Personal Rig Update - July 2014
### Article Based on Video Transcription: PC Build Update, Tips, and Hardware Upgrades
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#### Introduction
Welcome back, guys! This video is just to bring you up to date. I occasionally do these update videos, and this is one of them. It’s a bit different because it explains what has happened over the past week. You might have noticed that besides the LG video, there hasn’t been much else this week. If you’re watching this way later, don’t worry—it’s still relevant!
Now, what actually happened to my PC? I mentioned on Twitter that I was working on a PC build, shared some pictures, and even said I was planning to do a guide. However, I had to announce that the project was canceled due to quality control issues. But why did that happen? Let’s break it down.
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#### The Canceled Video: A Recipe for Disaster
I thought I’d clear up what happened with the PC build video in this update. If you’re a long-time viewer of my channel, you might remember that I used to wear a specific shirt in some of my early videos. Long story short, after wearing it for a while and receiving feedback (or lack thereof), I stopped wearing it. However, this could be the last time you see me in this shirt. Many people dislike it, and honestly, they even hate it! Let me know in the comments if you like it or not—I personally like it, but I’m open to your opinions.
Now, onto more interesting stuff: what happened with my PC build? The truth is, building a PC involves a lot of moving parts—filming, setting up lighting, reviewing footage, and narrating without a script. If you’re doing all that yourself, it’s essentially a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened.
Building a PC takes time, especially if you’re doing everything yourself. While I’ve done several builds before, this one didn’t go as planned. The video just didn’t feel right, and I didn’t want to put out a subpar guide that could confuse or disappoint my audience. After all, it was *my* gateway into PCs—a Lifehacker how-to video inspired me to get into PC gaming in the first place. I wanted to make sure you guys had a reliable resource to start with.
So, instead of releasing the video, I decided to learn from my mistakes and improve for next time. My plan is to use a white case next time, which should make filming much easier. I’ll also get a second camera and involve others to help film and review footage. Additionally, I recommend checking out Linus Tech Tips for an excellent professionally made video on how to build a PC.
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#### The PC Build Process
Now, let’s talk about the actual build process. I upgraded from a Z67 motherboard paired with an Intel i5 2500K running at 4.6 GHz using the stock cooler—a move that shocked even me. It turns out, the i5 was a great choice for gaming and productivity, especially if you don’t plan to overclock or need more power. For those who do video editing, though, an Intel Core i7 might be worth considering.
I decided to upgrade my system for several reasons:
1. **Portability**: I wanted a smaller form factor (m80x) so I could take my PC to university without struggling with the weight of my previous NZXT Phantom case (which weighed about 12 kg!).
2. **Performance**: My GPU setup was bottlenecking some games, and I needed better render times for video editing.
I upgraded to a Corsair 350D case, which has plenty of cooling room and is more portable. The build itself took a few hours, but fitting everything into the smaller case posed some challenges. The biggest issue was fitting the CPU cooler—my back plate was slightly bent, making it difficult to install.
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#### Hardware Upgrades
- **Processor**: I upgraded from an Intel i5 2500K to an Intel i7-4790K (Devil’s Canyon). This change made a significant difference in performance. For example, *Battlefield 4* used to run at 100% CPU usage, but now it’s around 43-45%, giving me much better frame rates and a smoother gaming experience.
- **Motherboard**: The Corsair 350D case supports an m80x form factor, which was perfect for my needs.
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#### Challenges of Building in a Smaller Case
Building in a smaller case has its drawbacks:
1. **Blu-ray Drive Removal**: I had to remove my Blu-ray drive because it was too long and didn’t fit well in the m80x case. This decision was unexpected, as one of the reasons I chose this case was for its dual drive slots.
2. **Cable Management**: Managing cables in a smaller case is much more difficult. If you’re new to PC building or don’t plan to move your system often, I recommend starting with an ATX or larger case for easier upgrades and better organization.
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#### Multiple Graphics Cards in an m80x Case
I also learned that using multiple graphics cards (SLI) in an m80x case can lead to increased noise and heat. My primary GPU was running at 68°C while the secondary card stayed cooler at 34°C. If you’re considering SLI or CrossFire, make sure your case has enough space between PCIe slots—otherwise, it’s not worth the hassle.
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#### Sound Card Changes
- **Old Sound Card**: I had to remove my old sound card (a basic Zona DGX) due to limited PCIe slots.
- **New Sound Card**: The new motherboard has isolated sound components, which improved audio quality significantly. However, I noticed a downside: the built-in microphone sounds terrible. While the on-board sound is better, it’s still not perfect for voice recording.
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#### LED Lights and Final Thoughts
One last thing—my LED lights are rubbish! They don’t light up properly when mounted at the bottom of the case. My advice? Mount your LEDs at the top or choose broader ones if you want a decent lighting effect.
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#### Conclusion
This update was a bit lengthy, but I hope it covered everything you wanted to know. If you enjoyed this video or found it helpful, leave a like and subscribe for more PC-related content. If not, feel free to dislike (but please leave a comment explaining why!).
Thank you for watching, and I’ll see you in the next video!
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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys and welcome now this video is just to bring you guys up to date i do occasionally do the update videos and obviously this is one of them but this is a fairly sort of especially one because um it will explain kind of what's happened over the last week you notice that other than the lg video there hasn't really been anything this week and obviously if you're watching this way later then you know it's kind of still relevant and so what actually happened to the pc i said on twitter that i was doing a pc build i did pictures and stuff and said i was doing a guide and then i announced that it has been cancelled due to quality control issues um so what's that all about well that's what i thought i'd clear up a little bit with this video as well as giving some tips and stuff as well now my first tip is don't ever start a video without a glass of water because i forgot it's here so one thing i'm just going to go get some water that's so much better the other thing is this shirt basically if you're a long time viewer of this channel you'll know that i did used to wear this shirt and then you kind of may or you probably let's be honest no one noticed but i stopped wearing this shirt basically long story short a lot of people and i know don't like it in fact they go as far to say they hate it so this could well be the last time i wear it so let me know in the comments whether you like this shirt cause i quite like this shirt but um yeah it's quite a uh outweigh color um or whatever so let me know if you like that shirt but onto the obviously more interesting stuff so what happened well i'll start by over well i start and finish um i'll overlay some of the clips from the video um that i took of the build guides and so you can get an idea of what it all what it was and what it was all about but pretty much it was a case of if you've got to build a pc if you've got a film uh video if you've got to set up lighting if you've got to continually review the footage and you've got to kind of narrate the video without a script if you're doing all that yourself it is kind of it's not it is kind of a recipe for disaster and unfortunately um that is kind of what happened it takes a long time to build a pc um but obviously the more times you've done it i've done it quite a few times and then the easier it is and obviously if i'm confident enough to go through and do a build guide video then you obviously like to think that um i can do it fairly easily and yes that is true however it didn't really work out that way it's just one of those things that i have a video you know and i could edit it and i could put it out there but i don't really think that he's right and one of the things that got me into building pcs and from the start was a really good video and i'll see if i can find it and if i can find it i'll leave it in the description below was from lifehacker and they did a how to build a pc video and i watched that and that was almost like my gateway um into pcs and obviously where i am now with everything so the last thing i want to do is um get all these people interested in pc gaming and that is uh one of the um channels um uh greatest things it's one of the things i'm kind of most proud of the amount of comments um i get and people messaging me saying you know thank you you've got me into pc gaming um you know where do i go from here you know how do i do it and i don't want to then give them a video that just makes it you know a bit unclear and it's one of those things that yeah i could probably make a bit you know a bit of money off a video but i want you guys to be confident in what you're doing so i thought i will obviously eat what was the phrase eat humble pie that is the phrase and just you know come here and explain to you one that didn't happen but obviously um as you can probably see from the clips that is what it would have looked like but i will definitely do one but when i do another one i will make sure it is a white case ideally because that will be significantly easier i'll get a second camera and i'll get one or two people in to film it and review the footage and i actually do it well there's also a good video over on linus tech tips again i will leave it um in the description below and that is a very well made nicely professional professionally done video i should say on how to build a pc and if you want to build a pc i would definitely say that is your place to start over the video that could have been so that's the explanation of what actually happened out the way um but what actually happened in the sense of how did the pc build go well i upgraded from a motherboard which was a z67 board along with an i5 2500k and that was overclocked to 4.6 gigahertz and one of the things i've kept very very quiet on this channel very mindpie position is the fact that that the i5 that i was running was running off the stock cooler i know i know it's terrible but yes it was running off the stock caller and don't really ask me how i managed it but i got got it running at 4.6 gigahertz off the stock cooler that is really the reason why i never upgraded it i've had that oh god it's almost three years now and i have that combo and i if again if you've been following the channel you'll know that when i first got this um well it's not this but when i first got the pc um that i started with you know it was that processor and it was with that cooler so i never really knew that much about why i needed a dedicated cooler overclocking or anything when i bought it and it's just one of those things that i never upgraded just because it kind of you know it works you know i'm getting a better cooler is because you want to overclock your processor or you want to keep it cooler um but bearing in mind that my pc before it never really towards the end anyway never really needed additional cooling because i had already overclocked it i didn't think i was going to get much more out of it and it wasn't really very loud i didn't it was it just wasn't wasn't a priority for me i didn't really see uh much of a gain in doing that so i upgraded at last um to a proper standalone cpu cooler so that was the h90 obviously i'll go over that a bit more into detail and then the processor was a i oh god i don't want to cut that one up there's an i-74790k and that was one of the new devils canyon processors and i put it all in a new case which was the 350d by corsair and if you haven't noticed already that is a m80x combo so why did i upgrade my system in the first place well firstly i wanted m80x form factor or at least a smaller form factor and because i have um sli graphics cards i obviously couldn't really go to itx without upgrading to a better graphics card and even then it wouldn't be so good so the best case scenario for me was to go for a m80x form factor and this case ticked all the boxes as it had loads of cooling room and it was going to be a bit more portable because that's really what i wanted i wanted to be a bit more portable so that i could take it to university when i go back there in september and without having to lift my god the nzxt phantom case which i should have said that's what i went from um that was so heavy it was like 12 kilos and once you've got um all the stuff in it it was really heavy really big and it was a great case and i'll touch more on big cases a bit later in this video because i think it needs to be said but yeah it was pretty difficult to maneuver it was doable i did manage to track it and back and forth but the point was i want something that i can move that's a lot easier and is more portable and the other reason i upgraded was because i wanted a better processor because i was currently bottlenecked in some games very few with the gtx 680 sli system and also because i do loads of video editing as you have guessed i wouldn't mind having a significantly better render time so hopefully the render time of this video this will be the first video that i've actually properly rendered on this system uh will be significantly less and couple that with a really good upload speed videos are going to be flying out of the shelves that's not the phrase whatever but in the end how did the pc build go well i got there in the end let's leave it like that it took a bit longer than i thought it would just because it was a smaller case i had more stuff to put in it and of course i had to dismantle the old pc but i got it done in a few hours wasn't really that much of a big deal but there was a little bit of hassle trying to get the caller in such a small um such a small tight place and i think the back plate was almost slightly bent and i don't really know what was going on there with the cooler but a few complications aside it is all done and it's all up and running now obviously the main upgrade was the cpu and so has that worked well put it this way battlefield 4 used to be cpu limited so it was a 100 load throughout any sort of battlefield 4 game far at battlefield 4 now leaving stuff like chrome and other background processes open whereas i used to shut them down and the usage is now about 43 44 45 so that's crazy that means i've got pretty much double the headroom now as i did before which means that the frame rates are of course improved which means that the smoother experience is as much smoother experience now uh with this processor than it was before but don't go worrying about whether an i5 will bottleneck your system unless you have multiple graphics cards you really don't need anything more than an i5 and as some of the new benchmarks have come out of the new um overclocked pentium processor you can get away with that for some games as well so don't go thinking wow i really need an i7 because realistically unless you're doing video editing you don't but that was the main upgrade really the only sort of performance gain i was going to get was in the processor department as obviously i didn't change ram or graphics or anything like that but building the system i did learn as always you and i think no one really builds a system these days even if they've done it 20 times without learning something new i've got a few more tips that i think you should have you know i want to share these tips with you so that you can no it's not really mistakes but so you can have something else to think about when you're building your next pc now the most notable thing i'd say is because i was building in a smaller case everything was kind of more difficult just because it was in a smaller case now there is some very sad news on my face and very very sad news and that is mr blu-ray reader didn't make the cut he had to be removed from the case and this was something i didn't think i would have to do in fact one of the reasons i actually chose this case is because it had two um different drive slots and now only one of them is populated so that was kind of pointless but one thing that i don't think many people know i would be very surprised if you know this hats off um to you if you do know this um but blu-ray drives or at least this blu-ray drive was quite a bit longer in actual length than the other dvd drive i've got it's almost like dvd drives are more of a standard sort of length whereas this blu-ray drive was a lot longer and i've never really sort of thought about this before just because in an nzt enzo god in the nzxt phantom case which is massive you got so much room and you could have a blu-ray drive that was like that big it would be it was still fitting well i don't know i'm not i'm not going to put this to the test but the point is and there was plenty of room so i didn't notice it unfortunately as soon as i put it in the smaller m80x case um it just stuck over the motherboard and i just couldn't use the motherboard had a choice of either using the motherboard or using the blu-ray drive so mr blu-ray reader sadly had to go of course the sound card that i used to have which was the dgx that's gone as well because there weren't enough pce pce pcie slots you can only use two if you're using multiple graphics setups and of course stuff like cable management and things like that was a lot more difficult in a smaller case having said that i do actually like the corsair case and it's the 350d i think it actually is a pretty brilliant case it's got a nice window and bearing on its size there is a fair amount of room to work with but it's m80x and it's small so there's not really that much room to work with so expect it to be a little bit more difficult and that is why i would definitely recommend if you've not built a pc before or you've got room and you're not going to be moving it about do go for an atx or larger case and motherboard just because it's going to be a lot easier and you can be able to upgrade it better there's more more room for more stuff and if it's sitting under your desk you're not probably not actually going to notice it i do have more room underneath my desk now but i wouldn't really say that it makes much difference and if it wasn't for the portability factor i actually would have been almost a little bit annoyed about downgrade now the second thing is that i now dislike multiple graphics card setups in an m80x case why is this well think about it this way in a standard m80x board you have a double slot here then you have a gap one or two pcie slots and then you have your second graphics card in there so they've both got a lot of room to breathe in this case wow there's well i'd say in this case in this sort of motherboard that's just how it works and you don't have any free slots between the two sets of double slots so instead of having two cards with like a air gap they're literally stacked right next to each other and of course i knew this before but god i certainly realize it now it's so much louder things run so much hotter in fact if i actually go into precision x now let's have a look bear in mind that it's idling it's just the desktop nothing's happening the primary card that i've got is at 68 degrees and compare that to the second one and that's at 34 degrees so the second one is the one with room to breathe whereas the first one is the one with no space so hopefully that kind of paints the picture more than words do it is a massive difference and if you can help it um don't have a m80x board with multiple graphics cards in it um because it makes way more noise and way more um heat and it's just a bit bit it's a bit of sad news really unfortunately it's one of the things i kind of i thought about but i didn't think it'd be as crucial as it is now of course everything's still playable but it just means that if stuff gets over 90 degrees the cards can start to throttle as well as it's sounding like a jet taking off so if you are considering sli or crossfire then bear this in mind it's going to run a lot hotter and louder if you put them in two slots next to each other so if you can go for an atx e80x or whatever that has loads more room for you to actually put your graphics cards in and then you won't have this issue or if you want you can water cool your cards but obviously that is a lot more advanced now the last thing to note is actually on the topic of sound cards and you know that i've done a video on this um if you've seen this video before leaving the description if you haven't seen it but it's all about sound cards and when i upgraded as i've already said i had to lose the um the sound card that i had which was the zona dgx which is quite a basic 20 pound one or 25 dollar whatever it is and the thing is i didn't really think that would matter and it doesn't really matter because the board that i got was a high-end board and it had isolated sound components so it's higher quality sound basically and then you'd normally get on your motherboard and so the problem with this is that obviously you know it's still on board sound so it's not going to sound great right well now actually actually it sounds a lot better and i didn't expect this basically i never really noticed it before but if you turn up your speakers and you can do this now don't do it now because my voice will be really loud but if you do this in a minute um don't have anything playing have your speakers not and your speakers up quite loud and then have your windows control at max so the point is you're playing nothing and then if your speakers kind of are going a bit like what's that yeah if they've got if they've got static sound coming out of them then it means your sound card isn't actually doing a brilliant job because you're transmitting static uh it's all about signal to noise ratio or something like that um but the point is if you've got isolated components you shouldn't get this and so if i do it now you i don't know why i'm doing this you won't be able to hear it i can turn up to max volume and there's literally no static at all whereas there was before so that's great you know this sound card is much better right no unfortunately you can't seem to get good things without bad things happening in this world because the microphone quality is really bad i've tried playing around with it and there are a few different things that you can you can improve it but unfortunately is one step well it's one step forward one step back actually it's not two steps back um so yeah the microphone quality is not as good now i'll leave a little sample here so this is the microphone quality now so this is what i have to deal with right yeah so that so that was a microphone sample and so hopefully that kind of demonstrates my point that it doesn't actually sound as good as it did before but the point is sound cards still have a place um um i've i haven't really ever heard a really good pci pcie one but i'm kind of leaning towards the usb sort of sound card now because then you get really true uh sound isolation so maybe consider getting a sound card if you're getting that static noise and by doing a very basic um test that i just said and so that wraps up this update i hope it hasn't gone on too long and been boring or whatever it was but if you're interested in what's going on around here you know that's what's going on around here so what do you think do you like it do you not like it um god i just remembered the led lights that i got in my machine they're rubbish they're really bad they're a casket ones and i put them on the bottom of my case and if you can see from the images that i've shown they don't do anything they're pretty much worse and useless so yeah put them either mount your leds at the top don't bother get broader right leds whatever just don't do what i've done here but what do you think of the rig leave a like if you like it well no actually just leave a comment if you thought this video was good then leave a like if you thought the rig was like was good and then yeah leave a like don't dislike it unless you didn't like this video in which case you know fair dudes dislike the video other than that subscribe if you haven't already to pccentric but i'm sure a lot of you already have if you're watching this video it isn't kind of really a video you search for but if you've not then you know subscribe to pccentric for more videos like this and others on pcs gaming and technology and of course i will do a full update sort of tour like the personal rig 2014 yes um nearer the time when i upgrade some of my stuff i'm still a bit unsure on a couple things but i will mention some of them in some of the casual plays that are coming up thanks very much for watching guys as always and i will see you next timewhat's up guys and welcome now this video is just to bring you guys up to date i do occasionally do the update videos and obviously this is one of them but this is a fairly sort of especially one because um it will explain kind of what's happened over the last week you notice that other than the lg video there hasn't really been anything this week and obviously if you're watching this way later then you know it's kind of still relevant and so what actually happened to the pc i said on twitter that i was doing a pc build i did pictures and stuff and said i was doing a guide and then i announced that it has been cancelled due to quality control issues um so what's that all about well that's what i thought i'd clear up a little bit with this video as well as giving some tips and stuff as well now my first tip is don't ever start a video without a glass of water because i forgot it's here so one thing i'm just going to go get some water that's so much better the other thing is this shirt basically if you're a long time viewer of this channel you'll know that i did used to wear this shirt and then you kind of may or you probably let's be honest no one noticed but i stopped wearing this shirt basically long story short a lot of people and i know don't like it in fact they go as far to say they hate it so this could well be the last time i wear it so let me know in the comments whether you like this shirt cause i quite like this shirt but um yeah it's quite a uh outweigh color um or whatever so let me know if you like that shirt but onto the obviously more interesting stuff so what happened well i'll start by over well i start and finish um i'll overlay some of the clips from the video um that i took of the build guides and so you can get an idea of what it all what it was and what it was all about but pretty much it was a case of if you've got to build a pc if you've got a film uh video if you've got to set up lighting if you've got to continually review the footage and you've got to kind of narrate the video without a script if you're doing all that yourself it is kind of it's not it is kind of a recipe for disaster and unfortunately um that is kind of what happened it takes a long time to build a pc um but obviously the more times you've done it i've done it quite a few times and then the easier it is and obviously if i'm confident enough to go through and do a build guide video then you obviously like to think that um i can do it fairly easily and yes that is true however it didn't really work out that way it's just one of those things that i have a video you know and i could edit it and i could put it out there but i don't really think that he's right and one of the things that got me into building pcs and from the start was a really good video and i'll see if i can find it and if i can find it i'll leave it in the description below was from lifehacker and they did a how to build a pc video and i watched that and that was almost like my gateway um into pcs and obviously where i am now with everything so the last thing i want to do is um get all these people interested in pc gaming and that is uh one of the um channels um uh greatest things it's one of the things i'm kind of most proud of the amount of comments um i get and people messaging me saying you know thank you you've got me into pc gaming um you know where do i go from here you know how do i do it and i don't want to then give them a video that just makes it you know a bit unclear and it's one of those things that yeah i could probably make a bit you know a bit of money off a video but i want you guys to be confident in what you're doing so i thought i will obviously eat what was the phrase eat humble pie that is the phrase and just you know come here and explain to you one that didn't happen but obviously um as you can probably see from the clips that is what it would have looked like but i will definitely do one but when i do another one i will make sure it is a white case ideally because that will be significantly easier i'll get a second camera and i'll get one or two people in to film it and review the footage and i actually do it well there's also a good video over on linus tech tips again i will leave it um in the description below and that is a very well made nicely professional professionally done video i should say on how to build a pc and if you want to build a pc i would definitely say that is your place to start over the video that could have been so that's the explanation of what actually happened out the way um but what actually happened in the sense of how did the pc build go well i upgraded from a motherboard which was a z67 board along with an i5 2500k and that was overclocked to 4.6 gigahertz and one of the things i've kept very very quiet on this channel very mindpie position is the fact that that the i5 that i was running was running off the stock cooler i know i know it's terrible but yes it was running off the stock caller and don't really ask me how i managed it but i got got it running at 4.6 gigahertz off the stock cooler that is really the reason why i never upgraded it i've had that oh god it's almost three years now and i have that combo and i if again if you've been following the channel you'll know that when i first got this um well it's not this but when i first got the pc um that i started with you know it was that processor and it was with that cooler so i never really knew that much about why i needed a dedicated cooler overclocking or anything when i bought it and it's just one of those things that i never upgraded just because it kind of you know it works you know i'm getting a better cooler is because you want to overclock your processor or you want to keep it cooler um but bearing in mind that my pc before it never really towards the end anyway never really needed additional cooling because i had already overclocked it i didn't think i was going to get much more out of it and it wasn't really very loud i didn't it was it just wasn't wasn't a priority for me i didn't really see uh much of a gain in doing that so i upgraded at last um to a proper standalone cpu cooler so that was the h90 obviously i'll go over that a bit more into detail and then the processor was a i oh god i don't want to cut that one up there's an i-74790k and that was one of the new devils canyon processors and i put it all in a new case which was the 350d by corsair and if you haven't noticed already that is a m80x combo so why did i upgrade my system in the first place well firstly i wanted m80x form factor or at least a smaller form factor and because i have um sli graphics cards i obviously couldn't really go to itx without upgrading to a better graphics card and even then it wouldn't be so good so the best case scenario for me was to go for a m80x form factor and this case ticked all the boxes as it had loads of cooling room and it was going to be a bit more portable because that's really what i wanted i wanted to be a bit more portable so that i could take it to university when i go back there in september and without having to lift my god the nzxt phantom case which i should have said that's what i went from um that was so heavy it was like 12 kilos and once you've got um all the stuff in it it was really heavy really big and it was a great case and i'll touch more on big cases a bit later in this video because i think it needs to be said but yeah it was pretty difficult to maneuver it was doable i did manage to track it and back and forth but the point was i want something that i can move that's a lot easier and is more portable and the other reason i upgraded was because i wanted a better processor because i was currently bottlenecked in some games very few with the gtx 680 sli system and also because i do loads of video editing as you have guessed i wouldn't mind having a significantly better render time so hopefully the render time of this video this will be the first video that i've actually properly rendered on this system uh will be significantly less and couple that with a really good upload speed videos are going to be flying out of the shelves that's not the phrase whatever but in the end how did the pc build go well i got there in the end let's leave it like that it took a bit longer than i thought it would just because it was a smaller case i had more stuff to put in it and of course i had to dismantle the old pc but i got it done in a few hours wasn't really that much of a big deal but there was a little bit of hassle trying to get the caller in such a small um such a small tight place and i think the back plate was almost slightly bent and i don't really know what was going on there with the cooler but a few complications aside it is all done and it's all up and running now obviously the main upgrade was the cpu and so has that worked well put it this way battlefield 4 used to be cpu limited so it was a 100 load throughout any sort of battlefield 4 game far at battlefield 4 now leaving stuff like chrome and other background processes open whereas i used to shut them down and the usage is now about 43 44 45 so that's crazy that means i've got pretty much double the headroom now as i did before which means that the frame rates are of course improved which means that the smoother experience is as much smoother experience now uh with this processor than it was before but don't go worrying about whether an i5 will bottleneck your system unless you have multiple graphics cards you really don't need anything more than an i5 and as some of the new benchmarks have come out of the new um overclocked pentium processor you can get away with that for some games as well so don't go thinking wow i really need an i7 because realistically unless you're doing video editing you don't but that was the main upgrade really the only sort of performance gain i was going to get was in the processor department as obviously i didn't change ram or graphics or anything like that but building the system i did learn as always you and i think no one really builds a system these days even if they've done it 20 times without learning something new i've got a few more tips that i think you should have you know i want to share these tips with you so that you can no it's not really mistakes but so you can have something else to think about when you're building your next pc now the most notable thing i'd say is because i was building in a smaller case everything was kind of more difficult just because it was in a smaller case now there is some very sad news on my face and very very sad news and that is mr blu-ray reader didn't make the cut he had to be removed from the case and this was something i didn't think i would have to do in fact one of the reasons i actually chose this case is because it had two um different drive slots and now only one of them is populated so that was kind of pointless but one thing that i don't think many people know i would be very surprised if you know this hats off um to you if you do know this um but blu-ray drives or at least this blu-ray drive was quite a bit longer in actual length than the other dvd drive i've got it's almost like dvd drives are more of a standard sort of length whereas this blu-ray drive was a lot longer and i've never really sort of thought about this before just because in an nzt enzo god in the nzxt phantom case which is massive you got so much room and you could have a blu-ray drive that was like that big it would be it was still fitting well i don't know i'm not i'm not going to put this to the test but the point is and there was plenty of room so i didn't notice it unfortunately as soon as i put it in the smaller m80x case um it just stuck over the motherboard and i just couldn't use the motherboard had a choice of either using the motherboard or using the blu-ray drive so mr blu-ray reader sadly had to go of course the sound card that i used to have which was the dgx that's gone as well because there weren't enough pce pce pcie slots you can only use two if you're using multiple graphics setups and of course stuff like cable management and things like that was a lot more difficult in a smaller case having said that i do actually like the corsair case and it's the 350d i think it actually is a pretty brilliant case it's got a nice window and bearing on its size there is a fair amount of room to work with but it's m80x and it's small so there's not really that much room to work with so expect it to be a little bit more difficult and that is why i would definitely recommend if you've not built a pc before or you've got room and you're not going to be moving it about do go for an atx or larger case and motherboard just because it's going to be a lot easier and you can be able to upgrade it better there's more more room for more stuff and if it's sitting under your desk you're not probably not actually going to notice it i do have more room underneath my desk now but i wouldn't really say that it makes much difference and if it wasn't for the portability factor i actually would have been almost a little bit annoyed about downgrade now the second thing is that i now dislike multiple graphics card setups in an m80x case why is this well think about it this way in a standard m80x board you have a double slot here then you have a gap one or two pcie slots and then you have your second graphics card in there so they've both got a lot of room to breathe in this case wow there's well i'd say in this case in this sort of motherboard that's just how it works and you don't have any free slots between the two sets of double slots so instead of having two cards with like a air gap they're literally stacked right next to each other and of course i knew this before but god i certainly realize it now it's so much louder things run so much hotter in fact if i actually go into precision x now let's have a look bear in mind that it's idling it's just the desktop nothing's happening the primary card that i've got is at 68 degrees and compare that to the second one and that's at 34 degrees so the second one is the one with room to breathe whereas the first one is the one with no space so hopefully that kind of paints the picture more than words do it is a massive difference and if you can help it um don't have a m80x board with multiple graphics cards in it um because it makes way more noise and way more um heat and it's just a bit bit it's a bit of sad news really unfortunately it's one of the things i kind of i thought about but i didn't think it'd be as crucial as it is now of course everything's still playable but it just means that if stuff gets over 90 degrees the cards can start to throttle as well as it's sounding like a jet taking off so if you are considering sli or crossfire then bear this in mind it's going to run a lot hotter and louder if you put them in two slots next to each other so if you can go for an atx e80x or whatever that has loads more room for you to actually put your graphics cards in and then you won't have this issue or if you want you can water cool your cards but obviously that is a lot more advanced now the last thing to note is actually on the topic of sound cards and you know that i've done a video on this um if you've seen this video before leaving the description if you haven't seen it but it's all about sound cards and when i upgraded as i've already said i had to lose the um the sound card that i had which was the zona dgx which is quite a basic 20 pound one or 25 dollar whatever it is and the thing is i didn't really think that would matter and it doesn't really matter because the board that i got was a high-end board and it had isolated sound components so it's higher quality sound basically and then you'd normally get on your motherboard and so the problem with this is that obviously you know it's still on board sound so it's not going to sound great right well now actually actually it sounds a lot better and i didn't expect this basically i never really noticed it before but if you turn up your speakers and you can do this now don't do it now because my voice will be really loud but if you do this in a minute um don't have anything playing have your speakers not and your speakers up quite loud and then have your windows control at max so the point is you're playing nothing and then if your speakers kind of are going a bit like what's that yeah if they've got if they've got static sound coming out of them then it means your sound card isn't actually doing a brilliant job because you're transmitting static uh it's all about signal to noise ratio or something like that um but the point is if you've got isolated components you shouldn't get this and so if i do it now you i don't know why i'm doing this you won't be able to hear it i can turn up to max volume and there's literally no static at all whereas there was before so that's great you know this sound card is much better right no unfortunately you can't seem to get good things without bad things happening in this world because the microphone quality is really bad i've tried playing around with it and there are a few different things that you can you can improve it but unfortunately is one step well it's one step forward one step back actually it's not two steps back um so yeah the microphone quality is not as good now i'll leave a little sample here so this is the microphone quality now so this is what i have to deal with right yeah so that so that was a microphone sample and so hopefully that kind of demonstrates my point that it doesn't actually sound as good as it did before but the point is sound cards still have a place um um i've i haven't really ever heard a really good pci pcie one but i'm kind of leaning towards the usb sort of sound card now because then you get really true uh sound isolation so maybe consider getting a sound card if you're getting that static noise and by doing a very basic um test that i just said and so that wraps up this update i hope it hasn't gone on too long and been boring or whatever it was but if you're interested in what's going on around here you know that's what's going on around here so what do you think do you like it do you not like it um god i just remembered the led lights that i got in my machine they're rubbish they're really bad they're a casket ones and i put them on the bottom of my case and if you can see from the images that i've shown they don't do anything they're pretty much worse and useless so yeah put them either mount your leds at the top don't bother get broader right leds whatever just don't do what i've done here but what do you think of the rig leave a like if you like it well no actually just leave a comment if you thought this video was good then leave a like if you thought the rig was like was good and then yeah leave a like don't dislike it unless you didn't like this video in which case you know fair dudes dislike the video other than that subscribe if you haven't already to pccentric but i'm sure a lot of you already have if you're watching this video it isn't kind of really a video you search for but if you've not then you know subscribe to pccentric for more videos like this and others on pcs gaming and technology and of course i will do a full update sort of tour like the personal rig 2014 yes um nearer the time when i upgrade some of my stuff i'm still a bit unsure on a couple things but i will mention some of them in some of the casual plays that are coming up thanks very much for watching guys as always and i will see you next time\n"