welcome to my monster pc build which i’mcalling alan lake. this monster pc build is worth over $5,000usd. so, stick around to see the components i used,benchmarks and my conclusions. so first question off the bat is ‘why didi call it alan lake?’ well it’s because of a couple of reasons,actually. one, it’s the skylake processor that i’musing inside the build. the second is that my favourite game is actuallyalan wake. now, a lot of people haven’t played thisgame because it was an x box 360 exclusive title for a while but it did come to the pc,so if you do get a chance, check it out.
and the third reason is that one of the foundingmembers of remedy, who created alan lake is sam lake. now he was one of the lead writers on alanwake and also, he’s working on a new game for the xbox i called quantum break, so allthose 3 things combined, that’s why i called the system alan lake. so one of the first things that i did waschoose a cpu and i had the opportunity to go to the previous generation but thought‘why not go to the current generation?’ and that’s why i went with the core i7. ok so this is the core i7 6700k. it runs at4 ghz stock.
at the moment i am keeping it at stock asi don’t want to overclock it just yet. now the intel i7 6700k has 4 cores, with 8threads so that was going to be enough for me to work with my video and also my graphicdesign. and recently, as in just the last couple ofdays, there’s been a lot of stories about the skylake brand of processors having lesssilicon in their wafers. so this can cause bending in the cpu itself. at the moment i’m keeping my system prettystationary, so i don’t have a lot of fear over that; but i will tell you once i getto the cpu cooler, what my thoughts are. moving it around a little bit in the roomshould be ok, but if you going to send it
out on a road trip, or anything like that,throw it in the back of the car, it’s probably best that you detach the cpu cooler. ok so the next component that i’ll be lookingat in this build is the ram. i wanted to get the maximum amount of raminto this system that i could because a lot of my applications use quite a lot of ram. so with that being said, i wanted to aim forabout 64 gb. and there are a few quad-channel memory kitsout there but they weren’t recommended for the z170 board that i had. so i went with dual-channel memory which iscompatible with this build.
so i managed to pick up 2 kits of g.skilltrident z 2800 mhz ddr4 ram, with a cas latency of 14. so you’re going to get 2 x 16 gb modulesinside each kit so once i bought 2 kits, that added up to 64 gb. now again, i could probably overclock theddr4 memory to higher than 2800 mhz, but at this stage the advantages of overclockingthe ram… i’m not going to see a lot in terms of frames per second in gaming or renderingtime in adobe premiere. so now on to the more exciting part of thisbuild… is the boot drive. and i’ve chosen to go with the samsung 950pro m.2s.
these drives are amazing! their operating speed is at 2500 mb per secondfor read, and 1500 mb per second on the write. so these things are absolutely flying. so initially i did have some problems settingthese up as a boot drive, so i’ve created a separate video to show people out therewhat i had to do inside the bios to get these drives to boot. now i did rate 0 these drives just to testit out and see what it was like, but for my work flow, it just wasn’t needed. pretty much it was capping out at the bandwidthlimit which was 3000 mb per second on the
read and 3000 mb per second on the write. and because i was going to operating withvideo files, and so forth, it was only going to be transferred between itself and a nas. so at this stage i just thought ‘well, it’smore beneficial for me to have the 2 drives there’. one is the temp drive and one isa boot drive. so why did i choose these drives in particular? well i’ve been eyeing off the oem versionof these drives for quite some time and i thought… i didn’t like the idea of nothaving a solid warranty to go with them. so i waited a little bit longer until i wasready to build the whole computer and lucky
that i did because these got announced andas soon as they were released i jumped on them and bought 2. so, would i recommend these drives to everyone?not really. if you’re doing a lot of design work andphoto editing and audio editing, and so forth, and you need that speed, then yes, these m.2drives are perfect for you. if you’re a gamer or a casual pc user, thenno, i would say stick with your normal ssds because at the moment, their pricing is really,really good and the m.2s are quite expensive. so as a secondary temp drive, what i did isi opted for the kingston hyperx savage ssd drive.
now this operates at 560 mb per second onthe read and 530 mb per second on the write. so i wasn’t looking to get the m.2 speedsout of this drive but i was looking for something that was fast enough to act as a secondarytemp drive if i needed it. so usually when i’m choosing my ssd drivesi generally go for the samsung brand. however, i’ve heard good things about thekingston hyperx savage drives, so i thought i’d give them a shot. and this particular drive didn’t disappoint. so with all that internal storage in tempdrives i needed something that i could store my rather large steam library on, and over1300 games, i needed something that could
hold a large amount of data. so, i opted for the seagate 5 tb desktop harddrive. now the reason that i chose to go for a largeexternal drive instead of an internal drive was primarily due to the noise factor. so when i’m wanting the pc to be reallyquiet, all i need to do is turn off the external 5 tb drive and it’s got no mechanical drivesoperating in the system at all. but then i hear someone saying ‘well whydon’t you just download the games as you need them and install them on the m.2s orthe ssd inside?’ well, that’s a really good point, however,where i live currently, i don’t have access
to cable internet and my internet is reallyslow. i’m talking 5 mbit/s per second. now that’s megabits, so the maximum thati can get out of my connection is about 500-600 kilobytes per second. and instead of having to worry about downloadinga game from my steam library, it’s a lot easier just to install it on a 5 tb externaldrive that i can take anywhere with me. so with all those great components we needsomething to plug them all into. so for my motherboard choice i went the asrockextreme 7+ z170 board. so why did i choose this z170 motherboard? well it’s because it’s got 3 m.2 slotson board.
so these m.2 slots, they operate at 32 gbit/sper second; so these are one of the fastest drives that you can get right now. so if you are using the m.2 slot in say, thefirst one, it will take out 2 of the sata ports and one of the sata express ports. and the same goes for the other 2 slots, soit will take away 6 sata ports as well as 3 of the sata express ports. but don’t stress because there’s still4 ports left over for any ssds that you might want to hook up. so one of the things i didn’t mention earlierwas the cpu cooler that i was using for the
skylark processor, and that’s the noctuanh-d15. now as you can see from that box, this cpucooler is huge. but it is also one of the best cpu coolersout there on the market, when it comes to air cooling. now i can hear it already: ‘why don’tyou go water cool?’ well, i’m not that into the whole watercooling thing. it’s a little bit risky from my point of view. you know there are people out there, enthusiaststhat love dealing with water cooling, but, i don’t want to push my system too hard,and, the nh-d15, well that’s going to let
me achieve, you know, 4.5, 4.6 ghz on the6700k. so, for me there’s no reason to go for awater cooling solution. now as i mentioned, this cpu cooler is hugeand with the recent skylake bending chip fiasco that’s going on, i’m a little bit worried… but in saying that as well, i’m not takingit out for trips, you know, taking it down to the beach to see the sunset and all thatsort of thing. it’s sitting here in the office and it’snot going anywhere; so i’m not too concerned at this stage, but i want to see how thiswhole fiasco unfolds. and here is my graphics card. look at it…it’s beautiful.
so this is the asus strix nvidia gtx980 with4 gb of ram. now the reason i chose this graphics cardis because i was looking for something silent and the strix model of cards don’t spinup their fan until it reaches a certain temperature. now i can already hear a few people out theregoing ‘why didn’t you go ti or what about an sli configuration?’ well, i didn’t need that and it was justgoing to add more heat, more noise to the system. for my needs at least, i’m looking for aworkstation that can do video rendering and graphic design, not something that’s reallya high-end gaming machine.
so gaming is just a bonus for this system;it’s not something that it was intended for. so now that that little rant is out of theway, the reason i chose this graphics card is because of one of the features that itoffers. and that is silence. so what i mean is that if the graphics cardisn’t under load, or isn’t generating a lot of heat, then the fan doesn’t actuallykick in. so if i’m just doing normal day-to-day operationon the system, then the fan probably isn’t going to kick in. it’s only when i’m doing any gaming orrendering with video work that the fan would
actually kick in. so, all these great components and we needto power it. this is the corsair rm750i. now the reason i chose this one, again, wasthe silence factor. so the fan won’t actually kick in untilit reaches a certain temperature which means that i’m not going to hear this whirringfan noise all day long while i’m working unless i’m doing something really, reallystrenuous, and then, it’s only going to kick in and slowly ramp up. so the power supply itself is fully modular,so i only have to plug in what i need, and
at this stage with unlimited sata drive, and…that’s pretty much it that needs powering inside the case, i don’t need a lot of cablesinside there so it keeps it really nice and clean. and as a great addition it’s also got ausb port on there which will feed any of the statistics from the power supply straightback into your computer so you can see, ok, when is the fan kicking in, and you can dofan tests and so forth, what sort of wattage is it operating at this point in time; it’sreally great. so with all these fantastic components sofar, we need to house them somehow. so, i did my research and the case that ireally, really was looking forward to getting
was the fractal design define r5. so they had a couple of colour choices andi thought ‘i’m going to step outside my comfort zone right now’, and i went fora white case. so this case is beautiful. i could pull outall the hard drive cages that i wasn’t using and this meant that i could have better airflow inside the case. i left the stock fan right in the front soit could blow over the gpu as well as the m.2 slots because those m.2 drives can geta little bit warm inside. so that’s the intake fan and the one onthe back is the out-take fan. now on the front of the case is a handy littleswitch there to change the speed of the fans.
so what i’ve done is i’ve left that onquite low because it doesn’t need a lot of airflow inside. if it’s a particularly hot day i can rampthat up just with a flick of a switch and change that to high, just so it keeps theair moving inside and doesn’t heat up too much. so the main reason for choosing this casewas its sound deadening capabilities. so what you’ll notice is that on the sidesof the cases is this really dense dampening foam... the dense dampening foam… yeah,really dense dampening foam. so this helps keep all that unwanted noiseinside the case instead of letting it get
out. the construction of this case is awesome;it is a really well-made case and i give my hats-off to fractal design for creating this. now with everything inside the case and readyto go, we need something to view it on. that monitor there in the middle is the acerg sync 28 inch 4k monitor. or, the xb 280hk. doesn’t sound as sexy… so the 2 monitors sitting either side of the4k monitor are the lg 24 inch led monitors that i’d originally had from my set up,so, i’ve just incorporated them into the build and they work really great.
but back on topic, the 28 g sync monitor isbrilliant. and when it comes to gaming this monitor is smooth as butter. it operates at 60 hz and i turn off v syncand g sync just takes over and makes it look nice and smooth. oh yeah… so is 4k for everyone? not at this point intime, but this monitor was at a good price; i actually got it on special, so i thought‘why not jump into the 4k arena and start testing these monitors out?’ so now onto the other components and we’vegot the behringer xenyx q802usb. so this is an 8 input mixer that i’ll beusing for my audio and will really help improve
the quality of the sound in this channel. so as a storage solution i’ve gone for thenetgear readynas rn204. so inside the nas i’ve installed 4 x 3 tbwestern digital greens. now i could have gone ahead and installedthe western digital red drives which are nas specific. however, i really didn’t need it for myapplications right now. in the future when i need to worry more about my data, i’lldefinitely be looking at the western digital reds. so the way that i’ve configured the readynas,i’ve set it up as a raid 5 configuration.
and what that means is basically it will takethe 4 x 3 tb hard drives, which at the moment works out at 12 tb, and it will use one ofthe hard drives as a parody drive. so, useable space, i will only have … 9tb of space, ok but, if one of those drives fails, then all i need to do is eject it fromthe readynas, put in a brand new one and it will rebuild the data. so it’s just one of those safety things,just in case anything goes wrong. so that’s it for the component list of thismonster pc build that i’ve called alan lake. if you want to check out any of the componentsthat i’ve used in this build then go on down to the description. i’ve included linksto all of the components used, so you can
just click on those and check them out foryourself. and now, on to the benchmarks! so what would this alan lake monster pc buildbe without an alan lake benchmark? so what i’ve done is i’ve maxed everythingout at the 4k resolution and we’re getting an average of 30.7 frames per second. even with the purists out there that feellike 60 fps is the fps to hit, i didn’t feel like that at all with this game. at 30 fps it ran beautifully and i didn’tnotice any juddering or lag. ok so the next game off the ranks is tombraider.
i’ve set the graphics to ultimate and that’sin 4k resolution. with these settings we’re seeing an averageof 33.3 fps. on the g sync monitor this turned out brilliantlyand it didn’t need any more than 30 fps in my opinion. however, to satisfy curiosity, i have setthe graphical settings now at high in the 4k resolution and we have an average fps comeback at 59.1 the next game up is thief. so the first benchmark that i did was on thevery high setting and that was at 4k resolution and we got 29.4 fps averaged.
and just to see if we can get that above 30fps i set the settings at high and we got an average of 36.7 fps. not the best frame rates in the world butacceptable anyway. the next game that we’ve got up is batmanarkham city. so with all the settings maxed out and at4k resolution we were getting 46 fps average. now, i know this isn’t 60 fps, but on theg sync monitor again, it performed beautifully. and the last game benchmark that i did wasbioshock infinite. on the ultra setting on the 4k resolutionwe were getting 40.8 fps on average. again, this wasn’t at 60 fps, however thegame did perform very smoothly.
and now on to the heaven benchmarking tool. we’re looking at the 4k resolution at amedium setting and we’re getting an average of 31.1 fps. and for the last benchmarking tool i choseto go with 3dmark. at 4k resolution on ultra settings, on thefire strike benchmark, we did didn’t get a really good score at all. it came back as a score of 3090; the footagewas really choppy and stuttery and i put this down to the graphics card not being able tohandle tessellation that well. so in conclusion to this video i just wantto give you some of my thoughts and experiences
in this pc build, just in case you are thinkingabout building something similar. so the components that i’ve used were allselected for being the most quiet. but in saying that i also wanted somethingwith enough power to be able to get me through on video editing and graphic design. if i wasn’t too concerned about noise andheat then i’d go for 2 x 980 tis and sli configuration. but at this stage i’m more than happy withthe 980. when it comes to the storage, i was goingto raid 0, the m.2 drives. but i found that i’d get much more benefitout of leaving them as single drives rather
than raiding them. the need for transferring 3000 mb per secondwasn’t really there for me at this stage when i’m only shooting at 1080p. but as i move up to 4k video this might besomething that i’ll consider in the future. apart from those 2 things, this monster pcbuild is awesome! i’ve been using it for the last month orso and it is brilliant. it’s really improved my loading and savingtimes when i’m doing my graphic design work and video is just like butter. so if you’re looking for a work-horse, theni would definitely recommend these components
for you monster pc build. well, i don’t know about you, but that hasto be one of the longest videos that i’ve made so far, and, probably one of the onesi’m most proud of. so i really hope you enjoyed it. well that’s it for this monster pc build.i really hope you liked it. if you did, make sure you give me a big thumbs-upand even leave me a comment down below. if you do enjoy the content that i’m providinghere make sure you subscribe to my channel, because it really helps me a lot. as always, imagine learn create
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