**Building a High-Performing Gaming PC with the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X**

As we dive into building this gaming PC, it's clear that the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X is the star of the show. This eight-core CPU is a powerhouse in its own right, delivering impressive performance and value for money. With scores that place us better than 99% of all submitted results in 3DMark Time Spy Synthetic testing, it's easy to see why we're so excited about this processor.

**The Importance of DDR4 RAM**

One key aspect of the build is the DDR4 memory. We've opted for a white lightning effect to give our system a unique look, but it's clear that the RAM is where things get really interesting. The Ryzen 7 5800X supports up to 64GB of DDR4 RAM, making it easy to create a system with plenty of headroom for streaming and other content creation tasks.

**AIO Cooling and Cable Management**

When it comes to cooling, we're using an AIO liquid cooler that does a fantastic job keeping our 5800X cool even under heavy stress testing. But it's not just the CPU that benefits from this cooling system - the whole case is designed with airflow in mind, making it easy to keep everything running smoothly. And speaking of smoothness, cable management is another area where we've really outdone ourselves. With plenty of space for radiators and aio components up top, front, and rear, it's easy to keep your build looking tidy and organized.

**A Great Case with Plenty of Features**

The case itself is a real showstopper, with its unique design and RGB lighting effects that really make the system come alive. But it's not just about looks - this case has plenty of features that make it perfect for builders like us. From up to 280mm radiators in the front to a whopping 360mm radiator on top, there's no shortage of space for aio components. And with a 120mm fan at the rear, we're able to keep our system running cool even under heavy loads.

**A Great Content Creation CPU**

One thing that really stands out about the Ryzen 7 5800X is its performance as a content creation CPU. With eight cores and 16 threads, it's perfect for tasks like video editing and streaming. And with our case and aio cooling system in place, we're able to keep everything running smoothly even under heavy loads.

**The Importance of RGB Syncing**

To really make the system pop, we've opted for full RGB syncing with the reference 6900XT. This means that every color, effect, and movement is perfectly coordinated, creating a truly immersive experience. And let's be honest - who doesn't love a good rainbow effect? With the Ryzen 7 5800X at the helm, we're able to push this system to its limits and show off its capabilities in a whole new way.

**A Great Value for Money**

So what does it all add up to? In short, an incredible gaming PC that's perfect for anyone who wants high-performance without breaking the bank. With its eight-core Ryzen 7 5800X CPU, plenty of DDR4 RAM, and AIO cooling system, this build is sure to deliver top-notch performance and value for money.

**The Verdict**

Overall, I'm really impressed with how our gaming PC turned out. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X is a powerhouse in its own right, delivering impressive performance and value for money. With its unique design, plenty of features, and RGB syncing capabilities, this build is sure to turn heads. Whether you're a seasoned gamer or just looking for a great content creation system, this PC is definitely worth considering.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin this video we'll be putting together an all amd and when i say all amd this time yes for those who are sticklers in one of our previous videos i mean all amd both cpu and graphics card gaming pc now we're not going with something overkill for gaming a 5800 x which is an eight core 16 thread zen three chip it's going to be plenty for those games we won't see any major improvements at all bumping up from a 1500x to a 5900x or 5950x so there's really no need to allocate more of the budget to a better cpu and then uh we've also got an x rx 6900 xt which is pretty much the best amd graphics card on the market right now and for the motherboard we're going with an asrock x570 tai chi a tried and true chipset a tried and true motherboard from asrock but we've got a bunch of other stuff all from the same company and you're probably wondering why you didn't know this any sooner so xpg is the gaming brand of a data and you might have heard of a data from maybe some of their memory modules some of their ssds i actually use quite a bit of the memory modules one of their kits is in my racing sim right now they make very affordable but very powerful memory so they have reached out and wanted to sponsor a build with a bunch of stuff that they make that i'll be honest i didn't know they made so um this is news to me and most likely you as well first up we've got the levante 240 mil aio it's a pretty sexy looking rat i'm not gonna lie the fans look really good here the block looks nice so excited to build with that we've also got below that they call it the core reactor check that out that's a 80 plus gold 750 watt power supply gonna love building with that it looks super compact as well i love 750 watt units that aren't very large they don't take up a lot of space in their cases as for the cases this is the defender pro and this was probably the most shocking revelation of this entire project i had no clue that a data or xpg specifically makes a mid tower but the defender pro looks to be on the plus side in terms of performance and feature set so we've got a pretty airy front panel here you can see a nice mesh with a little like squarish or diamond pattern design there not too bad we've got plenty of rad support up top and up front we've got a 120mm fan at three you can slide up and down and uh rgb fans i think yeah rgb fans wow who would have thought now like i said earlier a data xpg you probably know them for their ram they are flexing their muscles hard in this case so these here are spektrix d50 extreme memory kits these things clock up to 4 800 megahertz a piece and they sent us 32 gigs in total we're gonna populate all four dimm slots and see how high we can get these frequencies but these are incredibly well-bent kits and then we've got a few other things to show off here so we've got one of their rgb strips this is again this is all from xpg we've got three more of their rogb fans and we've got these look really cool here i can't wait to build with these these are actually like rgb cables more or less and they can rock some pretty cool effects as well so we're going to experiment a bit with that i'm pretty sure the color scheme is more or less going to be like black and red just because our radon logo the 6900xt is going to be glowing red i think we can change all the fans to red so it should look pretty stealthy but um you know we need to experiment a bit just see how it works the motherboard really doesn't have any red accents but uh it's more or less a neutral kind of gray and black tone so um the fact that we have rgb pretty much everywhere else means that we can customize those lights to fit said color scheme so i'm excited to see how this looks at the end of the day again i've not built with most of these parts from xpgs because i didn't know they existed but um yeah that's why this video exists big thanks to xpg4 sponsoring this video sponsoring this build setting all these components let's get to it alright so we're going to start first with our motherboard and excuse excuse me thank you pepsico all right so i'm gonna pull this bad boy out set her down like so then we're gonna switch out over to our 5800x and i've used both of these before by the way when we're doing our testing that's why some of these boxes look like they've uh they've been used before that's because they in fact have been let's pop this open i'll get a close-up shot of that look how good i love the way these cpus look the ryzen cpus just looks so nice not that you're going to see any of this in your build when it's fully uh fully assembled but anyway we're going to pull back on this lever swing it upright and we're going to install it this orientation here drops in pop her back down clip easy peasy next up we're gonna focus on this ram so like i said earlier these memory modules are insane uh these are just like crazy modules crazy fast very well bend they are sealed i should probably unseal them mama oh yeah these are looking good so we do have rgb capabilities here this can be synced up with pretty much any motherboard software out there asus aura gigabyte rgb fusion msi mystic light asrock polychrome i think is what they call it so um these look really good i think there's a plastic cover on these too yep there they are okay so pull it off wow these look really good and that's one side this is the other side it's super nice so let's get one of these in here just kind of see how it looks pull back on all four tabs we're gonna be populating all four dim slots slot this bad boy in clip clip nice only thing you're gonna wanna make sure of is that you get rid of fingerprints before you install these these look too good to have fingerprints on them they are fingerprint magnets but it's the price you pay for some beautiful chrome finishing and i just realized xpg includes a lint-free cloth to clean them so don't use your shirt like i just did this is actually really convenient they knew that they were fingerprint magnets they're like you know what we're going to help our customers out just a bit now we need to install our nvme ssd and to do that we need to remove this very large metal plate that covers the lower half of the tai chi they actually include a tool to remove these these look like torque screws i'm just using my own little kit here so i can get this last one out it should just pop up i think maybe i don't want to break it there we go yeah there's just a little thermal pad there that was sticking so we're going to let it sit like so we have here our gammaxx s50 light now this is actually a more affordable gen 4 nvme drive it's not the fastest nvme uh especially you know with relation to gen 4 speeds but uh this is one that uh it's gonna be a lot cheaper than uh some of the other offerings out there so we're gonna slot this in and why am i oh actually no this is held down by the plate i i'm always confused i'm like where is the screw for this thing it's actually held down by the uh the metal plate here in the tai chi so we'll start with that one all right and that's it the platform is ready to go all right and next up we're gonna install the motherboard we do have an integrated reario shield so we don't need to worry about that standoffs are already installed in the case we want to double check that we're going to move these fan cables above just so that we don't you know get those stuck behind the rear shield definitely not fun if that ever happens actually looks like we're pretty good as is i totally should have gotten out the hardware from the hard drive cage before setting the motherboard in here do as i say not as i do and we are looking good so let's stand it up right so far we do have quite a bit of clutter to deal with with these uh rgb fans obviously you've got two different cable strands from each fan to worry about we're going to cable manage a bit right now connect the front io stuff it's typically easier to do that with your power supply not in the case yet and then uh yeah then we will tackle the power supply actually you know what we won't do the power supply next we'll do the aio next i think i want to top mount it there seems to be quite a bit of clearance up top here which is nice in a mid tower so we'll try we'll try top mounting the rad we'll install a third rgb fan up front so we have three intake fans and then we'll have three exhaust fans two up top and one at the rear alright so we've got front i o taken care of and then hd audio here nice next step we're going to take care of usb 3. where is that header on this board it is right there so we're going to swing it around connect it like so i have no idea why i just developed a southern accent but i'm gonna roll with it all right so i do want to install a third fan real quick too while we're back here cable managing wow that came off actually super easy not like you know not like concerningly easy there is a little mechanical lock here it feels like they're using magnets yep so look there's those magnets all across here so there those are all locking this thing in holding it together and there's also a small little mechanical connection through these four little little things that stick out so this is actually super easy to connect and disconnect some cases i'm like prying the heck out of it just trying this like oh and then you like fall back because you're putting so much force in it it sounds like i'm joking but i'm being dead serious some of those front panels are just like on there this is so nice wow that is so convenient all right so we've got the third fan in here up front and something else i really like about this layout i've only seen one other case manufacturer do this so kind of these circular cutouts in the chassis and the frame for these front intake fans that means that you have unimpeded airflow sometimes they're squared off you know and the edges of these blades which are actually where more air is pulled in are blocked off so you're just maximizing airflow with this design i really like that next up we've got the levante 240 mil aio i just think it makes sense to install this next so this is a pretty conventional aio in terms of layout the pump should be in the block we have these addressable leds in the fans as well as in the block itself there are quite a few uh rgb cables behind this case already and the case itself actually supports addressable rgb so there's gonna be a bit of wiring to do i kind of took care of some of it but i'll i'll just show you a quick little b-roll clip here of what it looks like uh yeah there's a lot to tackle so i think adding this is just gonna make it um uh a little bit a little bit more difficult but this is again the price you pay for rgb connectivity if you want all of your things rgb you got to deal with them wires all right so we're mounting these fans to the radiator now and we're making sure that the fan blades are facing out and the same side as the tubing because we want these to exhaust air out the top of the case so let me get this in there i've got one more right here we'll get this in there and i'll show you guys how we're going to orient this so we're going to flip it upright actually not upright but upside down somehow we just had it and it's going to sit in the case just like this you see we actually have some space below the radiator and the fans between that and the motherboard so this case actually has plenty of top mounting space which is something that you don't usually see in mid towers like this and the tubing should be plenty long we'll have this flip around and we'll connect the block to the motherboard like so and we're going to connect this last one so with the radiator mounted now we can focus on getting the blocks situated so i've got the standoffs that are included with the aio already installed let's move these cables behind the motherboard tray so they're out of sight for now we do have pre-applied thermal paste i think we're just going to stick with that for now if we notice any uh thermal issues we can always swap that out later usually the stock stuff is okay enough and we're gonna swing the block around through the am4 standoffs use these little thumb screws little thumb screw caps that's tightened this one's tightened this one's tightened all right cool and then for the tubing i think we're just gonna let it kind of hang down like that what do you think pretty clean huh and we've got power supply next so this is the core reactor 750 gold again it's backwards there we go so 80 plus gold power supply pretty decent efficiency rating there and you get a 10 year warranty which i think speaks for itself whoa game to the extreme so is it a little too extreme so you see how compact it is for a standard atx psu and here's my hand for scale so uh actually very nice how short this is in this case here front to back it's not super long it's what you would expect from a mid tower so you don't want a power supply that extends too far forward because if you have a hard drive cage in here which this case does your cables are going to get really crushed in there and you're not going to have extra space for stowing those extra cables so we've got the modular cables we need connected i'm going to move this rat's nest for now out of the way slide this power supply in from the right side of the case let's see here got quite a few cables to deal with and i think it should fit again this is why having a smaller atx power supply not one of those beefy bricks that's why having one of these comes in handy especially in these mid towers here all right and with the power supply secured we're gonna start focusing on some of the uh wiring again we'll try to cable manage a bit and then we'll install the rx1600 xt last just because that's fairly easy to slot in and just power up with the pcie cables so this here is the prime air rgb extension cable and we gotta get the this is not how you open it don't do what i'm doing there we go so this will just adapt onto the end of our 24 pin like so and then this part here should be the only part of the 24 pin that you see inside your case when looking at it through the left panel so it's literally just a cable extension but it's a rgb we can run some cool pretty cool effects here so now we're going to wire this up so we'll have rgb 24 pin and rgb dual 8 pin cables for the graphics card and last up our rx 6900 xt this bad boy here oh it's a beefcake so it's actually about the same size same dimensions as the 6800 xt reference but you get a bit more power added to this card dual eight pin of course let's see how if you want to show them rear i o port selection only two display ports and a single hdmi 2.1 port and then we have a type c port over here as well and here we go with the install ao tubes are just going to rest right above the back plate here clip it in looking good so really the only color in this build excluding the rgbs of course and there are a ton of those in this build is in the red accents here with the 6900xt so maybe a white and red led color scheme will suffice well uh we'll find out okay so um quick revelation the connector the little clip here for the 8-pin connector on this card you can see it doesn't work because the connectors on the on the 6900xt are flipped upside down this is actually how a lot of cards do it but these cables only bend one way and actually one of the quadruple sets of cables here run through the led tubing so you can see there's only four exposed cables and the other four for the total eight are in these rgb little tubes here i didn't see anywhere in the manual with a quick start guide where you could flip this around which means the only way to really install this is to do it from above and that kind of that just breaks up the aesthetic because i really like how we've got the 24 pin installed here so unless we switch cards which i don't want to do because this is the only 1600xt i have we have to install it that awkward way i think we're just going to remove the dual eight pin rgb cables and we'll just keep the 24 pin for that little rgb accent piece we'll run the stock dual 8 pins up to the card all right i know it's a bit disappointing that we don't have the doley pin rgb's here it'd be pretty cool to see them all working together but i still like the 24 pin up top and i think this is probably the cleanest look we could go with seeing as though our graphics card has those eight pins flipped downward instead of upward now my cable management here is uh definitely not the best i think that a large part of this though has to do with the sheer number of rgb cables to deal with so we do have a lot of fans we have six fans in total in here which is quite a bit for a mid tower but we have double that amount of cables because each of these fans is rgb compatible uh the water block for the aio is also rgb compatible and the case is rgb compatible and economically controlled up top we'll show you that later but there's so much to deal with in terms of cable management here and it's just one of the downsides of going rgb you just got a lot more to work with the good thing though i feel like this case here is going to be fairly simple to work with so again i didn't spend too much time cable managing but i feel like i feel like this would be pretty easy i missed one ring there oh and this one there oh i keep missing that one okay let's see that's it okay not bad it's on uh better than i thought it would be all right so things are looking good i think it's fairly clean here on the left side the right side yeah again not so much but the left side looks pretty good let's go ahead and flip the switch we've got it plugged in everything works looking good looking good so far now if you're wondering why all this stuff is like neon green or lime green it's because the motherboard was previously set to lime green for an older build and we've wired all of the fan leds into the arg argb header in the tai chi so the motherboard essentially is controlling the colors of all these fans so we'll fix that this is set to red already which is cool you can see actually a lot of the leds stem from the back of this 24 pin and they kind of funnel forward like a fiber optic effect so it's a little dimmer up front and it's a lot brighter at the rear you can see it kind of just dissolve over time but also those kind of look a little a little weaker because we have so many leds uh in the fan surrounding this build so uh all right let's get the led situation sorted out we'll try to color match as best as we can and then we'll put it through 3dmark time spy and see how she stacks up so we've installed windows we've synced up the leds i think as best we could now remember that radon logo in the 6900xt cannot be changed to any other color it's just stuck at red so we changed the fans and the xpg water block there with aio as well as the 24 pin extension uh to match that radon logo so they're all red the exception is in the ram and that's because we could put some pretty cool effects here with the the ddr4 so i just ran out a white lightning effect just to kind of change things up a bit i'm not a huge fan of like the crazy animations but you do have those options if it's something you're into now where this system really starts to flex its muscles is in gaming this is a gaming pc it should perform fairly well in our 3dmark time spy synthetic here our score was 16487 with again the rx1600 xt and the ryzen 7 5800 x that places us better than 99 of all submitted results and this more or less proves the point i made in the beginning of this video about how we don't need a ryzen 9 cpu for this to be a great gaming pc eight cores is often the sweet spot for games today and you even have some headroom for streaming if you wanted to get into that as well it's a great content creation cpu it's fairly priced more or less i think zen 2 at this point is still a better value just because we don't have much apart from like the x high-end skus from zen 3 to choose from at the moment maybe the 5700 the 5700 x from the zen 3 lineup will be a better buy usually those are wouldn't be surprised but those don't exist yet so we have just the 500x to choose from in the 8 core department but to score better than 99 of all results with just an 8 core cpu i mean if anything that should tell you how powerful the 6900 xt is i mean holy crap what's our graphics score 18 756. so all in all i think this pc turned out very well it looks pretty darn good considering we synced up all the rgbs usually what you'll see is like a build put together and it'll have just the standard rainbow effect running in the background and just you don't really get a true sense of the benefit of having rgb compatible hardware in a system unless it's fully synced up to do that you need to install an operating system you need to install the rgb software it takes some time not a lot of reviewers like to do that i understand because usually these builds are deconstructed minutes after they finish filming with them but um i think that you know getting the colors to sync up with the reference 6900xt here really paid off i like the lightning effect there i just think it's just a nice breakup of the the static red everywhere else the case is surprisingly versatile did not expect this at all from xpg a company that i've always thought just made memory modules and ssds and things like that volatile and non-volatile memory basically this case is not only great with respect to airflow it's also great with respect to cable management at the rear which is something i did not expect it's got plenty of uh radiator and just aio support in general up top up to a 280 mil i believe up to a 360 mil up front and up to a 120 ml at the rear combine that with the fact that the aio actually does a great job keeping our 5800x cool especially while stress testing um xpg makes literally everything you need for a system apart from the cpu the graphics card and the motherboard which you know very few uh companies out there are manufacturing cpus and graphics cards the motherboard yeah maybe later but uh every other aspect of a build you can purchase from a data to build an xpg system that's pretty freaking incredible i'm really thankful they gave us a chance to build this kind of system it's fun building with new hardware stuff that i just haven't you know haven't seen before haven't gotten to experience and work with i think the looks for sure have paid off so big thanks again to adata for sponsoring this video for sending all these components you can find them all linked below if you want to build a system very similar to this again if you buy the components we were sent here then you'll only need a graphics card a cpu and a motherboard that aren't from xpg if you wanted an xpg theme to build and uh like the benefit of buying multiple components from the same brand as they typically work very nicely together so you shouldn't uh should need to worry about the cohesive aspects or the aesthetic aspects of the build if you choose to purchase your parts that way uh with that if you guys like the build if you like the performance like the video overall give this one a thumbs up i would appreciate that be sure to click the subscribe button if you haven't already join our public discord if you haven't already that's a link below and i'll catch you in the next one my name is greg thanks for building with mein this video we'll be putting together an all amd and when i say all amd this time yes for those who are sticklers in one of our previous videos i mean all amd both cpu and graphics card gaming pc now we're not going with something overkill for gaming a 5800 x which is an eight core 16 thread zen three chip it's going to be plenty for those games we won't see any major improvements at all bumping up from a 1500x to a 5900x or 5950x so there's really no need to allocate more of the budget to a better cpu and then uh we've also got an x rx 6900 xt which is pretty much the best amd graphics card on the market right now and for the motherboard we're going with an asrock x570 tai chi a tried and true chipset a tried and true motherboard from asrock but we've got a bunch of other stuff all from the same company and you're probably wondering why you didn't know this any sooner so xpg is the gaming brand of a data and you might have heard of a data from maybe some of their memory modules some of their ssds i actually use quite a bit of the memory modules one of their kits is in my racing sim right now they make very affordable but very powerful memory so they have reached out and wanted to sponsor a build with a bunch of stuff that they make that i'll be honest i didn't know they made so um this is news to me and most likely you as well first up we've got the levante 240 mil aio it's a pretty sexy looking rat i'm not gonna lie the fans look really good here the block looks nice so excited to build with that we've also got below that they call it the core reactor check that out that's a 80 plus gold 750 watt power supply gonna love building with that it looks super compact as well i love 750 watt units that aren't very large they don't take up a lot of space in their cases as for the cases this is the defender pro and this was probably the most shocking revelation of this entire project i had no clue that a data or xpg specifically makes a mid tower but the defender pro looks to be on the plus side in terms of performance and feature set so we've got a pretty airy front panel here you can see a nice mesh with a little like squarish or diamond pattern design there not too bad we've got plenty of rad support up top and up front we've got a 120mm fan at three you can slide up and down and uh rgb fans i think yeah rgb fans wow who would have thought now like i said earlier a data xpg you probably know them for their ram they are flexing their muscles hard in this case so these here are spektrix d50 extreme memory kits these things clock up to 4 800 megahertz a piece and they sent us 32 gigs in total we're gonna populate all four dimm slots and see how high we can get these frequencies but these are incredibly well-bent kits and then we've got a few other things to show off here so we've got one of their rgb strips this is again this is all from xpg we've got three more of their rogb fans and we've got these look really cool here i can't wait to build with these these are actually like rgb cables more or less and they can rock some pretty cool effects as well so we're going to experiment a bit with that i'm pretty sure the color scheme is more or less going to be like black and red just because our radon logo the 6900xt is going to be glowing red i think we can change all the fans to red so it should look pretty stealthy but um you know we need to experiment a bit just see how it works the motherboard really doesn't have any red accents but uh it's more or less a neutral kind of gray and black tone so um the fact that we have rgb pretty much everywhere else means that we can customize those lights to fit said color scheme so i'm excited to see how this looks at the end of the day again i've not built with most of these parts from xpgs because i didn't know they existed but um yeah that's why this video exists big thanks to xpg4 sponsoring this video sponsoring this build setting all these components let's get to it alright so we're going to start first with our motherboard and excuse excuse me thank you pepsico all right so i'm gonna pull this bad boy out set her down like so then we're gonna switch out over to our 5800x and i've used both of these before by the way when we're doing our testing that's why some of these boxes look like they've uh they've been used before that's because they in fact have been let's pop this open i'll get a close-up shot of that look how good i love the way these cpus look the ryzen cpus just looks so nice not that you're going to see any of this in your build when it's fully uh fully assembled but anyway we're going to pull back on this lever swing it upright and we're going to install it this orientation here drops in pop her back down clip easy peasy next up we're gonna focus on this ram so like i said earlier these memory modules are insane uh these are just like crazy modules crazy fast very well bend they are sealed i should probably unseal them mama oh yeah these are looking good so we do have rgb capabilities here this can be synced up with pretty much any motherboard software out there asus aura gigabyte rgb fusion msi mystic light asrock polychrome i think is what they call it so um these look really good i think there's a plastic cover on these too yep there they are okay so pull it off wow these look really good and that's one side this is the other side it's super nice so let's get one of these in here just kind of see how it looks pull back on all four tabs we're gonna be populating all four dim slots slot this bad boy in clip clip nice only thing you're gonna wanna make sure of is that you get rid of fingerprints before you install these these look too good to have fingerprints on them they are fingerprint magnets but it's the price you pay for some beautiful chrome finishing and i just realized xpg includes a lint-free cloth to clean them so don't use your shirt like i just did this is actually really convenient they knew that they were fingerprint magnets they're like you know what we're going to help our customers out just a bit now we need to install our nvme ssd and to do that we need to remove this very large metal plate that covers the lower half of the tai chi they actually include a tool to remove these these look like torque screws i'm just using my own little kit here so i can get this last one out it should just pop up i think maybe i don't want to break it there we go yeah there's just a little thermal pad there that was sticking so we're going to let it sit like so we have here our gammaxx s50 light now this is actually a more affordable gen 4 nvme drive it's not the fastest nvme uh especially you know with relation to gen 4 speeds but uh this is one that uh it's gonna be a lot cheaper than uh some of the other offerings out there so we're gonna slot this in and why am i oh actually no this is held down by the plate i i'm always confused i'm like where is the screw for this thing it's actually held down by the uh the metal plate here in the tai chi so we'll start with that one all right and that's it the platform is ready to go all right and next up we're gonna install the motherboard we do have an integrated reario shield so we don't need to worry about that standoffs are already installed in the case we want to double check that we're going to move these fan cables above just so that we don't you know get those stuck behind the rear shield definitely not fun if that ever happens actually looks like we're pretty good as is i totally should have gotten out the hardware from the hard drive cage before setting the motherboard in here do as i say not as i do and we are looking good so let's stand it up right so far we do have quite a bit of clutter to deal with with these uh rgb fans obviously you've got two different cable strands from each fan to worry about we're going to cable manage a bit right now connect the front io stuff it's typically easier to do that with your power supply not in the case yet and then uh yeah then we will tackle the power supply actually you know what we won't do the power supply next we'll do the aio next i think i want to top mount it there seems to be quite a bit of clearance up top here which is nice in a mid tower so we'll try we'll try top mounting the rad we'll install a third rgb fan up front so we have three intake fans and then we'll have three exhaust fans two up top and one at the rear alright so we've got front i o taken care of and then hd audio here nice next step we're going to take care of usb 3. where is that header on this board it is right there so we're going to swing it around connect it like so i have no idea why i just developed a southern accent but i'm gonna roll with it all right so i do want to install a third fan real quick too while we're back here cable managing wow that came off actually super easy not like you know not like concerningly easy there is a little mechanical lock here it feels like they're using magnets yep so look there's those magnets all across here so there those are all locking this thing in holding it together and there's also a small little mechanical connection through these four little little things that stick out so this is actually super easy to connect and disconnect some cases i'm like prying the heck out of it just trying this like oh and then you like fall back because you're putting so much force in it it sounds like i'm joking but i'm being dead serious some of those front panels are just like on there this is so nice wow that is so convenient all right so we've got the third fan in here up front and something else i really like about this layout i've only seen one other case manufacturer do this so kind of these circular cutouts in the chassis and the frame for these front intake fans that means that you have unimpeded airflow sometimes they're squared off you know and the edges of these blades which are actually where more air is pulled in are blocked off so you're just maximizing airflow with this design i really like that next up we've got the levante 240 mil aio i just think it makes sense to install this next so this is a pretty conventional aio in terms of layout the pump should be in the block we have these addressable leds in the fans as well as in the block itself there are quite a few uh rgb cables behind this case already and the case itself actually supports addressable rgb so there's gonna be a bit of wiring to do i kind of took care of some of it but i'll i'll just show you a quick little b-roll clip here of what it looks like uh yeah there's a lot to tackle so i think adding this is just gonna make it um uh a little bit a little bit more difficult but this is again the price you pay for rgb connectivity if you want all of your things rgb you got to deal with them wires all right so we're mounting these fans to the radiator now and we're making sure that the fan blades are facing out and the same side as the tubing because we want these to exhaust air out the top of the case so let me get this in there i've got one more right here we'll get this in there and i'll show you guys how we're going to orient this so we're going to flip it upright actually not upright but upside down somehow we just had it and it's going to sit in the case just like this you see we actually have some space below the radiator and the fans between that and the motherboard so this case actually has plenty of top mounting space which is something that you don't usually see in mid towers like this and the tubing should be plenty long we'll have this flip around and we'll connect the block to the motherboard like so and we're going to connect this last one so with the radiator mounted now we can focus on getting the blocks situated so i've got the standoffs that are included with the aio already installed let's move these cables behind the motherboard tray so they're out of sight for now we do have pre-applied thermal paste i think we're just going to stick with that for now if we notice any uh thermal issues we can always swap that out later usually the stock stuff is okay enough and we're gonna swing the block around through the am4 standoffs use these little thumb screws little thumb screw caps that's tightened this one's tightened this one's tightened all right cool and then for the tubing i think we're just gonna let it kind of hang down like that what do you think pretty clean huh and we've got power supply next so this is the core reactor 750 gold again it's backwards there we go so 80 plus gold power supply pretty decent efficiency rating there and you get a 10 year warranty which i think speaks for itself whoa game to the extreme so is it a little too extreme so you see how compact it is for a standard atx psu and here's my hand for scale so uh actually very nice how short this is in this case here front to back it's not super long it's what you would expect from a mid tower so you don't want a power supply that extends too far forward because if you have a hard drive cage in here which this case does your cables are going to get really crushed in there and you're not going to have extra space for stowing those extra cables so we've got the modular cables we need connected i'm going to move this rat's nest for now out of the way slide this power supply in from the right side of the case let's see here got quite a few cables to deal with and i think it should fit again this is why having a smaller atx power supply not one of those beefy bricks that's why having one of these comes in handy especially in these mid towers here all right and with the power supply secured we're gonna start focusing on some of the uh wiring again we'll try to cable manage a bit and then we'll install the rx1600 xt last just because that's fairly easy to slot in and just power up with the pcie cables so this here is the prime air rgb extension cable and we gotta get the this is not how you open it don't do what i'm doing there we go so this will just adapt onto the end of our 24 pin like so and then this part here should be the only part of the 24 pin that you see inside your case when looking at it through the left panel so it's literally just a cable extension but it's a rgb we can run some cool pretty cool effects here so now we're going to wire this up so we'll have rgb 24 pin and rgb dual 8 pin cables for the graphics card and last up our rx 6900 xt this bad boy here oh it's a beefcake so it's actually about the same size same dimensions as the 6800 xt reference but you get a bit more power added to this card dual eight pin of course let's see how if you want to show them rear i o port selection only two display ports and a single hdmi 2.1 port and then we have a type c port over here as well and here we go with the install ao tubes are just going to rest right above the back plate here clip it in looking good so really the only color in this build excluding the rgbs of course and there are a ton of those in this build is in the red accents here with the 6900xt so maybe a white and red led color scheme will suffice well uh we'll find out okay so um quick revelation the connector the little clip here for the 8-pin connector on this card you can see it doesn't work because the connectors on the on the 6900xt are flipped upside down this is actually how a lot of cards do it but these cables only bend one way and actually one of the quadruple sets of cables here run through the led tubing so you can see there's only four exposed cables and the other four for the total eight are in these rgb little tubes here i didn't see anywhere in the manual with a quick start guide where you could flip this around which means the only way to really install this is to do it from above and that kind of that just breaks up the aesthetic because i really like how we've got the 24 pin installed here so unless we switch cards which i don't want to do because this is the only 1600xt i have we have to install it that awkward way i think we're just going to remove the dual eight pin rgb cables and we'll just keep the 24 pin for that little rgb accent piece we'll run the stock dual 8 pins up to the card all right i know it's a bit disappointing that we don't have the doley pin rgb's here it'd be pretty cool to see them all working together but i still like the 24 pin up top and i think this is probably the cleanest look we could go with seeing as though our graphics card has those eight pins flipped downward instead of upward now my cable management here is uh definitely not the best i think that a large part of this though has to do with the sheer number of rgb cables to deal with so we do have a lot of fans we have six fans in total in here which is quite a bit for a mid tower but we have double that amount of cables because each of these fans is rgb compatible uh the water block for the aio is also rgb compatible and the case is rgb compatible and economically controlled up top we'll show you that later but there's so much to deal with in terms of cable management here and it's just one of the downsides of going rgb you just got a lot more to work with the good thing though i feel like this case here is going to be fairly simple to work with so again i didn't spend too much time cable managing but i feel like i feel like this would be pretty easy i missed one ring there oh and this one there oh i keep missing that one okay let's see that's it okay not bad it's on uh better than i thought it would be all right so things are looking good i think it's fairly clean here on the left side the right side yeah again not so much but the left side looks pretty good let's go ahead and flip the switch we've got it plugged in everything works looking good looking good so far now if you're wondering why all this stuff is like neon green or lime green it's because the motherboard was previously set to lime green for an older build and we've wired all of the fan leds into the arg argb header in the tai chi so the motherboard essentially is controlling the colors of all these fans so we'll fix that this is set to red already which is cool you can see actually a lot of the leds stem from the back of this 24 pin and they kind of funnel forward like a fiber optic effect so it's a little dimmer up front and it's a lot brighter at the rear you can see it kind of just dissolve over time but also those kind of look a little a little weaker because we have so many leds uh in the fan surrounding this build so uh all right let's get the led situation sorted out we'll try to color match as best as we can and then we'll put it through 3dmark time spy and see how she stacks up so we've installed windows we've synced up the leds i think as best we could now remember that radon logo in the 6900xt cannot be changed to any other color it's just stuck at red so we changed the fans and the xpg water block there with aio as well as the 24 pin extension uh to match that radon logo so they're all red the exception is in the ram and that's because we could put some pretty cool effects here with the the ddr4 so i just ran out a white lightning effect just to kind of change things up a bit i'm not a huge fan of like the crazy animations but you do have those options if it's something you're into now where this system really starts to flex its muscles is in gaming this is a gaming pc it should perform fairly well in our 3dmark time spy synthetic here our score was 16487 with again the rx1600 xt and the ryzen 7 5800 x that places us better than 99 of all submitted results and this more or less proves the point i made in the beginning of this video about how we don't need a ryzen 9 cpu for this to be a great gaming pc eight cores is often the sweet spot for games today and you even have some headroom for streaming if you wanted to get into that as well it's a great content creation cpu it's fairly priced more or less i think zen 2 at this point is still a better value just because we don't have much apart from like the x high-end skus from zen 3 to choose from at the moment maybe the 5700 the 5700 x from the zen 3 lineup will be a better buy usually those are wouldn't be surprised but those don't exist yet so we have just the 500x to choose from in the 8 core department but to score better than 99 of all results with just an 8 core cpu i mean if anything that should tell you how powerful the 6900 xt is i mean holy crap what's our graphics score 18 756. so all in all i think this pc turned out very well it looks pretty darn good considering we synced up all the rgbs usually what you'll see is like a build put together and it'll have just the standard rainbow effect running in the background and just you don't really get a true sense of the benefit of having rgb compatible hardware in a system unless it's fully synced up to do that you need to install an operating system you need to install the rgb software it takes some time not a lot of reviewers like to do that i understand because usually these builds are deconstructed minutes after they finish filming with them but um i think that you know getting the colors to sync up with the reference 6900xt here really paid off i like the lightning effect there i just think it's just a nice breakup of the the static red everywhere else the case is surprisingly versatile did not expect this at all from xpg a company that i've always thought just made memory modules and ssds and things like that volatile and non-volatile memory basically this case is not only great with respect to airflow it's also great with respect to cable management at the rear which is something i did not expect it's got plenty of uh radiator and just aio support in general up top up to a 280 mil i believe up to a 360 mil up front and up to a 120 ml at the rear combine that with the fact that the aio actually does a great job keeping our 5800x cool especially while stress testing um xpg makes literally everything you need for a system apart from the cpu the graphics card and the motherboard which you know very few uh companies out there are manufacturing cpus and graphics cards the motherboard yeah maybe later but uh every other aspect of a build you can purchase from a data to build an xpg system that's pretty freaking incredible i'm really thankful they gave us a chance to build this kind of system it's fun building with new hardware stuff that i just haven't you know haven't seen before haven't gotten to experience and work with i think the looks for sure have paid off so big thanks again to adata for sponsoring this video for sending all these components you can find them all linked below if you want to build a system very similar to this again if you buy the components we were sent here then you'll only need a graphics card a cpu and a motherboard that aren't from xpg if you wanted an xpg theme to build and uh like the benefit of buying multiple components from the same brand as they typically work very nicely together so you shouldn't uh should need to worry about the cohesive aspects or the aesthetic aspects of the build if you choose to purchase your parts that way uh with that if you guys like the build if you like the performance like the video overall give this one a thumbs up i would appreciate that be sure to click the subscribe button if you haven't 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