the
4k displays
just got a portable I'm not talking about those 4k TVs with their
30 heard sandpoint I'm talking about single pile 4k desktop monitors that
offer fast enough response times
and loan up in Portland that PC enthusiasts and gamers are you want to
take
a serious look at them but the
upgrade particularly the hacker budget allocation Parliament is not as simple
as grabbing a new monitor
plumbing on your desk and expecting it to get the best gaming experience on it
right off the bat
a last year are dealing on like the bleeding edge unavailable PC hardware
it's very unlikely that I'll be running modern games at nasa
3840 2160 need a resolution without making some changes so
in the stock where what a solutions running a resolution with significantly
reduced frame rates
remember this is four times as many pixels as 1080 P
and well over twice as many as 14 for TP or
run at a lower resolution and deal with the blurriness
artifact thing that exists when running a monitor in anything other than an
address
or upgrade so prepare your wallets
and prepare your minds for our 4k gaming rig
Ultimate build guide me like an explosion
like all our bill got into it all starts with a safe static three workstation and
anti-static strap I actually liked him I know my angle to keep it on the way
all we really need for some Lee is a multi-bit screwdriver but
a pair of side cutters can be handy for cable management
and you never know once a little all suppliers will come in handy
before you begin I always recommend plug in all the components in and power in
the system up once outside in the case
to ensure everything works well it's nice and easy to reach
motherboard box makes a handy non-conductive test bench but for now
yes just did with all the noise getting made about proper multi-core supporting
games with mantle
like Battlefield foreign beef 2014 and DirectX 12 an upcoming games in 2015
it's as good a time as any to pick up a CPU that supports more threads
our choice was the Intel Core i7 +49 30 km all it does have
plenty a PCI Express 3.0 lanes for high-bandwidth graphics cards
and other future expansion cards and support for 64 games and ddr3 memory
with relatively inexpensive eight gig
unbuffered DIMMs it simply came down to the fact that it's intel's least
expensive six core 12:20 p.m. you
and we really wanted all damn course so lift up both retention arms
one on each side of the socket then pull up the whole downplayed
or and the CPU by matching the corner on your CPU with a triangle
with the corresponding triangle corner on the socket then inserted
gently ensuring that the little plastic knob in the socket
align with the ones that are on the CPU and self
I usually get the CPU a slight waco to ensure that it is seated correctly
the whole process should not require any force up to this point next
lower the whole downplayed and lower first
the retention on the locks down the whole downplayed men
the second one and the little cover will pop off just like that
r Memory selection world surprised anyone who watched my overview and key
skills Ripjaws equine channel ddr3 2400 megahertz ran
we went with high-speed memory because I was becoming more for what
and some games are actually starting to benefit from it
and with ruin overkill for gaming 32 going to get in here for content
creators
who also want to do some media work with large files were not gaining
pay for example recording and editing game streams start by identifying the
color matched slot
on your motherboard and opening up the retention clips
on either side I recommend using the ones
furthest away from the CPU socket first for marginally better airflow around the
sock area
a line each game according to the plasticky in the slot
and the notch in the bottom of the memory module then
it first insert one side into the side without the clips
then the other side with the clips do a quick double check to make sure to one
correctly then
press down firmly on both side the module until the retention clips snaps
back into place on its own
repeat for the second slot on the side then
will over to the other side and put in the additional two modules
for matchsticks are recommended for LGA 2011 CPU's for extra memory bandwidth
now when I first laid eyes on the Corsair 760 tea at CES 2014
this for cable guy was still a twinkle in my eye
but I decided at that moment that this case
with its ample air flow solid build quality and out %uh this world looks was
going to be the case for it
true story it's available in black or this person and i spose is obvious at
this point which one
I like better prepare your case by letting both for the uniquely designed
to collect side panels
off their hinges and stashing them somewhere safe when they won't get
scratched
we're gonna be replacing the stock fans later on that someday
Phoenix Spector Pro green LED fans so now's a good time to remove the ones
that come with the case
just press on the front fan filter to pop it off
and undo the four screws holding these two fans in
then put them aside for now next
take up to four screws up the back but more than the rear fan
this one we're gonna replace right away so just align the fan with the 3-pin
lean coming out as close to the motherboard tray as you can for easy
cable management later
well and put the anti vibration mounts that come with the fan
in like cell make sure you put the hard where the screws that came with the
original band safely in a train with all over your other screws that were
included with your case
seeing less likely to lose no that way well
okay well that is to say unless you use the whole trade but either way
that that happens there's nothing I can do for you so that should help
most people the motherboard is often a complicated choice
even for experienced techies there are the useful features that matter
and then there are many others that are just Pierre marketing
fortunately for us this choice was made relatively simple because it seems only
released three motherboards that were truly optimized
for Intel's Ivy Bridge Elga 2011 CTU
and only one alone is less than five hundred dollars so we went with the x79
deluxe
it's got all the stuff that matters like a cy5 multi graphics support
strong CPU and around overclocking support automated fan control
and robust build quality without having to spend a fortune on stuff that doesn't
really help your system run better
from the box you'll need the i/o shield the board itself
wifi antennas a couple straight and in say the cables
the 2-way SLI bridge and the manual everything else you can pretty much
leave in the box
until you need it another time correctly orient the i/o shield at the back in the
case then press firmly
on each of the four corners until they snap into place
Corsair kindly pre-installed the standoffs in their cases
so just put them back in the war through the i/o shield
man lower it into place course are also kindly replaces the screw threads a
little standoff
with a little post that holds the motherboard therefore you
well you do what the eight screws around it here here here here
here here here and here for the front panel i/o
power and reset are not affected by orientation so just checked the spots
for them in the motherboard manual and plug them in
the power and drive activity LED is do need the positive pen to correspond to
the correct wire however
so if they're not working just try flipping around don't worry you won't
damage anything
front USB 3 only goes in one way thanks to the chain connector
while front USB to an audio are a little bit trickier
just look closely for the block of pin on the cable
and the missing pin on the header the wire for that then that we install the
back can be either managed behind the fan frame
or slipped up to be shorter than plugged into the nearest fan header
don't worry that their four pin headers on the board
3-pin fans for work just fine on now I'll be the first to admit that I don't
know enough about
electrical engineering to properly evaluate a power supply
on that level and even if I did I don't have anything resembling the necessary
equipment to do it
anyway but what I do know is where to find the best power supply reviews on
the internet
johnnie good I can't tell why did I choose the Coolermaster v8 50 power
supply
well because I want rock-solid efficiency a nice sexy I D
nice cables on a modular interface a lower think I want the power supply that
had absolutely nothing listed in the con- section at the end over John Eagle
a review
and the story 850 watt will be enough for our rate but if we wanted some
growing room
the me one thousand as an option as well were using a modular power supply so
rather than worrying about cables right off the bat we're just going to slide
the PSU into its position
fan side down at the bottom with the case where there's a
filtered and take then use the four screws included in the box to secure it
at the back
next to grab the 24 pin cable a penny PS cable
to PCI Express power cables a couple say the power cables
and of 4-pin molex cable this should be enough for us to power the whole system
plug the 24-pin and a penny PS connectors interior motherboard
then wrote them behind the motherboard tray through the nearest holes
but the others aside for now we won't need them until later
strictly speaking SSD is don't affect the frame rate at which a game full run
so my choice a couple Intel 730 series SSDs in raid 0
why seem a little strange to some but
it's not a purely practical thing for this rig the reason I actually did this
is bad a while ago when I did my personal read update
I had a lot of people asking me about running SSDs in raid 0 for extra
performance
and I've had the same will hold on No don't do it the way that I was doing it
with 8 refer bish drives and all that
and then the inevitable follow-up question is okay then what way would you
recommend doing it
so to which I would apply well if you must have rain 0
then this is how I would do it Intel SSD czar legendarily reliable on the 730
series
specifically offers outstanding performance consistency
something that's very important from raid operation where the entire array
will slow down to the speed
all the slowest drive at any given moment
Corsair include handy dandy spring-loaded SS denouncing the front in
the case near the right side panel
so installing RSS these in literally ass nap
popping in there wrote the same data cables as nearly as we can to the
motherboard and double check the manual to ensure
that you're using assay to 36 gigabit per second connector that's running of
the Intel chipset
on this particular board it's going to be the top ones then gotta say the power
cable from
earlier carefully plug that into each drive without putting unnecessary
tension on the connector
and route that back to the power supply now our Jeep you choice and dual GTX 780
TI's for a fork a gaming rig
is likely to raise some eyebrows but
bear with me here for a minute we'll explain the choice first up
is why two cards i'm just still not a strong believer in three and four way
configurations
I don't think the scaling justifies the extra cost heat and power consumption
this store card can fake will be able to run
even the most demanding games today and medium to high settings and 4k
and while I can you know compare screenshot side by side and tell the
difference between
high in all to gain settings when things are actually in motion
I don't really find it that easy to tell so I'm not going to spend a ton more
money
just to turn that dial a little bit higher another dial
again because we're losing two cards that we won't be cranking
for like unnecessary horsepower is anti aliasing but
again justification for that as I don't really find it
useful beyond to 24 x max at this kinda pixel density
anyway next up is the theory gave framebuffer limitation
if you need more you're not alone and for you
there are other options available such as do our nineteen ninety axes
or do will tighten blacks I went with this configures nothing that I'm playing
require some more video memory at the moment and I'm willing to trade a little
bit a future-proof miss
for an exclusive India feature that I years a lot
now many GPS features are mostly flat to me I don't you shadow play
or mantle but one that I do use and a lot
is games train I have an invidious shield and actually do a ton on my PC
gaming in bed with my shield
and not willing to give that up by going over to the red team and I'm not willing
to spend
a bunch more money on Titan blacks just to get that feature and they have more
memory especially at the game then using don't need the extra
the RAM so given that these perform the same if you don't need it
780 TI's it is lastly and this isn't probably
half serious and I have to look at this point I'm a dad now and dads everywhere
know that you don't waste power
the performance is similar between two tixs and 27 ATI's
but the different too low power consumption is over a hundred what's
and on top of that water that extra power will be wasted as heat
which has to go somewhere and my gaming den is on the second floor on the south
side of my house where it's warm enough in the summer
with out the extra heat so I hope the takeaway
was this it's a personal choice not a condemnation
up the other available options and I went with seven ATIS ally
if you don't have a shield and you live in the Arctic Circle
then dole 290 axes might be a better option for you and that's totally just
fine
let's all just not then way out and respect that different solutions work
better
for different people with that out of the way removed two PCI slot covers that
each correspond to one in the PCIe 16x physical and electrical slots on the
motherboard
and stash though some were safe in case you ever need to take a card out
and need something to fill the gap position each card over the PCI Express
slot and
when it's aligned firmly push it into place
replace the screws that you took out of the slot covers
then Brad the PCIe power cables from the four
and plugged into your GP use before routing number back to the power supply
behind the motherboard tray
but the proverbial cherry on top by installing US ally branch
and now it's time to move on to cable management the thing I like
about the H 1-10 from Corsair is that unlike
other all in one liquid coolers in is purely performance-oriented
you give up better mounting and software control compared to other options
but are six core CPU needs all the help it can get especially if you plan to do
any overclocking
so I paired this cooler and position it at the front intake
this has two effects number one is it allows the CPU to be cool
by nice fresh air coming right into the case and number two
is that it lets me leave the clean looking top on the 760 T
versus taking it off for Nash in order to do a top radiator install
we do sacrifice slightly higher temperatures for the rest of the
components in the case
but it's really not that big a deal start by locating the correct mounting
hardware for LGA 2011 in the box
if you've got good ice you can do this pretty easily by looking for the ones
with the war course threading
if you need some help second annual Aurion a plastic
fillers so the whole is closer to the outside a hold down bracket
and put the screws through they should stay in place
the cooler includes thermal compound so you won't need to apply Rome
so all you need to do is secure the whole down plate with the included
plastic ring
then screw in all 4 on the mounting holes
into the back plate that is included on all
LGA 2011 boards corners lightly then
all the way to avoid applying uneven pressure to your CPU
next we need to clear space at the front in the case by removing the front three
and a half inch drive cage
undo the two screws on the bottom in the case then just pop it out
we are only using SSD's in this build so we could remove the second page if we
wanted
but if we leave that in it gives us three days for future drive expansion
position the front one hundred and forty millimeter fans using the long screws
included with your radiator
then being careful not to accidentally put any strain on your memory modules or
anything else
position the radiator carefully behind them and starts reading the screws in
if it takes a couple tries to get aligned don't worry
it's a bit tricky just be gentle and be patient
plug the fan connectors into the nearest port available on the motherboard
then plug the pump connector on the CPU block into the CPU Hatter
on your motherboard moving on to the last minute cable management
it's just a matter are delaying everything down flat on up
that we can close the side panels easily without any interference
something that's a little bit more difficult on this case than it is on
some other ones
due to that plexi back panel that will
easily flaxen Bowl out if you have anything that stacked up too high
the good news is that you've got almost a full inch of clearance back here
so even things like a 24-pin connector are easy to hold in place
I recommend using twist ties instead a zip ties and
if you just built a computer which you just did you should have some they come
wrapped around things like your power supply cables in the box
then use knows to tie down to the little cable management lives on the back in
the case
because their reusable and a little bit more convenient to remove because you
don't have to use
slippers to get them of I'm I think that's pretty much it
stash the unneeded wires for the fan controller up in the top left we didn't
end up using that because we're gonna be using I motherboards on board fan
control
so that means we don't even have to plug in the same to power for it
and looks not bad headache
so the towers pretty much done now but
we still need some things before this bad boy I'll fire up
now when it comes to peripherals there's a lot of personal taste involved
so take all these recommendations with a grain of salt the one thing I think we
can all agree on no
is that when it comes to a 4k gaming ring you are going to need a 4k monitor
there are on ton of options out there any up until very recently
for a high-quality color accurate you know
reasonably gaming table under the PQ 321 kid looks like three thousand dollars
was pretty much all there was no one in the other ones using the same panel
but just recently Samsung released in value priced
TN base but still using a pretty decent panel
you 28 the 59 edta so that the 4k monitor
they came in and basically went okay yeah it's only a single pile so it's
you not gonna have to contend with any you know multiple pile you know
stuttering issues or anything like that but the bad news about that one and
was a deal breaker for a lot of people was that it has no
base amount and the included stan is really
not that great butts there's good news
two days before we finished filming the same here right here
a sis is PBA 287 cue based on the same panel
but with a better height-adjustable PivotTable
you know everything about stand and a base amount
is now in our hands and
holy crap this is pretty much
the one to go for right now for a fork a gamer
that Manuel wants to gain at 4k
for our mouths to what the Corsair m45 it's the 1 I'm using now personally
it's not what's known as a perfect sensor that is to say there's no forced
acceleration or other weirdness
and the DPI is high enough for it to perform love 4k
something you do have to consider because with such a high resolution
monitor
you're gonna want to have faster mouse movements in order to have it seen like
a normal speed
for our keyboard choice we went with a ducky shine three
it's something that I recommended quite a few times before it uses Cherry MX
which is whatever
color that you like and comes with a variety of different colors and back
latest Walsall really cool lighting effects
this'll hold out for us as long as I we're still waiting for course there's
RGB backlit Cherry MX keyboard
for our gaming headset we're going with the audio-technica
a TH AG one it's basically a high-quality closed back headphones
with very good noise isolation with an absolutely outstanding
microphone attached to it with the elastic band law and it's comfortable
lightweight and aside from being extremely expensive basically the ideal
headset all low
since I script in this video we actually had the mod Mike
4.00 land in our studio not spend a little time to time with it
and holy crap guys the whole option I'll just buying headphones in attaching a
modeling to it
might be a lot more feasible on the future with that new
microphone so guys prefer older changing all the time but at least this hopefully
gives you a starting point
press Delete while booting up a system for the first time to go into the UEFI
BIOS
load optimized defaults to just get everything kinda mostly set up
changer memory 2x MP noted set your fans too quiet mode one by one
then configure your onboard city controller to raid mound
that's the basics but there's a lot of other stuff in here you can play with
if you want we can tune I recommend starting at Linus tech tips dot com if
you want to get some help from our fantastic community
for now press f10 to reboot then press at 61 prompted to configure two drives
in raid
we're using RAID 0 for maximum speed with all the default settings
then but the system aside for now use the guy that we made a while ago to
create a bootable USB Drive
then reboot while gnashing f8 repeatedly to get into the boot device selection
menu where you'll pick your USB Drive
once the setup process for Windows has begun
it's basically a matter of clicking Next until you land on the Windows desktop
at the desktop grab the latest drivers of the manufacturer web sites for each
other components rather than relying on the ones that are on the disc in the
boxes
then happen I night dot com for your essential free software
you can choose from all kinds and useful stuff including anti-virus installers
alternative web browsers and great system utilities
just select all the things you want and it'll install them all automagically
without the bloatware that can sometimes be included with these kinds an app's
you might also want to run some basic utilities to make sure your system is
running correctly
I recommend I to sixty four men test 86 prime95
and some good old-fashioned gaming to share and share that everything is
hunky-dory
with all that ton it's time to fire up some gains in benchmark the system
so we took some of the most demanding in tonight s we and ran at the highest
settings that we could
while still achieving slew of playable frame rate at 4k
absolutely band tastic
everything is running at a nice comfortable temperature and
we stayed within the limits are 850 watt power supply
I consider this machine a huge success
but the journey is not over it'll be another product generation or two
before I P S 4k displays get better color accuracy reach affordable levels
and reasonably priced graphics cards are able to drive modern games at 4k
but if nothing else what we achieved today
was a glimpse into the future PC gaming and let me tell you guys
the future looks pretty darn good well you guys enjoy some glamour footage I'll
are finished system that we worked really hard on I wanna take another
opportunity to extend a huge thank you to Intel
for making this video possible he's built guys are incredibly time-consuming
for us to produce
and without sponsors like Intel the foot the bill he wouldn't be able to set
aside the week plus
that it takes for my team described film and at them so thanks Intel for
supporting the DIY folks who want high-quality guides
that enable them to confidently build-down PCs I hope you guys enjoy
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