They shut off our UTILITIES but I still built an awesome PC!

so today we're building a sweet new gaming pc it's going to be a high-end system using one of the new amd ryzen xt processors specifically the 3900 xt along with a brand new case from fantax that just came out today at the time of filming their eclipse p500a which i'm very excited to use as well however there is one small issue and that is that we are not fully unpacked from the new studio yet so some of the parts we need for today's build are actually scattered throughout this space and it could be tricky trying to locate all of them but let's go ahead and find out oh no did i forget to pay the electrical bill this video is sponsored by the corsair one a100 featuring amd ryzen 3000 series processors and nvidia geforce rtx graphics cards the a100 is incredibly powerful for a compact gaming pc at just 12 liters a fully water cooled cpu and gpu delivers utmost cooling performance while maintaining an impressively low noise profile offering a no compromise solution that's ready for anything to learn more about the corsair one a100 click on the link below okay i know for a fact i paid our electric bill this month okay was i five days late of course i was but the light should be on by now thank you for calling southern california edison your estimated waste time is over 15 minutes so i do show we completed the order that our technician though left the main breaker in the off position if you're there now i can walk you through how to reset it and that would be somewhere on the outside of the building correct yeah it's actually in the front okay i do see an electrical room which is locked um i'll have to give the uh the landlord a call um so i i just popped into the office the electrical isn't working so i called edison to verify um and apparently they said that they did come by and you know initiate everything but they just left the breaker the main breaker off do you know if that's in the electrical room that's locked outside uh i don't know that he would know let me well i guess while we're waiting we can scavenge for the pc parts we need in the dark i'm just really glad i know where the flashlight is okay i did pull out the case already so we got the p500a right there easy peasy we also need motherboard we need a bear 50 okay so we've got b550 strix here i'll turn this for you guys rog strix from asus b550e gaming and we have the b550f gaming wi-fi but the e-gaming also has wi-fi it's just not listed on the box so what the heck's the difference i'm sure there's a notable difference but for now i'm just going to go with the f gaming so i can just hold the flashlight with my chin there you go yeah chew down i do not have the xt cpus out in fact they're actually packed away in a random box because they were sort of separated from the other oh my phone okay so he said that the breaker is located inside the unit like um it's a great panel like on the wall are all of the switches um to the left they should all be to the left okay now let me go ahead and try turning on the light switches to see if it that not the guy at edison mentioned that um the main breaker he noted that it was at the front of the building okay i just talked uh with the uh he's on his family he's it is in the electrical room i think so okay so like the due to edison said the main breaker is actually in an electrical room that i don't have access to so my landlord has actually sent over a maintenance guy who's on his way now to do that for me in the meantime let's continue hunting for an mps memory let's get some memory i think i wanted some some g skill trident z rgb so i think that's that's not the neo i think one of these is the neo here we go i would have totally brought the hot shoe light for this camera had i known the lights would be out oh shoot sorry sorry lpx i didn't mean to hurt you this is one memory you can forget let's see here looks like there's ram in there 32 gig kit of ddr4 3600 speed done power supply a lot of these ones that aren't in boxes are generally on the lower wattage or kind of just sort of janky power supplies except this hx 750 that's that's a pretty solid unit but it's also kind of old uh this box is this box is empty this box is not empty what is this nzxt c750 750 watts is pretty good for the build we're putting together oh the flicker i'm sorry the flicker is so bad for our 3900xt we're going to need a pretty beefy cooler for all 12 of those cores uh i don't know that rog ryogen 360. i think it's pretty busted it's like scratched up or something i'm definitely leaning towards aio got some older units here then fractal celsius plus s36 prisma i know the p500a can definitely handle 360 millimeter rads in fact i think it can do a 420 even so this actually might be a good unit it's fairly new looks nice it's got the prisma fans yes definitely feels full okay okay right so we've got the three prisma fan some addressable rgb lighting on the pump block but are these fans gonna match the fans that come with this case in fact what fans actually come with this case i think there's a digital rgb version and a regular version that has no rgb fans so if we take a look at this label upside down we can see tempered glass edition digital rgb so this does oh it's glacier white i got a white one that kind of changes things doesn't it but the fact that this variant comes with digital rgb fans leads me to believe it would be a good idea to maybe replace these prisma fans with some more of the same fans that came with this case which i actually have because on top of the p500a launch fantax is also launching their new sk pwm digital rgb fans in 120 or 140 millimeters so this is a three pack they sent over which is perfect for our 360 millimeter aio we'll swap those out that way we get all matchy matchy with the case and stuff it's gonna look pretty sweet i did not realize it was a white case they were sending me i think that i'm pretty sure that's what they mean by glacier white i can't imagine what else that means let's just take a look actually we've got time not much else to do in the dark all right momentum of truth it's a white case sweet you know i must have requested a white case and just forgot but it looks really good i'm kind of glad that i got white i really love the black accents like the sort of trim around it that's all black so it kind of gives it a two-tone effect so we've got case memory motherboard power supply and cooler we're gonna find the processor when the lights are back on what are we missing look alive drives look alive all right what do we got here we've got some two and a half inch ssds sata based i'm thinking nvme though for this high end build there is an rd400 here from toshiba it's the blue one and i think the green one is just a basic uh sata drive from a data looks like what else we got over here ooh look at this 970 evo plus is that a what's the capacity on that pardon me we got one terabities hell yeah all right let's just do this one all right quick update i just unloaded this box which was just a bunch of amd motherboards i didn't realize that i had so many more motherboards that i hadn't unpacked i have a lot of amd motherboards and then i kind of rummaged through this box which is just a bunch of random crap i actually found a few more coolers oh yeah the cooler the cooler that i found but i'm actually going to swap out for the prisma the celsius plus is that bad boy over there h100i rgb platinum s e now that i know our case is white i kind of want to put a white cooler on it because i think it'll look good even though it's not a 360. it's just a measly 240 that should be enough and i am still going to swap out the stock fans even though they're beautiful these l series fans are gorgeous i'm still going to swap them out for the phanteks sk fans so yeah that's good also i just got a phone call from from the technician and i think the breaker's on let's give it a shot let's just start flipping switches oh i heard a noise hey there it is sun's out everybody oh i got to change my exposure now oh so much better so much better let there be light let there be light but more importantly let there be ac thank god i missed you okay now we're in business now i can look for things and actually see them like this graphics card that we're going to be using for the build the asus rog strix rtx 2080 ti white edition okay let's find that processor do you see what i see oh yeah no that is not an xt that's a 3900a what the heck it's just a regular 3100x this is dumb this thing's a piece of garbage is there a better processor in here somewhere do you see what i see do you see what i see thirty nine hundred that's a thousand seven thirty nine hundred extra score so that didn't take too long at all i'm so happy i've got all this stuff i'm also trading out our trident z neo kit for a 32 gig kit of corsair's vengeance rgb pro ddr4 because it's white and matches our case other finishing touches for this build will include one more sk pwm fan from fantex this is a 140 millimeter unit wait is this this is not this one's not rgb hold on this one's rj babe there we go okay so phanteks offers the sk series in both digital rgb and non-rgb variants this one's probably going to be cheaper but this 140 is going to slap around onto the back of our case because we've got an empty mint right there for 120 or 140. and finally some sleeved cables from cablemod these are their pro series very nice they are black white would have been cool i guess but you know black actually works here because again the case isn't completely white there's a lot of black trim going on so this will actually look pretty good i'll put links to all these parts down below in case you're interested but i am finally ready we have we have turned on the lights in this place we found all the parts we needed and we are now ready to build this thing so let's just do it let's just do it we're going to start with cpu installation as we often do with our ryzen 9 3900 xt again this is a matisse refresh chip pretty much exactly the same as a regular 3900x except it ships with a boost clock that's 100 megahertz higher and these chips supposedly have a much higher silicon quality than their non-xt counterparts which means you should be able to overclock them a bit further or at least to the same frequencies using less voltage the only other difference is that the 3900 xt does not include a stock cooler whereas the 3900x does include that wraith spire i'm sorry the uh the rafe prism rgb cooler that's because amd figures that if this is going to be aimed at enthusiasts who are looking to manually overclock and push their chips as far as they can take them then a stock cooling solution is probably not the best fit anyway of course the higher silicon quality and higher clock speed does come at a premium msrp for the 3900 xt is 499 us dollars which is exactly the same as the msrp for the 3900x when it initially launched but since then the 3900x has come down way in price you can get it for around 420 bucks thereabouts so you're looking at a roughly 80 premium for the xt variant based on the numerous reviews that we've already seen on these matisse refresh chips it's pretty evident that you're going to see relatively marginal gains going from let's say a 3900 x to a 3900 xt when it comes to gaming and productivity workloads really the main benefit i think this is my takeaway from this launch is that these are really reserved for people who are trying to manually overclock their chips as far as possible a lot of people complain that you know while ryzen is great in its own way there's a lot of things it has going for it intel is still very dominant in terms of being the better overclocker being the enthusiast grade chip of choice so to speak but now we have the xt chips that ship highly bend and should be a lot more enjoyable to overclock with because the ceilings are higher than they ever have been in the ryzen family so that can be exciting if you fall into that niche category of enthusiast all right we're gonna tackle the aio water block first before we install memory pre-applied thermal paste already have the am4 bracket or the mounting accessories fixed to the water block and that's gonna mount directly to the stock am4 bracket on our motherboard so let me just go ahead and set this up all right i'm going to latch one ring first push the plate down nice even contact and then latch the second ring around the bracket and i think we're good oh wow i just realized i don't have a screwdriver i'm pretty sure i can dig one up somewhere i think we'll be fine as for the water block you don't even really need a screwdriver for this part you can just tighten it by hand memory it's memory time baby so we've got four dim slots and four sticks i'm just gonna pop in here make sure that the slot or i'm sorry the notch is aligned between dim slots and dim now this memory kit is only a 3 000 speed kit which is a little slow for my liking i would prefer 32 or 3600 for this particular system it is a high-end system and it can support those speeds but seeing is how this is just a build that'll probably disassemble right after it's done anyway i don't care and neither should you time to install our m.2 drive and we actually have two m.2 slots on this board one at the top here and one down below however i believe this is the only one that's wired up as pcie gen4 this is pcie gen 3. it doesn't really matter though because the ssd we're using is pcie gen 3 anyway but i'm still going to use the gen 4 slot because we can okay come on get in there i believe in you okay oh wait no wait we need to stand off first need the standoff there we go there's our little buddy and we can go down and do this and m.2 drive installed all right next we're going to install two of these sk fans onto our radiator and these fans are pretty straightforward each fan has two cables coming off of it one's a four pin pwm connection the other is your rgb cable and you can see there's two connections on that cable for daisy chaining you can pretty much daisy chain these fans together or you can daisy chain them to other phanteks digital rgb products like the case that we're using that has integrated digital rgb lighting and stuff as well as rgb fans pre-installed so we're gonna be able to daisy chain all that for much cleaner cable management and easier installation overall and then from there we can connect one of those devices one of these fans to this extension cable which terminates to a three pin five volt rgb connection if my camera will focus there it is so we can connect it to our motherboard directly or i believe we could in in our case actually control it with the case if there is a fan led controller yet it looks like there is a fan led controller on the case built in there so we can probably control the lighting that way as well all right let's see here get some screws out make sure the fans are facing the right way before we mount them which if the radiator is going to be at the top of the case because our pre-installed fans are at the front then it would go something like this so yeah the cable should be facing that way so they're not visible and all said and done now before we install the motherboard assembly i wanted to quickly go over some basics on the case this is the p500a once again it has the exact same internal layout as fantax's existing evolved atx and p600s which is a great thing this layout is very smart i've given it a lot of praise in the past for its flexibility custom water cooling support and just a whole lot of other features you can do a dual system in here if you wanted to you can actually mount a mini itx motherboard at the top of the case along with uh you know up to an eatx board right here in the more traditional position if you wanted to make this a dual system i'll talk more about some of the internal features later but i'm not going to go too into detail there because again this is an internal layout that already exists in a number of cases we're already very familiar with the big difference here with the p500a apart from those you know other two cases p600s and evolve atx is the front panel this is a completely mesh front panel and it's a special kind of mesh design that fantex has sort of created they found a way to perforate holes one millimeter apart so that the mesh is so fine that you don't really need a dust filter behind it this is the dust filter it's the dust filter and the front panel all in one the end result is that these front fans these beautiful digital rgb 140 millimeter fans that come pre-installed have significantly less resistance to deal with when intaking air into the case so that's going to lead to more airflow which in turn should lead to cooler components it's also really easy to snap this front panel off if you want to clean it in a pinch with some compressed air or a data vac which is what i would recommend looking under the hood here you can immediately tell that this case can do a lot three 140 millimeter fans of the front means a 420 millimeter radiator is supported at the front of this case which is pretty phenomenal if you're into custom water cooling at the top you have a 360 millimeter mount or i should say up to 360 millimeters nice removable uh dust filter here very simple 360 or 280 at the top solid tactile power button you've got two usb 3.0 type a ports mic and headphone combo jack usb 3.1 gen 2 type c and a pair of lighting buttons one to change color i think and another that cycles between different modes we'll test that out later so if you've ever been a fan of the evolv atx or the p600s but you just weren't feeling the front panel because it was just a little more closed off than you'd like it to be then the p500a is fantec's answer to those of you looking for more airflow still got the tempered glass panel on the left side that's on hinges pulls off really easy all right buddy you ready to go inside looks pretty cozy in there all right here we go motherboard installation uh motherboard io shield was pre-installed thank god i'm really glad that that's becoming a trend i can't tell you how many times i've almost nicked myself or cut myself on the edges of one of those things or even on the the actual cutout on the case or how many times i've just flat out forgotten to install the i o shield in the first place only to realize all too late when the build is finished that i am okay now before i actually mount our radiator to the case i'm going to pre-wire our 8-pin eps cable for our cpu because once this radiator goes in that connector on the motherboard will be very hard to access now this motherboard actually has an eight pin and a four pin connector for the cpu but unfortunately this c750 unit from nzxt only ships with one eight pin cable so we'll have to make do with that pull it through just like that okay also before i mount the radiator i'm going to pass any cables attached to my radiator fans or the aio water block that need to go behind the motherboard tray so that includes the sata power cable this three pin actually i should plug this in right now to the motherboard fan header you don't have to push the cables all the way through here because you can just pull them through on the other side once you prop the case up oh it's actually starting to look really good with the black and white guys i am excited now hold on one minute here i have to double check to make sure that our rear 140 millimeter fan will fit without much clearance issue oh yep the hoses of our aio are kind of in the way here of of our rear fans so what we could potentially do is scoot it over or we may have to flip the radiator around 180 and we'd have to flip the fans in that case too so the cables wouldn't show that definitely requires more work but we'll see what we can do first off how much do we have to slide this over in order for this fan to fit not a whole lot not a whole lot at all actually it's just a matter of if the holes line up and they kind of do fantex has actually done something really smart here it looks like i think this is intentional here if you guys see take a look here so like you've got your standard mounting strips right the flexible mounting strips so it does give you some some leeway already but even beyond that they've arranged the the perforated holes the ventilation holes in such a way where they actually line up with the mounting strips so you can see right here if this mounting strip wasn't long enough i could keep going and boom that hole lines up right there lines up again right there so that actually offers you even more flexibility flexibility that i'm going to utilize right now you know in hindsight i should have mounted the rear fan first that way i would have known where to mount the radiator so that the tubes wouldn't interfere with the fan and that would have also allowed me to route the fan cables through the the cutouts in the case before mounting the radiator but whatever you know i'm just glad you guys still watch my videos for some reason all right finally moving on to the power supply we've got this little psu bracket at the rear of the case that comes detached with two thumb screws very easy and then we'll mount this to the back of our psu and then slide it in from the rear i'm glad i picked this power supply because it has one of the most minimal sides in terms of design which is perfect for this case because there is actually a cutout on the psu shroud that allows you to see the side of the power supply so if it was really ugly or something that we couldn't change or a sticker we couldn't take off that would have been very unfortunate all right we got the bracket on the psu pretty much ready to slide it on into the case already have all the wires connected except for our 8-pin eps cable that i've already pre-wired to the motherboard cables first make sure this is fanned down yeah fan face down because we do have dust filtration nice little ventilation area there at the bottom of the case so slide all that through before i mount it i'm going gonna get this uh the cpu cable plugged in while it's still sort of flexible sorry you're not gonna be able to see this but it's not very interesting anyway so don't worry okay now it's just a matter of tightening these two thumb screws and just like that power supply is installed you can see that we still have plenty of room at the bottom of the case under the psu shroud for excess cables or drives fantex actually includes two of these very nice three and a half inch trays very sturdy actually some of the some of the nicest quality hard drive trays that i've seen in a long time it comes included with two the case comes with two but you can buy more of them separately if you'd like the bottom area here supports up to four of these so you can have up to four three and a half inch drives underneath your psu shroud and they kind of lock into place like so hard to do with one hand there we go so there's two of them mounted together completely tool-less and then you just slide this at the bottom of the case you can do two rows of these so one two up to six of these cages can actually mount to uh to the front of the case here if you remove these little cable management covers um then you can populate the front of the case with up to six three and a half inch trays we don't have any hard drives in the system today so we'll put these aside now while we're back here a couple things i want to point out we've got three two and a half inch drive trays for ssds or i suppose you could mount uh two and a half inch mechanical drives as well they are toolless when they pop out you do of course have to use physical screws two on either side in order to mount the drive to the tray but once you do that pops on and off very easily you also have a number of velcro straps one two over there and then kind of all the way up here pretty much the main areas where you'd be routing the vast majority of your cables and these are really high quality velcro straps you can see that they've secured them to the case with an actual screw you can see the plastic post thing that the velcro strap goes around is also adhered to the motherboard tray with a physical screw so you really have confidence when when pulling this taut that it's not just going to come out or that the plastic piece is going to pop off we also get a very generous cutout for cpu coolers if you ever need to swap out a cpu cooler particularly the back plate you can easily do so without having to remove your entire motherboard so this is actually a huge convenience when it needs to be utilized basic front panel connectors pretty standard there is a sata cable coming directly off of the case this is to power your led controller with these buttons that we saw earlier you've also got all the cables coming off of your three 140 millimeter digital rgb fans at the front of the case so they've got rgb cables that can be daisy chained uh to other digital rgb products from phanteks or straight to your motherboard i'm going to go ahead and do some boring stuff off camera like wiring up the front panel connectors and i'll circle back to you guys when we're ready for the gpu all right things are coming along swimmingly we are ready for the graphics card here she is such a beauty the rog strix rtx 2080 ti white edition it is those exit we have two options here in the lovely p500a we can either mount it the more traditional route uh horizontally like so and if we do that we actually have this handy dandy anti-gpu sag bracket that's included with the case the way this works basically is you see all these little slots these rectangular cutouts well you'll notice there are one two three four five six seven of them and there's also seven expansion slots so basically the way it works is you actually mount this bracket to the inside of the case on this side you can actually see the two mounting holes right here you have to remove all the expansion slots before you do that but once that's installed you reinstall the expansion slots and your graphics card and this can actually slide sort of slide up or down and by sliding downward it actually props all of these expansion slots upward reducing or pretty much eliminating any gpu sag it's kind of a genius idea that makes me fall in love with fantax even more the other option is to mount the gpu vertically we've got three vertical expansion slots along with this included plastic base that you would screw down to the top of the psu shroud like so the only thing not included to make this all work is a riser card fortunately i was able to pull one from the cablemod vertical gpu bracket that i have while both gpu mounting options are tantalizing i can't help but love the way this card looks from this angle i mean it's beautiful from every angle but i would love to see these fans spinning in all their glory as much as possible so we're gonna go vertical oh wait is this not gonna work oh no okay look at this so you can see the gpu is aligned with the slot right the gold contacts are going in just fine but then look look at the back it's not reaching the case it's a little bit too far up so you can see the uh the back of the gpu is not flush at all with the case so i think the problem here is that we need a different type of riser cable that actually positions this slot just maybe a centimeter or a couple millimeters over towards the back of the case then it would probably work but i don't have the appropriate riser cable on me so so much for mounting the gpu vertically i mean if we really wanted to we could use the cablemod vertical gpu bracket right here that would work just fine but the whole goal here was to just sort of utilize what the case comes with so let's just mount it horizontally i feel like nine times out of ten anytime i try to install a gpu vertically something happens something goes wrong and i'm forced to mount it horizontally anyway i should plan things better i'm not a good planner also i should mention that when i was doing the front panel connectors earlier i kind of got carried away and just started wiring everything that i possibly could so this is really the the home stretch once we install this gpu we've got to wire it up and put the side panels on and we'll be good to go cable management in this case is just like it is in the evolv atx and p600s that is to say it is good it is very good and also in case you are wondering i am not using the gpu sag bracket right now because i'm just going to take this thing apart in a moment um but uh also because it's not really the gpu's not even sagging right now it's looking pretty good okay we've got a little plastic plate here that actually slides in order to open up or reveal cut out in the power supply shroud so we can actually route our pcie cables through nice little entry point cleans up the cable management and brings the cables right to your gpu ready to put the panels back on but really quick here's a look at the back side now you can see that i didn't really try too hard just made sure that it was flat enough so that the side panel would go on with no problems a little bit messy here and there but tons of room for activities here you can see we've got about a kyle's fingers width of distance between the motherboard tray and the side panel which is i would estimate maybe three quarters of an inch i'm just guesstimating because i've never actually measured the width of my finger that'd be weird side panels front panel really curious to see how the digital rgb lights look through this this fine mesh probably pretty cool it's very transparent okay got our little computer station all set up let's do it first boot in three two one freaking power supply i swear every time what am i going to learn screw the count down just turn on yeah dude that looks pretty good oh they're not spinning fans aren't spinning i forgot to plug in some fans hold on okay fans are spinning that was a quick and easy fix uh basically both of these fans are plugged into the fan splitter cable that's coming off of the aio water block and i had simply just somehow forgotten to plug in the sata cable that's coming off of this as well so it wasn't getting power that also explains why this wasn't lighting up but now it is and now those are spinning we're all good and the system looks fantastic again familiar layout internally new airflow design externally i actually like the way these fans look as you can see they are all matching right from the get-go as soon as i boot it all the fans are matching it's because i daisy chained all them together uh and then back to the case so you can see the case is even matching the fans as well voila it's very it's very harmonious let's go ahead and actually try out the uh so this is the fan color i believe so if we change that okay we've got some two-tone some some multi-color cycling going on yeah a bunch of different options here boom sweet yeah i like it do i love it i love it really really nice case fantex has done it again of course they haven't done much when it comes to the inside of the case but the outside of the case looks fantastic and you can really tell that there's a ton of air flowing through here it is very very strong strong current but not too noisy trying to get it inside the case you might also hear our air conditioning a little bit that could be interfering but overall it is very quiet and i suspect the temperatures will be pretty good too overall this is just a really nice case you know it's a little bit more expensive than some of their other popular ones um it's in that hundred dollar plus range but honestly i think it's worth every penny there's a lot of cases out there that cost more that do not offer the same level of functionality or flexibility or even charming good looks as this case imo but there you go guys the phanteks p500a featuring the new amd ryzen 3900 xt processor you guys let me know what you think of the cpu what you think of the case what you think of the system also like before you head out it helps me a lot and get subscribed to the channel for more tech content on the way also check out our store bit with tech we've got a lot of new items there also the site is getting redesigned right now we're going to implement a dark mode soon so it's going to be super exciting if you see anything you like on the site go ahead and snatch it up it's a great way to help support the channel and what we do here at bit wit until next time guys thanks again for watching have a good one and i'll see y'all in the next video

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Length: 30min 4sec (1804 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 14 2020