Santa builds a secret PC

today we're going to build a computer we've never done that [Music] before the lean Lee o1d Evo XL builds upon the legendary1 dynamic by now including a modular design with support up to 3420 mm radiators removable and adjustable motherboard tray removable front pillar for an unobstructed View and reversible frame for left or right orientation the l1d Evo XL is truly a one-size fits-all PC solution to see the full list of modu features and specs follow the sponsored Link in the description below so the fun thing about so the fun thing about running a YouTube channel about building computers is we have a lot of friends that believe it or not don't have computers or they want to get gaming computers for their kids or it's their first time so I really get to be kind of like the introducer if you will to someone's first gaming build and that's exactly what this is going to be so I'm not saying who it's for or what parent or anything but I can tell you right now someone's getting a nice Christmas gift um and this conversation really started initially with like hey we want to buy a computer so what computer Builder should we go with I will always offer to do this because I can provide them way more for like their budget than they would ever have gotten in terms of going out into the wild um that's not to say there's bad SI options out there there's plenty of Si options however it's fun and educational to be able to kind of build it for them and present it and even be there to help them support it or fix it if something goes wrong so anyway Parts ration now we got a lot to talk about here the NZXT H6 flow RGB I said I was going to do a build in this case and so this is the build I had in mind for this chassis the thing about the case though is it's just a box it's just a box to put your parts in and very rarely is that box going to have a negative impact on your system unless you have very high-end high heat components that this box can't exchange the Heat or air fast enough to keep the components uh the components cool so keep that in mind when you're shopping for a case this is about $130 case not exactly what we would consider a budget case but uh the whole premise of this build the whole purpose of even doing this video is not just to be like look we're putting Parts together and here's what the end product looks like it's the rationale between choosing certain parts for cost to benefit analysis wow big words I sound super smart it's the point that this particular build can grow and we've talked about this a million times there there's a lot of options out there some are dead end some are the beginning of a new gener generation some are mid generation so I wanted this build to be able to expand and grow without anything within it being like a hardcore limitation keeping you from being able to move forward so the CPU I chose is actually the 13600 K the 136k is an amazing mid-range overclockable gaming CPU it takes advantage of Intel's ecore pcore stuff which technically 12th gen has as well however this motherboard which is the tough gaming z690 plus Wi-Fi D4 is a ddr4 motherboard now this motherboard will support all the way up to 14th gen I9 so we're talking 14900 K on ddr4 well why we choose ddr4 this particular system is going to be used for nothing but gaming okay nothing but gaming at all so ddr5 although not super expensive these days the price has really sort of dropped on DDR uh 5 since it's launched a few years back um is not going to give us any sort of performance uplift that that's tangible for the cost now this particular this particular Ram kit right here this is the crucial ballistic ballistics gaming 3,000 MHz nothing super fast nothing crazy at all it's 16 GB it's also $40 so you can even get 32 gigabyte kits for about 60 bucks if you shop around there's nothing special about it in a sense that there's no RGB it's got heat spreaders on it it's just nice black dims um and the fact that this is going to be plenty of RAM for the particular use case that we're using so there it is right there it just got this kind of a mill speec look to it just matte black heat sinks not the fastest like I said it's only 3,000 MHz but it's plenty fast for our build and the nice thing is if we want it to upgrade to faster Ram ddr4 is available all the way up to 5,000 plus MHz which is at the time when I had those dims were $900 a dim not the case anymore you could get you know 3,800 4, 4200 now for like 60 70 bucks so a nice mid-range in terms of middle of the road not too expensive but not holding the system back type of build uh you might be asking yourself well Jay why didn't you go with AMD okay a couple reasons one if I went with 7,000 series AMD which we know is am5 it requires ddr5 so that the CPU I was looking at actually was the 7600 X which is about the same price as a 13600 K the 13600 K you can find for about 250 bucks uh even cheaper in some places Amazon is about 250 still has a little bit of price volatility to it if you go with the KF it's even cheaper um 7600 X does not have an igpu so I I like using a CPU that has an igpu where possible because of the fact that it's a good troubleshooting tool if you're having problems with your graphics or you know if you need to do testing with no GPU in or for whatever reason it's just nice to have an igpu not to mention a lot of programs are starting to utilize igpus for background tasks or asynchronous compute um where it's rare but it's still an option that's there 13 600k uh like I said it's Middle Road on the ecore pcore stuff so 12 gen where it got introduced 13th gen's IPC was significantly better than 12th gen but it doesn't carry the cost premium of 14th gen which we all know is just rebranded 13th gen so 13600 K it was oh the downside too like I already said am5 requires ddr5 this being a a a a kid's first gaming build I didn't want to deal with the constant memory retraining that am MD is known to do I didn't want them to think something's wrong with their system as they turn it on and it's code 15 and it's sitting there for 2 minutes once trying to decide and retrain memory so I just wanted something that was going to be stable and solid and post every single time uh and for storage this is just a P3 1 TB NVM SSD does not have uh a whole lot of cost associated with it because it's a PCI gen uh 3 device technically so it's only 3500 megabytes a second I like how I say only only 3500 megabytes a second but again a gaming rig so we don't need anything super crazy 1 tab's plenty for now I had thought about going with a SATA SSD for a while there SATA ssds were very inexpensive Believe It or Not SATA ssd's prices are climbing because as they become the dinosaur and The Relic that's not that common finding them for people that need them for raate arays and stuff drives the prices up so it's actually cheaper to go with like a gen 3 nvme that it is to go with a 1 tbyte SATA so anyway just putting that out there not to mention it's nice not to have SATA cables and SATA power cables having to run to the drive it's just on the motherboard and ready to go main components uh Graphics this is going to always be the the most expensive portion of a gaming build when it comes to a single component I chose our gForce RTX 360 TI EVGA graphics card this has actually never been opened I don't even think they're going they realize what how special getting an EVGA graphics card is these days um never even been open so this is the for the win 3 ult so it's a triple fan and it's the revised version which it does not have the red clown lips on it it has the black trim on the back so it's not going to look stupid but it's nothing super frilly it doesn't have RGB on it as you can as you notice we're not going with a crazy RGB them themed build here as I say next to the stack of RGB product right here but that's fine let me get there um it's just a nice decent I'm going to say mid-range card people will probably get mad hearing 3060 TI is a mid-range but it really is cuz the only thing below it would be 3060 and 3050 so really it is mid-range we're not going 3080 we're not going 3090 we're not going 4060 or up because they don't have the budget the budget's just not there for that so the 360 TI is going to give us plenty of gaming performance at I'm assuming probably a 1080p panel maybe even a 1440 we haven't even discussed panels yet that's going to be a different discussion on the side for them cuz I'm not going to let them hook this up to a TV or something like that this is going to at least get a 1080p 120 HZ panel or greater I'm going to like really force that to be the case now our cooler as you can oh before we talk about cooling this is the NZXT c850 gold digital power supply believe it or not I don't have a lot of lower wattage power supplies what do you mean 850 Watts low it is low by today's standards in terms of th000 Watts 1,00 watts and up being necessary for 490s and i9s and all that sort of stuff but it's bigger than what we need and the reason why I scaled this up larger than what we need because we really could use like a 650 watt for this build is again the expandability aspect of it I've talked about this in previous power supply videos often people will get a power supply that's just barely enough for what they've currently got in their system and then when they go to upgrade later they find out their limiting factor is the power supply so we don't want that to be the case 850 watts would be good enough all the way up to like a 4 4080 if they ever went that route so it's it's a good gold rated power supply that's going to get the job done doesn't break the bank it's got modular uh connectors on it all the cables are black no ketchup and mustard it's just going to nice and stealth within the build um and then the cooler this is the dark Rock Pro 5 it's a new cooler um from be quiet nothing super crazy in terms of needs for cooling this particular CPU uh but because it is a k skew and we do have a Z series motherboard if we want to do any sort of overclocking or maybe uplift the all core Ratio or whatever we can because we'll have plenty of air cooling uh to to go with it this is a push poool twin tower cooler so it's got a fan in the center of the cooler and it's got a fan pushing on one side so it's got six or seven heat pipes on this I can't remember um I'll take a look when when I go to install it and then you'll notice I've got the be quiet light Wings 140s if you recall the H6 flow has two 140 intake uh on the bottom and we're going to be putting 2 140s on the top as exhaust I chose not to go with an AO I actually had an AIO on the table I took it off the table and went with the air cooler because of the fact that I want ultimate reliability the only moving part in this thing is is the fans and those be quiet fans will last a very long time because be quiet fans as you know are very good when it comes to their overall build quality the bearing types um the bearings are nice and sealed you're not going to get dust in there wearing them down and uh obviously this cooler as anyway on the box I haven't tested this cooler is capable of up to 270 watt TDP 13600 K is not going to pull that much wattage we're not going to allow it to pull that much wattage so it should be more than enough for our cooling needs I've got got a single 120 light Wings right there only because I want to replace the fan that's on here with a a RGB fan to match the other case fans now the three case fans that are on the H6 flow already that are RGB my OCD is going to go a little crazy because they're not going to match these fans however I'm not going to put three more light Wings fans in there for the sake of making them match we're going to keep the the three fans that are already pre-mounted on this case on the side front angled panel um because one they perform really well they don't make hard any noise we already did the smoke flow test with it so my OCD is going to be bothered a little bit but it's not my build so once it's out of sight that'll be out of mind but it's still going to look good with oh and then this right here this is the XMS JJs iy made in China it's a six-way splitter for RGB and fans so I can hook the B quiet fans up to this this will have one connector going to the motherboard and one connector going to um the pwm signal for the CP or whatever so our fans can ramp up slow speed up and slow down with pwm and then because we do have these um fans although they are Daisy chainable I really don't want to daisy chain them because it just gets to be a big mess I'm just going to run all the wires to here on the back of the case that way it's nice and easy to service a fan if I need to undo a fan with that said we need to build it oh and also to Mid plug we're drowning in mats they're on sale okay 30% off don't make me like crazy giddy in this I will okay I'm [Music] crazy [Music] three [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] so there you go it's all built not a fan of the pigtail connector but it is what it is a 360 TI can use a pigtail it's plenty of power up through one PCI Express cable 2140 is intaking on the bottom 240s exhausting on the top we've got our 120 fan pushing through to our middle fan um I'm a little sad I couldn't use the uh the RGB fan on the cooler but it's a proprietary connector designed for a splitter um instead of using a regular pwm 4 pin splitter I don't know why they went with the tiny cable but whatever so I couldn't go RGB right here that's okay the graphics card does have RGB on the face right here I think maybe it doesn't I cannot remember it's been too long since I've taken a look at this series of graphics card um but anyway I procrastinated enough let's go ahead and see if we actually get uh Power on there we go let's see we have motherboard lights that's a good sign let's see if we get a post you know the light Lighting on this is pretty tasteful though it's not like I mean it's not like crazy you know the RGB in the back doesn't look terrible versus these uh be quiet fans okay so it's getting stuck on RAM I'm going to uh do a clear seamos first if that doesn't work I might try a different set of ram it could be a qvl issue I did not qvl check this Ram with this motherboard all right so the bottom line is it will not post and this is my fault I should have bench tested these Pro the I've used this board in the past apparently I don't recall it being bad we would have marked it as bad I've never used this CPU though this CPU is brand new out of the package it is direct from Intel and normally they would uh make sure these work but I have had a 10400 F in the past not work remember my daughter's build so anyway um what I'm going to do next is pause for lunch cuz this body doesn't just happen then I'm going to take the CPU Cooler out and try a different CPU first that'll be the easiest change to to happen before pulling the motherboard it's not the ram I tried two different kits of RAM um worst case scenario if I had to switch the motherboard I do have a z790 MSI Meg that I can put in here which is identical to the one I put in my friend's build um it's a silver board though so it would really stand out which wouldn't be bad but it was it's a silver motherboard so it would really be be visible and then it wouldn't be Asus if it turns out to be a bad motherboard so we'll see again using what we had on hand and uh I don't recall it being bad so I'm hoping it's the CPU honestly that's less work to replace the CPU but I don't have another 13600 K okay so I have the 12900 K in here and as you can see it posted just fine with the same RAM and stuff so I'm not inclined to say it's a bad CPU yet although it's Intel anything anything's possible it could have just been possibly a bad Mount remember it's got the single lever arm that sometimes maybe doesn't let it sit down there just right so my backup plan is to use the 12900 K in this build which is much higher spe that I really wanted to go with this build but at least now I know the motherboard is fine so I have to worry about pulling that out out and you notice I didn't have the fans on the tower I just needed something to allow it to post and not overheat so I'm going to throw the 13600 back in there and see if it posts if so then we know could have just been potentially a bad Mount all right the 13600 back in and that's just straight up a bad CPU if you've watched Steve's recent video about the Intel marketing um looks like we didn't get the latest working one all right there we go so our 12 600k is booted and working um I should have just tested with one instead of the 12900 so we rolled back one generation it's still going to be perfectly fine with the uh purposes this build is for and still like leagues Beyond where the shopping range they were looking at is disappointed that the 13600 K appears to be bad I'm not calling it bad 100% yet I need to test it in another system just to be sure but the fact that out of three CPUs the only one that we can't get to post is the 13600 K tells me it's more than likely a bad memory controller or something on there because it keeps getting stuck on RAM um anyway there we go so I think I'm gonna do another video um with this system moving forward here and it's going to be how to get uh like once your system is built and how to kind of stability test it I think I've done this this video in the past but with new CPUs and stuff there's more things to talk about than our previous videos when we do the whole like what to do after you build your system so I'm not talking about how to get like windows installed and all that I'm talking about specifically how to make sure your components are all running exactly as expected anyway with that said guys thanks for watching watching um hope this kind of gives you guys some insight that like you don't have to spend exorbitant amounts of money to have a very capable gaming PC I mean this 36 DTI with a 12600 k a terab of mbme SSD 16 GB of ddr4 uh I don't even know what the speed oh 3,000 MHz on the ram it's currently running 2133 I have to go into the XMP it's going to be able to run pretty much any game at high settings 1080p for sure and then uh 1440p medium settings to high settings depending on the title because it is still 60 still a 60 series GPU um but with that said how would you spend let's say $1,500 on a gaming PC you could you could build this system right here for about 1,500 bucks maybe 1,600 depending on some of the parts um you can also save a few hundred bucks too depending on some like these fans you definitely don't need be quiet light Wings fans in here that's a that's some money that's not going towards overall performance but it's going towards Aesthetics and I wanted them to have something cool to look at so anyway sound off below how you would spend 1,00 bucks on a build and maybe we'll build it all right guys thanks for watching we'll see you in the next [Music] one

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Length: 19min 50sec (1190 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 07 2023