The Moment of Truth: Unboxing and Booting Up the Intel i5-13600K PC Build

As I sit here in front of my new gaming PC build, adorned with all sorts of RGB lights and wires, I take a deep breath and prepare for the moment of truth. The CPU Cooler fan is silent, but I can see the gentle glow of the little fans on the front panel, adding to the overall ambiance of the setup. The screen flickers to life as I hit the power button, and I wait with bated breath for the system to come online.

"forget the first boots, forget win it, power it's the Moment of Truth Now the one thing I haven't done is wired up the front panel cables so I can just jump the two pins with a screwdriver and that is so far a very positive start," I reflect on my setup. The fans of the front aren't spinning, but they are lit up in a mesmerizing display of color and light. Let's pretend for a moment that the CPU Cooler fan is spinning, adding to the excitement of the build.

As I settle into the system, I take a moment to acknowledge the construction process that went into building this PC. It was a labor of love, with careful attention to detail and precision engineering. The 12-second wait seems to fly by as I hit F1, and I jump into the BIOS settings. I'm relieved to find that the CPU fan is optional rather than the main cooling system, which had me worried about overheating.

The next step in getting my PC up and running is to enable XMP, or Extreme Memory Profiles, on the motherboard. This feature allows me to clock the system's memory up to higher speeds, further boosting performance. I enable the setting and watch as the system comes online with a speed increase of 3200 MHz. "I always like to set the easy performance tuning in the Asus bios to fast," I say, "which is going to just increase the clock speeds of our CPU memory for us."

With the system now fully booted up, I take a moment to appreciate the hardware that makes it tick. The Z79 motherboard, paired with an Intel i5-13600K processor and 16 GB of RAM, provides a formidable foundation for gaming performance. I save my changes to the BIOS settings and exit the setup process, eager to see how this PC will perform in real-world gaming scenarios.

Performance: Putting the i5-13600K and RTX 3060 TI Through Their Paces

Next up, it's time to put our new PC through its paces with some benchmarking tests. I fire up Overwatch 2 at 1440p Ultra settings and hit F10 to start recording my frame rates. The results are impressive, with an average of 205 frames per second – a strong showing for this relatively affordable gaming PC build.

I move on to Formula One 2022, a game that often pushes systems hard in terms of performance. I enable DLSS (deep learning super sampling) and set the game to High settings at 1440p. The results are stunning, with an average frame rate of 187 frames per second – a significant improvement over some of our previous configurations.

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered is another title that I put through its paces, using DLSS in Performance mode to unlock smooth gameplay at 114 FPS on average. The game looks fantastic, with crisp visuals and responsive controls.

Battlefield 2042 follows suit, with an average frame rate of 110 FPS on 1440p High settings and DLSS set to Performance mode. This provides a great gaming experience, even if the game doesn't quite reach the dizzying heights of some of our previous results.

Apex Legends is another test that shows off the PC's capabilities, with an average frame rate of 134 FPS at 1440p High settings and 1080p Competitive settings delivering a staggering 224 frames per second. The game looks great and runs smoothly, making this system a solid choice for competitive players.

Finally, I put Cod Warzone through its paces, achieving an impressive 141 FPS on 1440p High settings with DLSS set to Performance mode. This completes the series of tests that will give readers a good idea of how this PC build performs in real-world gaming scenarios.

The Verdict: A Strong Performance from the i5-13600K and RTX 3060 TI

And so, it's time to put all our cards on the table – is this PC build truly worth getting excited about? Based on our testing, I can confidently say that yes, it is. The Intel i5-13600K processor paired with an RTX 3060 Ti GPU delivers performance that rivals more expensive configurations.

While some may see this as a mid-range system, the results speak for themselves – smooth frame rates, low latency, and great visual fidelity. For gamers who want to get into high-performance gaming without breaking the bank, this PC build is an excellent choice.

As I close out this review, I'm reminded of why building my own gaming PC was such a rewarding experience. From the thrill of unboxing the components to the satisfaction of watching them come together in perfect harmony, it's been a wild ride. And as I prepare to put this system through its paces one more time, I know that I'll be smiling from ear to ear – for I've truly experienced the moment of truth.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enIntel's new 30th gem processors have landed and with it they've brought a brand new mid-range I5 option to the market could this be the Cure that the mid-range average gamer needs to build an awesome PC that doesn't break the bank in this one I'm gonna be finding out by building an awesome 1500 gaming PC featuring Intel's latest and greatest 13600k I'll be showing you how to put this system together talking about all the amazing parts that make it possible and hopefully providing some entertainment value along the way let's do this eBay and Asus are running a promotion you do not want to miss purchase an eligible Asus Rog Swift OLED gaming monitor from ebay.com and receive a wireless peripheral for free this includes the Rog Swift OLED pg42 uq and pg48 uq which we recently gave a glowing recommendation and you can choose their new top end wireless headset a wireless keyboard or a wireless mouse to supercharge your setup get all the details and pick yourself up a new monitor at the first link below I can't help but feel recently like all PC Hardware does is just get more expensive and more expensive and soon a mid-range PC is going to cost two thousand dollars and what's what's up with that I am not a fan but thankfully maybe Intel have provided the remedy with one of their latest CPUs that's right their new I5 13600k could well be the Cure we all need this I5 13600k chip looks to rival amd's latest ryzen 7600x and replace Intel's last generation 12 600k a very popular chip it aims to do so by providing a whopping 14 course on a mid-range chip and 20 threads in total you've got six Picos which are Intel's performance scores and eight of their e their efficiency cores the performance ones are going to be the best for gaming but the idea is that the e-cores will pick up all the slack in the background to really give you better multi-threaded performance although boost clocks are slightly lower on this chip than the ryzen 5 7000 alternative it's a much cheaper processor to actually use it doesn't require really expensive motherboards or high-end ddr5 memory in order to work in fact I'll be pairing up this chip with one of asus's ddr4 oriented budget z790 motherboards the tough gaming Wi-Fi not only is this motherboard cheaper than its AMD x670 Alternatives but it supports much more affordable ddr4 memory and these new Chips although flashy boards are always a great option to actually support the last gem B6 60m motherboards with a bios update that means you can pick up something like this Asus board which is going to cost a little more than a hundred dollars saving some serious cash over any other viable options on the market right now we're going to look more in detail at that config in another build though as for today I think this motherboard is a good middle ground providing great performance at a price that isn't going to break the bank you get PCI generation 5 you get this fancy little clip system for handily removing graphics cards and if you take a look at the rear i o you get an integrated IO shield with a two and a half gig ethernet port Wi-Fi and plenty of General connectivity plus the color scheme looks pretty awesome and I like what Asus have done with their tough gaming brand here unlike amd's new Chips these chips are the same as the last generation to install you still got the pins on the socket and the contact points on the CPU itself lift up the socket drop the CPU into place not literally be careful and then add the arm back down the black plastic will pop off and we can fasten the whole thing into place nice and easy these new Intel chips use a bit more power helping us to unlock those higher clock speeds but overall a pretty efficient by Design as far as I understand while I'm here I'm also going to install my Ram and SSD choices for this system 16 gigabytes of 3600 megahertz Corsair vengeance is my selection for obvious reasons it's really affordable half the price of an equivalent ddr5 kit with nice Aesthetics and my SSD is the xpg spectrix s20g good read and write speeds a nice RGB diffuser and we've reviewed the driving full over on the website you can take off the integrated heat shield for your m.2 drives and leave this out as ours has one built in nice and simple while the motherboard's all easy to access as well I'm going to next pop in my CPU Cooler of choice now you might notice some white accents start to creep in and that's a theme I've gone for in the build in general which is where the Deep cool ak-400 wh standing for white comes in they also do a black version but I think they still tie in nicely with the memory and the lighter tones on the GPU and of course the case I've picked for the build later very very excited about the case for this system it's gonna look hopefully like a stormtrooper oh yes for these new Intel CPUs most coolers are going to be fine I'm recommending you pick up a tower air cooler for the I5 and go for a more liquid oriented option if you're picking the i7 or the I9 as your daily driver a cooler like this will give us a little bit of overclocking Headroom and while it won't run quite as quiet as an all-in-one it's also you guessed it a lot more affordable ryzen runs hot you need a better cooler to get that performance and I'm hoping we're not going to see any thermal throttling on our 13 600k but I suppose only time will tell now to install the cooler you want to go ahead and grab this back plate sort of all-in-one bracket it's got plastic little bits on each corner with pins screw threads poking through if you then flip the motherboard round to the rear panel and drop the back plate through the holes on the rear of the board before laying the board back on the box now CPU coolers are always a nightmare to install so I'm hoping today I can simplify your life a little bit especially if you're going to follow along with this build on your own at home once we've done that I'm also going to take these now these are sort of like a female on one end and a male post on the other and we're going to add these around Each corner of the CPU these fasten into the pins that we literally just went ahead and poked through the rear of the motherboard you then want to add on this Silver Plate and tighten it down with all the thumb screws the thumb screws have got this nice little thread in for using a screwdriver just to finish things off don't forget to drop a dab of thermal paste on at this stage before actually going ahead and pop in the cooler itself into place you're gonna then tighten up the pre-installed springed screws you can start things off with your fingers and to begin with it'll do this it shouldn't do that at the end once it's all tight and making good contact with the CPU timer with your fingers a little bit more give it another wiggle better this time and as I say finish things off with the screwdriver you don't over talks these if you do want to get them nice and tight so they're not likely to move anywhere that's the whole point in the spring it can be tempting now to add the fan back gone that we removed earlier but do not do this keep away from the fan and that's because we're going to add in the motherboard to the case first I'm putting the fan on we'll just make fit in the screwdriver in a tricky Endeavor don't make life more difficult for yourself than it necessarily needs to be been there done that got the T-shirt I'll save you the pain you may have noticed earlier I talked about this build looking a little bit like a stormtrooper and that's where cooler Master's Master box 520 comes into play now this is available in a range of different colors but I think the white one has got a really cool aesthetic that's going to fit with the rest of the build hopefully this is the idea it will all start to make a little bit more sense as we go through now supports full size ATX motherboard support latest gpus you've got how much 410 millimeters that's pretty good I mean a 1490s 380 385 so potentially room for a next-gen GPU in this one too it is full size ATX so it's going to be great for these better value ATX motherboards and it's also not a chassis that breaks the bank in terms of price Cooler Master have a mixed range some of their recent cases are amazing like the half 700 Evo some not quite so amazing but I think this definitely fits in the good category make sure to get subscribed actually if you'd like to see a 2023 edition of the best PC cases to buy so it would definitely want to be working on behind the scenes there's never really a particularly glamorous way to unbox a PC case so I'm just gonna roll with it I always get static electricity shocks every time I open a PC case it's like shock shock shock shock I swear one day one day oh one day I'll unbox a PC case and have no static electricity shocks oh makes me angry would you just look at that for a PC case isn't that a good looking come on like is that not really nice I like that a lot as with pretty much all the parts in this video you can find a written review of this case over on the website we put so many hours like all of our reviews have thousands of words you should definitely go and check it out geekoor.com first link below button in the cards just give it a go take a look I think you won't regret it as with all cases uh you want to start things off by just taking off all the side panels tempered glass on this one is tallest listen to this sound wait for it isn't that just satisfying hardly the Reaper reattach all this but that's not necessary necessarily a bad thing sometimes the tallest ones struggle to keep closed especially if there's a cable in the way as there was there I'm then going to go ahead and Slide the motherboard in nice and easily be careful not to cut yourself motherboards it can be quite sharp actually add that in and screw it down I don't know what it is but there's something quite therapeutic about installing a motherboard nine screws on this one today any ATX boards gonna have three down the middle three along the top three across the bottom you don't technically need to put all of them in but it can't hurt to make sure your motherboard isn't gonna go anywhere once that's done I'm also just going to add back in the fan for the cooler We're not gonna need to access any areas of the motherboard again around here and we can just plug the fan up to the fan header too just this one up here in the top right hand corner I'll deal with tucking the cable away and cable managing it a little bit later the graphics card is next up now this is a component I'm particularly excited about the last few weeks on the channel have been you know here's a 40 90 2 000 GPU that most people are never gonna buy so to feature something like this again excites me greatly this is a course nvidia's 30 60 TI it's by no means a base spec graphics card it's no 30 50 but what it is is a mid-range card that's going to match up perfectly with the I5 in this build it also makes sense when you're testing the I5 to use a card like this is this a combination most people are going to be buying one thing that does strike me about this card already it feels Tiny having used 4090s the last couple of weeks this feels like a miniature graphics card let me demonstrate I'm sorry is that not just obscene the 3060 TI looks like a bloody toy when compared to the 1490 I mean oh my goodness I've opened a can of worms so I'm going to put this away on a more relevant note though I I appreciate I'm getting distracted this is an awesome card for gaming at 1440p 1080p as well is going to be fantastic on this system especially given how good the single thread is on the I5 making it a great bet for everything from CS go and valoran to fortnite and Apex well this card can pick up the slack at 1440p and more intensive title tools like cyberpunk Battlefield 2042 and of course Cod Vanguard upcoming Modern Warfare 2. It's Gonna Take a lot of boxes this system for those who want a game in the Esports genre and those who want to game in that high-end AAA title space and of course those who just want a game in both now if we hover the GPU over the top PCA slot you'll see we need to take out a couple of these black covers at the rear of the case while I am a fan of all white cases it's nice when chassis do have those black and gray elements as it allows us to get away with using a darker colored motherboard or a GPU that isn't let's say completely white as finding a white GPU quite tricky once they're out we can slide the graphics card into place and in theory a bit of pressure and it will click in add the screws back in that we just took out and also pop in the really ugly GPU powered dongle soon to be a thing of the past but for these 30 series cards you just gotta suck it up and use it aftermarket units like gigabyte Asus MSI models don't use the dongle they just have the eight pins directly on the graphics card which is arguably a better approach for these older gpus I'll be looking at detailed performance on the whole system and this and the CTI a bit later but first now if you take a look power supply this is cooler Master's mw750 gold V2 if I recall correctly the recommended wattage for a 3060 TI is a 650 watt unit or above but of course that didn't take into account new CPUs which are more power intensive plus if you actually want to do any overclocking of the new 13600k one of its really really great points then you will need a more beefed up power supply to ensure that wattage can indeed be delivered now this is a fully modular power supply meaning we don't need all the cables and we can pick which ones we install I'm adding in a motherboard CPU SATA which we'll be using to power Penny fans or RGB controllers and then hopefully somewhere in here a GPU power cable this looks exactly what we need you can see it's got six plus two pins giving us an optional eight pins in total or a six pin connector we're going to pop that into the power supply as well lovely stuff screw the unit in and run all the cables I have actually got one trick up my sleeve in the form of these easy DIY Fab cable extensions I'm hoping they're going to tie together the white and black theme with a little bit of gray in the middle and they'll be running to our GPU CPU and to the motherboard on the right hand side I'll of course link these and everything else mentioned in today's build at the affiliate links down in the description below for Amazon with that done we can go ahead and actually see if this thing boots for the first time we could do this by just turning the PC on now but I want to make sure it posts to a monitor and lets us into the bios so I'm going to plug in a keyboard a mouse and a monitor and then it's time for the moment of truth it's very dramatic when I say it like that I'm going to call this moment of every video the moment of truth from now on forget the first boots forget win it power it's the Moment of Truth Now the one thing I haven't done is wired up the front panel cables so I can just jump the two pins with a screwdriver and that is so far a very positive start so the fans of the front aren't spinning but they are little RGB so let's just pretend for the moment the CPU Cooler fan is spinning though and we have got lights and hopefully in a moment aha no way like genuinely this is the first time I've actually booted this so I can't believe it although there's lots of construction 12 seconds later okay fine it's all good hit F1 jump into the by on we're around so I'm gonna fix that now CPU fan optional rather than main CPU fan so it was worried it was like your CPUs Gonna Catch Fire didn't say that exactly but that's what it meant if you look at the SE it's written at 3200 we can clock that up in a moment by simply enabling this lovely setting called XMP which stands for extreme memory profiles you can see now that's going to clock it up to 3 603 megahertz I always like to set the easy performance tuning in the Asus bios to fast which is going to just increase the clock speeds of our CPU memory for us and then I think that's sort of nearly it you can see we've got z79 motherboard I5 13 600k and 16 gigs of RAM so we can hit F10 to save and exit hit apply and that's basically all there is to it next up we're gonna see how good this looks when it's all powered up and I'll rejoin you in a moment for some gaming benchmarks of our beautiful 13 600k oh and I'm gonna fix those fans in the meantime now for the important bit performance how well is this i5 13600k and RTX 3060 TI PC build really perform there's only one way to find out and that's by testing it in a range of games let's start off easy with OverWatch 2 and work through to all the harder titles as we go they're at 1440p Ultra we managed to get 205 frames per second on average which seems pretty strong we haven't got much comparison data on OverWatch 2 with it being such a new game but it's giving you those Esports level frame rates and higher to be honest with you with great single threaded performance from our I5 in Formula One 2022 at 1440p high settings we enabled dlss2 of course no access to DLS S3 on this 30 series GPU and pulled in 187 FPS on average this is a very very strong result especially when you compare to some of the other numbers we've previously achieved in F1 this is going to be much higher than an equivalent ryzing config with the 13 600k really paying dividends here Marvel's Spider-Man remastered is a similar story 14 TP High dlss set to Performance mode and we pulled in 114 frames per second on average the game looked absolutely fantastic and the temperatures on both our GPU and that new Intel CPU stayed pretty solid throughout Battlefield 2042 is a similar story 1440p high dlss set to Performance mode and we achieved 110 frames per second on average this obviously provided a really playable gaming experience and if you wanted to surpass that 140 150 FPS Mark for the 144hz monitors out there you could definitely do so by knocking down to say 1080p in Apex Legends it was a similarly positive story 134 FPS on average at 1440p high settings this Stacks up well against some of our previous results giving us a gain of around 15 frames per second over a 5600x and equivalent config fortnite was once again very positive too 1080p competitive settings in this title and it managed to deliver 224 frames per second on average the game looked great in the process too two very smooth lag free study free gameplay and an impressive show even from what might just be the best mid-range GPU and CPU combo out there right now finally to wrap things up we also tested out Cod Warzone 1440p High settings with dlss sector performance mode and we achieved 141 fps to be all told the game looked great as well Cod Wars a little bit older now I'm excited to test the new Modern Warfare 2 next week can't believe it's coming out next week but a great gaming experience nevertheless on this system you can read our full review of the 13 600k at the first links in the description below thanks for tuning in though and as always we'll see you in the next oneIntel's new 30th gem processors have landed and with it they've brought a brand new mid-range I5 option to the market could this be the Cure that the mid-range average gamer needs to build an awesome PC that doesn't break the bank in this one I'm gonna be finding out by building an awesome 1500 gaming PC featuring Intel's latest and greatest 13600k I'll be showing you how to put this system together talking about all the amazing parts that make it possible and hopefully providing some entertainment value along the way let's do this eBay and Asus are running a promotion you do not want to miss purchase an eligible Asus Rog Swift OLED gaming monitor from ebay.com and receive a wireless peripheral for free this includes the Rog Swift OLED pg42 uq and pg48 uq which we recently gave a glowing recommendation and you can choose their new top end wireless headset a wireless keyboard or a wireless mouse to supercharge your setup get all the details and pick yourself up a new monitor at the first link below I can't help but feel recently like all PC Hardware does is just get more expensive and more expensive and soon a mid-range PC is going to cost two thousand dollars and what's what's up with that I am not a fan but thankfully maybe Intel have provided the remedy with one of their latest CPUs that's right their new I5 13600k could well be the Cure we all need this I5 13600k chip looks to rival amd's latest ryzen 7600x and replace Intel's last generation 12 600k a very popular chip it aims to do so by providing a whopping 14 course on a mid-range chip and 20 threads in total you've got six Picos which are Intel's performance scores and eight of their e their efficiency cores the performance ones are going to be the best for gaming but the idea is that the e-cores will pick up all the slack in the background to really give you better multi-threaded performance although boost clocks are slightly lower on this chip than the ryzen 5 7000 alternative it's a much cheaper processor to actually use it doesn't require really expensive motherboards or high-end ddr5 memory in order to work in fact I'll be pairing up this chip with one of asus's ddr4 oriented budget z790 motherboards the tough gaming Wi-Fi not only is this motherboard cheaper than its AMD x670 Alternatives but it supports much more affordable ddr4 memory and these new Chips although flashy boards are always a great option to actually support the last gem B6 60m motherboards with a bios update that means you can pick up something like this Asus board which is going to cost a little more than a hundred dollars saving some serious cash over any other viable options on the market right now we're going to look more in detail at that config in another build though as for today I think this motherboard is a good middle ground providing great performance at a price that isn't going to break the bank you get PCI generation 5 you get this fancy little clip system for handily removing graphics cards and if you take a look at the rear i o you get an integrated IO shield with a two and a half gig ethernet port Wi-Fi and plenty of General connectivity plus the color scheme looks pretty awesome and I like what Asus have done with their tough gaming brand here unlike amd's new Chips these chips are the same as the last generation to install you still got the pins on the socket and the contact points on the CPU itself lift up the socket drop the CPU into place not literally be careful and then add the arm back down the black plastic will pop off and we can fasten the whole thing into place nice and easy these new Intel chips use a bit more power helping us to unlock those higher clock speeds but overall a pretty efficient by Design as far as I understand while I'm here I'm also going to install my Ram and SSD choices for this system 16 gigabytes of 3600 megahertz Corsair vengeance is my selection for obvious reasons it's really affordable half the price of an equivalent ddr5 kit with nice Aesthetics and my SSD is the xpg spectrix s20g good read and write speeds a nice RGB diffuser and we've reviewed the driving full over on the website you can take off the integrated heat shield for your m.2 drives and leave this out as ours has one built in nice and simple while the motherboard's all easy to access as well I'm going to next pop in my CPU Cooler of choice now you might notice some white accents start to creep in and that's a theme I've gone for in the build in general which is where the Deep cool ak-400 wh standing for white comes in they also do a black version but I think they still tie in nicely with the memory and the lighter tones on the GPU and of course the case I've picked for the build later very very excited about the case for this system it's gonna look hopefully like a stormtrooper oh yes for these new Intel CPUs most coolers are going to be fine I'm recommending you pick up a tower air cooler for the I5 and go for a more liquid oriented option if you're picking the i7 or the I9 as your daily driver a cooler like this will give us a little bit of overclocking Headroom and while it won't run quite as quiet as an all-in-one it's also you guessed it a lot more affordable ryzen runs hot you need a better cooler to get that performance and I'm hoping we're not going to see any thermal throttling on our 13 600k but I suppose only time will tell now to install the cooler you want to go ahead and grab this back plate sort of all-in-one bracket it's got plastic little bits on each corner with pins screw threads poking through if you then flip the motherboard round to the rear panel and drop the back plate through the holes on the rear of the board before laying the board back on the box now CPU coolers are always a nightmare to install so I'm hoping today I can simplify your life a little bit especially if you're going to follow along with this build on your own at home once we've done that I'm also going to take these now these are sort of like a female on one end and a male post on the other and we're going to add these around Each corner of the CPU these fasten into the pins that we literally just went ahead and poked through the rear of the motherboard you then want to add on this Silver Plate and tighten it down with all the thumb screws the thumb screws have got this nice little thread in for using a screwdriver just to finish things off don't forget to drop a dab of thermal paste on at this stage before actually going ahead and pop in the cooler itself into place you're gonna then tighten up the pre-installed springed screws you can start things off with your fingers and to begin with it'll do this it shouldn't do that at the end once it's all tight and making good contact with the CPU timer with your fingers a little bit more give it another wiggle better this time and as I say finish things off with the screwdriver you don't over talks these if you do want to get them nice and tight so they're not likely to move anywhere that's the whole point in the spring it can be tempting now to add the fan back gone that we removed earlier but do not do this keep away from the fan and that's because we're going to add in the motherboard to the case first I'm putting the fan on we'll just make fit in the screwdriver in a tricky Endeavor don't make life more difficult for yourself than it necessarily needs to be been there done that got the T-shirt I'll save you the pain you may have noticed earlier I talked about this build looking a little bit like a stormtrooper and that's where cooler Master's Master box 520 comes into play now this is available in a range of different colors but I think the white one has got a really cool aesthetic that's going to fit with the rest of the build hopefully this is the idea it will all start to make a little bit more sense as we go through now supports full size ATX motherboard support latest gpus you've got how much 410 millimeters that's pretty good I mean a 1490s 380 385 so potentially room for a next-gen GPU in this one too it is full size ATX so it's going to be great for these better value ATX motherboards and it's also not a chassis that breaks the bank in terms of price Cooler Master have a mixed range some of their recent cases are amazing like the half 700 Evo some not quite so amazing but I think this definitely fits in the good category make sure to get subscribed actually if you'd like to see a 2023 edition of the best PC cases to buy so it would definitely want to be working on behind the scenes there's never really a particularly glamorous way to unbox a PC case so I'm just gonna roll with it I always get static electricity shocks every time I open a PC case it's like shock shock shock shock I swear one day one day oh one day I'll unbox a PC case and have no static electricity shocks oh makes me angry would you just look at that for a PC case isn't that a good looking come on like is that not really nice I like that a lot as with pretty much all the parts in this video you can find a written review of this case over on the website we put so many hours like all of our reviews have thousands of words you should definitely go and check it out geekoor.com first link below button in the cards just give it a go take a look I think you won't regret it as with all cases uh you want to start things off by just taking off all the side panels tempered glass on this one is tallest listen to this sound wait for it isn't that just satisfying hardly the Reaper reattach all this but that's not necessary necessarily a bad thing sometimes the tallest ones struggle to keep closed especially if there's a cable in the way as there was there I'm then going to go ahead and Slide the motherboard in nice and easily be careful not to cut yourself motherboards it can be quite sharp actually add that in and screw it down I don't know what it is but there's something quite therapeutic about installing a motherboard nine screws on this one today any ATX boards gonna have three down the middle three along the top three across the bottom you don't technically need to put all of them in but it can't hurt to make sure your motherboard isn't gonna go anywhere once that's done I'm also just going to add back in the fan for the cooler We're not gonna need to access any areas of the motherboard again around here and we can just plug the fan up to the fan header too just this one up here in the top right hand corner I'll deal with tucking the cable away and cable managing it a little bit later the graphics card is next up now this is a component I'm particularly excited about the last few weeks on the channel have been you know here's a 40 90 2 000 GPU that most people are never gonna buy so to feature something like this again excites me greatly this is a course nvidia's 30 60 TI it's by no means a base spec graphics card it's no 30 50 but what it is is a mid-range card that's going to match up perfectly with the I5 in this build it also makes sense when you're testing the I5 to use a card like this is this a combination most people are going to be buying one thing that does strike me about this card already it feels Tiny having used 4090s the last couple of weeks this feels like a miniature graphics card let me demonstrate I'm sorry is that not just obscene the 3060 TI looks like a bloody toy when compared to the 1490 I mean oh my goodness I've opened a can of worms so I'm going to put this away on a more relevant note though I I appreciate I'm getting distracted this is an awesome card for gaming at 1440p 1080p as well is going to be fantastic on this system especially given how good the single thread is on the I5 making it a great bet for everything from CS go and valoran to fortnite and Apex well this card can pick up the slack at 1440p and more intensive title tools like cyberpunk Battlefield 2042 and of course Cod Vanguard upcoming Modern Warfare 2. It's Gonna Take a lot of boxes this system for those who want a game in the Esports genre and those who want to game in that high-end AAA title space and of course those who just want a game in both now if we hover the GPU over the top PCA slot you'll see we need to take out a couple of these black covers at the rear of the case while I am a fan of all white cases it's nice when chassis do have those black and gray elements as it allows us to get away with using a darker colored motherboard or a GPU that isn't let's say completely white as finding a white GPU quite tricky once they're out we can slide the graphics card into place and in theory a bit of pressure and it will click in add the screws back in that we just took out and also pop in the really ugly GPU powered dongle soon to be a thing of the past but for these 30 series cards you just gotta suck it up and use it aftermarket units like gigabyte Asus MSI models don't use the dongle they just have the eight pins directly on the graphics card which is arguably a better approach for these older gpus I'll be looking at detailed performance on the whole system and this and the CTI a bit later but first now if you take a look power supply this is cooler Master's mw750 gold V2 if I recall correctly the recommended wattage for a 3060 TI is a 650 watt unit or above but of course that didn't take into account new CPUs which are more power intensive plus if you actually want to do any overclocking of the new 13600k one of its really really great points then you will need a more beefed up power supply to ensure that wattage can indeed be delivered now this is a fully modular power supply meaning we don't need all the cables and we can pick which ones we install I'm adding in a motherboard CPU SATA which we'll be using to power Penny fans or RGB controllers and then hopefully somewhere in here a GPU power cable this looks exactly what we need you can see it's got six plus two pins giving us an optional eight pins in total or a six pin connector we're going to pop that into the power supply as well lovely stuff screw the unit in and run all the cables I have actually got one trick up my sleeve in the form of these easy DIY Fab cable extensions I'm hoping they're going to tie together the white and black theme with a little bit of gray in the middle and they'll be running to our GPU CPU and to the motherboard on the right hand side I'll of course link these and everything else mentioned in today's build at the affiliate links down in the description below for Amazon with that done we can go ahead and actually see if this thing boots for the first time we could do this by just turning the PC on now but I want to make sure it posts to a monitor and lets us into the bios so I'm going to plug in a keyboard a mouse and a monitor and then it's time for the moment of truth it's very dramatic when I say it like that I'm going to call this moment of every video the moment of truth from now on forget the first boots forget win it power it's the Moment of Truth Now the one thing I haven't done is wired up the front panel cables so I can just jump the two pins with a screwdriver and that is so far a very positive start so the fans of the front aren't spinning but they are little RGB so let's just pretend for the moment the CPU Cooler fan is spinning though and we have got lights and hopefully in a moment aha no way like genuinely this is the first time I've actually booted this so I can't believe it although there's lots of construction 12 seconds later okay fine it's all good hit F1 jump into the by on we're around so I'm gonna fix that now CPU fan optional rather than main CPU fan so it was worried it was like your CPUs Gonna Catch Fire didn't say that exactly but that's what it meant if you look at the SE it's written at 3200 we can clock that up in a moment by simply enabling this lovely setting called XMP which stands for extreme memory profiles you can see now that's going to clock it up to 3 603 megahertz I always like to set the easy performance tuning in the Asus bios to fast which is going to just increase the clock speeds of our CPU memory for us and then I think that's sort of nearly it you can see we've got z79 motherboard I5 13 600k and 16 gigs of RAM so we can hit F10 to save and exit hit apply and that's basically all there is to it next up we're gonna see how good this looks when it's all powered up and I'll rejoin you in a moment for some gaming benchmarks of our beautiful 13 600k oh and I'm gonna fix those fans in the meantime now for the important bit performance how well is this i5 13600k and RTX 3060 TI PC build really perform there's only one way to find out and that's by testing it in a range of games let's start off easy with OverWatch 2 and work through to all the harder titles as we go they're at 1440p Ultra we managed to get 205 frames per second on average which seems pretty strong we haven't got much comparison data on OverWatch 2 with it being such a new game but it's giving you those Esports level frame rates and higher to be honest with you with great single threaded performance from our I5 in Formula One 2022 at 1440p high settings we enabled dlss2 of course no access to DLS S3 on this 30 series GPU and pulled in 187 FPS on average this is a very very strong result especially when you compare to some of the other numbers we've previously achieved in F1 this is going to be much higher than an equivalent ryzing config with the 13 600k really paying dividends here Marvel's Spider-Man remastered is a similar story 14 TP High dlss set to Performance mode and we pulled in 114 frames per second on average the game looked absolutely fantastic and the temperatures on both our GPU and that new Intel CPU stayed pretty solid throughout Battlefield 2042 is a similar story 1440p high dlss set to Performance mode and we achieved 110 frames per second on average this obviously provided a really playable gaming experience and if you wanted to surpass that 140 150 FPS Mark for the 144hz monitors out there you could definitely do so by knocking down to say 1080p in Apex Legends it was a similarly positive story 134 FPS on average at 1440p high settings this Stacks up well against some of our previous results giving us a gain of around 15 frames per second over a 5600x and equivalent config fortnite was once again very positive too 1080p competitive settings in this title and it managed to deliver 224 frames per second on average the game looked great in the process too two very smooth lag free study free gameplay and an impressive show even from what might just be the best mid-range GPU and CPU combo out there right now finally to wrap things up we also tested out Cod Warzone 1440p High settings with dlss sector performance mode and we achieved 141 fps to be all told the game looked great as well Cod Wars a little bit older now I'm excited to test the new Modern Warfare 2 next week can't believe it's coming out next week but a great gaming experience nevertheless on this system you can read our full review of the 13 600k at the first links in the description below thanks for tuning in though and as always we'll see you in the next one\n"