My Gaming PC Is Stupid...

this is my gaming system and it's really stupid  there's nothing wrong with the performance it's a beast but it draws over 500 watts from the  wall wall gaming which in winter is great it's like a two for one you get a heater and a gaming  system at the same time but it's very much not winter right now and at the moment it feels like  I'm gaming next to the surface of the Sun this thing has a considerable impact on the ambient  temperature of my apartment while gaming and that's just unacceptabl

e so in today's video  I'm gonna see if I can build this system with similar-ish performance that draws way less  power but first today's video is sponsored by the monolithic dark Power Pro 13 a power  supply designed to outlive you which I guess depending on your diet may not mean much but  anyway honestly the only thing you really need to know about the darkroc Pro 13 is that the  switch on the back brings me to orgasm without fail oh so if you're in the market for an  heirloom power supply wi

th huge amounts of future proof connectors braided cables  except for the pcie51 and a bunch of awesome accessories check out the dark Rock  Pro 13. with the link in the video description [Music] thank you first let me walk you through the specs of the  system when it comes to the graphics card I've got an RTX 3080 in here a real Beast of a graphics  card but I'm convinced it utilizes fission in the process of rendering frames considering how  much heat the thing dumps into a room it has an offi

cial TDP of 320 Watts but it feels more  like 800. the thing is the graphics card isn't the only problem in here in terms of CPU I've  got an I9 11900k you know that CPU everyone was real pissed about when it came out well I have  one of those in this system and while gaming it pulls 150 watts which I feel like is way too  much for an 8 core 16 thread CPU especially one that isn't overclocked that's just what it  does when left to its own devices now the rest of the stuff in here is just a bunch

of PC crap  they're not nearly as responsible as the CPU and the graphics card for setting my apartment on  fire in the summer now my goal for this video is to build a new system that has about as much  much gaming performances this system at 1440p which is the resolution I game at but while  drawing significantly less power and once I'm done building that system I'll test what impact  both the systems have on the ambient temperature of a room they're gaming in but before we get  to the testing

let's build the system [Music] now when it comes to the CPU I decided to  go with this ryzen 7 5700x because there's a bunch of charts online showing that this is one  of the more efficient 8 core CPUs you can get and you can get one for a couple pennies and a Brisk  fondle these days okay ah good old am4 [Music] now as you could probably tell from  the ITX motherboard I am building an ITX system but luckily the ITX case  that I'm using supports a 240mm radiator so I'm going to use this NZXT Kr

aken  240 that NZXT sent over a while ago [Music] thank you now I'm going to be honest I  have no idea how the motherboard mounts in relation to the radiator in the case so we  may have to reorient this but we'll see and I think on that note let's get the case out  now I'm using a meshalicious because well I've been using it as a light stand for the  last year and a half and I thought yeah I may as well wow I feel like meshalicious is  an appropriate name for what's going on here oh okay I actua

lly think I mounted the AIO the  right way around because the motherboard is going to go in here and then we can route  the tubing down to the radiator over here I think it should work let's give it a try [Music] I've done a test fit and I'm pretty sure that  our best bet is for the radiator to go in like this and we just kind of need to squeeze  tubing out the way for the power supply to go in but luckily uh this AIO tubing is quite  flexible so yeah I think we'll be okay [Music] thank you okay

so now that we have a semblance of  cable management in here which feels a bit weird to say considering how it looks but it's a mini  ITX system there's really only so much you can do actually before we drop the graphics card in  here I do want to see if the side panel fits on it requires a little bit of finangling but we're  good and then in terms of graphics card I'm going to drop in this pretty losery coolered version  of the RTX 4070 now say what you will about the 4070 and there's a lot yo

u can say about it  but from what I've seen online it seems to perform similarly to a 3080 but has a TDP of  200 Watts which is a pretty crazy efficiency and hopefully we can also under Vault it and  stuff I'm I'm curious to see how this goes now as you can tell the mesh if I can support a  whole lot more girth and a bigger cooler would be better but this is what I had lying around because  you know terrible Amazon pre-built and all that foreign [Music] yeah I'd say that looks fine I  don't thin

k anything's sticking in any fans and um yeah let's fire it up [Music] well it's way smaller so that means  it has to use less power right okay so we finally got our pretty much worst  case gaming power draw scenario going here Battlefield 5 with 1440p high settings and the  system's drawing way less power we're hovering at around 310 ish Watts from the wall down  from over 550 that's pretty huge and here's the real kicker the performance between these  two systems at 1440p high settings is pret

ty much identical in Battlefield 5. that's pretty  cool so with my goal pretty much accomplished I decided to see what this power draw difference  meant for impact on ambient temperature so I cooled my 760 cubic foot room down to 20.5  degrees Celsius measuring the temperature using a thermometer on the opposite end of  the desk I then turned all the lights and AC off and then gamed for 40 minutes after  which I recorded the temperature change so it's been 40 minutes of Battlefield 5. I just  pu

t the lights back on and I can definitely feel the temperature change and as you can see here  we've gone up from 20.5 to 23 degrees Celsius I then fired up the original system following the  same procedure and the results were fascinating so it's been 40 minutes now with the toaster oven  system and we've hit 24.8 degrees Celsius up from 20.5 and that's just up to 40 minutes I then  spent another 20 minutes benchmarking off and on and the room hit 26 degrees Celsius that's  in just under an hou

r worth of Gaming [Music] I started by undervolting the graphics card where  with just a couple of clicks managed to drop the power draw to 280 Watts from the wall down from  about 310 and I didn't even lose any performance if anything the system was running better the  efficiency here is super impressive in terms of CPU I played around with the voltages a bit  which didn't do much but then I found the Eco button which dropped the power drill from the  wall to just over 260 Watts while still giv

ing us the same gaming performance so it's just  a teeny bit of tinkering I got a significant reduction in power draw bringing us to less than  half the power draw of the original system with no performance penalty and with that hopefully  this new system won't set my apartment on fire while gaming anymore I'm really excited if  you enjoy this kind of content let me know in the comment section down below and subscribe  to the channel and until the next video bye-bye [Music] thank you [Music]