**Building a Gaming PC with the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT**

In this article, we'll take a closer look at building a gaming PC with the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT. This powerful GPU is a great option for those looking to upgrade their system or build a new one from scratch.

**Modular Cabling and RGB Fans**

One of the features that sets this system apart is its modular cabling design, which allows users to only plug in the cables they need, reducing clutter and making it easier to manage. This system also features an RGB fan, adding a touch of style and color to the build.

As we mentioned earlier, we won't be covering a full cable management guide in this video, but if you're interested, there's another video on our channel that covers everything from choosing the right cables to installing them correctly.

**The Build**

Before diving into performance testing, let's take a look at how the build came together. The system features a Corsair iCUE 560R case with a tempered glass side panel, providing ample airflow and visibility for the components inside. The motherboard is the ASRock X570M Steel Legend Micro ATX, which supports AMD Ryzen processors and offers a range of features including Wi-Fi, high-quality audio, and USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports.

The CPU we've chosen is the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, a 16-core processor that provides excellent performance for gaming and content creation. We'll also be using Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 RAM memory modules, which offer fast speeds and ample capacity.

**Performance Testing**

Now that we've taken a look at the build, let's dive into some performance testing to see how the system holds up in real-world gaming scenarios. We'll be testing a range of popular games, including AAA titles and esports favorites.

First up is GTA V, which provides a good indication of the system's performance capabilities. In the game's built-in benchmarking mode, we achieved an average frame rate of 128 frames per second at 1440p high settings, with no stuttering or screen tearing to speak of. Watchdogs: Legion also performed well, achieving an average frame rate of 120 frames per second without ray tracing enabled.

However, things took a different turn when we enabled ray tracing in GTA V, resulting in a significant drop to 50 frames per second. This highlights the importance of using ray tracing only when necessary and ensuring that your system can handle the increased workload.

Next up is Call of Duty's Black Ops Cold War, which performed exceptionally well at 1440p high settings without ray tracing enabled, achieving an average frame rate of 155 frames per second. The game looked great, with no lag or stuttering to be seen.

Apex Legends also fared well in this test, achieving an average frame rate of 189 frames per second at 1440p high settings. This is impressive, especially considering the game's demanding requirements for esports-level performance.

Finally, we tested Valvenent, a notoriously difficult game to run on modern hardware. While it didn't quite reach the same heights as some other titles in this test, achieving an average frame rate of 108 frames per second at medium-high settings, the system still managed to deliver solid performance.

**Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone**

Finally, we tested Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone, two games that are notoriously challenging for AMD hardware. In Fortnite, we achieved an average frame rate of over 200 frames per second at 1080p competitive settings, demonstrating the system's ability to handle demanding games at lower resolutions.

However, when we switched to 1080p high settings, the frame rate dropped to around 171 frames per second, highlighting the importance of choosing the right graphics settings for your game. Warzone also performed well, achieving an average frame rate of over 100 frames per second at 1440p medium-high settings.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, this build with the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT delivered impressive performance in a range of popular games, including AAA titles and esports favorites. With its modular cabling design, RGB fans, and powerful hardware, it's an excellent option for those looking to upgrade their system or build a new one from scratch.

As always, we hope you've enjoyed this video and found it informative and helpful. If you did, be sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for more content like this in the future.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwithout your love without your love what is up guys welcome back to another geeker video and in this video i'm going to be building an awesome 1500 gaming pc build for 2021 featuring a ryzen 5 5600x and amd 6800xt this might just be the ultimate team red gaming pc build i'll be building it inside a lovely case from corsair and walking you through all of the other components in today's video alongside that i'll also be showing you how to put the system together from start through to finish showing you guys how you can get hands-on with a system like this in the current climate before testing the machine out in the latest aaa titles and some of the most popular esports games to see the frame rates that we're able to achieve let's dive into the build though after a quick ad from today's video sponsor the western digital black sn850 is a blazing fast gen 4 nvme drive that provides supreme performance and killer speeds with up to 2 terabytes of capacity you can upgrade your system today with super fast storage insane read speeds reach 7 000 megabytes a second with write speeds in the region of 5 300 that's 5.3 gigabytes every single second plus support for playstation 5 means that it isn't just your pc that's ready for the star storage treatment check out the full wd black sn850 range now available in a heatsink version from ebuy.com linked in the description below i'll be walking through each of the components as i actually go ahead and install them which means our glamorous 6800 xt is going to have to wait for a few minutes because first we're going to install the cpu motherboard ram and the ssd these components are often referred to as the core components the parts that are absolutely essential to make any build possible at the heart of this system is the msi b550 tomahawk this is one of my favorite motherboards on the market with support for dual channel memory the latest ryzen cpus and gen4 nvme drives this is an awesome motherboard choice for a system like this one with an am4 plus socket and support for the latest ryzen processors room for dual channel memory with up to four ram dimms support for the latest gem 4mv drives and some pretty good call in it ticks all the major boxes plus it's also got a built-in rear i o shield with one gig and two and a half gigabit ethernet for super fast networking and while no wi-fi is included on this version of the board you can get msi wi-fi boards for a small price premium but as always i'll link all the options down in the description below i'll be coupling the motherboard up with the amd ryzen 5 5600x i appreciate i probably sound like a broken record that just can't stop playing the tunes of the amd 5600x it's a great cpu with six scores 12 threads some superb clock speeds and it basically destroys any of the current 11th generation intel processors that exist 12th gem releases which are rumored to be happening soon might of course be a different story but for now the 5600x is crucially available from a lot of retailers and an awesome choice to install this it literally couldn't be easier locate the golden triangle on the processor itself and line this up with the triangle on the top left corner of your motherboard socket this just gives you the correct orientation for the processor once you've got this drop your ryzen chip into place the amd ryzen text will kind of be parallel with the right hand side of the socket and secure the arm down that's the cpu installed and it's super super simple i'll be pairing the super york with this ram kit from t-force this is their nighthawk gaming a unique rgb kit that's going to look fantastic today and actually is really quite heavy this ram is a nice choice it's got a unique form factor and quite a cool design that does stand out a little bit from the competition plus it's white which should match nicely with our builds colour scheme i was gonna go for a white motherboard but the lack of white graphics cards made that a bit of a waste of time so this is just going to provide us with some nice white accent in at the very least in order to install this find the notch on the memory which believe it or not is actually slightly off center and pull back the clips on the second and the fourth ram dim slots line your memory up drop it down apply a bit of pressure to each side and that's basically it your ram will install nice and easily repeat for as many dimms as you've got and you'll be good to go we can move on then next to our ssd today this was kindly sent over by this video's sponsor western digital and it's a great gen 4 nvme drive with speeds in the region of seven gigabytes a second at least on the read side of the equation and a built-in heatsink it's going to work great it's also compatible with playstation 5 and comes in at some really really competitive price points when you consider just how quick it is to give you an idea of speed this is about 12 times quicker than the fastest sata ssds from just a few years back our speed test will be on your screen now though as well as a web review over on gigawatt.com which you can read in the card section or linked in the description below this heatsink will do a great job of keeping the drive nice and cool something that's important for gen 4 ssds which do get a bit quicker given how powerful the components are to install this we need to locate this slot on the motherboard just below our cpu so we've got our silver sort of end plate and then we've got the screw which we'll use to fasten the drive down for this step you need to throw out your phillips head screwdriver and grab a teeny tiny little screwdriver like this one we can use this to remove the ssd screw before sliding the drive in and using the same screw we just took out to fasten the ssd in once that's done your cpu ram motherboard and storage are all basically complete allowing us to move on to the case and the cooler speaking of which this is the combo i've gone for core says iq 4000 x is one of my favorite cases of the year it's atx great value has tempered glass everywhere and comes with three rgb fans up front as standard plenty of dust filters and some of the best build quality i've seen on a case in a while make it a fantastical rounder usbc a nice design corsair iq the list of benefits goes on and on and on one hour later and on and on two hours later and on and on anyway the cooler i'll be pairing this up with is corsair's h150i elite capellix now i'll be the first to admit the callers may be a tiny bit overkill for the build you could drop down to a 240 mil or even like an air cooler something like the corsair as500 which i surprised one of my editors with in a pc build earlier in the year go and check that video out it's definitely underrated for what it was now taking the case out of the box is never particularly glamorous affair but let's give this a go nice i think i did a pretty good job of that one now with any case i always recommend taking off the side panels before you begin of course you need to take this one off to actually install any components but taking off the front and the rear panels and any dust filters just makes the case feel a little bit more accessible you can then identify each of the standoffs so for us we've got three at the top three across the middle and three along the bottom quite handily this perfectly lines up with our motherboard where we also have three along the top three across the middle and three along the bottom make sure the standoffs are in the right place and just give yourself some time to double or triple check this as a standoff in the wrong place can make contact with the motherboard cause shorting and basically damage hardware something you don't want to happen this motherboard also has a built-in rear i o shield meaning we haven't got to clip that in and allows us to basically just drop the board in so we slide the ball into place with the i o shield poking out the back of the case line it up over those standoffs and the center standoff which is actually slightly raised will hold it into place at least for the time being that makes installing and actually screwing the motherboard in a lot easier you can see as well that it fits perfectly the ram matches up nicely and it's a really really simple process if you take your time and just go through it step by step fasten each of the screws down as i say three at the top three across the middle and three along the bottom and then we can go ahead and look at the cpu cooler in order to pop this h150i into place we need to actually remove the fans at the front of the chassis to begin with what we can actually do here is use these three rgb fans and either have a push-pull orientation as far as airflow goes or relocate them to the top and the back of the case something i think i'm gonna do to decrease temperatures and also give us an aesthetic edge it will mean we have three rgb fans up front two at the top and one at the rear you may want to grab yourself out an electric screwdriver if you've got one for this stage if not a standard one will suffice it's just quite a time consuming process pop off the glass front panel and that will then reveal your dust filter which you can then easily remove as well before actually taking out each of the fans once you've taken the fans out you can go ahead and pop the radiator in with these white fans instead which i think would just look a little bit better at the front of the case you'll also want to use these long screws to go through the radiator and the fan all in one go once you've actually gone ahead and removed these three from the front the white radiator matches the theme perfectly today and will secure nicely at the front of the chassis i don't believe we should have any gpu clearance issues either though we will check that a little bit later on when we go ahead and install the graphics card as i say with this process it's all about just taking it step by step take out the front fans then pop your radiator in and we'll look at the water block in a moment as i say with this part of the process it's all about being patient take out those front fans pop the new radiator into place and relocate them to the top of the chassis and to the back using the same screws you got when you remove them what you then need to do is just go ahead and grab these little brackets that come included with these d-shaped sort of clips with the cooler and pop these on both the top and the bottom of the water block they clip in nice and easily and are what we'll be using to fasten it down around the ryzen processor if you take a look at the mounting hardware around the ryzen cpu itself you'll see we've got these black plastic clips with a notch on each side these notches are what we're going to use with our d brackets to actually fasten the cooler in you will want to pop a dab of thermal paste on your cooler as well if you've used it before or if it doesn't come with some pre-applied before fastening the cooler carefully into place for this i have just flipped the case down on its back to make things a bit easier and make sure we're not fighting gravity when we go ahead and install the water block that's looking pretty good i'm liking it but not nearly as good as what our graphics card's gonna look like once that's installed now we will be the first to admit that the builds here on the channel have been quite nvidia centric as of late that's mainly because nvidia cards are easier for not only us but also you guys to get hold of but hopefully with ethereum changing its mining structures at the beginning of december that could be about to change and that's where the amd radeon 6800 xt comes in now that amd have their answer to nvidia's dlss through fidelity effects super effects or fidelity super effects something along those lines they've become a lot more competitive in some of the most popular games out there this is the gaming x trio version from msi it provides a fantastic caller that goes ahead to rival the likes of the acer strix card it sits just below the supreme often found on like their 3080 ti for example but still gives you great cooling lots of rgb and a really solid feature set i am a little bit concerned about gpu clearance this case is pretty good but with our push-pull rad at the front we might have squeezed out a little bit of space so let's just go ahead and see how much look we're going to have in today's video aesthetically though this thing is super nice rgb light bar at the top a really solid back plate it actually fits quite well into sort of a two two and a half slot form factor with these three large fans that give great factory overclock speeds even more overclocking headroom and some really solid temperatures take off the protective pcie cover here and then we're going to install it into our top pcie slot in one of those here's what i prepared earlier moments i've gone ahead and just removed the two rear pcie covers as well allowing us to install the gpu which hopefully is going to fit in the case moment of truth time here we go okay that's looking pretty positive so far oh easy there's loads of room it could have been even bigger than this there we go slide it in clip it into place that is a perfect fit now we probably well you couldn't do push-pull on our radiator so you couldn't put more fans at the rear but with our two exhaust at the top whoa our two exhaust at the top and the exhaust at the back which will illuminate our case quite nicely i think it's looking pretty good this graphics card just needs a pair of eight pin power connectors but we'll deal with the cables and wiring in a second first we need to fasten the gpu down with a couple of screws to make sure it's not gonna flop about and go anywhere after all it is quite a hefty boy as far as cables and wiring goes this is what i've opted to use this is corsair's cx750f it's kind of a take on their old cx750m it's still modular but now they do a white version it's got an rgb fan and it is fully modular rather than semi-modular that means you only plug in the cables you need now as a word of warning this video won't be a full cables and wiring guide but we have got one of those on the channel which you can check out at the video in the cards now or down in the description below for mobile users that video should cover off all of the bases nicely and give you a good idea for this system of how to go ahead and plug these in i'm going to go ahead and plug these up though in a little time lapse before jumping into a montage of how good this system looks when it's all powered up with all of those corsair iq rgbs nicely in sync once we've done that we can go ahead and look at performance but first roll that montage now that we've seen how good this system looks when it's all powered up what about performance well the 6800 xt is a really strong card as you can see from the summary numbers on your screen now this gives you a quick rundown of all the different games that we tested out from aaa titles to older popular esports games too we'll be taking a deeper dive title by title in a second but i like this overview as it gives us a good indication of where the 6800 xt sits the first of those focus titles is gta 5. here we got an average of 128 frames per second at 1440p high tested using the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode it was pretty lag free no stuttering no screen tearing particularly and the game looked visually great watchdog's legion is a similar story at 1440p high with no ray tracing enabled we got an average of 120 frames per second with 90 and 99th percentile results which didn't really waver too much from this level sadly with ray tracing enabled it was a different story and the frame rate plummeted to 50 frames per second so stick with ray tracing off especially if you build in an amd system at least for the time being what about something like call of duty's black ops cold war well once again at 1440p high settings with ray tracing disabled we got 155 frames per second on average so once again some really strong results here the game looked great no lag no stuttering no screen tearing and while the ray tracing results were significantly worse at 66 frames per second the straight rasterization was really solid what about something like apex legends though it's overtaken warzone recently in popularity but does this system have the cohonas as they would say to actually match up with that reputation to actually perform in the way we need it to well i'm glad to report that it does at 189 frames per second on average the game looked great this is high settings remember and we're still achieving esports level frame rates talking of esports level frame rates it brings us on nicely to the next game today valorent here at 1440p high settings we got just shy of 400 frames per second 385 fps on average some really really incredible results the 90 and 99th percentile results were in the same region all above 300 frames meaning the frame rate didn't really fluctuate pretty much at all but what about cyberpunk one of the most difficult games to run on the market right now and definitely the most strenuous on the list today it's also quite poorly optimized but more on that in another video here we got an average of 108 frames per second no ray tracing or anything like that but that's the way i'd recommend you run the title anyway this was at medium to high settings 1440p moving on to fortnite next up here we ran at 1080p competitive settings and achieved over 200 frames per second on average fortnight is a game where amd's straight rasterization approach really works well and as you can see here the frame rate was solid but here's a bit of a curve ball what about fortnight at 1080p high settings some of you are going to be in disbelief james we don't want to play at high settings will you only lose just over 30 fps jumping you down to 171 so definitely consider fortnite at higher settings if you're on an amd gpu finally then the last game today is call of duty's war zone not quite as popular anymore but still pretty highly played and here we got over 100 frames per second at 132 fps on average 90 and 99th percentile results are strong as well showing not too much by way of frame rate fluctuation so that's pretty good and with that that pretty much wraps it up for today's video if you did enjoy it give it a big old light rating make sure to get subscribed thanks for watching though and as always we'll see you in the next onewithout your love without your love what is up guys welcome back to another geeker video and in this video i'm going to be building an awesome 1500 gaming pc build for 2021 featuring a ryzen 5 5600x and amd 6800xt this might just be the ultimate team red gaming pc build i'll be building it inside a lovely case from corsair and walking you through all of the other components in today's video alongside that i'll also be showing you how to put the system together from start through to finish showing you guys how you can get hands-on with a system like this in the current climate before testing the machine out in the latest aaa titles and some of the most popular esports games to see the frame rates that we're able to achieve let's dive into the build though after a quick ad from today's video sponsor the western digital black sn850 is a blazing fast gen 4 nvme drive that provides supreme performance and killer speeds with up to 2 terabytes of capacity you can upgrade your system today with super fast storage insane read speeds reach 7 000 megabytes a second with write speeds in the region of 5 300 that's 5.3 gigabytes every single second plus support for playstation 5 means that it isn't just your pc that's ready for the star storage treatment check out the full wd black sn850 range now available in a heatsink version from ebuy.com linked in the description below i'll be walking through each of the components as i actually go ahead and install them which means our glamorous 6800 xt is going to have to wait for a few minutes because first we're going to install the cpu motherboard ram and the ssd these components are often referred to as the core components the parts that are absolutely essential to make any build possible at the heart of this system is the msi b550 tomahawk this is one of my favorite motherboards on the market with support for dual channel memory the latest ryzen cpus and gen4 nvme drives this is an awesome motherboard choice for a system like this one with an am4 plus socket and support for the latest ryzen processors room for dual channel memory with up to four ram dimms support for the latest gem 4mv drives and some pretty good call in it ticks all the major boxes plus it's also got a built-in rear i o shield with one gig and two and a half gigabit ethernet for super fast networking and while no wi-fi is included on this version of the board you can get msi wi-fi boards for a small price premium but as always i'll link all the options down in the description below i'll be coupling the motherboard up with the amd ryzen 5 5600x i appreciate i probably sound like a broken record that just can't stop playing the tunes of the amd 5600x it's a great cpu with six scores 12 threads some superb clock speeds and it basically destroys any of the current 11th generation intel processors that exist 12th gem releases which are rumored to be happening soon might of course be a different story but for now the 5600x is crucially available from a lot of retailers and an awesome choice to install this it literally couldn't be easier locate the golden triangle on the processor itself and line this up with the triangle on the top left corner of your motherboard socket this just gives you the correct orientation for the processor once you've got this drop your ryzen chip into place the amd ryzen text will kind of be parallel with the right hand side of the socket and secure the arm down that's the cpu installed and it's super super simple i'll be pairing the super york with this ram kit from t-force this is their nighthawk gaming a unique rgb kit that's going to look fantastic today and actually is really quite heavy this ram is a nice choice it's got a unique form factor and quite a cool design that does stand out a little bit from the competition plus it's white which should match nicely with our builds colour scheme i was gonna go for a white motherboard but the lack of white graphics cards made that a bit of a waste of time so this is just going to provide us with some nice white accent in at the very least in order to install this find the notch on the memory which believe it or not is actually slightly off center and pull back the clips on the second and the fourth ram dim slots line your memory up drop it down apply a bit of pressure to each side and that's basically it your ram will install nice and easily repeat for as many dimms as you've got and you'll be good to go we can move on then next to our ssd today this was kindly sent over by this video's sponsor western digital and it's a great gen 4 nvme drive with speeds in the region of seven gigabytes a second at least on the read side of the equation and a built-in heatsink it's going to work great it's also compatible with playstation 5 and comes in at some really really competitive price points when you consider just how quick it is to give you an idea of speed this is about 12 times quicker than the fastest sata ssds from just a few years back our speed test will be on your screen now though as well as a web review over on gigawatt.com which you can read in the card section or linked in the description below this heatsink will do a great job of keeping the drive nice and cool something that's important for gen 4 ssds which do get a bit quicker given how powerful the components are to install this we need to locate this slot on the motherboard just below our cpu so we've got our silver sort of end plate and then we've got the screw which we'll use to fasten the drive down for this step you need to throw out your phillips head screwdriver and grab a teeny tiny little screwdriver like this one we can use this to remove the ssd screw before sliding the drive in and using the same screw we just took out to fasten the ssd in once that's done your cpu ram motherboard and storage are all basically complete allowing us to move on to the case and the cooler speaking of which this is the combo i've gone for core says iq 4000 x is one of my favorite cases of the year it's atx great value has tempered glass everywhere and comes with three rgb fans up front as standard plenty of dust filters and some of the best build quality i've seen on a case in a while make it a fantastical rounder usbc a nice design corsair iq the list of benefits goes on and on and on one hour later and on and on two hours later and on and on anyway the cooler i'll be pairing this up with is corsair's h150i elite capellix now i'll be the first to admit the callers may be a tiny bit overkill for the build you could drop down to a 240 mil or even like an air cooler something like the corsair as500 which i surprised one of my editors with in a pc build earlier in the year go and check that video out it's definitely underrated for what it was now taking the case out of the box is never particularly glamorous affair but let's give this a go nice i think i did a pretty good job of that one now with any case i always recommend taking off the side panels before you begin of course you need to take this one off to actually install any components but taking off the front and the rear panels and any dust filters just makes the case feel a little bit more accessible you can then identify each of the standoffs so for us we've got three at the top three across the middle and three along the bottom quite handily this perfectly lines up with our motherboard where we also have three along the top three across the middle and three along the bottom make sure the standoffs are in the right place and just give yourself some time to double or triple check this as a standoff in the wrong place can make contact with the motherboard cause shorting and basically damage hardware something you don't want to happen this motherboard also has a built-in rear i o shield meaning we haven't got to clip that in and allows us to basically just drop the board in so we slide the ball into place with the i o shield poking out the back of the case line it up over those standoffs and the center standoff which is actually slightly raised will hold it into place at least for the time being that makes installing and actually screwing the motherboard in a lot easier you can see as well that it fits perfectly the ram matches up nicely and it's a really really simple process if you take your time and just go through it step by step fasten each of the screws down as i say three at the top three across the middle and three along the bottom and then we can go ahead and look at the cpu cooler in order to pop this h150i into place we need to actually remove the fans at the front of the chassis to begin with what we can actually do here is use these three rgb fans and either have a push-pull orientation as far as airflow goes or relocate them to the top and the back of the case something i think i'm gonna do to decrease temperatures and also give us an aesthetic edge it will mean we have three rgb fans up front two at the top and one at the rear you may want to grab yourself out an electric screwdriver if you've got one for this stage if not a standard one will suffice it's just quite a time consuming process pop off the glass front panel and that will then reveal your dust filter which you can then easily remove as well before actually taking out each of the fans once you've taken the fans out you can go ahead and pop the radiator in with these white fans instead which i think would just look a little bit better at the front of the case you'll also want to use these long screws to go through the radiator and the fan all in one go once you've actually gone ahead and removed these three from the front the white radiator matches the theme perfectly today and will secure nicely at the front of the chassis i don't believe we should have any gpu clearance issues either though we will check that a little bit later on when we go ahead and install the graphics card as i say with this process it's all about just taking it step by step take out the front fans then pop your radiator in and we'll look at the water block in a moment as i say with this part of the process it's all about being patient take out those front fans pop the new radiator into place and relocate them to the top of the chassis and to the back using the same screws you got when you remove them what you then need to do is just go ahead and grab these little brackets that come included with these d-shaped sort of clips with the cooler and pop these on both the top and the bottom of the water block they clip in nice and easily and are what we'll be using to fasten it down around the ryzen processor if you take a look at the mounting hardware around the ryzen cpu itself you'll see we've got these black plastic clips with a notch on each side these notches are what we're going to use with our d brackets to actually fasten the cooler in you will want to pop a dab of thermal paste on your cooler as well if you've used it before or if it doesn't come with some pre-applied before fastening the cooler carefully into place for this i have just flipped the case down on its back to make things a bit easier and make sure we're not fighting gravity when we go ahead and install the water block that's looking pretty good i'm liking it but not nearly as good as what our graphics card's gonna look like once that's installed now we will be the first to admit that the builds here on the channel have been quite nvidia centric as of late that's mainly because nvidia cards are easier for not only us but also you guys to get hold of but hopefully with ethereum changing its mining structures at the beginning of december that could be about to change and that's where the amd radeon 6800 xt comes in now that amd have their answer to nvidia's dlss through fidelity effects super effects or fidelity super effects something along those lines they've become a lot more competitive in some of the most popular games out there this is the gaming x trio version from msi it provides a fantastic caller that goes ahead to rival the likes of the acer strix card it sits just below the supreme often found on like their 3080 ti for example but still gives you great cooling lots of rgb and a really solid feature set i am a little bit concerned about gpu clearance this case is pretty good but with our push-pull rad at the front we might have squeezed out a little bit of space so let's just go ahead and see how much look we're going to have in today's video aesthetically though this thing is super nice rgb light bar at the top a really solid back plate it actually fits quite well into sort of a two two and a half slot form factor with these three large fans that give great factory overclock speeds even more overclocking headroom and some really solid temperatures take off the protective pcie cover here and then we're going to install it into our top pcie slot in one of those here's what i prepared earlier moments i've gone ahead and just removed the two rear pcie covers as well allowing us to install the gpu which hopefully is going to fit in the case moment of truth time here we go okay that's looking pretty positive so far oh easy there's loads of room it could have been even bigger than this there we go slide it in clip it into place that is a perfect fit now we probably well you couldn't do push-pull on our radiator so you couldn't put more fans at the rear but with our two exhaust at the top whoa our two exhaust at the top and the exhaust at the back which will illuminate our case quite nicely i think it's looking pretty good this graphics card just needs a pair of eight pin power connectors but we'll deal with the cables and wiring in a second first we need to fasten the gpu down with a couple of screws to make sure it's not gonna flop about and go anywhere after all it is quite a hefty boy as far as cables and wiring goes this is what i've opted to use this is corsair's cx750f it's kind of a take on their old cx750m it's still modular but now they do a white version it's got an rgb fan and it is fully modular rather than semi-modular that means you only plug in the cables you need now as a word of warning this video won't be a full cables and wiring guide but we have got one of those on the channel which you can check out at the video in the cards now or down in the description below for mobile users that video should cover off all of the bases nicely and give you a good idea for this system of how to go ahead and plug these in i'm going to go ahead and plug these up though in a little time lapse before jumping into a montage of how good this system looks when it's all powered up with all of those corsair iq rgbs nicely in sync once we've done that we can go ahead and look at performance but first roll that montage now that we've seen how good this system looks when it's all powered up what about performance well the 6800 xt is a really strong card as you can see from the summary numbers on your screen now this gives you a quick rundown of all the different games that we tested out from aaa titles to older popular esports games too we'll be taking a deeper dive title by title in a second but i like this overview as it gives us a good indication of where the 6800 xt sits the first of those focus titles is gta 5. here we got an average of 128 frames per second at 1440p high tested using the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode it was pretty lag free no stuttering no screen tearing particularly and the game looked visually great watchdog's legion is a similar story at 1440p high with no ray tracing enabled we got an average of 120 frames per second with 90 and 99th percentile results which didn't really waver too much from this level sadly with ray tracing enabled it was a different story and the frame rate plummeted to 50 frames per second so stick with ray tracing off especially if you build in an amd system at least for the time being what about something like call of duty's black ops cold war well once again at 1440p high settings with ray tracing disabled we got 155 frames per second on average so once again some really strong results here the game looked great no lag no stuttering no screen tearing and while the ray tracing results were significantly worse at 66 frames per second the straight rasterization was really solid what about something like apex legends though it's overtaken warzone recently in popularity but does this system have the cohonas as they would say to actually match up with that reputation to actually perform in the way we need it to well i'm glad to report that it does at 189 frames per second on average the game looked great this is high settings remember and we're still achieving esports level frame rates talking of esports level frame rates it brings us on nicely to the next game today valorent here at 1440p high settings we got just shy of 400 frames per second 385 fps on average some really really incredible results the 90 and 99th percentile results were in the same region all above 300 frames meaning the frame rate didn't really fluctuate pretty much at all but what about cyberpunk one of the most difficult games to run on the market right now and definitely the most strenuous on the list today it's also quite poorly optimized but more on that in another video here we got an average of 108 frames per second no ray tracing or anything like that but that's the way i'd recommend you run the title anyway this was at medium to high settings 1440p moving on to fortnite next up here we ran at 1080p competitive settings and achieved over 200 frames per second on average fortnight is a game where amd's straight rasterization approach really works well and as you can see here the frame rate was solid but here's a bit of a curve ball what about fortnight at 1080p high settings some of you are going to be in disbelief james we don't want to play at high settings will you only lose just over 30 fps jumping you down to 171 so definitely consider fortnite at higher settings if you're on an amd gpu finally then the last game today is call of duty's war zone not quite as popular anymore but still pretty highly played and here we got over 100 frames per second at 132 fps on average 90 and 99th percentile results are strong as well showing not too much by way of frame rate fluctuation so that's pretty good and with that that pretty much wraps it up for today's video if you did enjoy it give it a big old light rating make sure to get subscribed thanks for watching though and as always we'll see you in the next onewithout your love without your love what is up guys welcome back to another geeker video and in this video i'm going to be building an awesome 1500 gaming pc build for 2021 featuring a ryzen 5 5600x and amd 6800xt this might just be the ultimate team red gaming pc build i'll be building it inside a lovely case from corsair and walking you through all of the other components in today's video alongside that i'll also be showing you how to put the system together from start through to finish showing you guys how you can get hands-on with a system like this in the current climate before testing the machine out in the latest aaa titles and some of the most popular esports games to see the frame rates that we're able to achieve let's dive into the build though after a quick ad from today's video sponsor the western digital black sn850 is a blazing fast gen 4 nvme drive that provides supreme performance and killer speeds with up to 2 terabytes of capacity you can upgrade your system today with super fast storage insane read speeds reach 7 000 megabytes a second with write speeds in the region of 5 300 that's 5.3 gigabytes every single second plus support for playstation 5 means that it isn't just your pc that's ready for the star storage treatment check out the full wd black sn850 range now available in a heatsink version from ebuy.com linked in the description below i'll be walking through each of the components as i actually go ahead and install them which means our glamorous 6800 xt is going to have to wait for a few minutes because first we're going to install the cpu motherboard ram and the ssd these components are often referred to as the core components the parts that are absolutely essential to make any build possible at the heart of this system is the msi b550 tomahawk this is one of my favorite motherboards on the market with support for dual channel memory the latest ryzen cpus and gen4 nvme drives this is an awesome motherboard choice for a system like this one with an am4 plus socket and support for the latest ryzen processors room for dual channel memory with up to four ram dimms support for the latest gem 4mv drives and some pretty good call in it ticks all the major boxes plus it's also got a built-in rear i o shield with one gig and two and a half gigabit ethernet for super fast networking and while no wi-fi is included on this version of the board you can get msi wi-fi boards for a small price premium but as always i'll link all the options down in the description below i'll be coupling the motherboard up with the amd ryzen 5 5600x i appreciate i probably sound like a broken record that just can't stop playing the tunes of the amd 5600x it's a great cpu with six scores 12 threads some superb clock speeds and it basically destroys any of the current 11th generation intel processors that exist 12th gem releases which are rumored to be happening soon might of course be a different story but for now the 5600x is crucially available from a lot of retailers and an awesome choice to install this it literally couldn't be easier locate the golden triangle on the processor itself and line this up with the triangle on the top left corner of your motherboard socket this just gives you the correct orientation for the processor once you've got this drop your ryzen chip into place the amd ryzen text will kind of be parallel with the right hand side of the socket and secure the arm down that's the cpu installed and it's super super simple i'll be pairing the super york with this ram kit from t-force this is their nighthawk gaming a unique rgb kit that's going to look fantastic today and actually is really quite heavy this ram is a nice choice it's got a unique form factor and quite a cool design that does stand out a little bit from the competition plus it's white which should match nicely with our builds colour scheme i was gonna go for a white motherboard but the lack of white graphics cards made that a bit of a waste of time so this is just going to provide us with some nice white accent in at the very least in order to install this find the notch on the memory which believe it or not is actually slightly off center and pull back the clips on the second and the fourth ram dim slots line your memory up drop it down apply a bit of pressure to each side and that's basically it your ram will install nice and easily repeat for as many dimms as you've got and you'll be good to go we can move on then next to our ssd today this was kindly sent over by this video's sponsor western digital and it's a great gen 4 nvme drive with speeds in the region of seven gigabytes a second at least on the read side of the equation and a built-in heatsink it's going to work great it's also compatible with playstation 5 and comes in at some really really competitive price points when you consider just how quick it is to give you an idea of speed this is about 12 times quicker than the fastest sata ssds from just a few years back our speed test will be on your screen now though as well as a web review over on gigawatt.com which you can read in the card section or linked in the description below this heatsink will do a great job of keeping the drive nice and cool something that's important for gen 4 ssds which do get a bit quicker given how powerful the components are to install this we need to locate this slot on the motherboard just below our cpu so we've got our silver sort of end plate and then we've got the screw which we'll use to fasten the drive down for this step you need to throw out your phillips head screwdriver and grab a teeny tiny little screwdriver like this one we can use this to remove the ssd screw before sliding the drive in and using the same screw we just took out to fasten the ssd in once that's done your cpu ram motherboard and storage are all basically complete allowing us to move on to the case and the cooler speaking of which this is the combo i've gone for core says iq 4000 x is one of my favorite cases of the year it's atx great value has tempered glass everywhere and comes with three rgb fans up front as standard plenty of dust filters and some of the best build quality i've seen on a case in a while make it a fantastical rounder usbc a nice design corsair iq the list of benefits goes on and on and on one hour later and on and on two hours later and on and on anyway the cooler i'll be pairing this up with is corsair's h150i elite capellix now i'll be the first to admit the callers may be a tiny bit overkill for the build you could drop down to a 240 mil or even like an air cooler something like the corsair as500 which i surprised one of my editors with in a pc build earlier in the year go and check that video out it's definitely underrated for what it was now taking the case out of the box is never particularly glamorous affair but let's give this a go nice i think i did a pretty good job of that one now with any case i always recommend taking off the side panels before you begin of course you need to take this one off to actually install any components but taking off the front and the rear panels and any dust filters just makes the case feel a little bit more accessible you can then identify each of the standoffs so for us we've got three at the top three across the middle and three along the bottom quite handily this perfectly lines up with our motherboard where we also have three along the top three across the middle and three along the bottom make sure the standoffs are in the right place and just give yourself some time to double or triple check this as a standoff in the wrong place can make contact with the motherboard cause shorting and basically damage hardware something you don't want to happen this motherboard also has a built-in rear i o shield meaning we haven't got to clip that in and allows us to basically just drop the board in so we slide the ball into place with the i o shield poking out the back of the case line it up over those standoffs and the center standoff which is actually slightly raised will hold it into place at least for the time being that makes installing and actually screwing the motherboard in a lot easier you can see as well that it fits perfectly the ram matches up nicely and it's a really really simple process if you take your time and just go through it step by step fasten each of the screws down as i say three at the top three across the middle and three along the bottom and then we can go ahead and look at the cpu cooler in order to pop this h150i into place we need to actually remove the fans at the front of the chassis to begin with what we can actually do here is use these three rgb fans and either have a push-pull orientation as far as airflow goes or relocate them to the top and the back of the case something i think i'm gonna do to decrease temperatures and also give us an aesthetic edge it will mean we have three rgb fans up front two at the top and one at the rear you may want to grab yourself out an electric screwdriver if you've got one for this stage if not a standard one will suffice it's just quite a time consuming process pop off the glass front panel and that will then reveal your dust filter which you can then easily remove as well before actually taking out each of the fans once you've taken the fans out you can go ahead and pop the radiator in with these white fans instead which i think would just look a little bit better at the front of the case you'll also want to use these long screws to go through the radiator and the fan all in one go once you've actually gone ahead and removed these three from the front the white radiator matches the theme perfectly today and will secure nicely at the front of the chassis i don't believe we should have any gpu clearance issues either though we will check that a little bit later on when we go ahead and install the graphics card as i say with this process it's all about just taking it step by step take out the front fans then pop your radiator in and we'll look at the water block in a moment as i say with this part of the process it's all about being patient take out those front fans pop the new radiator into place and relocate them to the top of the chassis and to the back using the same screws you got when you remove them what you then need to do is just go ahead and grab these little brackets that come included with these d-shaped sort of clips with the cooler and pop these on both the top and the bottom of the water block they clip in nice and easily and are what we'll be using to fasten it down around the ryzen processor if you take a look at the mounting hardware around the ryzen cpu itself you'll see we've got these black plastic clips with a notch on each side these notches are what we're going to use with our d brackets to actually fasten the cooler in you will want to pop a dab of thermal paste on your cooler as well if you've used it before or if it doesn't come with some pre-applied before fastening the cooler carefully into place for this i have just flipped the case down on its back to make things a bit easier and make sure we're not fighting gravity when we go ahead and install the water block that's looking pretty good i'm liking it but not nearly as good as what our graphics card's gonna look like once that's installed now we will be the first to admit that the builds here on the channel have been quite nvidia centric as of late that's mainly because nvidia cards are easier for not only us but also you guys to get hold of but hopefully with ethereum changing its mining structures at the beginning of december that could be about to change and that's where the amd radeon 6800 xt comes in now that amd have their answer to nvidia's dlss through fidelity effects super effects or fidelity super effects something along those lines they've become a lot more competitive in some of the most popular games out there this is the gaming x trio version from msi it provides a fantastic caller that goes ahead to rival the likes of the acer strix card it sits just below the supreme often found on like their 3080 ti for example but still gives you great cooling lots of rgb and a really solid feature set i am a little bit concerned about gpu clearance this case is pretty good but with our push-pull rad at the front we might have squeezed out a little bit of space so let's just go ahead and see how much look we're going to have in today's video aesthetically though this thing is super nice rgb light bar at the top a really solid back plate it actually fits quite well into sort of a two two and a half slot form factor with these three large fans that give great factory overclock speeds even more overclocking headroom and some really solid temperatures take off the protective pcie cover here and then we're going to install it into our top pcie slot in one of those here's what i prepared earlier moments i've gone ahead and just removed the two rear pcie covers as well allowing us to install the gpu which hopefully is going to fit in the case moment of truth time here we go okay that's looking pretty positive so far oh easy there's loads of room it could have been even bigger than this there we go slide it in clip it into place that is a perfect fit now we probably well you couldn't do push-pull on our radiator so you couldn't put more fans at the rear but with our two exhaust at the top whoa our two exhaust at the top and the exhaust at the back which will illuminate our case quite nicely i think it's looking pretty good this graphics card just needs a pair of eight pin power connectors but we'll deal with the cables and wiring in a second first we need to fasten the gpu down with a couple of screws to make sure it's not gonna flop about and go anywhere after all it is quite a hefty boy as far as cables and wiring goes this is what i've opted to use this is corsair's cx750f it's kind of a take on their old cx750m it's still modular but now they do a white version it's got an rgb fan and it is fully modular rather than semi-modular that means you only plug in the cables you need now as a word of warning this video won't be a full cables and wiring guide but we have got one of those on the channel which you can check out at the video in the cards now or down in the description below for mobile users that video should cover off all of the bases nicely and give you a good idea for this system of how to go ahead and plug these in i'm going to go ahead and plug these up though in a little time lapse before jumping into a montage of how good this system looks when it's all powered up with all of those corsair iq rgbs nicely in sync once we've done that we can go ahead and look at performance but first roll that montage now that we've seen how good this system looks when it's all powered up what about performance well the 6800 xt is a really strong card as you can see from the summary numbers on your screen now this gives you a quick rundown of all the different games that we tested out from aaa titles to older popular esports games too we'll be taking a deeper dive title by title in a second but i like this overview as it gives us a good indication of where the 6800 xt sits the first of those focus titles is gta 5. here we got an average of 128 frames per second at 1440p high tested using the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode it was pretty lag free no stuttering no screen tearing particularly and the game looked visually great watchdog's legion is a similar story at 1440p high with no ray tracing enabled we got an average of 120 frames per second with 90 and 99th percentile results which didn't really waver too much from this level sadly with ray tracing enabled it was a different story and the frame rate plummeted to 50 frames per second so stick with ray tracing off especially if you build in an amd system at least for the time being what about something like call of duty's black ops cold war well once again at 1440p high settings with ray tracing disabled we got 155 frames per second on average so once again some really strong results here the game looked great no lag no stuttering no screen tearing and while the ray tracing results were significantly worse at 66 frames per second the straight rasterization was really solid what about something like apex legends though it's overtaken warzone recently in popularity but does this system have the cohonas as they would say to actually match up with that reputation to actually perform in the way we need it to well i'm glad to report that it does at 189 frames per second on average the game looked great this is high settings remember and we're still achieving esports level frame rates talking of esports level frame rates it brings us on nicely to the next game today valorent here at 1440p high settings we got just shy of 400 frames per second 385 fps on average some really really incredible results the 90 and 99th percentile results were in the same region all above 300 frames meaning the frame rate didn't really fluctuate pretty much at all but what about cyberpunk one of the most difficult games to run on the market right now and definitely the most strenuous on the list today it's also quite poorly optimized but more on that in another video here we got an average of 108 frames per second no ray tracing or anything like that but that's the way i'd recommend you run the title anyway this was at medium to high settings 1440p moving on to fortnite next up here we ran at 1080p competitive settings and achieved over 200 frames per second on average fortnight is a game where amd's straight rasterization approach really works well and as you can see here the frame rate was solid but here's a bit of a curve ball what about fortnight at 1080p high settings some of you are going to be in disbelief james we don't want to play at high settings will you only lose just over 30 fps jumping you down to 171 so definitely consider fortnite at higher settings if you're on an amd gpu finally then the last game today is call of duty's war zone not quite as popular anymore but still pretty highly played and here we got over 100 frames per second at 132 fps on average 90 and 99th percentile results are strong as well showing not too much by way of frame rate fluctuation so that's pretty good and with that that pretty much wraps it up for today's video if you did enjoy it give it a big old light rating make sure to get subscribed thanks for watching though and as always we'll see you in the next one\n"