All right.
Late as it is, this is the 100,000 subscriber bonus video,
so guys, thank you so much once again
for 100,000 subscribers.
It's just absolutely insane the channel's come this far,
and I'm hugely grateful for all the support,
and I suppose thank you for 125,000 subscribers
because I'm rather bad at getting these out on time,
but I know the last time when I did a bonus video,
I asked for some topics, suggestions for the next one
and a lot of people wanted to see my computer,
so what I'm gonna do in this video is give you a little tour
of my gaming and video editing computer here,
show you some of the parts,
show you some of the performance and what it can do,
and then at the end of the video,
I'm gonna give you some recommendations
for resources if you happen to want to build your own PC,
and I will just say right up front,
you can build a really good gaming PC
for far far less than I paid for this one.
So stay tuned for those resources if you're interested.
Alright, so starting out with the case,
I opted for the Enthoo Luxe with this build.
Now this is a case that cost only about $100,
so it's quite a bit cheaper than some of the
other really popular full size cases out there,
but it still has all of the same room,
a lot of the expandability, hard drive bays,
and customizable options that a lot
of those higher end cases have,
and it doesn't look like Michael Bay designed it,
so that's another plus.
The CPU running the system is the INTEL I7-5820K,
which is a six quart processor, and I decided
on six quarts over four quarts which is usually better
for gaming and cheaper because six quarts works better
for video editing applications.
Cooling that processor is the NOCTUA NH-U14S
which is a huge aftermarket heat sink
but will come in handy if I ever decide to overclock.
When it came to the RAM for this build,
I decided to get right on that future train,
so it's running 32 gigabytes of DDR4 RAM,
and that might sound like overkill
but it comes in handy because I do a lot of work
with After Effects and Premiere and sometimes,
one of those programs alone can use over 20 gigs.
For the graphics card, I've got the EVGA version
of the NVIDIA GTX 980, just one
because I'm not Super San yet but maybe two in the future
and to round out the main components,
I've got a 750 watt power supply
which is probably too much for this build
but it leaves some flexibility for adding components
in the future.
Now every since I've gotten into video editing,
I've had to get really serious about storage,
and for this build, I decided to go with two
solid state drives in addition to a regular hard drive.
And with this case, it actually keeps the solid state drives
on the back, and this is a huge mess back here.
You can see it, one is mounted here
and one is mounted here.
This one is a Samsung Pro Drive.
This is one of their fastest models,
and I keep it for my boot drive.
It's 256 gigabytes, and then I put all my programs on there
and Windows as well,
and then down here is one of Samsung's EVO SSDs
which are a little bit slower but still pretty fast
and this, I keep my Dropbox files on and also the
cache files for both Premiere and After Effects.
Additionally, on the other side, like I said,
I've got a regular two terabyte hard drive
and that is quickly filling up,
so I'm gonna have to add more drives in the future.
Now, with this hardware, I can run new games
like The Witcher 3 without any problems at max settings,
but that's not the reason I got the gidder,
though it is a nice bonus.
The real reason I got the computer is
for high performance blogging.
(animated music)
High Performance Blogging.
Just kidding.
The real reason I bought this computer is
so I could run After Effects better because After Effects
animations are extremely demanding on a system,
both to preview and to render out.
Finally, and to give you an example,
I wanna show you the Mark Twain quote animation
from the last video.
So, as you can see, there's this light object here over here
and if I turn that off, we get a little bit different
lighting, and there's a camera that changes the perspective.
As you can see, the entire thing is 3D.
If I turn it back on, you can see that.
And all of these things actually move,
so if I turn the light back on,
I actually have the light animating and moving
to cast some different moving shadows on the animation.
As you can see, even with this hardware,
the animation doesn't update perfectly
as I'm dragging the timeline cursor.
It still struggles to keep up because there's
just a ton of stuff going on.
Now, I learned with this video that I should apply
all my lighting effects after I do the animating,
so I took way longer than I needed to on that last video,
but still the hardware definitely helps
make these animations.
Alright guys, well I hope you enjoyed this video.
Now if you're interested in building your own computer
either now or at some point in the future,
I have a couple of recommendations for resources
that you should definitely check out.
One of them being the Build a PC subreddit
which has lots of PC builders that can answer your questions
as well as a wiki with lots of useful information
you can read up on, and also there's a site
called PCPartPicker which will allow you
to build your own custom PC
and print out a list of the parts
but also shows you the cheapest place online
to buy each one.
Lastly, there's a YouTube channel I'm a pretty huge fan of
called LinusTechTips, and they often do PC build videos
where they'll set a certain budget
and see what they can build while staying under it,
so that might be a useful resource as well.
That is it for this video, so the nerds among you
may now go into the comments and tell me
why my build is terrible and for the rest of you,
the next milestone video will probably come
at a million subscribers if the channel ever gets there.
And beyond that, I'm gonna start doing bonus videos
basically whenever I feel like it.
That way, I'm not pressured to do it
at a certain milestone each time,
but rest assured, they will be coming in the future.
So if you have ideas for future bonus videos
or awkward, inappropriate questions about my life,
you can leave them down in the comments,
and I will possibly do a video on them in the future.
Other than that, I will see you in the next video.
Thanks for watching.