**Frame Gen and its Impact on Performance**

We just turn that off to demonstrate how much of the heavy lifting frame gen is doing you can see straight away ouch down to below that 60 Mark and this feels considerably less smooth so frame gen definitely on R tracing on if you want the visual Fidelity upside. The next game on my Benchmark list is of course a bit of Call of Duty War Zone. Now you can see here running at 1440p all the quality settings are set to high no R tracing no DLSS to straight rasterization here to kick things off the only thing I have got enabled at this point is NVIDIA Reflex that's going to help minimize the latency.

Represented by the PC figure up here currently at about 44 milliseconds frame rate wise sitting at a pretty solid 115 FPS. Give or take quite happy with that though I would be interested to see what happens if I jump into the settings menu go down into Graphics quality and then enable DLSS. I can do that via upscaling NVIDIA DLSS and hit apply. The main thing I'm worried about is an increase in latency, but actually it's pushing the latency not anywhere at all still at about 44 milliseconds with 38 milliseconds on the latency via video Reflex so pretty pleased all in all with that number.

**NVIDIA Reflex Performance**

Pretty PR rate is still sitting strong at about 123 FPS when I turned on DLSS. I'm pretty sure I used the quality preset, yes, quality obviously if you wanted to push the settings even further you could go all the way down to balance that's going to give you a little bit more frame rate at the expense of a bit more visual Fidelity still sitting strong 131 frames per second pretty happy with what you where are we going what's this going on and performance all around feels pretty good. It looks like it's all over we lasted well performance is pretty good quite a long range kill to be fair and frame rates once again at 1440p on this system really not too bad.

Next on the list of TI to test is Ghost of Tsushima again, this is going to allow us to push the 4070 Super hopefully nice and far and see what the overall build is able to offer now in terms of the Window mode exclusive full screen 1440p I'm going to disable DLSS to be honest to begin with keep anti-alias in on daa and make sure Reflex is on frame gen is off resolution scaling is off and vsync off good losses set is to play with again let's test out that Rization figure first and see where the game lands.

**Ghost of Tsushima Performance**

Okay so we are in 74 FPS is not too bad and graphically oh my goodness on this OLV monitor this game looks incredible. Now obviously the frame rate we're going to try and push it a bit further into the graphics menu everything you can see is already on high and Ultra as it stands but have jump into display and turn the upscale method to DLSS hopefully that's going to move us from that 70 80 FPS Mark to yes look at that more more towards the 100 FPS barrier and you can see graphically still looks absolutely Sensational push things a little bit further again we can go and turn on frame generation so we can of course add DLSS frame gen into the picture.

And oh my goodness on an OLB monitor this game is like nothing else I have to say pretty impressed with this title and the performance of this machine. I was kind of worried about seeing like CPU bottle neck in a more CPU usage is maybe marginally higher than what you might see on a Ryzen 7000 or Intel 14th gen we're still seeing a GPU bottleneck for want of a better word which obviously shows the graphics card isn't being held back and that's the main thing I've also gone ahead and tested a range of FPS titles on this system starting off with Apex Legends at 1440p high in this competitive FPS title the build performed really well smashing through the 200 FPS Mark and delivering 235 frames per second on average.

**Apex Legends Performance**

so cyberpunk 2077 was a similarly positive story 1440p high and the build achieved not quite 100 FPS but 94 which is good enough for me. It's a difficult game to run I'll take 94 frames on average while fortnite finally wraps things up again at 1440p high with a really strong average of 173 FPS. Of course if you opted to tune things down to 1080p competitive youd get even higher on that frame rate but 1440p is where I did all the testing for today's build if you enjoyed this one make sure to get subscribe drop a comment let me know know what you think thanks for watching and as always we'll see you in the next one

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin this video I'm going to be building the best value Pure Performance RTX 470 super gaming PC that you can assemble right now this build is going to be amazing for 1440p gaming and one you can assemble for under $1,200 in the US and pick up for around £1,100 in the UK let's do this as always I'm going to talk you guys through all the parts in this build show you how to put it together step by step and look at performance in all the latest single and multiplayer titles a little bit later on now if you want to buy any of the parts for this system I'll leave them link individually below and you can also buy this build pre-built here in the UK from AWD for around £1,100 but more on that later now Nvidia kindly sent out the 4070 super and help make this build possible but to tell you the truth I've actually wanted to assemble a bang for your book 4070 super build for a little while and here's why now this card comes with 12 GB of video memory that's good not only for 1080p but also for 1440p gaming features like dlss are genuinely very useful especially at the mid-range things like frame generation in titles that aren't necessarily competitive FPS games but RPG titles something like cyberpunk really help to push those frame rates forward and I also absolutely acknowledge that in some titles the inclusion of rate tracing can be a massive value ad to the 4070 super is like a midlife refresh and brings more performance over the original 40 70 and this card reviewed really well when we first looked at it a couple of months ago you guys will also notice I've picked up this Asus Jewel variant I like this card because it's one of the more affordable MSRP 470 super variants and in R testing given how power efficient the ad love lace architecture is you don't need a particularly large cooler to keep this GPU nice and chilly anyway when it comes to maximizing the price to Performance metrics in this build that's where the other components come in I want parts that are going to minimize bottlenecking with the 4070 but also save cash and stick in budget and that is where amd's ryzen 7 5700 X comes in now this is yes a last generation CPU and with new chips on the horizon this might feel like a weird choice but hear me out it's got eight cores 16 threads and a boost clock speed that isn't that far away from that crucial 5 GHz figure plus the ability to use older and cheaper b550 motherboards and ddr4 memory which provide comparative performance makes it a great value ad the 5700x supports boards like this b550m ds3h and well yes the upgrade paths aren't quite as good on the CPU side if you want to maximize value for money now this is a Pure Performance PC build guide this makes total sense this cost around the100 dollar Mark which is extraordinary value for money and the CPU wasn't much more plus when you compare the chip to something like a ryzen 57600 a CPU that's going to cost you about 20 or 30% more this still offers up more performance you get all the things we need for this build enough bandwidth for the graphics card support for dual Channel memory and of course support for the ryzen 7 5700x the only thing you do need to be careful of is that the pins on these older ryzen chips are actually on the CPUs themselves so that makes the installation process a little bit more delicate shall we say arm is going to lift up and the Box fresh 5700x is going to drop in nice and careful pop the arm Down super duper simple as far as coolers go I've picked up this Tower air cooler to be honest any Tower air cooler is going to be fine whether that be cooler Masters 22 lineup be quiet I've got a nice range of entry-level Tower air coolers too this is the vetro V5 which I know you guys seem to particularly love and I have been pretty impressed with in our Tes in now as far as installation goes let's see shall we what is going on it's then just a simple case of removing these pre-installed screws for the bracket before adding on the AMD brackets to the bottom of the CPU Cooler and securing the screws back into place and once that's done a little bit of thermal paste on onto the CPU is going to get the whole thermal Bond moving in the right direction and of course our vetu V5 is just going to fasten nicely on top oh yeah I'm also going to go ahead and pop the Ram or memory in at this point if you're going to buy a system like this pre-built sear us through the link in the description below this is one of the things I would definitely upgrade for me 32 GB right now is the minimum as to where you should be and that's why I've gone for two 16 gig dims in this build today this is 3600 MHz with a low latency too and I've never opened it before yeah and to read the benefits of the Dual Channel performance you're going to be using the gray slots if you're replicating this build for yourself that's going to ensure you get all the extra bandwidth that we need in this build and give us the advantage of two dims if you install them in different slots the Dual Channel functionality isn't necessarily going to work while I'm here I'll also be popping the m.2 SSD in I've gone for the crucial P3 plus but in truth anything in this realm is going to be good WD I've got an SN 770 Drive which I really like we're talking top of gen 3 entry level Gen 4 is where you want to aim in a system like this capacity all comes down to your use cases and your needs I've budgeted in this system for a 1 TB drive but save money by picking up a 500 gig or obviously spend a bit more with a two terabyte option I've got the screwdriver in my hand I don't need the screwdriver this is a fully toolless installation so as much as this is a slightly older board the feature set is still really modern which is good to see and the drive slots in nice and easy no PCI Gen 5 but you do get PCI G 4 which is more than good enough for a build like this once that's all said and done it's time I think for the case this is the Corsair 300D and it's available in a few different flavors but one of the reasons I actually picked this up is it's very commonly bundled on sales and deals with this the Corsair RM 750e so these two go like P's in a pod they match perfectly and I actually really like what corer have done with the 3000d now this is basically a smaller and cheaper 4000d and it comes in an RGB derivative with RGB fans and a non RGB derivative without RGB fans I'm going to pop some RGB fans in this a bit later in today's video just the one exhaust fan in there for now one thing to note about this build is that I have gone for a standard form factor ATX case and a smaller Micro ATX motherboard in an Ideal World you'd match the form factors of both the reality just is that when the motherboard goes in as you can sort of see there's going to be a little bit of dead space at the bottom this case is fairly compact so that's not too bad and of course the motherboard saves US money so for me today is a compromise I can live with when it comes to maximizing performances a Pure Performance build hopefully there's little cash wasted as possible the only thing that might feel a bit strange is remembering to pop the io shield in this is built in on most modern motherboards and again it's all about that cost saving measure audio ports clicking down here towards the bottom I've already moved the standoffs into the right locations but just for the record there should be three at the top three along the middle and then two down here towards the bottom then it's a simple case of sliding the board in you'll notice I've not yet put the fan back on the air cooler and that's just because the whole thing's a bit easier with the fanof there we go so the center standoff is actually raised so that will hold the into place and the box of included screws is what I'll be using to fasten the motherboard down you can see here there is a bit of extra wasted space but I don't think it looks too bad with all that said and done it's time for the GPU and as you can see I'm already taking it out the box I'm so impatient this Asus dual card I think should be a really really great fit for the build today and again have I not used this before I swear I've used this GPU before anyway ah you have to like lift these side pieces up ah and then the graphics card slides out it's a bit weird I'll be honest Asus it's not a criticism it's just a observation sizewise this thing should be pretty perfect for the build today yeah look at that in terms of PCI slots it looks to me like it's the top two or maybe the second and third actually uh yes the second and third slots so again that's pretty good on some ATX boards the GPU goes in the very first PC size lot and that can make the build feel a little bit cramped so actually this is working out really quite nicely make sure the retention clip is pushed back and then it's a simple case of sliding the GPU into place bit of pressure get that to click in and then the thumb screws are going to secure the card into the slots and stop it from going anywhere this actually fits in the build really nicely and the stealthy Black theme of the system is really starting to come together all that then remains after that is the power supply and all the cables and wiring so let me briefly walk you through exactly how you going to do this if you'd like to follow along for yourself now power cables that are required include the very large motherboard power connection potentially a seter power cable for any RGB connections or any fan hubs or fan controllers a single 4 plus4 pin CPU power connector and then of course the PCI cable too now this isn't atx3 it doesn't use the new atx3 standard which is why it's not advertised to search but great to see brownie points for Corsair here for including this cable that helps this build look that bit more Sleek I'm obviously going to go for a fan down orientation today to pull in fresh air from underneath the case but the ventilation on top means either is technically fine motherboard power cable is going to go to the right hand side GPU of course to the graphics card and CPU up to the top left corner All That Remains then is the front panel cables and of course pop in the CPU Cooler fan back on for front panel there is the HD audio down to the bottom left USB 3 to the right hand side of the motherboard and all the fiddly front panel cables to the bottom right too and All That Remains then is to see if this thing actually boots up and some of the performance that hopefully we can achieve W you know that I need you I need you I'm running in circles cuz I a few RGB fans added in later and it's time to boot this system up now the first thing that I want to do is head into the BIOS to make sure that XMP is enabled for the memory I'm going to do this by hitting delete repeatedly on the keyboard fans are spinning we've got the splash screen hopefully we will land into the BIOS now you can see all looking pretty good no temperatures seem particularly out of control we've got our 26 gigs of RAM and our ryzen 7 5700x 8 core CPU you want to make sure that XMP is set to profile one and it should pick up from the memory automatically the overclocking profile so that takes me up to 3600 hit F10 to save and exit it will show you the changes you've made and I've gone ahead and pre-installed Windows on this drive already and added in all the game drives I'll be using for benchmarking so fingers crossed it should all just work the next job once I'm into Windows is to get all the RGB working now for this I'm going to use an app called signal which one of my favorite applications out right now and it's basically like a universal RGB control that works with pretty much everything now you can see you get all these different like various presets that you can choose from whether it be like a pure rainbow mode which hopefully ah there we go looking good so that's like a systemwide rainbow effect this space preset I always think is pretty cool it as a piece of software does a great job of tying everything together maybe for this video we'll go for a solid blue and I'm happy that's all looking pretty good now I also want to make sure I've got GPU drivers in now for this I'll be using the brand new Nvidia app now the Nvidia app is really good because it replaces essentially GeForce experience it's still technically and beta but it ties all your features together in one everything from the drivers which look to be y up to date you can access the app from any place on your computer using altz and I'm also going to use this to record the screen which is great for capturing gameplay and for things like benchmarking like I'm doing today my favorite thing about this though is that you haven't got a login which brings me great joy you can just do all of it instantly without too many problems from the homepage you can then see all your library of games and you can adjust the settings in those games too that makes life so much easier and basically uses the data of everybody else's gaming settings to determine what's best so I've set Horizon to the recommended settings but you can tune further up for quality or you can tune further down for performance AKA more frame rate I'm going to jump into those gaming benchmarks in just a moment before that though I do want to point out of course if you are in the UK and you'd like to buy this system I'll link it down below this AWD site has a really nice configurator so you can Notch the memory up that's what I did I think it's important really to have at least 32 gigs right now and if you're over in the US I'll link all the various options below for different retailers too now performance though is the important bit this this is meant to be a great value 4070 super system what kind of frame rates can we achieve the first game on my Benchmark list is Horizon forbidden West but you can skip through all the various benchmarks using the time stamps below now as far as settings go I am using a 4k monitor but this is very much a 1440p build to Let's tune the resolution down to 2560 by 1440 I'm going to turn off the LSS for now to give us the straight rasterization figure disable frame generation as well but enable Nvidia reflex to obviously help trim the latency down and keep things nice and sppy if you want the full graph settings by the way here they are everything tuned up to very high 16 times on the texture filter as well to really push things to the max first impressions are pretty good sitting at around about 90 frames per second though admittedly not a great deal going on right now this game looks amazing on this panel by the way and you can see got 1% low of around about 60 FPS so staying crucially above all the important numbers now I am interested to see what happens if I enable a bit of dlss and what impact this is going to have on the frame rate so I'm going to set this to dlss on the quality preset that's going to make sure the upscaler is not too heavy on the game but leave frame generation off for now straight away that's put things above 100 frames per second actually 110 FPS which is really really not too bad and as you can see visually the game I think still looks really really good the next natural step then I suppose is to turn on frame generation so let's go through into display graphic settings are all identical upscale quality dlss frame gen on hit apply keep the changes and as you can see this has made a difference already up now to over 140 F FPS at times 150 to frame gen helping us move from 100 frames per second or so right into the 150 territory which I am not complaining about at all next on the list is Alan weight 2 obviously one of the more harder to entitles right now so interesting to see at 1440p with no dlss enabled no rate tracing and high across the board how the game performs so let's see where we're at so looks visually pretty good at 1440p 67 FPS so not a huge amount of frame rate to play with in terms of things like turning r racing on but smooth and for an RPG game it's not exactly a competitive firstperson shooter this is going to be sufficient now if I go into the settings I think you guys know what's coming next go down to Graphics turn on dlss and set the render resolution to again let's use the quality preset and keep frame generation off for now see what that's going to do so that's boosted up straight away to nearly 100 wow that's actually a way bigger impact than I thought of the quality preset as far as the visual Fidelity goes not a great deal of difference between the original for res image and dlss on quality go down to balanced or performance and you're going to see more drop off now if I go back into graphics and turn on frame generation that should obviously make a massive difference again I'd rather enable frame gen than make the dlss setting more aggressive because the visual Fidelity impact is lower basically 130 FPS pretty good so you can see we've gone from struggling really to maintain anything much more than 60 to well over double that at about 140 130 other option as well of course you might want to do is enable a bit of raid tracing you can see here ra Trace we can put that on let's say high enable Ray reconstruction as well and go back into the game now Raad tracing is on high so you can see the frame rate impact is there we're down to about 90 still far higher than where we started and of course you can see especially in the reflections on the ground even the Mist in the air how much better the game looks I actually think with rage racing on providing the performance difference isn't massive and this is okay it's definitely worth adding frame generation if we just turn that off to demonstrate how much of the heavy lifting frame gen is doing you can see straight away ouch down to below that 60 Mark and this feels considerably less smooth so frame gen definitely on R tracing on if you want the visual Fidelity upside the next game on my Benchmark list is of course a bit of Call of Duty war zone now you can see here running at 1440p all the quality settings are set to high no R tracing no dlss to straight rasterization here to kick things off the only thing I have got enabled at this point is NVIDIA reflex that's going to help minimize the latency represented by the PC figure up here currently at about 44 milliseconds frame rate wise sitting at a pretty solid 115 FPS give or take quite happy with that though I would be interested to see what happens if I jump into the settings menu go down into Graphics quality and then enable dlss I can do that via upscaling Nvidia dlss and hit apply the main thing I'm worried about is an increase in latency that actually is pushing the latency actually not anywhere at all still at about 44 milliseconds 38 milliseconds on the latency via video reflex so pretty pleased all in all with that number pretty PR rate is still sitting strong at about 123 FPS when I turned on dlss I'm pretty sure I used the quality preset yes quality obviously if you wanted to push the settings even further you could go all the way down to balance that's going to give you a little bit more frame rate at the expense of a bit more visual Fidelity still sitting strong 131 frames per second pretty happy with what you where are we going what's this going on and performance all around feels pretty good it looks like it's all over we lasted well performance is pretty good quite a longrange kill to be fair and frame rates once again at 1440p on this system really not too bad next on the list of TI to test is Ghost of tashima again this is going to allow us to push the 4070 super hopefully nice and far and see what the overall build is able to offer now in terms of the Window mode exclusive full screen 1440p I'm going to disable dlss to be honest to begin with keep anti-alias in on daa and make sure reflex is on frame gen is off resolution scaling is off and vsync off good losses set is to play with again let's test out that rization figure first and see where the game lands okay so we are in 74 FPS is not too bad and graphically oh my goodness on this OLV monitor this game looks incredible now obviously the frame rate we're going to try and push it a bit further into the graphics menu everything you can see is already on high and Ultra as it stands but have jump into display and turn the upscale method to dlss hopefully that's going to move us from that 70 80 FPS Mark to yes look at that more more towards the 100 FPS barrier and you can see graphically still looks absolutely Sensational push things a little bit further again we can go and turn on frame generation so we can of course add dlss frame gen into the picture and look at that now well over that 100 Mark right up to about 140 so it pretty much double the frame rate that we started off with and oh my goodness on an olb monitor this game is like nothing else I have to say pretty impressed with this title and the performance of this machine I was kind of worried about seeing like CPU bottles neck in a more CPU usage is maybe marginally higher than what you might see on a ryzen 7000 or Intel 14th gen we're still seeing a GPU bottleneck for want of a better word which obviously shows the graphics card isn't being held back and that's the main thing I've also gone ahead and tested a range of FPS titles on this system starting off with Apex Legends at 1440p high in this competitive FPS title the build performed really well smashing through the 200 FPS Mark and delivering 235 frames per second on average so cyberpunk 2077 was a similarly positive story 1440p high and the build achieved not quite 100 FPS but 94 which is good enough for me is a difficult game to run I'll take 94 frames on average while fortnite finally wraps things up again at 1440p high with a really strong average of 173 FPS of course if you opted to tune things down to 1080p competitive youd get even higher on that frame rate but 1440p is where I did all the testing for today's build if you enjoyed this one make sure to get subscribe drop a comment let me know know what you think thanks for watching and as always we'll see you in the next onein this video I'm going to be building the best value Pure Performance RTX 470 super gaming PC that you can assemble right now this build is going to be amazing for 1440p gaming and one you can assemble for under $1,200 in the US and pick up for around £1,100 in the UK let's do this as always I'm going to talk you guys through all the parts in this build show you how to put it together step by step and look at performance in all the latest single and multiplayer titles a little bit later on now if you want to buy any of the parts for this system I'll leave them link individually below and you can also buy this build pre-built here in the UK from AWD for around £1,100 but more on that later now Nvidia kindly sent out the 4070 super and help make this build possible but to tell you the truth I've actually wanted to assemble a bang for your book 4070 super build for a little while and here's why now this card comes with 12 GB of video memory that's good not only for 1080p but also for 1440p gaming features like dlss are genuinely very useful especially at the mid-range things like frame generation in titles that aren't necessarily competitive FPS games but RPG titles something like cyberpunk really help to push those frame rates forward and I also absolutely acknowledge that in some titles the inclusion of rate tracing can be a massive value ad to the 4070 super is like a midlife refresh and brings more performance over the original 40 70 and this card reviewed really well when we first looked at it a couple of months ago you guys will also notice I've picked up this Asus Jewel variant I like this card because it's one of the more affordable MSRP 470 super variants and in R testing given how power efficient the ad love lace architecture is you don't need a particularly large cooler to keep this GPU nice and chilly anyway when it comes to maximizing the price to Performance metrics in this build that's where the other components come in I want parts that are going to minimize bottlenecking with the 4070 but also save cash and stick in budget and that is where amd's ryzen 7 5700 X comes in now this is yes a last generation CPU and with new chips on the horizon this might feel like a weird choice but hear me out it's got eight cores 16 threads and a boost clock speed that isn't that far away from that crucial 5 GHz figure plus the ability to use older and cheaper b550 motherboards and ddr4 memory which provide comparative performance makes it a great value ad the 5700x supports boards like this b550m ds3h and well yes the upgrade paths aren't quite as good on the CPU side if you want to maximize value for money now this is a Pure Performance PC build guide this makes total sense this cost around the100 dollar Mark which is extraordinary value for money and the CPU wasn't much more plus when you compare the chip to something like a ryzen 57600 a CPU that's going to cost you about 20 or 30% more this still offers up more performance you get all the things we need for this build enough bandwidth for the graphics card support for dual Channel memory and of course support for the ryzen 7 5700x the only thing you do need to be careful of is that the pins on these older ryzen chips are actually on the CPUs themselves so that makes the installation process a little bit more delicate shall we say arm is going to lift up and the Box fresh 5700x is going to drop in nice and careful pop the arm Down super duper simple as far as coolers go I've picked up this Tower air cooler to be honest any Tower air cooler is going to be fine whether that be cooler Masters 22 lineup be quiet I've got a nice range of entry-level Tower air coolers too this is the vetro V5 which I know you guys seem to particularly love and I have been pretty impressed with in our Tes in now as far as installation goes let's see shall we what is going on it's then just a simple case of removing these pre-installed screws for the bracket before adding on the AMD brackets to the bottom of the CPU Cooler and securing the screws back into place and once that's done a little bit of thermal paste on onto the CPU is going to get the whole thermal Bond moving in the right direction and of course our vetu V5 is just going to fasten nicely on top oh yeah I'm also going to go ahead and pop the Ram or memory in at this point if you're going to buy a system like this pre-built sear us through the link in the description below this is one of the things I would definitely upgrade for me 32 GB right now is the minimum as to where you should be and that's why I've gone for two 16 gig dims in this build today this is 3600 MHz with a low latency too and I've never opened it before yeah and to read the benefits of the Dual Channel performance you're going to be using the gray slots if you're replicating this build for yourself that's going to ensure you get all the extra bandwidth that we need in this build and give us the advantage of two dims if you install them in different slots the Dual Channel functionality isn't necessarily going to work while I'm here I'll also be popping the m.2 SSD in I've gone for the crucial P3 plus but in truth anything in this realm is going to be good WD I've got an SN 770 Drive which I really like we're talking top of gen 3 entry level Gen 4 is where you want to aim in a system like this capacity all comes down to your use cases and your needs I've budgeted in this system for a 1 TB drive but save money by picking up a 500 gig or obviously spend a bit more with a two terabyte option I've got the screwdriver in my hand I don't need the screwdriver this is a fully toolless installation so as much as this is a slightly older board the feature set is still really modern which is good to see and the drive slots in nice and easy no PCI Gen 5 but you do get PCI G 4 which is more than good enough for a build like this once that's all said and done it's time I think for the case this is the Corsair 300D and it's available in a few different flavors but one of the reasons I actually picked this up is it's very commonly bundled on sales and deals with this the Corsair RM 750e so these two go like P's in a pod they match perfectly and I actually really like what corer have done with the 3000d now this is basically a smaller and cheaper 4000d and it comes in an RGB derivative with RGB fans and a non RGB derivative without RGB fans I'm going to pop some RGB fans in this a bit later in today's video just the one exhaust fan in there for now one thing to note about this build is that I have gone for a standard form factor ATX case and a smaller Micro ATX motherboard in an Ideal World you'd match the form factors of both the reality just is that when the motherboard goes in as you can sort of see there's going to be a little bit of dead space at the bottom this case is fairly compact so that's not too bad and of course the motherboard saves US money so for me today is a compromise I can live with when it comes to maximizing performances a Pure Performance build hopefully there's little cash wasted as possible the only thing that might feel a bit strange is remembering to pop the io shield in this is built in on most modern motherboards and again it's all about that cost saving measure audio ports clicking down here towards the bottom I've already moved the standoffs into the right locations but just for the record there should be three at the top three along the middle and then two down here towards the bottom then it's a simple case of sliding the board in you'll notice I've not yet put the fan back on the air cooler and that's just because the whole thing's a bit easier with the fanof there we go so the center standoff is actually raised so that will hold the into place and the box of included screws is what I'll be using to fasten the motherboard down you can see here there is a bit of extra wasted space but I don't think it looks too bad with all that said and done it's time for the GPU and as you can see I'm already taking it out the box I'm so impatient this Asus dual card I think should be a really really great fit for the build today and again have I not used this before I swear I've used this GPU before anyway ah you have to like lift these side pieces up ah and then the graphics card slides out it's a bit weird I'll be honest Asus it's not a criticism it's just a observation sizewise this thing should be pretty perfect for the build today yeah look at that in terms of PCI slots it looks to me like it's the top two or maybe the second and third actually uh yes the second and third slots so again that's pretty good on some ATX boards the GPU goes in the very first PC size lot and that can make the build feel a little bit cramped so actually this is working out really quite nicely make sure the retention clip is pushed back and then it's a simple case of sliding the GPU into place bit of pressure get that to click in and then the thumb screws are going to secure the card into the slots and stop it from going anywhere this actually fits in the build really nicely and the stealthy Black theme of the system is really starting to come together all that then remains after that is the power supply and all the cables and wiring so let me briefly walk you through exactly how you going to do this if you'd like to follow along for yourself now power cables that are required include the very large motherboard power connection potentially a seter power cable for any RGB connections or any fan hubs or fan controllers a single 4 plus4 pin CPU power connector and then of course the PCI cable too now this isn't atx3 it doesn't use the new atx3 standard which is why it's not advertised to search but great to see brownie points for Corsair here for including this cable that helps this build look that bit more Sleek I'm obviously going to go for a fan down orientation today to pull in fresh air from underneath the case but the ventilation on top means either is technically fine motherboard power cable is going to go to the right hand side GPU of course to the graphics card and CPU up to the top left corner All That Remains then is the front panel cables and of course pop in the CPU Cooler fan back on for front panel there is the HD audio down to the bottom left USB 3 to the right hand side of the motherboard and all the fiddly front panel cables to the bottom right too and All That Remains then is to see if this thing actually boots up and some of the performance that hopefully we can achieve W you know that I need you I need you I'm running in circles cuz I a few RGB fans added in later and it's time to boot this system up now the first thing that I want to do is head into the BIOS to make sure that XMP is enabled for the memory I'm going to do this by hitting delete repeatedly on the keyboard fans are spinning we've got the splash screen hopefully we will land into the BIOS now you can see all looking pretty good no temperatures seem particularly out of control we've got our 26 gigs of RAM and our ryzen 7 5700x 8 core CPU you want to make sure that XMP is set to profile one and it should pick up from the memory automatically the overclocking profile so that takes me up to 3600 hit F10 to save and exit it will show you the changes you've made and I've gone ahead and pre-installed Windows on this drive already and added in all the game drives I'll be using for benchmarking so fingers crossed it should all just work the next job once I'm into Windows is to get all the RGB working now for this I'm going to use an app called signal which one of my favorite applications out right now and it's basically like a universal RGB control that works with pretty much everything now you can see you get all these different like various presets that you can choose from whether it be like a pure rainbow mode which hopefully ah there we go looking good so that's like a systemwide rainbow effect this space preset I always think is pretty cool it as a piece of software does a great job of tying everything together maybe for this video we'll go for a solid blue and I'm happy that's all looking pretty good now I also want to make sure I've got GPU drivers in now for this I'll be using the brand new Nvidia app now the Nvidia app is really good because it replaces essentially GeForce experience it's still technically and beta but it ties all your features together in one everything from the drivers which look to be y up to date you can access the app from any place on your computer using altz and I'm also going to use this to record the screen which is great for capturing gameplay and for things like benchmarking like I'm doing today my favorite thing about this though is that you haven't got a login which brings me great joy you can just do all of it instantly without too many problems from the homepage you can then see all your library of games and you can adjust the settings in those games too that makes life so much easier and basically uses the data of everybody else's gaming settings to determine what's best so I've set Horizon to the recommended settings but you can tune further up for quality or you can tune further down for performance AKA more frame rate I'm going to jump into those gaming benchmarks in just a moment before that though I do want to point out of course if you are in the UK and you'd like to buy this system I'll link it down below this AWD site has a really nice configurator so you can Notch the memory up that's what I did I think it's important really to have at least 32 gigs right now and if you're over in the US I'll link all the various options below for different retailers too now performance though is the important bit this this is meant to be a great value 4070 super system what kind of frame rates can we achieve the first game on my Benchmark list is Horizon forbidden West but you can skip through all the various benchmarks using the time stamps below now as far as settings go I am using a 4k monitor but this is very much a 1440p build to Let's tune the resolution down to 2560 by 1440 I'm going to turn off the LSS for now to give us the straight rasterization figure disable frame generation as well but enable Nvidia reflex to obviously help trim the latency down and keep things nice and sppy if you want the full graph settings by the way here they are everything tuned up to very high 16 times on the texture filter as well to really push things to the max first impressions are pretty good sitting at around about 90 frames per second though admittedly not a great deal going on right now this game looks amazing on this panel by the way and you can see got 1% low of around about 60 FPS so staying crucially above all the important numbers now I am interested to see what happens if I enable a bit of dlss and what impact this is going to have on the frame rate so I'm going to set this to dlss on the quality preset that's going to make sure the upscaler is not too heavy on the game but leave frame generation off for now straight away that's put things above 100 frames per second actually 110 FPS which is really really not too bad and as you can see visually the game I think still looks really really good the next natural step then I suppose is to turn on frame generation so let's go through into display graphic settings are all identical upscale quality dlss frame gen on hit apply keep the changes and as you can see this has made a difference already up now to over 140 F FPS at times 150 to frame gen helping us move from 100 frames per second or so right into the 150 territory which I am not complaining about at all next on the list is Alan weight 2 obviously one of the more harder to entitles right now so interesting to see at 1440p with no dlss enabled no rate tracing and high across the board how the game performs so let's see where we're at so looks visually pretty good at 1440p 67 FPS so not a huge amount of frame rate to play with in terms of things like turning r racing on but smooth and for an RPG game it's not exactly a competitive firstperson shooter this is going to be sufficient now if I go into the settings I think you guys know what's coming next go down to Graphics turn on dlss and set the render resolution to again let's use the quality preset and keep frame generation off for now see what that's going to do so that's boosted up straight away to nearly 100 wow that's actually a way bigger impact than I thought of the quality preset as far as the visual Fidelity goes not a great deal of difference between the original for res image and dlss on quality go down to balanced or performance and you're going to see more drop off now if I go back into graphics and turn on frame generation that should obviously make a massive difference again I'd rather enable frame gen than make the dlss setting more aggressive because the visual Fidelity impact is lower basically 130 FPS pretty good so you can see we've gone from struggling really to maintain anything much more than 60 to well over double that at about 140 130 other option as well of course you might want to do is enable a bit of raid tracing you can see here ra Trace we can put that on let's say high enable Ray reconstruction as well and go back into the game now Raad tracing is on high so you can see the frame rate impact is there we're down to about 90 still far higher than where we started and of course you can see especially in the reflections on the ground even the Mist in the air how much better the game looks I actually think with rage racing on providing the performance difference isn't massive and this is okay it's definitely worth adding frame generation if we just turn that off to demonstrate how much of the heavy lifting frame gen is doing you can see straight away ouch down to below that 60 Mark and this feels considerably less smooth so frame gen definitely on R tracing on if you want the visual Fidelity upside the next game on my Benchmark list is of course a bit of Call of Duty war zone now you can see here running at 1440p all the quality settings are set to high no R tracing no dlss to straight rasterization here to kick things off the only thing I have got enabled at this point is NVIDIA reflex that's going to help minimize the latency represented by the PC figure up here currently at about 44 milliseconds frame rate wise sitting at a pretty solid 115 FPS give or take quite happy with that though I would be interested to see what happens if I jump into the settings menu go down into Graphics quality and then enable dlss I can do that via upscaling Nvidia dlss and hit apply the main thing I'm worried about is an increase in latency that actually is pushing the latency actually not anywhere at all still at about 44 milliseconds 38 milliseconds on the latency via video reflex so pretty pleased all in all with that number pretty PR rate is still sitting strong at about 123 FPS when I turned on dlss I'm pretty sure I used the quality preset yes quality obviously if you wanted to push the settings even further you could go all the way down to balance that's going to give you a little bit more frame rate at the expense of a bit more visual Fidelity still sitting strong 131 frames per second pretty happy with what you where are we going what's this going on and performance all around feels pretty good it looks like it's all over we lasted well performance is pretty good quite a longrange kill to be fair and frame rates once again at 1440p on this system really not too bad next on the list of TI to test is Ghost of tashima again this is going to allow us to push the 4070 super hopefully nice and far and see what the overall build is able to offer now in terms of the Window mode exclusive full screen 1440p I'm going to disable dlss to be honest to begin with keep anti-alias in on daa and make sure reflex is on frame gen is off resolution scaling is off and vsync off good losses set is to play with again let's test out that rization figure first and see where the game lands okay so we are in 74 FPS is not too bad and graphically oh my goodness on this OLV monitor this game looks incredible now obviously the frame rate we're going to try and push it a bit further into the graphics menu everything you can see is already on high and Ultra as it stands but have jump into display and turn the upscale method to dlss hopefully that's going to move us from that 70 80 FPS Mark to yes look at that more more towards the 100 FPS barrier and you can see graphically still looks absolutely Sensational push things a little bit further again we can go and turn on frame generation so we can of course add dlss frame gen into the picture and look at that now well over that 100 Mark right up to about 140 so it pretty much double the frame rate that we started off with and oh my goodness on an olb monitor this game is like nothing else I have to say pretty impressed with this title and the performance of this machine I was kind of worried about seeing like CPU bottles neck in a more CPU usage is maybe marginally higher than what you might see on a ryzen 7000 or Intel 14th gen we're still seeing a GPU bottleneck for want of a better word which obviously shows the graphics card isn't being held back and that's the main thing I've also gone ahead and tested a range of FPS titles on this system starting off with Apex Legends at 1440p high in this competitive FPS title the build performed really well smashing through the 200 FPS Mark and delivering 235 frames per second on average so cyberpunk 2077 was a similarly positive story 1440p high and the build achieved not quite 100 FPS but 94 which is good enough for me is a difficult game to run I'll take 94 frames on average while fortnite finally wraps things up again at 1440p high with a really strong average of 173 FPS of course if you opted to tune things down to 1080p competitive youd get even higher on that frame rate but 1440p is where I did all the testing for today's build if you enjoyed this one make sure to get subscribe drop a comment let me know know what you think thanks for watching and as always we'll see you in the next one\n"