- Intel Gamer Days is running from
September 27th to August 5th this year,
and Intel and Newegg sponsored this video
where I will be taking on another tech YouTuber
to see who can build the best $5,000 gaming rig.
That's right, Robeytech,
I am laying down the gauntlet,
it's more of a figurative gauntlet.
The point is you guys will be the ones to vote for
who built the best PC, and you can get a chance to win.
Just make sure you stay tuned later in the video,
because there's gonna be some important details to remember.
All right, ready, set, go.
(upbeat music)
It's Intel Gamer Days, so obviously,
the heart of our system is gonna be a Core i9-1900k.
This puppy's got eight cores, 16 threads
and turbos all the way to 5.3 gigahertz.
Beyond that, as long as it's in stock at Newegg,
we're allowed to spend our budget on whatever we want.
So, believe it or not,
we didn't go completely balls to the wall
for our motherboard.
We've gone with a Z590-E Gaming WIFI.
This has got all the features that we need
with nothing that we don't.
That means support for WIFI 6e,
dual 2.5 gigabit ethernet jacks,
up to four M.2 NVME SSDs
with two of them supporting Gen 4 speeds,
support for up to 128 gigabytes
of DDR4-533 RAM,
and of course, support for Nvidia SLI.
Okay, I lied.
It does have some things that are not entirely necessary,
like the extensive RGB lighting, but whatever.
We had $5,000 to spend and it's not our money, so.
Obviously because we're working with the same budgets
and the same constraints, no custom water cooling,
no case fabrication and no vinyl wrapping,
I think there's a strong possibility that Justin's
and my machines will end up being quite similar
in terms of the base hardware.
So where we have to differentiate is in our style,
watch this flourish.
(imitates gun banging) CPU installed.
As well as with our paint job.
And I've got a great theme for our machine today.
It's going to be Robeytech themed.
So, for all the haters out there
that wanted to vote against me,
well, you can't really do that
unless you vote against Robeytech.
You either vote against the Robeytech PC,
or the PC built by Robeytech,
Damn.
For system memory, we've gone with
a total of 32 gigabytes of TridentZ neo RGB RAM
from G.Skill.
This stuff's rated at 3,600 mega transfers per second,
CL 16, and of course, supports RGB synchronization
with the rest of our system,
which is the most important feature.
Now we could've gone higher end with our budget,
but this is a great balance of high performance,
reasonable price, and just plain,
it works out of the box because the thing about,
you know, 5 gigatransfer per second memory
or whatever is that it's not just dependent
on the memory in the motherboard.
You also have to kind of get lucky
in terms of whether your CPU's integrated memory controller
can manage to take it that high.
Now, it's time for storage.
We could have gone with mechanical storage, but we didn't.
We decided, come on, this is a $5,000 machine.
So, we've gone with one terabyte of PCI Express Gen 4,
wait, what?
That's better.
We'll be using a Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus one terabyte
for our boot drive, and then, for our mass storage drive,
we're using an XPG SX8100 4 terabyte,
no mechanical storage for whoever wins this PC.
Did I perhaps blow the budget a little bit,
upgrading this drive without telling Anthony
who did the parts list?
Maybe, look, I'm doing it for the people,
for the potential winner of this computer, Intel Gamer Days.
Now I have no way of enforcing this, but honor system, guys,
as we prep the case and get our cooling installed,
try not to look too closely at the custom paint job, okay?
Because I don't want to spoil the big reveal at the end.
It's got a custom paint job on it.
Since custom water cooling wasn't an option,
I went for the next best thing.
This is the iCue H170i Elite Capellix from Corsair
and since that name doesn't tell me
really anything about the product, I'll run you through it.
It's got a triple 140 millimeter radiator,
includes Corsair's ML Series
Magnetic Levitation Bearing fans, and, okay,
it told us one thing.
It's got their Capellix style, dense RGB array thing
built into the CPU block.
It also includes a six channel RGB and fan hub.
Only one small problem.
It's not gonna fit in like this
and we're not allowed to modify the case.
(tool whirring)
(gentle music)
There we go, you might say we're cutting corners.
I think we got it.
I'm gonna put some fresh thermal compound on our CPU.
And now, I can throw this puppy on here, man,
this thing is coming together.
This is why I was so particular about the magnet
in the screwdriver being super strong
'cause when you've got thumb nuts
and you're trying to put them on,
you need it to really grab onto them, they're heavy.
Future LTTStore.com.
For now, oh, the shirt Jake's wearing.
Great new design, retro GPU design.
It's the closest thing to a GPU you can actually buy.
Oh yeah, just like that.
Oh, so clean, so clean.
And all we had to do was cheat a little.
I guess we better put the power supply in.
Ironically, we won't get to use one of the coolest features
of the ROG-THOR-1200 Platinum, which is, of course,
this little built-in display here,
which can tell you power consumption,
fan RPM on the power supply, all that kind of cool stuff.
But that's okay.
It's still a nice, high-quality,
80 plus platinum, 1200 watt power supply.
(rooster crowing)
For our graphics card, we've gone Xtreme.
Because of our budget,
we were able to afford not only one of the most expensive,
but one of the physically largest graphics cards
on the market.
This thing is an absolute chungus,
exceeding three slots wide.
But theoretically, this is what's gonna give us
the cooling performance we need to run this thing.
at max speeds all the time.
It's got a fricking built-in display, triple fans,
and a sleek looking aluminum backplate.
Check this out.
If the system felt kind of empty before.
I've actually seen people on Craigslist
and, Andy you've seen the same thing, right?
With this particular card because
they got it in a Newegg shuffle or something like that,
but they want to trade it for something else
that's smaller 'cause their case just won't fit it.
Hey, it fits great in here.
We're gonna use our Cable Combs here
to give these a nice, tidy, consistent look
coming out of the graphics card,
maybe space them like kinda.
Ah, come on.
And now, I've put this off as long as I possibly can.
(intense orchestral music)
The cable management in this case
actually really quite excellent.
I'm impressed, oh snap, there's a thing I didn't plug in.
Boop.
You ready, Andy?
Here we go, good luck everybody.
Okay, all the RGB lights are on, that's a good sign.
Our display is on.
Yes, whoo!
Fan controller's like,
yeah, we're not really doing anything.
These Maglev bearings are incredible.
It's time for the finishing touch.
This right here is my Robeytech stencil.
What do you think, Andy?
Like, right there?
All right, I just gotta get in my
sticker application stance here.
Oh shoot.
It's too tall, I have to do it again.
This is gonna lose all of its stickiness
by the time I'm done with it.
Okay, now most of my painting experience is painting houses.
So this Iwata Eclipse HP-CS is
a little overkill for me, but, hey.
Fundamentally, I at least like, know how it works.
Let's start with a white base.
(paint bottle sloshing)
You know, we want these colors to pop.
Does this even actually call for shaking it?
(spray paint gun hissing)
Okay, I think I've decided what I want to do.
We're gonna do another hit of that.
I can call it a hit if I want.
(water bubbling)
Yeah, that's nothing new.
Okay, I need a paper towel.
Okay, I don't want to overdo it, should we call that good?
Robeytech, ah!
Full disclosure, I didn't do most of the painting, okay?
Nicholas Callanan did it.
You can see it uses the same angular finish
as the Meshify 2.
He sanded down the Fractal logo,
so it's gone from the front
and put a Robeytech logo there.
I think I'm finally ready to configure my RGB
after like 15 minutes of installing these utilities.
We're going with static red 'cause I don't care anymore.
Static red, boom.
Oh, the graphics card.
12.7% of my CPU is being used up by iCue.
Are you (beep) kidding me, Corsair?
It's the size of a graphics driver.
(gentle music)
Screw it, I'm just leaving them on rainbow vomit.
I give up, I'm just gonna uninstall the utilities.
Performance comes first.
RGB configuration woes aside,
I think this is an absolutely fantastic looking machine
and with specs to match.
It's got this great red, gray and white color scheme
going on on the front.
The cable management is absolutely sublime,
you can hardly see a cable in this thing.
And I think the paint job that Callanan,
and I guess I also contributed to,
makes it just the right amount of Robeytech
without being too in your face.
I think all of those things together should be enough
to get your votes, but if they weren't,
we've got the fastest gaming hardware
that money can buy with an RTX 3090,
32 gigs of 3600 megahertz, CL 16 memory, and of course,
at its heart, the Core i9 11900 K,
which boosts to up to 5.3 gigahertz,
and actually, you can fine tune it to go even higher
with Intel's extreme tuning utility.
It's got a bit of an unconventional cooling layout,
but it seems to be surviving our torture test
with Cinebench and FurMark running and
doubles as a space heater for your hands on cold days.
So, you know, if your hands get cold gaming, you can.
The finishing touch for my masterpiece
and all that's left is for you guys to vote.
Intel is giving away four PCs,
this one, the one Robeytech built and two additional ones,
and you can find all the details
and submit your votes at the link down below.
Voting ends September the 4th,
but the sweepstakes is actually open
until September the 27th.
And whoever wins, me or Robeytech,
we get to pick one of our viewers
and give them a rocking laptop.
It's a Gigabyte AERO 15 with an RTX 3080,
and Core i7 11800 H.
So, no pressure, but you should probably pick me,
at least that's what I think for now,
but I haven't seen Robeytech's build yet.
And I'm about to.
(upbeat music)
Wow, he went all out on the paint job.
That's looking pretty sweet.
Wow, that is a very over the top look.
Not gonna lie, that's a sick machine,
but consider this, okay?
Robeytech clearly installed the RGB utilities.
Which computer would you rather have?
Mind you, you could just get his, but then uninstall them.
Enter the sweepstakes, go check out Intel Gamer Days.
We're gonna have all those links down below
and we're gonna have Robeytech's channel link down there,
so, go check him out.
He does lots of builds,
especially live streams and stuff like that.
It is worth having a look at.