So I'm doing a new computer build today
and I decided I wanna do it a little bit different.
I've done a lot of computer builds that they kind of,
they get weird to just make a video about them.
So I wanted to bring somebody on.
We got Terry Warfield here today.
- What's up? - You were here.
- What's up?
- I don't know, a few months ago
We did the lens video, right? - Two months ago.
- If somehow you got here strictly with computers and
you don't know who either of us are.
We're more in the photo/video space.
I'm gonna use this rig for video editing.
And Terry, your computer story is what?
That it's been a while since you've done anything with pc.
- I am 38.
Don't tell nobody that,
but I haven't touched a PC since I've been about 16.
- Okay.
- So it's been a long time.
- And you've never built a computer from scratch, right?
- Not from scratch.
- This video is not sponsored,
but Asus did send over the majority of these parts
and they partnered with Corsair to send over the RAM
and the SSD.
So I didn't really pay for much of this.
So, you know, factor that in objectivity wise
however you want,
I'll let you do mostly everything.
So we're gonna start with- - That's scary.
- we'll, start with the motherboard
and we'll give a couple shout outs to things as we go.
So this one is the ProArt Zed790.
Well, he would have said Z790 - Z.
- Okay. I'm American, Z.
- Creator Wifi.
I've used the Creator boards before on my last AMD build.
I like 'em.
They got like 10 gig NIC and stuff like that,
which is good for connecting to my NAS
for the video editing purposes.
And they have like kind of a really simple sleek look.
All right, open that up for us.
- We need a knife. - Okay, I need a knife.
- Get a knife, man.
- I get a knife and a Phillips.
- Bring some coffee while you at it.
Why do you have this final destination knife?
(both laughs)
Yeah, something about anti-static.
I do remember that part
where you needed like an anti-static mat
or something like that, right?
- So yeah, so yes and no.
I mean, yeah, if you wanna play everything by the book,
you should be grounding yourself.
There's like bracelets that you can wear
that you clip to something and you ground.
What we could be doing too
is we could honestly just take the power supply,
set it up here and plug it in.
And then just by touching the power supply on a metal point,
you're running to ground in the wall.
- And we turn into Pikachu.
- That's right. - Pretty much.
- But here's the thing.
Linus and some other people have done videos
that show that honestly, even if you do shock the board
with static electricity, most of the time nothing happens.
- Okay.
- So it's rare for you to shock it
and even rarer for something bad to happen
if you do shock it.
So we're just gonna play fast and loose.
We're not even gonna ground ourselves.
There we go.
- Thumbnail-worthy.
- [Gerald] These are the display ports
that I was talking about.
So you can route them through your thunderbolt ports,
which are down there.
You've also got looks like two USB type A's,
they're 3.2 Gen 2, whatever.
I think they're like 10 gig ports.
There's a 10 gig ethernet port and a 2.5,
and then four more type a 3.2 Gen 2.
And then you've got your wifi antennas
and then a bunch of audio jacks.
- Lemme try to guess first.
- Go for it. Yeah, you should.
- I'm guessing RAM slots. - Yep.
- [Terry] All right.
CPU.
- Yeah, it looks like there's a peel on.
You wanna take that off?
- [Terry] Proceed.
- Let's install the CPU, which is this bad boy right here.
You wanna figure out how to open that up?
- All right, so this is the newest i9, is that what this is?
- I think they just came out with a, so this is a 14900K,
and I think they just came with a KS.
Which my understanding of the S, I could be wrong,
is it's almost just kind of like the cream of the crop
of the Ks.
So all the tiny pins are on the motherboard.
So the most delicate part of building a computer really
is just placing the CPU in.
And there's a couple things.
Yeah, pinch it on the sides like you're going to.
Get a firm grip on it
and then flip it over so you can see the top of it
and you'll see that there's a little indicator.
It looks like the tiniest little triangle.
So you see there's a little triangle here on the cover.
- Yeah. So then that means this needs to go-
- Exactly. - this way.
- [Gerald] And you should feel that it just kinda like
sits nicely in place
and you just give a little jiggle test.
There you go.
(Terry clapping)
Okay.
So now when you close this down, right?
So just like fold it down on itself, it's fine,
but you just kinda pops the cover up.
- Oh, okay. - All right.
- Then we're done here.
- All right, boot it up.
- We're done. - Let's go home.
Next step, we can do a bunch of things,
but RAM is right here.
You wanna do that? - Yeah.
So how much RAM we putting in here?
I got- - 32.
- 16 by two in here. - Yeah.
The only thing that you really,
if we were putting in four dims, it wouldn't matter.
We just say fill all four up. - All right.
- 'Cause you're only putting in two.
That's another RTFM thing if it's your first time build.
If you look here in the manual,
it shows you the layout of the four slots
that are there, right?
If it's one, just put it in that second slot.
If it's two, put it in slots, two and four.
If it's all four, fill 'em all up, right?
- Right. So we going slots two and four.
- Two and four.
It's keyed.
All right, the only thing you wanna do
is you wanna open up these first.
So push these and then push the top one in.
- Not enough pressure. - And it clicks.
And that thing should click back in automatically.
- [Terry] All right, there we go.
- [Gerald] And then you just make sure
that it's clicked on the top.
One of the most common,
"Oh, I don't know what's wrong with my computer",
is they just didn't insert the RAM fully, you know?
- So stick it in all the way
is basically what we saying.
- And I didn't mention,
did we mention it's Corsair Vengeance, right?
I think was the- - Uh, where the box at?
- [Gerald] That's what it is,
you can see it on this: Corsair Vengeance.
Another thing from Corsair,
this is a MP600 elite one terabyte.
You slot it in here and then it just rests over there.
- [Terry] So turn this thing.
- [Gerald] Just make sure that you're in all the way.
Let's do a little push.
- Okay. - There we go.
And then you push it down
and then rotate that gray thing to kinda like lock it.
There you go.
- I'm gonna be like, I'm so scared to break something.
That's why I'm like not clicking everything in right.
- So then peel off that blue.
I don't think it's gonna make a good peel.
- Trash. - Okay.
- Trash peel.
- And then we'll put it back in.
The screws are captive so they don't fall out.
And just one here and one over there.
So what do you think of this case, Terry?
- Oh, man. - Wait a minute.
- We got to hide on this. So we got to go on the side.
- The audio is gonna be so weird though.
- Oh yeah. It's gonna be crazy.
- If you can hear me out there.
This is the new ProArt case. It's a PA602.
I didn't know that it had ProArt cases.
So this matches the motherboard and everything.
- [Terry] Wait, this thing got wheels on the bottom of it.
That's crazy.
- It does? - Yes.
You hear that?
- All right, let's lay it down.
- Oh, so it's got two huge fans in it already.
- Oh yeah?
Oh wow.
Okay, so what Terry was pointing out that I wasn't expecting
is you could see there's two massive,
wanna point at those?
Like, I don't know, maybe 240 mil fans
or something like just, there's a 140 in the back there
that you can see here.
But these are huge and they're pre-installed.
There's a huge dust filter
that runs all the way along the bottom.
And then it says smart filter in the front.
So it looks like we'll be good for dust,
cutting the dust from coming in.
All right, let's stick the motherboard in here.
What do you think?
- Let's stick the mobo in, man.
- All right, that's for Terry.
You guys saying mobo already? - Mobo.
- He's already been indoctrinated into the PC.
- Mobo.
- Think we should zoom out? - Yep.
- Okay, let's make a wide shot on one.
Okay, this is a much weirder shot than it was before.
- Who was that?
- That's the same teddy bear. - That was there last time?
- It was there last time. - Did I smack him last time?
- Probably.
So the goal is you're gonna come in
kind of on an angle like this.
You're gonna line up the input output with this box,
and then the middle standoff isn't flat,
it has a little nipple on it,
which is gonna clip into that hole.
- It's got a what?
- Like a little raised little nipple?
A little, just a little little nipple.
Can you see that little guy there?
So you wanna just kind of like,-
- Oh yeah.
- line it up there. - There we go.
- And then we just screw everything in.
Which the ones that, these ones.
So you need nine of those.
- [Terry] All right, so power supply.
We have a ROG Strix 1000 gold Aura edition.
- Yeah, that's pretty.
I like this detail too if you flip it forward.
- Yeah. - Oh this is ProArt too.
- Yeah. - a ProArt GPUs.
- A ProArt RTX 4080 Super.
- There's a lot to the ProArt line that I didn't know.
Like I thought it was just motherboards.
I didn't know they had GPUs, cases, everything.
That's kinda cool. - Yeah, This is sleek.
- [Gerald] Oh that's interesting. You see that?
So it's like a whole little lever job here.
And there's three tiny little screws right there
that all clip into these. a tool less design.
So just go in, line this up with there
and just make sure that you're kinda slotted in here, okay?
- All right, here goes nothing.
- Yeah, those two metal tongs will go
in this little groove in here.
All right, now a little bit more pressure.
There you go.
- All right, so this is the ProArt LC 420 liquid cooler.
- Okay. So the only thing not to take off
is leave that plastic on there
because otherwise, this thermal paste is wet
and it'll like smear it all over yourself.
So we'll leave it on until the end, okay?
These are Noctua industrial PPC fans.
Noctua is basically like the top of the line
aftermarket fans.
Normally, you know, computers just ship with whatever
and then people wanna go and buy Noctuas.
So this is crazy. This comes with it.
And they're also 140s by the looks of it.
Like as big as these, right?
So you're getting 3x140 mil fans on a massive radiator.
- I feel like a lost kid in the forest right now.
Like I have no clue how this is, I think like this.
- Exactly.
We might be in a situation
where we wanna put the radiator in here
and then the fans underneath.
The fans are low profile, which is nice,
but I don't think you're fitting a radiator and the fans
in here. - Right.
- I believe this case has to be made for this cooler.
It's machined to like perfectly fit.
And all the screw holes are lined up automatically
and everything.
So one side has a sticker, all fans are like this.
One side doesn't. - Right.
- [Gerald] That tells you if they don't tell you otherwise
on the fan.
Sometimes they show you with an arrow,
but it shows you which way the air goes.
This is going in the top, right?
So we're gonna be exhausting hot air
because the radiator is gonna be warm.
We're gonna be blowing air through the radiator
to cool the radiator off.
We want that hot air to go out the top of the computer.
We don't wanna pull it into the computer, right?
- So sticker upwards. - Sticker up, exactly.
We're gonna take off the back plate.
I like how these things come on and off.
So it's basically like an access panel,
but I'm surprised they made a whole piece for it.
You know what? I bet it is.
You could put a SATA SSD.
So we take this, we put it on the back
and then these are gonna come through
and then you have to use your thumb screws
and it's gonna screw into these.
It's getting hot down here, isn't it?
- It's this i9. (chuckles)
- We don't even have it on yet.
That's how hot this gets.
Pull off the plastic thing, line up all four holes.
Try not to touch the CPU until you're happy
with the hole contact.
And then we'll go down and we'll put the thumb screws on.
Do a few turns, go to the other corner, do a few turns,
and just keep working it down.
All right.
- It's a whole gang of power supply cables.
- All right. - Sheesh.
- That's a new experience for me.
You don't gotta do a whole three.
They got a brand new,
this must be a pretty modern power supply, they've got a--
Can you show that to the camera?
I'm sure some people are like,
"Yeah, those have been out for a while, Stupid."
They've got the, like the 12 pin
with the extra little four pins on the bottom
for the modern GPUs.
It's right into the power supply.
'Cause I noticed there's a cable for that.
So that's a lot less cables we gotta run.
- [Terry] Good.
- You don't do the conventional method
of putting the power supply in
and then putting a bracket on.
There's this huge shroud, it's two pieces,
and it kinda like slides and stuff
and it looks like there's a hard drive cage
under the shroud as well.
You gotta take that shroud off, put the power supply in,
you just screw it in, there's no bracket.
And then I guess put the shroud back on if you want to.
What do you think we cut, cable manage,
conclusion?
- All right.
- So first of all, thoughts, what do you think of the first,
like build you've done in a long time?
- It wasn't as complex as I remember,
but that was also 20 years ago.
- Right.
As far as aesthetics though, I'll say one thing.
When I was doing a full ProArt build,
I was thinking, "Eh, I'm not so sure."
Like I knew that the gear would be good quality,
but I did not expect it to look this awesome.
- It's clean.
- It looks really good, right? - Like a stealth.
It is mad stealthy.
- And the fact that everything is ProArt,
the power supply isn't, but it's behind the shroud,
so it doesn't matter.
But it's got a really unified look
and it looks nice with the case.
And I think we'll put the glass on
and it's got the same look too.
All right, so we got the tempered glass case back on.
You can see it's got the ProArt thing right here
and yeah, that's pretty-
- Wait, wait, wait.
- Oh, okay. The final?
- The final, final.
(peeling the plastic cover)
As Jeremy Clarkson would once say, "Proper".
- There's instructions too though. Will these come off?
- Watch that not peel off clean.
- Yeah, it leaves residue everywhere.
Oh God.
- Put it back on. Nope. Nope.
Just put it back on. Terrible
- Asus. - Yeah.
This right here is a oversight.
- [Gerald] That's terrible, man.
You had it, you had all the aesthetics.
Put that on the other side of the peely.
And then when the peely comes off, it all comes off.
- Yeah. And everything is just dropped at the end
because of a sticker.
A little bit of redemption going on.
- A little bit.
Okay. Are we ready to boot up?
- Moment of truth to see if my hard work paid off?
'Cause you ain't really do nothing in this build, Gerald.
- It's true.
- You ready? - All right.
Ready to turn this thing on?
- I think that's on. I think we just go power button.
- [Terry] I hear the liquid sloshing around in there.
That's crazy.
- Oh, oh, we got something. Okay.
BIOS.
- I learned so much with this PC build, man.
You know, I knew some stuff,
but like going through all the little intricacies
and all the stuff that you showed me.
Honestly it was, I'm grateful to have such a good teacher.
- All right? - That's very kind of you.
So now we'll cut to, I don't know,
a week from now when I've tested it,
run some benchmarks and stuff
and I'll give you guys an update on how it edits.
- Yeah. - But let's be real,
it's mostly for gaming.
- Yeah. Put some Hell Divers on this thing.
Will you?
- The best part about being a video editor on PC, Terry,
is that you can obviously game on the same hardware.
- That's true.
- And you can get companies to send you video editing gear
for review-
- But it's really for gaming.
- All right, it's several days later
and I have my report for you here.
So I did make a couple changes.
One, I added more RAM because when I was,
I did a bit of a test.
I had Resolve open, I was working on a project,
I had Photoshop open
because maybe I wanted to edit a thumbnail
or do a little graphic or something.
And then I thought, you know what?
Let's open up a couple tabs of Chrome, open up a Word doc,
and a couple of things like that, have Spotify running.
And when I did all that,
I got around 27, 28 gigabytes of the 32.
So theoretically 32 is enough for what I do,
but I would feel a little more comfortable with a bit more.
And that RAM kit was on sale.
So I went and picked up another one, threw it in there.
Now, I've got 64 gigs.
I also put the 4090 from my last build into that computer
because all of the tests I ran previously
were with the 4090.
So I wanted to remove that
and just test the processor differences.
So I added the 4090 and the 64 gigs of RAM.
And then I ran the Resolve benchmark
for video editing performance.
And previously with my AMD 5950X
with a modest overclock on it, I got 2,483 points.
Now with the 14900K, I got 3,960 points.
That's a significant uptick in the benchmark.
But I actually did notice a difference as well in Resolve.
Sometimes you get a big sort of synthetic bump
in benchmarks, but then when you, you know, edit,
you're like, eh, I don't really notice the difference.
What I was noticing this time is just
if you put the playhead at a random position,
the amount of time that it takes before it's ready
to play back smoothly, which before was only like half
or three quarters of a second, you would click on it
and you'd press play and it would kind of pause and then go.
Now, it's instant, like absolutely instant.
We'd be doing two as we could.
(video edited playing in the background)
Export times didn't change too much.
I also ran Cinebench because why not?
On the 5950X, I got around 29,500 points.
With the 14900K, I got 39,875.
So previously with the 5950X and the RTX 4090,
my peak draw was 427 watts
when doing a render or some of these benchmarks,
now it's moved up to 495 watts.
So this new combination definitely is drawing more power.
Now the 495 was also pretty similar in gaming.
If I had sort of a 60p VSync or a 60p cap.
But if I let that cap go
and just let it render as many frames as it could,
I was gonna up to like 680, 690 watts for that combination
with a new setup, which is kinda crazy.
And speaking of gaming performance,
I ran Cyberpunk at 1440p.
I could get 120 frames per second locked with no issue.
And in 4K, I got about 80 frames per second.
And then you can get closer to a hundred if you use DLSS
to take, you know, 1440 and run it at 4K.
That's one though where I just kinda lock it at 60p,
4K60 solid.
Bring the temps, bring the noise down
and don't let it take 700 watts.
Interestingly though, I felt the same thing in Cyberpunk,
even though I was playing it at 4K60
with my previous setup,
the 4K60 in this one had fewer dips.
So the overall performance just felt smoother.
It felt like if you like whip the mouse around, you're like,
oh, there's no hiccups anywhere.
So that almost makes more of a difference
than getting higher frame rates.
It's just been really, really stable,
which has been a refreshing, interesting experience for me.
So overall, really happy with this build.
I like the ProArt products. I think they look great.
The quality of them seems exceptional
and I've had no issues whatsoever.
Everything just went smoothly
and it's performing excellently.
What else could I ask for?
Hope you enjoyed this video.
I hope there was something helpful
or useful in here for you.
And if not, hopefully you just enjoyed the ride of me
and Terry hanging out building a computer.
Alright...
I'm done.