Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Epic $1600 Gaming PC Build Guide (2017)”.
Hey, what’s up folks how’s it going. This is waj hope you guys are all doing well. So it’s actually been a couple of weeks since the new intel chips have it came out. We did a full review for uh some of the popular ones, including the 7600 k.
You’Ll, find that link in the description down below. But what i want to do is actually build a new pc based around this new platform, and we also have uh the new z270 motherboard from gigabyte that we’re going to take a look at and then we’re going to throw in a gtx at 1070 and an Awesome case fan and cooler all from nzxt, so let’s get right into it and see what this pc is capable of. Now, let’s talk about the parts list for this pc, so obviously the center piece is going to be based around the new intel core. I5, 7600k processor: this is a quad core chip with no hyper threading, and since this has a fully unlocked multiplier, we can go way beyond the stock frequency of 3.8 and overclock. This thing to well close to five gigahertz uh, which we’ll talk about, but of course, for any good, stable, overclock we’re going to need a solid cpu cooler and i’ve chosen the brand new kraken x62 from nzxt. Now the first generation kraken was really awesome, was the best all-in-one liquid cooling solutions that you can get, and this new version is certainly no exception. We have a brand new, more powerful pump, as well as integrated rgb lighting solution inside of the water block itself. With a mirrored finish, and it looks really cool once we actually boot up the pc, you’ll see and, most importantly, the radiator on this thing is quite large, 280 millimeters and the larger the radiator. The more heat dissipation opportunity that we’re going to get, which is going to translate to overall, better cpu overclocking performance now moving on the motherboard that we’re going to be using is the ga z270x ultra gaming motherboard from a gigabyte that supports both seven and sixth generation Intel chips and, in addition to having all the latest connectivity and ports that you would require on a modern day, a pc such as a support for usb 3.1 gen 2 usb type type-c, a single m.2 and u.2 connection for all your high-speed ssd drives that you’re Going to connect to it as well as a fully multi-zone rgb lighting system, that is 100 customizable, which is going to be really cool integrated with all the other parts that we’re going to throw into this pc. Now for the memory we’re going to be using corsairs a vengeance, lpx a memory specifically two modules: eight gigabytes, each a ddr4 giving us a 16, a gigabytes clocking around 2400 megahertz. Now, certainly if your budget allows so you can definitely get the higher performance at memory. But for our purposes a 16 gigabytes clock around 2 400 megahertz is perfectly reasonable for this build now in terms of our storage solution, we’re going to be using samsung’s 850 evo 500 gigabyte, ssd drive, which i think balances the price to capacity fairly well.
For this kind of build now moving on to the graphics card, we’re going to be using evga’s gtx at 1070 and we’re using actually the blower fan edition, and the pricing on the 1070s has really come down over the past couple of months since the initial release. So if you want a graphics card, that kind of balances, price and performance fairly well, this is definitely a good route to choose. You can certainly do a lot of 4k gaming around the 40 to 50 fps mark depending upon the games, obviously, and certainly uh really high frame rates uh when playing quad, hd and full hd games and we’re going to obviously test out the gaming performance later on. Now the power supply that we’re going to be using is also from evga the supernova 750 watt semi modular psu. This is a bronze, 80 plus certified so fairly good efficiency and an excellent price tag of under seventy dollars and in terms of the chassis we’re going to be using the nzxt s340 elite.
We have the matte black version, there’s also other color options available and, if you’re a fan of pcs that have kind of a simple and minimalistic yet elegant look to them. This is a great platform to start out with the overall fit, and finish is outstanding. It has excellent cable management system and a large tempered glass side panel. So you can pretty much see right through the case at all times, which is gon na, be great, since there’s gon na be some really interesting components going inside and just to kind of tie things up, we’re also using nzxt’s hue plus intelligent fan controller as well As the air rgb fans from nzxt, which feature fluid dynamic bearings as well as winglet tips, so the operation volume should be fairly low while supplying enough airflow to keep everything at a comfortable temperatures and we’re gon na be pretty much using these fans exclusively inside our Case now, when we add all of our hardware costs up, it comes to around a 1589 for me specifically uh.
Now, obviously, pricing will fluctuate depending upon where you are in the world and when you’re purchasing some of these products uh, but generally our pc is just under sixteen hundred dollars. Now, let’s get to the build process and it should be fairly straightforward. So i’ll see you in a little bit: [ Applause, ] foreign [ Applause ]. So now here is our finished build and i’m going to run through some of the notable features, the hue plus a lighting controller, which is actually around the same size as a 2.5 inch ssd drive actually mounts really nicely into a one of the ssd trays. On the case at the bottom portion and the cables are just long enough to have everything fit fairly snugly and there are some extension cables included inside of the package, which is a nice and as you can see, the ssd drive is mounted right at the front Of the case facing forward and there’s actually some holes to run through the data and sata power connection, so that’s nicely integrated and well thought out. Uh the fans themselves, as we mentioned before, we’re using the air, rgb nzxt fans and, at the front of the case, we have a dual uh: 140 millimeter fans for the radiator and at the top and back of the case, we’re running the 120 millimeter fans for Exhaust and with the rgb lighting inside the motherboard, the cpu, cooler and fans, you can pretty much custom, configure the illumination options and the color scheme to whatever your hearts, content and there’s infinite different ways that you can configure your pc to look in certain different scenarios And the cam software that actually comes with the nzxt package makes setting up the lighting configuration for the cpu water block and the fans really easily.
You can actually synchronize these schemes, so they work in unison together or you can custom configure a specific setup based on whatever your desires, so i’m a huge fan of the x62 water block. Uh. Has this really nice cool swirling effect that you can create, as well as uh, there’s a couple of different other cool illumination options that makes it completely different from every other, a water block system that has any kind of rgb lighting, so uh nzxt, is definitely ahead Of the game, when it comes to the aesthetic look of their hardware, that’s available right now now, let’s actually get into the gaming performance and the actual uh performance in general of this cpu.
So in terms of the overclock, we have our multiplier set to 50. At times on our 7600k, the voltage is set to about 1.35 volts to achieve the 5 gigahertz overclock and with our cooler kind of set to a more quiet setting at maximum 100 load after 45 minutes of prime 95. The temperature really didn’t go beyond 81 degrees celsius, which is perfectly reasonable, and at idle, the cpu operates at kind of stock configuration temperatures around anywhere between 25 to 28 degrees celsius, which is a great if you’re gon na be running this overclock in a long-term setting.
Now, to give you guys an illustration of what the overclock is doing on the stock configuration cinebench r15 are a multi-core performance was in the low 700 mark and uh with the overclock at around five gigahertz, we’re looking at 824 on the multi-core performance score. So pretty huge significant difference: uh coming from 4.2 boost stock frequency to around 5 gigahertz, which is definitely nice to see the geekbench results, also illustrate our overclocking benefits. Uh. The stock configuration we’re looking at our just under the low 5000 point mark on the single core, uh performance score and just under 6 000 with the overclock and the same thing.
Uh goes for the multi-core performance around a 17 000 points on the overclock and around 16 000 points on the stock cpu configuration now in terms of our gaming performance uh. We didn’t really play around too much with the gtx 1070 overclock setting. So we ran pretty much everything at factory overclocked, a setting and looking at the 3d mark time, spy a benchmark. We get an overall score of a 6039 with a gpu score of 6344 and our cpu score of about 4749.
Now the last thing that we’re going to do is run through some of our real world. A gaming performance benchmark results, so we’re going to play through a couple of different titles and show you the average frames per second and the minimum frames per second in 1080p. Quad hd and 4k resolution, so, let’s run through those benchmark results now, but really i like guys and that’s really it as you can see. The pc looks really incredible.
It’S one of my favorite pcs that i’ve created thus far big thanks to gigabyte and nzxt for supplying some of the hardware. Without them. This pc certainly wouldn’t be possible, and thank you so much for watching. Thank you so much for your support.
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