The Author's Experience with Building a Gaming PC

The author of this article is excited to share their experience building a gaming PC, specifically focusing on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPU. They express their enthusiasm for the card and its design, stating that it is one of their personal favorites. However, they also emphasize the importance of buying the best value for money and decent performance ratings.

As the author begins to disassemble their case, they mention that they are using a micro-ATX case with limited room for expansion. They carefully remove the top two covers and screw off the side panel, making way for the graphics card. The author is pleased to find that the GPU fits comfortably in the case, leaving enough space for other components.

The author then proceeds to install the graphics card, securing it with screws on the side. They mention that they had previously installed a power cable but now have to deal with the complexity of 8-pin and 12-pin connectors. The author notes that AMD's new 12-pin cable would make installation easier.

After installing the GPU, the author plugs in the power cord and tries to turn it on. However, they soon discover that the fan speed through the splitter is not high enough to support the front fans, which are unable to spin properly. The author corrects this issue by adjusting the fan curves in the BIOS, which resolves the problem.

The author then moves on to testing their build in various games to ensure that the GPU and other components provide expected performance. They start with Call of Duty: Warzone 40 at 1080p high settings with FSR enabled, achieving an average frame rate of 180 FPS. This is followed by a test of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 at 1440p high settings, which delivered an average frame rate of 226 FPS.

The author then moves on to testing the build in Starfield and Hogwart's Legacy, both of which deliver impressive performance at 1440p high settings. They also test their build in Fortnite and Apex Legends, achieving average frame rates of 270 FPS and 265 FPS, respectively. The author is pleased with the performance of their build, especially in Apex Legends.

Performance Testing

The author tests their build in various games to ensure that it provides expected performance. They start with Call of Duty: Warzone 40 at 1080p high settings with FSR enabled, achieving an average frame rate of 180 FPS.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 at 1440p high settings delivers an average frame rate of 226 FPS.

Starfield tests the build's performance, delivering 89 FPS at 1440p high. This is a good result for an RPG game where frame rate is less critical.

Hogwart's Legacy also performs well, delivering 115 FPS on average at 1440p high settings. The author notes that this is impressive performance for an RPG game.

Fortnite tests the build's performance in Competitive mode, achieving an average frame rate of 270 FPS at 1080p. This is excellent performance, especially considering the competitive requirements.

Finally, the author tests their build in Apex Legends, which delivers a surprising average frame rate of 265 FPS at 1440p high settings. The author notes that this is impressive performance and sets a high bar for those looking to achieve similar results.

Conclusion

The author concludes their article by highlighting the impressive performance of their custom-built gaming PC. They praise the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPU, stating that it provides exceptional performance in various games. The author's build achieves excellent frame rates in multiple games, including Fortnite and Apex Legends. Overall, the author is pleased with their build and encourages readers to consider similar components for their own gaming needs.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhen it comes to building a gaming PC it's important to achieve the best performance you can for your overall budget and I don't believe it gets much better than this a $1,300 build that is primed for 1440p gaming in all of the latest titles EES as much value out of every part as possible it's fairly easy to build it and heck even has great upgrade paths and in this video I'll be walking you through what parts I selected and why the whole build process from start right through to finish and looking at performance a little bit later to see whether this build really Stacks up on those all important fright rate numbers and whether it's a system you guys should assemble let's do this the Deep call Mystique CPU Cooler is here with a highly customizable screen 360 mil radiator and deep CO's latest performance optimized ft12 SE fans the sharp 2.8 in LED display looks the par with a 640x480 resolution that allows for near infinite customization whether you want to display Key System metrics usage graphs or media files the Mystic 360 certainly doesn't lack customization learn more or buy the Deep call Mystic 360 at the first links in the description below I'll usually start my builds by looking at the GPU and the CPU combo but not today I actually want to start things off with the case because I've never built in this thing before and when it arrived I was Mega impressed now I'm always on the lookout for really great value cases that don't really sacrifice too much when it comes to build quality airflow fans and it's one of the reasons that for some of the higher end builds I love montech new king 95 that's a case that I could build pretty much every system in and be satisfied but for the systems where I want a little bit more value this thing's really impressive now this is deepcool's new CH 360 and if you've ever seen their CH 560 it's basically just a mini version but Brands when they make small versions of things have a habit of making them a little bit more crap and deep cool haven't done that now this is the digital one which gives you like a little screen that's going to cost you more money so the non-digital might be better suited but it looks sleek when it's on and is fairly easy to use in software it has support for Micro ATX motherboards as you can see from the motherboard tray and also includes an integrated GPU support bracket not the most sturdy thing in the world but it's pretty good now on the rear you get 120 mil argb fan nothing too unusual about that while on the front of the case if I can take this quite robust panel off I'm making a mess of this very robust too robust panel you'll find a pair of 140 mil argb fans pre-mounted pre- cable ran and ready to go io's really quite good as well the standard USB an LED controller and a USB type-c to go along with the regular C Port all the side panels and stuff feel really good quality all and the best bit the price it comes in at under $80 with the promo code on NewEgg but I'll link various regions and retailers for this chassis down in the description below now with the case out the way just wanted to mention that I think it makes sense to look at the GPU and the CPU combo next up now let's start with the CPU shy this is amd's ryzen 57600 I talked earlier about how this is a build designed mainly for 1440p and because of that I don't need to upgrade this chip to something like a ryzen 77700 non X as there's no point CPU bottom nein is actually less of a problem at 1440p than it is at 1080P and even though this chip is the non X version which does save us crucial money we can overclock it a little bit as well on the motherboard if we want that's going to get us closer to the performance of the 7600 X now it pairs up beautifully with this the RX 7900 gr now I kind of want to get not emotional about this but it came out recently that AMD just aren't really selling any graphics cards right now without wanting to sound like a bit of a fanboy I don't really get it the 7900 GRE is an exceptional example and it's hardly an outlier when it comes to their Radeon 7000 range I'm obviously not being paid to say any of this but the 7700 XT 7800 XT and this 7900 GRE are three of my favorite graphics cards released in the last few years now this at 1440p is awesome you get decent video memory 16 GB to be precise and at $549 it makes a significant chunk of the budget in this build this is why savings with things like the case and the motherboard as you'll see in a moment are so critical 1440p performance on this thing is pretty boss it obviously beats out its cheaper AMD counterparts but very commonly beats out the 4070 with relative ease the 4070 super and knocks on the door in some titles to Performance you'll find on the 4070 TI and 4070 TI super 2 for context both of those cards are about $250 more than this I mean what's not to love there are some downsides and it's only fair that you guys are aware of those as much as I think it is the best bet for this build R tracing performance is nowhere near its Nvidia Rivals so if you're a big fan of cyberpunk with all those path tray shadows and lighting effects don't buy this GPU similarly if you want to take advantage of all nvidia's fantastic studio and broadcast features they are ahead of AMD in that regard so if you're building this system for video editing where you you'll definitely want to change the CPU but you'll also want to look at some Nvidia graphics card options instead now I'm going to be installing the processor and this I guess where the build portion of this video starts onto the motherboard and very specifically this is the gigabyte b650 M D3 hpx now that's not a particularly exciting name and this is not a particularly highend motherboard but it's fantastic value and in a build like this it's going to allow me to really squeeze as much performance out of the rest of the parts as possible saving $30 on a board is just more money for the GPU plain and simple getting that GRE into a $1,300 price point was really tight and not an easy task this motherboard is naturally not the highest end thing in the world you do have four DDR 5 Ram slots that's still a massive advantage over the equivalent cheap Intel boards that only support DDR 4 still have front panel USBC on the board we've still got some cooling here for the vrm though this is obviously not a heavy overclocking board push a couple hundred mehz maybe but we ain't going much further than that the rear iio is admittedly a little bit basic but you still get all the audio ports high-speed USBS 2 and2 gig ethernet and Wi-Fi as standard as far as that kind of connectivity goes there isn't really much else we could ask for and this board removes a lot of the problems that the a620 chipset has around power delivery not that to be fair that should be too much of an issue for ryzen 57600 anyway but it does open those upgrade paths more than cheaper a620 boards it is still kind of crazy to me that AMD are going to support this socket for potentially years to come yet and it obviously means that investing in the am5 platform just well obviously makes so much more sense than the Intel counterpart right now but it's actually a really good value for money bet and helps to I don't want to use the word but future proof the build even just a little bit that brings me on nicely to ram on memory and this is where things have got better for AMD still now when ryzen first launched the memory kits were just so expensive this T Force D tiet I've managed to pick it up for just over $100 sometimes it goes below sometimes it's more like 110 115 again I'll link everything down below this is a 32 gig kit and that is when we talk about future proofing really really beneficial now 16 is obviously not enough and I'm not suggesting it is but 32 gives us a good bit of Headway and on top of that if you pick up an identical 32 gig kit later down the line you could pretty feasibly upgrade this build right through to 64 gigs without needing to waste any excess cash now this kit is a CL 32 kit that is personally highly advisable low latencies make a massive difference on performance so don't go for a high latency kit even if the advertised 6,400 MHz box speed looks particularly tantal izing yeah that's that's a good word talking of RAM memory storage team group I didn't realize I'd gotone two team group products in this this is the mp44 L and I've been looking for a little while for arrival to crucial's P3 plus as my budget mvme so I'm going to try this one out and I'm going to report back speeds are better slightly more expensive but I think and I'm hoping it's going to be worth it this particular Drive is a two terabyte I think I've budgeted for the one terabyte again I'll link both options down below I actually can't get it out that's not a good Stu no I don't want to break the Box no break the SSD instead James and this board has dual m.2 slots as well so we've got one with a heat syn or peat Shield one without it's probably more of a heat spreader you get the kind of Point ultimately it's going to keep the drive cool and that's really the only thing that actually matters hey Drive goes in a little bit of a 45° angle it's bit like an airplane coming into land and then it goes that was a bit cringe but anyway you get the point the end two Drive slides in like that and then the heat shield or heat spreader or heat sink goes into place with eat for my next part I have a trick not quite up my sleeve but on the floor now this is the CPU caller now this is generally a point of contention in my builds because I know what you're thinking James why haven't you gone for the Johns bro why haven't you gone for the vetru why have you gone for the Deep cold well I've taken your feedback on board and I'm going to pick this thing directly against the vetri which as you can see is I think arriving today it's arriving today so I'm I'm going to build this thing with the ak400 from Deep cool and then we're going to swap the cooler out test them both and see which delivers the best temperatures in this build and the final Montage shall reveal the winner let me talk about the a400 for now as I think it's at least well it's at least one of the options I really like this coola you can get it in like a million different versions probably too many versions this is the standard one so this has the silver heat sink with the black top oh and pre-applied thermal paste which is all over the table right so what you get in the box is a plastic cover that's pre-attached to the Deep cool but it sort of came off and stayed in the box and now I have thermal paste on the table minus five points for deep cool right I need a cleaning thing oh genuinely something to watch out for if you do buy this cooler as you'll then need to reapply your own thermal paste if the same thing happens to you which you do not get included proceed with caution and don't do what I just did about a few seconds ago oh in the drama of all of that I actually put new thermal paste on without doing any of the other preparation that this cooler needs so that was a bit silly what you do need to do if you are going to copy me although I'm not sure you should anymore is take these black plastic brackets off as we do not need these and they're going to get in the way instead from the included bag of mounting hardware I am going to pop on this sort of square thing there we are no not not that that's the next step um this is all a disaster after I've taken this bag of orange things and put one on each Corner you'll see just just follow along the orange ones just slot onto the threads that are poking through so they go on a little something like so and then the silver bracket pops on top of them a bit like this and the included screws are going to go through the orange Stoppers and into the threads on the builtin motherboard back plate a bit of an advantage of rizon it has its own back plates you haven't unlike Intel got to FF around and pop your own one on really really like to see that then with the power of my lazy screwdriver get those fastened in and then the cooler heat sing can go on I'm going to take the fan off first so it's out the way then drop the cooler on I always just tend to hand tighten these screws first I just find it a little bit easier to get the threads then you want to Tor them up with a manual screwdriver I wouldn't use an electric screwdriver for these as you want to make sure you can sort of feel that the tightness is done in the right way I know that might sound a bit weird but trust me you'll understand if you actually go ahead and assemble this build a bit like me lovely now fan is going to go on later otherwise though the motherboard assembly is done and looking pretty good I think my creatx boards do look silly in fullsize ATX cases but obviously this one's a more compact Micro ATX version so from that point of view we're all good it's time then to look at the case again but this time just to install the motherboard the first Port of Call in any case is checking that all of the standoffs are in the right locations this is obviously a Micro ATX board which means the holes are differently located to on their ATX counterparts locate the holes on the motherboard and then cross referen these against the ones in the case so you can see here we've got three at the top moving down to the middle there's another three and then at the bottom we've got three as well one of these is going to be extra and pop to right in the case box for safe storage in case I ever need it later with this Feer real budget motherboard there is a an IO Shield to install quite unusual nowadays you see it where there's cost saving involved and as I say in this build cost saving I can live with it because we're going to get the extra performance and it's just one more step now it clicks in nice and easily it should look like this with the audio ports at the bottom and then any display connection at the top not we'll be using them of course as we have the dedicated graphics ports of course on the GPU I'm also going to pop the fan on the cooler at this stage make sure it's yep in the right orientation and we're blowing air through the cooler rather than trying to pull it through the cooler if you know what I mean that's going to wire up to the CPU fan cable header which will get you a snazzy close-up of and then took away without too many problems and with that we hopefully have a pretty cool CPU two parts left to go power supply or graphics card and this is like do we want to do the really boring cumbersome bit first or do we want to do the exciting bit spoiler alert it's the combersome bit doing the power supply now is going to make your life a lot easier and there's no better feeling in my experience than the graphics card going in and it being like the last thing you have to deal with now this is qu Masters no it's not it's corsair's RM 750e now corser have been on a bit of a roll recently and this is a great example of that this is a cybernetics Platinum rated power supply that's very very affordable one downside is it is an atx3 at least not this version we've got here which means those of you looking again at inid graphics cards should consider perhaps some like cool Master's new gx850 or thermal T smart bm3 a less efficient unit but that is atx3 now inside the bag of cables we need a few things we need this motherboard cable here which is the largest oh hang on a second so right let me clarify it is an atx3 but it does have a p G 5 cable so all those things I just said about buying another unit ignore all of them I was wrong Sata cable we need one of those dual PCI 6 plus two pin connections definitely need that and CPU power we need one 18 pin don't we we don't want Molex is that a CPU yes a dual four pin CPU power cable so that's all we need motherboard CPU SATA and graphics card and then obviously the power to plug it up to the wall later all I'm they going to do is pop the power supply cables into the power supply and this of course is nice and easy with it being a full modular unit and then wire up the CPU to the top left motherboard to the right graphics card is obviously later and SATA to the included SATA power cable b c management as well will just help move things along in the right direction while I was here I also plugged in the front panel cables that includes the HD audio to the bottom left the USB 2 for the digital one on this more expensive digital case USB 3 standard to the very bottom right USB 3 type-c to the middle right and of course the front panel power cable which goes to the bottom right hand corner there's a diagram on your screen which shows you exactly which pins to plug these into and with that we're finally ready for the graphics card and I'm going to sound like I'm not really prepared very well for this I actually don't know if it's going to fit I think it should do we haven't got a radiator or anything at the front obviously if you were going to do some liquid cooling a bigger case probably would help on the basis that your GPU clearance is going to be a lot more limited here we go there are smaller versions of the GRE available this gigabyte card is one of my personal favorites but I like the ack design too and if I'm being honest with you you should just buy whichever card is actually cheapest and best value for money but of course has decent performance ratings and reviews too push back the clip on the slot and we're going to remove the top two covers so just a little bit of an unscrewed there top two PCI Lane covers to make way for the graphics card oh it fits with loads of room oh easy what was I even worried about in fact you probably could get a radiator in here and pop the GPU in without too much issue there's a good I'd say 50 m clearance 60 M clearance there really really impressed GPU just secures in with some screws on the side and of course need to give it some power so let's run this through I think I probably should have ran this before installing the graphics card as obviously being a microx case there isn't a great deal of room there we are made it made it made it two eight pins on this boy 7900 gr fairly power sort of heavy on the consumption front and the second one get those pins all sorted would be easier if AMD adopted the new 12pin cable I have to say and that is going to go in I hope a bit like like so good cable tie there we'll sort that out afterwards but is it going to turn on and is it going to boot I have our power cable I'm going to plug that in hopefully our jfp 1's all tidied and working too and we have nothing do we have nothing we've got nothing you know how earlier I said it was important to install the jfp1 correctly I've not installed it correctly wrong pins okay did did that just turn on so we have RGB we have CPU caller but we don't have any fan spinning so let me find out why that would definitely explain it and we are at least now much closer all you're seeing here I think is that the fan speed through the splitter isn't high enough so it's given us enough like voltage I guess for this fan at the back but these fans at the front just can't quite seem to get going so I'm going to jump into the BIOS correct those fan curves all they needed was a bit of encouragement I'm still going to correct the fan curves and that doesn't happen every time this system boots and I'll rejoin you in a few seconds for the benchmarks but first I guess we got to see how good this thing looks and that can mean one thing and one thing only it's Montage time moving through into performance and I tested this build in a wide range of titles to make sure that not only the 7900 gr but all the other parts in this build provide the kind of performance we're expecting now the first test was Call of Duty's war zone 40 40p high setting with FSR enabled and set to the Quality preset this system pulled in 180 frames per second on average that really is very good and FSR undoubtedly helping us along a little bit and pushing that frame rate well towards the 200 FPS Mark moving through into Call of Duty's Modern Warfare 3 at 1440p high settings the same settings this time around again and the frame rate was a little bit higher up to 226 FPS on average again this was really really good to see the 7900 gr being incredibly competitive at 14 40p I'm glad to report that also carried through into Starfield the next game on the list now this is really hard to R very poorly optimized and all in all just a bit of a pain 1440p High settings in Starfield delivered 89 FPS so still very good and for an RPG game where frame rate is well still important less critical this was really pleasing hogwart's Legacy was even better again another RPG game where you don't really need that frame rate to be too high in the triple figures and the build at 1440p high delivered 115 FPS on average for some fun fortnite at 1080p competitive is the next test on the list 270 on average really really impressive in fortnite and really not particularly too surprising what was surprising though was Apex Legends and I was actually really pleasantly surprised at 1440p high the build pulled in 265 FPS now I was expecting good numbers but not this good really really impressive to see very very strong frame rate and Incredibly competitive for those of you looking to really na your performance in Apex what do you guys think of this Phil what do you think of the GRE let me know in the comments down below if you enjoyed this get subscribed see more from me and as always see you in the next onewhen it comes to building a gaming PC it's important to achieve the best performance you can for your overall budget and I don't believe it gets much better than this a $1,300 build that is primed for 1440p gaming in all of the latest titles EES as much value out of every part as possible it's fairly easy to build it and heck even has great upgrade paths and in this video I'll be walking you through what parts I selected and why the whole build process from start right through to finish and looking at performance a little bit later to see whether this build really Stacks up on those all important fright rate numbers and whether it's a system you guys should assemble let's do this the Deep call Mystique CPU Cooler is here with a highly customizable screen 360 mil radiator and deep CO's latest performance optimized ft12 SE fans the sharp 2.8 in LED display looks the par with a 640x480 resolution that allows for near infinite customization whether you want to display Key System metrics usage graphs or media files the Mystic 360 certainly doesn't lack customization learn more or buy the Deep call Mystic 360 at the first links in the description below I'll usually start my builds by looking at the GPU and the CPU combo but not today I actually want to start things off with the case because I've never built in this thing before and when it arrived I was Mega impressed now I'm always on the lookout for really great value cases that don't really sacrifice too much when it comes to build quality airflow fans and it's one of the reasons that for some of the higher end builds I love montech new king 95 that's a case that I could build pretty much every system in and be satisfied but for the systems where I want a little bit more value this thing's really impressive now this is deepcool's new CH 360 and if you've ever seen their CH 560 it's basically just a mini version but Brands when they make small versions of things have a habit of making them a little bit more crap and deep cool haven't done that now this is the digital one which gives you like a little screen that's going to cost you more money so the non-digital might be better suited but it looks sleek when it's on and is fairly easy to use in software it has support for Micro ATX motherboards as you can see from the motherboard tray and also includes an integrated GPU support bracket not the most sturdy thing in the world but it's pretty good now on the rear you get 120 mil argb fan nothing too unusual about that while on the front of the case if I can take this quite robust panel off I'm making a mess of this very robust too robust panel you'll find a pair of 140 mil argb fans pre-mounted pre- cable ran and ready to go io's really quite good as well the standard USB an LED controller and a USB type-c to go along with the regular C Port all the side panels and stuff feel really good quality all and the best bit the price it comes in at under $80 with the promo code on NewEgg but I'll link various regions and retailers for this chassis down in the description below now with the case out the way just wanted to mention that I think it makes sense to look at the GPU and the CPU combo next up now let's start with the CPU shy this is amd's ryzen 57600 I talked earlier about how this is a build designed mainly for 1440p and because of that I don't need to upgrade this chip to something like a ryzen 77700 non X as there's no point CPU bottom nein is actually less of a problem at 1440p than it is at 1080P and even though this chip is the non X version which does save us crucial money we can overclock it a little bit as well on the motherboard if we want that's going to get us closer to the performance of the 7600 X now it pairs up beautifully with this the RX 7900 gr now I kind of want to get not emotional about this but it came out recently that AMD just aren't really selling any graphics cards right now without wanting to sound like a bit of a fanboy I don't really get it the 7900 GRE is an exceptional example and it's hardly an outlier when it comes to their Radeon 7000 range I'm obviously not being paid to say any of this but the 7700 XT 7800 XT and this 7900 GRE are three of my favorite graphics cards released in the last few years now this at 1440p is awesome you get decent video memory 16 GB to be precise and at $549 it makes a significant chunk of the budget in this build this is why savings with things like the case and the motherboard as you'll see in a moment are so critical 1440p performance on this thing is pretty boss it obviously beats out its cheaper AMD counterparts but very commonly beats out the 4070 with relative ease the 4070 super and knocks on the door in some titles to Performance you'll find on the 4070 TI and 4070 TI super 2 for context both of those cards are about $250 more than this I mean what's not to love there are some downsides and it's only fair that you guys are aware of those as much as I think it is the best bet for this build R tracing performance is nowhere near its Nvidia Rivals so if you're a big fan of cyberpunk with all those path tray shadows and lighting effects don't buy this GPU similarly if you want to take advantage of all nvidia's fantastic studio and broadcast features they are ahead of AMD in that regard so if you're building this system for video editing where you you'll definitely want to change the CPU but you'll also want to look at some Nvidia graphics card options instead now I'm going to be installing the processor and this I guess where the build portion of this video starts onto the motherboard and very specifically this is the gigabyte b650 M D3 hpx now that's not a particularly exciting name and this is not a particularly highend motherboard but it's fantastic value and in a build like this it's going to allow me to really squeeze as much performance out of the rest of the parts as possible saving $30 on a board is just more money for the GPU plain and simple getting that GRE into a $1,300 price point was really tight and not an easy task this motherboard is naturally not the highest end thing in the world you do have four DDR 5 Ram slots that's still a massive advantage over the equivalent cheap Intel boards that only support DDR 4 still have front panel USBC on the board we've still got some cooling here for the vrm though this is obviously not a heavy overclocking board push a couple hundred mehz maybe but we ain't going much further than that the rear iio is admittedly a little bit basic but you still get all the audio ports high-speed USBS 2 and2 gig ethernet and Wi-Fi as standard as far as that kind of connectivity goes there isn't really much else we could ask for and this board removes a lot of the problems that the a620 chipset has around power delivery not that to be fair that should be too much of an issue for ryzen 57600 anyway but it does open those upgrade paths more than cheaper a620 boards it is still kind of crazy to me that AMD are going to support this socket for potentially years to come yet and it obviously means that investing in the am5 platform just well obviously makes so much more sense than the Intel counterpart right now but it's actually a really good value for money bet and helps to I don't want to use the word but future proof the build even just a little bit that brings me on nicely to ram on memory and this is where things have got better for AMD still now when ryzen first launched the memory kits were just so expensive this T Force D tiet I've managed to pick it up for just over $100 sometimes it goes below sometimes it's more like 110 115 again I'll link everything down below this is a 32 gig kit and that is when we talk about future proofing really really beneficial now 16 is obviously not enough and I'm not suggesting it is but 32 gives us a good bit of Headway and on top of that if you pick up an identical 32 gig kit later down the line you could pretty feasibly upgrade this build right through to 64 gigs without needing to waste any excess cash now this kit is a CL 32 kit that is personally highly advisable low latencies make a massive difference on performance so don't go for a high latency kit even if the advertised 6,400 MHz box speed looks particularly tantal izing yeah that's that's a good word talking of RAM memory storage team group I didn't realize I'd gotone two team group products in this this is the mp44 L and I've been looking for a little while for arrival to crucial's P3 plus as my budget mvme so I'm going to try this one out and I'm going to report back speeds are better slightly more expensive but I think and I'm hoping it's going to be worth it this particular Drive is a two terabyte I think I've budgeted for the one terabyte again I'll link both options down below I actually can't get it out that's not a good Stu no I don't want to break the Box no break the SSD instead James and this board has dual m.2 slots as well so we've got one with a heat syn or peat Shield one without it's probably more of a heat spreader you get the kind of Point ultimately it's going to keep the drive cool and that's really the only thing that actually matters hey Drive goes in a little bit of a 45° angle it's bit like an airplane coming into land and then it goes that was a bit cringe but anyway you get the point the end two Drive slides in like that and then the heat shield or heat spreader or heat sink goes into place with eat for my next part I have a trick not quite up my sleeve but on the floor now this is the CPU caller now this is generally a point of contention in my builds because I know what you're thinking James why haven't you gone for the Johns bro why haven't you gone for the vetru why have you gone for the Deep cold well I've taken your feedback on board and I'm going to pick this thing directly against the vetri which as you can see is I think arriving today it's arriving today so I'm I'm going to build this thing with the ak400 from Deep cool and then we're going to swap the cooler out test them both and see which delivers the best temperatures in this build and the final Montage shall reveal the winner let me talk about the a400 for now as I think it's at least well it's at least one of the options I really like this coola you can get it in like a million different versions probably too many versions this is the standard one so this has the silver heat sink with the black top oh and pre-applied thermal paste which is all over the table right so what you get in the box is a plastic cover that's pre-attached to the Deep cool but it sort of came off and stayed in the box and now I have thermal paste on the table minus five points for deep cool right I need a cleaning thing oh genuinely something to watch out for if you do buy this cooler as you'll then need to reapply your own thermal paste if the same thing happens to you which you do not get included proceed with caution and don't do what I just did about a few seconds ago oh in the drama of all of that I actually put new thermal paste on without doing any of the other preparation that this cooler needs so that was a bit silly what you do need to do if you are going to copy me although I'm not sure you should anymore is take these black plastic brackets off as we do not need these and they're going to get in the way instead from the included bag of mounting hardware I am going to pop on this sort of square thing there we are no not not that that's the next step um this is all a disaster after I've taken this bag of orange things and put one on each Corner you'll see just just follow along the orange ones just slot onto the threads that are poking through so they go on a little something like so and then the silver bracket pops on top of them a bit like this and the included screws are going to go through the orange Stoppers and into the threads on the builtin motherboard back plate a bit of an advantage of rizon it has its own back plates you haven't unlike Intel got to FF around and pop your own one on really really like to see that then with the power of my lazy screwdriver get those fastened in and then the cooler heat sing can go on I'm going to take the fan off first so it's out the way then drop the cooler on I always just tend to hand tighten these screws first I just find it a little bit easier to get the threads then you want to Tor them up with a manual screwdriver I wouldn't use an electric screwdriver for these as you want to make sure you can sort of feel that the tightness is done in the right way I know that might sound a bit weird but trust me you'll understand if you actually go ahead and assemble this build a bit like me lovely now fan is going to go on later otherwise though the motherboard assembly is done and looking pretty good I think my creatx boards do look silly in fullsize ATX cases but obviously this one's a more compact Micro ATX version so from that point of view we're all good it's time then to look at the case again but this time just to install the motherboard the first Port of Call in any case is checking that all of the standoffs are in the right locations this is obviously a Micro ATX board which means the holes are differently located to on their ATX counterparts locate the holes on the motherboard and then cross referen these against the ones in the case so you can see here we've got three at the top moving down to the middle there's another three and then at the bottom we've got three as well one of these is going to be extra and pop to right in the case box for safe storage in case I ever need it later with this Feer real budget motherboard there is a an IO Shield to install quite unusual nowadays you see it where there's cost saving involved and as I say in this build cost saving I can live with it because we're going to get the extra performance and it's just one more step now it clicks in nice and easily it should look like this with the audio ports at the bottom and then any display connection at the top not we'll be using them of course as we have the dedicated graphics ports of course on the GPU I'm also going to pop the fan on the cooler at this stage make sure it's yep in the right orientation and we're blowing air through the cooler rather than trying to pull it through the cooler if you know what I mean that's going to wire up to the CPU fan cable header which will get you a snazzy close-up of and then took away without too many problems and with that we hopefully have a pretty cool CPU two parts left to go power supply or graphics card and this is like do we want to do the really boring cumbersome bit first or do we want to do the exciting bit spoiler alert it's the combersome bit doing the power supply now is going to make your life a lot easier and there's no better feeling in my experience than the graphics card going in and it being like the last thing you have to deal with now this is qu Masters no it's not it's corsair's RM 750e now corser have been on a bit of a roll recently and this is a great example of that this is a cybernetics Platinum rated power supply that's very very affordable one downside is it is an atx3 at least not this version we've got here which means those of you looking again at inid graphics cards should consider perhaps some like cool Master's new gx850 or thermal T smart bm3 a less efficient unit but that is atx3 now inside the bag of cables we need a few things we need this motherboard cable here which is the largest oh hang on a second so right let me clarify it is an atx3 but it does have a p G 5 cable so all those things I just said about buying another unit ignore all of them I was wrong Sata cable we need one of those dual PCI 6 plus two pin connections definitely need that and CPU power we need one 18 pin don't we we don't want Molex is that a CPU yes a dual four pin CPU power cable so that's all we need motherboard CPU SATA and graphics card and then obviously the power to plug it up to the wall later all I'm they going to do is pop the power supply cables into the power supply and this of course is nice and easy with it being a full modular unit and then wire up the CPU to the top left motherboard to the right graphics card is obviously later and SATA to the included SATA power cable b c management as well will just help move things along in the right direction while I was here I also plugged in the front panel cables that includes the HD audio to the bottom left the USB 2 for the digital one on this more expensive digital case USB 3 standard to the very bottom right USB 3 type-c to the middle right and of course the front panel power cable which goes to the bottom right hand corner there's a diagram on your screen which shows you exactly which pins to plug these into and with that we're finally ready for the graphics card and I'm going to sound like I'm not really prepared very well for this I actually don't know if it's going to fit I think it should do we haven't got a radiator or anything at the front obviously if you were going to do some liquid cooling a bigger case probably would help on the basis that your GPU clearance is going to be a lot more limited here we go there are smaller versions of the GRE available this gigabyte card is one of my personal favorites but I like the ack design too and if I'm being honest with you you should just buy whichever card is actually cheapest and best value for money but of course has decent performance ratings and reviews too push back the clip on the slot and we're going to remove the top two covers so just a little bit of an unscrewed there top two PCI Lane covers to make way for the graphics card oh it fits with loads of room oh easy what was I even worried about in fact you probably could get a radiator in here and pop the GPU in without too much issue there's a good I'd say 50 m clearance 60 M clearance there really really impressed GPU just secures in with some screws on the side and of course need to give it some power so let's run this through I think I probably should have ran this before installing the graphics card as obviously being a microx case there isn't a great deal of room there we are made it made it made it two eight pins on this boy 7900 gr fairly power sort of heavy on the consumption front and the second one get those pins all sorted would be easier if AMD adopted the new 12pin cable I have to say and that is going to go in I hope a bit like like so good cable tie there we'll sort that out afterwards but is it going to turn on and is it going to boot I have our power cable I'm going to plug that in hopefully our jfp 1's all tidied and working too and we have nothing do we have nothing we've got nothing you know how earlier I said it was important to install the jfp1 correctly I've not installed it correctly wrong pins okay did did that just turn on so we have RGB we have CPU caller but we don't have any fan spinning so let me find out why that would definitely explain it and we are at least now much closer all you're seeing here I think is that the fan speed through the splitter isn't high enough so it's given us enough like voltage I guess for this fan at the back but these fans at the front just can't quite seem to get going so I'm going to jump into the BIOS correct those fan curves all they needed was a bit of encouragement I'm still going to correct the fan curves and that doesn't happen every time this system boots and I'll rejoin you in a few seconds for the benchmarks but first I guess we got to see how good this thing looks and that can mean one thing and one thing only it's Montage time moving through into performance and I tested this build in a wide range of titles to make sure that not only the 7900 gr but all the other parts in this build provide the kind of performance we're expecting now the first test was Call of Duty's war zone 40 40p high setting with FSR enabled and set to the Quality preset this system pulled in 180 frames per second on average that really is very good and FSR undoubtedly helping us along a little bit and pushing that frame rate well towards the 200 FPS Mark moving through into Call of Duty's Modern Warfare 3 at 1440p high settings the same settings this time around again and the frame rate was a little bit higher up to 226 FPS on average again this was really really good to see the 7900 gr being incredibly competitive at 14 40p I'm glad to report that also carried through into Starfield the next game on the list now this is really hard to R very poorly optimized and all in all just a bit of a pain 1440p High settings in Starfield delivered 89 FPS so still very good and for an RPG game where frame rate is well still important less critical this was really pleasing hogwart's Legacy was even better again another RPG game where you don't really need that frame rate to be too high in the triple figures and the build at 1440p high delivered 115 FPS on average for some fun fortnite at 1080p competitive is the next test on the list 270 on average really really impressive in fortnite and really not particularly too surprising what was surprising though was Apex Legends and I was actually really pleasantly surprised at 1440p high the build pulled in 265 FPS now I was expecting good numbers but not this good really really impressive to see very very strong frame rate and Incredibly competitive for those of you looking to really na your performance in Apex what do you guys think of this Phil what do you think of the GRE let me know in the comments down below if you enjoyed this get subscribed see more from me and as always see you in the next one\n"