The author's Gaming PC Build Experience

The author has spent a significant amount of time benchmarking their new gaming PC build, and they are excited to share their experience with their audience. They have opted for a mid-range GPU, specifically the Nvidia 4070 TI, which was available at a relatively affordable price point. The author notes that this decision might not be ideal for those looking to future-proof their system, as newer GPUs like the 470 TI would provide better performance.

In terms of CPU and motherboard combo pricing, the author finds it to be great value for money. However, they acknowledge that if they were planning to upgrade their system in a few years, they might need to consider a more powerful cooler. The author's philosophy is to showcase the worst performance possible with the card, so that their audience can see what to expect when reducing settings.

To test the author's new GPU, they have set up a benchmarking session with various games and settings. They aimed for an average frame rate of over 60 FPS in 1440p resolution. The author notes that this might not be ideal for certain games like Cyberpunk, which would require more powerful hardware to maintain high frame rates.

During the benchmarking process, the author discovered a hidden feature in one of the games they were testing, which allowed them to push the frame rate even higher. However, they found it challenging to identify and exploit this feature, despite knowing its existence.

The author concludes that their new gaming PC build has performed admirably, with an average FPS of 88.24 in various tests. They acknowledge that there might be some room for improvement by fine-tuning settings or using frame regeneration techniques. The author's goal was to demonstrate the capabilities of their mid-range GPU and provide a realistic representation of its performance.

In terms of the author's PC build, they have opted for a powerful CPU and motherboard combo, which should provide excellent performance for gaming and other demanding tasks. However, due to the limitations of available GPUs at the time of purchase, the author had to make some compromises in their system design.

The author's experience with building PCs is evident throughout the video, as they discuss the importance of testing and benchmarking different components. They also acknowledge that this process can be time-consuming and requires patience, but ultimately leads to a well-designed and high-performance gaming PC.

The author's willingness to experiment with different settings and techniques during the benchmarking process is also noteworthy. By pushing their GPU to its limits and exploring various optimization methods, they have gained valuable insights into the performance capabilities of their mid-range GPU.

In conclusion, the author's experience with building and benchmarking their new gaming PC is a testament to the importance of thorough testing and evaluation. By sharing their results and lessons learned, they hope to inspire their audience to build their own high-performance PCs that meet their specific needs and budget constraints.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay so I was supposed to build a computer according to you guys in the podcast that's what I'm gonna do let's start it's brought to you by the JC sense merch store you got t-shirts and gaming mats and mugs and all that kind of stuff so whenever you go buy our stuff we don't have to put other ads here and other annoying crap so go buy our stuff this was quite an adventure I did a bit of researching homework if you want to call it that but if it wasn't really homework I had to look up some stuff I started with what kind of which generation I wanted to go with as far as PC and motherboard and I narrowed it down I originally want to do the newest am5 platform and realized Ram is going to be a little bit hard and not everyone has a Micro Center around because I found the dealer if you bought a motherboard and CPU you also got a set of free ddr5 couldn't find the ram in our warehouse and if I did use Ram here it would have been more of a like throw a lot of money at the build and I felt I wanted to do like a reasonable build a reasonable price to build for my computer that you guys wanted me to build so I started out with the uh let's see the I5 12 600k so it's a 12th gen and I also went with an Asus z690 motherboard and I went with this pairing because I could still use ddr4 which is great costs are fairly low with that and it leaves you a little bit room to upgrade if you wanted to so as far as RAM that uh it's the 32 gigabytes of the 3200 megahertz storage we're gonna use a two terabyte drive nvme just makes it easier you could do multiple terabyte drives if you want but I think the cost will probably equal out to the cost of one of these and then GPU I know you're all excited What GPU did you choose I chose probably the red-headed stepchild the 470 TI uh reasonable MSRP right now compared to when it was and I figured if I'm going to use new parts this is what I would pick right now instead of trying to track down a deal because not everyone is going to be able to find the same deal once again it'll throw out the cost of under two grand I wanted to make for this build I think I found this retail for about 800 so this is going to eat up the majority of your cost which I believe is well worth it if especially if you like RT as for cooler everyone's been doing aios I kind of want to do it AIO but that would bring it like right at the two thousand dollar mark actually it will be well over two thousand I would do like a 360. but I decided I'm gonna try air cooling it because I prefer to use out of box settings the most I adjust on my personal builds are gonna be fan curves and the power supply another place where you could save some money but um I like over a little bit overbuilt so I went with an 850 watt and I'm pretty sure you could get away with the 750 but just to be like over that line of say like you're safe doing 850. all right so as far as the parts the last thing that we're going to build in I'll show it to you as soon as we get in there the fractal torrent case like I really like this one it's a gray one so it's not going to be like a standard like a white case there's a couple other cases that I would have liked to build in but had to pick what we had on hand and I figured this would be really cool because if you notice it's a top mounted PSU so we really can't do a top mounted radiator if we went with the AIO hence I did the air cool and there's like two I believe 180 mil fans in the front so plenty of air to go through and we'll see uh how it holds up after I put this thing together all right so as far as my build total was we're about 1800 uh under two grand which I was excited about the places I saved money was definitely the motherboard and CPU combo because at Micro Center the deal for that specific processor and the motherboard was 306 dollars versus the am5 platform I want to build off started at about 6.72 so yeah about half off allowed me to put more money towards the GPU and even more save some more money from the ram to throw towards PSU also money towards upgrading the nvme from one terabyte so I had more storage instead of buying multiple uh anyways let's go back to getting the build together and I'll come back after it's built also Pro tip I like trt-fm because I I'm just built like that so I also discovered that the optional channel here and the CPU fan Channel there's another one there's another set underneath but these two specifically in the manual say that they're paired so I put them I made sure I plugged in each of the fans respectively into there that way it will be controlled and these will be the same speeds if I plug say one in the bottom that other one is not linked to another plug so the speeds will vary if I set it in the Bios foreign foreign I'm happy this turned out I should I shouldn't be excited it's like my fifth build but this one is uh without Jay behind me probably telling me to hurry up okay so we're back from vacation this is like a week and a half at least from when you started doing this yeah um I tasked Nick with while we're gone you have free reign to raid the shop build a system but it rather than just going here's all the most expensive stuff on the Shelf which would have been really easy to do I tasked him with trying to balance the system kind of like pick either a theme or some sort of concept in mind so first of all did you have like a budget in mind did you do any sort of pricing on this I did I said I want I set my budget to about two thousand bucks okay so I figured it'd be like a mid-range thing and I also took into account you just triggered people by saying two Grands of mid-range PC well that's a pretty high-end PC still my bad well he's changed I don't I'm assuming this is going to be like okay you already have a monitor keyboard and stuff yeah we usually use the pricing just for the tower yeah so you're focusing on the tower what about a resolution was there resolution in mind oh yeah 1440 14 yeah I already figured out by looking at the wrapping that this is a torrent case because it has such a unique shape so go ahead and unveil it all right cool it's a touring Okay so this is the gunmetal torrent this case is interesting because it doesn't have conventional fan sizes so these are like 180s yeah they're like 180s on the front I think they're one of these yeah they're not 200s they're 180s which makes it interesting you can still use like a 360 or something up there the bottom these are one uh 40s right yeah there's a three 140 intakes on the top two 180 intakes on the front and it's all positive pressure top mounted PSU which has 850 Watts so what's the graphics card a 47 TI okay that's cool so you did a z690 so what CPUs in there uh the 12 600k M okay all right fair enough um because I originally want to do like an am5 but like everything was kind of x to do a basic level a and five is this ddr4 ddr4 okay so already you're getting a better value there than you would with am5 because you'd have to choose our ddr5 stuff yeah that is a 30 70 you said uh 40. oh sorry 40 47 TI yeah okay okay people are triggered I can feel it yes it's like the stepchild of graphics cards I specifically chose it because I do like RT on some of my games okay so I figured fair enough going for AMD a 4070 TI with rt on in 1440 would be about a 30 90-ish performance like that's all blacked out so that's the tough motherboard and then how much RAM is that is that 32 gigs I believe uh yeah so you have four eight gig sticks and they are match set so awesome that's number one is like did you just put two sets in there or did you match them so this is a four dim set so in terms of like qvl and compatibility and stuff you'll have the most compatibility by obviously using a match set so they're putting two two gig sets together or two uh stick sets together everything appears to be connected Cable Management looks nice how much time did you spend building it probably full day okay well it's faster than I build all right but let's look at the back the back will tell us how much time you spent building on this there's lots of room oh yeah I forgot to have that controller down there yeah I actually think this was supposed to be changed out I think it was a fire hazard um moving on they tell me Nick could have burned the studio down while we were going that would have been the true test how did you handle that well this is better than some like store-bought builds honestly in terms of like its build uh quality and cable management like this is all tucked away down here I like the wiring setup on it though because I basically did the internal wiring first and then I brought in the power supply and then started routing it on top yeah well this the routing of this power supply the way the cable compartment is it's easy to kill energy yeah all right let's put it all back on because we need to do some temperature testing and all that sort of stuff so the first things I want to know did you go in and enable XMP and any of the BIOS setting stuff I don't think I enabled XMP I left it off to make sure all this stuff was going to install first and then check the BIOS but I don't think I got back to installing switching it so Ram speed that you technically paid for and are not using yeah realize that I'm gonna say though did it come with these fans on the bottom like were all these fans already in the case yeah I feel like Nick cheated you know why because he didn't go with RGB stuff which is gonna dude was that on purpose yeah okay I wanted like a blackout theme almost which I think a lot of people are gonna thumb up just for that reason but for me like going how well did you set up all the software and stuff it means I can't critique your ability of getting it all set up updated firmware and all that kind of crap you know all I all I had to say to people that are like I hate RGB it's like then don't turn it on they're paying for it no you're not you're still paying for the product the rdb just happens to be on it and believe it or not pricing doesn't change just because of RGB moving on um the blackout doesn't look really good though with the gray I like this a lot right so the only thing I should light up in this build would be motherboard and graphics card yeah okay curiosity you have an evj 850 power supply we do have Corsair A50 power supplies that have a native 12 volt high power cable that wouldn't have required an adapter how come you didn't use that I didn't realize that actually I had to research it I guess he's the one that takes care of the warehouse the way I looked at it is like okay I'm running this card I just need a power supply that goes for it I wasn't looking for what's going to tidy up the cables more apart from what's already coming does that make sense yeah I also know that we made at least three videos about this that you've been a part of and I just it doesn't look believe it or not the 40 70 TI cable doesn't look terrible because the adapter puts them both on the outside and so they can be parallel to each other without all like crooked and stacking so it doesn't look terrible it really doesn't I was honestly more excited because the EVGA cables came with non-pick-tailed VGA yeah plugs yeah so I use those anything 850 and up on EVGA come with both big tail and non pigtail and that was for like the SLI stuff the thing is we're going to start seeing less of that now that SLI is dead all right go ahead and turn it on of course right it's because it it's not Nick's fault when you first plug in the system it has to charge the Caps It Takes a Minute 10 seconds or so before the power button will do anything is that did you actually plug in the RGB cable for the case yeah okay so it's pigtailed off there yeah oh I think that's a fast built Nick built in oh Nick he left it at 60 FPS XMP sick we get redeemed there but then like unbeamed yeah Point loss is still at a zero yeah right now wait no he's not like plus one or two for the cables right yeah the cable management alone that looks like that was a really good really good job it helps too that the um the cooler doesn't require any rdb cables and AIO requires USB cable usually and RGB cables and fan cables and all that stuff USB 3.0 is plugged in if he was just like he had to push his foot on the back side of the case to close it because the cables were so bulky that'd be bad okay so Nick here's what you do there's two ways you can fix the FPS you can right click go to display settings and then click on Advanced display and then 144 or if you have the Nvidia control panel installed you do it there now look at this now it's buttery smooth okay okay so MSA afterburn you went in here let's see what you did that's big no power limit increase No Limit no voltage unlocked no core clock megahertz changed no fan what's so what'd you do with it I used it to monitor but I was doing my Bankers for the CPU and Armory great yeah but NSI but afterburn has nothing to do with your CPU so that would be independent so that's completely okay because I thought it was going to conflict that's why at least set it with one I would have at least maxed out the power limit because the coolers overbuilt but tough cooler this is the same same cooler that's on the 4080. it's over built for I think yeah it looks like the same cooler for the 40. if not it's still over built for the TDP of that card so I would have gone in here and just been like Max that out and then open it save one apply it system startup so there you go at least now we have 10 extra power limit to go which would equate to about probably one percent FPS increase maybe 40 series so the latest is 528.49 and you're on for now okay so you're on the latest cool so plus one for you right there yes so did you download anything to monitor temps for uh the lighting profile because everything's so RGB yeah I left it RGB minus one you did a blackout build that you left RGB minus one the funny thing is Armory crate does not change the lighting of the card even though it's an Asus card you have to download GPU tweak to change the color of the card which is stupid so I'll give them back the plus one only because if you changed that and didn't install GPU tweak which I think is personally I don't like it then that's gonna be RGB while everything else is white so we're back to Net Zero no honestly I think it should have been white on the RDP stuff because I would have looked really sick with this very Spacey theme like this looks still looks like a spaceship to me you know at least an engine on one temperature should be fine honestly multicore do you see how the software freezes so I can't even get accurate CPU temp reading oh there's 52. it goes on a very low priority whereas hardware monitor still is able to pull pretty high at a pretty fast rate so this might hit 60 Maybe 53 okay it runs really cool so there you go the noctua with a 12 600k whichever part number that goes on the screen right here um pretty SEC actually there so it's only 4.5 P core 3.6 e-core which makes sense as to why in The Armory crate it was showing such a lower frequency because it's averaging that high 50s low 60s on the P cores high 50s on the e chords there's only four e-cores which means your install is good your mount's good your thermal paste is good plus one is anyone keeping score is there a logic as to why you didn't choose an AIO for any like out of curiosity uh well I wanted to cut down a budget and the aios I wanted were kind of like over the two thousand dollar Mark at that point it's expensive AIO well no like yeah total oh my gosh I how much of this cooler when it was like 130 bucks that's that's expensive air cooler dude no my only concern would be about um growth with this air cooler if you were to like okay later on I'll drop in like a 13 900k because you still I think you could do a 13th gen in a z690 with a bios update um or even a 12 900k that's a lot of heat then 230 to 250 Watts full Max on a push-pull uh air cooler of this size you'd probably still be hitting your TJ Maxx I was also still curious about very cool because most of my well my personal bills are all aios so I'm like let's try something different as well mechanically it's very reliable the only moving parts are the fans I was just curious as to why you chose that until you said the price now I'm a little bit thinking you might be wrong I would have maybe Spent A Little More on an AIO or a dual Tower knocked to it which would have been like 50 bucks more and I think at that price point 50 extra bucks to have a bigger cooler that gives you a because now if you want to go with a bigger CPU um you're going to have to either enable some limits or you're gonna have to go with a bigger cooler adding to the cost but you did say that there was a bundle for the CPU and the motherboard yeah so the CPU motherboard combo pricing is great the CPU Cooler is fine for this combo if you were like I'm not gonna upgrade my computer in years so just know that with this kind of combo you would probably have to increase the cooler size uh because if you upgrade in three or four years how big of the CPU is going to be then you know you had Benchmark cyberpunk or played around with it it's that 1440 each share mode is none you have uh Reflex on that's fine vsync is off that's fine you have custom graphics here so you have dlss uh set to balanced we have a mixture of high and Ultra Ray trade on on on did you have a Target FPS in mind over 60. okay like I think it'll do it it might do it did he get I don't know I spent so much time benchmarking this card already for the review but I do everything with maxed out settings My Philosophy is I want to show you the worst performance you could possibly get with the card so you know if you reduce your expectations like setting wise you're only going to get more than that so it's kind of like a with a car you put it on the dyno and you see what is the max it can do and well the game itself would be a Dino and you gotta you gotta Max the load on there okay your target was over 60. um I think you nail it obviously you could have gone more well if you're like I want to play cyberpunk with Ray tracing on and I want at least 60 FPS in 1440 the 4070 TI is going to be a bit overkill for that but the 470 TI will last you into the future it's just obviously it's not a popular card because of Intel and or not Intel but nvidia's money pricing philosophies but we can't help it this is what we have to work with moving forward eventually 3000 Series will be gone so I have no choice but to either adopt this or wait either way we still build computers that's what we do average FPS 88.24 22.24 points No it should be 28.24 not 22. oh yeah I could do a shooting for 60. all right we're going for 66 FPS is there something at 66. I can't math okay so we're gonna turn on frame regeneration just to see how much improvement he would have got it it does I I legitimately can't yeah like here's the thing if you didn't tell me that that was on I wouldn't know yeah same like I'm sitting at a pretty big distance but even knowing it's on I can't tell so we should give you a point for every point above 60 FPS you got with with uh frame regeneration off and then take away every point you missed out on 28.24 your minus 59.38 and can you like take away 10 more points oh what we have proved here is now when I need a system built because of something we need to test I can do it well I knew you could do it I just didn't know what quality you were gonna do so this is the QC test I'll tell you right now if you've watched any of like some of like Steve and Kyle and Paul and linuses like SI reviews you're better than a lot of those guys already I'd like to say you had a good teacher thanks Linus all right guys I hope you guys enjoyed this video I have no idea what he filmed we're gonna have to check it out while Phil starts editing it but uh there you go I'm glad you didn't take the plastic off because I don't know this PC is going to stay together yet I didn't have these particular Parts slated for anything specific except for that's the only 470 TI that we have for Benchmark purposes so that can't continue to live in here but this this PC is technically actually know this PC is higher spec than your current gaming rig because you have a 6800 XT in there but you can't have the 40 70 TI just for the reasons why I just said what about the Gundam build wait oh do they haven't got them 39 years that would actually still be an upgrade it's working this is okay we'll see you guys next time byeokay so I was supposed to build a computer according to you guys in the podcast that's what I'm gonna do let's start it's brought to you by the JC sense merch store you got t-shirts and gaming mats and mugs and all that kind of stuff so whenever you go buy our stuff we don't have to put other ads here and other annoying crap so go buy our stuff this was quite an adventure I did a bit of researching homework if you want to call it that but if it wasn't really homework I had to look up some stuff I started with what kind of which generation I wanted to go with as far as PC and motherboard and I narrowed it down I originally want to do the newest am5 platform and realized Ram is going to be a little bit hard and not everyone has a Micro Center around because I found the dealer if you bought a motherboard and CPU you also got a set of free ddr5 couldn't find the ram in our warehouse and if I did use Ram here it would have been more of a like throw a lot of money at the build and I felt I wanted to do like a reasonable build a reasonable price to build for my computer that you guys wanted me to build so I started out with the uh let's see the I5 12 600k so it's a 12th gen and I also went with an Asus z690 motherboard and I went with this pairing because I could still use ddr4 which is great costs are fairly low with that and it leaves you a little bit room to upgrade if you wanted to so as far as RAM that uh it's the 32 gigabytes of the 3200 megahertz storage we're gonna use a two terabyte drive nvme just makes it easier you could do multiple terabyte drives if you want but I think the cost will probably equal out to the cost of one of these and then GPU I know you're all excited What GPU did you choose I chose probably the red-headed stepchild the 470 TI uh reasonable MSRP right now compared to when it was and I figured if I'm going to use new parts this is what I would pick right now instead of trying to track down a deal because not everyone is going to be able to find the same deal once again it'll throw out the cost of under two grand I wanted to make for this build I think I found this retail for about 800 so this is going to eat up the majority of your cost which I believe is well worth it if especially if you like RT as for cooler everyone's been doing aios I kind of want to do it AIO but that would bring it like right at the two thousand dollar mark actually it will be well over two thousand I would do like a 360. but I decided I'm gonna try air cooling it because I prefer to use out of box settings the most I adjust on my personal builds are gonna be fan curves and the power supply another place where you could save some money but um I like over a little bit overbuilt so I went with an 850 watt and I'm pretty sure you could get away with the 750 but just to be like over that line of say like you're safe doing 850. all right so as far as the parts the last thing that we're going to build in I'll show it to you as soon as we get in there the fractal torrent case like I really like this one it's a gray one so it's not going to be like a standard like a white case there's a couple other cases that I would have liked to build in but had to pick what we had on hand and I figured this would be really cool because if you notice it's a top mounted PSU so we really can't do a top mounted radiator if we went with the AIO hence I did the air cool and there's like two I believe 180 mil fans in the front so plenty of air to go through and we'll see uh how it holds up after I put this thing together all right so as far as my build total was we're about 1800 uh under two grand which I was excited about the places I saved money was definitely the motherboard and CPU combo because at Micro Center the deal for that specific processor and the motherboard was 306 dollars versus the am5 platform I want to build off started at about 6.72 so yeah about half off allowed me to put more money towards the GPU and even more save some more money from the ram to throw towards PSU also money towards upgrading the nvme from one terabyte so I had more storage instead of buying multiple uh anyways let's go back to getting the build together and I'll come back after it's built also Pro tip I like trt-fm because I I'm just built like that so I also discovered that the optional channel here and the CPU fan Channel there's another one there's another set underneath but these two specifically in the manual say that they're paired so I put them I made sure I plugged in each of the fans respectively into there that way it will be controlled and these will be the same speeds if I plug say one in the bottom that other one is not linked to another plug so the speeds will vary if I set it in the Bios foreign foreign I'm happy this turned out I should I shouldn't be excited it's like my fifth build but this one is uh without Jay behind me probably telling me to hurry up okay so we're back from vacation this is like a week and a half at least from when you started doing this yeah um I tasked Nick with while we're gone you have free reign to raid the shop build a system but it rather than just going here's all the most expensive stuff on the Shelf which would have been really easy to do I tasked him with trying to balance the system kind of like pick either a theme or some sort of concept in mind so first of all did you have like a budget in mind did you do any sort of pricing on this I did I said I want I set my budget to about two thousand bucks okay so I figured it'd be like a mid-range thing and I also took into account you just triggered people by saying two Grands of mid-range PC well that's a pretty high-end PC still my bad well he's changed I don't I'm assuming this is going to be like okay you already have a monitor keyboard and stuff yeah we usually use the pricing just for the tower yeah so you're focusing on the tower what about a resolution was there resolution in mind oh yeah 1440 14 yeah I already figured out by looking at the wrapping that this is a torrent case because it has such a unique shape so go ahead and unveil it all right cool it's a touring Okay so this is the gunmetal torrent this case is interesting because it doesn't have conventional fan sizes so these are like 180s yeah they're like 180s on the front I think they're one of these yeah they're not 200s they're 180s which makes it interesting you can still use like a 360 or something up there the bottom these are one uh 40s right yeah there's a three 140 intakes on the top two 180 intakes on the front and it's all positive pressure top mounted PSU which has 850 Watts so what's the graphics card a 47 TI okay that's cool so you did a z690 so what CPUs in there uh the 12 600k M okay all right fair enough um because I originally want to do like an am5 but like everything was kind of x to do a basic level a and five is this ddr4 ddr4 okay so already you're getting a better value there than you would with am5 because you'd have to choose our ddr5 stuff yeah that is a 30 70 you said uh 40. oh sorry 40 47 TI yeah okay okay people are triggered I can feel it yes it's like the stepchild of graphics cards I specifically chose it because I do like RT on some of my games okay so I figured fair enough going for AMD a 4070 TI with rt on in 1440 would be about a 30 90-ish performance like that's all blacked out so that's the tough motherboard and then how much RAM is that is that 32 gigs I believe uh yeah so you have four eight gig sticks and they are match set so awesome that's number one is like did you just put two sets in there or did you match them so this is a four dim set so in terms of like qvl and compatibility and stuff you'll have the most compatibility by obviously using a match set so they're putting two two gig sets together or two uh stick sets together everything appears to be connected Cable Management looks nice how much time did you spend building it probably full day okay well it's faster than I build all right but let's look at the back the back will tell us how much time you spent building on this there's lots of room oh yeah I forgot to have that controller down there yeah I actually think this was supposed to be changed out I think it was a fire hazard um moving on they tell me Nick could have burned the studio down while we were going that would have been the true test how did you handle that well this is better than some like store-bought builds honestly in terms of like its build uh quality and cable management like this is all tucked away down here I like the wiring setup on it though because I basically did the internal wiring first and then I brought in the power supply and then started routing it on top yeah well this the routing of this power supply the way the cable compartment is it's easy to kill energy yeah all right let's put it all back on because we need to do some temperature testing and all that sort of stuff so the first things I want to know did you go in and enable XMP and any of the BIOS setting stuff I don't think I enabled XMP I left it off to make sure all this stuff was going to install first and then check the BIOS but I don't think I got back to installing switching it so Ram speed that you technically paid for and are not using yeah realize that I'm gonna say though did it come with these fans on the bottom like were all these fans already in the case yeah I feel like Nick cheated you know why because he didn't go with RGB stuff which is gonna dude was that on purpose yeah okay I wanted like a blackout theme almost which I think a lot of people are gonna thumb up just for that reason but for me like going how well did you set up all the software and stuff it means I can't critique your ability of getting it all set up updated firmware and all that kind of crap you know all I all I had to say to people that are like I hate RGB it's like then don't turn it on they're paying for it no you're not you're still paying for the product the rdb just happens to be on it and believe it or not pricing doesn't change just because of RGB moving on um the blackout doesn't look really good though with the gray I like this a lot right so the only thing I should light up in this build would be motherboard and graphics card yeah okay curiosity you have an evj 850 power supply we do have Corsair A50 power supplies that have a native 12 volt high power cable that wouldn't have required an adapter how come you didn't use that I didn't realize that actually I had to research it I guess he's the one that takes care of the warehouse the way I looked at it is like okay I'm running this card I just need a power supply that goes for it I wasn't looking for what's going to tidy up the cables more apart from what's already coming does that make sense yeah I also know that we made at least three videos about this that you've been a part of and I just it doesn't look believe it or not the 40 70 TI cable doesn't look terrible because the adapter puts them both on the outside and so they can be parallel to each other without all like crooked and stacking so it doesn't look terrible it really doesn't I was honestly more excited because the EVGA cables came with non-pick-tailed VGA yeah plugs yeah so I use those anything 850 and up on EVGA come with both big tail and non pigtail and that was for like the SLI stuff the thing is we're going to start seeing less of that now that SLI is dead all right go ahead and turn it on of course right it's because it it's not Nick's fault when you first plug in the system it has to charge the Caps It Takes a Minute 10 seconds or so before the power button will do anything is that did you actually plug in the RGB cable for the case yeah okay so it's pigtailed off there yeah oh I think that's a fast built Nick built in oh Nick he left it at 60 FPS XMP sick we get redeemed there but then like unbeamed yeah Point loss is still at a zero yeah right now wait no he's not like plus one or two for the cables right yeah the cable management alone that looks like that was a really good really good job it helps too that the um the cooler doesn't require any rdb cables and AIO requires USB cable usually and RGB cables and fan cables and all that stuff USB 3.0 is plugged in if he was just like he had to push his foot on the back side of the case to close it because the cables were so bulky that'd be bad okay so Nick here's what you do there's two ways you can fix the FPS you can right click go to display settings and then click on Advanced display and then 144 or if you have the Nvidia control panel installed you do it there now look at this now it's buttery smooth okay okay so MSA afterburn you went in here let's see what you did that's big no power limit increase No Limit no voltage unlocked no core clock megahertz changed no fan what's so what'd you do with it I used it to monitor but I was doing my Bankers for the CPU and Armory great yeah but NSI but afterburn has nothing to do with your CPU so that would be independent so that's completely okay because I thought it was going to conflict that's why at least set it with one I would have at least maxed out the power limit because the coolers overbuilt but tough cooler this is the same same cooler that's on the 4080. it's over built for I think yeah it looks like the same cooler for the 40. if not it's still over built for the TDP of that card so I would have gone in here and just been like Max that out and then open it save one apply it system startup so there you go at least now we have 10 extra power limit to go which would equate to about probably one percent FPS increase maybe 40 series so the latest is 528.49 and you're on for now okay so you're on the latest cool so plus one for you right there yes so did you download anything to monitor temps for uh the lighting profile because everything's so RGB yeah I left it RGB minus one you did a blackout build that you left RGB minus one the funny thing is Armory crate does not change the lighting of the card even though it's an Asus card you have to download GPU tweak to change the color of the card which is stupid so I'll give them back the plus one only because if you changed that and didn't install GPU tweak which I think is personally I don't like it then that's gonna be RGB while everything else is white so we're back to Net Zero no honestly I think it should have been white on the RDP stuff because I would have looked really sick with this very Spacey theme like this looks still looks like a spaceship to me you know at least an engine on one temperature should be fine honestly multicore do you see how the software freezes so I can't even get accurate CPU temp reading oh there's 52. it goes on a very low priority whereas hardware monitor still is able to pull pretty high at a pretty fast rate so this might hit 60 Maybe 53 okay it runs really cool so there you go the noctua with a 12 600k whichever part number that goes on the screen right here um pretty SEC actually there so it's only 4.5 P core 3.6 e-core which makes sense as to why in The Armory crate it was showing such a lower frequency because it's averaging that high 50s low 60s on the P cores high 50s on the e chords there's only four e-cores which means your install is good your mount's good your thermal paste is good plus one is anyone keeping score is there a logic as to why you didn't choose an AIO for any like out of curiosity uh well I wanted to cut down a budget and the aios I wanted were kind of like over the two thousand dollar Mark at that point it's expensive AIO well no like yeah total oh my gosh I how much of this cooler when it was like 130 bucks that's that's expensive air cooler dude no my only concern would be about um growth with this air cooler if you were to like okay later on I'll drop in like a 13 900k because you still I think you could do a 13th gen in a z690 with a bios update um or even a 12 900k that's a lot of heat then 230 to 250 Watts full Max on a push-pull uh air cooler of this size you'd probably still be hitting your TJ Maxx I was also still curious about very cool because most of my well my personal bills are all aios so I'm like let's try something different as well mechanically it's very reliable the only moving parts are the fans I was just curious as to why you chose that until you said the price now I'm a little bit thinking you might be wrong I would have maybe Spent A Little More on an AIO or a dual Tower knocked to it which would have been like 50 bucks more and I think at that price point 50 extra bucks to have a bigger cooler that gives you a because now if you want to go with a bigger CPU um you're going to have to either enable some limits or you're gonna have to go with a bigger cooler adding to the cost but you did say that there was a bundle for the CPU and the motherboard yeah so the CPU motherboard combo pricing is great the CPU Cooler is fine for this combo if you were like I'm not gonna upgrade my computer in years so just know that with this kind of combo you would probably have to increase the cooler size uh because if you upgrade in three or four years how big of the CPU is going to be then you know you had Benchmark cyberpunk or played around with it it's that 1440 each share mode is none you have uh Reflex on that's fine vsync is off that's fine you have custom graphics here so you have dlss uh set to balanced we have a mixture of high and Ultra Ray trade on on on did you have a Target FPS in mind over 60. okay like I think it'll do it it might do it did he get I don't know I spent so much time benchmarking this card already for the review but I do everything with maxed out settings My Philosophy is I want to show you the worst performance you could possibly get with the card so you know if you reduce your expectations like setting wise you're only going to get more than that so it's kind of like a with a car you put it on the dyno and you see what is the max it can do and well the game itself would be a Dino and you gotta you gotta Max the load on there okay your target was over 60. um I think you nail it obviously you could have gone more well if you're like I want to play cyberpunk with Ray tracing on and I want at least 60 FPS in 1440 the 4070 TI is going to be a bit overkill for that but the 470 TI will last you into the future it's just obviously it's not a popular card because of Intel and or not Intel but nvidia's money pricing philosophies but we can't help it this is what we have to work with moving forward eventually 3000 Series will be gone so I have no choice but to either adopt this or wait either way we still build computers that's what we do average FPS 88.24 22.24 points No it should be 28.24 not 22. oh yeah I could do a shooting for 60. all right we're going for 66 FPS is there something at 66. I can't math okay so we're gonna turn on frame regeneration just to see how much improvement he would have got it it does I I legitimately can't yeah like here's the thing if you didn't tell me that that was on I wouldn't know yeah same like I'm sitting at a pretty big distance but even knowing it's on I can't tell so we should give you a point for every point above 60 FPS you got with with uh frame regeneration off and then take away every point you missed out on 28.24 your minus 59.38 and can you like take away 10 more points oh what we have proved here is now when I need a system built because of something we need to test I can do it well I knew you could do it I just didn't know what quality you were gonna do so this is the QC test I'll tell you right now if you've watched any of like some of like Steve and Kyle and Paul and linuses like SI reviews you're better than a lot of those guys already I'd like to say you had a good teacher thanks Linus all right guys I hope you guys enjoyed this video I have no idea what he filmed we're gonna have to check it out while Phil starts editing it but uh there you go I'm glad you didn't take the plastic off because I don't know this PC is going to stay together yet I didn't have these particular Parts slated for anything specific except for that's the only 470 TI that we have for Benchmark purposes so that can't continue to live in here but this this PC is technically actually know this PC is higher spec than your current gaming rig because you have a 6800 XT in there but you can't have the 40 70 TI just for the reasons why I just said what about the Gundam build wait oh do they haven't got them 39 years that would actually still be an upgrade it's working this is okay we'll see you guys next time bye\n"