**Building the Ultimate Gaming System: A $4,000 Budget Breakdown**

When it comes to building a high-performance gaming system, budget is no object. In this article, we'll take a closer look at the components used to build a beast of a machine that's sure to satisfy even the most demanding gamers.

**The Brain of the Operation: The 5930K Neptun X99 Raider**

At the heart of this system lies the Intel Core i9-11900K processor, codenamed "Neptune." This behemoth of a CPU boasts eight cores and sixteen threads, making it the perfect centerpiece for our gaming rig. With its 3.2 GHz base clock speed and 4.8 GHz boost clock, this processor is capable of handling even the most demanding games with ease.

**The Motherboard: The ASUS PRIME Z590-A**

To support our CPU, we need a motherboard that can handle it. The ASUS PRIME Z590-A is an excellent choice, offering a robust feature set and top-notch build quality. With its 24G of DDR4 RAM support and Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, this motherboard has everything we need to take our system to the next level.

**The Storage: The WD Black SN750 NVMe SSD**

Storage is another crucial component in any gaming system. To provide a fast and reliable storage solution, we've opted for the Western Digital Black SN750 NVMe SSD. This 2TB drive offers blistering speeds of up to 3500 MB/s read and 3000 MB/s write, making it perfect for loading games and storing our operating system.

**The Power Supply: The EVGA SuperNOVA 850 GA**

A reliable power supply is essential in any gaming build. To ensure that our system runs smoothly and efficiently, we've chosen the EVGA SuperNOVA 850 GA. This 80+ Gold certified power supply offers a whopping 850W of clean power, making it more than enough to handle even the most demanding systems.

**The Case: The Cooler Master Mastercase Pro 5**

Now that our components are in place, we need a case to hold them all together. The Cooler Master Mastercase Pro 5 is an excellent choice, offering a sleek and modern design with plenty of room for customization. With its steel construction and tempered glass side panel, this case is both functional and visually appealing.

**The Cooling: The Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3**

Keeping our system cool is crucial in high-performance builds like this one. To ensure that our components stay within a safe temperature range, we've opted for the Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3. This highly-regarded CPU cooler offers excellent performance and quiet operation, making it perfect for our build.

**The Mouse: The Logitech G502**

A good mouse is essential in any gaming setup. To provide a comfortable and precise pointing experience, we've chosen the Logitech G502. With its 12,000 CPI optical sensor and durable construction, this mouse is perfect for gamers who demand the best.

**The Keyboard: The Cooler Master QuickFire TK**

For our keyboard needs, we've opted for the Cooler Master QuickFire TK. This highly-regarded mechanical keyboard offers excellent build quality, Cherry MX Red switches, and a sleek black design that matches our system's aesthetic.

**The Headset: The HyperX Cloud Gaming Headset**

Finally, to complete our gaming experience, we need a top-notch headset. The HyperX Cloud Gaming Headset is an excellent choice, offering excellent sound quality, a comfortable fit, and a durable build that can withstand even the most intense gaming sessions.

**The Final Build: Putting it All Together**

With all of our components in place, it's time to assemble our system. By following a careful and meticulous process, we've managed to create a truly exceptional gaming rig that will satisfy even the most demanding gamers.

Here is the full list of components used to build this gaming system:

* Intel Core i9-11900K

* ASUS PRIME Z590-A motherboard

* WD Black SN750 NVMe SSD (2TB)

* EVGA SuperNOVA 850 GA power supply

* Cooler Master Mastercase Pro 5 case

* Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 CPU cooler

* Logitech G502 mouse

* Cooler Master QuickFire TK keyboard

* HyperX Cloud Gaming Headset

With a total cost of $4000, this build is truly a testament to the power and performance that can be achieved with high-end components.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enexcellent hey everyone and welcome back to Paul's Hardware I am doing my monthly builds video as I have been doing uh every month or almost every month for the past few months uh so basically how this works is at the beginning of each month or near the beginning of each month I do a couple builds I assemble these builds using PC part picker and I get all the parts picked out for you guys and then I share them with you and I kind of talk about my thought process as I went through to to make the builds uh as well as hopefully getting the builds kind of kind of speci ified and narrowed down to a really specific type of build that you guys choose um because there's some fan interaction going on here as well now sometimes I actually also build the builds that I talk about later on and I did do that recently with uh for example the entry level x99 build which you can kind of see me assembling here this is over on my channel of course my YouTube channel is Paul's Harbor you're probably watching this on my YouTube channel but I'm also doing this live so the entry level x99 build I actually assembled uh the blue build with the bit Phenix egis also did a couple like a month or two back so these are all lots of fun and I like to assemble them as well because that way it's not just like hey here's a bunch of list of parts um I'm not going to be building the builds for this month just to give you guys that information right off the bat up front the upcoming uh build that I am going to be doing which I haven't done yet is my August build so that's the $2,000 gaming beast and that is coming very soon so uh subscribe to my channel and like this video if you like watching builds and that's probably going to be up in the next week or so so uh today by popular I'm doing a couple pretty high-end builds uh so if you're looking for budgets sorry look up some of my older ones or I'm going to be do more doing more budget stuff next month so for this uh month based on your guys's response and reaction last month results uh so here's here's the results for the September uh for the builds you guys voted on last month which is what you wanted to see me do for September we have two at the top the mini ITX Overkill system so Mini ITX Overkill going to try to pack as much as I can as possible into a mini ITX build we also have the 4K gaming system for $4,000 uh this includes an entire setup so it's not just the base system which I usually do uh and that one was actually a lot of fun actually both of these were a lot of fun I put these together mostly yesterday it took me longer than I thought because there were some uh there were some issues I had to kind of work around with both of these um but let's just let's just get right into it and start off with the mini ITX Overkill system and uh of course I'm using PC part picker to assemble these builds that's a great website because it Compares uh prices across lots of different areas and you can sort of get an initial look here at what I put in it uh but the total cost of this build which I wasn't I didn't have a price point here but it ended up being about $2,630 all together with everything that I picked now it being a miniitx system meant that I needed to start with a mini ITX board and if you ask me mini ITX and Overkill and you put those words together I get this this is the ASRock x99e ITX slac motherboard and uh it's to me is just the definition of I Overkill in mini ITX because it's it's x99 9 socket LGA 2011- V3 uh in a miniitx board it's really the only miniitx board that is Socket LGA 2011 and they even used a narrower uh actual socket on the CPU itself here so it's not exactly uh standard type that's why this board actually ships with the CPU Cooler but I didn't want to use the CPU Cooler that comes with it I wanted something better uh more than more on that in just a moment so starting with the motherboard knowing I wanted to go Haswell e with this CU that's like Overkill next up I wanted to choose the case and here's where I'll probably get lots of feedback from you guys uh which is like what case I should have chosen now thing for me with miniitx is I want miniitx to actually be small and you find mini ITX cases out there that are actually fairly large and so the the graphite series uh uh 380t from Corsair I like because it's actually pretty small it's got a handle on the top so like small portable you can pick it up and carry it around there's like the JW's out on on the actual design of this thing and how much people like it and stuff like that I think it looks pretty cool but um you know there's definitely people who are not as into what it looks like so that being said it's also got tons of ventilation on the top and sides which I thought was important because I'm squeezing a lot of Hardware into here and uh that's pretty much where I started off with was with the motherboard and the case uh so to go along with the motherboard I chose 5820k CPU Intel Core i7 didn't want to go with the Zeon with this because uh lonus already did it he he wedged look with 18 core Zeon or something into this so I'm going not quite as crazy Overkill as that cuz um then you got to go Zeon and that kind of thing so I thought a 5820k would work this made sense to me for a miniitx x99 build because you don't have a bunch of PCI Express slots and you only have what 28 Lanes on the 5820k so even if you went from 5820k to 593k and spent an extra couple you know 150 $200 you're not going to be able to use the extra Lanes you get cuz you don't have slots to to slot them into so I think 28 Lanes is cool and then the next uh option beyond that is going going all the way up to 5960x which you do get an 8 core for that much money but it's 650 bucks more so if you really want to go all Overkill do that or use the Z the 18 core Zeon that lus used um now what I actually ran into a dilemma with this build with was um choosing the CPU Cooler uh and I did some some research on several forums online this is a hard Forum thread specifically about this motherboard and what CPU coolers you can use with it because it's got that weird mounting system that's actually meant for servers like this um so I'll post this link in the video description once I put it up this is a screen cap they posted on here from Linus's build which is that the motherboard actually comes with a bracket a special mounting bracket that you can use in order to put on uh specifically The Cooler Master uh sidon I believe cooler that that that can fit in there um but several people have used it and sort of jury rigged it to uh line up with some other different types of coolers so that's going to be my suggestion the one I actually put in the build at self is uh what did I actually go with The Cooler Master nepton 240m um which also isn't one that it's like you'll notice there's potential issues or incompatibilities at the top of this build and that's specifically because of the uh the cooler the motherboard and the chassis but going back over here to the actual one all right so I chose a nepton 240m because I found at least one dude who's who was like yeah it'll work with this you just have to kind of bend the bracket a little bit there you go uh the other options that are out there might be the hydro series h100i from Corsair is probably like the one you want to go with have a little something on my eye uh the h100i is what you want to go with but it's discontinued and if you look at this price on new it's 150 bucks right now which is insanely overpriced so since they discontinued it like they're all overpriced now so get it 240m maybe instead um you can also get the h100i GTX uh and that one I am told at least according to several of the threads I read uh that you can actually go to ACH and ACH has a bracket you can get that will work with the newer cooler design from the GTX version and then you should hopefully be okay but honestly uh finding a CPU Cooler that was big cuz I wanted a 240 uh that was not too wide for the case because the 380t has a very limited amount of space available there for the um the radiator and the fans and also that had the mount that would fit on this bracket was a bit of a challenge I did actually pretty decent amount of like looking up online of of everything so uh either go with the either go with the h00 I if you can find it for cheap GTX uh if you're willing to contact a tech to get the ilm retention kit which costs about $10 um that will work with the newer kind of rounder pumps that the GTX version has and then you should be able to move on from there all right uh with that hopefully uh minor issue out of the way we can move on to memory got a Corsair Vengeance lpx 32 gig kit um thankfully you can actually get ddr4 dual Channel kits now thanks to Skylake launching so this is 32 gigs 2x 16 so even though you've only got two dim slots can still run a dual Channel and have plenty of memory in there going with the overkill theme I thought 32 gigs of memory would uh would be suitable uh we also have a a storage right and I went kind of kind of crazy with my storage I spent 750 bucks on just the storage in this for 1.5 terabytes of SSD storage um so yeah starting with The hyperx Predator from Kingston uh I chose this one because it's very fast it's m.2 it's PCI Express not SATA or ahci connection so uh it's going to be really fast if you want a cheaper option for this go for the Samsung xp941 you can get the 512 gig version of that which is a little bit more storage than this it is a little bit slower than the Predator um but it's about $1 to $120 cheaper it's also got a green PCB and not the black PCB like the Predator has so you know bear that in mind as well this case does or this system does also have a color theme it's black uh black white and blue kind of goes along with the case and hello to anyone who has joined up in chat thanks to all of you guys for hopping in here uh to round out the storage I got a 1 tbte SSD s d cuz I wanted a 1 TB SSD and I'm tired of loading up games off of mechanical drives so you got the uh predator for like your operating system and some games you got a 1 tab crucial bx1 100 actually available on Mac Mall crazily enough over here and that will give you some massive storage and that will load up all your games really fast and that hey that says Overkill Mini ITX to me uh video card I thought was going to be an interesting choice for this system and as the uh R9 Nano uh just the fury Nano from AMD just came out I bet a lot of you are expecting me to throw that in here I said no I said no to the Nano for this build because this is an Overkill build and the Nano honestly I see what they did with it but they they they brought down its actual performance to me and the thing I was looking at when I was considering the Nano and looking at this system and looking at the ITX cases that are out there it was like most of the ITX cases actually can support pretty long graphics cards like the the length this way which is kind of where you get the shortness of the Nano with the graphics card is is not always a limiting factor and and in fact the uh 380t from Corsair can handle up to 290 mm long graphics card so it can handle pretty long graphics cards so I went with the um I went with the 980ti over the Nano on this one I didn't want to do a fury X but if you're into the fury x wait till my next build uh the 980ti is going to be faster than an Nano it's just it's just gonna and since I didn't need the space I was like all right 98 uh this one from gigabyte I thought would fit in really well because it's got their really nice wind Force cooler triple fans uh it is black and it even has a blue LED on it so it's going to match in with the rest of the uh color scheme of the case and it's going to be flat out faster than a nano or a fury X generally speaking for that matter as well and of course it fits within the 290 mm length since this one is I believe 280 mm long okay uh the power suppli is the last part from this build and for this one I just went with the uh bit Phenix Fury 650 watt um I'm sorry there's not better pictures of this I've actually used this I used this same one in the blue build that I did uh it's black white and blue and and it's got nicely sleeved cabling and uh for you can get a cheaper 650 wat 80 plus gold power supply than this by 10 20 bucks maybe but you can actually get this for not too expensive right now $86 $87 at Super Biz and uh it's got really really nice sleep cable so that's kind of why I went with that one it's got the full package all right and uh that is my Overkill Mini ITX gaming build it's pretty Overkill got you can fit a lot of stuff in that little case and uh I I think it's fun if any of you actually build that let me know cuz of of actually I kind of wanted to build both of these systems but I got to cut myself off sometime all right moving right along to the 4K gaming setup for $4,000 4K for 4K can you do it and since you can that's already been kind of established for less than $4,000 I made this an actual not just a build as far as the case goes but an actual entire gaming setup for $4,000 so that means not just the core system it also means a monitor and it also means a peripherals keep keyboard mouse and I did a headset I could have done speakers too but I didn't um here's the full build as you can see the price down here at the bottom comes in it well just over $4,000 but you got to pay for shipping $412 was what this rounded out to and this is an absolutely beastly system this one is also based on the x99 socket 2011 um because that's kind of the top end and both of these were pretty pretty high-end expensive systems but um for this one since it was 4K for 4K I actually started out in a different place than I normally would and that was said I needed a 4k monitor uh and honestly if I was going to buy a 4k monitor right now this is probably the one I would buy uh this is the Wasabi mango um if you guys are interested in a little bit more in-depth info on this one check out uh PC perspective as well as Tech Syndicate Hardware channels both have overviews on this monitor Wendell did a great job looking at his uh I went for the $700 version which is not perfect pixel if you want perfect pixel it's about 800 bucks at least if you buy it here on eBay these are also available on Amazon and um they have just a pretty insane set of features for what you want right now um you get 4k of course you need that resolution uh if you're running it at 1080 though you can actually overclock the it as well so you can run it at 120 Herz so if you're into the high frame rate thing you can also get 120 HZ support it has free sync support that tied into my choice of graphics cards which I'll share with you in just a moment it's also got HDMI 2.0 even though my graphics cards don't it's okay though cuz it also has display port HDMI 2.0 I think is pretty important if you're actually investing in a 4k monitor right now uh 444 chroma setup you can do you can do 10B bit color um the one negative about the Wasabi mango is the response time isn't quite as good as some of the faster TN panels that are out there so if you're really really into fast response time then you might want to look elsewhere but everything else about this Monitor and 42 in is at that did I mention it's a 42 in yeah you put this on your desk and you'll be in just gaming Bliss for the rest of your life um all right so that's 700 bucks off of the top $4,000 price of this build build so everything else had to fit within the envelope below that and that gives us 20 no $3,300 to work with and we should be able to get a nice 4K system going for that so let's go back to the uh oops let's go back to the whole list here we can see the Wasabi mango here I actually had to punch that in because it's not on PC part picker as of now but maybe it will be soon uh let's go with sort of the other parts of this so beyond the monitor I thought the graphics cards were going to be the most important thing to consider next up so I went with dual Fury X's that's right dual Fury X's why why did I do this well my AMD fans out there are like yeah dual Fury X's badass and I would agree with them um especially when tested at 4K the freur x is does an exceedingly good job even though it's only got four gigs of memory it's that super fancy new hbm memory and uh I think this is a great CH option if you're going for a 4K setup right now and you're spending a bit more money uh yeah the the other nice things about this that's got it's got the built-in water cooling so everything's going to be water cooled on this system out of the box um these actually these cards actually do better at 4K I already kind of mentioned that and the monitor I just showed you has free sync support free sync which means you can use the freyn with the fury X's now there are of course going to be some some potential uh hiccups when it comes to free sync Crossfire support and 4K resolution we anticipate that as long as you have the hardware that's compatible these hiccups will be worked out via driver support and updates in the future so yeah just bearing that all in mind a 4k monitor with it with the with the two-way Fury X setup I think you're going to be pretty happy with even if you can't always make it take advantage of a crossfire configuration and heck just uh turn free sync off if that's your thing uh if you don't want Fury X's or if you have a gsync monitor or something like that then feel free to get two-way 980 TI Titan X's were also high in the running in my choice for this one but that would have been two grand right out of the gate and um I mean you do get 12 gigs of of memory for that so it's hard it's a hard choice but for this one I with the fury X's okay uh the CPU you of course I stuck with Haswell e um cuz in my opinion if you're building a system that's this expensive you should go with Haswell e so I needed a nice motherboard for that uh the motherboard I chose was this uh somewhat new one from MSI this is the x99 Raider uh it's got eight dim slots it's got pretty much all black design which is pretty cool uh it's got plenty of room there with triple slot spacing for my two-way configuration uh you got m.2 support and all that kind of stuff uh this also isn't terribly expensive comes in at about $220 as of the pricing on New Egg right now did I mention my CPU I don't think I did I think I totally blanked on the CPU uh CPU is right here that's a 5930k uh again here trying to stay within that $4,000 envelope if you're really going for top end top end go with 5960x but I thought a 4930k was more appropriate here because you do have more pcie lanes and since you are running a dual Channel or a a two-way Crossfire setup then uh you're going to want you're going to want all the bandwidth you can get just to be on the safe side okay moving along to memory I went with the 32 gig kit $4,000 is budget that 32 gigs is appropriate you could shave 100 well $802 $100 off the price of this build by going with a 16 gig kit but this is a hyperx fury they're all nice black memories black pcbs they look pretty nice they're pretty low profile this is only a 2133 kit but uh that'll do fine for you that's not going to affect your gaming since you're not running an igpu off of it or anything like that and uh that'll get you set up with the quad Channel I with the same cooler on this build the uh Cooler Master nepton 240m it's kind of like cuz I have some other Cooler Master Parts in this and I actually chose this cooler before I went back to the the miniitx build and I decided maybe I should relook at that cooler to make sure the compatibility wasn't going to be a problem uh I've used this cooler it's got a nice quiet pump does a great job a little over 100 bucks uh the case I went with is a master case Pro five this is from Cooler Master I did a video on this recently so I had actually worked with it uh which means I uh I like it uh the really really solid build quality this seems to me like a case that'll last you quite some time the Pro 5 version has uh your radiator bracket up at the at the top which is important since we're using a radiator this also comes with the side window so you can get a nice look at everything inside and um it also has more Drive cages um not that we'll need all of those but um we will need at least space for the power supply I went with this EVGA power supply this is I don't even know what the mod they don't they're not good with their models it's the 1000g power supply from EVGA look at those cables they're all black this was my requirements for this I wanted 1,000 Watts I wanted all black cabling I wanted 80 plus gold or 80 plus platinum and then one kind of mat matches all that for about well 140 bucks after a millon rebate uh Cooler Master also has uh a power supply that's th000 watts and I forget the uh oh gosh I forget the model of it now I was going to look at that one but it was it was like 20 or 30 bucks more and I really I was trying to stay under that $4,000 price limit okay uh next up we have storage and for storage here I didn't go too crazy I went with a one tab SSD CU I like one tab ssds this is a littleit you could you could get by with less than this for sure but 320 bucks for 1 TB SSD and a SanDisk Ultra 2 which is a very good SSD SanDisk does a good job with their controllers their nand uh as well as overall construction um this says good read and WR speeds a a freaking terabyte SSD that's that's all you need um and then I also wanted to add some mass storage so this is that Hitachi drive that we've talked about a few times this is one the back Blaze tested um and this was one of their consumer drives that they found to have the most longevity in lifespan so we've had several people people ask me about it since we did that video and say hey where can we find that it's been available for like 50ish dollar before but I think the price has gone up a little bit ever since that back Blazer Port but still 65 bucks 2 terabytes mass storage should be nice and reliable for you and it gives you something to back up that's a one tab SSD with now we have peripherals as well because this is a whole build so I'm sticking with The Cooler Master theme I got the quickfire TK I figured that a a a mechanical keyboard would be suitable for this since again it is a $4,000 budget you're looking for a higher end a mechanical keyboard I think is one of those luxury items that goes along with it uh then this is a full-size mechanical keyboard for 84 bucks from Cooler Master these have really good good good good build quality uh cherrymx red switches and it's black and red and I haven't mentioned this yet but this whole system if you put it together will pretty much all be black and red see I got the color scheme taken care of too I put some thought into these all right uh for the mouse I chose the manx naos na na I never know how to pronounce this this is a 7,000 uh I just chose this mouse because it's of my personal favorites as far as ergonomics and comfort go um you can feel free to choose your own Mouse if you don't like this one but I really like I this is just one I've used and I enjoy 70 bucks uh nice high quality Mouse for not like a 100 or or more than 100 I was going to say the rocket nith might be another option but um it's like 120 right now so uh okay I also went with the optical version for that since people were hating on the laser version that I used last time lastly we have a headset and if I was going to say buy a headset right now this is the one I would say to buy hyperx cloud gaming headset it's just actually good even though it's a gaming headset and it's got you set up with a nice mic good sound Al together and that is the entire build right I think I went over everything there did I forget anything let's double check let's double check one more time let's look at the full list 5930k neptun 240m x99 Raider hyperx Fury black 32 gig kit SanDisk Ultra 960 gig plus the Hitachi desk star 2 Tab 2 way Crossfire Fury X's Cooler Master master case Pro 5 evg a000 wat power supply that wasabi moo 42in 4k monitor Cooler Master CM Storm quick fire TK gaming keyboard myx Nas 7,000 wired Optical Mouse and the Kingston hyperx Cloud Pro headset all for four grand so everyone hit up your parental units or or take out a loan or do whatever the heck you need to get get four grand together to put together this system I I like getting this all together I was like this like not only did it feel right after getting that all in there but I was also even got to the point even with the $4,000 budget where I was like nickel and Diamond 20 30 $40 price differences um just to get everything kind of within that envelope so I'm happy with how it turned out but um guys that is all for this video and and what else do I say at the end um you should stay tuned because as previously mentioned I do have an August build that I have yet to be put together which I'm going to do within the next week so subscribe to my channel for that and maybe hit the like button if you enjoyed it and you want to see more builds next month's builds though are also coming up very soon and you should also vote for those now since I went with uh uh higher end builds for for this month uh for next month October builds I went budget side so really I'm focusing mainly on the price point here but I have $1,000 video editing system $700 gaming system $450 console replacement or a $300 web and email Mom and Pop system next month I'm going to do my best to get S Parts together to actually build one of those as well so stay tuned for that also don't forget to check out my store which is store. paul.net where you can buy shirts like this one I also have mugs and glasses if you're interested in drinking liquid items out of those uh don't forget to like this video subscribe to my channel thank you so much for watching everyone and we will see you next timeexcellent hey everyone and welcome back to Paul's Hardware I am doing my monthly builds video as I have been doing uh every month or almost every month for the past few months uh so basically how this works is at the beginning of each month or near the beginning of each month I do a couple builds I assemble these builds using PC part picker and I get all the parts picked out for you guys and then I share them with you and I kind of talk about my thought process as I went through to to make the builds uh as well as hopefully getting the builds kind of kind of speci ified and narrowed down to a really specific type of build that you guys choose um because there's some fan interaction going on here as well now sometimes I actually also build the builds that I talk about later on and I did do that recently with uh for example the entry level x99 build which you can kind of see me assembling here this is over on my channel of course my YouTube channel is Paul's Harbor you're probably watching this on my YouTube channel but I'm also doing this live so the entry level x99 build I actually assembled uh the blue build with the bit Phenix egis also did a couple like a month or two back so these are all lots of fun and I like to assemble them as well because that way it's not just like hey here's a bunch of list of parts um I'm not going to be building the builds for this month just to give you guys that information right off the bat up front the upcoming uh build that I am going to be doing which I haven't done yet is my August build so that's the $2,000 gaming beast and that is coming very soon so uh subscribe to my channel and like this video if you like watching builds and that's probably going to be up in the next week or so so uh today by popular I'm doing a couple pretty high-end builds uh so if you're looking for budgets sorry look up some of my older ones or I'm going to be do more doing more budget stuff next month so for this uh month based on your guys's response and reaction last month results uh so here's here's the results for the September uh for the builds you guys voted on last month which is what you wanted to see me do for September we have two at the top the mini ITX Overkill system so Mini ITX Overkill going to try to pack as much as I can as possible into a mini ITX build we also have the 4K gaming system for $4,000 uh this includes an entire setup so it's not just the base system which I usually do uh and that one was actually a lot of fun actually both of these were a lot of fun I put these together mostly yesterday it took me longer than I thought because there were some uh there were some issues I had to kind of work around with both of these um but let's just let's just get right into it and start off with the mini ITX Overkill system and uh of course I'm using PC part picker to assemble these builds that's a great website because it Compares uh prices across lots of different areas and you can sort of get an initial look here at what I put in it uh but the total cost of this build which I wasn't I didn't have a price point here but it ended up being about $2,630 all together with everything that I picked now it being a miniitx system meant that I needed to start with a mini ITX board and if you ask me mini ITX and Overkill and you put those words together I get this this is the ASRock x99e ITX slac motherboard and uh it's to me is just the definition of I Overkill in mini ITX because it's it's x99 9 socket LGA 2011- V3 uh in a miniitx board it's really the only miniitx board that is Socket LGA 2011 and they even used a narrower uh actual socket on the CPU itself here so it's not exactly uh standard type that's why this board actually ships with the CPU Cooler but I didn't want to use the CPU Cooler that comes with it I wanted something better uh more than more on that in just a moment so starting with the motherboard knowing I wanted to go Haswell e with this CU that's like Overkill next up I wanted to choose the case and here's where I'll probably get lots of feedback from you guys uh which is like what case I should have chosen now thing for me with miniitx is I want miniitx to actually be small and you find mini ITX cases out there that are actually fairly large and so the the graphite series uh uh 380t from Corsair I like because it's actually pretty small it's got a handle on the top so like small portable you can pick it up and carry it around there's like the JW's out on on the actual design of this thing and how much people like it and stuff like that I think it looks pretty cool but um you know there's definitely people who are not as into what it looks like so that being said it's also got tons of ventilation on the top and sides which I thought was important because I'm squeezing a lot of Hardware into here and uh that's pretty much where I started off with was with the motherboard and the case uh so to go along with the motherboard I chose 5820k CPU Intel Core i7 didn't want to go with the Zeon with this because uh lonus already did it he he wedged look with 18 core Zeon or something into this so I'm going not quite as crazy Overkill as that cuz um then you got to go Zeon and that kind of thing so I thought a 5820k would work this made sense to me for a miniitx x99 build because you don't have a bunch of PCI Express slots and you only have what 28 Lanes on the 5820k so even if you went from 5820k to 593k and spent an extra couple you know 150 $200 you're not going to be able to use the extra Lanes you get cuz you don't have slots to to slot them into so I think 28 Lanes is cool and then the next uh option beyond that is going going all the way up to 5960x which you do get an 8 core for that much money but it's 650 bucks more so if you really want to go all Overkill do that or use the Z the 18 core Zeon that lus used um now what I actually ran into a dilemma with this build with was um choosing the CPU Cooler uh and I did some some research on several forums online this is a hard Forum thread specifically about this motherboard and what CPU coolers you can use with it because it's got that weird mounting system that's actually meant for servers like this um so I'll post this link in the video description once I put it up this is a screen cap they posted on here from Linus's build which is that the motherboard actually comes with a bracket a special mounting bracket that you can use in order to put on uh specifically The Cooler Master uh sidon I believe cooler that that that can fit in there um but several people have used it and sort of jury rigged it to uh line up with some other different types of coolers so that's going to be my suggestion the one I actually put in the build at self is uh what did I actually go with The Cooler Master nepton 240m um which also isn't one that it's like you'll notice there's potential issues or incompatibilities at the top of this build and that's specifically because of the uh the cooler the motherboard and the chassis but going back over here to the actual one all right so I chose a nepton 240m because I found at least one dude who's who was like yeah it'll work with this you just have to kind of bend the bracket a little bit there you go uh the other options that are out there might be the hydro series h100i from Corsair is probably like the one you want to go with have a little something on my eye uh the h100i is what you want to go with but it's discontinued and if you look at this price on new it's 150 bucks right now which is insanely overpriced so since they discontinued it like they're all overpriced now so get it 240m maybe instead um you can also get the h100i GTX uh and that one I am told at least according to several of the threads I read uh that you can actually go to ACH and ACH has a bracket you can get that will work with the newer cooler design from the GTX version and then you should hopefully be okay but honestly uh finding a CPU Cooler that was big cuz I wanted a 240 uh that was not too wide for the case because the 380t has a very limited amount of space available there for the um the radiator and the fans and also that had the mount that would fit on this bracket was a bit of a challenge I did actually pretty decent amount of like looking up online of of everything so uh either go with the either go with the h00 I if you can find it for cheap GTX uh if you're willing to contact a tech to get the ilm retention kit which costs about $10 um that will work with the newer kind of rounder pumps that the GTX version has and then you should be able to move on from there all right uh with that hopefully uh minor issue out of the way we can move on to memory got a Corsair Vengeance lpx 32 gig kit um thankfully you can actually get ddr4 dual Channel kits now thanks to Skylake launching so this is 32 gigs 2x 16 so even though you've only got two dim slots can still run a dual Channel and have plenty of memory in there going with the overkill theme I thought 32 gigs of memory would uh would be suitable uh we also have a a storage right and I went kind of kind of crazy with my storage I spent 750 bucks on just the storage in this for 1.5 terabytes of SSD storage um so yeah starting with The hyperx Predator from Kingston uh I chose this one because it's very fast it's m.2 it's PCI Express not SATA or ahci connection so uh it's going to be really fast if you want a cheaper option for this go for the Samsung xp941 you can get the 512 gig version of that which is a little bit more storage than this it is a little bit slower than the Predator um but it's about $1 to $120 cheaper it's also got a green PCB and not the black PCB like the Predator has so you know bear that in mind as well this case does or this system does also have a color theme it's black uh black white and blue kind of goes along with the case and hello to anyone who has joined up in chat thanks to all of you guys for hopping in here uh to round out the storage I got a 1 tbte SSD s d cuz I wanted a 1 TB SSD and I'm tired of loading up games off of mechanical drives so you got the uh predator for like your operating system and some games you got a 1 tab crucial bx1 100 actually available on Mac Mall crazily enough over here and that will give you some massive storage and that will load up all your games really fast and that hey that says Overkill Mini ITX to me uh video card I thought was going to be an interesting choice for this system and as the uh R9 Nano uh just the fury Nano from AMD just came out I bet a lot of you are expecting me to throw that in here I said no I said no to the Nano for this build because this is an Overkill build and the Nano honestly I see what they did with it but they they they brought down its actual performance to me and the thing I was looking at when I was considering the Nano and looking at this system and looking at the ITX cases that are out there it was like most of the ITX cases actually can support pretty long graphics cards like the the length this way which is kind of where you get the shortness of the Nano with the graphics card is is not always a limiting factor and and in fact the uh 380t from Corsair can handle up to 290 mm long graphics card so it can handle pretty long graphics cards so I went with the um I went with the 980ti over the Nano on this one I didn't want to do a fury X but if you're into the fury x wait till my next build uh the 980ti is going to be faster than an Nano it's just it's just gonna and since I didn't need the space I was like all right 98 uh this one from gigabyte I thought would fit in really well because it's got their really nice wind Force cooler triple fans uh it is black and it even has a blue LED on it so it's going to match in with the rest of the uh color scheme of the case and it's going to be flat out faster than a nano or a fury X generally speaking for that matter as well and of course it fits within the 290 mm length since this one is I believe 280 mm long okay uh the power suppli is the last part from this build and for this one I just went with the uh bit Phenix Fury 650 watt um I'm sorry there's not better pictures of this I've actually used this I used this same one in the blue build that I did uh it's black white and blue and and it's got nicely sleeved cabling and uh for you can get a cheaper 650 wat 80 plus gold power supply than this by 10 20 bucks maybe but you can actually get this for not too expensive right now $86 $87 at Super Biz and uh it's got really really nice sleep cable so that's kind of why I went with that one it's got the full package all right and uh that is my Overkill Mini ITX gaming build it's pretty Overkill got you can fit a lot of stuff in that little case and uh I I think it's fun if any of you actually build that let me know cuz of of actually I kind of wanted to build both of these systems but I got to cut myself off sometime all right moving right along to the 4K gaming setup for $4,000 4K for 4K can you do it and since you can that's already been kind of established for less than $4,000 I made this an actual not just a build as far as the case goes but an actual entire gaming setup for $4,000 so that means not just the core system it also means a monitor and it also means a peripherals keep keyboard mouse and I did a headset I could have done speakers too but I didn't um here's the full build as you can see the price down here at the bottom comes in it well just over $4,000 but you got to pay for shipping $412 was what this rounded out to and this is an absolutely beastly system this one is also based on the x99 socket 2011 um because that's kind of the top end and both of these were pretty pretty high-end expensive systems but um for this one since it was 4K for 4K I actually started out in a different place than I normally would and that was said I needed a 4k monitor uh and honestly if I was going to buy a 4k monitor right now this is probably the one I would buy uh this is the Wasabi mango um if you guys are interested in a little bit more in-depth info on this one check out uh PC perspective as well as Tech Syndicate Hardware channels both have overviews on this monitor Wendell did a great job looking at his uh I went for the $700 version which is not perfect pixel if you want perfect pixel it's about 800 bucks at least if you buy it here on eBay these are also available on Amazon and um they have just a pretty insane set of features for what you want right now um you get 4k of course you need that resolution uh if you're running it at 1080 though you can actually overclock the it as well so you can run it at 120 Herz so if you're into the high frame rate thing you can also get 120 HZ support it has free sync support that tied into my choice of graphics cards which I'll share with you in just a moment it's also got HDMI 2.0 even though my graphics cards don't it's okay though cuz it also has display port HDMI 2.0 I think is pretty important if you're actually investing in a 4k monitor right now uh 444 chroma setup you can do you can do 10B bit color um the one negative about the Wasabi mango is the response time isn't quite as good as some of the faster TN panels that are out there so if you're really really into fast response time then you might want to look elsewhere but everything else about this Monitor and 42 in is at that did I mention it's a 42 in yeah you put this on your desk and you'll be in just gaming Bliss for the rest of your life um all right so that's 700 bucks off of the top $4,000 price of this build build so everything else had to fit within the envelope below that and that gives us 20 no $3,300 to work with and we should be able to get a nice 4K system going for that so let's go back to the uh oops let's go back to the whole list here we can see the Wasabi mango here I actually had to punch that in because it's not on PC part picker as of now but maybe it will be soon uh let's go with sort of the other parts of this so beyond the monitor I thought the graphics cards were going to be the most important thing to consider next up so I went with dual Fury X's that's right dual Fury X's why why did I do this well my AMD fans out there are like yeah dual Fury X's badass and I would agree with them um especially when tested at 4K the freur x is does an exceedingly good job even though it's only got four gigs of memory it's that super fancy new hbm memory and uh I think this is a great CH option if you're going for a 4K setup right now and you're spending a bit more money uh yeah the the other nice things about this that's got it's got the built-in water cooling so everything's going to be water cooled on this system out of the box um these actually these cards actually do better at 4K I already kind of mentioned that and the monitor I just showed you has free sync support free sync which means you can use the freyn with the fury X's now there are of course going to be some some potential uh hiccups when it comes to free sync Crossfire support and 4K resolution we anticipate that as long as you have the hardware that's compatible these hiccups will be worked out via driver support and updates in the future so yeah just bearing that all in mind a 4k monitor with it with the with the two-way Fury X setup I think you're going to be pretty happy with even if you can't always make it take advantage of a crossfire configuration and heck just uh turn free sync off if that's your thing uh if you don't want Fury X's or if you have a gsync monitor or something like that then feel free to get two-way 980 TI Titan X's were also high in the running in my choice for this one but that would have been two grand right out of the gate and um I mean you do get 12 gigs of of memory for that so it's hard it's a hard choice but for this one I with the fury X's okay uh the CPU you of course I stuck with Haswell e um cuz in my opinion if you're building a system that's this expensive you should go with Haswell e so I needed a nice motherboard for that uh the motherboard I chose was this uh somewhat new one from MSI this is the x99 Raider uh it's got eight dim slots it's got pretty much all black design which is pretty cool uh it's got plenty of room there with triple slot spacing for my two-way configuration uh you got m.2 support and all that kind of stuff uh this also isn't terribly expensive comes in at about $220 as of the pricing on New Egg right now did I mention my CPU I don't think I did I think I totally blanked on the CPU uh CPU is right here that's a 5930k uh again here trying to stay within that $4,000 envelope if you're really going for top end top end go with 5960x but I thought a 4930k was more appropriate here because you do have more pcie lanes and since you are running a dual Channel or a a two-way Crossfire setup then uh you're going to want you're going to want all the bandwidth you can get just to be on the safe side okay moving along to memory I went with the 32 gig kit $4,000 is budget that 32 gigs is appropriate you could shave 100 well $802 $100 off the price of this build by going with a 16 gig kit but this is a hyperx fury they're all nice black memories black pcbs they look pretty nice they're pretty low profile this is only a 2133 kit but uh that'll do fine for you that's not going to affect your gaming since you're not running an igpu off of it or anything like that and uh that'll get you set up with the quad Channel I with the same cooler on this build the uh Cooler Master nepton 240m it's kind of like cuz I have some other Cooler Master Parts in this and I actually chose this cooler before I went back to the the miniitx build and I decided maybe I should relook at that cooler to make sure the compatibility wasn't going to be a problem uh I've used this cooler it's got a nice quiet pump does a great job a little over 100 bucks uh the case I went with is a master case Pro five this is from Cooler Master I did a video on this recently so I had actually worked with it uh which means I uh I like it uh the really really solid build quality this seems to me like a case that'll last you quite some time the Pro 5 version has uh your radiator bracket up at the at the top which is important since we're using a radiator this also comes with the side window so you can get a nice look at everything inside and um it also has more Drive cages um not that we'll need all of those but um we will need at least space for the power supply I went with this EVGA power supply this is I don't even know what the mod they don't they're not good with their models it's the 1000g power supply from EVGA look at those cables they're all black this was my requirements for this I wanted 1,000 Watts I wanted all black cabling I wanted 80 plus gold or 80 plus platinum and then one kind of mat matches all that for about well 140 bucks after a millon rebate uh Cooler Master also has uh a power supply that's th000 watts and I forget the uh oh gosh I forget the model of it now I was going to look at that one but it was it was like 20 or 30 bucks more and I really I was trying to stay under that $4,000 price limit okay uh next up we have storage and for storage here I didn't go too crazy I went with a one tab SSD CU I like one tab ssds this is a littleit you could you could get by with less than this for sure but 320 bucks for 1 TB SSD and a SanDisk Ultra 2 which is a very good SSD SanDisk does a good job with their controllers their nand uh as well as overall construction um this says good read and WR speeds a a freaking terabyte SSD that's that's all you need um and then I also wanted to add some mass storage so this is that Hitachi drive that we've talked about a few times this is one the back Blaze tested um and this was one of their consumer drives that they found to have the most longevity in lifespan so we've had several people people ask me about it since we did that video and say hey where can we find that it's been available for like 50ish dollar before but I think the price has gone up a little bit ever since that back Blazer Port but still 65 bucks 2 terabytes mass storage should be nice and reliable for you and it gives you something to back up that's a one tab SSD with now we have peripherals as well because this is a whole build so I'm sticking with The Cooler Master theme I got the quickfire TK I figured that a a a mechanical keyboard would be suitable for this since again it is a $4,000 budget you're looking for a higher end a mechanical keyboard I think is one of those luxury items that goes along with it uh then this is a full-size mechanical keyboard for 84 bucks from Cooler Master these have really good good good good build quality uh cherrymx red switches and it's black and red and I haven't mentioned this yet but this whole system if you put it together will pretty much all be black and red see I got the color scheme taken care of too I put some thought into these all right uh for the mouse I chose the manx naos na na I never know how to pronounce this this is a 7,000 uh I just chose this mouse because it's of my personal favorites as far as ergonomics and comfort go um you can feel free to choose your own Mouse if you don't like this one but I really like I this is just one I've used and I enjoy 70 bucks uh nice high quality Mouse for not like a 100 or or more than 100 I was going to say the rocket nith might be another option but um it's like 120 right now so uh okay I also went with the optical version for that since people were hating on the laser version that I used last time lastly we have a headset and if I was going to say buy a headset right now this is the one I would say to buy hyperx cloud gaming headset it's just actually good even though it's a gaming headset and it's got you set up with a nice mic good sound Al together and that is the entire build right I think I went over everything there did I forget anything let's double check let's double check one more time let's look at the full list 5930k neptun 240m x99 Raider hyperx Fury black 32 gig kit SanDisk Ultra 960 gig plus the Hitachi desk star 2 Tab 2 way Crossfire Fury X's Cooler Master master case Pro 5 evg a000 wat power supply that wasabi moo 42in 4k monitor Cooler Master CM Storm quick fire TK gaming keyboard myx Nas 7,000 wired Optical Mouse and the Kingston hyperx Cloud Pro headset all for four grand so everyone hit up your parental units or or take out a loan or do whatever the heck you need to get get four grand together to put together this system I I like getting this all together I was like this like not only did it feel right after getting that all in there but I was also even got to the point even with the $4,000 budget where I was like nickel and Diamond 20 30 $40 price differences um just to get everything kind of within that envelope so I'm happy with how it turned out but um guys that is all for this video and and what else do I say at the end um you should stay tuned because as previously mentioned I do have an August build that I have yet to be put together which I'm going to do within the next week so subscribe to my channel for that and maybe hit the like button if you enjoyed it and you want to see more builds next month's builds though are also coming up very soon and you should also vote for those now since I went with uh uh higher end builds for for this month uh for next month October builds I went budget side so really I'm focusing mainly on the price point here but I have $1,000 video editing system $700 gaming system $450 console replacement or a $300 web and email Mom and Pop system next month I'm going to do my best to get S Parts together to actually build one of those as well so stay tuned for that also don't forget to check out my store which is store. 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