We Built An ASUS TUF Gaming PC That Runs It All!
**The Build: A Decent Cooler and Great Performance**
First things first, I wanted to take a look at some benchmarks on this 14700K 124 card. Center bench r24 single core on this card is coming ahead of that Apple M1 Max, which I suspected it would. As for multicore, we scored a 2026, which is really respectable. With the RTX card in hand, I figured we'd run some GPU benchmarks with 3D Mark: Steel. The scores were impressive, with a spot time of 74 and a score of 2,198.
**Testing Ray Tracing**
I also wanted to test out ray tracing on this build. I ran Port Royal just kind of testing out Ray tracing here, and the results were great. We saw an average time of 13,41, which is really respectable. This build should handle some demanding games with ease.
**New SSD: Crystal Disc Mark**
I also wanted to test out the new SSD that came with this build. Using Crystal disc mark just to run one benchmark on it, we were seeing speeds of not bad at all. The build boots up quick, and everything loads up just fine.
**Gaming Performance**
Now it's time to get into some gaming and put this build through its paces. First up was Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3, with the average FPS at 1440p Ultra being around 143, and our 1% low being 103. I'm keeping my resolution at 100% scale without any DLSS or frame generation, as I want to keep it that way across all games.
**Scaling Down**
Next up was Horizon Forbidden West, which requires a bit of scaling due to its demanding nature. However, this build handled it with ease, and we were still seeing great performance. The average FPS at 1440p Ultra was around 114, which is really impressive.
**DLSS and Resolution Scaling**
The next game on the list was Red Dead 2, which also required some scaling due to its demanding nature. However, this build handled it well, and we were still seeing great performance without any DLSS or frame generation. The average FPS at 1440p Ultra was around 114.
**Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart**
Next up was Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, which has built-in ray tracing. I enabled the ray tracing effects, and we were seeing averages of around 148 FPS at 1440p very high.
**Starfield**
The final game on the list was Starfield, with the average FPS at 1440 Ultra being around 80-90 when scaling down to 80%, but dipping under 60 when scaling up to 100%. I decided to keep it at 80% to still see great performance.
**Cyberpunk 2077**
Finally, we have Cyberpunk 2077, with the average FPS at 1440 Ultra being around 108 without any DLSS or FSR. The game's built-in frame generation allowed for some impressive performance, even without using DLSS.
**Conclusion and Thoughts on the Build**
Overall, I'm really happy with how this build turned out. It was actually quite simple to put together, and the parts all fit together nicely. The A21 Asus case accommodates this motherboard and cable management round back just fine. While I don't personally like RGB lighting, I threw some in front to make it stand out a bit. If you're interested in putting something like this together, be sure to check out the links to the parts I used in the description below.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be putting together a pretty powerful gaming PC now aside from gaming if you wanted to use this for work let's say photo editing video editing basically this thing's going to be able to handle any task that you throw at it and I do want to give Asus a big shout out for sending some of these parts over we're going with one of their Prime builds here was kind of a coincidence ETA Prime with the prime build but this is one I'm going to be using in my new studio got something in the works uh hopefully within the next 2 weeks we'll have everything finished up in this video we got to put this thing together I've actually got a lot to go over but before we get into it I do want to mention that this video is sponsored by Ur CD Keys I've been using this site for quite some time now they offer steam Keys up playay Ubisoft but the main thing I pick up over here are windows 11 Pro keys and right now if you use code ETA you can get 25% off so at checkout we'll just enter the code ETA that's going to bring the price on down to $21.86 for a full window Windows 11 Pro key they're going to email you that key and then you can activate Windows speaking of that let's head over to a new pc that I recently built as you can see we're running Windows 11 and from settings we're going to go to activation settings it's going to tell us that we're not active we don't have a key installed so we're just going to paste it right in here choose next it's going to activate Windows for us and we're ready to go if you're in need of cheap Windows keys I'll leave a link in the description and remember you can use code ETA a for 25% off so getting right down to it as we build this thing up I'll talk about all the parts used and the first thing on the list is the motherboard this is the tough gaming b760 M BTF Wi-Fi I've been wanting to use one of the Asus BTF boards for a while mainly because I do like the look of it we've got a pretty beefy heat sink here on the vrm but the main reason I like these new BTF boards is because if we take a look at the rear of the motherboard itself all of our connectors are around back here it's going to make for a really clean build 24 p CPU power fan headers RGB we've even got our Thunderbolt header down at the bottom along with USB 2.0 headers again putting something like this together is going to keep it really clean internally when it comes to Ram we did need ddr5 for this b760 board so I opted to use this Viper Venom ddr5 this is their performance memory kit up to 7,000 MHz with that XMP 3.0 profile enabled when it comes to storage I'm going to be using a 2 tbte Viper gaming VP 4300 light this is a PCI e Gen 4 m.2 and of course one of the main components here for a PC build the CPU I opted to use the Intel Core i7 14700 K with this we get 20 cores 28 threads up to 5.6 GHz I've already installed the m.2 SSD in the motherboard so let's go ahead and get the CPU in place once we lock everything down we can go ahead and install our Ram again we're using that 32 gig kit from Viper up to 7,000 mahz so far looking pretty good here and I think having that BTF with all of those connectors on the rear is going to change the look of this whole setup and speaking of the look as for the case I went with the Asus a21 so this was actually specifically designed with BTF in mind so it's got all of the cutouts motherboard's going to lay in here just fine and really awesome Cable Management given that we don't have to run any wires around the front to those power connectors or anything like that and this tough b760 does slide right in here just fine definitely goes together real nice now that we've got the motherboard mounted inside of the case it's time to tackle the cooling system and for this 14700 K I wanted to go with something a bit beefier so we've got that Rog strix lc3 360 so at 360 mm AIO and to send power to all of these components I'm going to be using the Asus Prime 850 W fully modular power supply with the AIO and the power supply installed everything's going together really nicely super clean the last thing need to tackle here is the GPU and I'm going to be using the Nvidia GeForce RTX 470 super I think it's going to pair up really nicely with the 14700 and of course you could go all out throw a 4080 in here or 4090 if you want to but this thing is going to handle any AAA game at 1440p that I can throw at it go ahead and power this thing up for the first time and you might notice I've got some RGB fans up front I just added three of the tough gaming tr20 fans here I think they look pretty decent but yeah everything went together really easily I just need to install windowss 11 get everything updated installed that we're going to be testing out getting right into Windows couple things I wanted to show you here as you can see we got the i71 14700 K I did enable that XMP profile we're at 7,000 and I've been up and running for a while now I've installed a bunch of stuff very stable the way it is and of course we've got that Nvidia GeForce RTX 470 super as we know these 14 gen intels can draw quite a bit of power and I actually wanted to take a look at this this so we'll just run a stress test here with a CPU Z this is an extreme test while we're gaming or doing everyday tasks with this setup it's not going to be pulling this kind of wattage but I always like to get an idea of what it can do and maximum right now 295 Watts just on the CPU side of things when we're gaming around 1440p on this system got an average of around 135 Watts so obviously that CPU can draw some power I'm not really limited and temps are looking good with this 360 mm aiio there is one thing that I like to do with the GPU with any of these cards as long as it allows me to do it and that's just from whatever application you'd like there's several on the market I personally use After Burner I take the power limit up so I'm not going to be doing any kind of overclocking here it's going to do it itself if the firmware allows it to and with this we should be able to get higher boost clocks on that GPU it's not much it's actually just 10 extra Watts there so we're going to be good temp are going to be fine with this card it's got a really decent cooler also so with that out of the way first thing I wanted to take a look at were some benchmarks Center bench r24 single core on this 14700 K 124 and it's coming ahead of that Apple M1 Max I suspected it would and as for multicore we scored a 2026 checking out some GPU benchmarks with 3D Mar steel Nomad 4,74 time spot with a really respectable 2,198 and since we're working with an RTX card I figured we'd Run Port Royal just kind of testing out Ray tracing here 13,41 and the final thing I wanted to test here was that new SSD I've not used this before but speeds on this are looking great using Crystal disc Mark just to run one Benchmark on it not bad at all I mean it boots up quick everything loads up just fine now it's time to get into some gaming and first up we've got the build Benchmark for Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 1440p Ultra at the end of this we had an average of 143 and our 1% low was 103 now you might notice that I'm at 100% resolution scale I'm not using any dlss or frame generation and I want to keep it that way across the board with the games that we're going to be testing but I'll tell you there was one game where we had to use some scaling not dlss just basic resolution scale but the next one on the list is Horizon forbidden West 14 40p very high and I figured with this one we'd need a little bit of dlss mainly because it is a harder game to run I mean I've been testing this quite a bit on all kinds of gpus especially igpus but it doesn't look like it's an issue for this 4070 super at 1440p Red Dead 2 1440p ultra again no scaling no dlss we actually got an average of 114 FPS out of this game and when this game is maxed out on PC even at a 1080p resolution it looks amazing 1440p really brings it up um the sky is just crazy in this game I always forget how good it really looks I also wanted to test out Ratchet and Clank Rift apart 1440p very high and this does have some raid tracing build in I've got it enabled right now this is one of those games that's kind of Hit or Miss depending on what GPU you have and I know it might not seem like a you know a hard to- Run game but if you've ever tested this out and just tried to Max it out on a lower end GPU you know exactly what I'm talking about but at 1440 very high we're seeing averages of around 148 FPS okay Starfield 1440 Ultra this is the only one I had to scale down a bit and I'm not using dlss this is just the built-in resolution scaler so at 80% here and you can see up in the top left hand corner with After Burner we're seeing averages in the low 80s but as soon as I go up to 100% scale it does dip down under 60 every once in a while so I kind of wanted to keep it right there 80 still looks pretty good at 1440 to those during the colony War and the final game we have here cyberpunk 2077 1440 Ultra with dlss or FSR completely disabled with these presets basically this game does default to using FSR so I've completely disabled it here and we could definitely get a lot more out of this it does have built-in frame gen we could go with dlss but an ultra 1440 on this 4070 super we're seeing an average of 108 FPS overall I think the build turned out great and was actually really simple to put together and it really comes down to the parts I opted to use now I love the fact that we don't have any cables on the interior here except for going right to that GPU but everything else is on the rear of the case and this a21 Asus case accommodates this motherboard and cable management round back just fine I'm personally not a huge fan of RGB but throwing a little up front here since I had the available I figured would make it kind of stand out a bit but yeah I mean it works great awesome performance here if you're interested in putting something like this together I'll leave links to all the parts I used in the description below and if there's any other applications games or even operating systems you'd like to see running on this rig just let me know in the comments but that's going to wrap it for this one and like always thanks for watchingwhat's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be putting together a pretty powerful gaming PC now aside from gaming if you wanted to use this for work let's say photo editing video editing basically this thing's going to be able to handle any task that you throw at it and I do want to give Asus a big shout out for sending some of these parts over we're going with one of their Prime builds here was kind of a coincidence ETA Prime with the prime build but this is one I'm going to be using in my new studio got something in the works uh hopefully within the next 2 weeks we'll have everything finished up in this video we got to put this thing together I've actually got a lot to go over but before we get into it I do want to mention that this video is sponsored by Ur CD Keys I've been using this site for quite some time now they offer steam Keys up playay Ubisoft but the main thing I pick up over here are windows 11 Pro keys and right now if you use code ETA you can get 25% off so at checkout we'll just enter the code ETA that's going to bring the price on down to $21.86 for a full window Windows 11 Pro key they're going to email you that key and then you can activate Windows speaking of that let's head over to a new pc that I recently built as you can see we're running Windows 11 and from settings we're going to go to activation settings it's going to tell us that we're not active we don't have a key installed so we're just going to paste it right in here choose next it's going to activate Windows for us and we're ready to go if you're in need of cheap Windows keys I'll leave a link in the description and remember you can use code ETA a for 25% off so getting right down to it as we build this thing up I'll talk about all the parts used and the first thing on the list is the motherboard this is the tough gaming b760 M BTF Wi-Fi I've been wanting to use one of the Asus BTF boards for a while mainly because I do like the look of it we've got a pretty beefy heat sink here on the vrm but the main reason I like these new BTF boards is because if we take a look at the rear of the motherboard itself all of our connectors are around back here it's going to make for a really clean build 24 p CPU power fan headers RGB we've even got our Thunderbolt header down at the bottom along with USB 2.0 headers again putting something like this together is going to keep it really clean internally when it comes to Ram we did need ddr5 for this b760 board so I opted to use this Viper Venom ddr5 this is their performance memory kit up to 7,000 MHz with that XMP 3.0 profile enabled when it comes to storage I'm going to be using a 2 tbte Viper gaming VP 4300 light this is a PCI e Gen 4 m.2 and of course one of the main components here for a PC build the CPU I opted to use the Intel Core i7 14700 K with this we get 20 cores 28 threads up to 5.6 GHz I've already installed the m.2 SSD in the motherboard so let's go ahead and get the CPU in place once we lock everything down we can go ahead and install our Ram again we're using that 32 gig kit from Viper up to 7,000 mahz so far looking pretty good here and I think having that BTF with all of those connectors on the rear is going to change the look of this whole setup and speaking of the look as for the case I went with the Asus a21 so this was actually specifically designed with BTF in mind so it's got all of the cutouts motherboard's going to lay in here just fine and really awesome Cable Management given that we don't have to run any wires around the front to those power connectors or anything like that and this tough b760 does slide right in here just fine definitely goes together real nice now that we've got the motherboard mounted inside of the case it's time to tackle the cooling system and for this 14700 K I wanted to go with something a bit beefier so we've got that Rog strix lc3 360 so at 360 mm AIO and to send power to all of these components I'm going to be using the Asus Prime 850 W fully modular power supply with the AIO and the power supply installed everything's going together really nicely super clean the last thing need to tackle here is the GPU and I'm going to be using the Nvidia GeForce RTX 470 super I think it's going to pair up really nicely with the 14700 and of course you could go all out throw a 4080 in here or 4090 if you want to but this thing is going to handle any AAA game at 1440p that I can throw at it go ahead and power this thing up for the first time and you might notice I've got some RGB fans up front I just added three of the tough gaming tr20 fans here I think they look pretty decent but yeah everything went together really easily I just need to install windowss 11 get everything updated installed that we're going to be testing out getting right into Windows couple things I wanted to show you here as you can see we got the i71 14700 K I did enable that XMP profile we're at 7,000 and I've been up and running for a while now I've installed a bunch of stuff very stable the way it is and of course we've got that Nvidia GeForce RTX 470 super as we know these 14 gen intels can draw quite a bit of power and I actually wanted to take a look at this this so we'll just run a stress test here with a CPU Z this is an extreme test while we're gaming or doing everyday tasks with this setup it's not going to be pulling this kind of wattage but I always like to get an idea of what it can do and maximum right now 295 Watts just on the CPU side of things when we're gaming around 1440p on this system got an average of around 135 Watts so obviously that CPU can draw some power I'm not really limited and temps are looking good with this 360 mm aiio there is one thing that I like to do with the GPU with any of these cards as long as it allows me to do it and that's just from whatever application you'd like there's several on the market I personally use After Burner I take the power limit up so I'm not going to be doing any kind of overclocking here it's going to do it itself if the firmware allows it to and with this we should be able to get higher boost clocks on that GPU it's not much it's actually just 10 extra Watts there so we're going to be good temp are going to be fine with this card it's got a really decent cooler also so with that out of the way first thing I wanted to take a look at were some benchmarks Center bench r24 single core on this 14700 K 124 and it's coming ahead of that Apple M1 Max I suspected it would and as for multicore we scored a 2026 checking out some GPU benchmarks with 3D Mar steel Nomad 4,74 time spot with a really respectable 2,198 and since we're working with an RTX card I figured we'd Run Port Royal just kind of testing out Ray tracing here 13,41 and the final thing I wanted to test here was that new SSD I've not used this before but speeds on this are looking great using Crystal disc Mark just to run one Benchmark on it not bad at all I mean it boots up quick everything loads up just fine now it's time to get into some gaming and first up we've got the build Benchmark for Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 1440p Ultra at the end of this we had an average of 143 and our 1% low was 103 now you might notice that I'm at 100% resolution scale I'm not using any dlss or frame generation and I want to keep it that way across the board with the games that we're going to be testing but I'll tell you there was one game where we had to use some scaling not dlss just basic resolution scale but the next one on the list is Horizon forbidden West 14 40p very high and I figured with this one we'd need a little bit of dlss mainly because it is a harder game to run I mean I've been testing this quite a bit on all kinds of gpus especially igpus but it doesn't look like it's an issue for this 4070 super at 1440p Red Dead 2 1440p ultra again no scaling no dlss we actually got an average of 114 FPS out of this game and when this game is maxed out on PC even at a 1080p resolution it looks amazing 1440p really brings it up um the sky is just crazy in this game I always forget how good it really looks I also wanted to test out Ratchet and Clank Rift apart 1440p very high and this does have some raid tracing build in I've got it enabled right now this is one of those games that's kind of Hit or Miss depending on what GPU you have and I know it might not seem like a you know a hard to- Run game but if you've ever tested this out and just tried to Max it out on a lower end GPU you know exactly what I'm talking about but at 1440 very high we're seeing averages of around 148 FPS okay Starfield 1440 Ultra this is the only one I had to scale down a bit and I'm not using dlss this is just the built-in resolution scaler so at 80% here and you can see up in the top left hand corner with After Burner we're seeing averages in the low 80s but as soon as I go up to 100% scale it does dip down under 60 every once in a while so I kind of wanted to keep it right there 80 still looks pretty good at 1440 to those during the colony War and the final game we have here cyberpunk 2077 1440 Ultra with dlss or FSR completely disabled with these presets basically this game does default to using FSR so I've completely disabled it here and we could definitely get a lot more out of this it does have built-in frame gen we could go with dlss but an ultra 1440 on this 4070 super we're seeing an average of 108 FPS overall I think the build turned out great and was actually really simple to put together and it really comes down to the parts I opted to use now I love the fact that we don't have any cables on the interior here except for going right to that GPU but everything else is on the rear of the case and this a21 Asus case accommodates this motherboard and cable management round back just fine I'm personally not a huge fan of RGB but throwing a little up front here since I had the available I figured would make it kind of stand out a bit but yeah I mean it works great awesome performance here if you're interested in putting something like this together I'll leave links to all the parts I used in the description below and if there's any other applications games or even operating systems you'd like to see running on this rig just let me know in the comments but that's going to wrap it for this one and like always thanks for watching\n"