Photon 4.0 Gaming PC Build (2018) #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin it's been a

while but I am officially back with a

brand new gaming PC build meet the

photon 4.0 the last year has been a

really really rough one for building a

computer thanks to a crypto mining it

has been incredibly difficult to get

your hands on graphics cards especially

the ones that most people want to put in

gaming builds when you can find them

they're incredibly expensive more often

than not they're just going to be

completely out of stock then to make

things even worse other components have

also been driven up in price so high in

power supplies are really expensive

right now and memory is especially bad

with a lot of prices going for about

double the price that they were last

year put all of this together and it has

been really difficult to recommend any

kind of new build well at least until

now thankfully that changes today with

the launch of AMD's new Rison processors

with vega graphics now know this is not

a sponsored video however AMD did send

out a little press kit including both

Verizon 3 as well as rising 5 I mean

Verizon 3 and rising 5 the rise in 320

200 G is going to give you 4 rise in CPU

cores 3 an clock up to 3.7 gigahertz as

well as 8 Vega GPU cores very similar to

the rise in mobile laptop that I

recently reviewed not only $100

this guy looks to be a pretty good

performance bargain especially

considering that what those kind of

specs some names are going to be

playable even at 1080p however for this

build we're going to be going with you

risin 5 2400 G now this adds

hyper-threading to the quad core

processor bring the thread count up to 8

and you're also going to be getting a

clock speed of nearly 4 gigahertz almost

more importantly for gaming the Vega GPU

course has been bumped up from 8 to 11

on this guy though this does come with a

hefty or 170 dollar price tag which in

context makes rising three looks like a

pretty good deal however because this

build we're going to go it a little bit

higher end we decided to go with you

risin 5 2400 G for the rest of the build

we're using 16 gigabytes of g.skill

flair X ddr4 memory now in a super-fast

3200 megahertz clock speed this is

specifically meant to work with Rison

and that extra of power is going to be

super helpful if you have a rise in APU

however at a price on Amazon right now

of over 260 dollars this is probably not

the best idea to pair with your $170

processor instead I do tune this memory

to run at

66 megahertz to simulate running a much

more reasonable $100 HyperX fury X kit

which is going to have eight gigs of RAM

I will say though that if you're looking

to pick up a risin with Vega chip make

sure that at the very least you get some

reasonably fast dual channel memory

those graphics definitely need some

memory to be fed at this point it's hard

not to notice our slightly unusual case

pick so this is the thermaltake core p1

and uh yeah it's a little different what

we usually do here especially for budget

builds with a solid piece of tempered

glass upfront it looks really nice of

course it's not going to be the most

practical system with the entire sides

being open however it does mean that you

have a lot of different mounting options

including on this feat you can even put

this on a wall now because we're using a

Rison apu there's actually plenty of

space here because we're not installing

the graphics card however if you do want

to do that there is an included riser

cable where you can just drop it in so

for example if you want to upgrade later

down the road you're set for the

motherboard we're using the MSI be 350

Pro AC now this actually isn't out yet

so I don't have the final price but it

is a pretty loaded little board so

addition to full support for a rise in

APU including overclocking you're also

getting RGB you have into a Wi-Fi built

and there's also a full size DisplayPort

which means that especially for a be 350

board you're getting a lot of features

storage is being handled by a 500

gigabyte WD blue SSD now if use these in

a few previous builds and I like the

price to reliability however one of the

nice things about this guy is that is

available in an m2 form factor which

especially for a CLE build like this

means that we can actually stick it on

the back of the motherboard to make the

cabling even nicer

even though power supplies you guys will

see leaves a little bit to be desired

for that power supply we're using a 500

watt EVGA bronze unit now there's

nothing really wrong with it I've used a

lot of these in builds they're gonna

last a while and they're fairly quiet

however it's not a modular supply which

even though it is a little bit cheaper

means that your cabling is going to be a

little bit challenged in this guy

thankfully though especially on the back

side of this thermal tech case there's a

fair bit of room to be able to run some

stuff so you've got the cleanest thing

in the world it'll work with a system

like this especially if you're going

with a Rison APU a game

a lot of people are probably going to

want to play is csgo now here with high

settings at 1080p as I died we're

getting a pretty respectable 50 to 60

frames per second it's one of the nice

things is because we are using a free

sync high refresh rate monitor if we do

want to turn the graphics settings down

to something like medium we couldn't

theory take advantage of that full 120

parts refresh rate this is a bad idea I

want to do this movie owner rocket

League and other games I think a lot of

people would play on a system like this

getting high quality settings at 1080p

with a pretty solid frame rate of

between 40 to 50 just like csgo if you

do like that higher frame rate over oh

come on get it get it yeah

if you do want to get that higher frame

rate all you need to do is you create

the graphics settings down a little bit

and you can easily get well over 60 and

pre-much all of these games oh that was

that one that guy it's funny I've done a

lot of videos on super budget systems

lately it's nice to see what rocket

League looks like when you actually

create the graphics up right on low all

the time trying to get it to run on like

$2 laptops moving on we have grand theft

auto 5 now here running on normal

settings at 1080p we're between 40 to 50

frames per second now the smoothest

thing in the world but GTA 5 even for an

older game does run reasonably well

however what I'm really curious about is

how Rison especially with those Vega GPU

cores are going to handle any more

modern games when it comes to Middle

Earth shadow of war we're dealing with a

much more demanding game so here at 720p

on medium settings we're getting between

35 to 40 frames per second it's totally

playable but when you get into those

newer triple-a titles the graphics

settings are definitely gonna have to

come down so how does rise in with Vegas

stack up for the most part pretty well

you're getting a solid CPU or on with

decent graphics now if you're only doing

lighter titles it's totally fine but if

you want to get into more hardcore

gaming at some point you probably do

want to add a graphics card to this guy

with the photon 4.0 itself there's a lot

of room for expansion it already has a

really cool case but there's lots of

room in here to add that liquid cooling

overclock your processor add a graphics

card more drives this guy's pretty much

the limit considering where the PC

market is today I'm pretty happy with

how the photon 4.0 came out it's a

unique looking system that won't break

the bank so as always links just check

out all the parts you guys need to build

this will be in the description and

something else you might want to check

out is my 2018 gaming PC tutorial where

I show how to build everything here

although on a slightly different case so

feel free to go check that out over here

and I will catch you guys in the next

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