**The Xbox Series X: A Closer Look**

As I sat down to test the Xbox Series X's performance, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. The console has been touted as one of the most powerful gaming systems on the market, and I was eager to see if it lived up to its promises.

**Warzone Performance: A Mixed Bag**

I decided to start by testing the Xbox Series X's performance in Warzone, a game that is notorious for being demanding on even the most powerful hardware. I set the game to the Extreme preset, which seemed like a good starting point given the console's capabilities. However, as soon as I started playing, I noticed some issues with stuttering and latency. Specifically, my 1% lows dropped to around six or so, which is quite off-putting. The frame rate was also around 15 milliseconds, which is relatively high for a game that requires smooth performance.

I was disappointed by the performance in Warzone, especially considering the console's capabilities. I decided to try and lower the settings down to the Ultra preset, which would require less processing power from the console. To my surprise, the frame rate didn't drastically change, but the overall smoothness of the game did improve slightly.

**Latency and Frame Rate: A Comparison**

I was curious to see how the latency and frame rate would compare between the Extreme and Ultra presets, so I made a point to test both settings again. The frame rate remained relatively stable at around 140 frames per second, but the latency was still quite high at around 15 milliseconds. It's worth noting that these numbers can vary depending on the game and settings, but overall, it seems like the Xbox Series X is capable of delivering smooth performance in most games.

**System Performance: A Mixed Bag**

While the Xbox Series X's performance in Warzone was disappointing, the system as a whole seemed to be working well. I tested other games, including Fortnite, and found that they performed admirably. The console's flexibility and ability to adjust to different settings and resolutions were impressive, and it's clear that Microsoft has put a lot of thought into designing the system to handle demanding games.

However, there is one major concern with the Xbox Series X: its 12 GB of vram. While this may not be an issue for most users who play at lower resolutions or turn down textures, it could become a problem in the future as graphics technology continues to advance. However, this can be mitigated by turning down texture quality or using other techniques to manage memory.

**Conclusion**

The Xbox Series X is a powerful gaming console that delivers smooth performance and flexibility. While there are some concerns with its 12 GB of vram and Warzone's performance issues, the system as a whole seems to be well-suited for most users. With the right settings and resolutions, it should provide an excellent gaming experience.

The only issue I have is that the Xbox Series X doesn't stand out from other consoles in terms of design and features. While it has some nice touches, such as the console's sleek case design and efficient cooling system, it doesn't necessarily feel like a must-buy for anyone looking to upgrade their current hardware. However, if you can get a good deal on it, it's definitely worth considering.

**NZXT Lift 2 Mouse Review**

In other news, I recently had the chance to review the NZXT Lift 2 mouse, which has been generating a lot of buzz in the gaming community. This mouse features a 26,000 DPI sensor, optical switches, and a 60 G weight, making it ideal for fast-paced FPS games as well as relaxing RTS sessions.

The Lift 2 is available in both ergonomic and symmetrical grip styles, as well as black and white color schemes. The mouse feels solidly built and comfortable to hold, with a sleek design that looks great on any desk or gaming setup.

Overall, I was impressed by the NZXT Lift 2 mouse's performance and features. It's definitely worth checking out if you're in the market for a new gaming mouse.

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opportunity to do though is to walk you through this case and I've literally just seen this for the first time after taking it out of the box it's got a really catchy name actually it's called the NX 46l but this is just about to release it should cost around about £80 or so here in the UK but I would wager that give this like a month or two and you'll probably be able to sort of get this for near the 6065 Mark you've got USB type c on the front but sadly only one usba that actually to a lot of people is going to get annoying and I think this is on a hinged door yes there we go pops out a little bit as well these screws need tightening up that's the sign of quality not to worry though all is well I mean you definitely can tell that Corners have been cut but I'd say that if you are trying to save yourself a fair bit of money you want to spend that extra £40 on a more expensive GPU that let's be honest will give you much better gaming performance and obviously a much better overe experience then that probably is a trade-off that's worth going for just this bit really that feels a little bit cheaper and you also don't have much in the way of cable management grommet you've got this sort of Shield here but that's not actually for cable management this is if you do want to use that side ventilation this should just pop out non-c captive screws for the back but it's been what now now like 2 minutes into talking about this chassis and I think we've already kind of sus this out because it comes with features with things like argb fans and large ones actually on the front and then this smaller 120 on the back AR argb Hub as well which is great for adding extra fans and keeping everything on sort of One controller nice and easy to organize Cable Management all that good stuff but it is quite clear that you're sort of losing a little bit of raw quality from the case itself as a result of those extra features for that same price point I would say that this is a problem as long as you're aware of them and I will also say that while it sort of i' I'd say it kind of feels like a mid-range case at the moment as soon as you actually get your motherboard and graphics card in here and it all sort of tightens up then the quality will definitely uh seem to improve a lot as well that's very good timing how can they have not fitted the screws for the door properly from the factory what is that all about oh this is going to be the best gaming PC ever oh this is why we review the stuff as we go I use a spare screw don't worry it's all good regardless of the Chessy that you have the first thing really that you actually need to do to begin your journey is to grab your motherboard and take it out of the box so yes this is a z790 steel Legend motherboard from azrock you can currently get this for like 220 230 here in the UK and usually I'd actually say If you're sort of trying to save as much money as possible go for a B series motherboard you can't do any overclocking on the CPU and the feature set isn't quite so good but you can usually save a fair bit money but when you can get this motherboard as a say for that price actually this is probably the way I would go especially if you are going to look to upgrade your sort of CPU at a later date maybe to an i7 or an I9 or probably more likely put as much power inside this thing as possible calling dependent of course now we obviously could just stare at this motherboard all day but practically speaking we do need to actually get things started and the first thing we want to do is to grab our CPU out of the box this one is the lat 14th gen CPU from Intel it is is the I5 14600 K this has a total of 14 cores and it's split between six performance cores which are the good ones really that we're can to use for gaming and then a efficiency cores and the difference really between going for ryzen and going for Intel is that this is sort of like a much better all round chip really it will cost more around about 90 to 100 at the time of filming more than the equivalent sort of ryzen 57600 in terms of gaming performance but it as I say it's going to be a much better all round system and it will actually outperform the 7600 by a decent margin as well but obviously if you want the absolute best gaming CPU in my opinion I would definitely go for the ryzen 7 uh 7800 x3d but that costs more money and you would need a different motherboard but if you're interested in that I'll leave links to everything and some other suggestions down below but we do just want to grab our CPU and gently line this up so it sits in there nice and safe and secure there is actually this little gold Arrow here that should line up with an arrow on the motherboard itself yes there we go on this cover I mean to be fair that used to be like a big thing you got to line it up with the arrow but these days like the modern ryzen and Intel chips just go in like down like this so it's very hard to get wrong we're also going to need to grab ourselves some memory aome RAM and this stuff is ddr5 very important on the Intel platform because some motherboards will say D4 or ddr4 others will say D5 ddr5 they're completely different types of memory so if you buy the wrong board or the wrong Ram you will not be able to put your RAM inside and you will be very sad but here we're using ddr5 cuz it is actually faster and to be honest it's not really that much more expensive if you want to go for 32 gig and we're going to line this up with our slot here this is some Kingston Fury RGB and this will run at 5600 MHz but if you can buy a 6,000 MHz kit that is what I would advise this is the wrong way round this is why you line it up first before you push it in oh that's good noise such good noise then you want to take the opportunity to pick up the screwdriver you just dropped on the floor it will need to be slightly smaller for the SSD but you just want to open it up by unscrewing these two screws and then this whole heat sink should remove and this which is a Gen 4 SSD is going to give you the best balance between Speed and Performance this is the crucial P3 plus it's a fan favorite we've been using on the channel for a while now I think I bought this one myself last year or so it's been pretty good ever since but this just sits in the slot like that folds downwards and then you proceed to grab this little heat and cover make sure you do remove the plastic film that will be on this I've used this board before which is why it's not on there then just gently replace that and screw it back down and then now I think comes the fun or definitely the interesting bit because this is a brand new currently unreleased cooler that by the time you're watching this should have just come out this is from Arctic this is the Arctic freezer 36 AR argb so obviously it's going to be nice and bright and Vivid and it's a bit tricky actually with Intel cuz it does like to use a fair bit more power the more power power you can give it then the better your performance will be up unto a limit but I'm actually expecting very good things from this ooh and ladies and gentlemen this is why I say this is going to get interesting because what we have here is an Intel contact frame as we do know that the default contact frame that you get on the board itself probably could use a bit of improvement with some of the CPUs so Arctic actually give you one of these straight outside well Inside the Box not outside the box you're going to have to assemble outside the box and in order to do this they will give you a little tall it does sound very scary but actually I've done this before and it really shouldn't be an issue you just want to make sure that your CPU is installed grab this little starhead Allen key I suppose it's called and then just gently remove this it might have been better actually to not have the latch down before doing that but that comes off and then the new and hopefully improved goes on and you should then see that there is actually quite a I was going to say substantial it certainly looks very different doesn't it in the the way that it presents the CPU through the frame itself let's now grab our four Intel screws that look a little bit like this and put these through the four holes do be very careful to make sure that you do screw down in a cross pattern though because you really want to make sure you're putting even contact on the CPU you don't want to dislodge it and you don't want to have it in there too tight and I guess this will now just sit on top of our frame nice big contact point on the base of this but of course in order to actually get this to function properly we will need to add some thermal paste we just add a decent P sized amount in the middle then pick up our cooler for real this time and just gently lower that on top of the frame and then once again screw it into position but making sure to do the even Force this time left to right I've just skipped ahead to try and work this out so I seem like an expert on camera and I've got to admit the way Arctic have designed this mounting system is fantastic because not only was that CPU contact frame really easy to install and hopefully pretty efficient but to actually get this on top of the cooler we literally just have to push it that's it you can't get simpler than that seems nice and sturdy isn't going to pop out until we want to actively remove it with a lot of force so let's get both of these attached have I plugged the fans in wrong on this cooler give our motherboard a little spin so we can see what we're doing and then we're going to need a daisy chain these cables together so we have two addressable rgbs and they can just plug in together and then they connect to one of these gray headers at the top right of the board you then want to do the same with the fan speed and then connect it to the one that says CPU fan just above the cooler and assuming now that nothing really goes wrong that was actually the most difficult bit of your gaming PC complete I mean it's pretty much ready to go all you need is a GPU to obviously output your gaming signal and to actually get this inside your case and plugged in with the power supply and the next bit should be fairly straightforward as long as the case manufacturer has pre-applied these standoffs here which they have so this is what actually separates the motherboard from the case so you don't get any shorts or anything like that and it stands it up hence why it's called a stand off and you just grab your motherboard do make sure you're not getting any cables from this fan clamped it tends to happen quite a lot but just gently move this into position so all of your standoffs are line then remember that you've absolutely cocked it up and you should have actually got the screws outside of the case hard drive bay before started so you can screw it down assuming then you're not quite as silly as me you should now have your screws ready to go and you should just be able to fit this down once your motherboard is in position you should have something that resembles this I mean so far so good it is obviously a white and black motherboard which isn't to everybody's tastes but if you go for this case in white I think it probably would fit in a little bit better or if you're using like white or silver elements somewhere else but while it's taking shape it's not yet done so you will need to grab these cables around the back and start to undo them we've got our USB type-c we've got got usb3 HD audio which is basically just analog audio for the front panel and then we have these tiny little headers here that say power switch which is the all important one to make the button to turn it on actually do anything power LEDs and then HD LEDs so this just shows the activity of your PC on the LEDs on the front but you want to grab these cables and feed them through to where the sockets are on the other side and then you can start plugging them in so with this footage from earlier you can see this is where the USB type 3 is just above that you've got your USB type c at the bottom right you've got your LEDs and your power switch as you can tell though these bits are always pretty fiddly as they're so tiny so my recommendation is to always look in your motherboard manufacturers manual just to see what pins you need to put where it's not difficult but it's very easy to get it wrong we're going to plug our fan header in at the bottom left our addressable RGB just next to it and then all the way at the left we have our HD audio so as you can see then for the most part we're pretty much there we just need to get our graphics card installed and our PSU I'm going to do our graphics card first just for a change really but it doesn't really matter which way you do it we just need to open up our side slots just by unscrewing this little piece on the side and then taking out the screws on slots two and Slots three obviously if you're using a larger GPU then it might need to be a little bit more than this take these covers out and then I think we can proceed to what has to be the star of the show The now cheaper RTX 470 and cheaper is always better right it seems that this was better received because the same product for Less rather than the super cards which were in the case of the 4080 super basically the same product but for less but it was a new product so people like why don't you just bring out something even better that's a debate for a whole another day the fact that you can now get this for around about £500 or so I'd say that it's still very expensive but it's probably the cheapest Nvidia card that I think everyone is going to be happy with now if you go for an AMD graphics card you will be getting better value for money and I I think something that's very important is 16 GB of vram so if you're playing at high resolution like 4K that will definitely come in handy but then you're not going to have those Nvidia specific features like you have on this card so I'd say this is probably well definitely is a fair bit more complete but if you specifically just play multiplayer then there are better cost per frame cards out there that will give you better value for money but this is a card that can run rate tracing and while it's not going to do it at 4K necessarily uh for what most people are actually going to use this thing for I think you're going to be really happy with the performance but that just sits in there like that tightens up and then bar our power cables that is our rig pretty much complete I mean it is starting to look like one of those really cool modern rigs now that won't have any power cables but alas that is not the case and I actually reached out to Corsair because I was having a little bit of a shortage of power supplies but this is pretty much the one that comes up time and time again when I'm doing some e shopping I mean I suppose all shopping is e shopping these days and speaking of e this is also the RM 750 e maybe the E stands for efficiency not entirely sure but you'll find that most manufacturers have actually updated their power supplies now with this ATX 3.0 or PCI Gen 5 standard which means if you are going to go for an Nvidia card it will come with that 16 Pin cable connection so you won't have to use a horrible adapter 750 WS is also more than you need for this rig I think you could get by with a 650 but I always recommend going a little bit above that just for longevity as if you want to make any upgrades then obviously you don't really want to have to swap out your power supply to make it work but this is also a modular PSU so you can see this is a type four Corsair power supply if you want to use separate cables or something like that but you don't have to plug in the cables you don't need which means your whole rig will be a whole lot neater let's plug in our motherboard ATX do make sure they are definitely plugged in all the way down as when I was helping my friend Rob build his first PC you can find that on the top right corner of your screen one of the mistakes I saw he made was not actually having them plugged in all the way but was adamant that they were it's very easy to make and that could could mean that your system won't boot this just goes in down the bottom with a fan facing downwards so it can breathe in From Below then it screws in from the back then you just need to grab the cables root them through and plug them into their respective places so once again we've got our CPU at the top left of the motherboard I've fed the cable for the graphics card from the bottom for neatness but do make sure that you plug it in as tight as can be you do need to hear that audible click with these cables to ensure they're in properly and then last but certainly not least we have have our very large ATX I mean if you miss this one I'm sorry but but how and I think that almost are lot we just need one Sata cable for the fan speed and I haven't plugged that into the power supply have I and this is basically PC Building in a nutshell it doesn't matter how many times you do it you usually forget something or maybe I'm just an idiot or both I mean Cable Management on this case I mean there's not really any is there I mean it's fine for this actually because you don't really have have many cables so it's not so much of a problem it's not going to win awards for the highest quality most feature Rich thing in the world but if you want a full airflow chassis you want your RGB fans on the front and on the back I think it's worth the money just maybe not the exact launch price but obviously now does come the time to actually see if this is going to work and I realize that I've potentially made the gravest of errors that if this happen you you would be the major major sads because while this does support 14th gen CP use this particular motherboard I have a feeling that the one I've got was a sort of launch review sample that was way before 14th gen even existed and usually you would just do a bios update which is pretty straightforward you grab the new bios to download it put on USB drive on the back push a button wait for it to finish hey Presto Bob's your uncle you're away but unfortunately it doesn't seem as if this actually has that functionality and I think for a 230 240 lb motherboard that is a disgrace and unfortunately I have to say because of this I would probably recommend going for a different motherboard because if you don't get one that has this functionality you could find that you're in this exact situation and because motherboards are typically made like ages in advance they might be sitting in a warehouse you might find that you run into the same potential or issue that we might have here so I will leave some links to different motherboards down in the description below that are hopefully a safer bet but that's why we do these videos or you could just go for a 13th gen CPU and save yourself some money they're basically the same but you never know this could work first time I think the odds are very low but let's have a look so we have like lights and Signal which is great and this is what is to be expected but until you actually have something that appears on the screen I think it's safe to assume that have I plugged the fans in wrong on this coer I'm having a mad One Look What I've Done how have I managed that the fans are actually blowing the wrong way on this whoa we have a signal I don't believe it I don't believe it I was not expecting this at all I swear the BIOS in this was old maybe I've updated it how about that well that's great cuz that's saved me a whole bunch of time messing around with a caller but because I've already got windows installed on this SSD it's pretty straightforward it's just going to load into it but chances are if you're doing this for yourself then you're not upgrading a prior PC so you will need to grab yourself a copy of Windows 11 it's really easy just download it on another Windows like laptop or PC put it on this USB stick with the installer put it in the back of your system and then when you actually restart your gaming PC you should see like a similar screen and will say install Windows we made a full video about how simple this is you can find in the top right corner of your screen if you're interested that walks you through the full process and so then ladies and gentlemen through the power of editing one of these days I am going to knock that monitor off the desk and we we'll all be very sad you'll find it very funny potentially uh we are now all set up and ready to go and I've realized as well that I haven't actually spoken about the way that this thing looks yet and I'd say on the whole it looks really nice I mean this is one of those chesses that it's probably it was absolutely fine to build in but especially if you put a lot of stuff in here might get a little bit annoying but the end result I would say is worth it so if you can save yourself a decent chunk of money to say get this case over something that could potentially cost double the price I think it's not a bad suggestion to go for it actually because while it is a little bit cheap in some places and I don't like the fact you've got this like slightly annoying panel Gap at the top the end result once you've got everything inside it is good and because you do get these RGB fans as standard it means everybody's build is going to look good rather than just those that like pay money for extra fans and things I do believe that there's also a button on the top that you can use to cycle through the RGB and if you want everything to sync up then you can get it to sync with your motherboard as well which is pretty nice but generally speaking it's an absolutely fine case I like the fact that it comes with some decent fans as standard but it's not going to win Awards for like the best thing out there but that's the system as a whole not too bad let's jump in and actually test the gameplay and I believe we're going to begin our gaming tests with what is a very popular title and obviously it's the big poster child of everything in video this is some cyberpunk 2077 and we've currently got this set to 4K with dlss to automatic and this is set to ultra without any raate tracing or frame gen and as you can see we're currently getting around about 75 frames a second or so which obviously isn't the highest frame rate in the world but as we're running this at 4K albeit with dlss I think this sort of shows the flexibility if you like of this GPU but I do want to see how this will perform with some Ray tracing as obviously this is the big thing from Nvidia so we'll turn this on we get everything enabled and I think we set this to medium we're not going to use any path tracing or anything like that maybe we'll try in a second but we will turn on DSs frame generation and essentially what this does is to render every other frame and then use AI to actually have a frame in the middle thus in theory giving you up to two times the frame rate um but in practice it doesn't really work that way it does seem to work quite nicely though as a technology it's not necessarily going to be like your savior and everything but in cyp Punk it does work really well because as you can see our frame rate is now actually increased which is pretty cool we're all the way up to around about 80 frames a second or so now um but is that a little bit of weird artifacting on the fog I don't know if that's down to to frame gen or whether that is just the game but yes you can see something slightly odd going on with the fog there but before we press on to our next title I do want to see what happens if you are going to play this at 1440p and whether you can actually have any path tracing enabled so we're going to set our super resolution now to balanced resolution down to 1440p and our frame rate wow I actually wasn't expecting it to be that high okay our frame rate's now 126 FPS I mean you could actually turn the dlss up to Quality now cuz you can notice at full and 40p that balance isn't quite so sharp so let's go with that and is this going to be the sweet spot for 14 40p monitors I'm inclined to say yes though the latency is borderline above where I would like it so maybe if you turn frame gen off this would be sort of bang on the money but path tracing let's have a look is this magical setting here turn that on jump back into the game and what does that do well obviously it does lower down the frame rate a lot but this is where you have to be very careful now because if you're using a standard frame rate counter you might think that this looks great but then you will notice that something is just a Miss I mean look at this it's like it's the frame gem there look look at that that's that's a mist of crap you do not want to be using that that is awful this is just bad you don't want to be playing like this even if the lighting and stuff looks a whole lot better so let's see if we can fix that by turning frame gen off and we'll see what that does well it certainly fixed that smearing issue but now your frame rate is around about 50 frames a second or so and I don't know what it is but to me it's still doesn't feel quite right this does not feel okay this frame rate has gone down to 40 frames a second that would explain it it's smooth but it's not like response oh dear it's smooth but it's not 60 frames a second smooth so if you wanted to test this out at I don't know dare I say 30 frames a second play with a controller and cap it get that console lever experience then fine but this is absolutely not how I would want to play so while you can absolutely use path tracing on this and I suppose especially if you're playing at 1080p it'll probably be fine but your limitations with this are probably like high Ray tracing but not that top tier path tracing that you'd be able to do on something like a 4070 TI super also by the way while I've got you I do also want to draw your attention to the thing I was most apprehensive about which are The Thermals for the CPU cuz I have used small CPU callers with this chip before and I was frankly disappointed but all at like the ative stock setting so I don't think this is with the Intel like default power limit cuz I made sure that was off in the motherboard but it was by default if you have a look at The Thermals at the top right corner of your screen you'll see we're currently getting around about 50 to 60° on that chip and this is why the whole system doesn't really make much noise at all so genuinely really really impressed that is ridiculous you don't need to go for anything crazy The Only Exception really would be if you overclock this really far or obviously if you are going to use this mainly for productivity we are not stressing out this chip at 100% so if you're going to be doing that a lot of the time probably would make sense to still get a bigger caller but if your sole purpose for this is gaming I think this is going to be great but let's move across now to a game that is completely different and is one that I genuinely love I almost certainly know that you guys are bored of me talking about returnal but I I love it so much and if you haven't played it I highly recommend it and it's one that I love to test because it really does show off what video games can look like but it's one of those games that actually runs quite well like it's not going to like overly text your system even if you do want to turn rate tracing on cuz what we have here is 4K DSS performance ultra settings across the board with rate tracing and we're still getting 100 frames a second and this isn't even with like the dss3 frame generation technology or anything like that that you can enable if you're struggling for frame rate but to be honest as this is such a tight game when it comes to latency really do need to be as responsive as possible I would say that it's probably worth leaving that off unless you absolutely need it because yeah 100 frames a second at 4K fantastic but obviously if you do want to play at 40 and 40p then you should be able to get an even higher frame rate but I know I know those are all the single player games we want multiplayer that's all we play well how about we get started with some Halo and this is currently running at the high preset running at 4K there isn't any like Dynamic resolution or anything enabled at the moment and we're currently getting around about 60 to 70 frames a second so I wanted to start with this to sort of show you that if you're I don't know maybe playing like single player or something like that then this would be absolutely fine but obviously there's a lot of tuning you can do to get this uh to run a whole lot better not that 70 frames a second at 4K is anything to be sniffed at let's turn this down to 1440p and as you will see the frame rate will increase by quite some margin we're currently looking at around about 110 105 frames a second now so still nothing crazy this is like valerant when you can expect multi hundreds of FPS does that make any sense I don't know but regardless it's still going to be an awesome way to play if youve got 120 HZ display you're pretty much going to be saturating this a lot of the time and if you do want to adjust the settings a little bit more than you can maybe by turning the resolution down a little bit more of course adjusting the quality to medium or something like that but I'd say this is probably optimal for this system and gives you an idea of what a pretty intense multiplayer title with a lot of visuals will be able to perform like but enough chit chatter let's actually jump out of this plane and and show you the frame rate and I will say that this is the second game I've played because the first one did seem to be quite stuttery and I didn't want to say that the PC is all broken or anything like that because as is quite often the case in big games like this the very first time you sort of open up a title you can find that it can misbehave and then like when you open up a second time it's absolutely fine fortnite does this as well but I mean if it's going to do stuff like that then obviously that's not a very playable experience at all but this is company 144 GP set to the extreme M preset and we're currently getting around about 15 milliseconds of latency about 144 frames a second but unfortunately we are still seeing a little bit of stutter here that is quite offputting I mean our 1% lows there went to around about six or so I'm still like fantastic at this game clearly but yeah that is quite annoying I'm not entirely sure why that is if you are a war zone expert let us know down in the comments section below whether this is just in-game Behavior or whether there's something I need to tweak I mean I'm going to try and lower this down a little bit to maybe the ultra preset which also annoys me how can you have Ultra be the second like best why is Extreme the best if you look at R vram by the way we're nowhere near that Target so I don't think there's anything to do with that but let's set this to ultra we go back into the game and we see well that is done to the frame rate and the overall smoothness well our frame rate doesn't seem to drastically be different we're still looking around about 140 frames a second or so lat is roughly the same but is the game going to be any smoother this could also be a case of like the more you play again the more it sort of irons out but yeah I'm I'm not happy with this not entirely sure what's going on with war zone there little bit frustrating but this does give you an idea of the sort of performance that assuming everything works properly you could get it could just be something to do with this system this update this install I'm not entirely sure but yes war zone doesn't seem to be working exactly the way I'd want it to at the moment but yes that's pretty much it actually on the whole I would say that this system system does work really rather well it's a very flexible system and what we've been doing here today is pretty much like worst case scenario anyway because bar Call of Duty war zone everything else has been run at 4K or at least started at 4K and it shows that what most people will use which is probably 440p or Ultra wide this is going to be a really great system I mean the fact that you get all of those Nvidia features as well I think a lot of people are going to love despite the fact you have to pay a little bit more for the privilege just obviously do be aware that this does only have 12 GB of vram so if you are going to do things like path tracing and high resolution then in the next few years or so you might start to run into some vram limitations but obviously you could just turn the textures down if you do find that this is a potential issue I think the case itself it looks great but there's not really anything particularly about it that I would say is like a must buy and when there is so many cases out there at this sort of price point I do think that it doesn't do enough to stand out but bar a couple of like I don't know like panel gaps the fact that the hinge was a bit weird and the lack of uh Cable Management grommets it's not really doing anything wrong and I think most people will get a really nice build out of this so if you can get it for a good price it's recommended but for 80 quid I'd probably get something else that's in a sale and yeah in terms of gaming performance and stuff like that thermals Acoustics I think it's pretty much bang on the money but I'd love to hear your thoughts on this what do you make of this do you like it do you dislike it what should be changed let us know down in the comment section below smash the like button if you've enjoyed this video get yourself subscribed and if you do want to 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okay in a nutshell then this is what I describe as your sort of upper mid-range build we've got an Nvidia RTX 4070 graphics card this is going to be great for 1440p and even a fair bit of 4K gaming but with the recent price drop you can now find these for around about 500 or so which is still a lot of money especially bearing in mind you can buy an Xbox one oh that was a while ago an xbx series X for around about £430 or so but obviously when you factor in that this is a gaming PC can do so much more than just play games to a lot of people that is going to be worth the money and then some now the first thing that I actually want to take this opportunity to do though is to walk you through this case and I've literally just seen this for the first time after taking it out of the box it's got a really catchy name actually it's called the NX 46l but this is just about to release it should cost around about £80 or so here in the UK but I would wager that give this like a month or two and you'll probably be able to sort of get this for near the 6065 Mark you've got USB type c on the front but sadly only one usba that actually to a lot of people is going to get annoying and I think this is on a hinged door yes there we go pops out a little bit as well these screws need tightening up that's the sign of quality not to worry though all is well I mean you definitely can tell that Corners have been cut but I'd say that if you are trying to save yourself a fair bit of money you want to spend that extra £40 on a more expensive GPU that let's be honest will give you much better gaming performance and obviously a much better overe experience then that probably is a trade-off that's worth going for just this bit really that feels a little bit cheaper and you also don't have much in the way of cable management grommet you've got this sort of Shield here but that's not actually for cable management this is if you do want to use that side ventilation this should just pop out non-c captive screws for the back but it's been what now now like 2 minutes into talking about this chassis and I think we've already kind of sus this out because it comes with features with things like argb fans and large ones actually on the front and then this smaller 120 on the back AR argb Hub as well which is great for adding extra fans and keeping everything on sort of One controller nice and easy to organize Cable Management all that good stuff but it is quite clear that you're sort of losing a little bit of raw quality from the case itself as a result of those extra features for that same price point I would say that this is a problem as long as you're aware of them and I will also say that while it sort of i' I'd say it kind of feels like a mid-range case at the moment as soon as you actually get your motherboard and graphics card in here and it all sort of tightens up then the quality will definitely uh seem to improve a lot as well that's very good timing how can they have not fitted the screws for the door properly from the factory what is that all about oh this is going to be the best gaming PC ever oh this is why we review the stuff as we go I use a spare screw don't worry it's all good regardless of the Chessy that you have the first thing really that you actually need to do to begin your journey is to grab your motherboard and take it out of the box so yes this is a z790 steel Legend motherboard from azrock you can currently get this for like 220 230 here in the UK and usually I'd actually say If you're sort of trying to save as much money as possible go for a B series motherboard you can't do any overclocking on the CPU and the feature set isn't quite so good but you can usually save a fair bit money but when you can get this motherboard as a say for that price actually this is probably the way I would go especially if you are going to look to upgrade your sort of CPU at a later date maybe to an i7 or an I9 or probably more likely put as much power inside this thing as possible calling dependent of course now we obviously could just stare at this motherboard all day but practically speaking we do need to actually get things started and the first thing we want to do is to grab our CPU out of the box this one is the lat 14th gen CPU from Intel it is is the I5 14600 K this has a total of 14 cores and it's split between six performance cores which are the good ones really that we're can to use for gaming and then a efficiency cores and the difference really between going for ryzen and going for Intel is that this is sort of like a much better all round chip really it will cost more around about 90 to 100 at the time of filming more than the equivalent sort of ryzen 57600 in terms of gaming performance but it as I say it's going to be a much better all round system and it will actually outperform the 7600 by a decent margin as well but obviously if you want the absolute best gaming CPU in my opinion I would definitely go for the ryzen 7 uh 7800 x3d but that costs more money and you would need a different motherboard but if you're interested in that I'll leave links to everything and some other suggestions down below but we do just want to grab our CPU and gently line this up so it sits in there nice and safe and secure there is actually this little gold Arrow here that should line up with an arrow on the motherboard itself yes there we go on this cover I mean to be fair that used to be like a big thing you got to line it up with the arrow but these days like the modern ryzen and Intel chips just go in like down like this so it's very hard to get wrong we're also going to need to grab ourselves some memory aome RAM and this stuff is ddr5 very important on the Intel platform because some motherboards will say D4 or ddr4 others will say D5 ddr5 they're completely different types of memory so if you buy the wrong board or the wrong Ram you will not be able to put your RAM inside and you will be very sad but here we're using ddr5 cuz it is actually faster and to be honest it's not really that much more expensive if you want to go for 32 gig and we're going to line this up with our slot here this is some Kingston Fury RGB and this will run at 5600 MHz but if you can buy a 6,000 MHz kit that is what I would advise this is the wrong way round this is why you line it up first before you push it in oh that's good noise such good noise then you want to take the opportunity to pick up the screwdriver you just dropped on the floor it will need to be slightly smaller for the SSD but you just want to open it up by unscrewing these two screws and then this whole heat sink should remove and this which is a Gen 4 SSD is going to give you the best balance between Speed and Performance this is the crucial P3 plus it's a fan favorite we've been using on the channel for a while now I think I bought this one myself last year or so it's been pretty good ever since but this just sits in the slot like that folds downwards and then you proceed to grab this little heat and cover make sure you do remove the plastic film that will be on this I've used this board before which is why it's not on there then just gently replace that and screw it back down and then now I think comes the fun or definitely the interesting bit because this is a brand new currently unreleased cooler that by the time you're watching this should have just come out this is from Arctic this is the Arctic freezer 36 AR argb so obviously it's going to be nice and bright and Vivid and it's a bit tricky actually with Intel cuz it does like to use a fair bit more power the more power power you can give it then the better your performance will be up unto a limit but I'm actually expecting very good things from this ooh and ladies and gentlemen this is why I say this is going to get interesting because what we have here is an Intel contact frame as we do know that the default contact frame that you get on the board itself probably could use a bit of improvement with some of the CPUs so Arctic actually give you one of these straight outside well Inside the Box not outside the box you're going to have to assemble outside the box and in order to do this they will give you a little tall it does sound very scary but actually I've done this before and it really shouldn't be an issue you just want to make sure that your CPU is installed grab this little starhead Allen key I suppose it's called and then just gently remove this it might have been better actually to not have the latch down before doing that but that comes off and then the new and hopefully improved goes on and you should then see that there is actually quite a I was going to say substantial it certainly looks very different doesn't it in the the way that it presents the CPU through the frame itself let's now grab our four Intel screws that look a little bit like this and put these through the four holes do be very careful to make sure that you do screw down in a cross pattern though because you really want to make sure you're putting even contact on the CPU you don't want to dislodge it and you don't want to have it in there too tight and I guess this will now just sit on top of our frame nice big contact point on the base of this but of course in order to actually get this to function properly we will need to add some thermal paste we just add a decent P sized amount in the middle then pick up our cooler for real this time and just gently lower that on top of the frame and then once again screw it into position but making sure to do the even Force this time left to right I've just skipped ahead to try and work this out so I seem like an expert on camera and I've got to admit the way Arctic have designed this mounting system is fantastic because not only was that CPU contact frame really easy to install and hopefully pretty efficient but to actually get this on top of the cooler we literally just have to push it that's it you can't get simpler than that seems nice and sturdy isn't going to pop out until we want to actively remove it with a lot of force so let's get both of these attached have I plugged the fans in wrong on this cooler give our motherboard a little spin so we can see what we're doing and then we're going to need a daisy chain these cables together so we have two addressable rgbs and they can just plug in together and then they connect to one of these gray headers at the top right of the board you then want to do the same with the fan speed and then connect it to the one that says CPU fan just above the cooler and assuming now that nothing really goes wrong that was actually the most difficult bit of your gaming PC complete I mean it's pretty much ready to go all you need is a GPU to obviously output your gaming signal and to actually get this inside your case and plugged in with the power supply and the next bit should be fairly straightforward as long as the case manufacturer has pre-applied these standoffs here which they have so this is what actually separates the motherboard from the case so you don't get any shorts or anything like that and it stands it up hence why it's called a stand off and you just grab your motherboard do make sure you're not getting any cables from this fan clamped it tends to happen quite a lot but just gently move this into position so all of your standoffs are line then remember that you've absolutely cocked it up and you should have actually got the screws outside of the case hard drive bay before started so you can screw it down assuming then you're not quite as silly as me you should now have your screws ready to go and you should just be able to fit this down once your motherboard is in position you should have something that resembles this I mean so far so good it is obviously a white and black motherboard which isn't to everybody's tastes but if you go for this case in white I think it probably would fit in a little bit better or if you're using like white or silver elements somewhere else but while it's taking shape it's not yet done so you will need to grab these cables around the back and start to undo them we've got our USB type-c we've got got usb3 HD audio which is basically just analog audio for the front panel and then we have these tiny little headers here that say power switch which is the all important one to make the button to turn it on actually do anything power LEDs and then HD LEDs so this just shows the activity of your PC on the LEDs on the front but you want to grab these cables and feed them through to where the sockets are on the other side and then you can start plugging them in so with this footage from earlier you can see this is where the USB type 3 is just above that you've got your USB type c at the bottom right you've got your LEDs and your power switch as you can tell though these bits are always pretty fiddly as they're so tiny so my recommendation is to always look in your motherboard manufacturers manual just to see what pins you need to put where it's not difficult but it's very easy to get it wrong we're going to plug our fan header in at the bottom left our addressable RGB just next to it and then all the way at the left we have our HD audio so as you can see then for the most part we're pretty much there we just need to get our graphics card installed and our PSU I'm going to do our graphics card first just for a change really but it doesn't really matter which way you do it we just need to open up our side slots just by unscrewing this little piece on the side and then taking out the screws on slots two and Slots three obviously if you're using a larger GPU then it might need to be a little bit more than this take these covers out and then I think we can proceed to what has to be the star of the show The now cheaper RTX 470 and cheaper is always better right it seems that this was better received because the same product for Less rather than the super cards which were in the case of the 4080 super basically the same product but for less but it was a new product so people like why don't you just bring out something even better that's a debate for a whole another day the fact that you can now get this for around about £500 or so I'd say that it's still very expensive but it's probably the cheapest Nvidia card that I think everyone is going to be happy with now if you go for an AMD graphics card you will be getting better value for money and I I think something that's very important is 16 GB of vram so if you're playing at high resolution like 4K that will definitely come in handy but then you're not going to have those Nvidia specific features like you have on this card so I'd say this is probably well definitely is a fair bit more complete but if you specifically just play multiplayer then there are better cost per frame cards out there that will give you better value for money but this is a card that can run rate tracing and while it's not going to do it at 4K necessarily uh for what most people are actually going to use this thing for I think you're going to be really happy with the performance but that just sits in there like that tightens up and then bar our power cables that is our rig pretty much complete I mean it is starting to look like one of those really cool modern rigs now that won't have any power cables but alas that is not the case and I actually reached out to Corsair because I was having a little bit of a shortage of power supplies but this is pretty much the one that comes up time and time again when I'm doing some e shopping I mean I suppose all shopping is e shopping these days and speaking of e this is also the RM 750 e maybe the E stands for efficiency not entirely sure but you'll find that most manufacturers have actually updated their power supplies now with this ATX 3.0 or PCI Gen 5 standard which means if you are going to go for an Nvidia card it will come with that 16 Pin cable connection so you won't have to use a horrible adapter 750 WS is also more than you need for this rig I think you could get by with a 650 but I always recommend going a little bit above that just for longevity as if you want to make any upgrades then obviously you don't really want to have to swap out your power supply to make it work but this is also a modular PSU so you can see this is a type four Corsair power supply if you want to use separate cables or something like that but you don't have to plug in the cables you don't need which means your whole rig will be a whole lot neater let's plug in our motherboard ATX do make sure they are definitely plugged in all the way down as when I was helping my friend Rob build his first PC you can find that on the top right corner of your screen one of the mistakes I saw he made was not actually having them plugged in all the way but was adamant that they were it's very easy to make and that could could mean that your system won't boot this just goes in down the bottom with a fan facing downwards so it can breathe in From Below then it screws in from the back then you just need to grab the cables root them through and plug them into their respective places so once again we've got our CPU at the top left of the motherboard I've fed the cable for the graphics card from the bottom for neatness but do make sure that you plug it in as tight as can be you do need to hear that audible click with these cables to ensure they're in properly and then last but certainly not least we have have our very large ATX I mean if you miss this one I'm sorry but but how and I think that almost are lot we just need one Sata cable for the fan speed and I haven't plugged that into the power supply have I and this is basically PC Building in a nutshell it doesn't matter how many times you do it you usually forget something or maybe I'm just an idiot or both I mean Cable Management on this case I mean there's not really any is there I mean it's fine for this actually because you don't really have have many cables so it's not so much of a problem it's not going to win awards for the highest quality most feature Rich thing in the world but if you want a full airflow chassis you want your RGB fans on the front and on the back I think it's worth the money just maybe not the exact launch price but obviously now does come the time to actually see if this is going to work and I realize that I've potentially made the gravest of errors that if this happen you you would be the major major sads because while this does support 14th gen CP use this particular motherboard I have a feeling that the one I've got was a sort of launch review sample that was way before 14th gen even existed and usually you would just do a bios update which is pretty straightforward you grab the new bios to download it put on USB drive on the back push a button wait for it to finish hey Presto Bob's your uncle you're away but unfortunately it doesn't seem as if this actually has that functionality and I think for a 230 240 lb motherboard that is a disgrace and unfortunately I have to say because of this I would probably recommend going for a different motherboard because if you don't get one that has this functionality you could find that you're in this exact situation and because motherboards are typically made like ages in advance they might be sitting in a warehouse you might find that you run into the same potential or issue that we might have here so I will leave some links to different motherboards down in the description below that are hopefully a safer bet but that's why we do these videos or you could just go for a 13th gen CPU and save yourself some money they're basically the same but you never know this could work first time I think the odds are very low but let's have a look so we have like lights and Signal which is great and this is what is to be expected but until you actually have something that appears on the screen I think it's safe to assume that have I plugged the fans in wrong on this coer I'm having a mad One Look What I've Done how have I managed that the fans are actually blowing the wrong way on this whoa we have a signal I don't believe it I don't believe it I was not expecting this at all I swear the BIOS in this was old maybe I've updated it how about that well that's great cuz that's saved me a whole bunch of time messing around with a caller but because I've already got windows installed on this SSD it's pretty straightforward it's just going to load into it but chances are if you're doing this for yourself then you're not upgrading a prior PC so you will need to grab yourself a copy of Windows 11 it's really easy just download it on another Windows like laptop or PC put it on this USB stick with the installer put it in the back of your system and then when you actually restart your gaming PC you should see like a similar screen and will say install Windows we made a full video about how simple this is you can find in the top right corner of your screen if you're interested that walks you through the full process and so then ladies and gentlemen through the power of editing one of these days I am going to knock that monitor off the desk and we we'll all be very sad you'll find it very funny potentially uh we are now all set up and ready to go and I've realized as well that I haven't actually spoken about the way that this thing looks yet and I'd say on the whole it looks really nice I mean this is one of those chesses that it's probably it was absolutely fine to build in but especially if you put a lot of stuff in here might get a little bit annoying but the end result I would say is worth it so if you can save yourself a decent chunk of money to say get this case over something that could potentially cost double the price I think it's not a bad suggestion to go for it actually because while it is a little bit cheap in some places and I don't like the fact you've got this like slightly annoying panel Gap at the top the end result once you've got everything inside it is good and because you do get these RGB fans as standard it means everybody's build is going to look good rather than just those that like pay money for extra fans and things I do believe that there's also a button on the top that you can use to cycle through the RGB and if you want everything to sync up then you can get it to sync with your motherboard as well which is pretty nice but generally speaking it's an absolutely fine case I like the fact that it comes with some decent fans as standard but it's not going to win Awards for like the best thing out there but that's the system as a whole not too bad let's jump in and actually test the gameplay and I believe we're going to begin our gaming tests with what is a very popular title and obviously it's the big poster child of everything in video this is some cyberpunk 2077 and we've currently got this set to 4K with dlss to automatic and this is set to ultra without any raate tracing or frame gen and as you can see we're currently getting around about 75 frames a second or so which obviously isn't the highest frame rate in the world but as we're running this at 4K albeit with dlss I think this sort of shows the flexibility if you like of this GPU but I do want to see how this will perform with some Ray tracing as obviously this is the big thing from Nvidia so we'll turn this on we get everything enabled and I think we set this to medium we're not going to use any path tracing or anything like that maybe we'll try in a second but we will turn on DSs frame generation and essentially what this does is to render every other frame and then use AI to actually have a frame in the middle thus in theory giving you up to two times the frame rate um but in practice it doesn't really work that way it does seem to work quite nicely though as a technology it's not necessarily going to be like your savior and everything but in cyp Punk it does work really well because as you can see our frame rate is now actually increased which is pretty cool we're all the way up to around about 80 frames a second or so now um but is that a little bit of weird artifacting on the fog I don't know if that's down to to frame gen or whether that is just the game but yes you can see something slightly odd going on with the fog there but before we press on to our next title I do want to see what happens if you are going to play this at 1440p and whether you can actually have any path tracing enabled so we're going to set our super resolution now to balanced resolution down to 1440p and our frame rate wow I actually wasn't expecting it to be that high okay our frame rate's now 126 FPS I mean you could actually turn the dlss up to Quality now cuz you can notice at full and 40p that balance isn't quite so sharp so let's go with that and is this going to be the sweet spot for 14 40p monitors I'm inclined to say yes though the latency is borderline above where I would like it so maybe if you turn frame gen off this would be sort of bang on the money but path tracing let's have a look is this magical setting here turn that on jump back into the game and what does that do well obviously it does lower down the frame rate a lot but this is where you have to be very careful now because if you're using a standard frame rate counter you might think that this looks great but then you will notice that something is just a Miss I mean look at this it's like it's the frame gem there look look at that that's that's a mist of crap you do not want to be using that that is awful this is just bad you don't want to be playing like this even if the lighting and stuff looks a whole lot better so let's see if we can fix that by turning frame gen off and we'll see what that does well it certainly fixed that smearing issue but now your frame rate is around about 50 frames a second or so and I don't know what it is but to me it's still doesn't feel quite right this does not feel okay this frame rate has gone down to 40 frames a second that would explain it it's smooth but it's not like response oh dear it's smooth but it's not 60 frames a second smooth so if you wanted to test this out at I don't know dare I say 30 frames a second play with a controller and cap it get that console lever experience then fine but this is absolutely not how I would want to play so while you can absolutely use path tracing on this and I suppose especially if you're playing at 1080p it'll probably be fine but your limitations with this are probably like high Ray tracing but not that top tier path tracing that you'd be able to do on something like a 4070 TI super also by the way while I've got you I do also want to draw your attention to the thing I was most apprehensive about which are The Thermals for the CPU cuz I have used small CPU callers with this chip before and I was frankly disappointed but all at like the ative stock setting so I don't think this is with the Intel like default power limit cuz I made sure that was off in the motherboard but it was by default if you have a look at The Thermals at the top right corner of your screen you'll see we're currently getting around about 50 to 60° on that chip and this is why the whole system doesn't really make much noise at all so genuinely really really impressed that is ridiculous you don't need to go for anything crazy The Only Exception really would be if you overclock this really far or obviously if you are going to use this mainly for productivity we are not stressing out this chip at 100% so if you're going to be doing that a lot of the time probably would make sense to still get a bigger caller but if your sole purpose for this is gaming I think this is going to be great but let's move across now to a game that is completely different and is one that I genuinely love I almost certainly know that you guys are bored of me talking about returnal but I I love it so much and if you haven't played it I highly recommend it and it's one that I love to test because it really does show off what video games can look like but it's one of those games that actually runs quite well like it's not going to like overly text your system even if you do want to turn rate tracing on cuz what we have here is 4K DSS performance ultra settings across the board with rate tracing and we're still getting 100 frames a second and this isn't even with like the dss3 frame generation technology or anything like that that you can enable if you're struggling for frame rate but to be honest as this is such a tight game when it comes to latency really do need to be as responsive as possible I would say that it's probably worth leaving that off unless you absolutely need it because yeah 100 frames a second at 4K fantastic but obviously if you do want to play at 40 and 40p then you should be able to get an even higher frame rate but I know I know those are all the single player games we want multiplayer that's all we play well how about we get started with some Halo and this is currently running at the high preset running at 4K there isn't any like Dynamic resolution or anything enabled at the moment and we're currently getting around about 60 to 70 frames a second so I wanted to start with this to sort of show you that if you're I don't know maybe playing like single player or something like that then this would be absolutely fine but obviously there's a lot of tuning you can do to get this uh to run a whole lot better not that 70 frames a second at 4K is anything to be sniffed at let's turn this down to 1440p and as you will see the frame rate will increase by quite some margin we're currently looking at around about 110 105 frames a second now so still nothing crazy this is like valerant when you can expect multi hundreds of FPS does that make any sense I don't know but regardless it's still going to be an awesome way to play if youve got 120 HZ display you're pretty much going to be saturating this a lot of the time and if you do want to adjust the settings a little bit more than you can maybe by turning the resolution down a little bit more of course adjusting the quality to medium or something like that but I'd say this is probably optimal for this system and gives you an idea of what a pretty intense multiplayer title with a lot of visuals will be able to perform like but enough chit chatter let's actually jump out of this plane and and show you the frame rate and I will say that this is the second game I've played because the first one did seem to be quite stuttery and I didn't want to say that the PC is all broken or anything like that because as is quite often the case in big games like this the very first time you sort of open up a title you can find that it can misbehave and then like when you open up a second time it's absolutely fine fortnite does this as well but I mean if it's going to do stuff like that then obviously that's not a very playable experience at all but this is company 144 GP set to the extreme M preset and we're currently getting around about 15 milliseconds of latency about 144 frames a second but unfortunately we are still seeing a little bit of stutter here that is quite offputting I mean our 1% lows there went to around about six or so I'm still like fantastic at this game clearly but yeah that is quite annoying I'm not entirely sure why that is if you are a war zone expert let us know down in the comments section below whether this is just in-game Behavior or whether there's something I need to tweak I mean I'm going to try and lower this down a little bit to maybe the ultra preset which also annoys me how can you have Ultra be the second like best why is Extreme the best if you look at R vram by the way we're nowhere near that Target so I don't think there's anything to do with that but let's set this to ultra we go back into the game and we see well that is done to the frame rate and the overall smoothness well our frame rate doesn't seem to drastically be different we're still looking around about 140 frames a second or so lat is roughly the same but is the game going to be any smoother this could also be a case of like the more you play again the more it sort of irons out but yeah I'm I'm not happy with this not entirely sure what's going on with war zone there little bit frustrating but this does give you an idea of the sort of performance that assuming everything works properly you could get it could just be something to do with this system this update this install I'm not entirely sure but yes war zone doesn't seem to be working exactly the way I'd want it to at the moment but yes that's pretty much it actually on the whole I would say that this system system does work really rather well it's a very flexible system and what we've been doing here today is pretty much like worst case scenario anyway because bar Call of Duty war zone everything else has been run at 4K or at least started at 4K and it shows that what most people will use which is probably 440p or Ultra wide this is going to be a really great system I mean the fact that you get all of those Nvidia features as well I think a lot of people are going to love despite the fact you have to pay a little bit more for the privilege just obviously do be aware that this does only have 12 GB of vram so if you are going to do things like path tracing and high resolution then in the next few years or so you might start to run into some vram limitations but obviously you could just turn the textures down if you do find that this is a potential issue I think the case itself it looks great but there's not really anything particularly about it that I would say is like a must buy and when there is so many cases out there at this sort of price point I do think that it doesn't do enough to stand out but bar a couple of like I don't know like panel gaps the fact that the hinge was a bit weird and the lack of uh Cable Management grommets it's not really doing anything wrong and I think most people will get a really nice build out of this so if you can get it for a good price it's recommended but for 80 quid I'd probably get something else that's in a sale and yeah in terms of gaming performance and stuff like that thermals Acoustics I think it's pretty much bang on the money but I'd love to hear your thoughts on this what do you make of this do you like it do you dislike it what should be changed let us know down in the comment section below smash the like button if you've enjoyed this video get yourself subscribed and if you do want to check out pricing on anything that was featured in this video then as always you can find it listed down below with our Amazon affiliate links and while you're down there why not check out NZXT NZ xt's new lift 2 Mouse has arrived bringing aesthetic class and game-changing performance featuring a 26,000 DPI sensor Optical switches a 60 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