A Midrange AM5 Gaming Build in the Fractal Terra!

this is a mid-range A5 gaming belt in an absolutely gorgeous sfk so I'm going to show you how to put this one [Music] together welcome to machines more so we're doing another fractal terab today this one is the silver color we recently reviewed the gigabyte a620 ITX boort and ryzen 7600 in but we'll be leveling up the build slightly with the msib 650 ITX and the ryzen 7600 X this is sort of a silver SL White theme here and coupled with an Invidia Founders Edition 4070 this is a solid gaming build with still quite decent workstation performance let's get started all right to get started let's talk about the parts we're going to be using as we set up the motherboard first off this is the msib b650 ITX board good mid-range board for our build today I'm using an m.2 drive this is just a gen 3 one that I have lying around at this point you can probably go for Gen 4 One prices are pretty good and uh pick the storage amount that you need just remove the heat sink put that in okay make sure that it's insert it all the way screw it down and then we'll put this back on next we'll install the CPU for this build we're going to be going with the 7600 X if you have a little bit more in your budget you can go 7800 x3d which will work perfectly fine and with the cooling that we have today either one is fine if your budget is tighter go for this one if you have some more money to spend that one works perfectly fine as well you do have to be careful here after you open it you'll see those exposed pins carefully place the CPU down like this okay and sitting squarely in the frame we can push this down this top cover is going to pop up when we put it down and you just remove it like that 7800x 3D will be a little bit better especially if your needs are tending towards uh higher frame rates uh 1080p gaming but um for 1440p 7600 X and 7800x 3D especially with the GPU that we're going to be using that difference is going to be minimal I would just save the money there and if you really wanted to spend more get a better graphics card all right so we're going to be putting in the ram now we're going to open up these two slots here with the ram there is a long side short side here make sure the long side is oriented towards the top and we're going to press down all the way and you'll see the latch retract okay got to be firm if your system doesn't boot there's a good likelihood that it's because you didn't insert it fully now there's a debug light on this board so that can help you diagnose that up here but um if as long as you've pressed it in firmly should be fine so one thing we can do at this point is install our cooling hardware and so after you've removed the stock cooler brackets set them aside and we'll place these on here this is ID coolings is- 67 XT covered this one in a review not too long ago for the 7800x 3D Cooling this will be perfect for our build today it's got a white version so you got this nice white finish here am4 bracker will go on here just get the screw started this board does also feature a slot on the back for another m.2 if you think you might want to uh put to do it now since it is a sandwich style case it's a little bit better to put the one on the front because this one is going to be sandwiched against the center divider right now we can prep our case fan for the bottom uh this is just a Cooler Master ccle Flow fan just something I had lying around there are a number of good fans I can go here I'm choosing this one because it's white and I happen to have it and it is actually uh 25 mm so we're going to install a fan cage just to prevent the cables that are going to be over from intruding into that space it'll really make your life easier you don't have to worry about the cable cabling under the power supply as much with the fan Casas there's typically two sides so make sure you are installing it with the side uh the protruding side facing up so you don't actually impede the fan with the cage and you can just test that real quick by spinning it and as long as it doesn't rub you've done that correctly so we use standard fan screws to attach to the fan your case should come with four screws and a lot of fans will include four screws so you should have enough Hardware to mount both the cage and the fan if not you're going to need four additional fan screws got a good spin make sure it's unimpeded which we're fine here really don't need to be running this too fast um probably keeping it at 800 or so RPM and you'll still get a good amount of benefit out of it even if you can't hear it okay this is the Tera and silver big thanks to fractal for providing the case today I am just going to be removing all the case panels I've actually taken off the screws uh off of the case already to remove the panels on the Tera you just uh toggle this latch here and then you can take it off the hinges the top cover just slides off you just pull it this way where the loop is the leather Loop allows you to get a little bit of tug on it and then you just remove it what you're going to see is a case you've got you're going to have screws up here which I've removed um this controls the divider setting which don't worry about that just yet and I've also taken the two divider screws off of the bottom also taken three screws 1 two and three off the bottom and we're doing this right now just to get the fan in okay it's a little bit tricky getting the fan in if you don't take the case apart like that especially with a fan cage and so what we want to do is give ourselves the most amount of room possible and that's actually going to make the case a little bit loose so just make sure you do have everything uh properly set aside with the hardware so you can put it back together so just going to tilt the front panel up a little bit or we can take the front panel off just slide the fan in like that okay and so this will sit under the cage proberbly there's still a good small tiny sliver of a gap here which really wouldn't be possible to slide and you'll see the cage is touching the center divider it will close four fan screws will secure this fan one thing I should have mentioned earlier was that when you place the fan cage it should be on the exposed side of the fan that's going to be the intake side and it's going to exhaust out the bottom so you have the frame showing at the bottom usually with case fans the side with the frame on it is the exhaust side we got our fan cable here we'll set this aside we're going to manage it up here later on so at this point we can go ahead and put the front panel back on so at the bottom the screws one two and three those are the one that you remove and also reinstall to make sure they're firmly reinstalled next we're going to talk about the divider setting I'm doing this build with a thinner GPU this is the 4070 Founders Edition and this is a nice compact size but a very effective cooler which will help us keep the noise levels to a minimum while gaming one of the advantages of having a narrow cart in the system is that we can give ample clearance from the side panels as you may have seen if you've watched my fractal Terror review one of the strange Phenomenon with these fluted cut side panels is that you can get some strange turbulent noises uh just because of how the comp the fans the cooler fan and also the GPU fans in interact with this cutout if it's too close you might get some strange noise the compartments can be customized in this setup okay and with this case you can choose between seven different settings and that allows you to choose how much space you want to give each item with with the is 67 cooler and this particular GPU the position you want to set your case up is number one so to do that we want to just thread the screw in and you want to get it all the way over to the end you don't need to screw it down all the way cuz we're still adjusting and we'll go to the other end and do the same thing just make sure the screw is threaded in not cross threaded okay you don't have to tighten it down all the way yet cuz we still want everything to to flex into place same thing with the bottom and keep in mind this recommendation is based on the components I am building with so if you are using a different GPU you may need to give it more space just so it happens to be that this one the founders edition cards are the most compact so that really helps so once you've got your last screw in place and the divider is properly SL slid over we'll just we can tighten these down what you want to avoid is tightening it down all the way and the compartment divider still has to move into place in that that would not be good okay so we'll just screw it down here so this is locked in just give it a quick check should all be at the number one one and one okay so that'll make sure this case is square we're going to do a little bit of cable management first and uh then we can pop the board and after this it's really quick cuz we're going to do the hard part first which is the cables okay I've placed the board where it's going to go this is the mother's board side of the case we can go ahead and insert the Riser cable here at the top I haven't actually screwed down the motherboard yet just because we're going to be doing a little bit of cable management this is the fan cable for the case fan okay I'm going to do is I'm just going to Loop it up underneath this screw here that'll keep the cable from coming out for the case fan the header is Right Between the well the m.2 fan heat sink and also the ram kit we'll just go ahead and plug it in here it's a four pin cable header and that way we can kind of tuck it in nicely so it doesn't interfere with anything else up here all right we'll do some other front IO cables first because we want to cinch that up before I get the power supply in place this is the USBC header cable that's the rectangular one over here okay and we're going to manage it down here this is the usba a port cable for the front panel there's a little bit of a notch here on the motherboard and protrude uh a company connector I'll just line it up pop that in for the case the only front panel connector other than the USB is the power switch okay that's located right here and I'll try my best to get this St on camera correctly see that it's those two pins that you want to connect this to and then we can go ahead and Tuck this Cable in between the Riser and the fan it'll slot in there if everything looks fine I would go ahead and attach the motherboard at this point to do that you'll just use the 4 632 screws for corners of the Mini ITX board with the motherboard in position one the connectors aren't too difficult to access so that is one of the pluses of having so much room on the motherboard sign up otherwise the CPU power connector might be a little bit difficult to get to but this is uh the way to go we're going to need three cables from the power supply cable set the first one is our 24 pin ATX cable a 24 pin ATX cable you can go ahead and insert that right now to make sure the latch fa is out insert that all the way in next one you'll need is the EPS cable this this the CPU power we only need two ends uh this is a special one if your motherboard has two sets but this one we just need one we only have a single set on our motherboard and that connector is down here so just make sure the latches face out this is where the CPU EPS cables go just make sure that's inserted and then for the cable run I like to go this way and we'll make sure we start running it up this way all right and the last cable we're going to need is the PC power cable but we're not going to you know that doesn't go on the motherboard that goes on the graphics card so we'll just set that aside you can even just um kind of pre arrange it at this point it's just going to Loop over the power supply area so for the front panel connector cable the power switch and also for the USB I like to put those on the inside of the 24 pin connector cable so just make sure that they're here you can go either way but I feel like this is a little bit easier to manage against the cage and we're going to go ahead and cinch those down right now to the to the center divider so I just put two zip ties here just want to get it in place this is just a channel for this to run the access cable which you probably will have some you can tuck into the side right here like this for now at this point we've run the cable from the motherboard for the 24 pin and the EPS cable we can go ahead and prep our power supply and that'll help us finalize out the cable run power supply cage is pretty simple we're just going to take for the power supply screws and attach the cage to the power supply this is a modular power sply so we're going to connect our cables to it once it's in place one thing I did do which is very helpful for this flow through GP GPU cooler that we have here is you want to put in the standoff so these are the short sh ones that comes with the fractal Tera kit and this just you just thread this into the two holes here and just tighten it down and this allows the power supply to not be flushed to the center divider that'll give the flowr side of the GPU cooler uh because this guy here This Will Blow hot air out so this is right up against the power supply it won't exhaust well so you want to give at least a little bit of clearance here you don't need to use the uh ful length one so the case comes with two sets of spacers or standoffs you can use the longer ones I've notice that makes the power supply wobble a lot more there's just more leverage there the shorter ones work perfectly fine either is okay uh if you want to get a little bit more breathing room that's uh perfectly fine let's start the attachment of the power supply so the power supply is going to attach here but before we do that and just I you know if you haven't built one of these just familiarize yourself with where it's going to go because later on it'll save you a little bit of Agony trying to find where it's supposed to go this is how it'll Mount up right here okay it's going to line up to this hole and this hole but uh since this is a modular power supply what I want to do is just connect up the these cables first okay so the 24 pin cable it's telling you that you got to go this one here and this one here so that's your motherboard and for the CPU EPS cable you could do any one of these at the bottom so I'm just going to go all the way over here okay and then last the pcie cable we will put in here that's how it should look like you can choose any of these other two ones if you find that more convenient for your cable run what I've done here is I've put the pcie for the GPU power underneath the cage here we're going to snake that around like this cuz if we have that clearance we're going to use that clearance it doesn't have to be perfect yet we'll just uh slowly work that together but now what we'll do is just hold that in place and then we can attach it run the zip tie here and cinch that up over here and before you lock it in one thing that can help at this point is just to plug this in the lanly power supplies have this really strange connector and just because how this is positioned a little bit more inflexible so you do want to make sure that you can get it in place here so plugging it in first absolutely helps and so we want to make sure is the PCI cable if you've run it through the back like I have is between the standoffs ATX cable I zip tied it here already just to give it a little bit of a security there optional it's not really going anywhere once you have the power supply in okay so that's all tight now power suppli is in the 24 pin cable we have managed here up against the center frame EPS cable usually will just sit down here and run across the length the front little recess here you can secure this down here if you want I that's probably unnecessary you have the zip ties going through the bottom like that could but there's not a real need to okay make sure this is plugged in at this point just make sure it's powered on there's no reason to keep it off right now and the PCI power cable we're going to loop around the back like this here one thing you can do now is we're going to get ready for our cooler and it will really help to plug the CPU fan power cable uh fan Cable in right now as opposed to having a hunt for it when the heat sink is in place with this board it's the inside one here so right now you can still access that just make sure you can put that in place and we can put our heat sink on right now this cooler does come with tup athermal paste so you can just apply a little dot in the middle here like that and that should spread quite evenly this is not a very large heat spreader here do the cable this way and have it sit underneath the I cables from earlier okay have a we can tuck that in nicely like that and then we just line the heat sink up with those posts from earlier that with the hardware we installed at the beginning when we pre the board and once you can visually check that they're engaged okay we'll just start tightening it down one by one bit by bit just evenly tighten it down until it is completely tight right so that it's plugged in already can just manage the cable into this recess here and gives a quick check make sure it's firmly in place and now let's put the graphics card in for the 4070 fers Edition it comes with an adapter cable which we will use with this power supply because it doesn't have the 12v hpw connector if you have a power spy that has 12v HP connector you can just use that directly to your card assuming there's clearance for that connector and so we'll just insert two of those eight pin cables in from here we can do at this point before we put the card in is manage the cable down to the uh this part here to do that you can just sneak it in there if you want and then come out with it you can also use this which is for an SSD here but it happens to be here so it's be pretty convenient just to use that right here and this is assuming you're not using that SSD spot right that stays right there okay that's kind of a natural spot you can also use a zip tie here this is a little bit more flexible if you find that you need to reposition the cable this case does have the provision for you to take out the cart hanger so this assembly comes out right here two screws and then a screw on the outside here and that'll remove the hanging bracket but I find that you don't really need to do it that way what you can do is just slot this in right like this and this is a smaller card that's what you can do that this will also work if you have like a 4070 super Founders Edition 4060 TI all good cards I'll just pop that in like that and the one thing you do have to do is just secure the card's hanger right here and know sorry weird angle just with the thumb screw and and with this card this is totally recommended to do this way because it's fast and it's quick to do it this way okay now if you have a bigger card something a little bit more unwieldy then yeah definitely uh take the bracket out to do it and you see we are close to the power supply but there's still space here we offset it that's why we did that if this were closer that would really choke off that section some extra amount would help but the thermals I've already tested uh this buildt before before redoing it here thermals are perfectly sufficient like this there's not a big reason to have to make this any more wobbly so now we'll just take our 12v hpw power connector and attach that to the card and that is it the uh build is complete at this point if you are feeling a little bit uncertain about what you've done then give it a quick once over just make sure the cables are plugged in and then the screws are tightened down there's really not too much to it we can go ahead and close it up so with this setting here we've given the card here approximately let's double check here it's approximately 7 mm of spacing away from the side panel which for this card I've tested it already it's perfectly sufficient uh you won't get any odd noises and I'll show you shortly some sound samples and with the our CPU Cooler is a 15 mm offset which this tends to be a little bit more sensitive to the fluted cuts on the side panel so this is the really the one that you need to uh give a little bit more space to so 15 mm here and 7 mm here some of you may want to or or feel like you can because you have the space put a 25mm fan here I would advise against that just because it'll bring the assembly too close to the S panel and uh based on The Thermals you'll see there may not be a huge reason to do that the 7600 X is actually suitably cooled with this fan here and especially we've got the exhaust fan on the bottom and that will help out because the exhausting out the bottom encourages air to flow in through the side panel to make up for that so this is a very competent build and what I did was set the exhaust fan at 800 RPM and that way the noise contribution is minimal while it still contributes a lot to the performance first check here on a blender render at stock CPU settings 92° which is still below the thron temp CPU fan is running at Max which is 2200 RPM here and we are seeing 5.25 GHz on all cores which is fairly decent with these uh small air cooler and now what I always advise doing is to see if you can optimize pbl a little bit this particular CPU can run at a minus 25 curve Optimizer offset and when you max out the Boost ceiling we can now run close to 5.4 GHz while running cooler at only 83° and that way the fan speeds drop down 1975 RPM and it's not particularly loud the 7600 X is comparable to the previous gen 5800 a in terms of multi-core performance so while you only have six cores here it's a very decent performer if your focus isn't heavy multie stuff all the time gaming Temps at stock are great CP fan is 1500 RPM here CPU stays cool at 60 de GPU at 1800 rbn and 72° curve Optimizer does have less of an impact on the CPU clocks for gaming it's already running at 5.45 GHz for single core boost at stock and with curve Optimizer The Thermals are roughly the same but at a slightly lower fan speed you can go up to 5.5 GHz so I recorded a few acoustic samples for reference here as mentioned during the build tutorial the spacing that we've given both coolers it reduces the turbulent noise that you might get when they are too close to the fluid side panel so what you here is pretty much what you get I think a combo like this for gaming is worth the strengths of the tarot line so you pick a suitable mid-range CPU like the 7600 I or 7600 with a good 67 mm cooler like the is- 67 that we've used here and a founder Edition car like a 4070 47 in super 4060 TI or at least a current that can exhaust out the rear of the case somewhat that way both can run quietly without influencing each other and the spacing that we've given for both component coolers you know that balance things out pretty perfectly so I would be happy to run this as my everyday machine if you are interested check out the links down below please give a like And subscribe if you enjoyed this and found it helpful thanks for watching today [Music]

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Id: ZQA3ywIHess

Length: 30min 4sec (1804 seconds)

Published: Wed May 01 2024