the herd mentality pc

 - You wanna build your own DIY computer and you find yourself on newegg.com, who sponsored this video, by the way. Overwhelmed by all thechoices and all the acronyms. You got your NVMEs, yougot your LGAs, your PCIs. What does it all even mean? Do you painstakingly research? Which parts are the best? No my friends, not today. Today you let the fates decide. Or more accurately the sortby Best Rating feature. Yes my friends, for today's machine, we are gonna be flyingabsolutely blindfolded, simply ordering whateverit is on newegg.com that has the highest egg rating, throwing it all together and seeing what kind of computer we end up with. And I can tell you some of thechoices are probably not ones that I would have defaulted to. (upbeat music) First up, we've got theRyzen 7 3700 X from AMD. It's an eight core, 16 threadprocessor, and its just $300. This puppy is a multitasking powerhouse able to plow through thelatest games and your renders or animations or whateverelse it is that you like to do on the side. It has five out of five eggswith 3,300 reviews on Newegg with some of the highlightsbeing good performance and the stock cooler is good. And if this chip doesn'tconvince you to dump Intel, you must be dead. What does that even mean? We won't actually be usingthe stock cooler though. So let's focus on the bottom line here. Pros: just what I wanted, even more. Cons: Just too much power. Overall review: Perfect product. All right. Fair enough. We'll have to see whatRyzen 5000 has to say about the perfect Ryzen 3000. On that subject one of the best things about AMD's platform right now is the forward and backwards compatibility of their chip sets. So this motherboard righthere, the MSI Meg X570 ACE, not only has featuresthat are useful today, like 2.5 Gig ethernet andwifi 6 as well as solid VRMs for overclocking but thecapability to upgrade it with a Ryzen 5000 seriesCPU down the line. Now motherboards tendto be a little bit more on the finicky side than CPUs. So our highest ratedmotherboard was actually just four eggs out offive with 176 reviews. In spite of the fact thatthis is a $360 board. Let's go ahead and throw our CPU in there. A little something like that. That's customer satisfaction right there. That's what it looks like. The herd mentality PC isgoing really well here so far. For memory we ended up witha 16 Gig kit of 3200 MHZ, CL 16 RGB memory fromnone other than G skill. The general consensus herewith four out of five eggs and 2,494 reviews was that the pros are that they are highly compatiblewith most boards out there. And one of the few 3,200 MHZ kits that happens to be on the QBLor the Qualified Vendor List for lots of boards with the cons being that it has ignored my advances,will not make me a sandwich and does not run hotenough to warm my coffee. Those are some pretty small downsides. The highlighted overall review was, has run continuously andflawlessly in my system for about half a year now. And also the RGB works and looks great. Here's what I didn't see coming. When I think boot SSD, maybeI bought into the hype. I tend to think more like, you know, the guys that market cutting edge features like PCI express gen four, like Corsair or the guys that focusalmost exclusively on SSDs, like a Samsung or a micron, but Intel actually cameout on top with their 660P. This right here is a 1TB drive that boasts 1800MHZ persecond reads and writes with QLC NAND. So not exactly a topperformer, but at 130 bucks, it's reasonably priced for a terabyte of reasonably fast storage and it's got five eggs out offive with almost 900 reviews. Advantages for this productinclude things like, fast, reliable, and easy to install. While one of the biggestcomplaints about it was that the user no longer had enough time to go get a glass of water while their system bootedleading to dehydration. So it could be dangerousto use one of these SSDs, but your computer will run just fine. Maybe the cooler I'llend up being something I don't agree with, I'm just kidding. The community knows notNoctua knows what's up. So highlights of theNH-U12S are just that it is, a no-nonsense coolerthat gets the job done. It has good enough performance while being absolutely silent. If you can figure yourbios to a silent mode. And of course it comeswith not to as legendary Sekou firm mounting system, which I am personally a big old fan of. While we work on updatingthe compatibility of this older unit of this cooler, seems like a good time to talk about one of the patterns thatI've noticed emerging in the hardware choicesthat we've looked at today. The SSD had a five-year warranty, the cooler has a six-year warranty and Noctua has an outstanding reputation for providing a mountingbrackets and adapters that customers need downthe line for their products. And this Seasonic PowerSupply has a 10-year warranty. It seems like, by large,the herd mentality computer is considering thingsthat a hardware reviewer might not normally, like the long-term supportthat comes with the product, as opposed to just theprice to performance ratio. For the finishing touch,we throw on our fan and plugged the fan cableinto the CPU fan header right there on the motherboard. Back over to the Power Supply. We didn't strictly speakingneed a 750 Watt Power Supply, but I also don't disagree with the Newegg Community's choice here. This is the Seasonic focused GX-750. It's got 80 plus goldcertification, it's fully modular, it's quiet and evenincludes a hybrid mode, where the fan will turn offentirely under very light loads, and it's going to have alittle bit of growing room for you in the future. The main pros were, Hey, well, I didn't need a 750 Watt Power Supply, but it was the same priceas the 650, so why not? With one of the main cons being, an out-of-date user manual? Oh, we should have a look at that. That tells me not to use it inthe bathtub in 20 languages, but not how the fan control button works. Oh, Lordy. Okay. Well, Oh yeah, no, it doesn'tsay which toggle is right. I think out is actuallyhybrid mode, which is weird. Don't quote me on that though. A separate manual forthat now. Yes, yes, yes. Out an Audi belly button is hybrid build. Bringing us finally toprobably the funkiest choice in our viewers choice PC here. This is the Cooler Master HAF XB Evo and it's advertised as like a land box slash I think they also say it's like good as a test bench or something. Do they actually say that?Or is that your thing? - [Nicholas] That in the marketing. - It's in the marketing for it. Huh? Okay. What's funny about this isthat even though I don't recall ever having seen one ofthese out in the wild, like at a land party or anything, it has a five out of fiveegg rating with get this, 8,562 reviews as of the timeof recording this video. I mean, that is shocking. The main pros for this guy or that it is surprisingly spacious with a well thought outdesign in most regards. And that really is all youcan ask for a case, Isn't it? Six thumbs screws at the back, give us pretty much allthe access that we need to the inside of the chassis for building. And I can actually see howthis would appeal to people even though I haven'tset eyes on this thing in years and years. And that was probably aprevious revision of the case. All the accessories areincluded in this little hard drive shaped-cardboard box. And natively has supportfor up to four hard drives with two of them being hot swaps really is pretty easy to work in. Get our front panel cables out of the way and plug in front USB three. You know what's another interesting trend is the fact that RGB lighting seems to be a complete non-factor when it comes to people's purchase satisfaction, all of the three items thatdo have any RGB lighting, only the Ram is available in an identical, but non RGB configuration. So it seems like for the most part, people are just picking whateveris great bang for the buck with a completeindifference towards whether it has RGB or not. Even the Ram. I wouldn't read too much intoit because a lot of the time what memory people buy is more down to what on promo this week as opposed to what theyactually think is the best. Although there were somecomplaints about not two as Brown and tan color scheme. People really wanted a different though, there is a black one for $10 more. So apparently it justdoesn't matter that much. You know I made a coupleoffhand comments before about how old this case design is, but like this really dates it, it still has one of thoseAC97 offshoot dongle things on the front panel, audio connection. Who's putting a motherboard old enough with the cooler master,revise your is here. Hooking up the front panel connectors now, this is not my best cableand management, but whatever, whoever wins this thing can fix it for me. Oh yeah, I don't thinkI actually mentioned that part of the Neweggsponsorship for this video is that we going to begiving away this computer. Fun, right? That's one of the nicest things about modular Power Supply cables is you can kind of run them whenever and whichever direction you want. So I'm running them overto the motherboard first then I will plug in the Power Supply end once I put the PSU in down here. Got a couple of eight pins. Man, this is easy to get atcompared to a typical tower case where all the cable managementroom is kind of like behind the motherboard trayin this tiny little channel. We are gonna have a hard drive so I'm gonna go ahead andgrab a SATA cable here and then do what the, Hey, why don't we throw it inthe old hot swap thing? So that's Oh, that's kind ofa kludgy approach to that. They've just got this female connector, like soldered on to an exposed PCB there. Okay. The most amazing part ishow much of a difference all these little conveniences make to how long it takes to complete a build. Like here we are, we are almostdone ladies and gentlemen. We are wiring up the Power Supply. We're going to screw it back in, throw the graphics cardin and we're close. We settled on the WesternDigital 4TB, WD 405SZBX, because it's got four out offive eggs and 1500 reviews and 150 bucks is not a lot of money for a whack ton of storage space. It's super easy to installwith tool less Mount. You just got to lineup the thing in Boober and then you put thepokies and the Holies there and just kind of dolike that kind of thing until it's kind of inthere, like it should be and then you take the wholesled, slide it in there. Oh, Oh, it's falling apart. Can you go in there? What the, Oh, stop. Why are these getting caught? They're not even sticking out. Oh, it's under the drive now just go in. It's caught again. What the heck is it caught on? Okay, well it's there now. This is a perfect example of how going by whatever has the best, and or the most reviewscan be a great strategy, but it can also mean thatyou're stuck with sorta out of date information, because the thing about theRTX 2000 series is awkward. It's kind of been replaced at this point, but because the RTX 3000 seriesis so supply constrained, well, nobody has them to leave a bunch ofpositive reviews about it. So it's not like we'regetting a bad product here in the form of the RTX 2070super twin frozen Gaming X from MSI. It's just that we're notgetting the most current one. Removed before gaming, zerofroze or fan not spinning, don't worry this card runs in silent mode, under low load situations. Nice. That's fun. One of the cons of this cardis that it is big, real big, but one of the pros isthat MSI actually went out of their way to includea support bracket with it. How fun is that? Got a whole like bracketexperience to help with that sag. Nothing against them assign Nicholas, but I'm a little curiousas to how exactly we got so many of their products. What did you use as a tie breaker if you had two five-eggs products? - [Nicholas] Basicallythe number of reviews. - Got it. So we took whateverwas the bigger seller and said, okay, well thisis a greater sample size. So it's more statistically significant. I have never installed a graphics card with a support bracket like that before and it's totallyunnecessary in this chassis because the graphics cardactually just sits like this. There is no sag, but I kindof want to do it anyway. So we're gonna do it. Come on, sometimes you justgot to do stuff for fun, you know? - [Girl] Hey daddy. - Yes. My darling girl. - [Girl] Can I have Apples please? - You would like apples. Well, we're more of a PC house. - [Girl] What are you playing? - What am I playing? I'm not playing anything my love I'm building a computer. - [Girl] Can I help please? - Actually. Yes. you can help if you'd like,would you like to help? - Yes.- Okay, come here. Fun. This is something Ididn't actually notice before. These handles are super handy if you want to move the systemaround, all right, go ahead. One there and one there, my darling, (instrumental music) This might take a while. Let's go get our peripherals so we can fire up some games on here. It posted immediately. Let's go ahead and tryXMP and it's only 3800MHZ. It should be okay. Don't read too much intothe monitor or peripherals. These were just things yougrabbed from the office, not the top rated onesor anything like that. Now this game is violent,you can't watch this Tylan. All right, We're runningsome dual maternal at 1080P at what? Just shy of 300 FPS, which actually makes moresense than you might think with this 360 Hertz monitor. Nice and clean obviously cozit's like little butter smooth. I mean, that doesn't change that I missed a lot of the shotsI take, but minor details. Right, right, right, right. See you later. Oh, I'm gonna die. Oh, I died. That's okay. The main point was, does the system work? Yes it does and doesthe review system work? Actually it kind of seems like it does without any knowledge of parts, other than making sure thatour CPU and motherboard were compatible. All we had to do is takethe top reviewed products and we ended up with what is not only a very competent gaming rig, but even one with greatcooling and silent operation, and it's a pretty great value. And the best part is, thanksto Newegg sponsorship. You don't even have to payfor it at all if you win it. We're back at the office and guess what? Instead of the last genRTX 2000 series card, Newegg asked us to upgrade oursystem with a new EVGA 3080X3 that they sent over. I think Newegg must be goingfor a five-egg rating here, because check this out. They also sent anothercard and EVGA 3090 FTW3 for us to give away. No, not for you. 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