- So, recently, PC parts have come down to the point now
where they're just such good value for money
here before Christmas in 2018.
And today here we have on the desk, a PC for someone
that wants it all but doesn't wanna spend it all.
It's gonna have a Ryzen 5 2600 6 core,
it's gonna have an RTX 2070,
decent power supply, hard drive, SSD,
and a case with some bling to match.
So let's take a look at all these parts, and then of course
put this build together, and see how it performs.
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So going over the list of components going in this build,
first up we have the Ryzen 5 2600 coming in at $169,
if you're in Australia, $212 on sale.
This is a 6 core, 12 thread processor, the latest from AMD.
It's also overclockable, and comes
with an included CPU cooler that runs really well.
Next up is DDR4 memory.
You can currently get this for $109 for a 16 gigabyte kit.
If you're in Australia, $164. Then we're going on
to the case. That's the Deepcool Matrexx 55.
In the U.S. you can get it for $38 but it doesn't have any
included RGB fans. So we're adding an additional three RGB
fas to put at the front for $26.
In Australia this will cost you $69 AUD.
And it comes with the three fans included.
Moving on to storage you can currently get 120 gigabyte SSDs
for as little as $23 in America and in Australia $28.
120 gigabytes will be plenty enough for using this as a
boot drive and if we need more storage then we have a
one terabyte hard drive going for $45, in Australia $62.
And for a power supply, now we've got some different
choices here. I'm using a 550 Watt in my build today,
but if you're in America you can get a 600 watt
going for just over $50,
and in Australia 800 watt going for $82 on sale currently.
Also for a motherboard to couple with your CPU,
you may wish to consider a B450 which can currently be had
for $75, and in Australia you can get an X370 motherboard
which is Ryzen 2000 series ready, which is
what we're using in the build today for $87 AUD shipped.
And now onto the last ingredient and that is the most
important for a gaming PC, and that is the graphics card.
Here we have the Auris RTX 2070, but if you're looking
to save some money you can currently pick them up
for as little as $500 or in Australia $748 AUD on sale.
And of course, couldn't forget the white LED strip
for a dollar shipped to your door.
But what are we waiting for? Let's build this beast.
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So we're just finishing off this build now,
and there's one thing that's really a little bit weird
about the build and that is,
it's a budget case but they've got three fan headers here,
and they're all four pin, and so if you're most likely
buying a budget case you're probably gonna
couple with a budget motherboard which
doesn't have that many fan header outs,
so, you'd definitely wanna get yourself one of these.
I would've liked to have seen Deepcool maybe include
a three to one, 3, 4 pin to one Molex connector,
just to save anyone hassle, but definitely add this
to the build if you're gonna use this case
with a budget orientated motherboard.
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So we've just finished building in the Matrexx 55
and I will give it some props to how easy it was
to build in this thing. Very spacious at the back,
no sharp edges so you won't risk cutting yourself,
and the airflow at the front isn't too bad
for three pre-included fans. Keep in mind however,
I do think the airflow kinda feels a little bit awkward,
it doesn't feel like it's doing a proper push-pull
through the front, but we'll talk a little bit more
about this case and the build itself
after we tune this CPU and also the memory.
So if you're getting something similar to this,
then you can get the best performance for your dollar,
and then we'll also test some games.
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So now we've finished tuning everything
and benchmarking and the results are so impressive.
Not only just for the budget itself,
but I think the aesthetics of the build kinda look good,
keep in mind it's missing a tempered glass side panel.
That's because it shattered in shipping,
but because its a review sample I still wanted to take
a look at the case anyway, which we'll talk about later.
But here we've got the Ryzen 5 2600. It's overclocked
to 4 gigahertz with the Wraith Stealth cooler,
and its performing so well.
Also with the RTX 2070 we've overclocked that
and we just got really good performance all round.
1440p ultra settings, is absolutely no problems
for this combination.
If you wanna drop it down the higher settings of course,
we'll get even more FPS, and when it came to Battlefield 5,
we were playing some Team Deathmatch I was getting
over 100 FPS at 1440p with maxed out settings.
We didn't bother turning on RTX just yet
because the performance here is just too much.
Maybe after some more optimization it will run better.
But we move over to Call of Duty Black Ops 4,
that was a phenomenal experience too,
multiplayer was absolutely no problems
for this rig yet again at 1440p ultra settings.
And when we move over to Monster Hunter World.
Again it's not really optimized for PC,
but it still ran really well, it's a smooth experience.
So what you've got here is something that not only
represents phenomenal value for money
in more of the high end gaming scene,
but also something that looks pretty decent as well.
We've got three RGB fans at the front, got an LED strip
in there as well as a Wraith fan at the back.
Now, this build would have looked better had I not received
the case minus the tempered glass side panel, if you guys
didn't know what happened I'll put the link up here.
Essentially before I even opened the case
it was just shattered, and because it's a review sample
and was sent over from Taiwan, it's just too much
of a time wasting and money wasting exercise
for Deepcool to send us another one,
so I thought I'd do the review even though the build
would've looked better with that tampered glass panel,
of course, especially to disperse
that white LED strip just hanging there.
But in terms of the budget memory too, we got that
up to 2800 megahertz in dual channel on this motherboard.
It was seal 18 timings, and that's not the best,
but its by far no the worst either,
so if you can get this memory on a budget,
you can get it to decent speeds of course.
If you want a bit more performance you can go
for 3200 megahertz, seal 14 XMP timing memory,
but that will set you back a little bit more money,
so that upgrade is up to you if you wish to go with it,
depends on how long you wanna keep this for.
If you wanna mix and match some parts,
I'd probably go with the upgrade to the better memory
but if you're on a budget and you wanna keep things
strictly budget, then the budget memory if you've got
a bit of time to tune it,
it's definitely a decent option too.
But also if you're in the market to build a new PC,
then I think now is a really good time,
DDR4 memories come down in price,
crypto boom is over so graphics cards have come down
a lot in price and so those combinations together
as well as the fact that SSDs are so cheap
and X370 motherboards or B450 motherboards as well
as the Ryzen 52600s, they're all cheap.
It's just a great time to be building a new PC again
as opposed to in the past, especially in 2018,
I haven't built many new PCs at all,
because of that crypto boom, graphics cards were overpriced,
so building a lot more used PCs.
Then we had the DDR4 memory price hikes
which really value builds so hard do.
But coming up now before Christmas,
it's just great value for money, at just over $1000,
this build screams price performance.
And then also if you're in Australia,
the pricing really isn't that bad at all,
it's similar to US pricing when we look at triple p terms,
so you're not gonna be getting ripped off,
and it's certainly nothing to be mad about either.
But now it's time to talk about the Deepcool Matrexx 55.
And after building in this thing I can honestly say
I'm pretty impressed with it for the money,
I mean there's a few little quirks of course,
the shipping box that it comes in
definitely could use an upgrade as mine was
shattered in shipping, and the box didn't look like
it was banged up that bad either.
They were using pretty good tempered glass
from what I could tell, but you get three RGB fans
at the front if you get the RGB version,
which in Australia it's $69 AUD,
is definitely good value for money.
It comes with pre-installed standoffs as well, which
I do like because it saves me time if I'm building PCs,
and also inside there was no sharp edges,
everything was quite roomy to work with as well.
You had two drive bays, I would say that I'd like to see
more drive bays but I think the average person
is only gonna use two drives on a budget case.
In terms of room for cable management,
there was plenty of that, dust filters were good,
and the fans at the front they were okay,
I guess for the price range.
The RGB effects were very limited,
I'd like to see the choice at least to change between
all the different static colors build into the controller,
and I'd also critique the Deepcool to say
please include a Molex to three fan splitter
because a lot of people buying this case
are probably buying a budget motherboard,
and not having something like that there could be
very frustrating if you can't get all your fans plugged up.
But with some of those negatives aside,
I can't help but like the Matrexx 55 for the money,
I think this is definitely gonna be for someone
who wants to get a good value for money case,
or it's a special for someone who wants to flip
medium to high end PCs but still have something
that looks good, and of course has a decent airflow.
Even though the fans themselves weren't the best
and they're by far not anywhere near the best,
they're much better than some of those options
that just have three really weak fans in the front.
So will do a decent job, especially with a build like this,
that only puts out around 330 watts,
you're not gonna have a problem at all,
but keep in mind, I couldn't test that properly
because we don't have a side glass panel to put over it,
but when inside the games the CPU
and GPU temperatures are pretty good.
And also another thing to keep in mind is,
it's 28 degrees ambient where I'm at, at the moment,
and also I did overclock the CPU
and the GPU quite aggressively,
and everything still held up while we were playing games.
Anyway guys I hope you enjoyed today's build.
If you did then be sure to hit that like button
and let us know in the comments section below
what you think of the value 1k build.
Love reading your thoughts and opinions as always,
and of course, that Ryzen 5 2600,
I'm gonna be making a separate video about it,
because Intel just really don't have anything like
the i5 8400 for sale at the moment,
so that's pretty much leaving free reign for Ryzen
in terms of new price performance builds,
with this Ryzen 5, 6 cores.
Absolutely phenomenal value for money,
I'm sort of waiting on Intel to release the i5 9400,
but they're not doing that.
So in the meantime, you've got no competition,
AMD has got free reign,
absolutely phenomenal value for money.
And I'll catch you in another tech video very soon.
Peace out for now. Bye.
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