**Building and Gaming with the MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti**

The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is an impressive component that was kindly provided by Thermaltake for our build. As you can see, it's looking good and we're excited to power up the system for the first time. Before we do that, though, we need to pop in the power supply unit. We've chosen a 650 watt ATX power supply from Thermaltake, which should be more than enough to handle the system's power requirements.

As we begin to wire everything together, it's clear that this is going to be a well-built system. The cable management looks great, and we're glad we took the time to tidy up those cables. With all of our components in place, we can now boot up the system for the first time. This is always an exciting moment, as you never know what's going to happen.

The system comes with a beautiful green lighting scheme that fits perfectly with the color scheme of the build. We've also added some custom cable ties and a few other cosmetic touches to make the system look even more impressive. Overall, we're really happy with how everything has come together.

Now it's time to put our system through its paces and see how it performs in various games. Our first test subject is GTA 5, which we've run in its built-in benchmarking mode at 1080p high settings. The results are impressive, with an average frame rate of 136 FPS. This is right on the cap for this game, and it's a great indication that our system can handle demanding titles.

Next up is Watchdogs: Legion, which we've tested at 1440p high with both ray tracing and DLSS enabled. The results are equally impressive, with an average frame rate of 82 FPS. This is just 25 FPS lower than the result without ray tracing and DLSS enabled, but it's still a very solid performance.

Moving on to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, we've run at 1440p high settings with DLSS enabled. The results are outstanding, with an average frame rate of 160 FPS. This is no surprise, given the capabilities of the RTX 3060 Ti.

However, our next test subject is Apex Legends, which often pushes even the most powerful systems to their limits. In this case, we've run at 1440p high settings and seen an average frame rate of 121 FPS. The game never dips below 86 FPS in our testing, providing consistent performance across the board.

Finally, we've tested Valerian, which is a notoriously difficult title to run on modern hardware. We've run it at 1440p high settings with DLSS enabled and seen an average frame rate of 410 FPS. This is just shy of 400 FPS in one test run, making it an impressive performance.

We've also tested Cyberpunk 2077 without DLSS and seen a much slower result, but running the game with DLSS enabled we managed to achieve around 100 frames per second. However, when turned off, our average frame rate dropped to 74 FPS. Still, this is playable gaming experience in one of the hardest PC games to run.

Finally, we've tested Fortnite at 1080p competitive settings and seen an average frame rate of 252 FPS. The game looks fantastic, as expected, and this result provides a great indication that our system can handle demanding multiplayer titles.

Overall, we're very happy with how our system has performed in these tests. The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is a powerful component that has delivered excellent results in our testing. We'll be sharing more gaming benchmarks in the coming days and weeks, so stay tuned for those.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat is up guys welcome back to another geekerwot video and in this video i'm going to be building an awesome 1500 gaming pc build for 2021 and 2022. i'll be building inside of one of this year's most popular pc cases with an awesome theme across the entire build not only this are we running you through all the components i selected for this system and why today putting it together from start right through to finish before booting it up and seeing how it performs in some of my favorite titles and then some of your guys favorite titles as well let's dive into it though after a quick ad from today's video sponsor the brand new seagate fire cuda 530 is a super fast gen 4 nvme drive that provides incredible speeds life-lasting endurance and support for playstation 5. with both read and write speeds in the region of 7 gigabytes a second this drive delivers incredible speeds with huge capacities available let's kick things off by taking a look at the case the thermaltake tower 100 has a really unique aesthetic that's taken the case market by storm in all honesty this year this is a limited edition racing green version they've just brought out that looks awesome it's a theme we're going to try and continue around the entire system today including this really really snazzy racing green the tough ram that's actually going to perfectly match the colorway of the case with plenty of glass and a really unique form factor it's going to make for a build that's just that little bit special it's also got a really unique form factor as you can probably tell from the size of the box and actually stands up vertically i've just seen my first glimpse of the green and i'm not gonna lie it looks insane now i know the big trend nowadays is to spray paint your pc case and i'm sure it's something we'll be doing soon on the channel but if you can get it from the factory with an awesome powder coat green finish then i mean why the hell not let's just pop this on the table take off the plastic sleeve wow that looks awesome so we've got tempered glass on the front and on both the sides but still plenty of ventilation we've got vents at the top events on the right hand side vents on the left-hand side vents on the bottom more vents on the bottom basically ventilation oh at the back as well vents everywhere which should help keep the system today as cool as possible i don't mean to sound like a broken record but let's actually start off by removing as many of the case's side panels as possible and then just store them safely inside your cases included box this will make sure you don't drop them smash them break them scratch them or anything like that which could ruin your build so let's get all those off and then we can move on and look at the motherboard and the processor i appreciate what i've just done is made the case look a lot like a skeleton but it does clear up room to mount the motherboard on these four standoffs which we'll cover in more detail in just a moment for the motherboard i've gone for msi's b550i gaming edge wi-fi now this board basically has all the key features and functionality that we need for a system like this it's got gen4 nvme ssd support room for two ram dimms support for the latest ryzen 5000 processors out of the box and wi-fi on board you get a little bit of overclocking headroom not loads but that's not really the point with a motherboard like this in a small form factor system at least for the processor then first i've gone for amd's ryzen 5 5600x with six cores 12 threads and some great multi-threaded and single threaded performance you know it's going to be a great option for the system it is more expensive than some of intel's current 11th gen i5s but that's for a reason it's a better processor as a general rule of thumb you can run up to an rtx 3070 on this chip without really any bottlenecking and even some titles on an rtx 3080. the cpu though is just one part of the equation to really complete our sum we need to go for some good memory and that's where thermaltake's tough ram racing green edition comes in this is obviously perfectly designed to match up with the case there are mixed feelings on this colorway jake in the office is not a fan but i personally think it looks really really awesome you can get this memory in a black instead much like you can get the case in a black two but this match is actually a really really nice touch and just gives the build a little bit of something different which i think is what you want when you're spending a bit extra money on a nicer chassis an itx motherboard and gen 4 storage which we'll move on to later pull back the dimms on your ram dimm slots and then simply slide the memory into place a bit of pressure to each side and this nice quick 3600 megahertz kit is going to be installed now one thing we are definitely going to get right in this system is the storage i've actually gone for seagate's fire cuda 530 a big shout out to seagate who actually were kind enough to make today's video possible this drive is one of their latest gen 4 options and it might just be the fastest consumer gen 4 drive on the market read and write speeds are both in the region of 7 gigabytes a second the right number is the really crucial one that other brands just can't quite hit which makes this drive an awesome proposition they do have some slightly cheaper gen 4 options like the fire cuda 520 available and this drive personally i'd go for a one terabyte option to really fit in the budget today as opposed to two terabytes but plenty of options and we'll link them down at ebuyer and amazon in the description below now also seems like a good time to install the cool ad before going ahead and moving the motherboard into the case now to be clear a liquid cooler a 120mm would work really well for today's build but an air cooler is perhaps the more budget option that just allows you to get a little bit more in the price to performance department this thermaltake tough air 310 is nice and cheap but does a good job for the system today and is fairly easily installed by popping these four posts through the included plastic backplate which will then in turn go through the rear of the motherboard drop on these plastic spacers add into place this then silver thermal tape metal support bracket and then fasten on these thumb screws once you've done this you put a frame into place that you can screw the cooler onto remember of course though to pop on some thermal paste before you do this to create that nice thermal bond well that was rude and i appear to have lost one to create that nice thermal bond between the processor and the cooler itself you know what that's looking pretty good and moves us nicely on to the next component today the graphics card now i know that this is the most controversial component in any build at the moment but i've heard some of my us fans are having a bit more luck in new egg lotteries and pre-order lists and at least here in the uk if you're prepared to pay a little bit over msrp we are seeing some stock uh at retailers within the uk sales channel now obviously there's no quick fix to the gpu crisis and we'll be making a detailed video discussing this more a little bit later hopefully changes to the way that ethereum is mined on around the 10th of december and increasing supply from semiconductor firms over in taiwan should help to ease things a little bit but unfortunately i think the gpu crisis is not going away anytime particularly soon that's even more of a shame considering how good cards like the rtx 3060 ti are this is a superb gpu for gaming at 1080 and 1440p maxing out those settings and still getting 60 100 150 frames a second depending on the title detailed gaming benchmarks are coming up later though so hang tight and don't go anywhere but for now we're going to go ahead and install the graphics card itself this case has got a really cool design as far as gpus go you simply slot it in the side where you've got glass and ventilation to keep it nice and cool giving you a really really nice aesthetic centerpiece of the build while also retaining all of that really really good airflow in order to install our card today we just need to remove a couple of the pcie lane covers at the top of the case which will get you a nice snazzy b-roll shot of before sliding the gpu in itself and clicking it into place the gpu is looking good and we can wire this up in a moment but i just wanted to go ahead and see what it looked like with those panels on and i've got to say i'm so excited to power the build up for the first time before we do that though we do need to pop in the power supply this is another component from thermaltake they very kindly let this one out and it's an awesome choice for the system today now they have sent out an sfx unit which is a small form factor power supply but the case doesn't need one so i'll link one of their atx options below go for a 650 watt unit or above and that's going to be the perfect option for the system once you've done that go ahead and get everything wired up with all your cables and wiring and tidy up at those cables with a little bit of cable management once you've done this we can boot the system up for the first time and see how it looks and on the keycard channel there's only one thing that can mean an awesome glam montage of this system in action i'll see you in a sec for the gaming benchmarks but first roll that montage i've got to say that montage was sick and i am loving the green lighting we've gone for to kind of fit in with the colour scheme today let me know what you think down in the comments below montage aside though it's now time to take a look at the performance of this system we've tested a wide variety of games and the summary of our findings will be on your screen now as usual if you're new to the channel we will be jumping through game by game in a bit more detail in a second but this summer review is always a really nice one just to give yourself a nice gauge of the performance you could expect if you built this system for yourself gta 5 is the first of the games on our focused titles though here at 1080p high settings tested in the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode we got 136 fps on average that's basically on the cap at a frame rate gta 5 can't really go above 140 150 fps at least at 1080p on the latest cards once you go beyond that point you start to get quite buggy and quite laggy in areas so this was a pretty good result for gta 5. it was a similarly positive story in watchdogs legion here we tested at 1440p high with both ray tracing and dlss enabled this gave us 82 frames a second which was around 25 fps lower than with ray tracing disabled but still a very solid result super playable gameplay it looked visually fantastic as well so it's a win-win all around the msi rtx 3060 ti that's a mouthful also impressed in our next title call of duty's black ops cold war 1440p high settings with dlss enabled gave us 160 frames a second on average but what if you're a player of apex legends the title that's next up today can you expect the same kind of frame rates as we saw in cold war well the short answer sort of here we got 121 frames a second on average at 1440p high settings with 90 and 99 percentile results of 97 and 86 showing that the game basically never went below that 86 fps mark giving consistent frame rates across the board moving on to valorem here at 1440p high settings we got 410 frames a second just casually over 400 fps in one of the latest aaa titles i know valerian is a much easier title to run as well in the grand scheme of things but it's still an impressive thing to see 400 frames a second on average is insane moving on to cyberpunk next up then here we tested at 1440p high but this time with no dlss in our previous videos we managed to achieve around 100 frames a second with dlss enabled and i was interested to see what would happen if we turned it off well in short the frame rate dropped but we still got 74 frames a second on average providing a playable gaming experience in one of the hardest to run games that the pc gaming market has ever seen moving on to fortnight then the last game on the list today and here at 1080p competitive so with everything shooting down to low but the render distance set to far we got 252 frames a second a pretty impressive showing all told and fortnite as you'd expect looked fantastic that pretty much wraps it up though for today's video if you did enjoy it give it a big old like rating get subscribed if you'd like to see more from me and the team here on the geekery channel thanks for tuning in though and as always we'll see you in the next onewhat is up guys welcome back to another geekerwot video and in this video i'm going to be building an awesome 1500 gaming pc build for 2021 and 2022. i'll be building inside of one of this year's most popular pc cases with an awesome theme across the entire build not only this are we running you through all the components i selected for this system and why today putting it together from start right through to finish before booting it up and seeing how it performs in some of my favorite titles and then some of your guys favorite titles as well let's dive into it though after a quick ad from today's video sponsor the brand new seagate fire cuda 530 is a super fast gen 4 nvme drive that provides incredible speeds life-lasting endurance and support for playstation 5. with both read and write speeds in the region of 7 gigabytes a second this drive delivers incredible speeds with huge capacities available let's kick things off by taking a look at the case the thermaltake tower 100 has a really unique aesthetic that's taken the case market by storm in all honesty this year this is a limited edition racing green version they've just brought out that looks awesome it's a theme we're going to try and continue around the entire system today including this really really snazzy racing green the tough ram that's actually going to perfectly match the colorway of the case with plenty of glass and a really unique form factor it's going to make for a build that's just that little bit special it's also got a really unique form factor as you can probably tell from the size of the box and actually stands up vertically i've just seen my first glimpse of the green and i'm not gonna lie it looks insane now i know the big trend nowadays is to spray paint your pc case and i'm sure it's something we'll be doing soon on the channel but if you can get it from the factory with an awesome powder coat green finish then i mean why the hell not let's just pop this on the table take off the plastic sleeve wow that looks awesome so we've got tempered glass on the front and on both the sides but still plenty of ventilation we've got vents at the top events on the right hand side vents on the left-hand side vents on the bottom more vents on the bottom basically ventilation oh at the back as well vents everywhere which should help keep the system today as cool as possible i don't mean to sound like a broken record but let's actually start off by removing as many of the case's side panels as possible and then just store them safely inside your cases included box this will make sure you don't drop them smash them break them scratch them or anything like that which could ruin your build so let's get all those off and then we can move on and look at the motherboard and the processor i appreciate what i've just done is made the case look a lot like a skeleton but it does clear up room to mount the motherboard on these four standoffs which we'll cover in more detail in just a moment for the motherboard i've gone for msi's b550i gaming edge wi-fi now this board basically has all the key features and functionality that we need for a system like this it's got gen4 nvme ssd support room for two ram dimms support for the latest ryzen 5000 processors out of the box and wi-fi on board you get a little bit of overclocking headroom not loads but that's not really the point with a motherboard like this in a small form factor system at least for the processor then first i've gone for amd's ryzen 5 5600x with six cores 12 threads and some great multi-threaded and single threaded performance you know it's going to be a great option for the system it is more expensive than some of intel's current 11th gen i5s but that's for a reason it's a better processor as a general rule of thumb you can run up to an rtx 3070 on this chip without really any bottlenecking and even some titles on an rtx 3080. the cpu though is just one part of the equation to really complete our sum we need to go for some good memory and that's where thermaltake's tough ram racing green edition comes in this is obviously perfectly designed to match up with the case there are mixed feelings on this colorway jake in the office is not a fan but i personally think it looks really really awesome you can get this memory in a black instead much like you can get the case in a black two but this match is actually a really really nice touch and just gives the build a little bit of something different which i think is what you want when you're spending a bit extra money on a nicer chassis an itx motherboard and gen 4 storage which we'll move on to later pull back the dimms on your ram dimm slots and then simply slide the memory into place a bit of pressure to each side and this nice quick 3600 megahertz kit is going to be installed now one thing we are definitely going to get right in this system is the storage i've actually gone for seagate's fire cuda 530 a big shout out to seagate who actually were kind enough to make today's video possible this drive is one of their latest gen 4 options and it might just be the fastest consumer gen 4 drive on the market read and write speeds are both in the region of 7 gigabytes a second the right number is the really crucial one that other brands just can't quite hit which makes this drive an awesome proposition they do have some slightly cheaper gen 4 options like the fire cuda 520 available and this drive personally i'd go for a one terabyte option to really fit in the budget today as opposed to two terabytes but plenty of options and we'll link them down at ebuyer and amazon in the description below now also seems like a good time to install the cool ad before going ahead and moving the motherboard into the case now to be clear a liquid cooler a 120mm would work really well for today's build but an air cooler is perhaps the more budget option that just allows you to get a little bit more in the price to performance department this thermaltake tough air 310 is nice and cheap but does a good job for the system today and is fairly easily installed by popping these four posts through the included plastic backplate which will then in turn go through the rear of the motherboard drop on these plastic spacers add into place this then silver thermal tape metal support bracket and then fasten on these thumb screws once you've done this you put a frame into place that you can screw the cooler onto remember of course though to pop on some thermal paste before you do this to create that nice thermal bond well that was rude and i appear to have lost one to create that nice thermal bond between the processor and the cooler itself you know what that's looking pretty good and moves us nicely on to the next component today the graphics card now i know that this is the most controversial component in any build at the moment but i've heard some of my us fans are having a bit more luck in new egg lotteries and pre-order lists and at least here in the uk if you're prepared to pay a little bit over msrp we are seeing some stock uh at retailers within the uk sales channel now obviously there's no quick fix to the gpu crisis and we'll be making a detailed video discussing this more a little bit later hopefully changes to the way that ethereum is mined on around the 10th of december and increasing supply from semiconductor firms over in taiwan should help to ease things a little bit but unfortunately i think the gpu crisis is not going away anytime particularly soon that's even more of a shame considering how good cards like the rtx 3060 ti are this is a superb gpu for gaming at 1080 and 1440p maxing out those settings and still getting 60 100 150 frames a second depending on the title detailed gaming benchmarks are coming up later though so hang tight and don't go anywhere but for now we're going to go ahead and install the graphics card itself this case has got a really cool design as far as gpus go you simply slot it in the side where you've got glass and ventilation to keep it nice and cool giving you a really really nice aesthetic centerpiece of the build while also retaining all of that really really good airflow in order to install our card today we just need to remove a couple of the pcie lane covers at the top of the case which will get you a nice snazzy b-roll shot of before sliding the gpu in itself and clicking it into place the gpu is looking good and we can wire this up in a moment but i just wanted to go ahead and see what it looked like with those panels on and i've got to say i'm so excited to power the build up for the first time before we do that though we do need to pop in the power supply this is another component from thermaltake they very kindly let this one out and it's an awesome choice for the system today now they have sent out an sfx unit which is a small form factor power supply but the case doesn't need one so i'll link one of their atx options below go for a 650 watt unit or above and that's going to be the perfect option for the system once you've done that go ahead and get everything wired up with all your cables and wiring and tidy up at those cables with a little bit of cable management once you've done this we can boot the system up for the first time and see how it looks and on the keycard channel there's only one thing that can mean an awesome glam montage of this system in action i'll see you in a sec for the gaming benchmarks but first roll that montage i've got to say that montage was sick and i am loving the green lighting we've gone for to kind of fit in with the colour scheme today let me know what you think down in the comments below montage aside though it's now time to take a look at the performance of this system we've tested a wide variety of games and the summary of our findings will be on your screen now as usual if you're new to the channel we will be jumping through game by game in a bit more detail in a second but this summer review is always a really nice one just to give yourself a nice gauge of the performance you could expect if you built this system for yourself gta 5 is the first of the games on our focused titles though here at 1080p high settings tested in the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode we got 136 fps on average that's basically on the cap at a frame rate gta 5 can't really go above 140 150 fps at least at 1080p on the latest cards once you go beyond that point you start to get quite buggy and quite laggy in areas so this was a pretty good result for gta 5. it was a similarly positive story in watchdogs legion here we tested at 1440p high with both ray tracing and dlss enabled this gave us 82 frames a second which was around 25 fps lower than with ray tracing disabled but still a very solid result super playable gameplay it looked visually fantastic as well so it's a win-win all around the msi rtx 3060 ti that's a mouthful also impressed in our next title call of duty's black ops cold war 1440p high settings with dlss enabled gave us 160 frames a second on average but what if you're a player of apex legends the title that's next up today can you expect the same kind of frame rates as we saw in cold war well the short answer sort of here we got 121 frames a second on average at 1440p high settings with 90 and 99 percentile results of 97 and 86 showing that the game basically never went below that 86 fps mark giving consistent frame rates across the board moving on to valorem here at 1440p high settings we got 410 frames a second just casually over 400 fps in one of the latest aaa titles i know valerian is a much easier title to run as well in the grand scheme of things but it's still an impressive thing to see 400 frames a second on average is insane moving on to cyberpunk next up then here we tested at 1440p high but this time with no dlss in our previous videos we managed to achieve around 100 frames a second with dlss enabled and i was interested to see what would happen if we turned it off well in short the frame rate dropped but we still got 74 frames a second on average providing a playable gaming experience in one of the hardest to run games that the pc gaming market has ever seen moving on to fortnight then the last game on the list today and here at 1080p competitive so with everything shooting down to low but the render distance set to far we got 252 frames a second a pretty impressive showing all told and fortnite as you'd expect looked fantastic that pretty much wraps it up though for today's video if you did enjoy it give it a big old like rating get subscribed if you'd like to see more from me and the team here on the geekery channel thanks for tuning in though and as always we'll see you in the next one\n"