- It's been a couple months since we built a PC here
on ShortCircuit,
so when ASUS and Intel reached out
about sponsoring a video
showing off ASUS' new line
of TUF Gaming products
along with Intel processors,
we thought what better way to fix that
than by building a PC with it.
We've got a full setup of gear here.
There's some over here,
there's some over here.
There's some behind the camera
that we're gonna get in here shortly.
And yeah, we're gonna build a PC.
And it's all gonna start
with a motherboard as usual.
Of course,
the most beautiful motherboard box we have here.
I'm sorry, ASUS,
love you guys,
but I'm gonna call you out
for giving us a plain box
for a sponsored motherboard and part unboxing.
This is kind of weird.
But I assure you what's inside
is much cooler than the box.
Specifically, this motherboard
is the TUF Gaming Z790-PLUS WiFi D4.
The D4 meaning that this board uses DDR4,
which is a great way to keep
the cost down on a new build like this.
And it kind of goes hand-in-hand
with the tier of parts.
So, TUF for ASUS is kind
of like their more mainstream, affordable line.
There's of course ROG,
which is usually a good bit more expensive.
But these are kind of designed
to give you all of the performance,
all of the functionality you need
without being too crazy, too expensive,
too many, like, fancy knickknacks you don't really need.
I mean, there's a good bit of USB here.
We've got twenty gig, we got ten gig, Type-C,
2.5 gig LAN, which is great, WiFi 6.
On an ROG board you might see WiFi 6E,
but WiFi 6 is still super fast.
There is also display outputs
in case you're building a system,
and just using the integrated GPU.
Other than that,
the IO, that's pretty much it.
On the board itself,
Oh wow!
This board's got PCIe Gen5, damn boy.
You got a Gen5 x16 slot at the top
for a GPU.
We got a 1x slot here, another 1x, another four,
and then this one looks like it's a 16
but is actually, electrically, a 4.
There's no CMOS battery in this motherboard.
We found the only CMOS battery in the bin is Sunbeam brand,
and I don't know how old it is or if it works,
so hopefully it does.
If it doesn't post, that's gonna be the first place I look.
(laughing)
What else we got on here?
There's USB 3.2 front panel header,
which is a nice inclusion.
Man, back in the day, a couple years ago,
you would have to buy a 5, 6, $700 motherboard to get that.
And this is not gonna be anywhere near that
in terms of price, which is great.
What else we got?
M.2s. How many M.2s?
Is there three M.2s on this board?
Yeah, wow, 3 M.2s, look at that.
- [Bell] Four M.2s.
- What?
Holy (beep) balls.
There's four M.2 slots on this board.
Yeah, on top of there being a lot of M.2 slots,
I mean look at this, they all have the easy latch.
Everybody hates M.2 screws. It's like a universal thing.
This one doesn't have any. Very good.
(chuckles)
It also just looks nice.
I mean this is, it's a $275 board right now.
I mean you could, you could tell me this is like a 3,
$400 mother board, and I'd believe you.
One thing I forgot to mention about that Gen5 slot,
look: button release.
Thank you.
Also, it's got the metal reinforcement,
which I think they call safe slot.
Yeah, they call it safe slot.
It's just kind of a reinforcement, especially if you look
at how big graphics cards are getting.
Have you seen those 4090s?
They're like this big.
You don't want that just resting on a plastic slot.
This is gonna be a lot stronger.
I guess let's put a CPU in it.
Of course, this is LGA 1700 Z790 Intel,
which means you're gonna be using a 13th Gen chip,
like this 13600K.
Trying to make this build a little more normal,
a little more mainstream.
The 13600K is a very capable chip,
even despite it being a bit mainstream.
Like I mentioned before,
this is a D4 board, so we're gonna be using DDR4.
This is some 3200 mega transfer per second CL16 DDR4,
16-gig sticks.
Maybe not the fastest RAM you could put in this board
by any stretch of the imagination, but should be fine.
What else we got here?
Fans, wow!
TUF Gaming fans, three-pack, okay.
Did you know you could get this at lttstore.com?
It's the JerryRig everything knife.
(objects clattering)
Okay, got some cables.
What is this?
Oh, it's like a little controller, right?
The hub, worth up to four fans to control their RGB.
You can use this little three-pin guy
with the little included adapter to plug it
into your motherboards.
Addressable RGB control, which you're gonna want to do.
I think this is mostly just here,
A: as a splitter so you can plug three of them in,
and B: if your motherboard doesn't have
an addressable RGB header,
you can get some actual, like, manual control here.
Oh, they also include a fan splitter, nice.
So for the fan power itself,
you just have to plug, you know,
one guy in there,
and boom, you can plug your three fans into that.
Nice touch, because wiring three individual fans,
kind of annoying.
Hey, look at that, we got a graphics card.
RTX 4070TI TUF Gaming,
12 gigabytes RAM, AORUS sync of course.
This is the OC edition.
This is a much nicer box than the motherboard, ASUS.
This particular card, the OC edition is around 850 bucks,
but the non-OC version of this is $799.99.
On the back, we've got three DisplayPort and two HDMI.
That's a good loadout.
A lot of cards nowadays are just, like,
two DP, two HDMI, or three DP, one HDMI.
This one has at least two of each.
In terms of power,
this card's using the new 12-pin connector.
I don't know if our power supply has it,
but they include an adapter.
So you can run two standard PCIe 8 pins
into the fancy 12 pin.
When you're plugging this in,
make sure that it is plugged all the way in.
In terms of the cooler, it's a triple fan design.
It's a big cooler.
I mean just look, the card PCB ends here,
and the the cooler actually goes all the way over here.
So you're gonna get some flow through these slots here.
It's a little bit bigger than a three slot design,
just ever so slightly,
like this is three slots and this juts out a little bit.
It uses military grade capacitors that are rated
for 20,000 hours at 105 degrees Celsius.
I imagine they'll probably run a lot colder than that,
so you should get more than 20,000 hours.
But other than that just it's a, it's a 4070 TI
it's gonna be a very, very fast graphics card.
What's left?
Oh right, I need something to build the computer in.
Oh my god.
What is this? The GT 502 TUF Gaming case.
Oh, look at that. It's got handles.
Oh, whoa. This is larger than I expected,
but look it's got handles so I'm just like,
you know, it's fine.
It's, it's not that heavy actually.
This is, they're very nice handles.
Like look at, some padding in there,
like Goddamn brother, what is this?
Oh, oh, look at that. Quick release side panels.
Whoa, look, there's some peels in,
oh, these are fan filters.
Nice. Okay, I'm not gonna peel those then,
I'm just gonna leave them on there.
That's a little hack for you.
They're magnetic,
but also you could just leave this tape here,
and then you don't have to worry
about the magnet coming off.
Just leave it. What else we got here?
Okay, so this is a dual chamber design.
Back here, you're gonna have power supply down here.
You can put fans up here.
There's some SSD mounts, hard drive mount,
but it's kind of a like a second chamber back here
so everything's separate.
Apparently, these straps can hold up to 30 kilograms,
which is like over 60 pounds.
I betcha these could hold more than that.
I feel like one of these could support 60 pounds,
but either way, that's plenty enough
to support an entire system.
So, if you were gonna take this thing to a LAN party,
just pick it up, take it for a walk.
I got some clarification on the dual zone.
You could put a second radiator back here
that was specifically for cooling your GPU.
That's why they say
you could have dual zone heating and cooling.
But if you're using an air-cooled GPU like we are,
obviously the GPU is gonna go on the front here,
so it's only one zone for that.
This is a nice looking case.
I have no idea what case they got inspiration from
when building this one.
I like the quick release side panels,
big tempered glass panel, which is nice.
I'm a big fan of cases with glass in the front
just because of the amount of access you get.
It does hinder your cooling in some ways
because you don't have fans up here.
But this case has a little trick up its sleeve.
You see these SSD mounts here?
(screwdriver loosening)
Bam. Look at that.
You can put fans there, or an AIO,
or like a distribution plate for a water cooling setup.
Very versatile. How many fans can you put in this thing?
What do we got, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 fans.
Holy (beep).That's a lot of fans.
This is not a TUF power supply.
Do they make TUF power supplies? Do we know?
This is also kind of a weird power supply for this build.
It's SFXL, which is unnecessary and more expensive
than a regular ATX power supply,
which this case does support.
However, it's what I had over here already,
and most SFX power supplies come with a little adapter
so you can put them in an ATX case just like that.
You see, it's like now it's, it's big size.
Say if you were planning or thinking down the road,
hey, I might do a small form factor build someday.
Well, you could buy an SFX power supply
use the included adapter, and then you don't have to worry
about buying a new power supply down the road.
A lot of the time I make this mistake, I'm like,
I'm gonna put my computer together,
put my computer together,
throw the motherboard in there, let's do it.
Motherboard's in, you put your AIO in,
and then you're like, crap, I didn't run the cables.
How am I gonna, I gotta fish these stupid EPS cables
through these little, little, little doodads here.
But there's, there's a lot of space.
Even if you put an AIO here, it would be a little tight.
But if you don't have an AIO here,
'cause you could put the AIO on the side with this case.
You got all this access,
you can cram cables through there all you want.
No problemo.
Oh wow.
That's the hell of a, what is this thing?
This is Ryujin II 240.
It's got the mother of all pumps here.
Jesus. I think most of it is the, oh yeah, wow.
Whoa, it just comes off. What the hell?
Yeah. Okay, that's just basically all screen.
(funky music)
All right, GPU goes in, we're getting there.
Okay, that's a computer, right?
Looks like a computer.
I've never built one before,
so this is, this is all news to me.
Whoa, look at that. What is this?
The TUF gaming VG78U, 4K 144 Hertz HDR FreeSync Premium,
90% DCI-P3 color gamut.
We got HDMI 2.1 G-Sync one millisecond response time.
Wow, this thing has a lot of ports.
Holy crap.
Let me spin it around.
There is four HDMI inputs, display port, audio,
and a USB hub.
Two of them are HDMI 2.1 too,
so you could have your computer plugged in over HDMI 2.1
and a console. It's like actually kind of dope.
Hey, it lights up. That's a good sign.
All right, we've got GPU Tweak Three open here.
They revamped the user interface so it looks a lot nicer.
They also overhauled the frequency and voltage settings,
and they also added automatic profile switching.
I'm just gonna like, yeah, screw it.
Let's just set our power target a little higher.
Yeah. Oh man.
We're playing at 4K Ultra Nightmare settings, ray tracing on
and we're still over a hundred FPS.
This game runs so good and looks so good
that it makes other games just kind of a joke.
Like how, how can they achieve these graphics
and this performance and other games are not anywhere close.
I mean, there are, there are games that run good,
but this one runs really good.
Let's check our temperatures.
We got our CPU package temperature, let's see,
57 degrees, we're drawin', eh 70 watts.
You're not gonna be pushing your CPU too bad
when you're gaming usually.
What have we got for graphics card?
64 degrees, 225 watts of power. 230 watts of power.
It performs good. It's quiet, it's cool.
And best of all, you can check out the ASUS TUF lineup
at the link down in the description.
They also have a giveaway running
for some of their TUF products.
So you definitely check that out as well.
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