 average. And also it felt smoother in general. But that's because it got such a big lift in FPS. Apex went from 65 to 78. But Anthem didn't increased that much at all. In fact, it only increased about four FPS, from 52 to 56. So that was pretty weird to see. Especially since the drivers, the 3/8 drivers is very old. So there's not a whole to of optimization going on in Anthem I believe for the GTX 9 series cards, but after ironing out all these bugs the gaming performance was pretty good. It ended-up being smooth. The whole system power draw, ended-up using 420 watts peak, and when we're doing an eye to 64 and testing the whole system, 3D mark fire strike, showed us getting GPU score close to 16,000 points, and then also the physics score was over 12,000 on the 477OK. However, here's where things get a little bit iffy, a little bit messy. This case that we used, the V200. Although it looks nice. It's got the good bling. It's got everything you'd want for budget case on the surface, the three fans at the front just completely suck. Like I was holding a little piece of paper in front of it, and you see there is just no air flow coming into this thing. So when we left the glass side panel on during Metro Exodus, the temperatures were literally 11 degrees higher on both the CPU and the GPU, and it's got a temperature increase just stupid because the ambience in here, although there are around 27 degrees, if things get hotter in summer, that's the difference between your system running too hot for longevity purposes, and just running cool and actually getting better performance. Cuz' your system can crash if your it gets overloaded with heat, especially when we're using over 400 watts with this system when it's overclocked. So basically with this thermal take V200 case, it's okay if you have a low power build, say for instance, you're using like 1060 or 1050 TI, and just an I5 or a Ryzen, and you're not overclocking, but you if you're going to overclock you CPU and get some serious hardware in this thing, I definitely recommend getting a different case or changing around the fans of the front, and installing a better outtake fan. In this case, we did use the corsair water cool, the 120 ml solution. But that was a bit weird because I had to replace the fans since I had broken fin on it. But after the case, the motherboard did present some problems as we saw earlier with those Corsair Dominator RAM sticks. I really wanted to use these things. I thought it would've been awesome to have pretty much everything in this build high-end but that just didn't work out. So it was like the case was problematic. The RAM was problematic. We have two counts of problems there. The motherboard was problematic, and then, the fourth thing which is sort of, unknown at this stage. I would have to do a lot more testing, is I do believe the power supply, this 850 watts power supply from Silverstone, does have high amounts of ripple because the overclocking did feel unstable. And this is one of those things where if even one of your components in your build is lack luster, then, it can bring everything else down. Because when I went to check out some detailed reviews on this power supply, did show a high amounts of ripple, but having good ratings I guess, with the max power draw and the amps on the 12-volt line. But there's a lot more to it than just those two specs and ripple is a huge factor if you guys want to get better and more long-lasting stable overclocks, out of your gear. So what happened here today was me getting a lot of really good parts individually, and really good deals, but then throwing something together, that ended-up honestly being a massive headache. Sure, I got it running now, but it's still not at the levels of overclocks that I'd like. For instance,s the 477OK with a better power supple and also, in a better case, I'm sure we've remained stable at 4.6 gigahertz. And also that G1 gaming that went just above 1.5 gigahertz. But I believe you can get these up to 1.55, 1.6 gigahertz stable in the right conditions. So there all is with this build and what happened today was the best and also the worst experience. Got the best deals but had the worst experience putting this thing together and getting it to run smoothly. And I think, this is where those problems start to creep in, to people who want to get into used price performance and use PCs. Especially re flipping is especially if you're going for enthusiasts parts, you do have to be careful because you can run into these problems. And if you don't have the spare hardware to chop and change things then you're not going to know exactly what could be faulty and it can take a lot of time. For instance, for me I've been doing this for years and it still consumes a lot of time when I go to diagnose problems, change parts, and then, even then, it's not guaranteed to work a hundred percent. You can still come into on-going problems. So that is sort of the risk you run. I believe if you want to start out with used PC hustling, definitely get into the EOM stuff find EOM builds that works, you're going have not problems when it comes to know overclocking. When it comes to overclocking, you will come into problems sooner or later, just like I did here just today and it does take up a lot of your time. Well you guys, I hope you enjoyed today's video. If you did make sure to hit that like button. Let us know in the comments section below, however what you think of the GTX 980, and also the 477OK in 2019. They're definitely good parts for 1080p gaming in my opinion. And they're worth keeping an eye out for it if you want to get into gaming or you want to get a nice build together, because these two parts are probably the best parts in today's build. With that said, I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon. And also, if you want a cheap Windows 10 Single end-user License, the check out today's video Sponsor SCD Keys. 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