**A Detailed Look at Halo's Performance on PC**

That's my story around about 103 FPS but let's see what happens if we turn this down to 1440p shall we select 67% on the resolution slider and yes as as you can clearly see the frame rate has now increased about 150 to 170 FPS now so even if you're rocking like a 1440p 240 HZ monitor while you aren't going to be fully saturating it it is going to come pretty close and hey you could always turn that resolution slider down a little bit more if you wanted to but I'd say on the whole Halo on this really battery smooth all right I answer your cries despite the fact that I've not seen it but I've heard that the new battle pass is also causing a load of grief let me know about that down in the comment section below.

**Benchmarking at 4K Resolution**

For a multiplayer title, 4K resolution isn't actually what I would usually recommend, but of course, when you're getting around about 100 to 150 FPS do you actually need to turn the settings down? I mean in terms of latency, we're getting around about 15 to 20 milliseconds at 4K which is not too shabby whatsoever. I have said this before and I say again this is actually a title that doesn't have DLSS but you can use Nvidia n so in the settings what I'd advise doing is actually outputting this at 4 K but then sort of setting a lower render resolution in the Nvidia control panel and then this way you can still get really high visual quality and better than 1440p visuals but then you are going to get an even higher frame rate than what we are now. And as we've already mentioned, well if you are rocking like a super high resolution monitor maybe one of these new 4K uh 240 HZ panels this is going to be the best way to sort of unlock the performance there but it is very very impressive that even if you're going to be playing on like a 4K TV or 4K monitor anything really that is super high resis you're just not going to have to worry about the frame rate when you're playing something like Apex Legends. Really impressive.

**Returnal Performance and Thermal Testing**

We're also going to open one more title definitely not because I closed everything down forgetting that we hadn't done our thermal tests and our noise tests. We have some Returnal and this is uh probably my favorite rate race title at the moment. This is running at Epic settings including rate racing DSS performance and as you can see we're getting about 120 FPS or so but I've said it before and I say it again if you haven't played withal you can get it really cheap in the sale now highly recommend it another one of those PlayStation ports actually that runs really well on PC especially on Nvidia Hardware when you do enable the rate tracing. But in terms of thermals and temperatures and stuff, what we're getting around about 64° or so on the GPU so absolutely nothing to worry about there I mean if you were hitting 80s I'd be worried anything under 70 really really good. And then on the CPU about 57° and actually I've seen this sort of running like flat out when we installing the games and we're hitting around about like low 70s on the CPU so actually that montech caller doing a really good job of providing an affordable option but not like limiting our performance not that a ryzen 7600 was ever going to run particularly hot CU it's obviously a lower wattage chip but on the whole I think I'm really impressed with this actually I would still recommend upgrading that CPU just to give you a little bit more head room in certain titles is not really proved an issue here today which is great especially at higher resolutions but depending on what you play you could run into potential Boton X other than that as I say I love the chassis I love the way it looks I like the fact as well that it can sit on your desk can not take up too much room.

**The Rig and Potential Upgrades**

But the question very much goes out to you on this, what do you make of our rig other than maybe the CPU that's a little bit underpowered but has actually done very well today? Are there any changes that you would make do you love this case as much as I do or do you think that cled curved do you think that curved glass is just a waste of time and money. We love to hear from you so let us know down in the comment section below smash the like button if youve enjoyed this get yourself subscribed and of course if you do want to check out current pricing on anything featured in this video you can find it listed down below but thank you so much for watching we'll catch you in the next one.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enladies and gentlemen the time has come to extract every penny because in this video I'm want to build an absolute kickass gaming PC with loads of performance that is suitable for 1080 144d and 4K gaming and I don't want to say on a budget but without sort of getting carried away and throughout this video we're going to walk you through all the components that you need to do this we'll show you everything that's good maybe some things that could be improved we'll walk you through what is a very very exciting chesis and I've been excited to building this for ages let's hope it actually stands up to the scrutiny and then of course we're actually going to get gaming on this system to walk you through the full gameplay Benchmark numbers so you know exactly how this performs in the latest and greatest titles so all I have to say is an absolute massive thank you to both zotek and Nvidia for sponsoring this video let's get started and I want to start this video by talking about something that you've never heard in your life I guarantee no video has ever been started in this way before because inside this door here is a labatory and obviously this is like a studio so I never used that and it's been about two months since I even went in there and essentially what's happened because it's the height of Summer the water level in the toilet is dropped down and essentially the room is filled with this horrible drain smell today there a really warm smell and like the whole like Place smells with drains which isn't very nice and I came in here and it was a little bit weird and then I opened that door and then you just got this waft it was 10 out of 10 drain smell just entered the entire house and this studio so I've got to deal with that thankfully you don't cuz smell of vision isn't a thing just yet so count yourself lucky there you go sidebar complete if you didn't like the story smash the dislike button and I won't see it moving back to more normal Affairs though I do want to talk about the graphics card first and obviously this should always be the thing really that you choose in your parts list before anything else as it's going to directly dictate your in-game performance more than any other component and obviously it will sort of tell you how much you can spend on other components as well when you have your budget set out the one that we've got on our desk is from zotek it is the 4070 TI super this one being the Trinity Black Edition and the 4070 TI super I've said it before I say it again is pretty much my favorite card of this particular ular Nvidia generation purely because it does offer a lot of flexibility I mean if you want the best value obviously something more like a 40 60 is going to give you that but if you are prepared to spend a little bit more but you don't want to sort of go to like 4080 super 4090 level then I think you'd be really pleased with this actually because as long as you're happy to use things like dlss and DSs frame generation and the super resolution then there's not really much that this card can't do I mean yes if you want to do like ultra settings path tracing 4K native you're going to need more horse power on this but realistically I think as long as you are happy to use those Technologies and in my experience especially on this card they do work really well it just gives you all round flexibility really so it gives you all the performance that you need for a super highend monitor without the cost associated with the more expensive graphics cards I also like the fact that this is large but it's not crazy big so it's going to fit into quite a few different Siz cases even if you've not got the absolute largest one in there you do have the 12 pin on this as well which means it's a little bit tidier and easy to plug in you've got a back plate on top you will not have a not for retail pink sticker on the top which note to zotech for like future like samples and things don't put it where we can see it it's a little bit annoying moving back to the top of the cards you should find some RGB when you turn this on obviously you can control this with software and things if you don't like the way that is by default then you've got three display ports on the back and one hdy 2.1 so if you have a high-end TV you can do 4K 120 output which is what I use for my personal system with my LG TV and it does work really well so nice fairly compact for a larger size card and certainly ready to go in our system but while of course the graphics card is the most exciting part of any gaming PC build as it's obviously the heart of your system you do actually have to buy a case to put it in and this is going to personally reflect you and obviously you're going to I mean it literally reflects you cuz it's got glass on the side it's going to reflect your personality and obviously you want something that's going to look good and hopefully that you can upgrade for years to come and be a really proud centerpiece if you like of your desk and this is a brand new chassis from cougar and I've been really excited to build on this because if I'm honest with you when they first sent it out it kind of like sat there and I had so much to do and I didn't really think too much and didn't look into it that much and then I saw this thing at comex and all my word as you can probably tell is this an attractive chassis and it seems to get everything right on paper at least you've got ventilation on the side so you can still have like not dual chamber but you can obviously have uh extra cooling there you've actually got more ventilation underneath as well as you do have a fan inside this that will blow towards your graphics card then obviously the star of the show really is this curved glass panel on the front but I also like the size of this as well cuz it is large and is going to support most graphics cards but because it's not dual Cham where it doesn't take like too much space up on your desk so I'm pretty excited actually to get building on this and so far it does seem to be relatively easy to take apart but I will say that the mechanism for actually attaching this curved glass to the front could use a fair bit of improvement cuz it's quite hard to get back on once you've done it obviously fine but if you're someone that regularly upgrades your rig that is going to get annoying but all of the pieces are essentially tooless so you can just remove them like that including this top piece got USBC on the front as well and then two USB 3s as I will now demonstrate but as you can see you also get the benefit of something that's going to be really easy to build in cuz all of these panels do just slide off and then you have loads of room to actually work in and sort of reach around and get everything sorted I realize as well by the way I probably should show you this fan that's here and it's quite cleverly done as long as it works uh where it is actually a pop out fan that has these pins on the back and then that's already pre-rooted down the bottom and if you wanted to swap this out you can actually get a turntable so you could put like a figurine or something here that will spin at the front of your PC if you didn't want the ventilation of course but this should just pop back in and push into place but I know what you're thinking enough talk let's actually get our build started so quick fire shall we let's proceed to our motherboard obviously the platform that you're going to need and it is important to buy a decent motherboard this one is from gigabyte aurus this is the b650 AIS Elite ax B series is pretty much the way I'd recommend to almost everyone if you're building a gaming PC but you've pretty much got two choices really when it comes to boards you can either go for b650 or B 650e and in a nutshell if you go for b650 then chances are this slot here is going to be PCI Generation 4 which is fine for every single graphics card essentially on the market today even like a 4090 great but if you're someone that maybe upgrades your motherboard and your CPU like every 5 years or so then chances are within that 5 years is you might want to upgrade to a graphics card that is PCI generation 5 and then your board could in Theory actually limit the performance that you're going to get so if you want for E you would cover off that eventuality but to be honest we don't really know how much difference that's going to make anyway and that's assuming that you're going to buy like a top end graphics card or maybe a graphics card that is only 8X on PCI Gen 5 so I don't think it's going to be a huge problem so you might want to consider b650 e for future proofing but for most people I think it's a great way to save yourselves a little bit of money and get more performance than your system today rather than necessarily worrying about tomorrow let's place our motherboard down on top of the box and then give you a very quick walk through we have our CPU power at the top here our ATX power on the right we have our Ram Slots of which we want to use slots two and four so let's open these up now so that we don't forget CPU is going to go here if we need to remove the mounting then it's this bit here depending on the cooler that we're going for sometimes it will use these pre-fitted bits other times we'll have to replace these but don't worry it it's very simple our SSD is going to go here and depending on the board that you get this could be PCI gen 3 four or five uh usually you want to use the top slot because it has the best bandwidth but again depends on the motherboard that you go for graphics card is going to go down here if you have any oldfashioned SATA drives they will use this port here then we have our USB 3 for the front panel alongside our USBC got RGB headers on the top here if you've got four pins then this is the standard RGB if it's got three it's called addressable RGB we have our CPU fan connect section at the top here as well so if you're using a standard air cooler this is how it will fit but if you're using case fans like we are here today uh then you have other headers dotted around the rest of the motherboard USB 2 our front panel connections to actually get our case to power on when we press the button that is located down the bottom and then all the way on the left we have our front panel audio so if you're using like an analog pair of headphones or headset plug it into the case and again it talks to the motherboard and actually works but now you're an expert on everything motherboard it is of course time to actually get our CPU installed and I don't want to say that this is going to be controversial cuz I'm sure a lot of people will do this which is why I want to do it in this video so we're actually going for potentially a slightly unders speec CPU here so this is a ryzen 57600 and in terms of pricing in the UK you can get this for under200 now it's quite literally a steal and the performance you get on this is awesome price to Performance even in like highend titles with highend gpus is great but you will potentially find that with something like a 4070 TI super especially if you're playing at 1080 P you might run into some CPU bottlenecking but as last week I did a similar build to this with a 4070 TI super and a 7800 x3d which is probably the chip I personally would go for if I was building this I thought actually be more beneficial to show you what would happen if you went for a slightly more inexpensive CPU and you can see whether it actually affects the games that you want to play and then compare it against that video and then make the right informed choice and besides bearing in mind that there is going to be a replacement for all of these ryzen 7000 chips in the not 2 dis the future in a way you could save yourself some money go for this get the higher end GPU and then when the newer processors come out obviously you could upgrade to those then assuming that they are actually worth buying but as always the choice is entirely down to you just grab your chip out of the box and very gently lower this down into the socket and then just place this back down with this lever the lever does require a fair bit of force by the way I know this is going to scare a lot of people but it's normal with our processor installed we can then move on to our memory or our RAM and this is ddr5 cuz of course this is a ddr5 platform don't buy ddr4 don't try and reuse it it won't fit and it definitely won't work the main thing really that you're looking out for is that if you're going for an Intel build I would go for XMP but if you're going for AMD buy one that has an AMD Expo kit because essentially this just gives you a higher degree and higher chance of compatibility at getting that full-rated speed so this is actually a 6200 MHz kit and the cast on this which stands for cast latency it's recursive is actually C32 so this is not only a very fast kit but it's got low latency too but I wouldn't worry too much about it just don't buy a really cheap kit and don't buy a stupidly expensive one either try and get something in the middle if you are wondering about capacity by the way 16 gig is absolutely fine but as we go into the future more and more games are going to want to have 32 gig of RAM and there isn't a huge price difference for ddr5 between 16 and 32 so as long as you can afford it I would always recommend going for 32 but obviously the benefit of RAM is that if you do need more and you have extra slots you can just double it up so it is a very easy upgrade in the future and then once you've done that it's finally time to actually grab your screwdrivers just standard phillips cross head one big one small and then you can pick up your SSD and this is pretty much the king of price to performance at the moment but as we always say sale prices and things on ssds means that I would usually just go for a really fast one that's on sale rather than a specific skew but if you're looking at like pure value then the crucial P3 plus is a fan favorite this is PCI Generation 4 it's got similarish speeds to something like a PlayStation 5 in terms of it reads and wres so should be fairly reliable and to install this you literally just unscrew this top slot make sure that you do remove the plastic film that you have on this and then you can just grab your SSD line this up with the slot click it into place with the little plastic nubbing and then grab your cover and just gently replace it next step is going to be to grab your case and just lay this down flat like so all of the standoffs are pre-applied so literally all you need to do is just grab your board give it a slight wiggle until the central one kind of catches the rest of the board then you can grab your screws that come in the box and then you can just secure this down into position I've actually taken out this PSU shroud that you can put fans on if you want or you can just obviously use it to reach in and sort of like drag cables and through and stuff I really like this so far it's certainly been quite easy to work in let's see if that continues once we do actually open this up and grab these front panel connections and get them installed as we've already shown you our front panel just connects down here at the bottom USBC next to the ram USB 3 all the way at the bottom addressable RGB on the left fan header in the middle and then HD audio at the bottom left now that that's done I'm going to complete the look of this chassis by adding a few extra fans and cougar sent these out there the apolar 120 argb and these are actually Daisy chainable which are cool but I have not used these before so we'll see if they're any good or not inside the box it looks like we have some cabling maybe a controller I mean actually no seems as if you don't actually need one because you have three different blocks depending on how many fans obviously you want to Da chain together and then they just connect with addressable and then your standard four pin fan so should be quite easy and should also reduce the cable clutter which is good but what do these actually look like that is the big question well for many of you a fan they certainly seem to be quite well built obviously plasticky but they're fans that's absolutely fine and you have some RGB on the side this is almost like reminiscent of Le and Lee fans but they've definitely gone down their own route which is nice but should we see how easy they are to actually clip together are they magnetic is it really as straightforward as that no oh okay and then what they just push in yeah that was very straightforward not as easy as magnetic but then plenty of strength there so maybe that's the best way of doing fans do you then do the same with the top yes certainly looks like it let's put one here at the back as an exhaust and then we'll grab these other two and use these as an intake on the side I mean actually I was about to say so far so good but then I've just realized that now I've got a load of addressable B cables to plug in and not enough headers is there really not a splitter in the Box no well that's a missed opportunity and I mean they don't even daisy chain either so you're going to have to buy an adapter basically no matter what really good thing I have a spare in the studio regardless of whether you do decide to use a controller or a splitter though don't of course forget to actually plug those fans in as well here I'm just using the top header and then one at the bottom well only a mild FF complete it's now time to move on to my least favorite bit of any build the radiator cuz as We Know I hate radiators but to be fair recently they've not been too bad it's just a combination of loads of fans loads of cables loads of FF essentially this is a brand new one for the channel uh this is from montech hyperflow argb 360 I think you can get this for around about 80 maybe 90 here in the UK so it definitely undercuts most other all-in ones especially ones that are 360 in size and I mean ultimately at the end of the day let's be honest a lot of people go for an all1 liquid caller not just because they need some calling for the CPU I mean a 7600 does not need a 360 people actually do this because they want it to look good and this is why I've sort of integrated it here cuz I think a lot of people watching this probably will want to go for something like a 7800 x3d so if I put an air caller on this I think it would ruin the look and a lot of people going to be upgrading the CPU anyway which will need better cooling so yes let's see if this is actually any good have they pre fitted the fans they have thank you so much montech thank you so much you have saved not saved my day you've helped me out now see if you can fix my drains let's grab this AMD Hardware out of the box and just lightly screw one of the Springs onto this bracket repeating with the other side and then we can grab are now ready to go liquid cooler which has got me very excited and then assuming you are actually using this in the correct orientation I.E that you've got the fans blowing into the radiator and out so essentially at the top of your chassis I mean actually need to remove this and rout the cables through to the back and then you can pick up the unit as a ho once again forget that youve forgotten to take the screws out of the bag then just fit one into position lightly hold with the other hand and then do the same with another and then of course just repeat with the rest then you can remove the default retention arm that's actually fitted for Intel replace it with the one that we prepared earlier for AMD should just push that until it clicks and then this whole unit should then just go on top of your CPU before clipping on to those plastic clips that I said some coolers you will remove some you will keep oh I'll put it on back to front forget it I did think something was wrong let's just finish the job with screwdriver there we can get these dangly cables Roo them through at the back and then plug them in at the top right hopefully we're now approaching the finish line which means installing our graphics card on our power supply and in order to get this installed obviously very straightforward just remove the slot covers for slots two and Slots three because this is an Nvidia 40 series card as we'll show you in just a little bit you can have access to things like DSS uh super resolution and frame generation which are AI features they can actually help you in game in addition to awesome R Racing performance in the latest titles but let's grab our Zotac GPU insert our Trinity black and then I think you agree this perfectly matches the theme I know we're kind of cheating a little bit cuz it's obviously like a blackout build but it looks really awesome doesn't it I'm going to be so tempted to remove that label I think zot might get a bit angry but it might have to happen no one saw this I will put it back in the Box we're all Breaking aside then I think it's just one more component to go and that is the power supply and that was almost close cuz I had not done the Box up this is from cor RM 750e you need roughly a 700 watt unit for this rig but if you are using like a 7600 or like a lower wattage CPU you could probably get away with using an older one if you wanted to but we always stick with the official recommendation which is 700 WS really for this so 750 is good to go and obviously save yourself a little bit of money versus an 850 or 1,000 that chances are you won't ever properly use as you can clearly see it is fully modular so you only need to plug in the cables that you actually need and because this is the latest revision it does actually come with a PCI generation 5 cable as well which is nice so it just plugs into two type fours at the back of this and goes straight to your PSU it's a nice little cable as well it's like fairly rigid it's not got any color to it and it is going to make your rig look that little bit better does it say what the wattage is on this no it doesn't but because it's a 750 I wouldn't really want to use this with like a 4080 or 490 anyway so for this should be ideal should be a super simple installation although you do have to move the cables that you've already pre-managed out of the way just to line this up then you can reach into your system place this against the back screw it down into position feed our power cables through to their respective places and cougar also get marks for the perfectly placed hole in this chassis for a power cable I don't know why so many companies get it wrong but they do so you can grab this uh PCI Gen 5 connection and making sure you push it in as tight as possible get this safe and secure into your GPU then you can pick up this ATX and insert this next to the RAM and the last but certainly not least you have your CPU up here at the top there is actually enough clearance to do this relatively easily but if you're using a different case or thicker radiator it makes sense with a modular power supply to plug this Cable in before you do anything else but that I believe actually should be everything bearing in mind we were adding extra fans wasn't too complicated this is without any extra cable management I've been sort of doing doing it as I've gone obviously things to S neaten up with like extra straps and ties and things but generally speaking it works okay but I would prefer that they were like more robust Clips or something cuz these come out really easily other than the channels that they assign for you there's not there's not really that much like dedicated space that you can kind of cram things in besides the large space they have at the bottom but generally speaking it's been pretty easy to working so far and as long as everything does continue to work when you press the power button I've actually been pretty impressed not the cheapest case in the world but I think it's going to look pretty special but of course whilst building it is always the fun bit the most stressful bit is actually seeing whether it works so we've grabbed ourselves our 4k monitor and then we've got our PC Centric mouse mat which you can buy down below at PC Centric do store and then let's actually see if this works oh well we have fans we have noise but are we going to get a load of RGB lighting oh oh there we are there we are all white actually no RGB but we've got decent lighting I like that I think this is a really matched system actually I'm really excited to get the glass on although actually as I alluded to earlier putting the side panels on it's not the easiest thing in the world and this mechanism is frankly rubbish our PC works though but here it is the final piece of the panel and our rig is now complete and I don't know about you but this definitely stands out from the crowd and is something a little bit different the cougar fans I like but obviously you are going to have to daisy chain them I would say if you can buy a hub that's probably the best way of doing it rather than than having like the big splitter I used that just added a load of bulk here but I think you agree this is a really attractive system and it's just waiting to be customized should we do the peel wait what that's still attached I didn't want a double peel oh this does at least come off easily if that had left a residue I would have been angry anyway ladies and gentlemen as you can probably tell from the fact that we are set up and ready we are now all ready to go and I think you agree that this is a truly stunning gaming PC build I actually like the white that we had um clearly the motherboard remembers it from a previous build I think it really works here but obviously you could go for any color scheme that you like I just like how everything Blends in it's not actually the largest case in the world as well it kind of almost looks a little bit bigger than it is which is nice but again when you compare it to like a dual chamber chassis or something it's not going to take up ample space on your desk so as a showpiece this really works I mean I know you can get that turntable for the front and if you are into your figurines and things then obviously that makes sense but realistically the way we've got this setup at the moment for all of your calling I think it's going to work wonders but let's actually jump into some games and have a look and I actually want to start off with some ghost of sushima that's right I've been playing the game so I know I said it wrong in the last video and actually I've been really impressed with not only the way that this looks but how well it runs this is a PlayStation game and they have done wonders in porting this across not only in terms of the way it runs but also in terms of the options and the fact that you can get it to sort of scale up and look as stunning as this what you're actually seeing at the moment is with DSS super resolution we've got the set to Performance and I'll be honest I will hold my hands up I thought this was running at dlss balance because the image quality looks really good so I must admit I kind of surprised myself there frame rate wise we're getting around about 100 110 FPS or so and this is without using the DSs frame generation tool which of course is almost like a bit of a frame smoothing feature where it will increase your frame rate by generating a frame with AI in between individual rendered frame so if we want to turn this on I can go into the settings this is also running at very high by the way which is the max preset available but we go into display here it says deals s and obviously you want to go all the way down to the bottom to this feature called frame generation make sure you set this to DSS frame generation and then we can jump back into our game to actually see what that's done to the frame rate and as you can see it has of course increased it we're now looking at around about 130 to 140 FPS so it's added about 30 to 35 FPS or so in terms of image smoothing and because we've got such a high frame rate in the first place like the latency is not an issue at all we're getting around about 42 milliseconds again remember pentrix golden Ru aim to have your game under 55 milliseconds for a AAA title and you'd be really happy and impressed with the overall smoothness and responsiveness but yeah it's just a really good example actually of how the dlss suite works I think a lot of people don't fully understand that it really can improve your gameplay in a very significant way but pressing swiftly on now to something completely different this is Allan Wake 2 and this is the new night Springs DLC and know you're not imagining this and know it's not a bug the game really is this pink at the moment that is just a design choice that they've gone for it is a bit annoying but I think it's very much only temporary but anyway what you're seeing here is actually the high quality preset we've got this running with DSS outputting at 4K but rendering performance mode so that's 1080P and we do have DSS frame generation on as well and if you actually look at the latency figure you can see that it is a little bit higher than I'd like around about 60 to 70 milliseconds I will say that all and wake for whatever reason it doesn't feel as bad as the latency would suggest like quite often you feel like you're kind of steering character but I'm not guessing that impression at the moment so I'm not sure if that figure is wrong or whether it's just not such a big deal in what is a slower paced game what I've done now is to actually disable frame generation so you can see what the latency is like with this figure turned off and obviously as you'd expect the frame rate has now gone down to around about 70 FPS or so but our latency is around about 45 milliseconds or so now so it is definitely going to feel a little bit tighter especially if you're using a mouse and keyboard uh this should make a little bit of a difference really of course speaking of rate tracing by the way you're probably wondering how this fares and I've now turned this down to 1440p as obviously most of this really have 1080 or 440p displays and I've actually turned rate tracing too low now otherwise everything else is the same and as you can see we're getting around about 65 FPS and our latency is around about 45 milliseconds or so so obviously as you turn down some of the settings you will get some of that latency down and that of course will allow it to turn other settings like rate tracing on so especially if you are going to be using a controller with this game and anything really between like 50 and 70 FPS is going to be an optimal way to play obviously higher is always better but in something like this it's not really the end of the world and as this is such a visual game it does allow you to obviously use the raate tracing properly so there's a lot of good Reflections here you get really nice lighting especially when you're using torches and obviously the light kind of like fills up the rim in the most realistic way possible it's a really really cool game just for reference for the way if you do want to turn on dss3 frame generation then you are going to get an even higher frame rate of course but your latency is is going to increase so we're getting around about 65 milliseconds or so of latency and our frame rate is just under 100 FPS or so now so I think this is going to be for a lot of people the right way to play but again find the settings that work for you but let's press on to some multiplayer titles now shall we starting with some Halo infinite and this is actually running at Native 4K and I'm always very impressed with the frame rate in Halo actually because we're not using any image scaling techniques or anything like that and as you can clearly see we're getting around about 100 105 FPS at high settings which isn't too shabby I have noticed that this game is less popular now cuz the wait time for games seems to have increased which is a bit of a shame cuz I think it's really good but I suppose I'm not really helping cuz I haven't played this properly in ages through story when I played the campaign of this the save corrupted literally on the last mission so I still haven't finished Halo infin and I don't know whether I can bring myself to do the whole campaign again just to get to the end but yes that's my story around about 103 FPS but let's see what happens if we turn this down to 1440p shall we we select 67% on the resolution slider and yes as as you can clearly see the frame rate has now increased about 150 to 170 FPS now so even if you're rocking like a 1440p 240 HZ monitor whil you aren't going to be fully saturating it it is going to come pretty close and hey you could always turn that resolution slider down a little bit more if you wanted to but I'd say on the whole Halo on this really battery smooth all right I answer your cries despite the fact that I've not seen it but I've heard that the new battle pass is also causing a load of grief let me know about that down in the comment section below but as you'd expect we're starting this at 4K resolution which for a multiplayer title isn't actually what I would usually recommend but of course the thing is when you're getting around about 100 to 150 FPS do you actually need to turn the settings down I mean in terms of latency we're getting around about 15 to 20 milliseconds at 4K which is not too shabby whatsoever I mean I have said this before and I say again this is actually a title that doesn't have dlss but you can use Nvidia n so in the settings what I'd advise doing is actually outputting this at 4 K but then sort of setting a lower render resolution in the Nvidia control panel and then this way you can still get really high visual quality and better than 1440p visuals but then you are going to get an even higher frame rate than what we are now and as we've already mentioned as well if you are rocking like a super high resolution monitor maybe one of these new 4k uh 240 HZ panels this is going to be the best way to sort of unlock the performance there but it is very very impressive that even if you're going to be playing on like a 4K TV 4K monitor anything really that is super high resis you're just not going to have to worry about the frame rate when you're playing something like Apex Legends really impressive and then last but certainly not least we're going to open one more title definitely not because I closed everything down forgetting that we hadn't done our thermal tests and our noise tests we have some returnal and this is uh probably my favorite rate race title at the moment this is running at Epic settings including rate racing DSS performance and as you can see we're getting about 120 FPS or so but I've said it before and I say it again if you haven't played withal you can get it really cheap in the sale now highly recommend it another one of those PlayStation ports actually that runs really well on PC especially on Nvidia Hardware when you do enable the rate tracing but in terms of thermals and temperatures and stuff what we're getting around about 64° or so on the GPU so absolutely nothing to worry about there I mean if you were hitting 80s I'd be worried anything under 70 really really good and then on the CPU about 57° and actually I've seen this sort of running like flat out when we installing the games and we're hitting around about like low 70s on the CPU so actually that montech caller doing a really good job of providing an affordable option but not like limiting our performance not that a ryzen 7600 was ever going to run particularly hot CU it's obviously a lower wattage chip but on the whole I think I'm really impressed with this actually I would still recommend upgrading that CPU just to give you a little bit more head room in certain titles is not really proved an issue here today which is great especially at higher resolutions but depending on what you play you could run into potential Boton X other than that as I say I love the chassis I love the way it looks I like the fact as well that it can sit on your desk can not take up too much room but the question very much goes out to you on this what do you make of our rig other than maybe the CPU that's a little bit underpowered but has actually done very well today are there any changes that you would make do you love this case as much as I do or do you think that cled curved do you think that curved glass is just a waste of time and money we love to hear from you so let us know down in the comment section below smash the like button if youve enjoyed this get yourself subscribed and of course if you do want to check out current pricing on anything featured in this video you can find it listed down below but thank you so much for watching we'll catch you in the next one fladies and gentlemen the time has come to extract every penny because in this video I'm want to build an absolute kickass gaming PC with loads of performance that is suitable for 1080 144d and 4K gaming and I don't want to say on a budget but without sort of getting carried away and throughout this video we're going to walk you through all the components that you need to do this we'll show you everything that's good maybe some things that could be improved we'll walk you through what is a very very exciting chesis and I've been excited to building this for ages let's hope it actually stands up to the scrutiny and then of course we're actually going to get gaming on this system to walk you through the full gameplay Benchmark numbers so you know exactly how this performs in the latest and greatest titles so all I have to say is an absolute massive thank you to both zotek and Nvidia for sponsoring this video let's get started and I want to start this video by talking about something that you've never heard in your life I guarantee no video has ever been started in this way before because inside this door here is a labatory and obviously this is like a studio so I never used that and it's been about two months since I even went in there and essentially what's happened because it's the height of Summer the water level in the toilet is dropped down and essentially the room is filled with this horrible drain smell today there a really warm smell and like the whole like Place smells with drains which isn't very nice and I came in here and it was a little bit weird and then I opened that door and then you just got this waft it was 10 out of 10 drain smell just entered the entire house and this studio so I've got to deal with that thankfully you don't cuz smell of vision isn't a thing just yet so count yourself lucky there you go sidebar complete if you didn't like the story smash the dislike button and I won't see it moving back to more normal Affairs though I do want to talk about the graphics card first and obviously this should always be the thing really that you choose in your parts list before anything else as it's going to directly dictate your in-game performance more than any other component and obviously it will sort of tell you how much you can spend on other components as well when you have your budget set out the one that we've got on our desk is from zotek it is the 4070 TI super this one being the Trinity Black Edition and the 4070 TI super I've said it before I say it again is pretty much my favorite card of this particular ular Nvidia generation purely because it does offer a lot of flexibility I mean if you want the best value obviously something more like a 40 60 is going to give you that but if you are prepared to spend a little bit more but you don't want to sort of go to like 4080 super 4090 level then I think you'd be really pleased with this actually because as long as you're happy to use things like dlss and DSs frame generation and the super resolution then there's not really much that this card can't do I mean yes if you want to do like ultra settings path tracing 4K native you're going to need more horse power on this but realistically I think as long as you are happy to use those Technologies and in my experience especially on this card they do work really well it just gives you all round flexibility really so it gives you all the performance that you need for a super highend monitor without the cost associated with the more expensive graphics cards I also like the fact that this is large but it's not crazy big so it's going to fit into quite a few different Siz cases even if you've not got the absolute largest one in there you do have the 12 pin on this as well which means it's a little bit tidier and easy to plug in you've got a back plate on top you will not have a not for retail pink sticker on the top which note to zotech for like future like samples and things don't put it where we can see it it's a little bit annoying moving back to the top of the cards you should find some RGB when you turn this on obviously you can control this with software and things if you don't like the way that is by default then you've got three display ports on the back and one hdy 2.1 so if you have a high-end TV you can do 4K 120 output which is what I use for my personal system with my LG TV and it does work really well so nice fairly compact for a larger size card and certainly ready to go in our system but while of course the graphics card is the most exciting part of any gaming PC build as it's obviously the heart of your system you do actually have to buy a case to put it in and this is going to personally reflect you and obviously you're going to I mean it literally reflects you cuz it's got glass on the side it's going to reflect your personality and obviously you want something that's going to look good and hopefully that you can upgrade for years to come and be a really proud centerpiece if you like of your desk and this is a brand new chassis from cougar and I've been really excited to build on this because if I'm honest with you when they first sent it out it kind of like sat there and I had so much to do and I didn't really think too much and didn't look into it that much and then I saw this thing at comex and all my word as you can probably tell is this an attractive chassis and it seems to get everything right on paper at least you've got ventilation on the side so you can still have like not dual chamber but you can obviously have uh extra cooling there you've actually got more ventilation underneath as well as you do have a fan inside this that will blow towards your graphics card then obviously the star of the show really is this curved glass panel on the front but I also like the size of this as well cuz it is large and is going to support most graphics cards but because it's not dual Cham where it doesn't take like too much space up on your desk so I'm pretty excited actually to get building on this and so far it does seem to be relatively easy to take apart but I will say that the mechanism for actually attaching this curved glass to the front could use a fair bit of improvement cuz it's quite hard to get back on once you've done it obviously fine but if you're someone that regularly upgrades your rig that is going to get annoying but all of the pieces are essentially tooless so you can just remove them like that including this top piece got USBC on the front as well and then two USB 3s as I will now demonstrate but as you can see you also get the benefit of something that's going to be really easy to build in cuz all of these panels do just slide off and then you have loads of room to actually work in and sort of reach around and get everything sorted I realize as well by the way I probably should show you this fan that's here and it's quite cleverly done as long as it works uh where it is actually a pop out fan that has these pins on the back and then that's already pre-rooted down the bottom and if you wanted to swap this out you can actually get a turntable so you could put like a figurine or something here that will spin at the front of your PC if you didn't want the ventilation of course but this should just pop back in and push into place but I know what you're thinking enough talk let's actually get our build started so quick fire shall we let's proceed to our motherboard obviously the platform that you're going to need and it is important to buy a decent motherboard this one is from gigabyte aurus this is the b650 AIS Elite ax B series is pretty much the way I'd recommend to almost everyone if you're building a gaming PC but you've pretty much got two choices really when it comes to boards you can either go for b650 or B 650e and in a nutshell if you go for b650 then chances are this slot here is going to be PCI Generation 4 which is fine for every single graphics card essentially on the market today even like a 4090 great but if you're someone that maybe upgrades your motherboard and your CPU like every 5 years or so then chances are within that 5 years is you might want to upgrade to a graphics card that is PCI generation 5 and then your board could in Theory actually limit the performance that you're going to get so if you want for E you would cover off that eventuality but to be honest we don't really know how much difference that's going to make anyway and that's assuming that you're going to buy like a top end graphics card or maybe a graphics card that is only 8X on PCI Gen 5 so I don't think it's going to be a huge problem so you might want to consider b650 e for future proofing but for most people I think it's a great way to save yourselves a little bit of money and get more performance than your system today rather than necessarily worrying about tomorrow let's place our motherboard down on top of the box and then give you a very quick walk through we have our CPU power at the top here our ATX power on the right we have our Ram Slots of which we want to use slots two and four so let's open these up now so that we don't forget CPU is going to go here if we need to remove the mounting then it's this bit here depending on the cooler that we're going for sometimes it will use these pre-fitted bits other times we'll have to replace these but don't worry it it's very simple our SSD is going to go here and depending on the board that you get this could be PCI gen 3 four or five uh usually you want to use the top slot because it has the best bandwidth but again depends on the motherboard that you go for graphics card is going to go down here if you have any oldfashioned SATA drives they will use this port here then we have our USB 3 for the front panel alongside our USBC got RGB headers on the top here if you've got four pins then this is the standard RGB if it's got three it's called addressable RGB we have our CPU fan connect section at the top here as well so if you're using a standard air cooler this is how it will fit but if you're using case fans like we are here today uh then you have other headers dotted around the rest of the motherboard USB 2 our front panel connections to actually get our case to power on when we press the button that is located down the bottom and then all the way on the left we have our front panel audio so if you're using like an analog pair of headphones or headset plug it into the case and again it talks to the motherboard and actually works but now you're an expert on everything motherboard it is of course time to actually get our CPU installed and I don't want to say that this is going to be controversial cuz I'm sure a lot of people will do this which is why I want to do it in this video so we're actually going for potentially a slightly unders speec CPU here so this is a ryzen 57600 and in terms of pricing in the UK you can get this for under200 now it's quite literally a steal and the performance you get on this is awesome price to Performance even in like highend titles with highend gpus is great but you will potentially find that with something like a 4070 TI super especially if you're playing at 1080 P you might run into some CPU bottlenecking but as last week I did a similar build to this with a 4070 TI super and a 7800 x3d which is probably the chip I personally would go for if I was building this I thought actually be more beneficial to show you what would happen if you went for a slightly more inexpensive CPU and you can see whether it actually affects the games that you want to play and then compare it against that video and then make the right informed choice and besides bearing in mind that there is going to be a replacement for all of these ryzen 7000 chips in the not 2 dis the future in a way you could save yourself some money go for this get the higher end GPU and then when the newer processors come out obviously you could upgrade to those then assuming that they are actually worth buying but as always the choice is entirely down to you just grab your chip out of the box and very gently lower this down into the socket and then just place this back down with this lever the lever does require a fair bit of force by the way I know this is going to scare a lot of people but it's normal with our processor installed we can then move on to our memory or our RAM and this is ddr5 cuz of course this is a ddr5 platform don't buy ddr4 don't try and reuse it it won't fit and it definitely won't work the main thing really that you're looking out for is that if you're going for an Intel build I would go for XMP but if you're going for AMD buy one that has an AMD Expo kit because essentially this just gives you a higher degree and higher chance of compatibility at getting that full-rated speed so this is actually a 6200 MHz kit and the cast on this which stands for cast latency it's recursive is actually C32 so this is not only a very fast kit but it's got low latency too but I wouldn't worry too much about it just don't buy a really cheap kit and don't buy a stupidly expensive one either try and get something in the middle if you are wondering about capacity by the way 16 gig is absolutely fine but as we go into the future more and more games are going to want to have 32 gig of RAM and there isn't a huge price difference for ddr5 between 16 and 32 so as long as you can afford it I would always recommend going for 32 but obviously the benefit of RAM is that if you do need more and you have extra slots you can just double it up so it is a very easy upgrade in the future and then once you've done that it's finally time to actually grab your screwdrivers just standard phillips cross head one big one small and then you can pick up your SSD and this is pretty much the king of price to performance at the moment but as we always say sale prices and things on ssds means that I would usually just go for a really fast one that's on sale rather than a specific skew but if you're looking at like pure value then the crucial P3 plus is a fan favorite this is PCI Generation 4 it's got similarish speeds to something like a PlayStation 5 in terms of it reads and wres so should be fairly reliable and to install this you literally just unscrew this top slot make sure that you do remove the plastic film that you have on this and then you can just grab your SSD line this up with the slot click it into place with the little plastic nubbing and then grab your cover and just gently replace it next step is going to be to grab your case and just lay this down flat like so all of the standoffs are pre-applied so literally all you need to do is just grab your board give it a slight wiggle until the central one kind of catches the rest of the board then you can grab your screws that come in the box and then you can just secure this down into position I've actually taken out this PSU shroud that you can put fans on if you want or you can just obviously use it to reach in and sort of like drag cables and through and stuff I really like this so far it's certainly been quite easy to work in let's see if that continues once we do actually open this up and grab these front panel connections and get them installed as we've already shown you our front panel just connects down here at the bottom USBC next to the ram USB 3 all the way at the bottom addressable RGB on the left fan header in the middle and then HD audio at the bottom left now that that's done I'm going to complete the look of this chassis by adding a few extra fans and cougar sent these out there the apolar 120 argb and these are actually Daisy chainable which are cool but I have not used these before so we'll see if they're any good or not inside the box it looks like we have some cabling maybe a controller I mean actually no seems as if you don't actually need one because you have three different blocks depending on how many fans obviously you want to Da chain together and then they just connect with addressable and then your standard four pin fan so should be quite easy and should also reduce the cable clutter which is good but what do these actually look like that is the big question well for many of you a fan they certainly seem to be quite well built obviously plasticky but they're fans that's absolutely fine and you have some RGB on the side this is almost like reminiscent of Le and Lee fans but they've definitely gone down their own route which is nice but should we see how easy they are to actually clip together are they magnetic is it really as straightforward as that no oh okay and then what they just push in yeah that was very straightforward not as easy as magnetic but then plenty of strength there so maybe that's the best way of doing fans do you then do the same with the top yes certainly looks like it let's put one here at the back as an exhaust and then we'll grab these other two and use these as an intake on the side I mean actually I was about to say so far so good but then I've just realized that now I've got a load of addressable B cables to plug in and not enough headers is there really not a splitter in the Box no well that's a missed opportunity and I mean they don't even daisy chain either so you're going to have to buy an adapter basically no matter what really good thing I have a spare in the studio regardless of whether you do decide to use a controller or a splitter though don't of course forget to actually plug those fans in as well here I'm just using the top header and then one at the bottom well only a mild FF complete it's now time to move on to my least favorite bit of any build the radiator cuz as We Know I hate radiators but to be fair recently they've not been too bad it's just a combination of loads of fans loads of cables loads of FF essentially this is a brand new one for the channel uh this is from montech hyperflow argb 360 I think you can get this for around about 80 maybe 90 here in the UK so it definitely undercuts most other all-in ones especially ones that are 360 in size and I mean ultimately at the end of the day let's be honest a lot of people go for an all1 liquid caller not just because they need some calling for the CPU I mean a 7600 does not need a 360 people actually do this because they want it to look good and this is why I've sort of integrated it here cuz I think a lot of people watching this probably will want to go for something like a 7800 x3d so if I put an air caller on this I think it would ruin the look and a lot of people going to be upgrading the CPU anyway which will need better cooling so yes let's see if this is actually any good have they pre fitted the fans they have thank you so much montech thank you so much you have saved not saved my day you've helped me out now see if you can fix my drains let's grab this AMD Hardware out of the box and just lightly screw one of the Springs onto this bracket repeating with the other side and then we can grab are now ready to go liquid cooler which has got me very excited and then assuming you are actually using this in the correct orientation I.E that you've got the fans blowing into the radiator and out so essentially at the top of your chassis I mean actually need to remove this and rout the cables through to the back and then you can pick up the unit as a ho once again forget that youve forgotten to take the screws out of the bag then just fit one into position lightly hold with the other hand and then do the same with another and then of course just repeat with the rest then you can remove the default retention arm that's actually fitted for Intel replace it with the one that we prepared earlier for AMD should just push that until it clicks and then this whole unit should then just go on top of your CPU before clipping on to those plastic clips that I said some coolers you will remove some you will keep oh I'll put it on back to front forget it I did think something was wrong let's just finish the job with screwdriver there we can get these dangly cables Roo them through at the back and then plug them in at the top right hopefully we're now approaching the finish line which means installing our graphics card on our power supply and in order to get this installed obviously very straightforward just remove the slot covers for slots two and Slots three because this is an Nvidia 40 series card as we'll show you in just a little bit you can have access to things like DSS uh super resolution and frame generation which are AI features they can actually help you in game in addition to awesome R Racing performance in the latest titles but let's grab our Zotac GPU insert our Trinity black and then I think you agree this perfectly matches the theme I know we're kind of cheating a little bit cuz it's obviously like a blackout build but it looks really awesome doesn't it I'm going to be so tempted to remove that label I think zot might get a bit angry but it might have to happen no one saw this I will put it back in the Box we're all Breaking aside then I think it's just one more component to go and that is the power supply and that was almost close cuz I had not done the Box up this is from cor RM 750e you need roughly a 700 watt unit for this rig but if you are using like a 7600 or like a lower wattage CPU you could probably get away with using an older one if you wanted to but we always stick with the official recommendation which is 700 WS really for this so 750 is good to go and obviously save yourself a little bit of money versus an 850 or 1,000 that chances are you won't ever properly use as you can clearly see it is fully modular so you only need to plug in the cables that you actually need and because this is the latest revision it does actually come with a PCI generation 5 cable as well which is nice so it just plugs into two type fours at the back of this and goes straight to your PSU it's a nice little cable as well it's like fairly rigid it's not got any color to it and it is going to make your rig look that little bit better does it say what the wattage is on this no it doesn't but because it's a 750 I wouldn't really want to use this with like a 4080 or 490 anyway so for this should be ideal should be a super simple installation although you do have to move the cables that you've already pre-managed out of the way just to line this up then you can reach into your system place this against the back screw it down into position feed our power cables through to their respective places and cougar also get marks for the perfectly placed hole in this chassis for a power cable I don't know why so many companies get it wrong but they do so you can grab this uh PCI Gen 5 connection and making sure you push it in as tight as possible get this safe and secure into your GPU then you can pick up this ATX and insert this next to the RAM and the last but certainly not least you have your CPU up here at the top there is actually enough clearance to do this relatively easily but if you're using a different case or thicker radiator it makes sense with a modular power supply to plug this Cable in before you do anything else but that I believe actually should be everything bearing in mind we were adding extra fans wasn't too complicated this is without any extra cable management I've been sort of doing doing it as I've gone obviously things to S neaten up with like extra straps and ties and things but generally speaking it works okay but I would prefer that they were like more robust Clips or something cuz these come out really easily other than the channels that they assign for you there's not there's not really that much like dedicated space that you can kind of cram things in besides the large space they have at the bottom but generally speaking it's been pretty easy to working so far and as long as everything does continue to work when you press the power button I've actually been pretty impressed not the cheapest case in the world but I think it's going to look pretty special but of course whilst building it is always the fun bit the most stressful bit is actually seeing whether it works so we've grabbed ourselves our 4k monitor and then we've got our PC Centric mouse mat which you can buy down below at PC Centric do store and then let's actually see if this works oh well we have fans we have noise but are we going to get a load of RGB lighting oh oh there we are there we are all white actually no RGB but we've got decent lighting I like that I think this is a really matched system actually I'm really excited to get the glass on although actually as I alluded to earlier putting the side panels on it's not the easiest thing in the world and this mechanism is frankly rubbish our PC works though but here it is the final piece of the panel and our rig is now complete and I don't know about you but this definitely stands out from the crowd and is something a little bit different the cougar fans I like but obviously you are going to have to daisy chain them I would say if you can buy a hub that's probably the best way of doing it rather than than having like the big splitter I used that just added a load of bulk here but I think you agree this is a really attractive system and it's just waiting to be customized should we do the peel wait what that's still attached I didn't want a double peel oh this does at least come off easily if that had left a residue I would have been angry anyway ladies and gentlemen as you can probably tell from the fact that we are set up and ready we are now all ready to go and I think you agree that this is a truly stunning gaming PC build I actually like the white that we had um clearly the motherboard remembers it from a previous build I think it really works here but obviously you could go for any color scheme that you like I just like how everything Blends in it's not actually the largest case in the world as well it kind of almost looks a little bit bigger than it is which is nice but again when you compare it to like a dual chamber chassis or something it's not going to take up ample space on your desk so as a showpiece this really works I mean I know you can get that turntable for the front and if you are into your figurines and things then obviously that makes sense but realistically the way we've got this setup at the moment for all of your calling I think it's going to work wonders but let's actually jump into some games and have a look and I actually want to start off with some ghost of sushima that's right I've been playing the game so I know I said it wrong in the last video and actually I've been really impressed with not only the way that this looks but how well it runs this is a PlayStation game and they have done wonders in porting this across not only in terms of the way it runs but also in terms of the options and the fact that you can get it to sort of scale up and look as stunning as this what you're actually seeing at the moment is with DSS super resolution we've got the set to Performance and I'll be honest I will hold my hands up I thought this was running at dlss balance because the image quality looks really good so I must admit I kind of surprised myself there frame rate wise we're getting around about 100 110 FPS or so and this is without using the DSs frame generation tool which of course is almost like a bit of a frame smoothing feature where it will increase your frame rate by generating a frame with AI in between individual rendered frame so if we want to turn this on I can go into the settings this is also running at very high by the way which is the max preset available but we go into display here it says deals s and obviously you want to go all the way down to the bottom to this feature called frame generation make sure you set this to DSS frame generation and then we can jump back into our game to actually see what that's done to the frame rate and as you can see it has of course increased it we're now looking at around about 130 to 140 FPS so it's added about 30 to 35 FPS or so in terms of image smoothing and because we've got such a high frame rate in the first place like the latency is not an issue at all we're getting around about 42 milliseconds again remember pentrix golden Ru aim to have your game under 55 milliseconds for a AAA title and you'd be really happy and impressed with the overall smoothness and responsiveness but yeah it's just a really good example actually of how the dlss suite works I think a lot of people don't fully understand that it really can improve your gameplay in a very significant way but pressing swiftly on now to something completely different this is Allan Wake 2 and this is the new night Springs DLC and know you're not imagining this and know it's not a bug the game really is this pink at the moment that is just a design choice that they've gone for it is a bit annoying but I think it's very much only temporary but anyway what you're seeing here is actually the high quality preset we've got this running with DSS outputting at 4K but rendering performance mode so that's 1080P and we do have DSS frame generation on as well and if you actually look at the latency figure you can see that it is a little bit higher than I'd like around about 60 to 70 milliseconds I will say that all and wake for whatever reason it doesn't feel as bad as the latency would suggest like quite often you feel like you're kind of steering character but I'm not guessing that impression at the moment so I'm not sure if that figure is wrong or whether it's just not such a big deal in what is a slower paced game what I've done now is to actually disable frame generation so you can see what the latency is like with this figure turned off and obviously as you'd expect the frame rate has now gone down to around about 70 FPS or so but our latency is around about 45 milliseconds or so now so it is definitely going to feel a little bit tighter especially if you're using a mouse and keyboard uh this should make a little bit of a difference really of course speaking of rate tracing by the way you're probably wondering how this fares and I've now turned this down to 1440p as obviously most of this really have 1080 or 440p displays and I've actually turned rate tracing too low now otherwise everything else is the same and as you can see we're getting around about 65 FPS and our latency is around about 45 milliseconds or so so obviously as you turn down some of the settings you will get some of that latency down and that of course will allow it to turn other settings like rate tracing on so especially if you are going to be using a controller with this game and anything really between like 50 and 70 FPS is going to be an optimal way to play obviously higher is always better but in something like this it's not really the end of the world and as this is such a visual game it does allow you to obviously use the raate tracing properly so there's a lot of good Reflections here you get really nice lighting especially when you're using torches and obviously the light kind of like fills up the rim in the most realistic way possible it's a really really cool game just for reference for the way if you do want to turn on dss3 frame generation then you are going to get an even higher frame rate of course but your latency is is going to increase so we're getting around about 65 milliseconds or so of latency and our frame rate is just under 100 FPS or so now so I think this is going to be for a lot of people the right way to play but again find the settings that work for you but let's press on to some multiplayer titles now shall we starting with some Halo infinite and this is actually running at Native 4K and I'm always very impressed with the frame rate in Halo actually because we're not using any image scaling techniques or anything like that and as you can clearly see we're getting around about 100 105 FPS at high settings which isn't too shabby I have noticed that this game is less popular now cuz the wait time for games seems to have increased which is a bit of a shame cuz I think it's really good but I suppose I'm not really helping cuz I haven't played this properly in ages through story when I played the campaign of this the save corrupted literally on the last mission so I still haven't finished Halo infin and I don't know whether I can bring myself to do the whole campaign again just to get to the end but yes that's my story around about 103 FPS but let's see what happens if we turn this down to 1440p shall we we select 67% on the resolution slider and yes as as you can clearly see the frame rate has now increased about 150 to 170 FPS now so even if you're rocking like a 1440p 240 HZ monitor whil you aren't going to be fully saturating it it is going to come pretty close and hey you could always turn that resolution slider down a little bit more if you wanted to but I'd say on the whole Halo on this really battery smooth all right I answer your cries despite the fact that I've not seen it but I've heard that the new battle pass is also causing a load of grief let me know about that down in the comment section below but as you'd expect we're starting this at 4K resolution which for a multiplayer title isn't actually what I would usually recommend but of course the thing is when you're getting around about 100 to 150 FPS do you actually need to turn the settings down I mean in terms of latency we're getting around about 15 to 20 milliseconds at 4K which is not too shabby whatsoever I mean I have said this before and I say again this is actually a title that doesn't have dlss but you can use Nvidia n so in the settings what I'd advise doing is actually outputting this at 4 K but then sort of setting a lower render resolution in the Nvidia control panel and then this way you can still get really high visual quality and better than 1440p visuals but then you are going to get an even higher frame rate than what we are now and as we've already mentioned as well if you are rocking like a super high resolution monitor maybe one of these new 4k uh 240 HZ panels this is going to be the best way to sort of unlock the performance there but it is very very impressive that even if you're going to be playing on like a 4K TV 4K monitor anything really that is super high resis you're just not going to have to worry about the frame rate when you're playing something like Apex Legends really impressive and then last but certainly not least we're going to open one more title definitely not because I closed everything down forgetting that we hadn't done our thermal tests and our noise tests we have some returnal and this is uh probably my favorite rate race title at the moment this is running at Epic settings including rate racing DSS performance and as you can see we're getting about 120 FPS or so but I've said it before and I say it again if you haven't played withal you can get it really cheap in the sale now highly recommend it another one of those PlayStation ports actually that runs really well on PC especially on Nvidia Hardware when you do enable the rate tracing but in terms of thermals and temperatures and stuff what we're getting around about 64° or so on the GPU so absolutely nothing to worry about there I mean if you were hitting 80s I'd be worried anything under 70 really really good and then on the CPU about 57° and actually I've seen this sort of running like flat out when we installing the games and we're hitting around about like low 70s on the CPU so actually that montech caller doing a really good job of providing an affordable option but not like limiting our performance not that a ryzen 7600 was ever going to run particularly hot CU it's obviously a lower wattage chip but on the whole I think I'm really impressed with this actually I would still recommend upgrading that CPU just to give you a little bit more head room in certain titles is not really proved an issue here today which is great especially at higher resolutions but depending on what you play you could run into potential Boton X other than that as I say I love the chassis I love the way it looks I like the fact as well that it can sit on your desk can not take up too much room but the question very much goes out to you on this what do you make of our rig other than maybe the CPU that's a little bit underpowered but has actually done very well today are there any changes that you would make do you love this case as much as I do or do you think that cled curved do you think that curved glass is just a waste of time and money we love to hear from you so let us know down in the comment section below smash the like button if youve enjoyed this get yourself subscribed and of course if you do want to check out current pricing on anything featured in this video you can find it listed down below but thank you 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