Building with Budget: A Review of the MSI Z370 Motherboard and CX-5 50M Power Supply

The world of PC building can be overwhelming, especially for those on a budget. With so many components to choose from, it's easy to get caught up in the latest and greatest technology without considering the cost. In this article, we'll take a closer look at two key components that are perfect for building a powerful yet affordable gaming PC: the MSI Z370 motherboard and the CX-5 50M power supply.

The MSI Z370 Motherboard is a great example of how you can build a powerful gaming PC without breaking the bank. With its semi-modular design, all-black cables, and ability to deliver over 40 volts on the 12-volt line, it's a great power supply for the money. Plus, with today's components not being as power-hungry, it does a great job of staying cool even when powering these components when they're overclocked.

For our build today, we've paired the MSI Z370 motherboard with the CX-5 50M power supply, which is another affordable option for those on a budget. With its semi-modular design and all-black cables, it's a great choice for anyone looking to build a powerful gaming PC without breaking the bank.

Overclocking in the Z370 MSI Motherboard

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One of the best things about building with the MSI Z370 motherboard is how easy it is to overclock. As we mentioned earlier, obtaining an overclock at 5 GHz on the Z 370 MSI motherboard is extremely easy and also when you go into Windows you can download Afterburner I'll put a link in the description below you can overclock your graphics card with ease by just moving a few sliders and then of course downloading the Heaven UniGene benchmark and testing out your overclock.

Taking a Look at Gaming Figures

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So, let's take a look at some gaming figures. Just like we saw in the benchmarks there, the frame rates were not only high but the 0.1% lows were extremely high - and this is gonna make for an extremely smooth experience especially at 1080p so if you've got a high refresh rate monitor 144 Hertz or even higher this CPU and this GPU in this case is going to deliver some really good numbers.

In Call of Duty World War two taking a look at those figures first, the 1080p results were high 100's all the time this was a really smooth experience with high graphics settings you can see the CPU and the GPU were both being utilized really well and then we stepped it up to 4k it was still a good experience even though the frame rates were a bit lower everything was extremely smooth.

Destiny 2: A Smooth Experience

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The next game we're moving into was destiny - and this is where things are really smooth as well for PC uses Activision have done a good job of making sure this title will play well on PC with high frame rates of 1080p and also even stepping up into 4k high settings now me personally I'm a high settings gamer I always turn my settings down from ultra to high I believe the extra framerate boost you get is just phenomenal and the visual quality differences aren't that much.

The Visual Quality Difference Between Ultra and High Settings

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A lot of tech tubers out there have done videos comparing Ultra and high and they virtually couldn't find any difference in graphical quality on a lot of titles but with that they did find a massive drop in frame rates. For a lot of the games here I'm using high settings and the frame rates are really high even at 4k like I said in destiny 2 we're getting over 60fps most the time however the last title was pub G that I started the test today and a 1080p it did extremely well scoring at around about a hundred to 140 FPS most the time.

However, when we stepped it up to 4k, however, the GTX 1070 i was struggling a bit this is a very graphically intensive game especially at 4k so even at the low settings it just wasn't the best experience you would have to step it up to a 1080 TI if you wanted to play this game at 4k which I honestly don't recommend because the frame rates at 1080p are so smooth it's a really enjoyable experience.

Conclusion

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So, what did we think of our build today? The installation was easy, the overclocking was easy, and the performance numbers were really good. Everything worked extremely well, and we're happy with how this build turned out. If you're looking to build a powerful gaming PC without breaking the bank, we highly recommend considering the MSI Z370 motherboard and CX-5 50M power supply.

We've also included some links in the description below for those who want to follow our budget-friendly build guide, which gives similar performance at a much lower price point. If you have any questions or comments about this build or PC building in general, feel free to leave them in the comments section below.

Thanks for reading, and happy building!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso the new Call of Duty World War 2 has been released on PC and it's running smoother than ever this is a really optimized Cod but on that note they are going back to the original formula where there's no people jumping off walls and doing backflips like the previous cards that have been released in the last couple of years they're going back to that original formula of just straight-up Call of Duty awesome running gun with that classical FPS feel and today I've got a new PC for you guys that will play it not only at 1080p with really good frame rates but also even play it at 4k and on top of that with the new destiny 2 being released it does go hand-in-hand with making a good experience on both these two games as they are awesome FPS titles also be testing out pub G for you guys and seeing how this PC performs in that game too welcome back to tech yesterday today we're using the 8600 k which is the latest i-5 with six cores six threads now you can overclock this thing to around about five gigahertz without even D letting it now know your first reaction is probably gonna be brighten this thing is not in stock anywhere we can actually get it from B&H photo on pre-order and they usually get in stock all the time and they are charging two hundred eighty dollars which is a pretty fair price for this CPU believe the retail is around two hundred and sixty-five dollars so it's not far off especially compared to some other retails that are charging over $300 for this CPU there's also the gtx 1070 TI now i recently reviewed the msi variant it is really good you can overclock this thing quite high and you're going to be getting near gtx 10 80 levels of performance now in games when you also overclock the CPU you've got a combination that will get really high smooth FPS gameplay on high and even ultra settings on a lot of titles especially at 1080p you can even step it up to 1440p or even 4k and destiny 2 and also World War 2 now the parts were using to cool down these components we're using the H 55 from corsets a 120 millimeter budget water cooler comes in at $60 really good value for money and it'll also do a fine job of overclocking the CPU to 5 gigahertz and keeping it cool now you may be thinking well 6 cores at 5 gigahertz that puts out a lot of heat right the answer is actually no this CPU only puts out around 90 watts at 5 gigahertz which is why the 8600 K in a lot of cases can be a better alternative to the 8700 K yes you do get those six cores 12 threads but on the six core six threaded CPU I find it does use up a lot less power with that this is less heat getting dumped in your case less stress on the vrm and you can also use a smaller cooler and save some money continuing on with the past we're using the Z 370 MSI gaming Pro carbon a/c this has got Wireless it's a really good variant of a Z 370 motherboard this has a good VRM good Nick good onboard audio and the best thing about it is it's so easy to overclock on this motherboard I will be featuring this in an upcoming Z 370 comparison and I'll give you guys a little early scoop on that comparison the Z 370 from MSI here does really well in that test now for memory and storage we're going with 16 gigabytes of ddr4 memory this is one of the components that I'm not too happy with in the build today because of the pricing of ddr4 memory $200 for this kit is very expensive and with that said be on the lookout for a good deal on memory itself for the SSD we're going with the 120 gigabyte SSD now most people want to go with 240 or 500 but me personally I'm finding games are just so big nowadays you'll want to get a massive amount of storage for your backup and just use that to put on your games which is why we're also going with an SS HD 2 terabyte is coming to $200 and with 2 terabytes you'll be able to store plenty of games especially the new destiny 2 it's around 50 gigabytes the new card is around that too so that's already taking up a lot of space if you were to put it on an SSD now housing all these components here today is the spec o4 from corsair and this thing at $50 hits really hard in terms of value for money you can get it in the gray which is what we're using here today or you get in the red or the coarse a yellow and inside you've got a lot of room to work with everything installs with these cable management's good you've got the clear side panel and you also have two fans included to top that off which in my tests did do a pretty good job of cooling the maximum temperatures with the side panel on we're going around 70 degrees this is with an overclock on both the GPU and the CPU so even though they only include two fans they do a great job of cooling this 300 watts which was getting dumped into this case and of course that ventilation up the top allows the hot air to blow out the top of the case as well as the back and of course the last component in today's build is the cx-5 50 M you get over 40 volts on the 12 volt line it's semi modular with all black cables so it's pretty good power supply for the money and of course with today's components not being so power-hungry does a great job of staying cool even whilst powering these components when they're overclocked though with all that aside today's build comes in at just over 1500 USD or if you're in Australia just over 2100 a strain and of course for my budget-friendly viewers I do have a list which comes in a lot cheaper and it gives similar performance I'll put the links in the description below for that if you're just purely into gaming then without aside let's build this thing start tuning in overclocking in and then run into some games they're like we talked about earlier in this video obtaining an overclock at five gigahertz on the Z 370 MSI motherboard is extremely easy and also when you go into Windows you can download afterburner I'll put a link in the description below you can overclock your gravis card with ease by just moving a few sliders and then of course downloading the heaven UniGene benchmark and testing out your overclock sin that then without side let's take a look at some gaming figures so just like we saw in the benchmarks there the frame rates were not only high but the 0.1% lows were extremely high - and this is gonna make for an extremely smooth experience especially at 1080p so if you've got a high refresh rate monitor 144 Hertz or even higher this CPU and this GPU in this case is going to deliver some really good numbers of course in Call of Duty World War two taking a look at those figures first the 1080p results were high 100's all the time this was a really smooth experience with high graphics settings you can see the CPU and the GPU were both being utilized really well and then we stepped it up to 4k it was still a good experience even though the frame rates were a bit lower everything was extremely smooth and like I said early in the intro they've done a good job of making caught optimize for PC this time around also the next game we're moving into was destiny - and this is where things are really smooth as well for PC uses Activision have done a good job of making sure this title will play well on PC with high frame rates of 1080p and also even stepping up into 4k high settings now me personally I'm a high settings gamer I always turn my settings down from ultra to high I believe the extra framerate boost you get is just phenomenal and the visual quality differences aren't that much a lot of tech tubers out there have done videos comparing Ultra and high and they virtually couldn't find any difference in graphical quality on a lot of titles but with that they did find a massive drop in frame rates so for a lot of the games here I'm using high settings and the frame rates are really high even at 4k like I said in destiny 2 we're getting over 60fps most the time however the last title was pub G that I started the test today and a 1080p it did extremely well scoring at around about a hundred to 140 FPS most the time and then when we stepped it up to 4k however the gtx 1070 i was struggling a bit this is a very graphically intensive game especially at 4k so even at the low settings it just wasn't the best experience you would have to step it up to a 10 80 TI if you wanted to play this game at 4k which I honestly don't recommend because the frame rates at 1080p are so smooth it's a really enjoyable experience so then we have a guys the Call of Duty World War 2 PC looks very good that stealth look going for it and of course the performance is there to match of course you can save a bit of money like I said earlier if you decide to change the parts around so I'll put some links in the description below and of course everything here today worked extremely well the installation was easy the overclocking was easy and the performance numbers were really good I hope you guys enjoyed today's video and if you did them be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comment section below what would you do differently love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and also let me know if you played the new Call of Duty World War 2 if so what did you think about it if not why haven't you played it yet and I'll catch you guys in another tag video very soon peace out for now byeso the new Call of Duty World War 2 has been released on PC and it's running smoother than ever this is a really optimized Cod but on that note they are going back to the original formula where there's no people jumping off walls and doing backflips like the previous cards that have been released in the last couple of years they're going back to that original formula of just straight-up Call of Duty awesome running gun with that classical FPS feel and today I've got a new PC for you guys that will play it not only at 1080p with really good frame rates but also even play it at 4k and on top of that with the new destiny 2 being released it does go hand-in-hand with making a good experience on both these two games as they are awesome FPS titles also be testing out pub G for you guys and seeing how this PC performs in that game too welcome back to tech yesterday today we're using the 8600 k which is the latest i-5 with six cores six threads now you can overclock this thing to around about five gigahertz without even D letting it now know your first reaction is probably gonna be brighten this thing is not in stock anywhere we can actually get it from B&H photo on pre-order and they usually get in stock all the time and they are charging two hundred eighty dollars which is a pretty fair price for this CPU believe the retail is around two hundred and sixty-five dollars so it's not far off especially compared to some other retails that are charging over $300 for this CPU there's also the gtx 1070 TI now i recently reviewed the msi variant it is really good you can overclock this thing quite high and you're going to be getting near gtx 10 80 levels of performance now in games when you also overclock the CPU you've got a combination that will get really high smooth FPS gameplay on high and even ultra settings on a lot of titles especially at 1080p you can even step it up to 1440p or even 4k and destiny 2 and also World War 2 now the parts were using to cool down these components we're using the H 55 from corsets a 120 millimeter budget water cooler comes in at $60 really good value for money and it'll also do a fine job of overclocking the CPU to 5 gigahertz and keeping it cool now you may be thinking well 6 cores at 5 gigahertz that puts out a lot of heat right the answer is actually no this CPU only puts out around 90 watts at 5 gigahertz which is why the 8600 K in a lot of cases can be a better alternative to the 8700 K yes you do get those six cores 12 threads but on the six core six threaded CPU I find it does use up a lot less power with that this is less heat getting dumped in your case less stress on the vrm and you can also use a smaller cooler and save some money continuing on with the past we're using the Z 370 MSI gaming Pro carbon a/c this has got Wireless it's a really good variant of a Z 370 motherboard this has a good VRM good Nick good onboard audio and the best thing about it is it's so easy to overclock on this motherboard I will be featuring this in an upcoming Z 370 comparison and I'll give you guys a little early scoop on that comparison the Z 370 from MSI here does really well in that test now for memory and storage we're going with 16 gigabytes of ddr4 memory this is one of the components that I'm not too happy with in the build today because of the pricing of ddr4 memory $200 for this kit is very expensive and with that said be on the lookout for a good deal on memory itself for the SSD we're going with the 120 gigabyte SSD now most people want to go with 240 or 500 but me personally I'm finding games are just so big nowadays you'll want to get a massive amount of storage for your backup and just use that to put on your games which is why we're also going with an SS HD 2 terabyte is coming to $200 and with 2 terabytes you'll be able to store plenty of games especially the new destiny 2 it's around 50 gigabytes the new card is around that too so that's already taking up a lot of space if you were to put it on an SSD now housing all these components here today is the spec o4 from corsair and this thing at $50 hits really hard in terms of value for money you can get it in the gray which is what we're using here today or you get in the red or the coarse a yellow and inside you've got a lot of room to work with everything installs with these cable management's good you've got the clear side panel and you also have two fans included to top that off which in my tests did do a pretty good job of cooling the maximum temperatures with the side panel on we're going around 70 degrees this is with an overclock on both the GPU and the CPU so even though they only include two fans they do a great job of cooling this 300 watts which was getting dumped into this case and of course that ventilation up the top allows the hot air to blow out the top of the case as well as the back and of course the last component in today's build is the cx-5 50 M you get over 40 volts on the 12 volt line it's semi modular with all black cables so it's pretty good power supply for the money and of course with today's components not being so power-hungry does a great job of staying cool even whilst powering these components when they're overclocked though with all that aside today's build comes in at just over 1500 USD or if you're in Australia just over 2100 a strain and of course for my budget-friendly viewers I do have a list which comes in a lot cheaper and it gives similar performance I'll put the links in the description below for that if you're just purely into gaming then without aside let's build this thing start tuning in overclocking in and then run into some games they're like we talked about earlier in this video obtaining an overclock at five gigahertz on the Z 370 MSI motherboard is extremely easy and also when you go into Windows you can download afterburner I'll put a link in the description below you can overclock your gravis card with ease by just moving a few sliders and then of course downloading the heaven UniGene benchmark and testing out your overclock sin that then without side let's take a look at some gaming figures so just like we saw in the benchmarks there the frame rates were not only high but the 0.1% lows were extremely high - and this is gonna make for an extremely smooth experience especially at 1080p so if you've got a high refresh rate monitor 144 Hertz or even higher this CPU and this GPU in this case is going to deliver some really good numbers of course in Call of Duty World War two taking a look at those figures first the 1080p results were high 100's all the time this was a really smooth experience with high graphics settings you can see the CPU and the GPU were both being utilized really well and then we stepped it up to 4k it was still a good experience even though the frame rates were a bit lower everything was extremely smooth and like I said early in the intro they've done a good job of making caught optimize for PC this time around also the next game we're moving into was destiny - and this is where things are really smooth as well for PC uses Activision have done a good job of making sure this title will play well on PC with high frame rates of 1080p and also even stepping up into 4k high settings now me personally I'm a high settings gamer I always turn my settings down from ultra to high I believe the extra framerate boost you get is just phenomenal and the visual quality differences aren't that much a lot of tech tubers out there have done videos comparing Ultra and high and they virtually couldn't find any difference in graphical quality on a lot of titles but with that they did find a massive drop in frame rates so for a lot of the games here I'm using high settings and the frame rates are really high even at 4k like I said in destiny 2 we're getting over 60fps most the time however the last title was pub G that I started the test today and a 1080p it did extremely well scoring at around about a hundred to 140 FPS most the time and then when we stepped it up to 4k however the gtx 1070 i was struggling a bit this is a very graphically intensive game especially at 4k so even at the low settings it just wasn't the best experience you would have to step it up to a 10 80 TI if you wanted to play this game at 4k which I honestly don't recommend because the frame rates at 1080p are so smooth it's a really enjoyable experience so then we have a guys the Call of Duty World War 2 PC looks very good that stealth look going for it and of course the performance is there to match of course you can save a bit of money like I said earlier if you decide to change the parts around so I'll put some links in the description below and of course everything here today worked extremely well the installation was easy the overclocking was easy and the performance numbers were really good I hope you guys enjoyed today's video and if you did them be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comment section below what would you do differently love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and also let me know if you played the new Call of Duty World War 2 if so what did you think about it if not why haven't you played it yet and I'll catch you guys in another tag video very soon peace out for now bye\n"