**PC Building 101: A No-Nonsense Approach**

When it comes to building a PC, many enthusiasts are eager to showcase their creation and share their build with others. However, this can lead to a few issues. For one, finding all the necessary parts for a custom build can be a challenge, especially when it comes to mid-range to high-end hardware that may not be as widely available as more affordable options.

**The Importance of Testing**

To truly understand the capabilities of a PC build, it's essential to put it through its paces. In this video, we're going to test our system using 3D Mark Time Spy and Synthetic Benchmark at 1440p DX12. This will give us an idea of how the system stacks up against other builds in terms of performance and power consumption. We'll also be able to compare our results to the prices of similar systems on the market, ensuring that we're getting the best bang for our buck.

**The Case: A Mesh Masterpiece**

One of the most exciting aspects of building a PC is choosing the right case. Montek's Sky 1 RGB Case is an excellent choice for anyone looking for a well-balanced design with great airflow properties and plenty of cable management space. The contact pins on the front panel are particularly useful, as they allow for easy installation of front-mounted radiators or other components that may require additional power.

The Sky 1's tempered glass left side panel is another standout feature, providing a sleek and modern aesthetic to our build. And with its mesh side panel, we're able to achieve excellent airflow while keeping the case looking tidy and organized. The cutout for the power supply and vertical graphics card support are also welcome features that make it easy to install and cable manage.

**The Build: A Mid-Range Marvel**

Our build consists of a mid-range AMD Ryzen 5600X processor, paired with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 GPU and a range of other components. While the RTX 3070 may not be the most powerful option available, it's still an excellent choice for those looking to create a well-rounded system without breaking the bank.

The Ryzen 5600X is another key component in our build, offering six cores and 12 threads at an affordable price point. And with its AMD Zen 3 architecture, we can expect top-notch performance and power efficiency from this mid-range CPU.

**RGB Syncing: A Minor Issue**

Unfortunately, Montek's ASRock Aura RGB software has proven to be a bit of a letdown. Despite the company's best efforts, the software has been plagued by issues that make it difficult to sync our RGB lights properly. As such, we've opted for a more traditional approach, using rainbow-colored RAM and motherboard lighting instead.

**The Verdict: A Well-Balanced Build**

Our mid-range PC build is designed to provide excellent performance at 1440p resolutions while staying within budget. With a score of 94 or better on 3D Mark Time Spy, we're confident that our system can hold its own against more expensive options.

Of course, no build is perfect, and there are always areas for improvement. However, with the right components and a well-balanced design, we believe that this build offers an unbeatable combination of performance, power efficiency, and value.

**Conclusion**

Building a PC may seem daunting, but with a clear approach and a willingness to learn, anyone can create a system that meets their needs. Whether you're looking for a well-rounded build or a more extreme gaming rig, there's no shortage of options available. So don't be afraid to experiment, try new things, and push the boundaries of what's possible with PC building. With practice and patience, you'll soon become a master builder in your own right.

**The Future of PC Building**

As technology continues to evolve, we can expect even more exciting developments in the world of PC building. From 3D printing and modular designs to AI-powered optimization tools, there's never been a better time to get involved in the hobby.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right all right this build is going to be exciting so we've got a few parts you probably haven't seen before we'll introduce those to you as well as some parts that you might have seen but haven't been able to purchase yet i apologize this will be a bit of a tease but at least this will give you something to look forward to something that you can potentially build in the future with that out of the way let's uh let's get started let's start off with the case this is sent from a company called montec and montec is actually the sponsor of this video they wanted to show off their new mid tower here this is their flagship called the sky one argb and they've also got their psu which we'll get to in a second you can see the sky one has plenty of airflow capabilities this entire front panel pretty much is perforated which is awesome it is a mid tower by definition it has vertical mounting support for you know custom water blocks things of that sort and best of all it's not really going to break the bank and this here is their 80 plus gold rated century fully modular power supply this is an 850 watt unit which should be enough for this system actually more than enough now elsewhere obviously we've got the ryzen 5 5600 x is a 6 core 12 third variant which should perform better than something like an 8700k from intel better for games better for quite a bit because of the strong single core performance of zen threes packing so interesting to see how far this will go and we paired it with a b550e gaming from asus kind of makes sense to pair it with b550 i mean this is the chipset that this chip was intended to be used with uh and it looks freaking awesome so i mean come on next up we have the gigabyte rtx 3070 gaming oc we reviewed it right up here if you're interested it runs very quiet runs very cool and it is very powerful for the price so whenever you can get your hands on one strongly consider this model here and last up we've got storage and ram so let's start off with the ram this is a 3600 megahertz 16 gig kit these are two 8 gig dimms and 3600 is kind of the sweet spot obviously you could go a bit higher something around 4 000 megahertz would be optimal for the 5600x but this really isn't gonna hurt too much in the way of performance and these are gonna look mighty fine while they're on and then we have the mp33 ssd this is a gen 3 drive could go with gen 4 but if you're looking to save a bit of money gen 3 speeds are still plenty fast you're going to get a 5 year warranty with this and 1 terabytes it's a good starting point so we're going to get the platform assembled first and for that we'll need the cpu the motherboard and the ram oh mama let me tell you asus makes some mighty fine looking motherboards a few red accents okay i'm not the biggest fan of those but elsewhere holy crapola all right let's get this cpu out of here oh yeah she's a beauty i know my head's probably cut off yep my head is totally cut off oh well check out how sexy is it gonna focus on no no please oh my head's in the shot that's why there we go look how beautiful that looks um we're gonna lift that lever drop her on in nice and gently now don't want to hurt that brand new chip and lower the retention arm now i know what you're thinking you're thinking something like greg that's an awful way to apply thermal paste uh yeah get over it and i also know what you're about to say here when you see what cooler i'm using you're gonna say greg what the are you doing using the stock cooler that's right folks this stock amd cooler oh dear god why why well i'm glad you asked it's all about budget allocation obviously we could splurge on something like a 240 mil or 360 ml aio that's going to cost around 100 bucks this is included with the 5600x remember this chip is only a 65 watt tdp cpu meaning it's not going to pull a lot of power it's not going to run fairly hot and as a result we can afford to uh skimp out a bit this is going to run yeah sure a tad bit loud but i'm willing to you know accept this uh for the sake of saving money elsewhere or being able to spend that extra money on say a better graphics card whoops flicked our 30 70. so that ain't going anywhere let's connect that fan cable which one's cpu fan i think it's it's kind of weird why is the script for that header way over here i don't know which one it goes to this one's obviously cpu optional i think this one is the cpu primary header not that it really matters and we'll just tuck her in like so next up are the t-force delta rgb modules from team group oh god the glare is just awful there pop these open try not to drop them the board denotes slots b2 and a2 as the primary slots for dual channel we're going to start with b2 and then take care of a2 looking good right now you can see this motherboard already has an integrated rear i o shield which is nice don't need to worry about that we're going to use the cpu cooler as our handle of sorts we're going to drop the motherboard in using the middle standoff as our method of alignment all right motherboard screws oh the bag was already open dang it and all right looking pretty good so far if you're wondering by the way what this is this is actually a graphics card sag prevention tool to integrate it into the case you can adjust it depending on the length of your card but yeah if your card's hanging a bit low take care of it with that by the way while we're here we should go ahead and install our nvme ssd this would be something that uh you don't want to forget about later because your graphics card will completely cover actually it actually won't because it's above our pcie slot our 16 lane slot there but uh you want to take care of this usually before doing much else actually we could have taken care of this while the motherboard was out of the case i totally forgot the standoff there but uh you know what screw it we're just gonna just gonna slap it back on just everyone close your eyes everyone close your eyes next up we're gonna tackle it you know what let's just there we go next up we're gonna tackle the power supply i like to save the graphics card for last just because that's usually the easiest thing to install you want to get all your wires situated and out of the way before you get one of the vital components in there one thing i really like about this unit is that it is compact so it is not very long meaning it should fit in most mid towers out there including the sky one and with the cables we need connected we're just gonna slide this in from the right side and it'll sit just like so and now we're gonna take care of all the wiring and there's quite a bit of it to do we've got some of the small stuff down here if i can get this thing in there and some of the fatter cables like the 24 pin get in there let's use it in yep nice and now we're going to focus on some cable management at the rear i'm just going to show you a quick time lapse of this and all right so uh this probably isn't my best work we're just using the stock cables and that's usually going to mean you have to kind of stuff some cables on the bottom and you kind of run them in unorthodox places anyway i think this looks decent for what it is and uh now we just gotta install the graphics card so where is that aha here it is don't worry don't worry something in it it's a joke it's a joke relax 37 is okay it's right here okay okay yeah it's right here chill and now we can go ahead and install her and look how good she looks in there mmm hearing that click oh so satisfying and the last thing on the build agenda get the six and eight pin pcie power cables connected for this 30 70. looking good i always like to hide this extra little two pin here that we're not using try to tuck it away nice now we are going to test out this build now typically at this point in the video i'm like okay you can find these parts linked below and uh happy hunting but uh what's the point if you're not going to see how powerful the system is what it can do what it's capable of how it stacks up against other builds out there why should you feel inclined to build it i mean unless you're very familiar with these hard these parts if you're new to pc building this just might seem like you know okay cool you built something but what's the point so we're gonna from now on when we build systems like this run these through 3dmark time spikes a 1440p dx12 synthetic benchmark but we'll get to see where the system stacks up against the competition pretty much every other result in there this will be stacked up against and we'll get to see if it's you know 75 better than all results out there maybe 90 better than all the results out there and weigh that result against the price of the system which we'll get to at the very end so on the time spy it is many hours later well i was hoping by the time we filmed this part of the video that we'd have all the rgb synced up but unfortunately the new asus aura rgb software is straight up garbage and i mean that in the most sincere way possible it is a friggin dumpster fire so we're gonna stick with the traditional rainbow puke rgb colors for the ram and motherboard uh anyway elsewhere this system is doing very very well so we actually ran it through like i said time spy and came up with a score that is better than 94 of all results submitted and you got to remember this system here right 94 better than all other submissions is not using the best hardware available i mean an rtx 3070 yeah it's difficult to get we already mentioned that the 5600x yeah difficult to get we already mentioned that but they're not the most expensive things in their classes i mean you have the rtx 3080 and 3090 that are better than this and the 6800 xt from amd all four of those cards better than this one all three is that three cards yeah three but for about 500 bucks i think this is a steal and that's not really a surprise and then the 5600x i mean yeah it holds its own but it's only a six core counterpart i mean that amd offers 16 core variants for the exact same chipset the exact same platform so i think that says a lot about how far technology has come and um yeah you can really extract a ton of potential out of i would say mid to middle higher range hardware not like crazy high-end you could build this for well under 1500 bucks if you play your cards right don't pay scalper prices be patient and in a few months this will be something worth considering so again i'd like to thank montek for sponsoring this video for sending over their sky 1 argb case which has great airflow properties that perforated front panel and another thing thanks to this design you don't have to deal with those annoying cables attached to the front panel if you need to remove it to install a front mounted radiator or something like that these contact pins here clean things up nicely so all you need to do to power on these front panel leds is connect the front panel to the chassis you get a cutout here for your power supply you get vertical graphics card support you get that tempered glass left side panel plenty of cable management space at the rear uh really kind of a mesh kind of a fusion of all the great qualities of many other cases on the market and i like it for the price i think it's a good uh good buy i wouldn't have partnered with them if i thought this was a crappy case you could find all the parts we used for this build in the video description so be sure to check those out and let me know what you would change about this build if you had the same kind of budget to play around with obviously inventory levels aside uh i don't really think we could do much better i mean yeah we could probably sacrifice here or there maybe get a cheaper power supply maybe get this slightly cheaper ram although that ram is already fairly affordable there isn't much more wiggle room in the way of like optimizing for sheer performance and that's why i like this build it's one of those like no nonsense just like best bang for your buck pc builds they can handle 1440p like a true boss give this video a thumbs up consider subscribing doing whatever else i usually say and i'll catch you next time my name is greg thanks for building with meall right all right this build is going to be exciting so we've got a few parts you probably haven't seen before we'll introduce those to you as well as some parts that you might have seen but haven't been able to purchase yet i apologize this will be a bit of a tease but at least this will give you something to look forward to something that you can potentially build in the future with that out of the way let's uh let's get started let's start off with the case this is sent from a company called montec and montec is actually the sponsor of this video they wanted to show off their new mid tower here this is their flagship called the sky one argb and they've also got their psu which we'll get to in a second you can see the sky one has plenty of airflow capabilities this entire front panel pretty much is perforated which is awesome it is a mid tower by definition it has vertical mounting support for you know custom water blocks things of that sort and best of all it's not really going to break the bank and this here is their 80 plus gold rated century fully modular power supply this is an 850 watt unit which should be enough for this system actually more than enough now elsewhere obviously we've got the ryzen 5 5600 x is a 6 core 12 third variant which should perform better than something like an 8700k from intel better for games better for quite a bit because of the strong single core performance of zen threes packing so interesting to see how far this will go and we paired it with a b550e gaming from asus kind of makes sense to pair it with b550 i mean this is the chipset that this chip was intended to be used with uh and it looks freaking awesome so i mean come on next up we have the gigabyte rtx 3070 gaming oc we reviewed it right up here if you're interested it runs very quiet runs very cool and it is very powerful for the price so whenever you can get your hands on one strongly consider this model here and last up we've got storage and ram so let's start off with the ram this is a 3600 megahertz 16 gig kit these are two 8 gig dimms and 3600 is kind of the sweet spot obviously you could go a bit higher something around 4 000 megahertz would be optimal for the 5600x but this really isn't gonna hurt too much in the way of performance and these are gonna look mighty fine while they're on and then we have the mp33 ssd this is a gen 3 drive could go with gen 4 but if you're looking to save a bit of money gen 3 speeds are still plenty fast you're going to get a 5 year warranty with this and 1 terabytes it's a good starting point so we're going to get the platform assembled first and for that we'll need the cpu the motherboard and the ram oh mama let me tell you asus makes some mighty fine looking motherboards a few red accents okay i'm not the biggest fan of those but elsewhere holy crapola all right let's get this cpu out of here oh yeah she's a beauty i know my head's probably cut off yep my head is totally cut off oh well check out how sexy is it gonna focus on no no please oh my head's in the shot that's why there we go look how beautiful that looks um we're gonna lift that lever drop her on in nice and gently now don't want to hurt that brand new chip and lower the retention arm now i know what you're thinking you're thinking something like greg that's an awful way to apply thermal paste uh yeah get over it and i also know what you're about to say here when you see what cooler i'm using you're gonna say greg what the are you doing using the stock cooler that's right folks this stock amd cooler oh dear god why why well i'm glad you asked it's all about budget allocation obviously we could splurge on something like a 240 mil or 360 ml aio that's going to cost around 100 bucks this is included with the 5600x remember this chip is only a 65 watt tdp cpu meaning it's not going to pull a lot of power it's not going to run fairly hot and as a result we can afford to uh skimp out a bit this is going to run yeah sure a tad bit loud but i'm willing to you know accept this uh for the sake of saving money elsewhere or being able to spend that extra money on say a better graphics card whoops flicked our 30 70. so that ain't going anywhere let's connect that fan cable which one's cpu fan i think it's it's kind of weird why is the script for that header way over here i don't know which one it goes to this one's obviously cpu optional i think this one is the cpu primary header not that it really matters and we'll just tuck her in like so next up are the t-force delta rgb modules from team group oh god the glare is just awful there pop these open try not to drop them the board denotes slots b2 and a2 as the primary slots for dual channel we're going to start with b2 and then take care of a2 looking good right now you can see this motherboard already has an integrated rear i o shield which is nice don't need to worry about that we're going to use the cpu cooler as our handle of sorts we're going to drop the motherboard in using the middle standoff as our method of alignment all right motherboard screws oh the bag was already open dang it and all right looking pretty good so far if you're wondering by the way what this is this is actually a graphics card sag prevention tool to integrate it into the case you can adjust it depending on the length of your card but yeah if your card's hanging a bit low take care of it with that by the way while we're here we should go ahead and install our nvme ssd this would be something that uh you don't want to forget about later because your graphics card will completely cover actually it actually won't because it's above our pcie slot our 16 lane slot there but uh you want to take care of this usually before doing much else actually we could have taken care of this while the motherboard was out of the case i totally forgot the standoff there but uh you know what screw it we're just gonna just gonna slap it back on just everyone close your eyes everyone close your eyes next up we're gonna tackle it you know what let's just there we go next up we're gonna tackle the power supply i like to save the graphics card for last just because that's usually the easiest thing to install you want to get all your wires situated and out of the way before you get one of the vital components in there one thing i really like about this unit is that it is compact so it is not very long meaning it should fit in most mid towers out there including the sky one and with the cables we need connected we're just gonna slide this in from the right side and it'll sit just like so and now we're gonna take care of all the wiring and there's quite a bit of it to do we've got some of the small stuff down here if i can get this thing in there and some of the fatter cables like the 24 pin get in there let's use it in yep nice and now we're going to focus on some cable management at the rear i'm just going to show you a quick time lapse of this and all right so uh this probably isn't my best work we're just using the stock cables and that's usually going to mean you have to kind of stuff some cables on the bottom and you kind of run them in unorthodox places anyway i think this looks decent for what it is and uh now we just gotta install the graphics card so where is that aha here it is don't worry don't worry something in it it's a joke it's a joke relax 37 is okay it's right here okay okay yeah it's right here chill and now we can go ahead and install her and look how good she looks in there mmm hearing that click oh so satisfying and the last thing on the build agenda get the six and eight pin pcie power cables connected for this 30 70. looking good i always like to hide this extra little two pin here that we're not using try to tuck it away nice now we are going to test out this build now typically at this point in the video i'm like okay you can find these parts linked below and uh happy hunting but uh what's the point if you're not going to see how powerful the system is what it can do what it's capable of how it stacks up against other builds out there why should you feel inclined to build it i mean unless you're very familiar with these hard these parts if you're new to pc building this just might seem like you know okay cool you built something but what's the point so we're gonna from now on when we build systems like this run these through 3dmark time spikes a 1440p dx12 synthetic benchmark but we'll get to see where the system stacks up against the competition pretty much every other result in there this will be stacked up against and we'll get to see if it's you know 75 better than all results out there maybe 90 better than all the results out there and weigh that result against the price of the system which we'll get to at the very end so on the time spy it is many hours later well i was hoping by the time we filmed this part of the video that we'd have all the rgb synced up but unfortunately the new asus aura rgb software is straight up garbage and i mean that in the most sincere way possible it is a friggin dumpster fire so we're gonna stick with the traditional rainbow puke rgb colors for the ram and motherboard uh anyway elsewhere this system is doing very very well so we actually ran it through like i said time spy and came up with a score that is better than 94 of all results submitted and you got to remember this system here right 94 better than all other submissions is not using the best hardware available i mean an rtx 3070 yeah it's difficult to get we already mentioned that the 5600x yeah difficult to get we already mentioned that but they're not the most expensive things in their classes i mean you have the rtx 3080 and 3090 that are better than this and the 6800 xt from amd all four of those cards better than this one all three is that three cards yeah three but for about 500 bucks i think this is a steal and that's not really a surprise and then the 5600x i mean yeah it holds its own but it's only a six core counterpart i mean that amd offers 16 core variants for the exact same chipset the exact same platform so i think that says a lot about how far technology has come and um yeah you can really extract a ton of potential out of i would say mid to middle higher range hardware not like crazy high-end you could build this for well under 1500 bucks if you play your cards right don't pay scalper prices be patient and in a few months this will be something worth considering so again i'd like to thank montek for sponsoring this video for sending over their sky 1 argb case which has great airflow properties that perforated front panel and another thing thanks to this design you don't have to deal with those annoying cables attached to the front panel if you need to remove it to install a front mounted radiator or something like that these contact pins here clean things up nicely so all you need to do to power on these front panel leds is connect the front panel to the chassis you get a cutout here for your power supply you get vertical graphics card support you get that tempered glass left side panel plenty of cable management space at the rear uh really kind of a mesh kind of a fusion of all the great qualities of many other cases on the market and i like it for the price i think it's a good uh good buy i wouldn't have partnered with them if i thought this was a crappy case you could find all the parts we used for this build in the video description so be sure to check those out and let me know what you would change about this build if you had the same kind of budget to play around with obviously inventory levels aside uh i don't really think we could do much better i mean yeah we could probably sacrifice here or there maybe get a cheaper power supply maybe get this slightly cheaper ram although that ram is already fairly affordable there isn't much more wiggle room in the way of like optimizing for sheer performance and that's why i like this build it's one of those like no nonsense just like best bang for your buck pc builds they can handle 1440p like a true boss give this video a thumbs up consider subscribing doing whatever else i usually say and i'll catch you next time my name is greg thanks for building with me\n"