**A Successful Build: A Personal Experience with Building a High-Performance Gaming PC**

I say hover this into the build, the lanes have already been removed, so I think I can actually go ahead and just uh well install it a bit of a push, and that's going to click in. He says is that not going in aha there we go, bit of a push, and then we've got the GPU support bracket, so what I'm going to do with this is I'm going to just go ahead get our GPU support prongs nicely in a place and use these to hold the card exactly where I want it. I'm then going to finish off with a couple of screws to secure it into place and run the GPU power cable through the dedicated grommet up to the 16 ping connector, and with that, I think I'm going to have a build that's going to turn on and the RGB should all work.

So let's see, power button, yes, okay, uh, that's all absolutely amazing. Oh my goodness, me, not that I was doubting my ability but more that I'm just really pleased it's all so easy to put together. That's the LED switch, so you can see, you can cycle through all the modes - we got blue, we got red, we got fading, we got fast fading - you get the point. The only thing that's not synced up is the memory, so what I'm going to do is head into Windows and get this all configured and see if I can control all the RGB in a piece of software like Signal to get everything working systemwide and looking glorious.

I'll see you in a few moments for those all-important gaming benchmarks moving through into performance. And it's time to see how this build performs now, as usual, we've tested a wide variety of games, and today I've used MSI's MPG 321 URX as my monitor of choice. The reason being it's a 4K QD.O LAB panel that looks stunning in 32-inch form factor is perfect for me while a 240 Hz refresh rate and a 0.03 millisecond response time make it a really great pick all around.

Black Myth Wukong is first up now at 4K Ultra High with DSS3 enabled, frame gen enabled, Racing set to ultra high this game looks incredible, I mean what an amazing vision experience. The frame rate was solid too, at 62 FPS on average, now yes, this is arguably slightly on the lower side but considering we've got that R tracing on which I think makes a massive difference in this title - it's a frame rate that I'm happy with and frame generation here allowing the build to get to a nice high playable frame rate.

Move through into Alan Weight 2, and it's our second R tracing-based title. Don't worry, the rasterization tests are coming in a moment, here we tune down to 1440p High DLS set to 3.0 quality mode, frame generation on, and again rate tracing enabled too, what a mouthful these settings are again, the game looks amazing, and the frame rate was really good too, at 106 FPS on average.

To be precise, we tested here at 144p due to the fairly hefty performance overhead at 4K. Move through to some non-R tracing results in Call of Duty's War Zone, is first here at 4K High with DLS enabled and set to quality of course no frame gen here that's being used, that's going to introduce latency which we don't want, DLS on quality is going to reduce the latency, the average frame rate here at 4K was really good, 112 FPS on average.

With the game looking pretty fantastic, move through into Hogwarts Legacy next up at 4K High and again the frame rate dropped a fair chunk but this is a game where we're targeting that 60 Mark, it's an RPG title, it's not a competitive FPS shooter, and the build again looked great with a 69 FPS average. That's not me trying to excuse the lower frame rates but more actually outline that 69 FPS in this game is totally fine.

And while it's nice to be in the 120-150 Mark, it's plainly not always necessary. Fortnite at 1080p competitive is next on the list of course no rate tracing or anything to worry about here and the game performed well, 282 FPS for a nice fast competitive Fortnite Experience. Apex Legends brings things to full rasterization so no fancy Nvidia features enabled here, and at 4K High again the build did well, 164 FPS giving you a competitive frame rate even at this top-end 4K resolution.

I've been really happy with how this build has turned out from its great SSD that performed well for the price to an MSI theme with a case cooler, motherboard, and GPU that all match and look the part. Two what do you guys think?

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat is up guys welcome back to another geeka video now in this one I'm going to show you guys how to build an awesome $2,000 gaming PC build for 2024 and Beyond with some awesome components that are going to combine to look great and provide fantastic performance at 1440p and even a bit of 4K gaming this build is really solid and I'll of course be addressing the elephant in the room for a new PC build right now is ryzen 9000 ever going to be worth it let's dive into it SK HX are one of the world's leading semiconductor suppliers manufacturing high performance dram Nan Flash and controllers Supply into some of the world's largest OEM and now with gaming drives like their Platinum p41 you can add an SK hyx drive to your next gaming PC build with speeds of up to 7,000 megabytes per second you can learn more about the Platinum p41 later in today's video and at the first links to New Egg in the description below this video is going to be split into two main sections first I'll be running you guys through all the parts as I put the system together while secondly I'll be looking at performance in detail later on let me Begin by talking through the CPU choice in this build cuz I feel like I may have a bit of explaining to do now this is the ryzen 7 9700x it's amd's latest Generation ryzen 7 processor now if you saw the reviews of these chips at launch you'll know that the reaction to them was lukewarm at best the tldr is that this isn't much better than the ryzen 77 00 X it replaces it's more power efficient and more expensive and that was the problem with these chips not necessarily that they perform badly because they don't but they don't perform that much better than the chips they replace I'll link this and the 7700x down below where you can compare pricing of the two chips I expect this chip to fall in price over the coming months if that is the case just go for the 9700x if actually these CPUs still have a big price differential the 7700x is what I would pick now with this being an AMD build we of course need an AMD motherboard and that is where it's sort of buried under the cooler and the memory the b650 tomahawk Wi-Fi comes into play now when it comes to ryzen as much as there have been some problems with ryzen 9000 there are lots of really great selling points and this b650 motherboard chipset is the big one it means that you can overclock CPUs without needing to buy the top end motherboards I'm looking at you Intel and with a simple bios update these boards will support the ryzen 9000 CPU out of the box in fact if you buy a b650 motherboard now the chances are brand new it probably will with a compatible bios I was speaking to one motherboard brand who said they've been shipping with ryzen 9000 compatible bioses since like April so if you're buying a new motherboard in the coming weeks or months the likelihood is you may not even need to flash the board to give you guys a quick walk around of the board we've got all of our fan headers at the top ddr5 memory dims down this right hand side obviously the am5 socket which is good for not only ryzen 7 and 9,000 but future 10 11,000 CPUs potentially right up to 2027 plenty of CPU power delivery with two eight pin power connectors all our vrm Coolin and then of course the m.2 heat sinks with the m.2 slots underneath the io on this board is solid too you've got an optical audio port all of the analog connections Wi-Fi and then your high-speed USBS and any display outputs if you're using integrated Graphics which we aren't this is a really strong board though and is going to be perfect for the build today of course I can install the CPU into the motherboard and at the same time I'm also going to pop in the memory and SSD talking of which this is the SK hyx Platinum p41 now big shout out to new and SK HX for sending this out and helping to make this portion of the build possible now this 2 tbte Drive can commonly be found for around $150 and supports the gem 4 standard with nice quick speeds you can find some performance metrics for this drive on your screen now in Crystal dismark we are pretty impressed with it it marginally outpaced the 980 and 990 Pro on sequential read speeds which in a build where we're trying to be fairly price competitive yes it's not a budget system but one that should provide good value across the board this kind of Drive is going to be absolutely perfect I do love how quick and affordable a lot of these ssds really have become the G4 standard is just an amazing value proposition right now where's it gone oh it's inside of here but for this build this one's going to be fine I opened it and I was like um there's no SSD actually psych it's under here Ah that's clever did slightly concern me for a moment though I'm stab me I was like where's the SSD this one's a 2 TB drive it's going to give us 2,000 gigs of capacity it's available in different capacity variations which I'll also link down in the description below memory-wise I've gone for a bit of a favorite of mine this is the gskill Trident Z5 Neo RGB to give you an idea of how bulletproof this Ram is AMD actually ship it out to people with their ryzen review packages that's the memory they want people to use I didn't get this from AMD but you know even still you understand the sentiment and point got to say isn't that just absolutely gorgeous we got a white Kit of this in recently and used the G skill forget what it's called but the really high-end Crystal like Royal Elite whatever it's called I love the look of that too going to go ahead and install all of this starting of course with the CPU no stock cooler or anything in this box to worry about just the chip itself so pop that out oh yes you know as much as ryzen 9000 isn't great it's still nice to use new things and it's nice to be using a new architecture New Generation I mean let's be honest it's not like Intel I've got well many or any options at the moment at this price point until 15th gen rolls in hopefully I reckon a little bit later this year pop that arm down lovely stuff Ram is next I'll be using the second and fourth dim slots in this build so two and four technically they start at zero so it's technically one and three but you get the gist line the ram up slott it in bit of pressure here the click lovely jly nice and easy m.2 Drive is then going to be the final thing I'll install in this slot at the top now for this you're going to want to toss out your normal screwdriver won't be needing that and instead go for a teeny tiny screwdriver that's in the correct ratchet mode to actually uninstall the m.2 heat shield so one screw on the left hand side one on the right hand side lift it up our SK hyx Platinum slides into place secures him with the little clip and then of course the m.2 heat sink is just going to fasten back on nice and he says easily while struggling to actually screw it into place the next step of the build is the CPU Cooler and for this I've gone MSI to stick with sort of an MSI theme in today's build now I've been impressed with some of their coolers as of late and they cor liquid e360 which is sort of their like budget proposition performed well in our testing on the website which you can check out in the card section now this is another one of their more entry-level brands on the core liquid lineup and this is the i360 rather than the e360 now this coer has something a little bit interesting which I don't know what they're calling it but it's like a universal CPU block now what I mean by that if I actually take the block out the box and pull off this plastic wrapping times two is the MSI developed a mounting solution which in theory fits all CPUs so you haven't got an Intel and an AMD one you haven't got the confusion of taking that off in theory making our life a bit easier and again they're doing what a lot of brands are doing right now which I do really like which is they're actually pre-running all the fans and pre- connecting the cables now these aren't like magnetic fans they're not that highend to be frank however they are all pre-rank and I like that MSI have done this to make our life a bit easier RGB block and RGB fans so they should syn with the rest of the build hopefully a nice little light show going on and then here this is quite cool I have seen this before a couple of years ago it's like a plastic molding with all the hardware in which I think I want to say it pops open ahuh it does indeed it folds out and that's they're going to give you all the hardware nicely labeled so you know exactly where everything is you've got your AMD brackets you've got your AMD screws case screws your standoff your Intel very very nice Intel on this side AMD on the other and thermal paste in there as well good stuff the reason I was doing this now was to determine whether there's any work that needs to happen to the motherboard to facilitate the cooler installation by the looks of things this uses the stock AMD mounting hardware so if I pull this off grab these little AMD screw boys out and then peel it back on uhuh it's very clever oh there's more things I need standoffs too and then grab these out I guess I need the thermal paste as well let's just take it all out and I think it's kind of like resealable I don't know how many times you can reseal it I guess we'll find out aha look at that nice and easy there is one more thing in the Box as well which you could mistake for being just a bit of plastic but this I believe is actually going to go onto the end of your fans so if you take a look at the fans here you just Chu this on the end and it's going to hide either the cable on that side or if it's installed the other way it's going to actually click on to all the fans and hide the edge of the fan so it makes it look like one seamless fan when it's actually not I guess that's a cheaper and easier solution now I said that this block was Universal but then I've also got AMD mounting brackets so I I I don't know if it is aha I have consulted the manual and it appears confusingly that there are two ways to install on ryzen 7000 9,000 just ryzen in general the first is like this which uses the AMD standoffs and some extra screws and removes the plastic pre-installed brackets and the second way leverages these brackets by adding these on so you have two choices and both should work I think I'm going to take the plastic brackets off add the standoffs into place and then ditch these stock AMD mounting pieces as I find a four threaded fit is better than one that uses the plastic brackets my personal experience and I like the MSI have given us both options you'll see what I mean later about the universality of this CPU mounting design perhaps looking a little bit more messy even if it makes your life that little bit more easier or easy I don't know this is a tech Channel we don't do spelling and grammar and the English language we just do technology technology oh my god with the motherboard all sorted the case is going to be next let me move the GP out the way and venture over to pick up this the MSI gar 300r now credit again to MSI a lot of their stuff is getting a lot lot better and by stuff I mean they're non motherboards and gpus they're non-core product lineups and this G is a great example with ample support for motherboards good Cable Management really decent radiator clearance at the top and even this built-in GPU support bracket which comes with a load of adjustability for stopping GPU sag I was going to say I've broken it I haven't it just clicks in and clicks out very easily additionally to all of that the fans are argb this is RGB and you even get an RGB controller built into the case as standard support for vertical and horizontal GPU installations is great too you can see here where I've installed a car before and the actual vertical installation is very simple you just unscrew this back piece and then you uh flip it around I mean that puts some of the bigger Legacy case Brands to shame where MSI are the ones with that kind of innovation yes they're not the first people to do it but it's the abundance of great features in this case that I really like oh and of course loads of mesh at the front for great airflow now I'm going to start by installing the motherboard so let me show you exactly where I'll be popping it in looking at the motherboard tray and what you'll find is three standoffs located at the top three along down the middle and three down the bottom the only thing that might get in the way is just this GP support bracket so just be mindful of this when screwing the motherboard in all of the screws that you need for this are included in the back of the case in the case accessory B nice and simple the next step is installing the CPU Cooler now I'm going to just remove the disc filter at the top in order to actually access these mounting rails and this is the another thing I like about this case so if I actually Slide the cooler in I'm going to install it probably this way around you can see he there's plenty of room which is good and B I can either install it here or I can offset it in slightly and install it there now this obviously is flush to the side of the case however this is more in line with the fans at the front which I think will look a bit more symmetrical and look a little bit better so that's how I'm going to install it and that plastic piece I talked about the end trim you can see this I probably can install this at this stage is going to click on there we go to the fans here so look at that so it's going to give us a bit of extra trim just going to close it off and I actually I guess that maybe if I was to install this right at the edge this might actually protrude too much for the glass panel so that isn't going to work I'm going to go yep in the middle which I think looks a little bit better anyway and that trim piece is really nice and clean once the rad is installed I'm just going to do a little bit of a test fit and I can see how this installs onto the top you can see where those screw threads are as I say that's your first option your other option is to install the proi Rory AMV brackets and remember to peel off the warning please peel off label before you use it otherwise you're going to have problems just take that off and AD da a thermal paste onto the 9700x before fattening the CPU Cooler back into place nice and simple once this is in I'm going to do the really really interesting bit of the build cables and wiring yes I don't mean that with any irony whatsoever no at this stage it can be tempting to go ahead Slide the GPU in go yeah look how good my build looks and then go oh no I've not wired anything up so I'm going to do that now this is the MSI m a 850g lpci 5 basically one of the best value 850 watt atx3 units this has the all important power cable that we need for our Nvidia GPU which is of course that 16 pin comprised of 12 power and four data pins fully modular as I say 850 WS with a nice efficiency certification too 80 plus gold I don't think it's cybernetic certified MSI would love to see that in future and as you can see here you got the fully modular interface so you only plug in the cables you need one thing MSI have done with this cable that I really like is they've given it yellow ends now you can't see this when it's plugged in and the idea is if there's any yellow exposed during the final build you know the cable isn't seated quite correctly this one's rated for up to 600 watts so right up to those high-end cards are going to be fine I'm going to install all the cables I need so I've got a couple of CPU power cables SATA power for any sort of RGB and of course our other CPU 8 Pin 2 so in total it's a 24 pin two8 pin CPUs and then of course the GPU cable with a SATA power for all our RGB and fan hubs as well go ahead and chuck all of these into the rear I/O of the power supply suppose then slide the power display in you can go fan down or fan up in this build depending on the surface your build will be installed onto before then wiring up all of the cables motherboard to the right hand side CPU up to the top left and after that all of the front panel cables ranging from your jfp1 right through the usb3 type a USB 3 Type C and HD audio too oh and don't forget the SATA power cable for built-in RGB and Fan Hub All That Remains then is the GPU now I know that there are lots of areas of the build that can be contentious and if any is well contentious it's often the GPU now why have I gone for the 7ti super now it's great at 1440p gives you legs at 4K 2 if you want it it is a little bit more expensive than it's like for like AMD counterpart which would be the 7900 XTX you're talking around about $100 price difference between a comparative model latest pricing will be in the descript description below though now this is going to give you better R tracing better dlss or FSR equivalent technology basically your AI ups scalers and the Nvidia feature set which I believe personally at the high end is worth the extra $150 price premium now vram on this card is perfectly adequate 16 GB which is 4 gigs more than the previous gen or the nons super derivative I should say now while the AMD card again is going to give you more 16 gigs is more than enough especially for 1440p but even at 4K too now this MSI one is the gaming X slim which I really really like it's a very nice design and not too thick which I appreciate while AMD don't have a problem per se with power efficiency and heat output nvidia's ad of Love lace architecture is plainly more power efficient and better on the temperatures and you can see if I go ahead and hover this into the build that it's going to fit like a glove in fact when I say hover this into the build the lanes have already been removed so I think I can actually go ahead and just uh well install it a bit of a push and that's going to click in he says is that not going in aha there we go bit of a push and then we've got the GPU support bracket so what I'm going to do with this is I'm going to just go ahead get our GPU support prongs nicely in a place and use these to hold the card exactly where I want it I'm then going to finish off with a couple of screws to secure it into place and run the GPU power cable through the dedicated grommet up to the 16 ping connector and with that I think I'm going to have a build that's going to turn on and the RGB should all work so let's see power button yes okay uh that's all absolutely amazing oh my goodness me not that I was doubting my ability but more that I'm just really pleased it's all so easy to put together that's the LED switch so you can see you can cycle through all the modes we got blue we got red we got fading we' got fast fading we you get the point the only thing that's not synced up is the memory so what I'm going to do is head into Windows get this all configured and see if I can control all the RGB in a piece of software like signal to get everything working systemwide and looking glorious I'll see you in a few moments for those all important gaming benchmarks moving through into performance and it's time to see how this build performs now as usual we've tested a wide variety of games and today I've used msi's MPG 321 urx as my monitor of choice the reason being it's a 4K QD olab panel that looks stun in 32-in form factor is perfect for me while a 240 HZ refresh rate a 0.03 millisecond response time make it a really great pick all around black myth Wukong is first up now at 4K Ultra high with dss3 enabled frame gen enabled R racing set to ultra high this game looks incredible I mean what an amazing Vision experience the frame rate was solid too at 62 FPS on average now yes this is arguably slightly on the lower side but considering we've got that R tracing on which I think makes a massive difference in this title it's a frame rate that I'm happy with and frame generation here allowing the build to get to a nice high playable frame rate move through into Alan weight 2 and it's our second R tracing based title don't worry the rasterization tests are coming in a moment here we tune down to 1440p High dlss set to you 3.0 quality mode frame generation on and again rate tracing enabled too what a mouthful these settings are again the game looks amazing and the frame rate was really good too 106 FPS on average to be precise we tested here at 144p due to the Fairly Hefty performance overhead at 4K move through to some non-r tracing results in Call of Duty's war zone is first here at 4K high with dlss enabled and set to quality of course no frame gen here that's being used that's going to introduce latency which we don't want dlss on quality is going to reduce the latency the average frame rate here at 4K was really good 112 FPS on average with the game looking pretty fantastic move through into Hogwarts Legacy next up at 4K high and again the frame rate dropped a fair chunk but this is a game where we're targeting that 60 Mark it's an RPG title it's not a competitive FPS shooter and the build again looked great with a 69 FPS average that's not me trying to excuse the lower frame rates but more actually outline that 69 FPS in this game is totally fine and while it's nice to be in the 120 150 Mark it's plainly not always necessary fortnite at 1080p competitive is next on the list of course no rate tracing or anything to worry about here and the game performed well 282 FPS for a nice fast competitive fortnite Experience Apex Legends brings things to full rasterization so no fancy Nvidia features enabled here and at 4K high again the build did well 164 FPS giving you a competitive frame rate even at this top end 4K resolution I've been really happy with how this build has turned out from its great SSD that performed well for the price to an MSI theme with a case cooler motherboard and GPU that all match and look the part two what do you guys think of this build let me know I'll link everything down in the description below as usual get subscribed if you aren't already and as always we'll see you in the next onewhat is up guys welcome back to another geeka video now in this one I'm going to show you guys how to build an awesome $2,000 gaming PC build for 2024 and Beyond with some awesome components that are going to combine to look great and provide fantastic performance at 1440p and even a bit of 4K gaming this build is really solid and I'll of course be addressing the elephant in the room for a new PC build right now is ryzen 9000 ever going to be worth it let's dive into it SK HX are one of the world's leading semiconductor suppliers manufacturing high performance dram Nan Flash and controllers Supply into some of the world's largest OEM and now with gaming drives like their Platinum p41 you can add an SK hyx drive to your next gaming PC build with speeds of up to 7,000 megabytes per second you can learn more about the Platinum p41 later in today's video and at the first links to New Egg in the description below this video is going to be split into two main sections first I'll be running you guys through all the parts as I put the system together while secondly I'll be looking at performance in detail later on let me Begin by talking through the CPU choice in this build cuz I feel like I may have a bit of explaining to do now this is the ryzen 7 9700x it's amd's latest Generation ryzen 7 processor now if you saw the reviews of these chips at launch you'll know that the reaction to them was lukewarm at best the tldr is that this isn't much better than the ryzen 77 00 X it replaces it's more power efficient and more expensive and that was the problem with these chips not necessarily that they perform badly because they don't but they don't perform that much better than the chips they replace I'll link this and the 7700x down below where you can compare pricing of the two chips I expect this chip to fall in price over the coming months if that is the case just go for the 9700x if actually these CPUs still have a big price differential the 7700x is what I would pick now with this being an AMD build we of course need an AMD motherboard and that is where it's sort of buried under the cooler and the memory the b650 tomahawk Wi-Fi comes into play now when it comes to ryzen as much as there have been some problems with ryzen 9000 there are lots of really great selling points and this b650 motherboard chipset is the big one it means that you can overclock CPUs without needing to buy the top end motherboards I'm looking at you Intel and with a simple bios update these boards will support the ryzen 9000 CPU out of the box in fact if you buy a b650 motherboard now the chances are brand new it probably will with a compatible bios I was speaking to one motherboard brand who said they've been shipping with ryzen 9000 compatible bioses since like April so if you're buying a new motherboard in the coming weeks or months the likelihood is you may not even need to flash the board to give you guys a quick walk around of the board we've got all of our fan headers at the top ddr5 memory dims down this right hand side obviously the am5 socket which is good for not only ryzen 7 and 9,000 but future 10 11,000 CPUs potentially right up to 2027 plenty of CPU power delivery with two eight pin power connectors all our vrm Coolin and then of course the m.2 heat sinks with the m.2 slots underneath the io on this board is solid too you've got an optical audio port all of the analog connections Wi-Fi and then your high-speed USBS and any display outputs if you're using integrated Graphics which we aren't this is a really strong board though and is going to be perfect for the build today of course I can install the CPU into the motherboard and at the same time I'm also going to pop in the memory and SSD talking of which this is the SK hyx Platinum p41 now big shout out to new and SK HX for sending this out and helping to make this portion of the build possible now this 2 tbte Drive can commonly be found for around $150 and supports the gem 4 standard with nice quick speeds you can find some performance metrics for this drive on your screen now in Crystal dismark we are pretty impressed with it it marginally outpaced the 980 and 990 Pro on sequential read speeds which in a build where we're trying to be fairly price competitive yes it's not a budget system but one that should provide good value across the board this kind of Drive is going to be absolutely perfect I do love how quick and affordable a lot of these ssds really have become the G4 standard is just an amazing value proposition right now where's it gone oh it's inside of here but for this build this one's going to be fine I opened it and I was like um there's no SSD actually psych it's under here Ah that's clever did slightly concern me for a moment though I'm stab me I was like where's the SSD this one's a 2 TB drive it's going to give us 2,000 gigs of capacity it's available in different capacity variations which I'll also link down in the description below memory-wise I've gone for a bit of a favorite of mine this is the gskill Trident Z5 Neo RGB to give you an idea of how bulletproof this Ram is AMD actually ship it out to people with their ryzen review packages that's the memory they want people to use I didn't get this from AMD but you know even still you understand the sentiment and point got to say isn't that just absolutely gorgeous we got a white Kit of this in recently and used the G skill forget what it's called but the really high-end Crystal like Royal Elite whatever it's called I love the look of that too going to go ahead and install all of this starting of course with the CPU no stock cooler or anything in this box to worry about just the chip itself so pop that out oh yes you know as much as ryzen 9000 isn't great it's still nice to use new things and it's nice to be using a new architecture New Generation I mean let's be honest it's not like Intel I've got well many or any options at the moment at this price point until 15th gen rolls in hopefully I reckon a little bit later this year pop that arm down lovely stuff Ram is next I'll be using the second and fourth dim slots in this build so two and four technically they start at zero so it's technically one and three but you get the gist line the ram up slott it in bit of pressure here the click lovely jly nice and easy m.2 Drive is then going to be the final thing I'll install in this slot at the top now for this you're going to want to toss out your normal screwdriver won't be needing that and instead go for a teeny tiny screwdriver that's in the correct ratchet mode to actually uninstall the m.2 heat shield so one screw on the left hand side one on the right hand side lift it up our SK hyx Platinum slides into place secures him with the little clip and then of course the m.2 heat sink is just going to fasten back on nice and he says easily while struggling to actually screw it into place the next step of the build is the CPU Cooler and for this I've gone MSI to stick with sort of an MSI theme in today's build now I've been impressed with some of their coolers as of late and they cor liquid e360 which is sort of their like budget proposition performed well in our testing on the website which you can check out in the card section now this is another one of their more entry-level brands on the core liquid lineup and this is the i360 rather than the e360 now this coer has something a little bit interesting which I don't know what they're calling it but it's like a universal CPU block now what I mean by that if I actually take the block out the box and pull off this plastic wrapping times two is the MSI developed a mounting solution which in theory fits all CPUs so you haven't got an Intel and an AMD one you haven't got the confusion of taking that off in theory making our life a bit easier and again they're doing what a lot of brands are doing right now which I do really like which is they're actually pre-running all the fans and pre- connecting the cables now these aren't like magnetic fans they're not that highend to be frank however they are all pre-rank and I like that MSI have done this to make our life a bit easier RGB block and RGB fans so they should syn with the rest of the build hopefully a nice little light show going on and then here this is quite cool I have seen this before a couple of years ago it's like a plastic molding with all the hardware in which I think I want to say it pops open ahuh it does indeed it folds out and that's they're going to give you all the hardware nicely labeled so you know exactly where everything is you've got your AMD brackets you've got your AMD screws case screws your standoff your Intel very very nice Intel on this side AMD on the other and thermal paste in there as well good stuff the reason I was doing this now was to determine whether there's any work that needs to happen to the motherboard to facilitate the cooler installation by the looks of things this uses the stock AMD mounting hardware so if I pull this off grab these little AMD screw boys out and then peel it back on uhuh it's very clever oh there's more things I need standoffs too and then grab these out I guess I need the thermal paste as well let's just take it all out and I think it's kind of like resealable I don't know how many times you can reseal it I guess we'll find out aha look at that nice and easy there is one more thing in the Box as well which you could mistake for being just a bit of plastic but this I believe is actually going to go onto the end of your fans so if you take a look at the fans here you just Chu this on the end and it's going to hide either the cable on that side or if it's installed the other way it's going to actually click on to all the fans and hide the edge of the fan so it makes it look like one seamless fan when it's actually not I guess that's a cheaper and easier solution now I said that this block was Universal but then I've also got AMD mounting brackets so I I I don't know if it is aha I have consulted the manual and it appears confusingly that there are two ways to install on ryzen 7000 9,000 just ryzen in general the first is like this which uses the AMD standoffs and some extra screws and removes the plastic pre-installed brackets and the second way leverages these brackets by adding these on so you have two choices and both should work I think I'm going to take the plastic brackets off add the standoffs into place and then ditch these stock AMD mounting pieces as I find a four threaded fit is better than one that uses the plastic brackets my personal experience and I like the MSI have given us both options you'll see what I mean later about the universality of this CPU mounting design perhaps looking a little bit more messy even if it makes your life that little bit more easier or easy I don't know this is a tech Channel we don't do spelling and grammar and the English language we just do technology technology oh my god with the motherboard all sorted the case is going to be next let me move the GP out the way and venture over to pick up this the MSI gar 300r now credit again to MSI a lot of their stuff is getting a lot lot better and by stuff I mean they're non motherboards and gpus they're non-core product lineups and this G is a great example with ample support for motherboards good Cable Management really decent radiator clearance at the top and even this built-in GPU support bracket which comes with a load of adjustability for stopping GPU sag I was going to say I've broken it I haven't it just clicks in and clicks out very easily additionally to all of that the fans are argb this is RGB and you even get an RGB controller built into the case as standard support for vertical and horizontal GPU installations is great too you can see here where I've installed a car before and the actual vertical installation is very simple you just unscrew this back piece and then you uh flip it around I mean that puts some of the bigger Legacy case Brands to shame where MSI are the ones with that kind of innovation yes they're not the first people to do it but it's the abundance of great features in this case that I really like oh and of course loads of mesh at the front for great airflow now I'm going to start by installing the motherboard so let me show you exactly where I'll be popping it in looking at the motherboard tray and what you'll find is three standoffs located at the top three along down the middle and three down the bottom the only thing that might get in the way is just this GP support bracket so just be mindful of this when screwing the motherboard in all of the screws that you need for this are included in the back of the case in the case accessory B nice and simple the next step is installing the CPU Cooler now I'm going to just remove the disc filter at the top in order to actually access these mounting rails and this is the another thing I like about this case so if I actually Slide the cooler in I'm going to install it probably this way around you can see he there's plenty of room which is good and B I can either install it here or I can offset it in slightly and install it there now this obviously is flush to the side of the case however this is more in line with the fans at the front which I think will look a bit more symmetrical and look a little bit better so that's how I'm going to install it and that plastic piece I talked about the end trim you can see this I probably can install this at this stage is going to click on there we go to the fans here so look at that so it's going to give us a bit of extra trim just going to close it off and I actually I guess that maybe if I was to install this right at the edge this might actually protrude too much for the glass panel so that isn't going to work I'm going to go yep in the middle which I think looks a little bit better anyway and that trim piece is really nice and clean once the rad is installed I'm just going to do a little bit of a test fit and I can see how this installs onto the top you can see where those screw threads are as I say that's your first option your other option is to install the proi Rory AMV brackets and remember to peel off the warning please peel off label before you use it otherwise you're going to have problems just take that off and AD da a thermal paste onto the 9700x before fattening the CPU Cooler back into place nice and simple once this is in I'm going to do the really really interesting bit of the build cables and wiring yes I don't mean that with any irony whatsoever no at this stage it can be tempting to go ahead Slide the GPU in go yeah look how good my build looks and then go oh no I've not wired anything up so I'm going to do that now this is the MSI m a 850g lpci 5 basically one of the best value 850 watt atx3 units this has the all important power cable that we need for our Nvidia GPU which is of course that 16 pin comprised of 12 power and four data pins fully modular as I say 850 WS with a nice efficiency certification too 80 plus gold I don't think it's cybernetic certified MSI would love to see that in future and as you can see here you got the fully modular interface so you only plug in the cables you need one thing MSI have done with this cable that I really like is they've given it yellow ends now you can't see this when it's plugged in and the idea is if there's any yellow exposed during the final build you know the cable isn't seated quite correctly this one's rated for up to 600 watts so right up to those high-end cards are going to be fine I'm going to install all the cables I need so I've got a couple of CPU power cables SATA power for any sort of RGB and of course our other CPU 8 Pin 2 so in total it's a 24 pin two8 pin CPUs and then of course the GPU cable with a SATA power for all our RGB and fan hubs as well go ahead and chuck all of these into the rear I/O of the power supply suppose then slide the power display in you can go fan down or fan up in this build depending on the surface your build will be installed onto before then wiring up all of the cables motherboard to the right hand side CPU up to the top left and after that all of the front panel cables ranging from your jfp1 right through the usb3 type a USB 3 Type C and HD audio too oh and don't forget the SATA power cable for built-in RGB and Fan Hub All That Remains then is the GPU now I know that there are lots of areas of the build that can be contentious and if any is well contentious it's often the GPU now why have I gone for the 7ti super now it's great at 1440p gives you legs at 4K 2 if you want it it is a little bit more expensive than it's like for like AMD counterpart which would be the 7900 XTX you're talking around about $100 price difference between a comparative model latest pricing will be in the descript description below though now this is going to give you better R tracing better dlss or FSR equivalent technology basically your AI ups scalers and the Nvidia feature set which I believe personally at the high end is worth the extra $150 price premium now vram on this card is perfectly adequate 16 GB which is 4 gigs more than the previous gen or the nons super derivative I should say now while the AMD card again is going to give you more 16 gigs is more than enough especially for 1440p but even at 4K too now this MSI one is the gaming X slim which I really really like it's a very nice design and not too thick which I appreciate while AMD don't have a problem per se with power efficiency and heat output nvidia's ad of Love lace architecture is plainly more power efficient and better on the temperatures and you can see if I go ahead and hover this into the build that it's going to fit like a glove in fact when I say hover this into the build the lanes have already been removed so I think I can actually go ahead and just uh well install it a bit of a push and that's going to click in he says is that not going in aha there we go bit of a push and then we've got the GPU support bracket so what I'm going to do with this is I'm going to just go ahead get our GPU support prongs nicely in a place and use these to hold the card exactly where I want it I'm then going to finish off with a couple of screws to secure it into place and run the GPU power cable through the dedicated grommet up to the 16 ping connector and with that I think I'm going to have a build that's going to turn on and the RGB should all work so let's see power button yes okay uh that's all absolutely amazing oh my goodness me not that I was doubting my ability but more that I'm just really pleased it's all so easy to put together that's the LED switch so you can see you can cycle through all the modes we got blue we got red we got fading we' got fast fading we you get the point the only thing that's not synced up is the memory so what I'm going to do is head into Windows get this all configured and see if I can control all the RGB in a piece of software like signal to get everything working systemwide and looking glorious I'll see you in a few moments for those all important gaming benchmarks moving through into performance and it's time to see how this build performs now as usual we've tested a wide variety of games and today I've used msi's MPG 321 urx as my monitor of choice the reason being it's a 4K QD olab panel that looks stun in 32-in form factor is perfect for me while a 240 HZ refresh rate a 0.03 millisecond response time make it a really great pick all around black myth Wukong is first up now at 4K Ultra high with dss3 enabled frame gen enabled R racing set to ultra high this game looks incredible I mean what an amazing Vision experience the frame rate was solid too at 62 FPS on average now yes this is arguably slightly on the lower side but considering we've got that R tracing on which I think makes a massive difference in this title it's a frame rate that I'm happy with and frame generation here allowing the build to get to a nice high playable frame rate move through into Alan weight 2 and it's our second R tracing based title don't worry the rasterization tests are coming in a moment here we tune down to 1440p High dlss set to you 3.0 quality mode frame generation on and again rate tracing enabled too what a mouthful these settings are again the game looks amazing and the frame rate was really good too 106 FPS on average to be precise we tested here at 144p due to the Fairly Hefty performance overhead at 4K move through to some non-r tracing results in Call of Duty's war zone is first here at 4K high with dlss enabled and set to quality of course no frame gen here that's being used that's going to introduce latency which we don't want dlss on quality is going to reduce the latency the average frame rate here at 4K was really good 112 FPS on average with the game looking pretty fantastic move through into Hogwarts Legacy next up at 4K high and again the frame rate dropped a fair chunk but this is a game where we're targeting that 60 Mark it's an RPG title it's not a competitive FPS shooter and the build again looked great with a 69 FPS average that's not me trying to excuse the lower frame rates but more actually outline that 69 FPS in this game is totally fine and while it's nice to be in the 120 150 Mark it's plainly not always necessary fortnite at 1080p competitive is next on the list of course no rate tracing or anything to worry about here and the game performed well 282 FPS for a nice fast competitive fortnite Experience Apex Legends brings things to full rasterization so no fancy Nvidia features enabled here and at 4K high again the build did well 164 FPS giving you a competitive frame rate even at this top end 4K resolution I've been really happy with how this build has turned out from its great SSD that performed well for the price to an MSI theme with a case cooler motherboard and GPU that all match and look the part two what do you guys think of this build let me know I'll link everything down in the description below as usual get subscribed if you aren't already and as always we'll see you in the next one\n"