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♪ I don't know where you're gonna head off to ♪
♪ But I know that you'll go where your heart's at ♪
♪ You might cross the sea, what will be will be ♪
♪ Wanna make this adventure with you ♪
♪ Love me like a stranger, oh yeah ♪
♪ Like a melody, so in melody ♪
♪ Love me like a stranger ♪
♪ Love me baby ♪
- To the left of me here
we have the young Tech YES City
and today we are building his first gaming PC
and it's not just gonna be any gaming PC.
This is a gaming PC that is gonna be built
from some of the best price-performance money can buy
and (chuckling) (beep)
To the right of me here we have Tech YES Junior
and today we're building his first gaming PC
and this isn't just gonna be any gaming PC,
this is gonna be one of the best price performance
gaming PCs money can buy, and if you guys
haven't seen all these parts were acquired within Japan
while I was doing a deals hunt
while you were at school. - Yes.
- Anyway, it's time to go through the price list
where we've got a Ryzen 7 1700, an X370 motherboard,
16 gigabytes of DDR4 memory, a 500 watt power supply,
a GTX 980, one terabyte hard drive
and a 240 gigabyte SSD.
And lastly, we're using a case that we got for a good price
and it was actually brand new.
And tallying up all the prices
and how we got these deals,
it comes a little bit over $400USD,
or if you're in Australia, a little bit under 600 Aussie.
So, with that aside, we're gonna start building this PC
and the biggest question is, are you ready?
(upbeat rock music) ♪ I wish that I was a mad man
♪ So that maybe I wouldn't fall for you ♪
♪ 'Cause you make me a mad man ♪
♪ I lose it all when I'm with you ♪
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♪ We won't leave heaven 'til dawn ♪
♪ I was flying all by myself ♪
♪ No emotions in my head ♪
♪ But then you got so close to me ♪
♪ Ain't gonna wanna have any second thoughts ♪
♪ I won't let you walk away until we can find a place ♪
♪ No one else but you and me ♪
♪ Ain't leaning on your secrets ♪
♪ You can keep them ♪
♪ We won't leave heaven 'til dawn ♪
[Bryan] So here's his new PC, and it's almost ready,
but we've just gotta get some more SATA cables now
from the local store since the motherboard
didn't actually come with any SATA cables.
So what do you think of this PC so far?
[Little Tech YES] It's good.
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♪ We won't leave heaven 'til dawn ♪
- So this is gunna sound a little bit weird,
or even a little bit embarrassing since we are in Japan
and the internet is one of the best in the world,
but the place I'm staying at has a PocketWiFi
and the speeds are incredibly slow,
to the point where I won't be able to download
Fortnite on this internet connection.
And so, what I've got to do, now,
is go to a different location where they've got WiFi
and install Fortnite and maybe just another benchmark,
like 3DMark Fire strike, to give you guys an idea
of how well this performs, and then we should be good to go,
my boy should be able to play Fortnite
on this beast of a rig.
Now setting everything up, it's absolutely fine,
the rig works really well, I've still gotta tune it,
and overclock the CPU since it is the Ryzen 7 1700
as well as overclocking the 2133MHz DDR4 memory
which is very important you get that on higher speeds
especially to around 2666 on the Ryzen first gen CPUs.
But before we tune this rig up and also play Fortnite,
there is something that was really cool with this rig,
and that is that it came included
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[Little Tech YES] Legit
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[Bryan] So we finished tuning this PC up
and there's actually some pretty good news
considering we are using the stock Wraith Spire cooler,
and that is that we got the CPU up to 3.6GHz,
all-core boost, and the CPU max on the node temperatures
looks like it's going to around 82 degrees C.
So I'm not really gonna push it any higher than that,
otherwise I risk, of course, the CPU overheating,
especially if we go into summer, and of course,
as we go higher with the CPU from here on in,
we're only going to get diminishing returns
and that will use much more power, and on top of that,
we'll get much more heat which will overload
that stock cooler.
Now as for the memory, very important
that we still manage to get this to 2733MHz, CL16,
and we did get up to 2800Mhz, but when I was running
the IDA64 benchmark, the stress system memory tab on,
the benchmark failed at 2800, and of course,
it refused to boot at 2933MHz.
But, since it 2133MHz memory, it's actually really good
that we got it to these speeds, especially considering
the price we paid for this whole combo.
(pop music)
♪ Maybe you're a bird ♪
♪ Singing for believers ♪
♪ A song meant to be heard ♪
♪ But never meant for preaching ♪
♪ I don't know where you gonna head off to ♪
♪ But I know that you'll go where your heart's at ♪
♪ You might cross the sea ♪
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- So we finally got Fortnite up and running
and although it didn't download that fast
over this connection that we've got here,
it still managed to play it absolutely fine,
and what we were seeing with the FPS
was epic settings, 1080p, practically 100FPS
at all times, and the good thing here was too,
was that the 1% and .1% loads were really smooth as well
on the numerous benchmarks that I did,
and so what this means is that there'll be no stuttering,
no dips while you're playing Fortnite,
and we also tested this in this new Gotham City level
that they introduced in the Battle Royale,
so that was looking really good, really smooth,
and then we tested Time Spy and also Fire Strike
and the graphics score, as well as the physics score,
were looking really good, and on top of that,
the Zalman Z3 Plus, the case we used,
it's really good for the money.
The four fans were doing a half decent job of moving air,
but on top of that, they were remaining really quiet,
were I'm recording this, right next to the rig now,
and this is as noisy as this whole build gets.
And so the temperatures, whilst we were playing Fortnite
for a long period of time, was hovering just below
60 degrees on the CPU, and then on the GPU
just below 70 degrees most of the time,
so these were really good temperatures for 24/7 use,
especially in Japan since it's just coming out of summer
and it's still pretty hot.
Now here's the part where I'm gonna talk
about this build for my son, and that,
he's sort of getting into PCs, not quite there yet,
he still prefers playing on his DS and Lego,
but when he told me he wanted a PC to play Fortnite,
he sort of took a liking to it,
but I think it's going to take more time for him
to jump on PC and make the complete change from console,
and I mean, I'm guilty myself of this,
when I was young, I was all console up until
about eleven years old, I think that's when
I started to jump across to PC,
with the game called Warcraft II,
and that was once upon a time, and it was really good
when I made that switch, I just started enjoying PC
a whole lot more than console.
So hopefully he does take to this PC overtime,
but I can't blame him at this point in time
for not being too interested in the PC I built,
even though it's got some of the best
price performance money can buy,
especially coming a little under $400,
but giving out just pretty much max settings,
at 1080p with everything you can throw at it.
Now in terms of the aesthetics on this build,
it does look pretty clean at the moment,
though one thing I'd like to do is
change that front blue LED fan, and change it
to maybe two red LED fans, I think that would complete
the build since we've already got this
whole red and black theme going on,
and one other thing I'm also doing for my son
is I've ordered him a mouse and keyboard of AliExpress,
and since in my Japan MEGA DEALS Hunt series,
which is where we got all these parts from,
I couldn't find a decent price on a mouse or keyboard,
at least ones that were, sort of, in good condition,
which is what I want my son to use,
so for 20 bucks we got a Logitech G102,
the same mouse that I use as my daily driver,
both when I'm traveling and when I'm in the main studio,
and for 20 bucks it's one of the best buys you can get
for a gaming mouse if you're a fingertip gripper,
and now for a keyboard, AliExpress have some really good
mechanical keyboards to choose from.
From around $25 shipped, you can get a really nice
mechanical keyboard, and so I've ordered him
those two components, and that'll pretty much
complete his set up.
In terms of speakers, at the moment,
he can either get a headset, or a speaker set,
there's actually a spare speaker set we have around here,
and even then, the monitor has its own
built-in speakers which aren't too bad for gaming.
Though with all that out of the way,
we've got my son gaming on PC, finally,
with some of the best price performance money can buy,
and even though he's only seven years old,
he's probably better at Fortnite already than I am.
Though, granted, I really only jump into Fortnite
to benchmark the game.
And now it's time for the question of the day
which comes from a user called DaRk Xmines,
and they ask what do you do with all the spare
boxes and packaging that comes with the products
and components that you've acquired?
That's a really good question,
since over the last few years, especially with all
the used deal hunting and stuff like that,
I've gotten a lot of boxes that just come into the studio,
and for me personally, I usually just take the product out,
if it's a new product, for example, like a product review
for an RX590, or a GTX1660, I'll usually just take
a shot of the box, and then literally chuck that box out,
mainly because the boxes just stack up over time,
and I don't use them, they just take up space in the studio,
and funnily enough, if I kept all those boxes
over the years, I just simply couldn't
be able to work in the studio,
because I'd have nowhere to store them.
And here's the funny thing, in different countries,
like the US and especially in Japan,
where I'm at, at the moment, I think a lot of people
do want those original boxes when they either
buy a gaming PC, or they buy a particular secondhand part.
But in Australia, literally like no one cares,
and so that's pretty much what I do with the boxes,
and another thing I also check for is if there's
any connectors, especially converters in graphics card boxes
like the PCIE connectors, as well as the adapters,
where they come with sometimes
a DisplayPort to DVI adapter, for example.
So I pretty much keep all the product,
get rid of all the boxes at the first chance I get,
though do let us know what you do with your boxes
in the comments.
And with all that out of the way,
I hope you enjoyed today's PC build with my son,
if you did, then be sure to hit that like button,
and also if you want a cheap Windows 10 Pro key license,
don't forget to check out the link in the description below,
and use that coupon code TYCSK
to save yourself some money on that new license.
Also let us know in the comments section below
what you think of this build, if there were some parts
that you would change over and what for,
or if you think I've done a perfect job
in getting my boy into PC gaming,
love reading your thoughts and opinions as always,
and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon
- Peace out, and for now, bye.
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